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Pit Bull Hero Blocks Owner’s Attacker
- Megan, selected from ecorazzi
- November 9, 2013
On Halloween, a woman in Richmond, Virginia, was attacked by her abusive partner. Luckily, her beloved pit bull, Chako, was there and came to her rescue, but he did not come out unscathed.
Seeing his owner in an altercation with her abusive partner, Chako jumped in to protect her. His intervention turned the attacker’s attention onto the brave pit bull, and he stabbed the dog repeatedly.
“As any good dog would do, when he saw her in trouble, Chako intervened and came to her aid, trying his best to keep the attacker from hurting his beloved owner,” Ring Dog Rescue posted on their Facebook page. “As a result of Chako putting himself in harm’s way, the attacker turned on him and stabbed him no less than a dozen times around the neck and chest.”
Chako was rushed to a veterinary clinic and, as his story came to light, some generous people and organizations came to help the hero. Ring Dog Rescue and Gracie’s Guardians posted a PayPal link, asking for donations for the $3,000+ vet bills that had already accrued. Within a day, they had raised the necessary amount, thanks to 200 individual donations, as well as support from the Humane Society of the United States.
Chako is now resting and recuperating at home with his owner. He has a lot of healing to do, but thankfully he’s surrounded by a lot of love.
Photo credit: Gracie’s Guardians
Read more: http://www.care2.com/greenliving/pit-bull-hero-blocks-owners-attacker.html#ixzz2kFvECBaK
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By the end of this month 70 dogs will go to our partnering adoption programs:) ...
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VENTURA COUNTY (CA) NOW REQUIRES SPAY/NEUTER
Hard-fought and WON!
Supervisors vote to mandate spaying, neutering of pets
DOGGONE CUTE—Volunteer coordinator Brooke Novak visits with Estrellita at the Camarillo Animal Shelter on Nov. 6. The shelter has reduced the number of dogs it euthanizes as it works to become a no-kill shelter. RICHARD GILLARD/Acorn Newspapers Ask Animal Services Deputy Director Donna Gillesby what it’s been like since the Ventura County Board of Supervisors gave her department the goal of becoming a no-kill operation a little more than a year ago, and she’ll sum it up in one word.
“Crazy,” she said. “It’s been crazy wonderful— saving lives.
It’s hard to argue with the numbers, or the results.
It has taken just a year for Animal Services, which operates county shelters in Camarillo and Simi Valley, to reach the point where it adopts out more dogs than are euthanized. Fewer cats are also being destroyed, but the shelters have yet to reach the success they have had with dogs.
From January through October 2012, Ventura County Animal Services euthanized 31 percent of the dogs it took in while adopting out 29 percent. The remaining 40 percent were dogs still at the shelter, or those that were reunited with their owners.
Over the same period this year, the shelters adopted out 35 percent of their intake while euthanizing 22 percent.
A shelter is considered no-kill when it has a euthanasia rate of 10 percent or less, which accounts for animals that have to be destroyed because of illness or aggressive behavior.
Gillesby is the first to say the shelter still has work to do to become a no-kill facility.
“We’re not there,” she said. “We need more community involvement. We need to stop them from coming in.”
One way to help that happen, Gillesby said, is the mandatory spay/neuter ordinance she and Barry Fisher, Ventura County Health Care Agency chief deputy director, presented to the county Board of Supervisors on Tuesday. The board voted 4-1 to approve the ordinance, which will be in effect only in unincorporated areas of the county.
Until the spay/neuter ordinance has an impact, Gillesby and the Animal Services staff and officers will continue with the many changes they’ve made that helped them get this far.
She said the changes include restructuring the shelters’ volunteer programs, improved marketing of adoptable animals through social media, better treatment of communicable diseases among dogs by increasing the quarantine kennels from six to 26, expanding off-site adoption events and working more closely with private animal rescue groups.
One of the first things Animal Services did after receiving the goal of becoming no-kill was to open the Simi Valley shelter for adoptions. Previously it had been used primarily as a holding facility.
Gillesby said that from June 2012 to June 2013 more than 400 animals were adopted out of the Simi Valley shelter.
Another key decision was made last month when the Camarillo shelter made the decision to remain open on Tuesdays, eliminating the one day a week it used to close.
“If someone’s looking for an animal and we’re closed, they’re just going to pass us and go get their animal somewhere else,” Gillesby said. “We want to make it easier to choose our animals.”
Another improvement has been the shelter’s foster program for kittens and puppies. Foster volunteers go through an orientation class with veterinarians and animal control officers. Last year, Gillesby said, 450 kittens and puppies went through the program.
In the past, many of those might have been euthanized because the shelter does not have the staff to care for them around the clock, and animal groups were often unable to take them.
“We had volunteers come in at 2 a.m. in their pajamas and a coat,” Gillesby said.
If she was going to pick one area that has had the greatest impact, it’s been the shelters’ use of detailed behavior assessments.
In the past, it was not uncommon for shelter personnel to not know much about an animal, largely because of the sheer volume of intakes.
“It was like, ‘Here, you take it home and come back and tell us what it’s like,’” Gillesby said.
That changed with the Dog Squad.
These are volunteers who are trained to assess an incoming dog’s behavior. Gillesby said the shelter was able to team with Robert Cabral, a dog trainer and photographer who lives in Malibu.
Cabral, who also has a nonprofit organization called Bound Angels, comes to the shelter to train staff and Dog Squad volunteers. Gillesby said Cabral also showed them how to make videos so they can better market the dogs.
Knowing a dog’s behavior is not only essential to getting it adopted but crucial in determining if it’s even possible.
Brooke Novak, Animal Services volunteer coordinator, said in the past someone working at the shelter might look at a dog, find it to be initially timid or fearful and sketch down a couple of notes.
Someone would have to decide if that dog would be euthanized or not based on little, and possibly inaccurate, information.
“ It gives them a second chance,” Novak said.
Dog Squad volunteers Jerry and Lori Dulek know all about first impressions, or at least misleading ones. Jerry says it’s not uncommon for owners who want to relinquish their dogs to the shelter to make them sound worse than they are.
“To clear their conscience, to convince themselves they’re doing the right thing, some owners will stretch the truth,” Jerry Dulek said. “We validate whether it is true or not.”
His favorite story is about a pit bull-shepherd mix named Altair. The young dog was high-energy, undisciplined and had “no socialization whatsoever.”
Jerry calls Altair his and Lori’s first project dog. They worked on his behavior every day with other dogs and people. They even put together YouTube videos to try to get him adopted.
A couple who competes in triathlons saw Altair in the third video and adopted him. The dog now runs and swims with the couple when they’re training.
Lori has no doubts about what would have been Altair’s fate in the not-too-distant past:
“In the olden days, he would have been on the euthanasia list.”
http://www.thecamarilloacorn.com/news/2013-11-08/Front_Page/Supervisors_vote_to_mandate_spaying_neutering_of_p.html
Fallen soldier's rescue dog saved from Iraq rescued from house fire (VIDEO)
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A photo of Hero captured by ABC News went viral several years ago after she was pictured in a beam of sunlight.
"There are just too many signs... to know that he's there, and he's looking out for us," Rollins' father Skip told WMUR. "And looking out for his dog."
A dog who was rescued by a fallen soldier's family was saved again a few weeks ago after a fire broke out in her famiily's home. Hero's parents, Skip and Rhonda Rollins, weren't home at the time, but firefighters managed to pull her to safety.
Hero holds a special place in the Rollins family's heart. As a puppy, Hero was discovered by SPC Justin Rollins on the night before he was killed while in the line of duty in Iraq in 2007. When Justin's family saw photos of him holding the puppy they requested the puppy be sent back to them.
When firefighters pulled her from the home, they weren't sure she would make it. But they revived her with oxygen. Firefighters also managed to save Rollins' medals, photographs, and the flag that was draped over his casket.
Read more at http://www.dogheirs.com/larne/posts/4471-fallen-soldier-s-rescue-dog-saved-from-iraq-rescued-from-house-fire-video#GzIl0khDU2mF9hlp.99
A photo of Hero captured by ABC News went viral several years ago after she was pictured in a beam of sunlight.
A dog who was rescued by a fallen soldier's family was saved again a few weeks ago after a fire broke out in her famiily's home. Hero's parents, Skip and Rhonda Rollins, weren't home at the time, but firefighters managed to pull her to safety.
Hero holds a special place in the Rollins family's heart. As a puppy, Hero was discovered by SPC Justin Rollins on the night before he was killed while in the line of duty in Iraq in 2007. When Justin's family saw photos of him holding the puppy they requested the puppy be sent back to them.
When firefighters pulled her from the home, they weren't sure she would make it. But they revived her with oxygen. Firefighters also managed to save Rollins' medals, photographs, and the flag that was draped over his casket.
Read more at http://www.dogheirs.com/larne/posts/4471-fallen-soldier-s-rescue-dog-saved-from-iraq-rescued-from-house-fire-video#GzIl0khDU2mF9hlp.99
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