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Guitar Playa · 09-05-2008

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Originally Posted by silvergirl

Andy's got a double! If that's even possible.....

All those rainbow flags.......gotta be him

ANDY&JEN · 09-08-2008

Time to do a bit of catching up.... its been a busy week as usual here at the shelter with the added work of removing all of the shavings we were using as bedding for the pens, it turns out they are a perfcet breding ground for ticks, the damn things were everywhere so another solution is needed

Three adoptions this week, two of them puppies and the third a long term guest, more after some wash day pics

Quite a few turned up on sat which was just as well as sfter last weeks washout we had a lot of dirty dogs to get clean and a huge hand to everyone we just about succeded.

Jim the Boss

Danny the pug enjoyed his bath

Juno was not as pleased

Lots of kids showed up to help

Major tick-picking went on

Hi Troy

LIZLEWIS42 · 09-08-2008

bump

ANDY&JEN · 09-09-2008

all the dogs love playaing in the unfinished shelter so much more space for them to run around and of course bark loudly

A very unhappy Fugly

And a happy puppy

Little deaf Liana, so sweet

Patches and Lenny

,
So back to adoptions....the lucky surprise this week has gone to live with Ellie and Osa (who look fantastic and so happy) and it is........

Pogo.... he has alovely home with a big garden and the two girls to play with

ANDY&JEN · 09-09-2008

So anyway, i have been chastised by a few people lately about the way i post the shelter information.... i have always felt that (mostly) happy stories and pics were the way i wanted to do this but it turns out that i seem to be giving a false impression of the state of play here.
Its true that with the amount of dogs hovering around the 70 mark things have gotten a bit dire here, our food bill alone is around the $1000 usd mark not including water and baby milk that we sometimes need for small puppies.
I am more than aware that it is now low season and (tho i have always hated to use the term business when referring to the shelter it has been pointed out that to make it successful we have to run it this way) we are being affected as any business here in Playa , added to that the problems for our friends in the USA with thier economy donations have gone down too, we have this week for the first time had to turn away some dogs (although we have taken in a couple of puppies) and it breaks my heart to have to do it but with funds so low we just can not feed any more.
I know this will turn around soon and we have so many wonderful friends tirelesly trying to raise funds for us and for them we are so very grateful, .
I would love some feedback to see if this is the kind of info you would like to know on top of the usual posts.
Thank you
Andy

LIZLEWIS42 · 09-09-2008

Yes, I think we should hear about these things... There are so many of us that care very much about your work... But I guess we tend to get caught up in our lives and and put some things on the back burner...

Give us a smack once in a while...

himynameisjan · 09-09-2008

Even though it may not be pretty Andy, it's best to know the bad along with the good. I think that people may not always realize how hard it is for you and Jen to make it all work. If the shelter has a need, get the word out please amigo. There is a donation headed your way.

JerzeyGirl · 09-09-2008

A heartwarming dog story...

The Third Twin
When Oogy was four months old and weighed thirty five pounds he was tied to a stake and used as bait for a Pit Bull. The left side of his face from just behind his eye was torn off, including his ear. He was bitten so hard a piece of his jaw bone was crushed. Afterward, he was thrown into a cage and left to bleed to death.
I am not a religious man, but I can only conclude that at that moment God turned around and paid attention. The police raided the facility, found Oogy, and took him to Ardmore Animal Hospital, where Dr. Bianco stitched him up and saved him. This coincided with the last weekend of life for our cat, Buzzy, who was 14 at the tine. My sons and I had taken Buzzy to AAH for his last visit. The staff had gathered Buzzy in when out comes this pup to be walked that looked like nothing more than a gargoyle. He covered us with kisses. The boys and I fell instantly in love with him.
Life goes out one door and in another.
"This is one of the happiest dogs I've ever met" Dr Bianco said. "I can't imagine what he'd be like if half his face hadn't been ripped off." Then, Dr. B said, "I am not going to tell you the things this dog has been through". Dr. B's assistant, Diane, took Oogy into her home for several weeks to foster him and make sure he was safe and to crate train him. Once Oogy came into our house, for my sons, then 12, it was like having a little brother. Whatever they did and wherever they went, there was Oogy. Oogy had to get involved in whatever the lads were doing. He became known as The Third Twin.
Dr. B thought Oogy was a Pit or Pit-mix and would get to be about 45 pounds. By the time of his first check up, Oogy weighed 70 pounds. When we walked in the door for the visit one of the women who works at AAH exclaimed "That's a Dogo!" I asked, "What's a Dogo?" She said, "I'm not sure." We went on line and learned that the Dogo Argentina is bred in Argentina to hunt mountain lion and boar. Oogy can run about 30 miles an hour, all four legs off the ground like a Greyhound. His leg muscles are so strong that, when he sits, his butt is a half-inch off the ground. Dogos hunt in packs. Dogos hurl themselves against their prey and swarm it. Oogy has a neck like a fire hydrant to protect him when he closes on his prey. He is built like a Pit Bull on steroids, with white fur as soft as butter and black freckles. Fully grown, Oogy is 85 pounds of solid muscle, but he does not know this and sits on us. He absolutely craves physical contact. He is full of kisses and chuffs like a steam engine when he is happy. He has a heart as big as all outdoors. One of the traits of the breed is that they fully accept anyone their family does. It is not unusual to come home and find three teenagers on the floor playing a video game and Oogy sprawled across their laps like some living boa.
Oogy hated the crate, and would bark and bark whenever we put him in. This puzzled me because I had been told by people with crate-trained dogs that their pets love the crate and feel secure in its confines. When Oogy was about eight months old, we hired a trainer who also happened to be an animal "whisperer". We introduced her to Oogy and she sat on the floor for a full five minutes talking to him. We could not hear a word she said. When the trainer lifted her head her eyes were brimming with tears. "Oogy want you to know" she said "how much he appreciates the love and respect you have shown him." Then she asked about his routine. I started by showing her where he slept in the crate. She said immediately, "You have to get him out of that box". "Why?" "Because he associates being in a box with having his ear ripped off." It was a smack- myself-in-the-forehead moment. Oogy never went back in.
Given what Oogy endured and what he is bred for, people are constantly astonished that he loves animals and people as much as he does. Walking with Oogy is like walking with a mayoral candidate. He has to meet everyone. A number of people we encountered in the neighborhood early on told me they were afraid of Oogy because when they would walk or jog by the house Oogy would bark at them and trot parallel to them, and given his size and looks … But everyone falls in love with Oogy. By the end of their initial encounter they are rubbing, petting, even kissing him on the nose. Oogy kisses them back. Because of the way he looks, when people meet him for the first time they almost always ask if he is safe. I tell them, "Well, he has licked two people to death …"
For the first year and a half of his life, part of Oogy's face was normal and

the other part looked like a burn victim's. People who saw him in passing could not grasp the duality. As Oogy grew, the scar tissue spread. He could not close his left eye, so it wept constantly; his lip was pulled up and back. Dr. B said Oogy was in constant pain. So, in January 2005, Dr. B. rebuilt Oogy's face. When all the scar tissue was removed there was a hole in Oogy's head the size of a softball. After removing the scar tissue Dr. B took grafts and pulled the flaps together and sewed Oogy back up. Now Oogy has a hairline scar, but other than that looks just like any normal one-eared dog.
An essential part of this story is the fact that AAH has never taken a dime in payment for anything they have done for Oogy. I never asked them for such an arrangement. When I went to pay the first bill I was told, "Oogy's a no-pay." I never asked why this is. Oogy is their dog. We are just lucky enough to look after him.
Because some of his jaw bone was removed in the initial surgery, some of Oogy's lower left lip droops and a repository for dust and dirt. It is second nature to us to pull the detritus off his lip when we sit next to him. One day I told my sons that when they tell their children about Oogy, they will remember this routine act of kindness. I think that, on some level, every day we try to atone for what happened to him.
Last summer Oogy had ACL surgery; his body ultimately rejected the steel plates and developed an infection so his leg had to be opened up a second time and the plates removed. When I went to pick him up following the second surgery, the Technician who brought Oogy out said, "This is a great dog, I really love him." I said, "Yep, we're lucky to have him". The Tech looked at me and said, "No, you don't understand. I see hundreds of dogs each week, and every once in awhile there is a special one. And you have him.'
When I related that story to Dr. B he said, "But we already knew that."
Oogy's name is a derivative. The first day I was told we could adopt him I was thinking, "This is one ugly dog." But we couldn't call him "Ugly." Then I went to a variation of that from my youth, "Oogly," and his name followed immediately. Two years after we named him we learned that Oogy is the name of the Ghost Dog in the film, "The Nightmare Before Christmas".
This is not inappropriate.
On a recent Saturday afternoon Oogy was curled up on the couch asleep, his head in my lap, and I was thinking about his life is now as opposed to the way his life had been before. Would he have sensed he was dying? Was he conscious when the police put him on a rubber sheet and took him to the Ardmore Animal Hospital? Oogy went to sleep in a world of terror and searing pain and awoke surrounded by angels in white coats who were kind to him, who stroked him gently and talked softly to him. Instead of people who baited and beat and kicked him, he was surrounded with healing mercies.
I realized then that Oogy probably did not know he had not died and gone to heaven. So I told him. I said, "Listen pal. It only gets better after this."

u2girlie · 09-09-2008

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Originally Posted by ANDY&JEN

So back to adoptions....the lucky surprise this week has gone to live with Ellie and Osa (who look fantastic and so happy) and it is........

Pogo.... he has alovely home with a big garden and the two girls to play with

YEAH!!!! POGO GOT ADOPTED!!!! THAT'S AWESOME!!!!

I'M SO HAPPY FOR HIM!

u2girlie · 09-09-2008

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Originally Posted by ANDY&JEN

So anyway, i have been chastised by a few people lately about the way i post the shelter information.... i have always felt that (mostly) happy stories and pics were the way i wanted to do this but it turns out that i seem to be giving a false impression of the state of play here.
Its true that with the amount of dogs hovering around the 70 mark things have gotten a bit dire here, our food bill alone is around the $1000 usd mark not including water and baby milk that we sometimes need for small puppies.
I am more than aware that it is now low season and (tho i have always hated to use the term business when referring to the shelter it has been pointed out that to make it successful we have to run it this way) we are being affected as any business here in Playa , added to that the problems for our friends in the USA with thier economy donations have gone down too, we have this week for the first time had to turn away some dogs (although we have taken in a couple of puppies) and it breaks my heart to have to do it but with funds so low we just can not feed any more.
I know this will turn around soon and we have so many wonderful friends tirelesly trying to raise funds for us and for them we are so very grateful, .
I would love some feedback to see if this is the kind of info you would like to know on top of the usual posts.
Thank you
Andy

How about telling people how much money you need each month to operate the shelter and how short you are? THat may help motivate people to send money - even if it's just a little bit. They would be able to see how much their donations help. Just a thought!! (and going to paypal now to donate)!

lolabella · 09-09-2008

Yay Pogo!!!

While every dog deserves a loving home and family, it's so nice to hear when one of the doggies that have been there for a long time find their forever families!!

JillyinMN · 09-09-2008

Hi Andy.... I just sent a small donation via Paypal. I'll be able to send more in a week or so. I agree with the other posters... let us know when funds are low!

I'm planning to be at the dog wash on October 4th! Anybody else going who would like to share a taxi?

Sue · 09-09-2008

Sigh.

ANDY&JEN · 09-09-2008

Jerzygirl thank you much for posting that wonderful story about Oogy, a specail dog and a very special family.
And a huge thank you to everyone for those wonderful donation, i couldnt have come at a better time

JerzeyGirl · 09-09-2008

Your very welcome, it touched me very much.
I also am very interested in adoption, but how would I go about this is the States?

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LIZLEWIS42 beachaholic Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: Jersey Shore Posts: 286	Yes, I think we should hear about these things... There are so many of us that care very much about your work... But I guess we tend to get caught up in our lives and and put some things on the back burner... Give us a smack once in a while... Last edited by LIZLEWIS42; 09-10-2008 at 12:14 AM..

09-09-2008	#4673 (permalink)
JerzeyGirl ruined Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: Andover, NJ Posts: 89	sorry i reposted because i removed pictures from photobucket by mistake. A heartwarming dog story... The Third Twin When Oogy was four months old and weighed thirty five pounds he was tied to a stake and used as bait for a Pit Bull. The left side of his face from just behind his eye was torn off, including his ear. He was bitten so hard a piece of his jaw bone was crushed. Afterward, he was thrown into a cage and left to bleed to death. I am not a religious man, but I can only conclude that at that moment God turned around and paid attention. The police raided the facility, found Oogy, and took him to Ardmore Animal Hospital, where Dr. Bianco stitched him up and saved him. This coincided with the last weekend of life for our cat, Buzzy, who was 14 at the tine. My sons and I had taken Buzzy to AAH for his last visit. The staff had gathered Buzzy in when out comes this pup to be walked that looked like nothing more than a gargoyle. He covered us with kisses. The boys and I fell instantly in love with him. Life goes out one door and in another. "This is one of the happiest dogs I've ever met" Dr Bianco said. "I can't imagine what he'd be like if half his face hadn't been ripped off." Then, Dr. B said, "I am not going to tell you the things this dog has been through". Dr. B's assistant, Diane, took Oogy into her home for several weeks to foster him and make sure he was safe and to crate train him. Once Oogy came into our house, for my sons, then 12, it was like having a little brother. Whatever they did and wherever they went, there was Oogy. Oogy had to get involved in whatever the lads were doing. He became known as The Third Twin. Dr. B thought Oogy was a Pit or Pit-mix and would get to be about 45 pounds. By the time of his first check up, Oogy weighed 70 pounds. When we walked in the door for the visit one of the women who works at AAH exclaimed "That's a Dogo!" I asked, "What's a Dogo?" She said, "I'm not sure." We went on line and learned that the Dogo Argentina is bred in Argentina to hunt mountain lion and boar. Oogy can run about 30 miles an hour, all four legs off the ground like a Greyhound. His leg muscles are so strong that, when he sits, his butt is a half-inch off the ground. Dogos hunt in packs. Dogos hurl themselves against their prey and swarm it. Oogy has a neck like a fire hydrant to protect him when he closes on his prey. He is built like a Pit Bull on steroids, with white fur as soft as butter and black freckles. Fully grown, Oogy is 85 pounds of solid muscle, but he does not know this and sits on us. He absolutely craves physical contact. He is full of kisses and chuffs like a steam engine when he is happy. He has a heart as big as all outdoors. One of the traits of the breed is that they fully accept anyone their family does. It is not unusual to come home and find three teenagers on the floor playing a video game and Oogy sprawled across their laps like some living boa. Oogy hated the crate, and would bark and bark whenever we put him in. This puzzled me because I had been told by people with crate-trained dogs that their pets love the crate and feel secure in its confines. When Oogy was about eight months old, we hired a trainer who also happened to be an animal "whisperer". We introduced her to Oogy and she sat on the floor for a full five minutes talking to him. We could not hear a word she said. When the trainer lifted her head her eyes were brimming with tears. "Oogy want you to know" she said "how much he appreciates the love and respect you have shown him." Then she asked about his routine. I started by showing her where he slept in the crate. She said immediately, "You have to get him out of that box". "Why?" "Because he associates being in a box with having his ear ripped off." It was a smack- myself-in-the-forehead moment. Oogy never went back in. Given what Oogy endured and what he is bred for, people are constantly astonished that he loves animals and people as much as he does. Walking with Oogy is like walking with a mayoral candidate. He has to meet everyone. A number of people we encountered in the neighborhood early on told me they were afraid of Oogy because when they would walk or jog by the house Oogy would bark at them and trot parallel to them, and given his size and looks … But everyone falls in love with Oogy. By the end of their initial encounter they are rubbing, petting, even kissing him on the nose. Oogy kisses them back. Because of the way he looks, when people meet him for the first time they almost always ask if he is safe. I tell them, "Well, he has licked two people to death …" For the first year and a half of his life, part of Oogy's face was normal and the other part looked like a burn victim's. People who saw him in passing could not grasp the duality. As Oogy grew, the scar tissue spread. He could not close his left eye, so it wept constantly; his lip was pulled up and back. Dr. B said Oogy was in constant pain. So, in January 2005, Dr. B. rebuilt Oogy's face. When all the scar tissue was removed there was a hole in Oogy's head the size of a softball. After removing the scar tissue Dr. B took grafts and pulled the flaps together and sewed Oogy back up. Now Oogy has a hairline scar, but other than that looks just like any normal one-eared dog. An essential part of this story is the fact that AAH has never taken a dime in payment for anything they have done for Oogy. I never asked them for such an arrangement. When I went to pay the first bill I was told, "Oogy's a no-pay." I never asked why this is. Oogy is their dog. We are just lucky enough to look after him. Because some of his jaw bone was removed in the initial surgery, some of Oogy's lower left lip droops and a repository for dust and dirt. It is second nature to us to pull the detritus off his lip when we sit next to him. One day I told my sons that when they tell their children about Oogy, they will remember this routine act of kindness. I think that, on some level, every day we try to atone for what happened to him. Last summer Oogy had ACL surgery; his body ultimately rejected the steel plates and developed an infection so his leg had to be opened up a second time and the plates removed. When I went to pick him up following the second surgery, the Technician who brought Oogy out said, "This is a great dog, I really love him." I said, "Yep, we're lucky to have him". The Tech looked at me and said, "No, you don't understand. I see hundreds of dogs each week, and every once in awhile there is a special one. And you have him.' When I related that story to Dr. B he said, "But we already knew that." Oogy's name is a derivative. The first day I was told we could adopt him I was thinking, "This is one ugly dog." But we couldn't call him "Ugly." Then I went to a variation of that from my youth, "Oogly," and his name followed immediately. Two years after we named him we learned that Oogy is the name of the Ghost Dog in the film, "The Nightmare Before Christmas". This is not inappropriate. On a recent Saturday afternoon Oogy was curled up on the couch asleep, his head in my lap, and I was thinking about his life is now as opposed to the way his life had been before. Would he have sensed he was dying? Was he conscious when the police put him on a rubber sheet and took him to the Ardmore Animal Hospital? Oogy went to sleep in a world of terror and searing pain and awoke surrounded by angels in white coats who were kind to him, who stroked him gently and talked softly to him. Instead of people who baited and beat and kicked him, he was surrounded with healing mercies. I realized then that Oogy probably did not know he had not died and gone to heaven. So I told him. I said, "Listen pal. It only gets better after this." __________________ JerzeyGirl:"All God's creatures big or small,we have a duty to protect them all" (Peanut pet shelter)

09-09-2008	#4680 (permalink)
JerzeyGirl ruined Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: Andover, NJ Posts: 89	Your welcome Your very welcome, it touched me very much. I also am very interested in adoption, but how would I go about this is the States?

09-08-2008	#4667 (permalink)
ANDY&JEN añejo Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: In the midst of chaos Posts: 3,487	Time to do a bit of catching up.... its been a busy week as usual here at the shelter with the added work of removing all of the shavings we were using as bedding for the pens, it turns out they are a perfcet breding ground for ticks, the damn things were everywhere so another solution is needed Three adoptions this week, two of them puppies and the third a long term guest, more after some wash day pics Quite a few turned up on sat which was just as well as sfter last weeks washout we had a lot of dirty dogs to get clean and a huge hand to everyone we just about succeded. Jim the Boss Danny the pug enjoyed his bath Juno was not as pleased Lots of kids showed up to help Major tick-picking went on Hi Troy

09-08-2008	#4668 (permalink)
LIZLEWIS42 beachaholic Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: Jersey Shore Posts: 286	bump

09-09-2008	#4669 (permalink)
ANDY&JEN añejo Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: In the midst of chaos Posts: 3,487	all the dogs love playaing in the unfinished shelter so much more space for them to run around and of course bark loudly A very unhappy Fugly And a happy puppy Little deaf Liana, so sweet Patches and Lenny , So back to adoptions....the lucky surprise this week has gone to live with Ellie and Osa (who look fantastic and so happy) and it is........ Pogo.... he has alovely home with a big garden and the two girls to play with

09-09-2008	#4670 (permalink)
ANDY&JEN añejo Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: In the midst of chaos Posts: 3,487	So anyway, i have been chastised by a few people lately about the way i post the shelter information.... i have always felt that (mostly) happy stories and pics were the way i wanted to do this but it turns out that i seem to be giving a false impression of the state of play here. Its true that with the amount of dogs hovering around the 70 mark things have gotten a bit dire here, our food bill alone is around the $1000 usd mark not including water and baby milk that we sometimes need for small puppies. I am more than aware that it is now low season and (tho i have always hated to use the term business when referring to the shelter it has been pointed out that to make it successful we have to run it this way) we are being affected as any business here in Playa , added to that the problems for our friends in the USA with thier economy donations have gone down too, we have this week for the first time had to turn away some dogs (although we have taken in a couple of puppies) and it breaks my heart to have to do it but with funds so low we just can not feed any more. I know this will turn around soon and we have so many wonderful friends tirelesly trying to raise funds for us and for them we are so very grateful, . I would love some feedback to see if this is the kind of info you would like to know on top of the usual posts. Thank you Andy

09-09-2008	#4672 (permalink)
himynameisjan añejo Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Mankato, Minnesota Posts: 1,561	Even though it may not be pretty Andy, it's best to know the bad along with the good. I think that people may not always realize how hard it is for you and Jen to make it all work. If the shelter has a need, get the word out please amigo. There is a donation headed your way.

09-09-2008	#4676 (permalink)
lolabella añejo Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: One foot in WI, the other in PDC Posts: 5,083	Yay Pogo!!! While every dog deserves a loving home and family, it's so nice to hear when one of the doggies that have been there for a long time find their forever families!!

09-09-2008	#4677 (permalink)
JillyinMN reposado Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: IGH, Minnesota Posts: 1,096	Hi Andy.... I just sent a small donation via Paypal. I'll be able to send more in a week or so. I agree with the other posters... let us know when funds are low! I'm planning to be at the dog wash on October 4th! Anybody else going who would like to share a taxi?

09-09-2008	#4678 (permalink)
Sue añejo Join Date: Apr 2001 Location: Minnesota Posts: 2,508	Sigh.

09-09-2008	#4679 (permalink)
ANDY&JEN añejo Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: In the midst of chaos Posts: 3,487	Jerzygirl thank you much for posting that wonderful story about Oogy, a specail dog and a very special family. And a huge thank you to everyone for those wonderful donation, i couldnt have come at a better time

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