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Introducing Pee Wee: Tails from Thailand

August 1, 2016

Pee Wee is a pit bull with Soi Dogs in search of a home!

In the beautiful land of Thailand lies an unbarkable truth that must be voiced. Dogs and puppies of all types and sizes were used in Thailand’s meat trade industry, and are now being smuggled into Vietnam, placing thousands of dogs in horrendous and abusive conditions until their inevitable and cruel death. Enter Soi Dog Foundation. This animal rescue group is working relentlessly to rescue these dogs, and to help transform the lives of the hoomans involved by helping them find new ways to support their families. Through their pawsionate staff and volunteers, the Soi Dog Foudation helped enact legislation to ban the meat trade industry in Thailand, has spayed and neutered over 100,000 dogs and cats, and saved the lives of many more by feeding dogs at Thailand temples, and housing over 400 dogs at their rescue shelter, and providing lifesaving veterinary care!

So now I would like to introduced to you the beautibull lady Pee Wee! She was dumped off at a temple in Phuket Thailand when she was just a tiny puppy, but the monks were scared because she was a pitbull! (when is the world EVER gonna learn that pit bulls are the MOST wuvable breed ever?!?) Luckily fur Pee Wee, the monks contacted the Soi Dog Foundation so she would have a chance at life and not be sold to the meat trade. She wuves people and is very energetic, but she’s been at Soi Dogs for nine months and needs a furever home where she can run and play! She would thrive the best with a structured environment and an active family with confidence and lots of wuv to give her. I bet she would just wuv some belly rubs and a warm cozy bed, and would give you slobbery kisses in return. I’m an energetic pup, so like me and other pit bulls, Pee Wee would need to have lots of time to run, play fetch, and some brain games and chew toys to keep her from getting bored!

I has to gives thanksaroos to my furiend Hazel the Pitbull and her momma. Hazel fights to end pit bull discrimination and breed specific legislation (BSL); she is an ambassabull to our breed and has started Hazel the Pitbull Foundation. Recently her momma spent three weeks volunteering at Soi Dog Foundation, fell in wuv with Pee Wee and just knew she had to finds her a home. Because Pee Wee is a pit bull, she can only live in certain countries and Hazel can’t find her a home in the UK or NZ due to restrictions (yes! we need legislation changed worldwide!). That’s why she asked me to share the story of this beautibull girl! So Pupsters! Here’s your newest calling – SHARE Pee Wee’s story so she can get that new furever home quickly and gets out of Thailand. She’s being cared fur, but we all know rescue shelter life is no life fur a dog.

If you live in the US or Canada and are interested in adopting Pee Wee and finding out more information about her, pawlease paw an email to the Adoption Manager for Soi Dogs at teresa@soidog.org!

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Clear the Shelters 2016

July 23, 2016

It’s National Clear the Shelters Day and that means wonderful things fur you and our furry furiends that are stuck living in shelters! Today, and this weekend, NBC & Telemundo news media & PetCo are teaming up with local animal shelters across the country with a huge goal in mind – to clear every single last adoptable animal out of the shelters!! It’s the biggest animal adoption initiative in one day ever!

What does this mean fur you, the hoomans? Many shelters are able to offer fee-waived (free) or fee-reduced adoptions to you when adopting a new cat or dog. This means you can saves some bones to get new toys or treats fur your newest family member. It’s like getting a toy at Christmas that needs batteries – you wouldn’t forgets those. So go meet your new bestest furiend, and use those saved bones to get some natural treats and chew toys. If you’re fortunate enuff to not worry about bones, maybe you can pass your saved bones to help another furry furiend finds it’s new home – many shelters call these angel adopters – and you still WIN! You gets a new furfamily member, AND you gets to know you helped another hooman AND another dog or cat find a furever home.

How about the animals?? Well, I don’t really think I needs to answer this question, cause I think we ALL know what it means! At least us furry and scaley ones do. It means that every animal that finds a new furever home gets to break free from jail! It’s a get out of puppy prison for free pass! It’s an escape from pergatory card! It means a new leash on life! It means furever wuv, food, cuddles, and playtime. It means FREEDOM!!!!

And what’s in it fur the shelters? It’s certainly not a money thing, cause it costs alot to take care of an animal in a shelter, even the shelters where animals only get minimal treatment. Reduced or free adoptions certainly don’t help a shelter cover their bones. Media sponsorships can help, but it’s often in publicity trade versus bones (dollars). BUT, what it does do is several good things! By working with local media, more awareness is brought to the shelters – this way hoomans know where they are located, can offer volunteer time, donate, and hopefully adopt! It also creates space. Much needed space. You see, the animal shelters across the country, even the bestest and the worstest, are ALWAYS full. And if they are full, that means many animals are turned away and left on the streets. For high kill shelters, it means precious puppies, kuddly kitties, pawsome pitbulls, and many more are euthanized. Of course the first to hit that list are the old, the sick, and the pitbulls. For no kill shelters, it means they turn away animals and put them on a wait list, which can then lead to hunger and abuse. So…when dogs and cats are adopted from a shelter, and if a shelter can adopt out all of its adoptable dogs and cats, that means they can take in more animals that need help, shelter, and homes.

Adelyne is an adoptable pitbull at the Summerville SPCA Clear the Shelters 2016 event

So what can you do to make a difference? Share the word! Tell your friends and furiends its Clear the Shelters Day! Even if your local shelter is not participating, call to see if they have adoption specials – share this informaiton even if you can’t adopt. And if you have more time on your paws fur more than a quick phone call and social media share, GO TO THE SHELTER and see how you can help by volunteering your time.

Let’s #SaveThePupppies everypawdy. It’s gonna take all of us and Clear the Shelters is a great program creating awareness to help save the lives of dogs & puppies, cats & kittens, iguanas & lizards, bunnies & guinea pigs, and yes even horses, cows & pigs!

Click here to see if your area is shelter is pawticipating

Local SC Pupsters!!! Francis R. Willis SPCA in Summerville (the Dorchester County animal shelter) IS pawticipating today! Go adopt a dog today and then send me a foto so I can share!

Meet Frazier: The Transgender Dog

July 22, 2016

Meet Frazier: a young male brindle pitbull full of life and love, yet the victim of cruel animal abuse when his “owner’s” father cut off his wee wee so he couldn’t go potty. He was found several weeks ago on Frazier Road emaciated, just skin and bones, and covered in ticks and fleas, heart worm positive, and missing his penis. I can’t tells you much more though, because Fray is the subject of an ongoing investigation in Marlboro County, South Carolina.

Thanksaroo to our furiends at Veterinary Specialty Care, Frazier underwent surgery to fix his injuries, and has been treated and cared for at the facility ever since. Because Frazier couldn’t go potty and his wee wee had been severed, he became a transgender pup, so now he pees like a lady. But hey, no paws pointing here, cause everypawdy says I pee like a girl too! Hoomans have such restrictions on what is normal! Sheesh! After so many weeks of living in and out of an animal hospital, Fray is starting to get depressed and needs to get out. That’s where we come in!

You see, I was pawing some hearts with my Instagram profile when I came across a foto of a handsome fella with a short description on @konasukibones‘ page, and I was outraged. (I had missed the previous posts on Frazier cause everypawdy knows I’ve been gone fur awhile) So, I asked her to message me some info so I could share this boy’s story. And when I didn’t paw back quick enuff, she passionately started tagging and begging me to help find this pawsome pitbull a home before he has to be returned to the shelter. Cause here’s the thing Pupsters, if he has to go back to the shelter, he will most likely hit the euthanization list immediately. Yuppers, you heard rite. It’s a high rate kill shelter and we all know pitbulls, especially one with “problems”, don’t last very long. This is where Frazier needs our help!

Frazier needs a home! Because he is still part of an investigation, it would be a foster to adopt process, which means you would start out as an approved foster, and then would finalize adoption once all the legal mumble jumble is complete. (Trust me, it’s purdy simple cause that’s how we gots my Zaida monkey sissy kitty.) But anydog, here’s what I CAN tell you about Frazier…

Frazier is loveabull! Frazier wuvs kiddos! Frazier wuvs other doggies! Frazier has healed! He’s been staying with one of the VetMans some, and he’s been great with other dogs, cats (kinda shys away from the bol – what smart doggie wouldn’t?!?), and even the tiny hoomans! He wuvs belly rubs, and playing with toys, and enjoys a good snuggle! He’s still finishing up his heartworm treatment, but that’s almost done!

Pawlease pawlease consider adopting Frazier. He’s a great pup who really needs a furever home and a second chance at life. Give him the future he deserves – I cans guaranpuptee that you won’t regrets it!

For serious inquires, pawlease contact Veterinary Special Care of Mt Pleasant at 843-216-7554 and ask to speak with Dogtor Schlicksup or Dogtor Letra. Frazier is in the Charleston, SC area so you will be able to meet him; adoption will be finalized through Marlboro County Humane Society.

2015 Year In Review

January 1, 2016

2015 was a busy year and I wants to thank everypawdy who volunteered, donated, or sponsored the events we held and took part in!

Fostering:

We fostered 2 litters of kittens totaling 8 kitties.
We fostered 2 litters of puppies totaling 5 puppies.

Rescue Pulls:

We were able to pull 1 senior dog from a shelter and are permanently fostering him.
We were able to pull 1 pitbull dog from deathrow at a kill shelter, fundraise, and place into foster/rescue.

Fundraisers:

Valentine’s Fundraiser for Water’s Edge Mardi-Paws – raised $200+ bones
Fall Auction to raise bones for my 501c3 fees
Flood Drive to help shelters affected by the mass flooding – we sent boxes to 7 SC shelters
CAS Chili-Cookoff – we raised over $700 for Toby’s fund by selling tickets and booth donations
Howliday Auction – we raised $300 bones for my Howliday Toy Drive.
Howliday Toy Drive – toy drops in 15 locations; delivered toy boxes to 8 lowcountry shelters & rescues.

For 2015, we have been able to raise money via a Valentines drive as a sponsor for the Mardi Gras Pawrade benefitting WEDGR, pull 2 dogs from death row, support a permanent foster, and foster 2 litters of puppies and 2 litters of kittens. We also organized a drive to help the animal rescues affected by the South Carolina flooding in October, and are currently working to raise money for the annual Chili Cook-Off in November to support the Charleston Animal Society.

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