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We will be doggie-sitting CoCo who was a DRCinc foster with us last year. CoCo will be with us over the Thanksgiving Holiday and will be able to renew her acquaintance with Holly and meet our new rescue dogs. CoCo is a darling dog and I am looking forward to shooting some follow-up pictures...…

Elmer and Elsie, the two junkyard digs turned video stars with 425,565 views on their rescue video by Hope for Paws https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dyzb_9l5NXg&list=UUdu8QrpJd6rdHU9fHl8J01A ;,  met their wonderful furever parents yesterday. Their mom and dad flew in from the Twin Cities in Minnesota to San Diego to meet and adopt this super pair of siblings. Today the junkyard/video stars…

There is a yearly two-day adoption event at Rancho Mirage, California in which we have traditionally had excellent results in finding adoptions for rescue dogs.  In fact, since we know that this event is so successful for our adoption efforts that we accept a larger number of dogs as fosters than we can normally handle.  

Compounding this, one of our members passed away with no one to care for her three dogs and we accepted those dogs…

I am posting this to inform any members of this supposedly rare condition.  

We had not encountered Puppy Strangles in our years of working with dogs until just recently. Puppy Strangles is described in Wikipedia, "Puppy strangles is a disease of puppies, also referred to as puppy head gland disease, juvenile pyoderma and juvenile cellulitis." [url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puppy_strangles[/url]

We recently have had…

I have a bank on my property that is covered in sweet smelling prostrate Rosemary plants.  Rabbits had taken over this large Rosemary patch and were over-running my yard.  They had developed rabbit run tunnels through the Rosemary and Holly couldn't chase them through these tunnels...

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The rabbits had free reign, until we got Sasha…

We all know that puppy mills are terrible and cruel places and that they are the major suppliers to mall pet stores...

https://www.google.com/search?q=puppy+mill+images&es_sm=93&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ei=1A9JVMGiB-OU8QG2koDoBw&ved=0CB8QsAQ

What most of us…

This is a Hope for Paws video done by Eldad Haggar and Lisa Arturo, "Two Rescue Angels".

[url]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dyzb_9l5NXg&feature=youtu.be[/url]

Judy and I are fostering these wonderful young siblings, Elmer and Elsie, and they are clean, happy and becoming more confident by the day. They will come from anywhere in the house or yard when we call them and just love to sit in our…

We flunked out as a foster for Sasha.  We cannot part with this darling dog and have adopted her...

We "think" that she may be a Jack Russel Terrier - Papillion cross.  I am curious as to just how accurate our guess as to her ancestry is and I would like to know for certain (not that it really matters).

There are quite a few…

I cannot urge people strongly enough to have identification microchips inserted into their dogs.  This is Annabel whom we rescued from a local shelter.  She had been a stray with no identification.  Most of the dogs we receive that were strays are in very poor condition.  Living on the streets is not conducive to a dog's health or looks. Annabel was in primo shape and had been professionally groomed.  I am sure that no one just dumped this beautiful dog...…

Unfortunately, Olga and Chloe's adoption of Sully did not work out.  It was no fault of Sully who behaved exceptionally well and was a gentleman at all times.  It seemed like Chloe had problems with another dog in the family.  It was O.K. visiting Sully but when it came to him traveling back to Arizona with Chloe and Olga, Chloe had other ideas....

However, Cindy and Bob Johnson were waiting in the wings and ready to give Sully a furever home.  They live in Northern California so, it…

Olga and Chloe drove in from Tucson to meet Sully and it was love at first sight.  Olga and Chloe loved Sully and he thought that his furever mom and doodle sister are wonderful. Olga and Chloe will come by our house tomorrow morning to pick up Sully for the drive to his new home in Tucson.  …

After being shaved to the skin (I suspect by the previous owner) Sully is now gaining some coat and his doodle beard is growing.  We think he is quite a handsome lad.…

I caught this 40-pound roosterfish fishing off Rancho Leonero on Baja California's East Cape about an hour north of Cabo San Lucas.

I also caught quite a few yellowfin tuna of about 20-25 pounds and a couple of large bull dorado (AKA: mahi-mahi).

However, I am most proud of the roosterfish which was the best of the season from Rancho…

Bruno, a year-old male Maltese was scheduled to be euthanized by the San Bernardino, California Shelter.  No one wanted to adopt poor Bruno.  Guess why?

In all our years of rescue work and the…

The ocean off San Diego is very warm (hopefully as a precursor to an El Nino event which will bring us much needed rain in the fall and winter.

An added benefit to the warm water is that we are experiencing a deluge of warmer water fish off our coast.  Local day boats are getting yellowfin and bluefin tuna as well as Mahi Mahi (AKA dorado).  I have been fishing twice and eating yellowfin tuna on the grill 2-times a week.  The dogs are also sharing in our bounty and they love…

There are several essential commands: "come!", "sit!", "down!" and "stay!" which make living with a dog easier and which could possibly save the dog from harm.  However, there is one, very easily taught command which, IMO, is also essential and which can also save the dog from harm.

"LEAVE IT!" Holly was taught this command at Therapy Dog Boot Camp.  It is used when a dog wants to pick up something that the handler doesn't want the dog to pick up.  This can be used anywhere, I…

We have had several very strong applications for Sully so I expect that he will be leaving us for his furever home soon.

Mia, the Maltese-mix who had such a difficult time and who almost died has been adopted.  Her new furever parents were kissing her as they left our house and she was kissing them in return.  Those are the moments that make all of our work worthwhile.

We are getting another Maltipoo today, and we will soon also be getting little Summer, Mia's daughter, because…

If you have steps at one end of your pool, a good training tip is to have one person at the steps and then introduce the dog (Sully the foster goldendoodle in this case) to the deep end of the pool and call the dog over to the steps.  That way the dog will quickly find that the water is shallow at the steps and it can rest there between swims or more easily get out of the pool.  Of course, some dogs will find the steps on their own but it is better to be safe than sorry!…