Jodidogs needs our help

Hey Dogsters!
I'm sure that many of you are familiar with a couple of our wonderful members-- Jodi and
Cheesecake . If you are, you also know that they are the main spokesdogs for a wonderful rescue organization called Jodidogs Rescue, located in Estacada, Oregon. It is a small, sanctuary-type rescue located on 16 acres. Each of their dogs and cats was on the euthanasia list at a shelter. Many of us came to know and love Jodidogs such as Spoon, Underdog ,Tiger and Leah. As many of our Dogster members are rescues ourselves, we naturally came to love and admire Jodidogs' human administrators.

Sadly, due to the kinds of complicated problems that often bedevil small rescues, Jodidogs is going to have to close.

This wonderful organization that has helped so many (maybe even you!!) is now in need of OUR help. There are several animals that need placement either in forever homes or with other rescue groups. There are transport issues. There are other logistical problems that need your keen minds!

So, a group has been formed to try to help solve these problems. Won’t you join us? Everydog can contribute an idea, a rescue contact, a suggestion, or a cheer!

This is an open invitation to all Dogster members to join our group, Jodidogs Support, Ideas and Fund

And maybe, just maybe, you have room for a new friend at your house, or know someone who does. Jodidogs Rescue also has a Petfinders page.


Please join us to brainstorm, encourage and support!! We love Jodidogs—help us to help them!

How to help pound&rescue puppys

***Re-posted with Jasmine's & Rex's blessings***


Hi Everywoof!

A lot of pups out there are wondering, "What can I do to help those pound puppies?" and we want to answer that question for them. So we're putting together an action list to help get the word out and help the doggies and kitties in animal shelters safely find a furever home!

Increase Awareness
An important first step is to increase awareness about the animals in need - they can never be forgotten.

-- Encourage news media (television news stations, local radios, newspapers, etc.) to feature an "Adoptable Pet of the Day/Week".
-- Write to city offcials (such as the mayor) about increasing support or funding for city-operated shelters.
-- Put a flashy ad in the Pet Classifieds section of the newspaper for your local humane society or shelter.
-- Encourage your shelter or humane society to create a website or make pages for it's pets on petfinder.com to increase awareness and to keep in touch with the community.
-- Find out if your shelter has any flyers that need to be distributed, and pass them out at pet stores or on your work's bulletein board to let people know of the need for adoptive homes and shelter volunteers.
-- Talk to your shelter about organizing a fundraising event. This would not only increase awareness, but the shelter would benefit immensely also! Or, simply participating in an existing fundraising event is just as much help.

Volunteer
For all of you who like to be right where the action is in supporting a good cause, volunteer work is for you. You can see the difference you make everyday!

-- Take care of the basic tasks for the comfort of the poochies and kitties. This can include: cleaning cages or pens, feeding and watering, grooming, exercising, and playing!
-- Offer to put your training skills to work with the older dogs at the shelter -- they often do not catch people's eye easily, but if they are well behaved it makes such a difference!
-- Offer to jazz up the kennels of the dogs that have been there for awhile -- find them a fresh collar or bandana to wear that is a bright color. Make them laminated signs to hang on their kennel door that highlights their best features. Give them an extra special grooming to make them shine, and give their kennel a fresh cleaning from top to bottom.
-- Put your vet skills to work -- even if you work at a practice already, the shelter would be very appreciative if you volunteered your time and skill on your days off to help the homeless pups. And plus, it's good public relations for your "real" vet practice!
-- Volunteer to help with the shelter website. You could take awesome, eye-catching pictures of the animals and come up with good descriptions for their adoption profiles.
-- Talk to your shelter about scheduling a "Meet N' Greet" day at your local pet store or park, where people can meet available animals and learn more about shelter programs. This is a great way to "rein in" possible adopters!
-- Offer to foster an animal or two. This frees up space in the shelters, and gives those animals that have a hard time finding a suitable home a chance to relax.

Donate

If you haven't seen our "Shelter Item Wishlist", here it is! Donating items is a great way to immediatly help the shelter.

Cats
-Litter pans
-Bags of Litter
-Litter Scoopers
-Cat toys
-Soft Cat treats
-Small blankets
-Cat Brushes
-Cat Shampoo
-Flea Spray
-Cat Collars
-Metal Food Bowls
-Canned or dry cat food (check with shelter to see what kind of food they feed)

Dogs
-Collars (all sizes, no choke collars please)
-Leashes (all sizes)
-Dog Brushes
-Dog Nail Clippers
-Dog Shampoo
-Flea Spray/Shampoo
-Bath Brushes
-Dog Grooming Clippers
-Dog toys
-Hard rubber chew toys (i.e. Kongs)
-Soft dog treats
-Canned or dry dog food (check with shelter to see what kind of food they feed)
-Crates (all sizes)
-Big and small Blankets
-Dog Beds
-Metal Food Bowls
-Dog houses
-Small dog sweaters

General
-Dishwashing Liquid
-Window Cleaner
-All purpose Cleaner
-Large Latex Gloves
-Rubber Boots
-Towels
-Laundry Detergent
-Plastic Spray bottles
-Bleach
-Paper Towels
-Brooms
-Dust pans
-Mops
-Buckets
-Disinfecting Spray
-Digital Cameras
-Camera Film
-Air purifier

Medical
-Trach Tubes (size 3.0 FR to 10.0 FR)
-Chlorahexaderm Scrub & Solution
-Surgical Instruments (Scissors, Scalpel Handles & Forceps)
-Disposable Scalpels
-Gauze (3x3, 4x4)
-IV Fluids (LRS, 0.9% NaCl, Dextrose)
-IV Lines
-Urine Test Strips
-Resuscitation Bags (1L/3L)
-Suture Material
-Bandaging Material
-Microhematocrit Ttubes, Sealer & Reader Card
-IV Butterfly Catheters
-Dip Quick Stain

-- Many of the non-medical items can be purchased cheaply or in bulk at stores such as the Dollar Tree, or in clearance sections of pet stores or chain stores such as Target.
-- Donate money. They can put this towards large, long-term projects that will likely have a big impact on the shelter.
-- Use www.goodsearch.com for all your searching needs -- choose your local shelter or humane society if they are listed, or support a national group. Money goes towards whatever cause you choose for every single search you make using this website.

Prevention

-- Be a spay and neuter advocate to help prevent unwanted litters.
-- Say No to puppy mills -- let everyone (even the media! Especially the media!) know the horrors of these puppy mills. They have an effect on shelters as well.
-- Encourage and support no-kill shelters, as well as open-door shelters.
-- Help your shelter set up a Spay and Neuter campaign -- low-cost procedures done by volunteer vets can greatly reduce the amount of unwanted strays.


So there you have it pups, no reason why you can't find something, even just one thing, on that list that you can participate in. If you think of something else that should be on our handy-dandy Action List, bark about it here or send a p-mail!

Diary pick of the day!!!!!!!!!

This is just getting better and better and better! I just saw that I am one of the diary pick's for the day! What an honor! Thanks dogster! Oh yeah, I am feeling pretty good about myself right now! I'd say I deserve a special treat today for being , well for being my fabulous self! Daaaad! Treat! NOW! Please?

We are a family!

This has jsut been a great week! First I got to go play with my friends Keenan and Kali , that was so much fun! Though Eventually I just took over Kali's crate and just kept an eye on the little one. You know those youngsters, they get into all kinds of trouble.

But even more awesome that playing with my friends is that I found two dogs on dogster that are related to me! How cool is that? TK's Miny Windy and Guinness are both very, very distant cousins of mine, maybe like 47th cousins, but still how cool?! I was so excited I didn't even get uspest that it was raining saturday and dad did not take me to the dogpark. I got familay,whoho! That's why I started my own dosgter group, called
We are a family so more greys on dogster can find members of their family So everyone come and join and who knows maybe you are my distant cousin,too!


PS: I finally figured out how to make links, pretty cool, eh?

How Many Dogs Does It Take to Change a Light Bulb?

Kerry Blue: I'll get that bulb outta there - hey! you want the fixture too? Wait a minute - lets get these wire thingies out while we're at it - I'll be with you in a minute . . . .

Jack Russell Terrier: Two, but the job never gets done - they just keep arguing about who is supposed to do it and how it's supposed to be done!

Bulldog: Just one. But it takes him three years to do it.

Rottweiler: Go ahead! Make me!

Pomeranians don't change light bulbs, although sometimes their agent will get a German Shepherd in to do the job for them while they're out.

Pug: Er, two. Or maybe one. No - on second thought, make that two. Is that OK with you?

Golden Retriever: The sun is shining, the day is young, we've got our whole lives ahead of us, and you're inside worrying about a stupid burned-out light bulb?

Springer Spaniel : Lightbulb? Lightbulb? That thing I just ate was a lightbulb?

American Bulldog: I'll change it if I can eat the old one

Scottish Terrier: 48 'cause they're so short so they have to pile a whole bunch one on top of the other to get up to the ceiling, *unless* they can persuade you to get the ladder out of the garage by biting yer ankles!

Shiba Inu: Won't change the light bulb and won't let anyone else change it either.

Beagle: It's your lightbulb - change it yourself. Unless... is there food involved??

Border Collies: None. They just stare at it until it glows again.

German Shepherd: I'll guard the light bulb while you decide. Back off!

Amstaff: Bounce! Take out old bulb. Bounce! Put in new bulb. Bounce! Hit light switch to check new bulb. Bounce! It works! Bounce! Bounce! Bounce!

Akita: You, yes, you there with the opposable thumbs, excuse me, but it is unusually dark in here, and I require it light. Do something about it immediately.

Basset Hound: If it isn't edible why bother?

Papillons: One to change the bulb, eight to cheer him on.

Irish Setters:

1.Burned out light bulb? Oh that is sooo funny! Sure. Lets all go change the bulb. How do you tell which one is burned out? Somebody bring the balloons!

2.At least two to drag the trampoline over to the light fixture.

3.Would need a German Shepherd dog to remember why they were there.

Poodles:

Maybe they are the ones with the trampoline.
But they would be arguing over who got to hold the bulb.

Shi-tzu: Puh-leeze, dah-ling. Leave it for the servants.

Dobermans: Well, just one, but be prepared to come home to find the house completely rewired and the furniture probably rearranged to boot!

Cavalier King Charles Spaniel: None, 'cause they're so cute they light up the room. And anyway, they couldn't be bothered to get off your lap!

Australian Terriers: Two. One to stand on the floor, the second to jump on top of the first, the first on top of the second, the second on top, of the first, until they reach the ceiling, so they can change the light bulb.

Labs: Oh, me, ME!!! Pleeeeeeze let ME change the bulb! Can I? Can I? Huh? Huh? Can I? Pleeeeeze, it's awful cute and I can tell it likes me. Can I?

Afghan: Light bulb? What light bulb?

Greyhound: If it's not running why bother?

Malamute: Let the border collie do it. You can feed me while he's busy.

Here I am

So they finally got me on here, too. I guess I am what people call camera-shy. Well that's only because I always wanna look my best, and belive me it's hard to always eat healthy, work out and only do the good stuff. Even harder when you have a dad who spoiles you rotten! Not that I really mind.
I do mind the little one sometimes though. He`s not here as much as I am, but when he is, puh he just does not leave me alone, always wants to play, always wants to play... he can be pretty exhausting sometimes, but that's kids for ya. He still has a lot of growing up to do. I on the other hand, am the perfect lady, and those rumours about me whining when my family leaves me are just not true! Well, maybe there is a tiny,tiny,tiny bit of truth to that... alright maybe it's a little true, but only very rarely....ok, more like sometimes...Fine, I HATE IT when they leave me! Obviously not because I am scared, I mean check out my teeth, but I might just miss out on something fun. I have to say though, that my new family is great! The couch is even better! Just love the couch! Oh my, I think i might just have to go and lay down on it right now.