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The two black and white pups are males and the brown and white puppy is their sister...

Their mom, Katie, is a Bischon/Maltese mix...…

I knew this guy wasn't a Maltese when I visited the Moreno Valley, CA to pull a dog we were told was a Maltese mix.  However, when I picked him up, he kissed me.  That was all it took.  There was no way that I was going to send this dog back to that darned cage.  Anyway, after being cleaned up, we realized that he is a terrier mix of some type, probably quite a bit of…

We are fostering, Jaqui, a young puppy who was ravaged by a large dog of some kind.  She has lost one eye and we are fighting to save the sight in the other eye. 

When Holly met this puppy for the first time tonight, she was in her sweet darling Auntie Holly mode! Holly walked slowly up to this little girl, smelled her and kissed her gently. …

We learned about this approximately 9-month old Maltipoo who was in the Morena Valley, California (near Riverside) Animal Shelter.  She had not been adopted because she was too ragged and filthy and she was too scared in the shelter to allow their volunter groomer to work on her.  So it was a "Catch-22" no adoption out of the shelter until she was clean and no bath as long as she was in the shelter and scared stiff...…

There are some people in this world who are in dire need of a Louisville Slugger bat SLAMMED RIGHT ACROSS THEIR HEADS!

We now have an emaciated little Maltese rescue who was left in an empty Los Angeles area house when the owners abandoned the property.  I don't know how long he was left there but the little guy is skin and bones. 

We will feed him three high calorie and high protein meals a day and we will get this cute little guy ready to be adopted into a…

Holly is five years old today and wishes all her Doodle friends and their human and doggie families a VERY MERRY CHRISTMAS!

We have a Maltese who has had lose stool lately and a persimmon tree that has dropped some fruit.

We didn't connect the two until we saw the little white dog eating a persimmon which was on the ground.  Previous to this, we thought that the persimmons on the ground were gnawed on by rodents or birds.

Holly could have produced a BIG MESS had she eaten the persimmons.

     Judy and I just drove up to Fallbrook, CA (about 25 miles from us) to pick up a pair of 6-month old puppies from a young Marine and his wife.  They are flying home tomorrow to Arkansas on Christmas leave and then the Marine will be deploying to Afghanistan. He is leaving his wife and son at home and we will find homes for the puppies...

     What struck me in meeting this young man was how young he looked.  He was probably less than twenty years old and was small in stature.  I…

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Mr. Gibbs is a goldendoodle service dog who carries little Alida's heavy oxygen tanks in a special harness.  Alida needs oxygen to breath and Mr. Gibbs follows her everywhere carrying her tanks.  I am so proud of this brave little girl and her doodle hero companion...…

We were feeling sorry for Kaylee, a Maltese mix rescue...

her front legs are short and stubby and her feet turn outward.  She seems to always have whites showing around her eyes and her ears are long and droopy. She also runs with a funny gate. Additionally, she is heavier boned than Maltese should be...

That is we "were" feeling sorry for this…

Judy attended a two day SUPER PET ADOPTION rescue event in Rancho Mirage (near Palm Springs, CA).  There were a total of seven Maltese and Maltese mixes from our Maltese Rescue, three from our house and four from other fosters.  Judy came home tonight.  She had run out of dogs...  Six of the seven dogs were adopted (and the seventh has two people coming to see him tomorrow).

We had extra people there to help with filling out applications and to make home inspections.  It was…

A person wrote in to one of my photography forums asking how he should shoot pictures of his friend who wants to post them on a dating site.  I recommended that he borrow a doodle and shoot his friend with the dood!  I explained that Holly is an amazing chick magnet and I have heard from other doodle owners that their dogs also attract gals.

It's amazing, how Holly will attract gals.  Of course, men like Holly but, gals from eight to eighty just fall all over…

Last night it went down to 33 degrees F. in Ramona which is in the hills of San Diego County.  Today it hit 83 degrees;  a shift of fifty degrees!  That's why they dress in layers...

We all know that Craigslist is NOT the place to buy a dog or to even GIVE AWAY a dog.

Maltese Rescue has recently been contacted by a couple who bought a "two year old" Maltese female on Craigslist.  The dog turned out to be eleven years old with a collapsed trachea and serous heart problems.

There have been occasions in which dogs offered free on Craigslist were "adopted" by the scum involved in dog fighting and used as "bait" for the fighting dogs to…

This young Maltese cross puppy (we estimate 4-6 months old) was found in a trash dumpster in Orange County Caifornia by a couple who did not have the resources to keep her.  Thankfully, they contacted American Maltese Rescue and we stepped in.  We named her Annie…

Holly is happy because we have switched Bernadette's puppies from an elevated pen to a pen on the floor.  We had all the dogs out for a potty break this morning and I realized that Holly had done her morning duty and quickly ran back into the house.  I suspected where she would be and I was right.

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Judy and I are driving up to the San Bernadino County Animal Shelter in Devore, CA tomorrow to pick up a one-year old Maltese mom with FIVE puppies!  Our Auntie Holly will have the opportunity to practice her Auntie skills again.  Pictures of Auntie Holly and her five new nieces and nephews will be coming soom!

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