Mark you Calendars!
Indiana Sheltie Rescue is 10 years old! To
celebrate the rescue of 482 shelties (as of March 2009) there is a pitch-in picnic planned
for Sept 12, 2009 in Forest Park, Noblesville. We hope to see you at our 10 Anniversary Picnic!
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The Low Cost Spay Neuter Clinic in Noblesville has been very supportive of Sheltie Rescue
and now they could use our help. Recently we learned they were forced to use paper towels because they
lack cotton towels. So what can we do? Donate our old towels. Teresa has volunteered to deliver them and you can contact her to make
arrangements. She can be contacted at (317) 984-5737 or by email at ipdtcotton@yahoo.com
For more information about the Low Cost Spay Neuter Clinic visit their website at
www.lowcostclinic.org.
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Finnigan - Our Dog of the Month
Finnigan weighs 29 lb and is 16 in tall. He is a beautiful sable merle sheltie
with a partial blue eye. He is 7 years old and is housetrained and crate trained. He knows some basic obedience and will
sits and stays until released. Finnigan loves to play, especially Fetch. He will
retrieve balls, sticks, and even matchbox cars.
Finnigan is very affectionate and loves having his belly rubbed and to lie next to you .
He came to ISR as a stray and needs a fenced in yard. He will do best as the only
pet in the home. Finnigan has not been evaluated with young children.
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Wish
List
The Indiana Sheltie Rescue foster homes are wishing
for the following to help them care for their foster shelties:
- old towels
- shampoo / conditioner
- quality chew sticks
- quality toys
- dog beds
- grooming supplies
- Petsmart , Petco or Pet Supplies Plus gift cards for items or for grooming
- Donations of grooming from area groomers
- collars - usually 10'' - 16'' size
- leashes
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Indiana Sheltie Rescue Logo shops and our store
at CafePress. There you can find ISR Logo items to wear to events to show your support for ISR. You can also find some of cute sheltie items
(hats, tote bags, mouse pads, coffee mugs, more!).
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Lucky
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Lucky's presence has made a huge positive change in our house. Brandy used to get so bored.
She doesn't play with toys and Duchess wasn't interested.
Since Lucky came here two weeks ago Brandy is playing with him like they were litter mates,
sometimes for hours at a time. They are so cute, and they just like being together too. They
are about the same size, weight, and age, so they'll be a good match for a long time to come.
I took out the unused dog toys just to see what would happen. Lucky began to choose his favorites
and now he has Brandy playing "steal the toy" and "tug of war." I couldn't be happier with their friendship.
I'm going to lose my bet that I could foster and not fall in love. If Lucky was not so good for Brandy
I might have made it through a foster, but he's brought a lot of happiness and laughter into the house.
That's the news from the Taylor house. I hope your new year started out very happily too.
Carol
(and Billie, Duchess, Brandy, and Lucky)
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Lost Sheltie has been
FOUND!
On the evening of October 26th Brittany ran off near
a subdivision in Fortville. She is a 5 yrs old, average size sable female and was dragging
her leash. She has a microchip and was wearing her collar with rabies tag and tag from "Pets & Vets".
Doreen and her daughter found
Brittany Thursday evening. She was only a couple of blocks away from where
she'd run off. Brittany was near a pond and her leash was tangled up in the brush so badly that she could not
move. Doreen and her daughter were walking and calling and Brittany barked at them. Thanks to everyone who helped hunt,
spread the word or kept Doreen and Brittany in their thoughts and prayers. It worked.
What to do if you lose a dog
This web site is a great resource for steps to take to help reunite you with your dog.
www.jacksonvillesheltierescue.org/page8.htm |
I'm home! |
Gavin, a little blind sheltie, has touched the hearts of many of us. He
was found wandering the cornfields in Porter County and picked up by Animal Control. His fate there would
probably have been to be put to sleep, but thanks to Vicky who offered to foster him, he entered our
program and was adopted only a few months later by a wonderful family. People willing to foster are the
only hope of many shelties...many times it really does become a Life or Death situation. Now Gavin has a
wonderful life!
SSee a video of Gavin's story on YouTube |
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Indiana Sheltie Rescue now has its own a href="http://www.youtube.com/IndianaSheltie">page
on YouTube.com! Here we can upload
videos of available shelties, videos from events...whatever we want! Fosters doing
agility or obedience? I added the
'Shelties Available' and the
'Gavin Update Video' to
it. I also want to periodically do a "Newest additions" video and add
new dogs to it as a few come in. It's a bit time consuming to make, save and upload large
files, so I will do it once we get 3-4 new dogs at a time.
My hopes would be that if any foster moms/dads out there want to take videos of foster
shelties with their digital cameras, we could add them to the YouTube page, and then maybe
embed them on the Available for Adoption page on
the ISR site. Many other rescues are doing videos now
because looking at 500 pictures of dogs on Petfinder can get old...but videos add personality
to the available dog. If you were looking to adopt, which would draw you in more...a plain picture
of a posed dog, or a little video of that dog playing or romping around the house with other dogs
and people? The whole reason for doing events where we can take available dogs is to get those
dogs seen...this gives them one more venue to be seen, and by anybody, anywhere in Indiana. And
YouTube is HUGE right now, very very popular! We also can get donations thru the YouTube site
if anyone feels moved enough to do so by the videos. I believe we got a donation due to Gavin's
video, so when I saw that another rescue took donations on their YouTube site, that's when I
decided to set one up for ISR.
If anyone wants videos of their ISR fosters or adopted dogs on YouTube, email me (Kat4U2Luv@aol.com)and we will
figure the best way to get them up there.
Kathy
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How Could You by Jim Willis presents, in a very poignant way, why our involvement in Sheltie Rescue
is so important.
How Could You
Copyright © Jim Willis 2001, all rights reserved
When I was a puppy I entertained you with my antics and made you laugh. You called me your
child and despite a number of chewed shoes and a couple of murdered throw pillows, I became
your best friend. Whenever I was "bad," you'd shake your finger at me and ask "How could you?" -
but then you'd relent and roll me over for a bellyrub.
My housetraining took a little longer than expected, because you were terribly busy,
but we worked on that together. I remember those nights of nuzzling you in bed, listening
to your confidences and secret dreams, and I believed that life could not be any more
perfect. We went for long walks and runs in the park, car rides, stops for ice cream
(I only got the cone because "ice cream is bad for dogs," you said), and I took long
naps in the sun waiting for you to come home at the end of the day.
Click here to read the rest....
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HELPING HEARTS CLUB!
Club members are sheltie lovers, just like you, who can't foster or
adopt at this time, but want to help provide loving care for our homeless dogs.
Click on this link to find out how easy it is to become
a member of our new Helping Hearts Club.
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Good news! The new Pedigree commercials tell us that Echo was adopted and shows us his new family!
What a happy ending for Echo! We need some happy endings for our shelties that have been left behind too!
In case you haven't seen these commercials, here are links to the
first and
Echo's happy ending
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Check out our Shelties' listings on
1-800-Save-A-Pet.com. They are a non-profit pet adoption charity that helps
shelters, humane societies, SPCA's, and pet rescue groups advertise their homeless pets to
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Indiana
Sheltie Rescue, Inc. is a 501(c)(3) non-profit corporation. Donations
are gratefully accepted and are tax deductible to the extent allowed
by law.
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- Volunteers -
Click here to see opportunities and events to help with
Contact ISR
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Video overview of dogs available for adoption |
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FOSTER HOMES NEEDED
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HELP!! We
have such wonderful shelties in our program that many have been
adopted by our own foster homes! Indeed this is great news but
because of this, most homes cannot foster any more. As a result
we are in dire need of new foster homes. If you can help,
click here for additional information on how to get started.
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If you witness or
suspect that dog fighting or animal abuse of any nature is going on
near you, PLEASE call the Central
Indiana Canine Crime Stoppers hotline at
317-262-TIPS. You
can make the call anonymously and, if there is a felony arrest, you
may receive up to a $1,000 reward. |
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Thank you for
visiting!
Welcome Visitor Number:
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Indiana Sheltie Rescue, Inc.
is a 501(c)(3) non-profit corporation
consisting of a small group of volunteers who have come together to help
homeless shelties. We are always looking for additional volunteers, and capable and loving foster homes
to offer a temporary safe haven to Shetland Sheepdogs. Our shelties
make their way into our program as owner surrenders, shelter dogs, or are found as strays by caring individuals.
For more information about our organization, please look here.
