may not be all they advertise.

They say two weeks but 3 clients didn’t get theirs for a month and one of them just sent me their results.  The dog is a newfie/great dane or some large lab mix breed and after waiting a month for results they were told the strongest DNA for the dogs is a Shitzu and number 2 strongest is a Jack Parsons Terrier AHAHAHAHAHA the dog is 8 mos old and over 70lbs already ))

Having had personal experience with Mindy, the owner I think, and knowing that she personally and from that prfessionally acts on inaccurate information, neither attempting to verify anything or having proof to make a decision on, it appears the company is also not veryifying they info they send out to people who pay hard earned dollars to them.

I’m very disappointed in this company. I expected better from them and apologise PROFUSELY for offering their kits to you.

Do you have a dog or Wellness related business and need exposure in Durham Region or GTA? An inexpensive booth where you can showcase your products or service is a great place to start with us.

You’ll hve the opportunity to talk to people, give out samples (including having them in our 100 loot bags), sell your product, book your service all in a relaxed, happy atmosphere.

If you’d like to book space please contact us with your website at info@camplotsadogs.ca

Tables are $50. for the day

people with dog or wellness related products are needed to take tables at the fair. The vendor area is covered if there’s rain but if not, outdoor areas are available.

This is a GREAT way to promote your product or service to Durham Region and a lot of GTA people will be coming too.

Tables are $50. Please contact us ASAP to reserve your spot!

Dr. Clark’s Healthy Hips is a suppliment we’ve been using on Hank (yrs, as a preventative), Molsyn (6 yr old mastiff with 2 bad knees), Rufus (9 yr old lab with atrophied back leg muscles) and a couple other older or slower rescues to see how it compares to our usual use of large doses of MSM and Vitamin C as well as Sasha’s blend and a few other supps.

Dr. C”s Healthy Hips has outstripped ALL the others. It’s biggest claim to fame for us is how quickly it works – they said 3-4 wks – we’ve found in as little a 2 weeks the dogs are walking better if they walked like old farts, running if they didn’t run b4 and jumping up too (all three in Molsyn’s case in 3 weeks).

In talking to the people who make Dr. C’s Healthy Hips we learned that anyone can say their product has glucosamine or anything else actually and as long as it’s in there they’re telling the truth. The problem is the dogs need a certain amount for it to work based on weight. Healthy Hips has the right amount, DOES WORK and we CARRY IT NOW!

Anyone who has an older dog or knows someone who does – PLEASE get them to try this product! It’s less expensive than Sasha’s blend too.

We have some great rescue dogs who aren’t finding homes quickly for various reasons like they’re older (Rufus), ugly (Beautiful Belle), old and not in good physical shape (Molsyn) or old, ugly and not in good physical shape (Puggles).

Then there are the ones who are just a little weird or unpredicatble who need strong owners/fosters to work them and lead them (Sophie & Girly). Others a prefect dogs but here too long like Tru, Smitty and soon Lindy. They are attractive, sought after dogs ‘types’ but just haven’t been ‘found’ by the right people yet.

We could also use homes with kids of all ages for the younger dogs to interact with, be played with by kids.

Fostering is ideally no more than 3-6 weeks, we give you the food, take care of any medicals. We ask that you treat the dog as a member of your family, take them out for good walks in areas there are other dog lovers and tell everyone they are avaialble for adoption – expose them to people – give out our cards with the website link to people. Also, it seems like a good luck charm when dogs are fostered – for some reason i immediately get apps for them! So the last requirement is that you bring the dogs for appts to meet prospective adopters, talk to those people, let them know how fantastic the dog is and all the good, annoying, joyful AND BAD things about the dog. Remember, we want adoptions to stick so honesty is key.

We DO get people offering to foster certain dogs, the ‘cute’ ones especially. These dogs don’t need to be fostered. They’re rarelyt here long enuf to leave an impression. It’s the ‘hard to adopt’ ones who need you or someone you know to love them for a little while.

It’s also fun if you have a dog or two already for YOUR dogs to have a new playmate and trust me when i say each extra dog is extra cost but waay less hassle than one dog – with fostering we’re eliminating the cost too!

If you know someone who recently lost a dog or an older friend, relative, neighbour who might need a dog to keep them company, we have them.

Please send the link http://www.petfinder.com/shelters/ON258.html or this entire website link to anyone who might want to help

Thanks!

Su

Smitty, Hannah, Emma, Justin, Elliot and Topper all got homes!! All but Emma have been here a long time. Emma arrived last Thurs with Marlow, Lennie and Bogey who are here and SO CUTE!! Awesome dogs from Kingston Humane!

Please Check out the link http://www.petfinder.com/shelters/ON258.html to see all the newly posted dogs who are arriving. All dogs b4 Remy are here already except Gwen and Pumpkin Pie – they arrive with the group on July 31st. From Remy to Peyton all are arriving August 5th. After Peyton to end are all arriving on July 31st so TELL EVERYONE!

Seems Canada Customs has decided they were losing money on these rescues and have now valued them at $300 each and are charging 5% GST and 8% PST on each dog.  These dogs were to be put down, no one wanted them and now they have ‘value’ to our gov’t.

It doesn’t matter that they only COST us money, that there is NO money made on them (after vetting in U.S. dollars – spay/neuter, shots, HW test, Lyme test, bortadella shot and then canadian $$ for deworming and de parasiting, HW prevention, kennel koff treatment, any illnesses that come up like our poor shroder who has an idiopathic pneumonia that has costed 3 weeks of antibiotics, xrays and tests to the tune of apprx $800 SO FAR and that is NOT including the money we paid to have him brought up here!

So what’re we going to do – same as everyone else I guess. The adoption donation goes up $50/dog to cover the cost. Yes we will argue everytime we go and try to avoid it but it’s at all th boarder crossings so we likely can’t do anything about it.

Boards are up – YAY! we still have fun with those and rescues are being adopted at a terrific rate to terrific people.

On Saturday the 18th at 9;30 we’re meeting with suzanne and her mom and maybe another person or two get some fundraisin stuff happening for sept. If anyone is interested in helping or taking part or offering ideas, please let me know.

BB reps and a buncha dogs will be marching in the pride parade today at 2pm – it’s televised too so watch it if you can’t make it!

We had a booth there once and it was a hoot!

It’s pretty crazy here with 18 dogs (oh, and two more arriving on sunday…) all in various stages of having been neutered or  spayed – who get to be out with whom, who needs to cool their jets more than they’d like… 18 dogs who don’t know their names since we just invented them (they did learn ‘Cookie’ pretty quick tho), are very fearful or traumatised, submissive pissers til you just want to SCREAM.

All of them exceptionally loving tho in spite of it all and coming to check you out or give a kiss even tho you’d rather be lying on the couch in an airconditioned livingroom – the same one inviting you from upstairs.

People of course coming & going to see dogs, pick up food, have to see the newbies or Satan #1 & Satan # 2 – aka Rollie & Pollie – who are facinated by the chaos and peeved not to be too included since they can see for themselves that there are a LOT of short dogs just like THEM to play with.

Sandra and John came and gave baths and picked off Ticks and brushed and brushed and brushed – unbeliveable the hair – birds are LOVING IT!! Sandra took pictures too so new ones shld be up tmo or mon or tues once sorted thru.

No other volunteers on the horizon for the next few days tho.

On the bright side – PENNY AND RUBY TUESDAY WERE ADOPTED TODAY AND OZZY MAY GO ON TUES!!

We’re trying to figure out how to add Bob & Madeline’s pictures of the transport to this post – may take a couple days.

Tru

All who will need homes so tell everyone!

Coming this aftrn is Denver, Belle, Joe, Charmin’ Charlie, Elliot, Tru, Violet, Wally, Stoop and Schroder – all from Mahoning and Jed, Ringo, Jenny, Jenx, Petey, Smitty, Ozzy, Octavia and Polly from Athens.

Arriving on Sunday (thank you again Ed) is Cocoa!

Thank you to Stuart and Ed for driving and new to helping us with transport is Bob & Madeline (they help with brushing & playing with the dogs and have made donations to the vets b4 but this is their first road trip!).

So updated photos and bios of the dogs shld be on the site http://www.petfinder.com/shelters/ON258.html by sunday & monday but hopefully lots will be adopted!

Please don’t forget the dogs who are STILL HERE – CHLOE, SALLY, HOSS, BEANIE, CLAUDIA, JOEY, RUBY, Topper, JACK, Zak, JUSTIN AND HUBERT!! these dogs have been here 3 WEEKS now – we know them well and they are super well behaved, loving dogs!! Please help us find homes for them! Also the 2 PUPPIES – ROLLIE & POLLIE (aka satan 1 & satan 2) are STILL HERE!! they’ve had their first shots on tues and they are 8 WEEKS OLD TODAY!

Adopted – Hannah and Mickey this week!

Well we got Ray neutered yesterday and he sailed thru the surgery and is pretty much back to normal.

We have an appt on july 10th with an opthamologist to look at his cataracts and help us decide about surgery.

We are now seriously fundraising (no we don’t know how to go about it) and are hoping for some help.

We obviously have space for a good party with vendors too.

The appt with the opthamologist will cost in the $300 range and that’s just to decide if it’s worth it to do the testing to find out if it’s worth it to do the cataract surgery. Testing i think is in the $500 range and actual surgery is in the $3500 range.

I have a call into that vet (East Oshawa Clinic where she works out of on alternate fridays – pls DON’T start calling there. We haven’t even met them yet) – to find out exact costs and will keep you posted.

If you’d like to help us make a fundraising party or donate either thru Paypal on the site http://www.petfinder.com/shelters/ON258.html (they do take a fee for this service) or calling us with a visa or M/C  OR once we know what the costs will be by committing to the vet clinic an amt towards the bill. Pug Angels (link is at bottom of page) is thinking of sponsoring him too.

If the surgery is more cost than value (he does really well as is but he has 4-5 good years left and shouldn’t have to be handicapped for them) we won’t do it.

Any funds collected would go to future ‘hard to adopt out dogs’ with problems due to age or imfirmity.

Someone’s puppy Toffee was taken from the side of the road even tho the person was told the dog is not stray and where he lived.

We sent out an email asking people in durham region & gta to watch out for him as i fugued he’s be dumped pretty quickly since the person who owned him said he wasn’t housebroken and chewed fingers and feet.

Sure enuf he was found on the THS website and he is now home with his family

We have a story coming on CVD (Surviving Canine Vestibular Disease - A journal of recovery) by one of our readers, Artemio,  probably tmo.

We’ve also been asked to start a discussion group on food  and also one for adoptors of our dogs to compare notes, trade stroies, ideas, training tips. Lucy’s M0m has offered to moderate that one so we’ll figure out how to do it.

If people have other ideas or comments, lets see what we can do here.

We’re gonna do the Facebook thing soon too.

We can no longer get lotsa grocery bags to give you for food purchases as everyone is charging a nickly a bag. Please bring your own shopping bags for small orders from now on. We did buy a box of bags but like everyone else it’s a nickle a bag.

large orders – we have plenty of boxes that the chicken comes in so no worried there.

We are lower priced than any other GOOD food, we’re also the best, and to stay that way you have to help keep the costs DOWN or we have to pass the costs on.

Those on buckets – please stop forgetting them. It’s a $10 PER bucket deposit

OTHER NEWS:

we’re working on getting 20 dogs here on the 26th – yes rescues ) so watch the site to see all the new dogs.

found a book called BEYOND FETCH on www.ebay.ca with all kinds of game you can play with your dog besides throwing balls or sticks. Some games are breed specific, most not. It’s around $10 on that site. Let me know what you think if you buy it and try it.

We’re getting charity status and shld have it soon we hope. it’ll give us the opportunity to give tax recpts to people who make donations to us and WE NEED DONATIONS!!

You’d be helping to save apprx 10-15 dogs PER WEEK – dogs like Ray who is 9 yrs old, blind and while he has 4-5 good years left is NOT likely to be adopted so we keep him til he is and that is food, HW meds in season, anything he needs… that costs money.

YES, some of you are thinking ‘she picks the dogs, wants to do this rescue, it’s HER responsibilty” and you’re 100% correct! i realize this and while i do ask for donations, i don’t expect everyone to help.  IT IS MY CHOICE TO DO THIS.

Sometimes too many of you want to help but think that $10,20 or 30 dollars isn’t enuf.  I used to be c ollector in my last life and i had to collect Eatons accounts from welfare mothers – I asked each to send $5 in on their accounts and i got $2000 in ONE DAY so seriously, no amt is too small.

Soon we’ll even be able to issue tax receipts!!

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