Camilla Gray-Nelson’s new book, Lipstick and the Leash, is dog training from a female perspective. Mrs. Gray-Nelson and Book Seller’s of Laurelwood invited Real Good Dog Rescue to share the spotlight during her book signing event on Saturday, March 31st. THANK YOU to Booksellers of Laurelwood and Charlotte Bray who made sure the volunteers and Real Good Dogs had a super spot to hang out. We can’t wait to come back to BSL.
Below are some pictures of Murray, Gatsby, Cuddles, Clint, Peanut and Foggy who did their REAL GOOD DOG best for the folks at BSL. Also pictured at the center, bottom is the author, Camilla Gray-Nelson, who presented a signed copy of her book to RGDR Director, Lisa Trenthem. Thank you, Camilla! We enjoyed your brief visit with our Real Good Dogs.
We had three SLOW adoption events today so we spent the time trying to get good shots of some of our adoptable pets. Murray is a new dog, a very handsome underweight 2-3 y.o. collie mix. Loki is a small version of a heeler, he’s a sweet guy. We dont know why Kimmee doesn’t get any attention, she is a beautiful small border collie mix. No dogs were adopted today 
We had a SAT adoption event at Hollywood Feed on Union. Maxx, Andrew and Cassidy were adopted and we had a chance to update photos on some of our other pets. Sunday we were at Saddle Creek Mall, Zee went on a trial to his new home. Hopefully a volunteer will send some photos from the Sunday event.
Spayed or neutered your adorable pooch, that is?
World Spay Day is the last Tuesday of February.
The 2011-2012 National Pet Owners Survey revealed the following about dogs
- More than 1/3 of US households have at least one dog
- 21% of dogs were adopted from an animal shelter
- 78% of owned dogs are spayed or neutered
Did you know that every eight seconds a dog or cat is killed in a US shelter? 4,000,000 each year. [data from the Humane Society of the US]
The ASPCA estimates:
- average number of litters a fertile dog produces is one to two a year
- average number of puppies per litter is 4 to 6
- the cost of spaying or neutering a pet is less than the cost of raising puppies for a year
You can find additional pet overpopulation estimates nicely organized at the Northeast Arkansans for Animals website
The Gone-Ta-Pott website gives 3 cheers for all responsible pet owners. They have a shelter animals video on their site to help call attention to the animals who are victims of people who are not responsible pet owners.
The entire month of February has various dog-themed holidays, including, National Prevent a Litter Month, Responsible Animal Guardian Month, and Responsible Pet Owners Month.
Please make sure your dogs and puppies are spayed or neutered! There are far too many lovely dogs and puppies dying every day in “shelters” because of pet overpopulation and human irresponsibility! Tipper (a Real Good Dog Rescue failed fostering adopted puppy) shows off her pretty turquoise belly tattoo that indicates she’s been spayed.
Tipper shows off her tattoo that indicates she's spayed.
Tags: spay neuter
Quil is an exceptionally cute little dog who is about 4 months old as of this post. He has been with Real Good Dog Rescue for a couple of months and the volunteers as well as employees of Hollywood Feed who’ve seen him at many of our adoption events just can’t figure out why he’s not yet been adopted!
Quil reminds us of the chicken hawk in the Foghorn Leghorn cartoons. He’s a fearless young pup who enjoys going up to any other dog in his foster home – whether small or large. He is confident in himself and loves all he meets, whether human or canine.
Please watch Quil’s dog of the week video and share with your family and friends. We would love to see Quil get into his FURever home soon. He will bring much love and sweetness to his new home. Read more about him at http://realgooddogrescue.com
Tags: adopt me!, dog of the week
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- Boston is adopted!
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- Little Girl will have fun in this family
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- Lola and her new family
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- Winnie and her new family
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- Lucy is adopted!
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- Pip’s original person left him alone when she moved out – can you show Pip people are still good?
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- Pip, a Shar Pei mix pup who needs a foster home
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- Jack’s closeup!
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- Jack the puppy is sweet
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- Lucky is a cutie
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- Meet Lucky!
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- Tootsie meets a friend
We had a great day today! Six dogs adopted, three more in foster homes. Lots of folks came to hang out with the pups. We had great new space at Hollywood on Union. Many new dogs are still awaiting homes/
Tags: adopt me!, Adopted, Hollywood Feed
We hope you can help these sweeties who are looking for their FURever homes – to shower you with doggie love and canine affection. Please share them with your family and friends and help us help more by getting them into their homes soon! Visit http://realgooddogrescue.com to read about each of these cuties!
Thanks for all you do to help us help more!
Our early February 2012 girls and boys who are looking for FURever homes.
Tags: adopt me!
Saturday, Feb. 4, 2012 has been a rainy and dreary day – outside that is. But inside Hollywood Feed on Union Avenue, Real Good Dog Rescue puppies, dogs, volunteers, and visitors had a fabulous time.
We had two adoptions (that were recorded for posterity, that is) – Roscoe and Vincent. We met new doggies and had a lot of visitors.
Thanks to those of you who stopped by. We welcome those of you who’ve never come to visit with our merry band of volunteers and canines at next weekend’s adoption event – Hollywood Feed, 4864 Poplar Avenue, Saturday, February 11 from 12pm-3pm!
Here are some happy pics from today’s event along with a video of our dog of the week, Little Girl. Read about any of the dogs below on our website at http://realgooddogrescue.com
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- Roscoe is adopted and looking forward to a happy life with this great couple
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- Vincent is adopted into a great family
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- Lots of great volunteers who could talk with potential adopters
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- Jasmine, the Golden Retriever and Poodle mix
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- Jasmine
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- Jasmine
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- Kimmee, the Border Collie, Spaniel mix
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- Kimmee
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- Kimmee
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- Little Girl, the Wirehaired Terrier, German Shepherd Mix
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- Little Girl
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- Little Girl
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- Lucy, the Norwich Terrier mix
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- Lucy
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- Lucy
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- Pancho and a friend
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- Pancho
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- Pancho
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- Petree, the Bichon Frise
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- Petree and her friend
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- Petree
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- Quil, the Chihuahua mix
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- Quil
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- Remy
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- Remy
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- Remy, the young Papillon mix
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- Visits to the pups kept up all afternoon
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- Kimmee and Quil await their visitors
Tags: adopt me!, Adopted, dog of the week, Hollywood Feed, Union Avenue
OK, we’re a dog rescue group. Why would we post about Squirrel Appreciation Day?
If your canines are anything like some of ours, you know how much squirrels are appreciated! By them!
One of our Real Good Dog Rescue adoptees (Jessie Wiggles) absolutely ADORES looking out the windows to the back yard and darting out the doggie door whenever she sees a squirrel invading her back yard space!
Did you know there are more than 280 species of squirrels (according to the Washington Post)? Amazing!
Apparently squirrels get an appreciation day on January 21 as well as a week later on in the year (April 8 through 14).
Since squirrels may be running a bit low on their food at this time of year, be nice to them and put out an extra special treat for them on their special day!
But be sure to NOT lure them into the yard if you have a squirrel chaser in your back yard!
Jessie Wiggles looks for squirrels invading HER back yard!
Tags: just for fun
Real Good Dog Rescue is drowning in dogs and getting multiple requests daily to help more.
Here’s a dynamic duo – a blue heeler and his sidekick – that need a foster home – please help us help them and more by opening your home to foster or by sharing their need with your family and friends.
If you can help, contact Lisa at ltrenthem@gmail.com or call 901-652-9781. Thank you.
We're the dynamic duo and we need a foster home NOW! Please help us!
Tags: adopt me!, foster needed