Urgent! Need fosters today!

These two boys were found wondering the streets, emaciated and in pretty poor condition, this weekend. The person who found them cannot keep them and will have to take them to the humane society very soon if someone does not step up to the plate to foster. Gateway Pet Guardians will pay for all the medical care and will supply a big bag of food for them. Please email us at gatewaypetguardians@yahoo.com if you are able to foster one or both of these cuties. Please forward this to all of your friends. Thanks!

This is the older boy of the two. He has very poorly cropped ears that are full of fly bites.

His skin is in bad shape, he is very itchy and has patches of infected skin.

Won't you give me a home?

This is the younger boy, he follows his buddy everywhere! What a sweetheart.

His ears are all eaten up by flies.

How can he be so sweet after such poor care.

Some Good News and The Next One on My List

Well, it is bitter sweet news. First of all Mabeline was adopted on Saturday. Holy cow! I could not believe it. Not that I did not think she would ever be adopted, I just really did not think it would be that quickly. Christa, Mabeline's new mom emailed on Friday. She just fell in love with her picture. I told her about all of Mabeline's little idiosyncracies, and after I was done with my dissertation, Christa said, "she sounds perfect!" When she came over to meet her that night, Mabeline hid upstairs the entire time. Christa just sat patiently and said that she would work with her and have her as her best friend in no time. I knew there was someone out there for Mabeline. There is always someone for every dog. They are doing quite well already. She has had her out walking all weekend and she runs to the door when she gets the leash out. Already progress leaps and bounds beyond what we were able to accomplish here. I am so happy for Mabeline! The pictures above and below were taken by my husband. Mabeline did not sit still, ever, unless she was in her kennel. So, Steve decided to move the camera to try to get a focused shot of her. There are several blurry messes of pictures of her before he captured this one. Just so you understand, Hooper is laying still in this picture and Mabeline is dashing across the floor nervously, saying, "stop looking at me people."

Next, the bitter sweet. Hooper, our foster for many months is going to his forever home today. I have not talked about him much because he was adopted very shortly after I took him from PJ. The nice lady who is adopting him was moving and unable to take him right away, so I said I would hold onto him for her. He is one of the best dogs I have ever had in my house. He is what I would say is close to a perfect dog. I have already cried once and I have not even left the house to take him to his new home. It is a great home though and he is going to get so much one-on-one attention there. He is going to be so happy. I just have a lump in my throat talking about it. But, I am sure it will go away.


And now for Maggie. I love Maggie. She is a sweet, sweet lady that deserves a forever home where she can have shelter from the cold and the horrible heat. Where she does not have to wedge herself under a car during thunderstorms, resulting in her beautiful white fur being caked in mud for days. She has such a great temperament. She comes to the car and insists on being petted before she takes her biscuits. Sometimes she won't take the biscuits because she knows it means the pets will stop and we will leave her until the next day. When she knows it is time for us to go, she will hesitantly take PJ's offerings and wait faithfully for us until the next morning. Until tomorrow Maggie.

An Update and a little Doggy Drama

Do you remember Bomber? Do you remember Bomber's lady that would not come near us? We were worried to pull Bomber because we were not sure what would happen to Bomber's lady if left alone. Bomber got so bad that we decided we had to pull him. By the way, he is doing great, still looking for a home, but doing 100% better. He is a sweet boy. I have a story I'll tell you about him after I am done with this story. So, we were so worried about Bomber's lady, but still decided to pull Bomber. Lo and behold, and I am not exaggerating, the very next day, Bomber's lady had picked up this handsome boy above. They have not been apart since. They live in this abandoned house together. I don't know any other dogs in East St. Louis who only hang out with one other dog of the opposite sex. She definitely has a hold over her man and has no problems moving on if given the shaft. What I really want to know and I bet Bomber would love to know is, was this going on before Bomber left? What a floozy. These are the Days of our Dogs. End with theme song.

Bomber Story: As told by his foster, Mia Jameson:

I'm traveling and Dan is in charge of all 6 dogs at home. Today they all wanted to eat (around 6:30am) but Dan was still sleeping. They tried to wake him very forcefully by barking, jumping on the bed (not Bomber - he can't get up on the bed with those legs) and poking their faces into Dan' face to wake him. He got mad, yelled, pulled the covers over his head and retreated back under the covers. Then Bomber grabbed all the bedding and dragged if off the bed and across the room! Dan said it was a mad house with all 6 dogs carrying on very loudly. He got up and fed them......they all celebrated their success. I hope Bomber's new family find his resourcefulness as funny as we do!

One more thing! We are looking for volunteers for our movie, as well as for our Art Auction. We need fundraisers for the movie so that we can afford all of the movie type things that come along with making a movie. We need volunteers to do research for us for the movie. We need people to help coordinate as the time gets closer to the art auction. I am going to need several people to help with setup. Anyway, I am unsure how to find volunteers. Does anyone have any suggestions on outlets to find good, animal loving, ambitious folks to help out with these projects? I want people who are genuinely interested in helping, because if their hearts are not into it, then I find that it usually does not work out. Your comments and suggestions would be greatly appreciated.