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!

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FRIDAY SHOUT OUTS – Giving Thanks!

A lot of adoptions in the last couple of weeks! YAY!
That in itself is enough to give thanks!

So who will do the top honors this week?
Well we got 2 sweeties adopted this week

BUBBLES


RICKIE LEE


So, are the thanking duo ready!!!!????

Bubbles and Rickie Lee from DDR this week wanted to thank the “institutions” that help us with our adoptions.
We want to thank PETCO PASADENA-SOUTH
(according to their website)
for being the wonderful hosts every Saturday
for our DDR doggies from 11-2 pm!

With out this location, well…how are people
going to see us and adopt us!!!!

PETCO STAFF SANTA with Cookie and China Christmas 2009!

So YAY from all the DDR dogs again for PETCO!!!!

Thank you Ms. Store Manager MEGAN and all the staff every weekend that say hi to our dogs and provide a welcome space for us.

Ok trio of happiness — good luck in your new homes!!!!!

You will all be missed but we all know you will be loved dearly
in your new lives ahead!
And everyone — till next week!
We’re helping Downtown Dogs, one dog at a time with YOUR help!
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FRIDAY SHOUT OUTS – Giving Thanks!

We have BIG thanks to give today! And who’s doing the honors? It’s our LA TIMES sole-eyed wonder, STRUMMER!

Strummer is a special needs dog blind in one eye, it had dislodged due to someone hitting him very hard in his head. It was quite a challenge to get people interested in Strummer due to his eye BUT Lori didnt give up and through our own Webinatrix, Leigh Spader, she had a friend Ryan who didnt care about Strummer’s bum eye and actually loved it! Strummer is now called AHAB! We yet have to get a picture from Ryan who has promised to get Ahab his own eye patch!

Strummer before his eye operation

Strummer’s eye has now been operated on and permanently sealed

Strummer now with his best friend, Leigh Spader’s Stella!

So AHAB! Ready to do the Friday thanks???!!! GO!!!!!

Ahab would like to thank Zack Grey of Urban Pet for the $1,620 raised at Urban Pet’s Silver Lake Grand Opening. Thank you, thank you Urban Pet consumers who gave generously and Zack for making us part of your new venture. Zack and Urban Pet have always been such great DDR supporters and this is just one example of the close connection he has kept with us.

Please support this wonderful
Pet Supply Store, URBAN PET
now with two locations!

Thank you Zack and Mr. Moon!!!!!!!!
Enjoy your new life AHAB!!!!!!

We’re saving DOWNTOWN dogs ONE DAY AT A TIME
with YOUR help!

See everyone next Monday!

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FRIDAY SHOUT OUTS – Giving Thanks!

This week of thanks are full of dogs!!!!!! Get ready to see all of them on future WHERE ARE THEY NOW blog entries because these canine wonders have been adopted recently! YAY!!!!!!!

Opal

Red Stripe

Riley (formerly Precious)

Roda (formerly Roja)

Roja (now Roda!), Precious (now Riley! to our own DDR star, Debbie Fan! YAY!), Red Stripe and Opal would now like to do a big group THANK YOU to one of our most favorite and dear sponsors!

Lori and the DDR canine family would like to thank
Nancy and Scott Kline of
Animals Matter and L.A. Dog Company
(manufacturers of luxury pet accessories).

They are guardians to three pit bulls
and two of them are from DDR!

Nancy and Scott donate Canidae dog food
to DDR kennel dogs every month!

This generous gift is extra special
because we know they aren’t

getting any type of free or great discounts
for their purchases.


Want to see the sweetest picture of CLANCY? Click HERE and you’ll see the true extent of their commitment and generosity to Downtown Dog Rescue. We are truly lucky […]
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FRIDAY SHOUT OUTS – Giving Thanks!

PUPPIES galore this week!! For this Friday, we are glad to report that 9 puppies are currently on DDR transport to Las Vegas for pickup by a Best Friends volunteer and whisked away to Best Friends Animal Sanctuary in Utah. No doubt, these pups will be housed in their Puppy Care Center. They’re on their way to their loved, new lives!


Who will do the honors this week? It will be our own Pup DANITY! One of the Southgate 67 dogs that now has a permanent home and new family! Hooray!

Are you ready girl!!??? GO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


Danity, Rainy and the 9 pups would like to thank the following people that set OPERATION Rescue Rainy’s pups into action!
LOS ANGELES
CATHY SIMPSON for rescuing Rainy and her pups
JO BARKER for helping care for the pups
B.A.R.K.’s JOSIE GAVIERES for transporting pups to Las Vegas from South LA
LAS VEGAS
STACIE, a BEST FRIENDS volunteer
picking up the pups in Las Vegas
and transporting them to UTAH!
UTAH
BEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SANCTUARY
for taking the 9 pups
and eventually placing them in their forever homes!

Whew! It It does take a rescue village!


Ok, it looks like Danity’s being called by her forever guardians to go home! Danity!! Good luck in your new home!!! We’ll miss all your cute crying! lol!
We’re helping DOWNTOWN DOGS one dog at a time
with YOUR help!
See everyone next week!
P.S. – Rainy is available for fostering or adoption everyone! She will be spayed and ready to go into a loving home – contact Lori at lori@modernica.net Thanks!

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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!
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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 […]
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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!2017-05-24T08:44:35-07:00
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