August 7, 2010

Here we go again!!!

We have, with us, a beautiful 3 yr old female that was up for sale a year ago on Kijjiji... boy I hate that site! Last year around this time a couple decided to pick up their family and move back to England. They contacted the breeder of the dogs and she agreed to take them back! Two weeks later they were sold to a couple who really only wanted one of the Samoyeds. So here we are a year later and the dog is back up on the site for sale.

Her name is Reba and evidently was left in the crate for way too long and developed anxiety issues that led her to eat off her tail and chew at herself. So Sad! Reba is very playful and a happy go lucky dog but needs medical attention as she has not had her shots or her heartworm meds. Reba will also need to be placed in a home where the owners will be home with her. She needs time to be a dog and given time to heal her soul. Reba can be destructive not only to herself, but to your home if left un- supervised. I would suggest that if interested in Reba, The new owners should be willing to be educated and mentored on the Breed. You need to know what you will getting into beforehand. Every dog deserves a good home and being bounced around is not what we want for Reba!

Reba will be going home to her Breeder where we hope that she will be able to heal and find a loving home for the rest of her life.

Doing Rescue is very emotional and in some cases, thankless work. We breeders, that do rescue, love the breed and feel that we are out there always wondering could this be one of our own. We understand that family situations do come up but instead of selling your friend on a website call your breeder or a Breed Club. The Breed Club will have names of people to help you find your friend a forever home.



ANOTHER SAMOYED IS LOOKING FOR ITS FOREVER HOME

UPDATE: August 2010

Great news!

Tasha has found her forever home with Linda and Brian. Thank you Lisa Hubening, SHERSHAN SAMOYEDS for all your help. Thank you, as well, to Judi Elford of Vanderbilt Samoyeds for passing Linda and Brian onto us. Linda has reported that Tasha is happy and content and she will keep us up-to-date on how she is doing.

June 15, 2010

Tasha's Story

We know that Tasha is living in London Ontario and must find a new home by August 2010. She is spayed and up-to-date on her inoculations and is about 10 years old. Tasha gets along with children, dogs and cats. Tasha’s original owner had to find her a new home as she had MS and could not keep her, this was about two years ago. Since then Tasha has been loved by her new owner who only wants the Best for her!

Her current owner has to move to an apartment and cannot take Tasha with her. The current owner has has done the right thing by contacting Samoyed Breeders, that are ethical, and want to make sure that Tasha finds a Forever Home.

We are in the process of working together with her owner to give Tasha the Best! We have asked for her papers, if any, and her microchip number so we can find out a little more about her. We will update with Tasha's information and, hopefully, a picture as it comes to us.

If you think you would be interested in a well behaved loving Sammie with a few good years ahead of her, please contact us.

FOR THE LUV OF SAMS

Heavenly is going Home!!

Turns Out she had a second Microchip!!!!! Of all places, the Microchip had migrated down to the front of the left leg. We must have checked this dog 1/2 a dozen times!!!!

I bathed Heavenly for surgery, to remove the lump, that turned out to be a sebaceous cyst. Once Heavenly was under, Judy Wasserfall DVM, who so kindly donated her time, checked again for a microchip and behold the microchip number popped up! We were able to trace the chip, through Canada Chip, to her Breeder. Turns out Heavenly is a Vanderbilt, with breed puppy groups awards under her belt!

Judi Elford was one of the first to respond to numerous emails regarding this girl and is happily providing Heavenly a home until she is adopted!

To the family that adopted Heavenly... you should be ashamed!!!!! No matter what the circumstance a breeder will always put the dogs first. We all want to know the good and the bad no matter what the circumstances.

David and I are thrilled to know that she will be going home and feel that we did the right thing by this beautiful creature. We do it because we love the breed. We do it because it could be one of our own! We do... FOR THE LUV OF SAMS!

Please note: Even though our dogs are micro chipped and we think they are safe the chips can migrate. In this case persistence and rechecking found the microchip. If your animal goes missing or you find a stray, please have make sure the whole dog is scanned!!!!!

It is great that the SPCA Volunteers scan when animals come into the shelter, but this case demonstrates that we need to scan the entire animal. Three breeders and two vets missed this one! Lesson Learned!

A BIG Thanks to Judy Wasserfall DVM, for being another Angel in this Sammie's life! To My Husband David for once again taking on my crusade! And Thanks to all who tried to Help!