61st Street Kennel Dogs – Page 2

61st St Kennels Action Day RECAP!

Remember our SUPER ADOPTION SATURDAY at PETCO

that happened at the end of January?

Here is a very quick snippet of the video that was shot for a LA.Spot.Us journalism project headed by Anh Do and Jordi Matsumoto. They covered our rescue efforts of the 61st Street Kennel dogs and while only a small part is covered in this video, it’s a fun snippet that PITstop and DDR friends and family would appreciate. Anh and Jordi are still in pre-prod mode and working out a way to get more footage of DDR rescue work and getting it done.
ENJOY their test run! Thanks Anh and Jordi for allowing us to view it!

FRIDAY SHOUT OUTS – Giving Thanks!

thanks to Josie Gavieres for this awesome picture!

WE WANT TO DO A SPECIAL FRIDAY

THANKS TO A VERY SPECIAL LADY
FROM ALL OF US VOLUNTEERS &
FRIENDS OF DDR! (THE DOGGIES TOO!)

Lori & Petey!

Yesterday was Lori Weise’s birthday,
Founder of Downtown Dog Rescue!

To thank you, here are your 3 newly adopted dogs from DDR! TRAVIS (now TYSON), HORTENSIA (from the 61st Kennels!)
& MAGICK (from Karma Rescue) assigned with the fun task!

TRAVIS *NOW TYSON*

HORTENSIA

Karma Rescue’s MAGICK

Ready boys and girl, set, GO!

–*–

HELLO LORI, WE WOULD SOOOO LIKE
TO THANK YOU FOR ALL THE WONDERFUL WORK
YOU’VE DONE TO MAKE THE LIVES OF DOG AND PEOPLE
IN LOS ANGELES BETTER!
You’ve impacted so many people and dogs
in a positive way
and Los Angeles is a much better place
with you around!

Lori with Clancy!

YOU’RE THE BEST LORI!!!!!!!!
THANK YOU
AND HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!!!

See everyone next week?!!!?
RESCUING DOWNTOWN DOGS,
(in Lori’s case
1,000 at a time)
with
YOUR help!

FRIDAY SHOUT OUTS – Giving Thanks!

Another wonderful week has ended and it’s time to give thanks!

For this week, very pretty CASSIE leads the way since she has just been adopted! Another 61st St. Kennel success story! When we took her away from the squalor, we knew this pretty girl would find a home soon:

And life with new mom, Angela on their

first hike out together

looking very happy and with a new name Haiyaty!

How appropriate that the first group of people Haiyaty’s thanking, are the new generation of rescuers that helped with the clean-up at the 61st Street Kennels. Brought in by one of the hardest working women in rescue, Josie of B.A.R.K. (Beach Animals Reading With Kids) here are a new set of good hearted animal-advocates-in-training. Thank you all for your hard work! Downtown Dog Rescue couldn’t have made it all work without your assistance. Many of the dogs have gotten adopted and all of you have a hand in making many dogs wanted, happy and safe. Congratulations Chris, Brandon, Cory, Katie & Amanda for being an integral part of a successful rescue effort!

Another successful 61st St.Kennel Dogs adoption is our own dear little beagle/shepherd blended pup, Timmy! Downtown Dog Rescue pulled him and his sister out and Janet Cook’s rescue, Angel’s Heart got him adopted out!

Here’s Timmy the day he got pulled from the 61st Street Kennel:

And here he is being carried by his new dad!

FRIDAY SHOUT OUTS – Giving Thanks!

What a wonderful week! Another successful 61st Street Kennel adoption will be doing the honors today by the name of JET! Looking stately and happy in this picture taken by his guardians at the Southern California Retriever Rescue, he would like to say THANKS!

JET’s first THANK YOU goes out to the wonderful people at NATURAL BALANCE Pet Foods who donated dog food to us. Feeding 25+ dogs is not a joke on the rescue’s wallet so we’re always happy to receive the support of Pet Food companies like Natural Balance.

Jet would now like to also thank BEST FRIENDS – LA Programs for the generous donation of treats, dog food and toys! And of course their wonderful volunteer, Gayle Alexander for dropping them off to the kennels…the dogs loved everything!

And JET gives final thanks to his adoption rescue –

for finding him a new home!

DDR pulled him out of the 61st Street Kennels and this is

what he looked like then….

SC Golden Retriever Rescue took him in and started the healing process for Jet…so he could rest and rejuvenate…

JET

ID: 1031

Breed: Flat-coated Retriever (purebred)

Status: Adopted (not adoptable)

Age: 12 months

Gender: Male

Location: Southern California Golden Retriever Rescue

Altered: unknown or N/A

Size: Medium Color(s): Black – —

Weight: 60 lbs Tail:

Other: ADOPTED!

Please sponsor Jet

Description: WANTED… comfortable lap. My name is Jet and I am a gorgeous Flat Coated Retriever and about a year and a half old. I am loving life here in foster care and hope to find a furever home with the same amenities, a lap, food and a ball. Just a week […]

DDR DOG SPOTLIGHT: NERO!

NERO

Life in the 61st Street Kennels

Meet Nero, a 4-5 year old Spaniel mix who weighs approximately 45lbs. He is a wonderful dog, so deserving of a good home considering where he came from. When we first met Nero, he was living in a kennel with 80+ other dogs, crowded on to a property where there was very little good for the dogs. Yes, they were fed and had water, but that’s about it. He was in a run, in the dark, 24/7 with two very dog aggressive dogs on both sides of his run. He was beyond nervous and very traumatized by the constant barking. While living at this kennel, he was never walked, no one petted him, bathed him, or really cared about him, he was just another dog on the property. In fact, no one there even took the time to give him a name. He was picked up by the kennel owner, off the street in South Central LA. We are guessing he was a stray because he is a jumper.

Life with Downtown Dog Rescue

If you are considering adopting Nero, we ask that you either crate him when you are not home, or have an adequately fenced yard, otherwise, he is a really good boy who has been neutered and vaccinated. He was in a foster home but the person can’t keep him anymore and doesn’t have time to work with him. Right now, he is living back in a kennel and needs a forever home or a foster who cares enough to understand what he has been through.

SMILING ABOUT MY NEW LIFE

IN SOMEONE’S HOME

Nero is housetrained, loves riding in the car and is ready now to be adopted.

Nero is up-to-date with routine shots, house trained and spayed/neutered.

FRIDAY SHOUT OUTS – Giving Thanks!

Our Thank You’s from DDR this week is all about the “look!”

Of course essential “look” elements that help
change a dog like this:

to a happier version of THIS:

is a safe environment, good food, lots of love from Lori, Josie, the DDR show team in PETCO AND of course a good dental cleaning. DDR would like to thank HOUNDSTOOTH DENTAL, Non-Anesthestic Veterinary Dental Services for their help in making this big smile happen. Our newly adopted dog with the great smile is of course LUCY from the now “only a distant memory” 61st Street Kennels! She would like to thank her Houndstooth technician (non-anesthetic! at that) for the awesome dental cleaning she got this week (and her new adoptive family thanks you as well!)

Lucy would like to continue by thanking the DDR volunteers responsible for creating the look and feel of what we love in dog rescue land, the wonderful gift of “second chances.” A staple of effective rescue work involves (especially in the social networking age) having great photographs that make our dog’s come to life, revealing their best inner and outer dog. This is part of an effort to make them irresistable in the PETCO adoption event every Saturday, the DDR PETFINDER pages, the DDR blog, PITStop & even Facebook shared pages. If the dogs are irresistable, you have to take them home right? YES!

Downtown Dog Rescue is thankful and very lucky to have the following talented and amazing professional quality photographers help us in this area through the years:

Douglas Hill took a lot of the earlier pictures of DOWNTOWN DOGS that have came through the gates of DDR. His amazing photographs of DDR dogs were used for many of the magazine articles written about Lori and Downtown Dog Rescue. Many of them are also the photographs that have graced the yearly DDR fundraising calendar. Watch out for a feature on PITStop on the book Downtown Dogs featuring the first wave DDR dogs and their guardians with stories written by Lori. Wonderful work Douglas…thank you!

Grace Chon of SHINE PET PHOTOS for creating marketing materials and documenting our past events!Stacy Broadwell from THE DAWG SQUAD for taking fabulous photos of our […]

FRIDAY SHOUT OUTS – Giving Thanks!

The previous week was full of activity for DDR! Helping out the 61st Street Kennel dogs was on everyone’s mind. This venture had a happy ending – dogs were transported, bathed, shown, fostered and adopted! We couldnt do it all without the help of many, many people!

So, our newly adopted pup CHOCOLATE!!!!!! will do the honors this week!

Chocolate would like to extend a special thanks to Linda Hodges for the two wonderful PET BEDS she donated to DDR!

Special message from Lori Weise

Thank You to the Amanda Foundation, Retriever Rescue, Best Friends Animal Society, Heigl Foundation and Janet Cook from Angel’s Heart Dog Rescue and all of the foster people and adopters who came out last week to help us rescue 41 dogs out of the 61st Street kennel in a little over two weeks.

A monumental challenge for a small organization like Downtown Dog Rescue but we did it, with a lot of support from our volunteers and friends who came out to support us, transport, bathe, and take lots of dogs out to adoption.

We would like to extend a special thank you to Cornelius, “Dog Man” Austin who helped me assess over 30 dogs last Saturday at the 61st Street kennel.

SATURDAY ADOPTION CREW!

Thanks to Cheryl Seaberg Elliott for bringing donuts!

A special thanks to the transport/bathing crew:
Robin, Billy, Debbie, Giovanni, Christina, Linda & Cheryl

A special thanks to our Volunteer SHOW Team at PETCO:
Sandy Dragotis: Volunteer and Adoption Coordinator
Show Team: Lezle, Leyla, Teresa, Effie, Linda, Christina, Jill, Jill’s Friend, Cindy, Rachel! (Jill – please send us her name!!!)
Photographer: Kathryn Hall and baby Hall!

DEB’S DOG OF THE WEEK: When rescue goes wrong: Amanda

There are many rescue groups and well-intentioned private citizens that work tirelessly everyday to help save the lives of animals living in the city and county shelters. Pleas are posted on Craigslist and yahoo groups; donations are raised; and people rally behind animals to save them from death, just in the nick of time. It can be inspiring to see a dog that is up against the odds make it out of the shelter,but sometimes there are unintended consequences. A rescue might take a dog, but then what happens to that dog? I would like to believe that 100% of the time the dog is taken care of and finds a nice forever home where it lives out the remainder of it’s days. That’s the Disney version. In reality, sometimes dogs, especially pit bulls, have a heard time finding a permanent home. It can take months and even years. What happens to them during this time? Well, if a dog ends up with Lori and a place like Downtown Dog Rescue, they are super lucky and get to run around, play, go on field trips and be dogs! If they end up in a place like Amanda did, they are barely fed, barely taken care of, and forced to live in unsanitary conditions. Worse than a shelter…and all in the name of “rescue”.

Amanda was brought to Lori because the rescue she ended up at become overwhelmed with too many dogs. Clearly, Amanda was not taken care of. She has scars all over her face because she had to fight for her food. Her left eye is “dead” and should probably be removed. She has another scab on the top of her head from who knows what. But despite all of it, Amanda is a sweet, gentle girl. She is new to DDR so we are finding out more about her, but if you spend just a little bit of time with her, you will see what a sweet gentle soul she has. Amanda is a young dog and could use a home where she can get healthy and gain confidence.

If you would like to adopt or foster her, please contact lori@modernica.net.

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