Straydog, our Happy Home for Strays
(The hexagon is the "Big Play Yard," which we usually refer to as "the park")
(Photo taken May 2002)
Straydog is a "lifeboat" (and sanctuary) for rescued dogs. A vacant spot in a kennel is an empty seat in our "lifeboat," so please, if you're interested in adopting a dog, see our "Dogs for Adoption" links below, or call to inquire about dogs you may have seen recent photos of but who may not yet be included in our "Dogs for Adoption" links. And please continue to support us. We will continue to row this "lifeboat" to shore, dropping off rescued dogs into the arms of good adopters, and we will continue to fill the space left vacant by each adopted dog with another desperate homeless dog for as long as we can hold on (financially). We believe that our example (and the example of all other no-kill shelters) must be publicized to wake people up and make them aware of the necessity to SPAY and NEUTER their pets so that homeless dog-rescue "lifeboats" will no longer be necessary. (Ditto for cats!)
Pat's Daily Dog Log
SUNDAY MAY 25 2003
Alice continues to panic during storms
Right after the update about Alice being so afraid of thunderstorms (see the May 6th edition via a link below), a follower of our website sent an email telling us of a natural remedy that helps to calm nervous dogs during storms. We'd like to try anything to help Alice (other than strong, prescribed sedatives, if possible), but I just haven't had the time to find this natural remedy in the mail order dog catalogs or on the Internet, and last night sweet Alice had to go through another terrible, booming loud thunder storm, and today her paw is hurting.
Alice's injury no doubt came from her pawing at the kennel fence (which kennel is now triple-secured). I could find no cuts on her paw, but we could see where she'd scraped her foot. I may have forgotten to listen to the weather report right before bed, but I had no idea that the storm was coming, or that it would be so bad when it did hit sometime after midnight.
What is sad, in a way, is that during yesterday's Adoption Day, a couple came to look at the dogs, and almost adopted Alice along with her best buddy, Sally. The couple wanted to think about the adoption for several days, tho, which is good, but how wonderful it would have been, especially for Alice, if she had been able to spend the night in her new home, feeling safe with her new mom and dad last night during the storm.
Yesterday
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Straydog UPDATE posted SATURDAY 5/24/03 at ~9:41 p.m. CT
Pat's Daily Dog Log
SATURDAY MAY 24 2003
Puppy Kimberly is adopted!
During our Adoption Days these last two Saturdays we've had many people inquire about Puppy Kimberly. She is a cute little puppy-dog, very friendly and affectionate, and she will be small in size when she is full grown, which is just the type of dog most people seem to want as a pet. We had a feeling that this would be Kimmy's lucky day to be adopted, and we were right. Today Kimberly found her forever family!
Susan Devers made the home visit with Kimmy and said she has a wonderful new mom and dad and little boy to play with and that Kimmy instantly became a much loved, pampered member of their family!
This adoption made our day a very happy one, as I'm sure it made little Puppy Kimberly very happy as well.
All the new puppies have been moved to bigger kennels now!
Our little puppy kennels are fine for little puppies, but it doesn't take long for the little tykes to grow, and they soon outgrow the small puppy kennels. The new arrivals, Annie and Amy and Willie, have been with us for almost two weeks now, and then just two days ago Tinkerbell arrived, and yesterday Megan (the deaf Pit Bull pup) joined us. Now all of these pups needed more space! So while Guy was busy in Dallas with our Adoption Day crew at PetsMart, we were busy doing a little rearranging of a few dogs here so that we could move the puppies to the regular size, bigger kennels. They love all the room they have to run and play in now! Such happy little puppies.
Tinkerbell and Megan have become best buddies. They are so cute as they play together.
Annie, Amy and Willie are adorable too. They will be adopted fast when they are able to attend our Adoption Days.
*Pat Arnold's Daily Dog Log
CURRENT WEEK:
* Puppy Willie moves in with Amy and Annie [PHOTOS];
* Willie starts out as the "tough guy," but the girls quickly put him in his place! [PHOTOS]
* More mixing and matching: Puppy Benny visits Puppy Kimberly and gets homesick at sunset Sunday;
* Puppy Benny is rushed back to his mother [PHOTOS];
* Kimmy gets a new friend: Little Puppy Willie [PHOTOS];
* Rosie and her kids are digging under their corner-cut feeding gate.
* Tinkerbell has her spay surgery while under sedation for removal of burrs from her ears;
* Tinkerbell comes home to our Happy Home for Strays [PHOTOS].
LAST WEEK:
* Two pups left over from an animal auction were going to be dumped on the highway!
* Betsy goes to the vet for her final checkup on her healing broken leg [PHOTOS];
* Amy and Annie, the animal auction "leftovers" come home with us from the vet clinic [PHOTOS].
* Siblings, Buddy and Betsy, are together again in their outside kennel [PHOTOS];
* New puppies, Annie and her little sister, Amy, are not so shy anymore [PHOTOS].
* Puppy Willie will arrive tomorrow;
* Eli and Jacob come to check out out shelter this afternoon [PHOTOS].
* Willie seems to be a healthy puppy;
* Willie comes from the clinic to our Happy Home for Strays [PHOTOS];
* An "instant kennel" goes up for the pup, and he gets a much needed bath [PHOTOS].
* Nikki's doing better every day [PHOTOS];
* Alice is heartworm-free at last;
* Mandy and Brigitte to be adopted today!
* Rosie meets Bear in the big play yard [PHOTOS];
* Mandy goes to her new home and is adopted!
* Alice and Sally (if not adopted) will move into Mandy and Bear's old kennel [PHOTOS];
* MANDY IS RETURNED AFTER A 3-HOUR ADOPTION.
* Post Adoption Day photos back at the shelter.
*Adoption Day Saturday, May 31 - PetsMart on Central at Parker in Plano (Texas)
*Our Dogs for Adoption - Volunteer Shannon's page
*Our Mission & How We Got Started
*"Goodbye, Danny Boy." - An example of the only acceptable use of euthanasia
If you would like to help with our ever-growing vet bill, donations can be sent directly to:
A Note from Bill ...
We want to thank those who have already donated to Straydog after receiving (via regular U.S. mail) our April 2003 Newsletter. For those of you who are not on our mailing list (which we would be glad to add you to if you would like to receive hard copy in the future) we provide the following links:
*Click here to go to the HTML version of our April 2003 Newsletter
*Click here for continuation of our homepage with no changes to the continuation in several weeks
