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I know I haven't been on the board very long, but as you can tell by my signature I am an avid volunteer at rescuing dogs. My wife and I have been volunteering for a couple years now and the rewards it brings are worth every minute of time and evey dime of the money we generously give. That being said, HBO is having a special on tomorrow night about shelter dogs and it follows the day to day activites in the life of a NY shelter. It is a "no kill" shelter but even so, life and death decisions have to be made and it is a harsh look at what rescue work is all about. If you have ever even thought about rescuing or volunteering I encourage you to please watch this special and you will understand how important it is and why we do it.

 

Some may say they can't watch it because it's too hard to watch, but to you I say that if by watching this you learn to help just one dog or volunteer or give money to save just one dog, the show was worth every minute. To that one dog you save it's worth it! Just my thoughts and I hope that if by just one person watching the show helps save just one dog, this post was well worth it! Thanks for listening!

 

http://www.hbo.com/docs/programs/shelter_dogs2/

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Me and my wife participate in rescue also. We are currently hosting a Dachsund for a couple of weeks. His name is Sonny. We do transport legs between Nashville and Memphis.

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Me and my wife participate in rescue also. We are currently hosting a Dachsund for a couple of weeks. His name is Sonny. We do transport legs between Nashville and Memphis.

That's AWESOME!! I LOVE to hear things like that. We need more of us out ther who are willing to volunteer just a little bit of time! I've got three shepherds (white pure breed, shepherd retriever mix, and shepherd basenji mix) myself and would probably have more if I had a bigger house..glad to hear about another volunteer! Hopefully this documentary will help some people to just help out in some way or another and that could go for any animal lover not just dogs! It just so happens the show is about dogs, but any animal could be put in that spot! Thanks for caring! :cheers:

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just thought id post a pic of our 2 goldens

 

 

The older one is Collin (right) and the puppy is Toby (left)

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Wingnut Senior Enthusiast

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Me and my wife participate in rescue also. We are currently hosting a Dachsund for a couple of weeks. His name is Sonny. We do transport legs between Nashville and Memphis.

Been thinking of doing that myself. I have an empty acre for a backyard...Could probably take a few Mastiff pups off the local SPCA outlets hands for a while....Course...I might need a fence first. :cheers:

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Me and my wife participate in rescue also. We are currently hosting a Dachsund for a couple of weeks. His name is Sonny. We do transport legs between Nashville and Memphis.

Been thinking of doing that myself. I have an empty acre for a backyard...Could probably take a few Mastiff pups off the local SPCA outlets hands for a while....Course...I might need a fence first. :cheers:

Are yu going to keep them inside or outside Wingnut?

 

The SPCA usually asks all adopters if the intendc on keeping the dog theyre adopting inside or out, if you say out, then they won't let you go through with the adoption.

 

I wuld like to adopt ne, but thats just not possible in my life right now.

Wingnut Senior Enthusiast

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I was living (in sin :cheers: ) with a girl that worked for the San Diego Humane Society a few years back...So, I do know how it works. :rolleyes:

 

And I said "thinking about it"...Not ready to do it just yet. :cheers:

 

I just have to make myself be a little less neurotic about how clean my house is.

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While we didn't rescue our dog Dixie through any agency, we did sort of rescue her. She was a stray that my wife found in '91. The vet said she looked to be a year old when we took her to get checked out. I didn't plan on keeping her. I never really had any intrest in such a small dog like that. After taking her home, washing tons of fleas off of her outside, then giving her a bath in the tub, she started to follow me around. It got so bad that she sat at the door whinning when I went to take ashower. I let her in and she just layed by the tub. She was on my heels everywhere I went. After a couple days of that, I was kind of attached to her, and decided not to take her to a shelter. We've still got her today, and I think I can say she has been the best dog I have ever had. She can't see very wall at all now, and doesn't get around too much these days though. Here's a very recent picture of here laying by the fireplace. She loves to be warm. :cheers:

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bigdogs Senior Enthusiast

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Wingnut, I see you like mastiffs. As you can see from my avatar, I have one (actually we have 2, but have had a total of 4 throughout the years) named Homer. They are really cool dogs and can't see myself not ever having one.

cowboy02 Senior Enthusiast

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Dogs are great aren't they.....

 

I'm the proud owner of 2 black labs, that last one I got from a animal rescue league in Golden CO. Nothing like saving a dogs life...

 

She has been a great dog and a good companion..

 

Always glad to hear people doing good!! :cheers:

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I agree cowboy. We just got a 5 yr old springer spaniel (named Jerry Springer) from the humane society 2 weeks ago. He is the best behaved one he got too...

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Of my three (white shepherd, shepherd/retriever, shepherd/basenji) the two mutts are the best behaved. Granted the white shepherd is only 2yrs old, but she has the typical shepherd trait...very very protective and has been the alpha since the day we got her as a pup...the other two are 6.5yrs old...

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Wingnut, I see you like mastiffs. As you can see from my avatar, I have one (actually we have 2, but have had a total of 4 throughout the years) named Homer. They are really cool dogs and can't see myself not ever having one.

Yeah, some of the best dogs IMO, I used to house sit a couple of them for a flight attendent friend of mine, great dogs...Problem is, I just don't think I could handle them in the house. The would be socialized plenty (I spend most of my time outside, or in the garage), and have a heated place to go, but I would have to get over my clean-freak-streak in the house. Having 400 lbs of drooling, shedding, slobbering dogs inside the house would give me hives.

 

If they were "outside" dogs only, I would probably already have four of them.

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Wingnut,

 

no they are not the cleanest dogs in the world with the drool altho some are more wet than others. My biggest mastiff (also the one that had the best tempermant) didn't drool much. He was 36" at the shoulder and 270lbs tho. Homer on the other hand is a drooler tho and Candy (the brindle female) is even worse.

 

They are real attached to their owner's tho and can guarantee in the cooler months, Homer J will be laying on the bed next to me come morning. Good thing we have a king size bed but I am the one that usually gets squashed in the middle.

Wingnut Senior Enthusiast

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Yeah....See?....Dogs in my bed.... :eek:

 

I would make them their own bed, if need be, but not in mine. :cheers:

 

I'm thinking of taking my ex-g/fs Rottie though, he can't stand being inside, and she doesn't ever spend time with him. Great pooch....As long as you aren't a cat. :eek: He likes to make yard decorations out of them...He'll be in Better Homes and Gardens next month with "Evergreen Lawn with Shades of Calico". :cheers:

 

He weighs about 130-140 lbs...Big for a Rot...Bigger than her by about 30-40 lbs. :rolleyes:

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