We were out at Petsmart last Saturday in Woodbury for the Wags and Whiskers Adoption day there. We brought Phoebe out to get her some exposure. Unfortunately she is still a little skiddish with new people and it makes it hard for people to get to know her. We’ll work on it and hopefully find her a forever home soon.
Here’s a couple of photos from the day. 
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Phoebe is our newest foster pup that is looking for a forever home. She’s roughly 8-9 months old and still very puppyish. She is potty trained but still has accidents once in awhile, but for the most part she is pretty good. Phoebe is a Pitbull Mix, not sure what she is mixed with, but she is pretty tiny, around 30 lbs and probably not going to get much bigger.
She seemed to probably have a rough puppyhood from the way she acts, not sure on the backstory, but she is very skiddish around guys. We are working with her and she is doing much better in the 2 weeks she has been with us thus far. If you are interested in meeting Phoebe or looking for another resucue pup please contact Wags and Whiskers of MN at wwww.wagsmn.com
I’ll be participating in the walk for Animals on April 30th, 2011 Golden Valley MN. This will be my first time doing the walk. For those that don’t know what it is, “The Walk for Animals is your opportunity to help the 35,000 companion animals that Animal Humane Society will care for this year. Make no bones about it, these animals need your help. Begin raising pledges now and get ready for the best stand-up-on-your-hind-legs-and-bark event of the year!”
We are going to bring the three pups with us, Rocky, Cisco(unless he is adopted to his forever home by then) and Kasha. Should be fun. If you would like to help sponsor us for the walk that would be awesome. Here’s a link where you can donate Click Here to Donate
I’ll definetly post pictures of when we go.
Thank you.
-JW
Here’s some pics of our dogs we will be bringing.
Kasha our Cane Corso
Cisco He's our Foster Pitbull Still looking for his forever home.
Rocky, Pitbull Boxer Mix
I got Rock Star (AKA Rocky), my Boxer Pitbull Mix about a year and half ago now. He was about 6-7 months old when we got him. I fostered him for about a month or two before just saying screw and adopted him outright. He was an awesome dog right off the bat, and I felt like he just belonged in the house with me and my son. I am not sure the exact birthdate, but Riley and I decided we would just make it Ocotber, since it was close to what we figured it would be. So my little howling mutt is now 2 years old, an adult pitbull boxer mix, nothing but good things from him and couldn’t have asked for a better companion, friend, and family member then this guy. Happy Birthday Rocky.
Here’s his Birthday Present. Looks gross, but he loved every minute of it.
I just picked up this little guy the other day for Wags and Whiskers of Minnesota. I am a temp foster for Wags and Whiskers, i basically only foster pitbulls because I think they need the most attention right now with all the bad publicity these guys get. I am not going to get into all the hoopla about it on this post, you can search the internet all you want and find all the good and bad information you want on pitbulls. Pitbulls are like any other dog, they have their tendancies just as any other breed does, but from my experience that these very active dogs need positive environments and training. Their aptitude to please their owners and people in general is amazing to me, and with a little training, they make awesome family dogs.
Cisco is a great dog, he’s a 1+ year old Brindle American Pitbull Terrier well socialized with other dogs and does well with cats and children. I am almost tempted to keep him myself to be honest, but I’ll have to keep myself in check. He is very playful, if you love playing ball with a dog, this dog is definetly for you. He constantly wants a ball or toy in his mouth and is always happy all the time it seems. He’s not a big dog, he’s probably right around 40 lbs and not going to get much bigger than that. If you are interested in adopting Cisco, please contact Wags and Whiskers at wagsmn@gmail.com or fill out an adoption form here Click Here to Fill out Adoption Form.
Visit Wags and Whiskers website: wagsmn.com
Here’s some pics. I’ll post some more when I get a chance to take some
Was bored this morning and thought I would take a quick video of Rocky and Caleb together. I’ll try to get better quality ones in the future, this was just the first
I hope this video at least shows how well-behaved both dogs are.
I was checking out the Villalobos Rescue Center (Pitbulls and Parolees APL Show) website today and noticed this disclamer at the bottom of their about page.
“ Visits are by APPOINTMENT ONLY!!
Due to the increasing number of people showing up that have become obsessed fans, stalkers or that think we are a public zoo, we now have to take control of the situation. We are a sanctuary for these animals and the last thing they want or need is someone coming by just to “check them out”. We DO NOT give tours or allow the public to walk around like the animal shelter. Visitations are for those adopting, boarding or training only. This is not only for liability reasons, but for the sake of the privacy of these animals that have already had a tough life.
Please respect that.
If you are interested in visiting, you MUST call and make an appointment.For those of you, who think you’re “special” and are planning on just “dropping by”, we have a surprise waiting for you at the front gate…..
(Link was removed on their site)
Basically Pitbulls and Parolees is a show on Animal Planet, documentary type show of a Pitbull Rescue Group. From what I understand that they have around 150-200 pitbulls on any given day on a 10 acre plot of land located in the high desert in California. It’s a really good show, and they do a lot of work it seems like. Not going to dig to much into it, just wanted to share this part that is on their website that I found hilarious. They seem like a group that Works Hard and likes to Play hard as well, fun group.
Found this on Craigslist today. I normally don’t post up other people’s things, but I thought this was strong enough to do so. It was posted by someone who is anonymous. It’s a strong opinion and I should be clear it is not my opinion nor did I write this. But reading it I did find it to be a strong message and thought I would post it anyways.
“I think our society needs a huge “Wake-up” call. As a shelter manager, I am going to share a little insight with you all…a view from the inside if you will. First off, all of you people who have ever surrendered a pet to a shelter or humane society should be made to work in the “back” of an animal shelter for just one day. Maybe if you saw the life drain from a few sad, lost, confused eyes, you would stop flagging the ads on craigslist and help these animals find homes. That puppy you just bought will most likely end up in my shelter when it’s not a cute little puppy anymore. Just so you know there’s a 90% chance that dog will never walk out of the shelter it’s dumped at? Purebred or not! About 25% of all of the dogs that are “owner surrenders” or “strays”, that come into a shelter are purebred dogs.
The most common excuses: “We are moving and we can’t take our dog (or cat).” Really? Where are you moving too that doesn’t allow pets? Or they say “The dog got bigger than we thought it would”. How big did you think a German Shepherd would get? “We don’t have time for her”. Really? I work a 10-12 hour day and still have time for my 6 dogs! “She’s tearing up our yard”. How about making her a part of your family? They always tell me “We just don’t want to have to stress about finding a place for her we know she’ll get adopted, she’s a good dog”.
Odds are your pet won’t get adopted & how stressful do you think being in a shelter is? Well, let me tell you, your pet has 72 hours to find a new family from the moment you drop it off. Sometimes a little longer if the shelter isn’t full and your dog manages to stay completely healthy. If it sniffles, it dies. Your pet will be confined to a small run/kennel in a room with other barking or crying animals. It will have to relieve itself where it eats and sleeps. It will be depressed and it will cry constantly for the family that abandoned it. If your pet is lucky, I will have enough volunteers in that day to take him/her for a walk. If I don’t, your pet won’t get any attention besides having a bowl of food slid under the kennel door and the waste sprayed out of its pen with a high-powered hose. If your dog is big, black or any of the “Bully” breeds (pit bull, rottie, mastiff, etc) it was pretty much dead when you walked it through the front door. Those dogs just don’t get adopted. It doesn’t matter how ‘sweet’ or ‘well behaved’ they are.
If your dog doesn’t get adopted within its 72 hours and the shelter is full, it will be destroyed. If the shelter isn’t full and your dog is good enough, and of a desirable enough breed it may get a stay of execution, but not for long . Most dogs get very kennel protective after about a week and are destroyed for showing aggression. Even the sweetest dogs will turn in this environment. If your pet makes it over all of those hurdles chances are it will get kennel cough or an upper respiratory infection and will be destroyed because the shelter gets paid a fee to euthanize each animal and making money is better than spending money to take this animal to the vet.
Here’s a little euthanasia 101 for those of you that have never witnessed a perfectly healthy, scared animal being “put-down”. First, your pet will be taken from its kennel on a leash. They always look like they think they are going for a walk happy, wagging their tails. Until they get to “The Room”, every one of them freaks out and puts on the brakes when we get to the door. It must smell like death or they can feel the sad souls that are left in there, it’s strange, but it happens with every one of them. Your dog or cat will be restrained, held down by 1 or 2 shelter workers depending on the size and how freaked out they are. Then a shelter worker who we call a euthanasia tech (not a vet) find a vein in the front leg and inject a lethal dose of the “pink stuff”. Hopefully your pet doesn’t panic from being restrained and jerk. I’ve seen the needles tear out of a leg and been covered with the resulting blood and been deafened by the yelps and screams. They all don’t just “go to sleep”, sometimes they spasm for a while, gasp for air and defecate on themselves. You see shelters are trying to make money to pay employee pay checks and don’t forget the board of directors needs to be paid too, so we don’t spend our funds to tranquilize the animal before injecting them with the lethal drug, we just put the burning lethal drug in the vein and let them suffer until dead. If it were not a “making money issue” and we had to have a licensed vet do this procedure, the animal would be sedated or tranquilized and then euthanized, but to do this procedure correctly would cost more money so we do not follow what is right for the animal, we just follow what is the fastest way we can make a dollar. Shelters do not have to have a vet perform their euthanasia’s so even if it takes our employee 50 pokes with a needle and 3 hours to get the vein that is what we do. Making money is the issue here not loosing money.
When it all ends, your pets corpse will be stacked like firewood in a large freezer in the back with all of the other animals that were killed waiting to be picked up like garbage. What happens next? Cremated? Taken to the dump? Rendered into pet food? Or used for the schools to dissect and experiment on? You’ll never know and it probably won’t even cross your mind. It was just an animal and you can always buy another one, right!
I hope that those of you who still have a beating heart and have read this are bawling your eyes out and can’t get the pictures out of your head, I deal with this everyday. I hate my job, I hate that it exists & I hate that it will always be there unless you people make some changes and start educating the public. Do research, do your homework, and know exactly what you are getting into before getting a pet. These shelters and humane societies exist because people just do not care about animals anymore. Animals were not intended to be disposable but somehow that is what they are these days. Animal shelters are an easy way out when you get tired of your dog (or cat).
Between 9 and 11 MILLION animals die every year in shelters and only you can stop it. I just hope I maybe changed one persons mind about taking their dog to a shelter, a humane society, or buying a dog. For those of you that care. “
So if you read my earlier post (Rocky’s Visit to the Vet) about his Ear hematoma, still not better. Took him back to the Pet Clinic last Saturday because he decided it was better to eat his cone collar than to let his ear heal. Anyways, they had to drain it again, and bandaged it again. Well, they told me to look at it today and it’s actually worse then when i brought him in on Saturday. Guess I’ll have to take him back and see what they say. Hope it’s not surgery because I really can’t afford that right now. I’ll post pics up in a couple of days on here, so be sure to check back if you want to see the pics.
