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 DDR dogs…
And of course, Kathryn Hall for showing up in PETCO on Saturdays to take photos of our newly arrived dogs (watch out for a great article she wrote which we will be posting on the blog next week. It’s about becoming a new mother and what that means in terms of dog ownership! Good stuff.)

And Lucy knows it’s not just the photo stills that give DDR dogs their “second chance,” we also have our dear videographers that create awesome videos of our adoptables and our various DDR programs! For that we would like to thank our very own DEBBIE FAN and JEFF FLEISS of

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Debbie’s work with DDR not only involves the Sunday Pit Bull Training class but also providing the wonderful videos you see on our blog and YouTube. She does the same thing for the West LA Shelter featuring their adoptables, complete with stories, funny and witty tags, and awesome choices for the “dog score”. Check it out: WEST LA SHELTER SWEETHEARTS! Having worked in video before, I know it takes a lot of dedication, editing TIME and occasional panic attack even to just pump out a 1 minute video – so thank you Debbie! DDR is evergrateful to you- especially Lori!

In the same vein, Jeff has tirelessly covered the Coliseum Pitbull Sunday classes in his PITFORLIFE YouTube Channel (which we will be featuring more of on the blog weeks to come). What better way to promote the class and the great work DOGMAN does than videos showing what happens at the Coliseum. Thank you Jeff for your video contribution to DDR’s work (watch out for an upcoming interview on PITStop featuring Jeff and the great work he does for animal welfare on his news site ANIMAL NEWS!).

And finally — we want to thank our 500+ PITstop blog fans that have visited the site, commented, subscribed and written to us. It’s a huge undertaking each week by a group of DDR fans and we’re glad all of you have come through to let us know that you are all out there reading PITStop content!