I don't recall the rules, and if I can write an OT diary like this. I just received a list of dogs from Save-A-Pet, an online group that sends available dogs to your email if you are looking for a new dog. Yesterday, I got an email about a Dane mix in a South Carolina shelter who has only days left. The rescue group who posted this dog, and many others is in New Hampshire, and operating on a shoestring. The website page where the dogs are located is:
www.freewebs.com/fortheluvofdawgs
The coordinator's name is Cathy, and she has posted about 7 dogs who will be destroyed at the end of the week. They are all young, and very good dogs. There is just a lot of backyard breeding in South Carolina, and these dogs are the unlucky ones.
This rescue group works with All For The Love of Animals Pet Rescue in pulling the dogs that people want to adopt. They will hold them, and then transport them to the northeast in one trip, this time in April. I have taken two of the dogs. The adoption fee is $250, which includes spay/neuter, and all shots. If the fee is too steep, I think they will work with you.
Cathy's email is fortheluvofdawgs@aol.com. She gets back to any email requests at night.
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Again, if a commitment is made to a dog, the volunteers down in SC pull the dogs and hold them until they can be transported up together to the northeast (in April.)
Some of the dogs are Lab mixes (including puppies, which they regularly destroy,) two Shar Pei mixes, a Rhodesian Ridgeback mix, an Australian Cattle dog, hounds and mixes, mostly under two years of age. This is just heartbreaking, and I can do so little, but want to help any way I can. Our four-legged friends suffer so much, and the economic downturn is going to make it even worse for them.
If you are not in a position to adopt a dog, could you spread the news about the poor dogs and the rescue website?
If you have any questions, you can email me -
Thank you,
Adigal