As much as it seems like such a great idea to get a new dog and change your life to adapt to this new creature of love, I urge you to think twice. Yes, I am asking you to consider it carefully before you do it. I feel it is a terrible thing to do to bring a dog into …
Smoke and Mirrors
Well after yesterdays post “Laying the Blame” I saw countless responses in favor and many who tried to slam my opinion. How can anyone see what I’m saying as wrong? Simple, they don’t address it. Why won’t anyone just come out and say “If you dump a dog at a shelter, you are wrong.” Instead they cry and scream about …
Laying the Blame
I’ve been kind of absent from blogging and such lately as I’m dealing with a very difficult personal situation right now. However I feel compelled to write this post because I am so pissed off. Having worked in rescue for several years and having instituted and developed programs that have saved thousands of lives I believe I have a right …
she was, “the scariest dog at the shelter.”
When I found Xena at the Yavapai Humane Society, she was first on the list to be put down. No one could get near her and the veteran employee there said that no other dog had ever scared him as much as Xena. However the new director there had a different idea. Understanding what No-Kill really means, he asked me …
she was loved – because someone cared
On June 23, 2008 I found a sad old Shar Pei living in the shelter in downtown LA. She was hopeless, so I named her HOPE. I wrote a small letter based on what I thought she was thinking (this was before our video program). I am enclosing the original post here: I was sad beyond words that someone dumped …
don’t spin my wheels…
I’m writing this to the person who sends me an anonymous e-mail criticizing the work a good friend of mine is doing working at a Humane Society. I’d like to be clear on something: those that criticize rarely have an answer and stake their claim that people are doing wrong, yet they don’t know what the right is. This is …
2 months and 55 minutes
So I found Donnie at the shelter this last visit. I always try to pick dogs that really need a chance; either ones that have been there for a while, older ones, special needs ones, etc. No sense in making a video of a perfectly adoptable dog that will get out on their own. So Donnie had been there for …
Emotions vs. Instinct
There are countless thousands of dogs living (waiting to die) in shelters right now that wish they had been given the opportunity to learn right from wrong. These dogs were given up on by their humans, their trainers and by society as a whole. They will pay the ultimate price – their lives. If only the humans could step outside …
7x the love – 1/7th the lifespan
I think everyone that’s ever loved a dog ponders the question, “Why do they only live such a short time?” I don’t believe there is an answer to that question, if there was it would have to be wrapped in the riddle that they live life 7x more fully than us. In either case, we know their love knows no …
when we fail in trying to help…
As frustrated as many of us are with the shelter system, there are things we can do to make it better, and there are things people do to make it worse. I’d like to focus on the later. Oftentimes in an effort to help save a dog at a shelter, people will call in and place an IP (interested party) …