Brady is a very sweet 14 month old male. He is small, reddish and has had a hard life. Here are the notes from his rescuer. We will get a picture up shortly.

Well, once again we were crazy about one of our transports. Baby Bear immediately started taking to us once we started down the road. He gave quiet kisses and head nudges along the way. When we got to Roswell, we took him out on his lead for a potty. He kept going to me, then Tony, leaning his head on each of us, grinning and wagging. Then he did the cutest thing. As he walked between the 2 of us (he’s not good on a lead, but he tried so hard) he started talking this sweet little barky conversation, looking at on of us then the other. He really wanted to tell us all about something. We just melted. He tried so hard to gain us, it felt terrible passing him on again. He really was trying to “sell” himself to us, and it worked. If only I had the room. . .

Anyhow, he has obviously not been treated very kindly, but he is resilient, and with the right person, he will be just fine. I hope he’ll do some talking for you. It is really something to hear, and he really likes the fact that anyone will listen.

Thank you for taking this sweet boy. We would love to know how he’s doing.

he has had his shots. We will do his chip and wait on his neuter till he gains a little weight. He is pretty small. But what a sweetie.

Email kathleen@radiantrecovery.com if you want to meet him.

Jude is a 10 year old owner surrender. He came from an older woman. She got sick, had to have surgery, asked her daughter to care for the dog. Then decided to just abandon him. The daughter is a single parent with 3 kids, and really was not in a position to have a big dog in her apartment.

This dog is wonderful. He LOVEs children, likes cats, is very healthy and very funny. He loves the water and if you have a pool he would be in it all day. He is also in the water dish. The only dilemma for him is he is scared of thunder and needs to be inside if there is a storm.

email kathleen@radiantrecovery.com

We need walkers and runners and puppy players.

let me know by email if you can be on the schedule. And then come to our yahoo group grrnm to
fill in the time or times you can come.

I will post the kind of exercise a dog is able to do, so you can match you skills to the dogs.

kathleen

We are looking for some volunteers to help out. if you have some extra time, we sure would love some help.

Let me see if I can list what I think good *jobs* are….

1) someone who is good with a camera who can get great pictures of the dogs. It makes a big difference. This person would need to be *on call* on short notice. The dogs come in at random intervals. I really, really like to get them into homes pretty quickly.

2) People who can come, take a dog for a walk, maybe a run depending on the age and condition of the dog.

3) People who could take a dog out for a day, keep them safe, do an assessment of what the dog can do or not do without judging the dog.

4) People who can come and do clicker training. I would teach you. I am very good at it, and would love to have a group who would learn the basics of *good dog* clicker work and could help placement readiness.

5) Someone who is organized and thoughtful who can coordinate the volunteers.

6) Someone who might like to coordinate fundraising, public awareness stuff.

7) Someone who would like to coordinate social gatherings for our adopters…like a summer picnic or a pool party, etc.

and of course, whatever you all might think of.

let me know.

Kathleen

kathleen@radiantrecovery.com

Several people have asked me why we don’t have more dogs like some of the other state rescues do. I have thought about this a lot. I think it is because we work really hard to get to know our people. So when a dog comes in, we are able to make a placement quickly. If you look at the dogs under adopted, you will see that we have placed many, many dogs. Actually, we have placed almost 450 dogs.

The people who stay in touch, who watch the web site and who call regularly are the people who get dogs. If a dog comes up that you like, email right away. Remember, we must have your application on file in order to consider you for adoption. We will arrange a meeting if the dog sounds like a good match.