Browsing: ‘Rescue Reality’

Rescue Recap- w/e 01/21/11

Posted: January 21st, 2011

Happy weekend everyone!  This week is not much different from all the other weeks in that we have more dogs than we have money/fosters/adoptions but the donations picked up a little bit this week. Thank you so much to those that donated and bought stuff from our Shop 4 ABR website!!!!! We’ve added a new… Read More

Rescue Recap- w/e 01/16/11

Posted: January 16th, 2011

Oooops, we’re running late with the updates this weekend!!!! We’ve been busy working on our Shop 4 ABR website which is coming along nicely but still not finished. The intent is to put ‘All of the Ways to Help’ ABR in one place. There’s so much you can do- donate, shop, and even just add… Read More

Debby Jane’s Videos

Posted: January 9th, 2011

They’re awesome! Thank you Debby Jane. Adoptables……. Will be posted in just a few Happy Tails…… {flv}happytails0111{/flv}          

Rescue Recap- w/e 01/09/11

Posted: January 9th, 2011

Happy Sunday everyone! We hope that you had a very safe and Happy New Year. We’re going to keep this week’s intro very brief as the list of needy dogs is sooooooooo incredibly long. As always, we’re still desperate for donations and foster homes. We have a new volunteer, Tracey, that is helping us to… Read More

Rescue Recap- w/e 01/02/11

Posted: December 31st, 2010

Our volunteers, supporters, fosters and adopters are the main reason we are able to do what we do. Without a wonderful team of caring people, which includes each and every one of you, working together to save these beautiful dogs, we have nothing. So it is with humble gratitude and ongoing admiration that we say… Read More

Courtesy Posts

Posted: December 30th, 2010

Courtesy Posts: Mugsy is a sweet girl who has been running stray for over a year.  Her only companions have been a stray beagle and an 82 year-old widow who has been putting food out for both dogs. Mugsy is very timid and fearful of people and no one could ever get close enough to… Read More

Rescue Recap- w/e 12/19/10

Posted: December 19th, 2010

And now, a very important message from all of the beautiful babies in our care that are looking for their furver homes: Merry Christmas & Happy Holidays Everyone! Still waiting: Hi! My name is Jackson and I am a sweet boy from the Deep South! I can’t hear you but that does not stop me… Read More

Rescue Recap- w/e 12/12/10

Posted: December 12th, 2010

Gratitude! That’s our word for this week. Okay, that one and AMAZING! Let’s see…… Our supporters (you!!!!) have come out in full force with donations to help with Faith and our cause in general. All of the donor names that contributed this week are listed on Faith’s page. We’re almost speechless (which is a very… Read More

Rescue Recap- w/e 12/05/10

Posted: December 5th, 2010

SO, SO, COLD!!!!!! Jodi & Rachel out walking the crew yesterday morning Happy Sunday everyone! As you can see, our (partial) list of ‘still waiting’ is getting longer and longer. Please consider opening your heart and homes to one of these precious babies. We also have several more dogs looking for their forever homes which… Read More

Please help Faith!!!!!

Posted: December 2nd, 2010

Oh my gosh….. I write this with tears in my eyes. What a horrific week or so it’s been with this situation. ABR took in a mother and her 8 puppies a couple of weeks ago. Much to our shock and complete utter horror, the puppies started dying one by one…. and it happened very… Read More

Rescue Recap- 11/22/10

Posted: November 22nd, 2010

    Happy Holidays Everyone! I had to work this weekend and was unable to get to the website updates. They will be completed over the next couple of days and then we’ll  (I’ll) be taking the weekend off to spend time with family. As we wrote last week, we are working on a website… Read More

Rescue Recap- w/e 11/14/10

Posted: November 14th, 2010

Hi everyone and Happy Sunday! Oh my….. after pooring (pun intended) over the mounting list of bills, the what seems like a gazillion emails of dogs needing help, the growing list of ‘still waiting’ dogs, the shrinking list of ‘adopted’ dogs, this thought comes to mind: We’re gonna need a bigger boat! From Urban Dictionary:… Read More

Magoodilocks

Posted: November 13th, 2010

As told by his foster mom….. Have you ever heard the story of Magoodilocks??  It’s a wonderful story of a bully who traveled “over the river and through the woods” to fosterma’s house he goes.  Once he was at his fosterma’s house, he settled in nicely.  Magoodilocks realized that all of the other dogs were… Read More

Rescue Recap- w/e 11/06/10

Posted: November 6th, 2010

Happy Weekend! We want to thank everyone, again,  for responding to our pleas for donations. We received $561 this week. We’ve added the names of those that contributed this week to our ‘We Need Help‘ page. Every little bit helps and we surely appreciate it!!!!! Several of the donations we received this week were through… Read More

Rescue Recap- w/e 10/31/10

Posted: October 30th, 2010

 Happy Halloween Everyone! Super Einstein The list is quite long this week! Shocker huh? We want to thank everyone for responding to our pleas for donations. We received $545 this week. We’ve added the names of those that contributed this week to our ‘We Need Help‘ page. As we wrote last week, we owed $12k… Read More

We need help!

Posted: October 23rd, 2010

We (everyone at ABR) all knew it was coming and we all knew the situation is bad….. too  many dogs in the shelters needing help and everyone having a hard time saying no (surely there’s always room for just ‘one‘ more), too many owner surrenders, too many of our dogs in boarding, too few foster… Read More

Rescue Recap- w/e 10/24/10

Posted: October 23rd, 2010

        Greetings everyone! As always, please be sure to check out all of our adoptables. We have many more that are in need of forever homes. And I know we just wrote, no more, that’s it, period….. and therein lies our problem. There’s always just ‘one’ more. Please consider opening your hearts… Read More

Rescue Recap- w/e 10/17/10

Posted: October 16th, 2010

And now, a VERY important message from Kingston (our favorite talk-aholic): {flv}101510kingston|175|175{/flv} We’re pretty sure he’s saying- “Won’t you please, please consider donating to ABR? They help so many dogs like me and they could really use some help right now. I’ve heard that they have several more dogs coming next week and their up… Read More