This young dog was just found outside someones house in Varadero nearly dead, with 4 dead puppies and 5 live ones. She is now in safe hands. This could have been prevented by being spayed. Now, 6 more safe homes must be found. I am helping to raise awareness to the need for donated vet supplies for the few Dr.s in Cuba that perform free spay and neuters to the dogs of Cuba. If you can ask your vet for any supplies, even if its expired, they can use it. There is no supply outlet in Cuba for the needed items. They need sutures, bandages, medicines, dewormer, tools etc. I will collect the items and arrange to have it taken into Cuba and the Vets will pick it up from us there. The dogs are often rounded up and beaten to death, poisoned by strycnine or thrown in dumpsters. The only way to help is to curb the overpopulation by spaying and neutering. They are making a difference and less strays are found at the resorts now as they gather up the ones they can, treat and alter them, then find them responsible homes. Please see apacvaradero.blogspot.com (registered charity in Canda that helps support the free clinics) and their facebook page www.facebook.com/CubanAnimals to learn more and to see how you can help. A little bit makes a huge difference and they appreciate every little bit that they get.
See Bella's news story video about how she was found beaten and drowning in a pond in a Fresno public park http://abclocal.go.com/kfsn/story?section=news/local&id=8246897 http://abclocal.go.com/kfsn/story?section=news/local&id=8246897
Would you consider fostering an ASDAN Dog?? I am considering this route to help me bring dogs up more often. If you are interested, email me at polareco@telusplanet.net We need more helping getting these dogs into safe forever homes in Canada. One Fresno shelter alone is euthanizing 100 -200 animals a day, many of them are small dogs. There is a shelter in every direction within 20-60 mins of each other. Every dog placed here, opens up another spot for another dog to be flown up from the rescues that literaly pull these small dogs from the euthanasia lists and often directly from the kill room, sometimes only minutes before death. This, in turn, opens up another spot in a foster home in California, enabling them to pull another dog from the kill shelters. The flow is un-ending, but we have to help where we can by bringing these small breed dogs up to Canada where they are in short supply, thus eliminating the need for people to resort to the ads on the internet to purchase dogs from uscrupulous people who sell sick, interbred, unaltered, unvaccinated animals that come from profit based people. Most cats and dogs that are turned into the California Shelters are euthanized before they even have a chance to go up for adoption. One shelter I visited had a huge sign infront of the doors advising all people dropping off pets to be aware that their animal would most likely die and they should be aware of that before dropping them off. The ones that die as soon as they are brought into the door are the ones with puppies or kittens or are pregnant. They do not have the volunteers to take care of the babies until they are old enough to adopt out. Yet here, people pay outrageous prices for puppies advertised on the internet, and they are often sick, have hereditary issues, are not properly vaccinated or socialized, are not altered or rabies vacinated, adding many hundreds of dollars more to the initial cost of the dog. I have listened to many a heartbreaking story from people buying a dog off of Kijiji only to have it die within short years or months of it purchase, often after several thousands of dollars in vet bills trying to save the poor things. The only way to stop that is to to not purchase the puppies in the first place. When there are no more suckers willing to part with their hundreds of dollars to buy a dog off the internet or now, the livestock auctions, then these people will quit breeding their dogs if there is no more money in it.
When the California Rescue Volunteers go to a shelter to pick up dogs to save, they choose from 50-200 dogs that are going to die that day. When they only have the room in foster homes to pull 2 or 3 dogs, they do their best to pick the kindest, most social, well behaved dogs. These where someones much loved pets that somehow found their way to the shelter through no fault of their own. This is why we get such well behaved and lovely dogs up here to adopt out. It is the unfortunate reality of only being able to save a few.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hsKKMV1RRN0&feature=player_embedded
Winston the ASDAN dog is a HERO!!!!! My friend who adopted Winston called me in the middle of the night as fire crews were putting out a fire.....3 kids had broken in and were drinking in her garage, one then started to trash the garage and stuck a cloth in a jerry can and lit it on fire.
In any case, Winston apparently had started barking and would not stop so my friend Joey got out of her bed to see the garage engulfed in flames..... they probably would have slept right through until the fire trucks arrived, and God knows if the fire might have spread to the house.
So thanks to you for giving us little Winston and I think they're quite happy to have had him..... now who says yappy min pins aren't valuable haahah!!!
Tracy L
Check out Calican Rescue in Edmonton and Little Mutts Rescue in Calgary. These rescues only adopt out SPAYED and NEUTERED Dogs. Remember, not all shelter pets have been abused , abandoned or have problems. Due to the staggering foreclosure situation in the United States and the economic downturn in Canada, many families are forced to surrender their very much loved family pets as they move into rental accomodations that will not allow animals. Shelter surrender in California is an almost certain death sentence for these pets so people are turning them loose on the streets hoping that they will have a chance. If they don't get run over or killed by the larger stray dogs, they usually end up in the shelter in the end, unless they are lucky enough to get into a rescue.Be sure to visit your local humane society and rescues to save a local pet. If they do not have the small dog for you, then please consider one of these cuties. A special thank you to Cheryl Brooks at CFCW Many thanks to Michelle Anthony for the unbelievable help and Dr. Jody Bennett, Sherry and the fabulous staff at the Terwillegar Veterinary Clinic in Edmonton Alberta
Please don't buy a puppy from a pet store, from the internet or the newspapers. Many advertised now are from Canadian and US puppy mills brought in by animal brokers. They will tell you anything you want to hear. Please educate yourself on the horrors of this growing problem and be a part of the solution, not a part of the problem. In honor and rememberance of, those who waited, and help never came....
Below are some lucky little dogs that have found their forever homes here in Alberta
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