Scentsy Fundraiser

We are pleased to announce the return of the Scentsy Fundraiser with a portion of all proceeds going to LOYAL's adoptable dogs!

We have had a very high volume of dogs with medical needs this summer including tumor removals, dental surgeries, and even a liver shunt surgery which cost us over $9,000. The bills continue to pile up in this very slow adoption season, and we could really use your help!

LOYAL has again partnered with Scentsy and our wonderful consultant and fellow dog lover, Deana, so that every order made through our special, personalized page, will net LOYAL 15% in donations. Amazing!

Did you know that Scentsy products make amazing gifts. Why not get your Christmas shopping done early! Looking to add some warmth and comfort to your home this fall or winter? Check out Scentsy's holiday-inspired warmers and scents!

To order within Canada, please visit https://deanawehr.scentsy.us/Scentsy/Buy?partyId=105385547, and please share with all of your friends and family on Facebook where an event page has been created: https://www.facebook.com/events/441112895941210/.

Thank you for your ongoing support, and happy shopping! 

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Dog of the Week: Abi

I had the great pleasure of spending 2.5 hours in the car with Abi when I transported her from her temporary foster mom to her long-term foster mom. We met in a parking lot, half asleep, at 6am and as soon as I said her name she ran over and jumped into my arms.  She rode the entire way on my lap and between naps and loads of kisses (whether I wanted them or not! lol), we became fast friends.

Abi is a happy, outgoing, spunky, 1-year-old, 10 lb. Dachshund-Terrier mix who loves other dogs and all people she comes in contact with. Until recently, Abi lived on the streets of Mexico and then at the Humane Society of Cozumel. She was adopted by a tourist who came through on a cruise ship, but unfortunately when the ship left the island, Abi was left behind.

LOYAL has received a number of dogs from Cozumel in the last few years and all of them have had loving, loyal temperaments; Abi is no different. She made the long trek to Canada in June and is now residing with her foster family in Ottawa where she is awaiting her forever family to come along and snatch her up. And oh, what a lucky family that will be!

Abi loves going for walks, riding in the car, playing in the yard and snuggling with anyone who will offer her a lap to curl up on. She is working on her house training and making improvements every day. She is crate trained and happy to have her own space during the night where she sleeps without complaint.

With ongoing training, a consistent schedule and lots of love, Abi is going to turn into an amazing adult dog.  And who could resist that scruffy, mischievous face?! 

Will you be the lucky family to adopt Abi? Apply online today and one of our volunteers will be in touch.

Happy adopting!

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Rescue Round-up: July 5, 2012

Welcome to our Weekly Rescue Round-up where we update you on all the rescue happenings within LOYAL. Thanks for stopping by the blog, and be sure to share or like this on Facebook and tweet about it, too! Spread the LOYAL love!

 

 

{SPECIAL ALERT - MISSING PUPPY MILL POOCH and FORMER LOYAL FOSTER DOG!!}

 

Carter, a LOYAL pooch and puppy mill survivor adoption in late May 2012, has gone missing from his forever home in Newcastle, ON. Carter has been missing for days, but we can report that there have been a few sightings in the Mill and King area of downtown Newcastle. Posters have been distributed far and wide and Carter has been listed on Helping Lost Pets.

 

 

Carter is a white, 11-pound Bichon-Poodle mix who was lost wearing a brown and gold collar with a blue LOYAL ID tag (shaped like a dog house) and a red rabies tag. Carter will be scared and confused, so please do not chase him. If you spot Carter, please call the number on his LOYAL tag (705-772-4916) so that someone can immediately come to the area.

 

 

Search parties are being organized and volunteers have been scouring the area. If you are interested in joining a search, please contact Linda at lstriemer@sympatico.ca for more information. And, of course, if you spot Carter or know of his whereabouts, please immediately contact us at the number above. 

 

Updates will be posted on our Facebook page as we receive them.

 

{SOCIAL MEDIA}

 

Are you one of the almost 900 LOYAL fans that has liked our Facebook page? Do you follow our posts on Twitter? Often we post photos and information on these pages that doesn't make it onto the blog, so if you want to stay up-to-date on all of LOYAL's happenings, be sure to tune in and encourage others to do so as well. All are welcome!

 

{EVENTS}

 

There are no upcoming events.

 

{VOTE FOR LOYAL starting JULY 9, 2012!}

 

While we, unfortunately, did not place first in the last Helping Lost Pets Click Challenge, with your support we were able to come in third which means we won some great prizes including some much-needed cash for our organization. Thank you for voting!

 

A new Click Challenge is fast approach. The next round will begin on July 9 and run for 1 week through July 16. Again, the shelter or rescue with the most votes by the end of the contest will win first prize - $500 cash!

 

 

Daily reminders to vote will be, as always, posted on our Facebook page and Twitter account. Get those voting fingers (and paws) ready! 

 

{NEW ARRIVALS}

 

New dogs are arriving weekly into foster care, and once they are ready for adoption they will be posted on our website. Photos of most of these dogs make it onto our Facebook page before their bios are posted, so please join our page for up-to-date information on incoming dogs and, as always, keep an eye on our website for new arrivals.

{ADOPTIONS}

 

June was another successful month for us with a whopping 22 adoptions! The following dogs found their forever families last month:

 

Kenzie

Bernie

Windy

Tierra

Yoda

Sam

Rosie

Stormy

Cassie

Emma

Cristal

Sunny

Queen Bee

Yola

Charlie

Dawn

Amadeus

Lily

Dewey

Tyson

 

Congratulations to the adopted pooches and their new forever families on finding each other! Let's make July another amazing month; we already have 3 July adoptions to-date to report:

Apollo

Scout

Rusty 

 

{VOLUNTEERS}

LOYAL can do what LOYAL does because of the amazing volunteers - phone interviewers, home visitors, foster homes, transporters, event organizers, etc. - that work within our organization. If you are interested in learning more about how you can get involved with LOYAL, or are interested in becoming a foster parent to a special rescued dog, please contact us. 

 

{HAPPY TAILS}

 

Have a Happy Tail to share about your LOYAL rescued dog? Send us an e-mail and we will include you in our Facebook album!

 

 

 

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Rescue Round-up: June 11, 2012

 

Welcome to our Weekly Rescue Round-up where we update you on all the rescue happenings within LOYAL. Thanks for stopping by the blog, and be sure to share or like this on Facebook and tweet about it, too! Spread the LOYAL love!

{SOCIAL MEDIA}

 

Are you one of the almost 900 LOYAL fans that has liked our Facebook page? Do you follow our posts on Twitter? Often we post photos and information on these pages that doesn't make it onto the blog, so if you want to stay up-to-date on all of LOYAL's happenings, be sure to tune in and encourage others to do so as well. All are welcome!

 

{EVENTS}

 

Thank you to everyone who sponsored us in the Woofstock Walk-a-Thon, and who stopped by the booth in the Rescue Village. It was an interesting weekend weather-wise, but we had a lot of LOYAL fans, adopters and former pooches stop by to say hello. It was great to see all of you! The final numbers for the Walk-a-Thon will be posted soon!

 

{VOTE FOR LOYAL until JUNE 16, 2012!}

 

 

This is your last week to vote to help us raise much-needed funds for our foster dogs! Please vote!!

 

Please vote for LOYAL Rescue in the newest round of the Helping Lost Pets Click Challenge. While the rescues / shelters with the most votes at the end should all win prizes, only the rescue / shelter with the most votes will win cash; cash for our vetting account to go 100 per cent towards the care and veterinary upkeep of the dogs in our foster program. Voting is easy - just click on this link which takes you directly to LOYAL voting page, and then click VOTE! You can vote once a day but you are able to vote using different e-mail addresses. You must register with Helping Lost Pets but we recommend you do that anyway as it is a fantastic site, and you never know when you may need their services (though we hope you never do!). Thank you for your ongoing support. With your help we know LOYAL can win! 

 

{NEW ARRIVALS}

 

 

New dogs are arriving weekly into foster care, and once they are ready for adoption they will be posted on our website. Photos of most of these dogs make it onto our Facebook page before their bios are posted, so please join our page for up-to-date information on incoming dogs and, as always, keep an eye on our website for new arrivals.

 

{ADOPTIONS}

 

May was a hugely successful month for us with a whopping 21 adoptions! Since the last round-up, the following dogs have found their forever families:

 

Windy
Tierra
Yoda

Sam

Rosie

 

Congratulations to the adopted pooches and their new forever families on finding each other! We have had 7 June adoptions to-date, and counting!

 

{VOLUNTEERS}

LOYAL can do what LOYAL does because of the amazing volunteers - phone interviewers, home visitors, foster homes, transporters, event organizers, etc. - that work within our organization. If you are interested in learning more about how you can get involved with LOYAL, or are interested in becoming a foster parent to a special rescued dog, please contact us. 

 

{HAPPY TAILS}

 

Have a Happy Tail to share about your LOYAL rescued dog? Send us an e-mail and we will include you in our Facebook album!

 

 

 

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Rescue Round-up: June 4, 2012

Spring is in the air and with that comes rain - lots of rain! Hope you're staying dry out there, folks!

Welcome to our Weekly Rescue Round-up where we update you on all the rescue happenings within LOYAL. Thanks for stopping by the blog, and be sure to share or like this on Facebook and tweet about it, too! Spread the LOYAL love!

{SOCIAL MEDIA}

 

Are you one of the almost 900 LOYAL fans that has liked our Facebook page? Do you follow our posts on Twitter? Often we post photos and information on these pages that doesn't make it onto the blog, so if you want to stay up-to-date on all of LOYAL's happenings, be sure to tune in and encourage others to do so as well. All are welcome!

 

{UPCOMING EVENTS}

 

 

Woofstock will be taking place on the June 9-10 weekend in Toronto. LOYAL will again have a booth in the Rescue Village which is inside Berczy Park, located a block East of Yonge Street on Front Street (across from the Winners). If you plan to attend with or without your pooches, make sure to stop by the LOYAL booth and say hello to our volunteers and foster dogs. We'd love to see you! 

 

{VOTE FOR LOYAL UNTIL JUNE 16, 2012!}

 

 

Please vote for LOYAL Rescue in the newest round of the Helping Lost Pets Click Challenge. While the rescues / shelters with the most votes at the end should all win prizes, only the rescue / shelter with the most votes will win cash; cash for our vetting account to go 100 per cent towards the care and veterinary upkeep of the dogs in our foster program. Voting is easy - just click on this link which takes you directly to LOYAL voting page, and then click VOTE! You can vote once a day but you are able to vote using different e-mail addresses. You must register with Helping Lost Pets but we recommend you do that anyway as it is a fantastic site, and you never know when you may need their services (though we hope you never do!). Thank you for your ongoing support. With your help we know LOYAL can win! 

 

{NEW ARRIVALS}

 

 

New dogs are arriving weekly into foster care, and once they are ready for adoption they will be posted on our website. Photos of most of these dogs make it onto our Facebook page before their bios are posted, so please join our page for up-to-date information on incoming dogs and, as always, keep an eye on our website for new arrivals.

 

{ADOPTIONS}

 

May was a hugely successful month for us with a whopping 21 adoptions. Since the last round-up, the following dogs have found their forever families:

 

Raina
Chloe

Kenzy
Bernie

 

Congratulations to the adopted pooches and their new forever families on finding each other!

 

{VOLUNTEERS}

LOYAL can do what LOYAL does because of the amazing volunteers - phone interviewers, home visitors, foster homes, transporters, event organizers, etc. - that work within our organization. If you are interested in learning more about how you can get involved with LOYAL, or are interested in becoming a foster parent to a special rescued dog, please contact us. 

 

{HAPPY TAILS}

 

Have a Happy Tail to share about your LOYAL rescued dog? Send us an e-mail and we will include you in our Facebook album!

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Rescue Round-up: May 30, 2012

First of all, apologies for the serious lack of posts lately, but things have been a busy crazy in the rescue and non-rescue world. Hopefully posts will resume their normal schedule over the next few weeks, though there will be another short delay in June while I am on a much-needed vacation. Thank you for your patience. Here we go!

Welcome to our Weekly Rescue Round-up where we update you on all the rescue happenings within LOYAL. Thanks for stopping by the blog, and be sure to share or like this on Facebook and tweet about it, too! Spread the LOYAL love!

{SOCIAL MEDIA}

Are you one of the almost 900 LOYAL fans that has liked our Facebook page? Do you follow our posts on Twitter? Often we post photos and information on these pages that doesn't make it onto the blog, so if you want to stay up-to-date on all of LOYAL's happenings, be sure to tune in and encourage others to do so as well. All are welcome!

{UPCOMING EVENTS}

Woofstock will be taking place on the June 9-10 weekend in Toronto. LOYAL will again have a booth in the Rescue Village which is inside Berczy Park, located a block East of Yonge Street on Front Street (across from the Winners). If you plan to attend with or without your pooches, make sure to stop by the LOYAL booth and say hello to our volunteers and foster dogs. We'd love to see you!

{VOTE FOR LOYAL UNTIL JUNE 16!}

Please vote for LOYAL Rescue in the newest round of the Helping Lost Pets Click Challenge. While the rescues / shelters with the most votes at the end should all win prizes, only the rescue / shelter with the most votes will win cash; cash for our vetting account to go 100 per cent towards the care and veterinary upkeep of the dogs in our foster program. Voting is easy - just click on this link which takes you directly to LOYAL voting page, and then click VOTE! You can vote once a day but you are able to vote using different e-mail addresses. You must register with Helping Lost Pets but we recommend you do that anyway as it is a fantastic site, and you never know when you may need their services (though we hope you never do!). Thank you for your ongoing support. With your help we know LOYAL can win! 

{NEW ARRIVALS}

We have puppies! While a number of new dogs have arrived into foster care in the last few months, currently LOYAL has quite a few puppies in our care. These puppies are approx. 10-weeks of age and are now available on our website. Don't delay as puppies are very popular and we already are processing a number of promising applications for them!

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{ADOPTIONS}

Quite a few dogs have been adopted in the last few months. Spring and summer are a busy time for us!

March	April
Maxie	Sam (Fili)
Peaches	Claude
Gracie	Alphie
Angel	Pebbles
Coco	Frieda
Colin Afina	Molly Chester Ray
Whoopie	Jiffy
Buste	Donald
Little John	Pearl
Sokki	Gino
Ivory	Tiny
Hank	Wendy Lu
Heidi	Missy
Anastasia	Gidget
	Taffy
May	Ebby
	Whitney
Lucky	Aries
Hollie	Teacup
Barney	Trinket
Creesis	Bandit
Maruca	Bobbie
Caite	Sanders
Floppy	Pippin
Penny
Truman
Donna
Lily
Trinket
Agnes
Pepe
Graydon
Molly
Rainy
Chloe

                   Moka
                   Becky

Congratulations to all of the adoptive families and to the lucky pooches who landed in their homes. Best of luck and keep in touch!

{VOLUNTEERS}

LOYAL can do what LOYAL does because of the amazing volunteers - phone interviewers, home visitors, foster homes, transporters, event organizers, etc. - that work within our organization. If you are interested in learning more about how you can get involved with LOYAL, or are interested in becoming a foster parent to a special rescued dog, please contact us. 

{HAPPY TAILS}

Have a Happy Tail to share about your LOYAL rescued dog? Send us an e-mail and we will include you in our Facebook album!

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Dog of the Week: Gidget!

Meet Gidget!

Gidget is a pretty, sweet-natured, 4-year-old, female Yorkie mix. Given her red-golden colouring and her luxurious hair, we think she may be mixed with Silky Terrier. 

Gidget is friendly and affectionate, and she gets along well with other dogs and with kids. Cats are unknown as she is not living with any at present (and given her history of growing up in a breeding facility, she may never have encountered cats), but given her sweet personality she would likely be fine with felines.

Gidget is playful and energetic, but also loves a good cuddle and a warm dog bed to curl up on. She would love a friendly dog companion in her forever home that she could bond and play with. Chasing a ball that her foster mom throws is fun, but having another dog to romp with would be even better.

House training and leash-walking are coming along well given that she has only been living in a home for a few weeks, and she continues to make improvements daily. This is one smart cookie, and she can't wait for her forever family to come along so that she can finally have a real home to call her own.

Applications for adorable Gidget can be submitted through our website. The adoption donation for this beautiful pooch is only $375.  Don't delay because someone is going to snatch Gidget up very soon!

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