[ SHOWGSD-L ] Re: Champion in shelter
- From: "Maureen" <murk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <showgsd-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 9 May 2008 20:29:35 -0500
Pat,
My daughter was where this Lady was..............when you are in an
abusive marriga and finally get the gumption to get the hell out of it, you
always aren't thinking real straight. Sounds to me like the Utah people have
things under control now. Mo
>I don't think anyone is blaming the breeder since the dog was not in her
> possession but as a breeder she is doing the right thing. The blame IMHO
> goes to the person who turned the dog in and did not contact the breeder.
> As a breeder, most of us have very explicit contracts but it is sometimes
> only in situations such as this that a breeder finds out about a dog she
> bred.
>
> This is at least the 3rd show dog that Last Hope has found in kill
> shelters
> in just a few months. The one show dog is still under the care and
> protection of a Last Hope member.
>
> We all know that the GSD is landing in kill shelters faster than we want
> to
> admit. Dawn and her team work at times from "dawn" to dusk and weekends
> for
> this breed. If we aren't pulling dogs on weekends, we are transporting
> them
> to safe havens, networking, and others of us are fundraising for every
> event
> we can to pull in funds to continue our work.
>
> When I was working for Last Hope at the GL futurity in the monsoons last
> week, I can't tell you how many people from this show list came up and
> gave
> me encouraging words and donated for the auction. It was a great way to
> meet some new friends. I don't know if many people realize how much that
> means....many said that they didn't know how we did it (and we can't
> explain
> how we do it sometimes *grin*); on another note, there were people that
> turned a blind eye to our efforts and it is very sad to see this because
> we
> are to be the Guardians of the Breed.
>
> Pat Lukos
> Secretary, Last Hope Safe Haven, Inc.
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