Three dogs that we were going to rescue died in the gas chamber today........... They didn't HAVE to die but because of slow communication on the part of volunteers, all suffered an inhumane death at 4PM EST.

These dogs didn't know each other until their last moments when they were thrown into a rolling cage together and dumped into an underground gas chamber to have the lid closed behind them with no escape and only poison gas pouring in to fill their lungs as they gasped in darkness.

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Well, with another v-day (see: http://www.vday.org/home) recently behind us, I wanted to do a post about domestic violence.  By now, most of you are probably aware of the link between animal abuse and spousal/child abuse so I won’t bore you with statistics about how those who hit a defenseless animal are many more times likely to hit their children and spouses too….

What I want to bring up is that in the years I’ve been involved in rescue, I have seen many many more women rescuing an...

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Several months ago, Dogs Deserve Better announced the launch of a new website: www.unchainpadogs.com  (If you have not heard of Dogs Deserve Better, it is a GREAT organization!  Learn more about Dog Deserve Better at www.dogsdeservebetter.com) 

www.unchainpadogs.com is solely dedicated to promoting legislation against the chaining of dogs in Pennsylvania.  Unfortunately, the practice of chaining a dog for thier entire life, or long periods of time, is widely tolerated throughout the state.  w...
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A few posts down you will see our great love for The Spayed Club in Sharon Hill.  Well, they are doing more great things.  It is one thing to tell you that you can get world class vet care at a very affordable cost.  But, what if I told you that you dog could get that some award-winning, world class vet care - for FREE!  Yes you read that correctly.  The great people at The Spay Club in Sharon Hill, PA are thanking the community for welcoming the new clinic by offering Spay Day on February ...

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After hearing of our rescue and seeing our website, I often talk with people who are simply unaware of the thousands of animals that are killed behind closed doors every single day in every single open-intake facility in this country.  I hear things like “well our local shelter doesn’t kill animals like they do in the south – that’s just horrible!” – I always respond by telling people that unfortunately, if your local shelter provides county animal control, it does kill animals.  ...

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Lassie, Cleo, Rin Tin Tin and Toto don't show up in rescue.

We don't get the elegantly coiffed, classically beautiful, completely trained, perfectly behaved dog.

We get the leftovers.

We get dogs that other people have incompetently bred, inadequately socialized, ineffectively "trained," and badly treated.

Most rescue dogs have had it.

They've been pushed from one lousy situation to another.

They've never had proper veterinary care, kind and consistent trainin...

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January was a rough month.   We accumulated enormous vet bills (over $10,000) and lost quite a few pups to parvo virus :(   You may have been following our fundraising efforts on our “Urgent Dogs” page.  We had to remove the tally of donors since we needed room to post more urgent dogs so we are now posting our progress here.  We only need $405 to reach our goal!  That is HUGE!   When we first posted the donation tracker, we weren’t sure that we could even come close to our goal but now...

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Tuesday night we had a plea from another rescue to take some dogs that were passing through our area on transport – they’d been pulled from two gassing shelters that we regularly rescue from but the rescue that saved them was overwhelmed and needed some help.  I offered to try and quickly find some foster homes for the 17 pups in need and I assumed that we could take one or two but before transport arrived at 1:30 AM……. our wonderful volunteers had space for all SEVENTEEN!

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