Save Dogs

New Website

This blog address will no longer be updated...

Instead, please visit our new home!

www.savedogsonline.com

It's a work in progress, but big things are coming!!!!!!!!

My "Dear" Readers

For all my readers, I have some disturbing interesting statistics about what kind of visitors this blog attracts.

There is a tool in the administration panel for this blog that allows me to see which websites direct visitors to my blog.  If the visitors come from a search engine like Google, I can see the actual search terms they used to find my blog.  My blog has such a vast array of content that despite being about dog rescue,I get many visitors that are looking to get rid of their dogs.

Here are recent search 'strings' that lead to my blog:
"giving away a dog"
"giving away a family dog"
"euthanize a dog by shooting"
"giving away your dog"
"how to save dogs"
"rescue dogs"
"jessica biel puppy"
"old dog vertigo"

There is one nice thing in store for those who find my blog while trying to give away their dog...they often land on this page of my blog, which happens to be one of my all-time favorite (and most commented-on) posts.

peace & love,
jon

The Great Outdoors

I'm working on the look and feel for my new site and trying to figure out which blog software to use.

I like the Typepad service, but it is a bit of an unnecessary expense since I have a web host that I pay for already.  I might as well use a free Blog script like Wordpress or even MovableType (an opensource version of Typepad).  Either way, my blog will be moving to it's own domain.

I now have a surprise for everyone...my first YouTube video featuring ME!
I hope you enjoy it!

Coming soon...

A brand new blog.
All new domain...

A lot more is on the horizon.

Stay tuned for more info.
Leave me a comment too--it's getting lonely around here.

How's Life?

I can't believe how the time flies.
I've been very bored busy with work and it's been hard to keep up in the dog rescue world.

My friend gave birth to a baby girl in North Carolina and I was in the delivery room...the birth was on March 1st.  It was amazing to see newborn life, for the first time, taking in the world and looking us all in the eyes.

Some of you know that I'm in the Web Design business and I've been plotting ways to venture into the Pet business again.  Even if I have to be a Vet's assistant for awhile, I think I'd enjoy being around animals again enough to justify a lower salary.  In the long run I still need to find a way to make money and be around animals.

Thanks again to everyone who continues to read my blog--I'd love to hear your stories and post them--which will help me during times where I don't have free time to write my own!  Keep your love for the animals!

Below is a great video from YouTube (it's a bit long...) It shows a baby and dog that grow up together.

The Pitbull Problem

A video that has changed my outlook:  Click Here

2007

I was at adoptions this weekend and met Samantha, who volunteers at the MuchLove Organization (dog rescue) and she told me that she reads this blog!  It's the first person I've met in person who knew me from my blog.  That makes me like 1/1000 of a celebrity <----said very sarcastically.  She's super cool and she is fostering a Dalmatian named Pretty.

I took Sassafras, my little Chihuahua, to see if anybody showed interest in her at adoptions.  One couple, who live down the block from me, spent a lot of time with Sassy and I think they'll probably call me.  Sassy also got an application from a really nice young woman who lives about 15 minutes away from me.  The downside is that she rents and that she's technically not allowed to have pets (although she is friends with her landlord).  Sassy's such a perfect pet that I want to make sure I find her a home that's 100% right for her. 

I've grown somewhat impatient with the numb-nuts that attend adoptions.  People who stop by--look at the dogs--and ask the most asinine questions like "why are you giving away your dog?".  Do they honestly think that a bunch of people are conspiring against their own pets and adopting them out on Sundays?  It doesn't help that I do adoptions on a really trendy street in Los Angeles.  Obnoxious wanna-be actors will come buy in their Gucci Sunglasses, stare the dogs up and down and then leave the scene with their Vanilla Ice-blended coffees in one hand and the keys to their leased BMWs in the other hand.

Anyway...hopefully this enertained you.  Tell me stories about spending the holidays with your dogs.  Send me pictures!!!!!!

Celebrity Pit

Okay...
So I'm totally swamped at work and I haven't even uploaded videos of Ladybug's departure.
Sassafrass--the new chihuahua rescue--is 100% recovered from her surgery.
I paid the thousand dollars myself and I'm debating whether to ask for donations this time, since Ladybug's surgery garnered many donations and I feel a bit guilty asking for more money.

Anyway, here is Jessica Biel with Tina, whom she adopted from me.  To see more pictures of Tina as a puppy, click on the category "Charlotte" on the left-hand side of the page.

Good News x3

So...here is a strange update.  It's a list of things.

1.  Ladybug now lives in a kick-ass home in Denver.  Her new mom Jewelee rocks.

2.  I met a Zebra face to face this weekend.  I also met two camels...we were like 1 happy family.

3.  I have video of #1 and #2 above.  I took it with my new digital camcorder...and you will soon see it on my blog!!!

4.  Okay..I lied.  Good news x4 -- I have a new rescue dog Sassafras -- She is my 10th rescue.  She needs surgery for some kind of cyst on her belly--but I'm used to the routine!  My friend Sherri bailed her from the Lancaster shelter...but she has so many rescues and asked me to take this one...and I can't resist these little money-eaters.

Yay!  Good news all around!!!

Ticket to Denver

Ladybug has her bags packed...
she's  going to Denver on October 7th with her new mom Jewlee.

I got the ticket using my American Airlines miles from AA credit card.
Jewlee contacted me a few months back and she was in love with Ladybug from petfinder.com

I thought it was a longshot to get Ladybug to Denver, especially given how busy I became with work in recent months.  Jewlee wrote a comment a few weeks ago--months after we intially got in touch.  You can read it here.  That was enough to motivate me to get the plane ticket and make this a done deal.  Some things are just meant to be and I think this situation is another lucky bit of fate for little Ladybug. 

I'll make sure to post pictures of the farewell next weekend.

Meanwhile, here is one of my favorite pictures from the last year.
Jessica Biel took this photo of me and Tina (formerly Charlotte) this past winter.  Jessica adopted Tina and it seems like every other week I see more photos of the two across the Internet.  It's a match made in heaven.  Here is the one of the last pictures I have of me and Charlotte:

Thanks for keeping all the rescue dogs in your thoughts!
Much love,
Jon