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by peachpie on 02 August 2009 - 06:08
Steph, thank you for what you do. I am writing your name in my checkbook and as soon as I am back to work will send you some $ to help. The kennel I worked for let me go and I know for a fact that he refuses to take dogs back in cases where the owner cannot keep them after a 72 hour window. Thank God for people like you to make up for the breeders like him. Wishing you the best.
by wgstexas on 13 November 2009 - 02:11
by VomMarischal on 13 November 2009 - 03:11
Steph....my best to you. I'd donate, except that then I'd have to ask for even more donations myself. It's bad out here in CA too. Keep it up, but remember, we can only do what we can, and that ain't never everything...
by greatestgsd on 13 November 2009 - 03:11
wgstexas, have you tried ivermectin?
by hodie on 13 November 2009 - 03:11
I have been doing GSD rescue for more than 15 years now. Just this week I have received 3 emails and two phone calls asking me to take dogs. Today one email was from one woman who has two 9 year old GSDs who "must remain together" as she put it. Fat chance! She will be lucky to find anyone who will take the dogs at their age (she has a valid reason for needing to give the dogs up). Further, she has compromised the adoptability of the dogs, even if they were younger, by never socializing them, not keeping up on vet care and tolerating behavioral problems.
Nothing has changed in all these years in my state. I thought I could make a difference, and perhaps I did for those individual dogs I helped, but the number I could not help was at least triple the number I did help (around 550). Steph, nothing will change no matter how long you work at it or give it your all. It is a fact. So you have to figure out what you really can and cannot do. I have now had to terminate accepting other dogs because I cannot pay for taking other people's dogs when I can barely make ends meet (and that is not actually happening) and take care of the dogs I have, not to mention myself. I recently did accept a young GSD, but that is it. I have three other rescues here who I have been unable to place.
Most reasons people gave for wanting to dump a dog over those 15 years were lame as hell. I will say that in the past year I hear from a slightly higher percentage of people needing to give up their dogs because of economics, loosing their job, having to move into an apartment because they lost their home to foreclosure, illness etc. Further, if any of you go to any shelter, you will see hundreds of unwanted dogs. The shelter in my own area has a daily load of well over 300 dogs, and this is only a relatively small to medium sized city.
Steph, what I can tell you is that you must set limits and you have to harden your heart a bit, regardless of how difficult that is. Most of us do not have endless resources. For example, I have never taken old dogs since I took one several times and was unable to adopt it out. Those dogs died with me, and even putting them down cost me a small fortune. I don't take dogs who have bitten someone or killed another animal or who have serious behavioral problems. When someone contacts me, I tell it like it is, and I try hard to make them think twice about what they are doing and NOT give the dog up. I offer really cheap training assistance or free help in such situations, but all too often the person simply wants to get rid of the dog.
But the bottom line is that the real problem lies in the overbreeding of dogs, regardless of breed, or the quality of dogs involved. A lot of you reading this will try to tell me it is rare that a well bred dog comes to the attention of a rescue group or ends up in a rescue or shelter. That is pure BS. I cannot tell you the number of times I have been contacted by people who own a dog from good bloodlines and often, they had paid a lot of money for the dog. All too often, the breeder is simply willing to sell the dog because, in the end, it is about the money.
Every single person who says they care about the breed should be minimizing the number of litters they produce in their lifetime, regardless of what quality your dogs are. Every single person who says they care about the breed should have to put dogs down because they have medical conditions or behavioral problems that cannot be handled or will take resources that are not available. And every single person who says they care about the breed should find a shelter or a rescue and support it, not once, just when you read something like this thread or hear about some terrible situation. I see it all the time here and on other forums. People get all excited, say they will do something (and often don't) and then forget all about it.
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Nothing has changed in all these years in my state. I thought I could make a difference, and perhaps I did for those individual dogs I helped, but the number I could not help was at least triple the number I did help (around 550). Steph, nothing will change no matter how long you work at it or give it your all. It is a fact. So you have to figure out what you really can and cannot do. I have now had to terminate accepting other dogs because I cannot pay for taking other people's dogs when I can barely make ends meet (and that is not actually happening) and take care of the dogs I have, not to mention myself. I recently did accept a young GSD, but that is it. I have three other rescues here who I have been unable to place.
Most reasons people gave for wanting to dump a dog over those 15 years were lame as hell. I will say that in the past year I hear from a slightly higher percentage of people needing to give up their dogs because of economics, loosing their job, having to move into an apartment because they lost their home to foreclosure, illness etc. Further, if any of you go to any shelter, you will see hundreds of unwanted dogs. The shelter in my own area has a daily load of well over 300 dogs, and this is only a relatively small to medium sized city.
Steph, what I can tell you is that you must set limits and you have to harden your heart a bit, regardless of how difficult that is. Most of us do not have endless resources. For example, I have never taken old dogs since I took one several times and was unable to adopt it out. Those dogs died with me, and even putting them down cost me a small fortune. I don't take dogs who have bitten someone or killed another animal or who have serious behavioral problems. When someone contacts me, I tell it like it is, and I try hard to make them think twice about what they are doing and NOT give the dog up. I offer really cheap training assistance or free help in such situations, but all too often the person simply wants to get rid of the dog.
But the bottom line is that the real problem lies in the overbreeding of dogs, regardless of breed, or the quality of dogs involved. A lot of you reading this will try to tell me it is rare that a well bred dog comes to the attention of a rescue group or ends up in a rescue or shelter. That is pure BS. I cannot tell you the number of times I have been contacted by people who own a dog from good bloodlines and often, they had paid a lot of money for the dog. All too often, the breeder is simply willing to sell the dog because, in the end, it is about the money.
Every single person who says they care about the breed should be minimizing the number of litters they produce in their lifetime, regardless of what quality your dogs are. Every single person who says they care about the breed should have to put dogs down because they have medical conditions or behavioral problems that cannot be handled or will take resources that are not available. And every single person who says they care about the breed should find a shelter or a rescue and support it, not once, just when you read something like this thread or hear about some terrible situation. I see it all the time here and on other forums. People get all excited, say they will do something (and often don't) and then forget all about it.
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by wgstexas on 13 November 2009 - 04:11
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by greatestgsd on 13 November 2009 - 04:11
I believe the dose is something like 1 1/2 cc a day for it is either 7 or 10 days?
by greatestgsd on 13 November 2009 - 04:11
I forgot, have you applied it like a lotion and then dust with gold bond powder?
by hodie on 13 November 2009 - 04:11
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by yellowrose of Texas on 13 November 2009 - 05:11
wgstexas" : Next time don't buy a german shepherd with your HEART try your brain....I found out all about MR> WINTERS> He has more bull than Carters has LIVER PILLS>>>
Sorry but his place is rancid...and dirt and nasty...he is as bad...
You will not be able to heal that dog..his health and immune system is bred inbred and inbred again....Many know what he does..I do not know what county he is in legally but he needs shut down like so many others ...
YR
Sorry but his place is rancid...and dirt and nasty...he is as bad...
You will not be able to heal that dog..his health and immune system is bred inbred and inbred again....Many know what he does..I do not know what county he is in legally but he needs shut down like so many others ...
YR
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