RESCUED WITH LOVE INC.

Are you free this Sunday?  if you are and would like to help us do a good samaritan deed, please email rescued1@bigpond.net.au

Hugo's, who was adopted by Dianne recently is in need.  Dianne is now terminally ill and while her family are looking after Hugo beautifully, and he is providing a loving and loyal constant companion to Dianne while she battles brain cancer, Hugo likes to take a walk around the neighborhood.

We are having a load of bricks delivered to Dianne's house and will need some physcial help to get these in place around her backyard, so Hugo will remain safe and give Dianne and her family the loving comfort they so desperately require at this time.

Are you able to spare a few hours with us?

If you can please let us know.  email rescued1@bigpond.net.au

we thank you for your kindess and compassion at such a difficult time.  Meet Dianne and one and only Hugo!

Yes you did!  Our lovely vet clinic who helps us enormously as you all know has two of the most beautiful kitty cats that desperately need a home.  Three months old now Tik and Tok are desexed, vaccinated (complete course C3) microchipped, flea and worm treated and are available at a fantastic $180 each.

If you think you can help find a home for these babies, please pass on the details of the Diamond Creek Vet on 9438 1183 or email us at rescued1@bigpond.net.au and we will get in contact.

Here are the gorgeous Tik and Tok with vet Ange, who has her hands full by the look of things!

Our Cocktail party is fast approaching and it is two weeks to the RSVP date of 2 April.

If you are coming, and we hope you are, please contact Jane at rescuedcoordinator@bigpond.com  and book your tickets.

This year we will have a fantastic range of goods at our Silent Auction including French Perfume, jewellery from Tiffany & Co, beautiful pashminas, even a Greg Norman Golf Bag for the boys just to name a few.

Come and have a glass of champagne, nibble on some divine food, listen to some gorgeous gentle jazz, and enjoy a night out with us.  We would love to see you!

Please see the front page or our Invitations and Functions page for all details.

The Lost Dogs Home have entirely missed the point again.

Boasting to the public they have had a record number of adoptions in February 2010 in comparision to 2009.  You can click on the link and watch a Youtube video of all the dogs finding new homes.

What is so astounding is this.

Why has there been a jump of 84% in adoptions for that month?  And the month prior?

The LDH seem to think this is something they should be proud of.  Indeed it is not. It does nothing more than highlight the poor sheltering techniques that have been employed, by the same people, sadly for more than two decades.  Why do you think these adoption rates have suddenly after 20 years jumped so significantly?

Would it be because the public are speaking out?  The negative publicity they have been receiving more the last few months? Or is it a genuine attempt to rehome more dogs?

Hardly.  There is no reason to think that without the public speaking out, and their own staff, that they would actually change what they have been doing for so many years.  It is definitely the criticism they are receiving for their poor efforts.

The RSPCA ACT's youtube Stateline Program just highlights even more how ineffective and backward the Lost Dog Home is.

No doubt there will be token changes coming over the next few months.  The Pet Licence.  A new website.  A few more dogs up for adoption.  Gee, what next an inhouse foster care program and volunteers pictured patting the dogs on their website? 

Whatever small changes are coming the effects are bandaid only.  The mindset has not changed.  The reaction is merely kneejerk as there is no belief from Management that a pound should be run in any other way other than impound, reclaim, adopt a few to keep the public sweet and kill the rest.

They have had 20 years or more to declare they will go towards No Kill and haven't. It won't be happening with this management in place, of that we are assured.

Little teeny Pookie has arrived.  Collected by foster mum Linda yesterday, she is alot better than expected thanks to the very kind staff at Latrobe Pound and the vet staff who cared for her while she did her mandatory 8 days as a stray.

Her leg has healed beautifully and through the antibiotics, she seems to be doing extremely well, so much so that she actually was playing with Angel, an ex RWL girl late yesterday afternoon.  This little sweetie is so tiny, about the same as Birdie, and 'walks straight through' the baby gate bars!!!  She is between 1 and 2 kilos.

Pooks is quite thin, and will no doubt have that remedied by Mum Linda, and will then be up for a home soon.  At around 2 years of age (first we were told 7!!) she will be up and about and playing like there is no tomorrow soon.

On March 5, Stateline has had a program on the RSPCA ACT and their bid to 'save lives' not merely store and then kill.  It is truly remarkable.

For all who are wondering why there is such a high criticism of The Lost Dogs Home in Melbourne the largest pound in Australia, and their massive convenience killing, this link to the youtube video of the Stateline program will show you exactly how it can be done, and how it is not even considered at the LDH with 6 million cash sitting in the bank account.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oOREG1nsTqU

Having met Michael Linke, CEO and spoken with him numerous times, and heard him speak, one realizes that there is no excuse.  All shelters should be running this way.

It is an uplifting program, informative and shows the basic changes that were made and how they are surviving constantly on donations for doing what they were meant to do in the first place.  Care and save animals lives.

Meet Dash, or Dashie Doo who was adopted by James and Fiona from RWL a few months back.  Dash was rescued from living under a house and the owners no longer wanted her.  Well if only they could see her now!

And another little boy, unwanted by his owners, locked in the back yard  (while the wife's dog was allowed inside!!) and ignored by the children, is Bobby, who came into care with us this week.  We hope to get him a very special home, like we do with all of our bubs, he is just a delight...

The Lost Dogs Home have apparently 'done it again'.  Without any attempt to lower their kill rates (yes AWL QLD are working towards Zero kill, the RSPCA ACT are at 8% and SADS Melbourne are under 10%) the LDH are still not addressing the fact they are a HIGH KILL POUND.

Donors who have given money for more than a decade are shut out of AGM's because they have questions, families wanting answers as to why their beloved pets were killed when they were trying to reclaim them are still being met with silence.  LDH staff members are coming forward telling stories anonmyously about "Killing Sprees" and exposing that dogs such as Buckley who made a huge amount of money for this facility were indeed to be killed until it was leaked to the media.  So what are they up to now?

They have a Pet Licence for potential owners!  There is a book to read through to explain responsible pet ownership to those wishing to take the test.  According to their website they have worked on this for a year. Mmm, interesting. 

The first question asked after you log your name  and details in is a yes or no, woul you like to 'Receive information from the Lost Dogs Home'?  Information?  Would that be more information on responsible pet care, or would it be how you can financially aid the LDH?

There are questions involving registering your dog. how long a dog is kept for in a pound before being euthanased or rehomed, and if your animal will gain weight if it is desexed.  Can heartworm be deadly for dogs? Can you train an older dog?  How often should you feed your dog? And how often should you brush a long haired dog?  The ridiculous list goes on.

Please go and do the test online at www.dogshome.com it's a corker.  You even get a certificate from "Australia's largest animal SHELTER".  Um, another bit of misinformation there too!  It's Australia's largest POUND!  With 17 dog up for adoption in it's shelter section Rescued With Love has more dogs on its books.

If you want to educate the public, a Pet Licence isn't going to do it.  What happens if someone fails the test.  Do they get a chance to read through the book and then pass?  Will it make them a better pet owner in two minutes?  Will they remember to put into place everything they have learnt in the booklet?  Will they still care responsibly for their new pet, even if they didn't in the past?

What a waste of time, and more donors money.

Have a look at how a real Pet Education Program works, by logging onto  Best Friends in the USA

http://www.bestfriends.org/nomorehomelesspets/humaneeducation/

The LDH think by bringing this Pet Licence out this week it will deflect the publicity from Brindle the family pet killed needlessly in their facility.  And that it will deflect they are killing treatable, rehomeable dogs and cats without attempting to address their poor sheltering techniques.

What the LDH don't realize is they won't stop the animals coming into their facility.  But they can do something about what happens when they are in there, and to save more lives all they have to do is stop the convenience killing.

Again, more emphasis taken off the dogs in need, at a time when they need it the most.  In a pound, lost, and alone.  Nice on LDH.  "We care more than most because too many people don't care enough".

Blaming the public for your kill rates.  What next.

Pookie had string tied around her leg for so long it embedded in her skin.  She has pus coming from under her teeth.  She is, in short a mess.  A lady had her name on her and then dropped off and we knew we couldn't let her die.  Pookie, with alot of wangling is coming to us from a country pound and will arrive on the weekend.  Luckily the staff at the pound were so concerned with her leg, they rushed her to the vet.  The skin was necrotic and there was a time when they thought she would lose her leg from the string she had been tethered with.  Being a stray there is no chance of any prosecution.  But that of course is never our main concern.  Our focus is, and always will be on the dog.  Pookie will get all her vet work done, including a dental, and anything else she will need. 

We will update you when she comes.  Thankyou to the council staff and vet staff who have helped Pookie this far. We are eternally grateful.

"Never, never be afraid to do what's is right, especially if the well being of a person or animal is at stake. Society's punishments are small compaired to the wounds we inflict on our souls when we look the other way."-Martin Luther King, jr.

Hazel, a 6 year old Pug X Cavalier has been breeding puppies for petshops all her life.  Last week she came to us, and we are glad to say after her vet work (no more puppies!) she is now the happiest girl on earth.  We are ALL in love with Hazel!

Happy and cute, loved and smart, she is a kisser of the biggest magnitiude, loves all doggies and is just the best little boubie of all time.

Well here is a little puppy farm dog enjoying grass.  Probably not something she has seen a great deal of, so the smile on her face is extra special to all of us.

Go Hazel, you legend!!