DDR Youth Matter

DDR YOUTH MATTER: Jordan Williams, DDR’s rising star on PIT BOSS!

Jordan Williams

We are proud to announce that one of our dedicated Downtown Dog Rescue Coliseum volunteers, Jordan Williams will be featured in this Saturday’s PIT BOSS show on Animal Planet!

Our weekly Sunday Pitbull class run by Dogman at the Coliseum is a place where two young men, Jordan, 14 years and his cousin Michael 15 years attend pitbull socialization classes every week. Both own pit bulls and have decided to spay+ neuter their dogs, they don’t believe in dog fighting and are great examples of two young people, growing up in a very violent South LA neighborhood, who do well in school and want to be successful in life along with their dogs. They are dedicated to being good examples of responsible pit bull owners. Jordan’s dog Pretty recently passed her CGC test and he received his certificate from the AKC.

In this episode, Shorty from Pit Boss assists Jordan’s efforts to try and convince his neighbor to neuter a pit bull responsible for multiple litters.

Please join us in witnessing Jordan’s shining moment

on Animal Planet’s PIT BOSS this weekend!

SATURDAY, August 21, 2010 -7 pm PST-
PIT BOSS on the ANIMAL PLANET CHANEL

CONGRATULATIONS ON ALL YOUR GREAT WORK JORDAN

WE’RE SO PROUD OF YOU!!!!!

interview video shot by Jeff Fleiss

PIT FOR LIFE YOUTube CHANNEL

DDR YOUTH MATTER: Jordan Williams, DDR’s rising star on PIT BOSS!admin2017-05-24T08:44:17-07:00

DDR YOUTH MATTER: Nishi Girl Scout Troop 12135 “OPERATION SAVE THE HOMELESS PETS”

by Irene Soriano Brightman

Lori and I were very excited to host the donation presentation from the NISHI GIRL SCOUTS TROOP 12135 – Junior Bronze Project 2009-2010 members this past Saturday at the kennels! Coordinating fundraising projects for DDR is extremely fun and gratifying and the visit from Troop 12135 has been a wonderful highlight! 14 amazing young ladies and their leaders presented Lori with big bags of dog food, dog care items purchased from PETCO, dog beds and used blankets among other many things. I was amazed at what the girls had accomplished at the culmination of their project “OPERATION SAVE THE HOMELESS PETS.”

Through the coordination skills of Troop member mom, Lina Doi, various emails between her, me and Lori went on in the last couple of months. It was nice to finally meet her last Saturday and also get treated to a great visit from the project’s inspiration, DDR Alum, Pirate and her family, Christine and her daughter, Miya. Through Lina and her daughter’s efforts, both DEL MONTE PET PRODUCTS and CENTRAL PET DISTRIBUTION donated significant pallets of dog food to DDR. This came right in time for the PET FAIR we are planning for June at our COMPTON monthly spay/neuter clinic. This donation will help replenish and increase access of our OPERATION SAFETY NET project within DDR.

How did this all come about? With a wonderful ambassador for her breed, DDR Alum, PIRATE. Troop 12135 are all familiar with Pirate through Miya and Christine. He goes to games, meetings and wins everyone’s hearts. Because of Pirate, a group of young girls have a kinder perspective on pitbulls.

When the Troop leaders were trying to identify a Junior Bronze Project for the 09-10 year, they chose DDR since all the girls wanted to work with pets and had Pirate as a reference point. And that was what got the ball rolling:

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DDR YOUTH MATTER: Nishi Girl Scout Troop 12135 “OPERATION SAVE THE HOMELESS PETS”admin2017-05-24T08:44:23-07:00

DDR YOUTH MATTER: Pitbull Art by Laurel Elementary School Students

Here are some of the fabulous coloring projects that Elementary students from Laurel Elementary School in West Hollywood who attended their school’s Earth Day event did at the DDR Table! We were the “Adoption Table.”

DDR volunteer Brittany Fulgoni brought the wonderful coloring pages from Pitt Bull Rescue Central’s Poppy’s Place webpage for kids to the event. My particular favorite is the pink eyes pit bull with fun colors. I commented to the young boy who did it that he really had a knack for color and he smiled. I told him he might want to consider art school in the future and he said YA! Everyone wanted the brown marker but I told them that their pitbulls can be any color they wanted and so some of them did the traditional brown pitty and some did the multi-colored pitbull! Future artists and pit bull lovers of Los Angeles!
It was a wonderful day!

AMSTAFF LOVE!

PITBULL SPOKEN HERE!

PSYCHEDELIC PITTY

BY JACKY!

DDR YOUTH MATTER: Pitbull Art by Laurel Elementary School Studentsadmin2017-05-24T08:44:27-07:00

DDR YOUTH MATTER: DDR Adoption Show Team Members: Katie & Carly Carrasco

The second installment of the DDR Youth Matter section of PITStop bring us two awesome sister siblings Carly: age 17, Senior (12th Grade) at San Dimas High School Katie: age 14, Freshman (9th Grade) at San Dimas High School!

They are part of our dedicated volunteer PETCO Show Team that come every Saturday to highlight our dogs to interested visitors! Having them there brings a youthful vibe that’s just plain fun for everyone involved! They are intelligent young women with definite opinions and viewpoints! Bravo!

We hope that they will continue to come back even when their school project is over!!!!! Thank you ladies for all your great work!

Carly & Katie

1)How did you hear about Downtown Dog Rescue?

Carly:I heard about Downtown Dog Rescue from our Dad, who first heard about this dog rescue from his parent’s neighbor, Celeste, a friend of Sandy’s (and her husband).

Katie: I heard about it from my sister Carly, who heard it from our Dad, who heard it from Celeste (a friend of Sandy and her husband).

2)What is this project you’re involved with and what is the purpose of the project? How long is the project supposed to run?

Carly:The project I am involved in is the San Dimas High School Senior Connection Project or SCP for short. The purpose of this project is unknown to me. I enjoy volunteering, but presenting it in front of a panel of teacher judges, and writing a research paper is a complete waist of my time. I started this project my Junior year of high school and it goes until May 26, 2010 (the day I present my project to the teachers).

Katie:The project I am involved in is the San Dimas High School Connection Project. There is not a specific purpose to this project. The project is going to run through my four years of high school.

Katie with Cosmo

3)What were your perceptions of pitbulls before volunteering […]

DDR YOUTH MATTER: DDR Adoption Show Team Members: Katie & Carly Carrascoadmin2017-05-24T08:44:27-07:00

FRIDAY SHOUT OUTS – Giving Thanks!

This Friday is all about the ladies — one of our pretty ladies will be thanking two lovely young ladies who help us with our DDR work!

And who is this pretty lady doing the honors? It’s ROXY!!!! Just as soon as we put up her information as being available for a forever home, a family snapped her up right away! Of course, we’re not surprised! She’s a sweet, beautiful girl!

HOORAY! She will now be in a lovely home!!!!! Roxy!!!
Here she is with the new fam!

So Roxy…ready to extend our thanks to your human counterparts?
READY! GO!!!!!

On behalf of DDR, I would like to thank two girls who have been faithfully present every Saturday to help do adoptions and watch over us at PETCO as part of a school project that they have to complete. They’re sisters!

Carly and Katie! Thank you, you two!!!!!

We love that both of you have chosen Downtown Dog Rescue as your community project…it only makes it better for us to be around good energy! You are always welcome to drop by again even when your project is done!

Watch out next Tuesday, when PITStop does a DDR YOUTH MATTERS feature on them both!

Ok Roxy —- great job, go run to your new family and live a wonderful, new life! Thanks Carly and Katie! We at DDR are thankful for your presence and dedication!

Ok everyone! See you all next week!
Helping Downtown Dogs one dog at a time
WITH YOUR HELP!
SI! SE PUEDE!

FRIDAY SHOUT OUTS – Giving Thanks!admin2017-05-24T08:44:27-07:00

DDR YOUTH MATTER: DDR Pit Bull School Classmate, Edgar Hernandez

We love the participation of DDR youth in our programs like Pit Bull School (Jordan & Michael), adoption events (Carly & Katie), rescue missions (Josie Gavieres’s team), blog and more!!!!

The new DDR YOUTH MATTER section will feature these up and coming animal welfare advocates doing what they do best – being youthful, dedicated and out there for the animals!

Here is an example of majorly talented Edgar Hernandez who attends the Pit Bull School on Sundays and does amazing graphics of his pit bull Queenie! Edgar also helps us out in our monthly Spay/Neuter clinics. His participation and involvement in DDR is priceless and we are thankful for it!!!!!!!

Now check out his art work! Up and coming graphic artist and ONLY 14 years old…more good things to come out of this young man we’re sure!

DDR YOUTH MATTER: DDR Pit Bull School Classmate, Edgar Hernandezadmin2017-05-24T08:44:28-07:00