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Make
a Dog's Day ~
Be a Volunteer!
We're
looking for people who would enjoy coming out to spend time with the dogs. There's
lots of space to play and go for walks, plus a full agility course for them to
try out their skills. We'd also love help with bathing and brushing to keep everyone
looking their best.
Our dogs are friendly, happy and healthy, and we are truly a no-kill sanctuary.
Any time you could volunteer would be greatly appreciated!
Hours:
M - S: 10 am - 6 pm
Sunday: 2 until 6 pm
(Other times may
be possible
by appointment.)
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Another
of
snips@Pawsitive
Energy's services
to the rescue community
is providing free boarding
for dogs pulled
from kill shelters who are
awaiting transport to
their new foster or forever homes.
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Adoption Procedure
The
dogs we do have up for adoption will only be adopted into homes committed to continuing
their healthy, natural lifestyle.
We'll
be happy to guide you through
food choice, vaccination
protocols, amazing
home
remedies, and safe products to
use in and around your home for
everything from flea
and tick
issues to safe cleansers
and non-toxic lawn products.
The
dogs are all healthy, happy
and very, very well socialized.
They're
used to a very active
ifestyle, so that's
something that
prospective homes will need to
take into consideration.
Our guys
all get so much exercise that
they're very fit
~ we don't tend to
have many couch potatoes!
Adoption fees are $250.
*If
you would like to check on the availability of a particular dog prior to completing
an application,
please email.
Due
to time constraints, we prefer initial contact be
made through email.
The dogs may only be seen by appointment.
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Pawsitive
Energy and
The Spay/Neuter Incentive
Project & Sanctuary
is
home to 80 animals,nearly
all rescues or "hand-me-downs."
There are currently over 50
dogs
living with us.
All
of our animals have the
promise
of a home for life, and
their care is privately funded by
the Day Camp
and Bed & Biscuit.
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More
of
Our Sanctuary Dogs
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Lucky
Bug (w/Ezra)
Frank
Oso
Al
Max
Lewis
Tallulah
Holly
Blue
Lily
Gus
Morgan & Jillian
Cyrus
Jate & Dottie
Flea
Daisy
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Adoptions
& Volunteering
The Dogs
All
dogs are spayed or neutered, wormed, heartworm tested, microchipped,
and vaccinated
according to holistic vaccination protocols.
Our
dogs will only be adopted into homes that will continue with
our natural care
protocol. Click here for an explanation.
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Carmine
& Stella
Carmine
and Stella are
purebred Jack Russell puppies born in January 2008.
They're extremely sweet
babies, with typical JRT personalities. They must go to homes with experience
with the breed, fenced back yards,
and no children under the age of 10.
Sister
Dorey has already gone to her new home
and is doing great with Big sister
Chae!
Their mom, Annie, is also up for adoption.
Annie
Annie
is
a purebred Jack Russell, Momma to
Carmine and Stella. She's sweet and affectionate,
but
a little shy with new people and unfamiliar situations.
She's done
extremely well with other dogs.
Like the puppies, Annie needs a home with
experience with the breed, fenced back yards,
and no children under the
age of 10.
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Manny is
a one and a half year old yellow Lab cross.
He doesn't have many social skills,
so he's going to
need someone with the patience to start a young,
energetic
dog's training pretty much from scratch.
We're
working on crate training, using several sessions of
positive reinforcement
a day, and he seems to be
beginning to understand that his crate is a good
place.
He's
been great with the girl dogs in the B&B; boys are another story.
Older
males are fine ~ boys his age and size are viewed as contenders.
He does love his people!
UPDATE
December 2007: Manny has started on basic obedience and is doing great!
Dinah
Dinah
is a little spitfire! She has personality plus - and a
mind of her
own! She can get nippy if she thinks you'll let her,
so she needs a family
with no kids and a mom and dad
who will make rules and stick with them ~ the
more BT experience the better.
She's a dog who demands a great deal of time
and energy ~ and not one
who will be willing to spend a lot of time quietly
snuggling on the couch.
She
has some dogs she's great with, and others who
don't like her so much. She's
played well with other young,
good natured males and females - big and small
- who like to roughhouse and
who aren't easily offended by an occasional nip
on the haunches.
Dinah is a small purebred Boston Terrier.
Abigail
Abigail
is another of our special needs kids. She's a very easily
frightened little
girl, and it takes a while to get her to warm up to you.
Once you do, she
still has a few little quirks to work on,
like letting you pick her up when
she's on the couch, or letting you put
your hand in her crate, or lettng you
touch her feet...
She's
made a lot of progress in baby steps, and the fact that
she's EXTREMELY food
motivated makes it easy for you to let her
know when she's got it right.
She
needs someone with a lot of patience
who's very experienced with dogs.
Abby needs to be rewarded for every little bit of
progress she makes, no
matter how small.
It may be a long road and she may never be a "normal"
dog.
Abby needs to go to a quiet, adults-only home.
Abby is a Chihuahua cross, about four years old.
UPDATE
December 2007: Abby is scheduled for surgery
in early 2008 to correct an
inguinal hernia
and two luxating patellas. Donations would be very much appreciated!
Thelma
Thelma
is a two year old female Treeing Walker Coonhound. She's a
very active girl,
and needs a home that will be able to provide a lot of exercise.
Hounds typically
will bay and dig if they get bored, and Thelma is no exception!
She's great
with people and does well with mild mannered boy dogs like Dusty, below.
She was in a foster home for several months,
so she has been housebroken
and has basic obedience training.
Coonhounds
are notoriuosly difficult to adopt in this area.
Please consider Thelma and
give a hound a chance.
Murphy
Murphy
is a young goofball of a dog. You've got to see him in
action to know what
I mean. He's got the funniest style of moving
- like he was put together
from leftover parts that don't quite fit.
He's
another youngster who needs to run! He does great with
the tough girls -
he comes on too strong for some of the
more mild mannered girls in our pack.
Murphy
has some skin problems that we're working on.
Nothing serious, but he has
a tendency to lose and regrow hair in
small patches on his back and sides.
We're working on figuring out the cause. Good nutrition
is helping, and we
hope to find the right combination
of supplements to boost his immune system
and
get him into the best of health.
Photos
of Duke to come.
We're fostering Duke for
Poundhounds Adoption Welfare Society.
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Our
Sanctuary Dogs
We have signed the Declaration
of the No Kill Movement!
Jonah
is a beautiful light brindle boy with big,
soft eyes and a very sweet, quiet
disposition.
He's gentle and easygoing, and very affectionate,
and he
wins over everyone who meets him.
Especially when they find out that Jonah is blind.
We've
been unable to housetrain this guy, and
we have some concern that he may
have
some kidney issues developing.
Because
of all his special needs, Jonah is
now an
official member of the snips @ Pawsitive Energy Pack.
We promise
him a happy, devoted home
and loving family for the rest of his life.
Arwen
and her sister, Aspen,
(the "Little Girls")
were two puppies in a very large litter who wound up at
the Union County Humane
Society. The girls came to
us as fosters at about three months old.
We
posted their photos on Petfinder, and took
them to as many adoption events
as we could manage.
Though lots of people fell in love with the girls,
no one ever decided to make them part of their family.
The girls have gotten used to having an extremely active lifestyle,
with the opportunity to run for several hours
every day. Most potential
adopters are not able to
provide that much exercise.
That,
combined with the fact that they have come to
know snips @ Pawsitive Energy
as their home, made us
decide to adopt them "officially."
Arwin
and Aspen are now sanctuary dogs, and will remain
here with us forever as
members of the
snips @ Pawsitive Energy Pack.
These
girls
show us what "living life to its fullest"
really means, and we love
to look out our back door
and watch them chase each other around the yard.
Jersey
is a beautiful, two year old Saint Bernard.
She came from a family who bought
her at a pet store,
then decided to give her up when she got close
to
being her full size, slobbery self. Jerz was up
for adoption for over a year,
all the while
getting really used to her active lifestyle. Jerz
hangs
out with Arwen and Aspen, and the three of
them are extremely fit and high
energy.
We've
had a few people interested in her,
but so many just had the attitude that
this was a cheap way to get a Saint,
and that's hardly the kind of home
we're looking for for our dogs!
Like
the "Little Girls," now Jersey's gotten used to
this three and
four hour playtime that
she gets every day, it becomes
almost impossible
to find a home
where that will continue. (We thought we had one,
but they had little dogs, and Jersey is not too
good with the little ones.
That was disappointing.)
We
have a committment to our dogs that they wll only
to go to homes where their
lives will be as good
or better than the lives they have here with us.
If
we can't find that kind of home, they stay here.
So
Jersey is
now a permanent
member
of the snips @ Pawsitive Energy Pack,
and she is very, very loved by all of us here.
She and her buddies,
Arwen and Aspen,
make sure that no one gets onto the property
without
getting "the talk."
She's getting to be so very much like
her
human mother...
Hypnotic
is an absolutely gorgeous
American Staffordshire Terrier who was abandoned
with us after coming
here for boarding. Hypnotic's
human spent very little time with him, and
as a result,
Nottie had very little use for we human beings for
a very
long time. We tried to get him into a Pit rescue,
but nobody wanted to work
with him because
he didn't have that typical goofy, loving Bully personality.
(One rescue person who came out to meet him
told us she was afraid of him!)
Today,
Nottie understands that some
humans are wonderful creatures. He loves an audience,
and will show off anytime there are people around to
watch. He's become very
affectionate, and is just
a wonderful, wonderful guy.
Nottie
has officially
become a permanent member
of the snips @ Pawsitive Energy
Pack,
and after a year and a half, finally
loves us as much as we love him.
Mr
and Mrs Jones
are inseparable.They
were found
abandoned in a cow pasture, frightened, dirty and adorable.
He is a sweet little imp of a dog,
with a big grin and a tail that never
stops wagging.
She is a running and swimming machine. She is so
amazingly
fast and agile, she looks like a gazelle.
I've never seen a dog make running look so entirely effortless!
Jonsey
doesn't know a stranger.
Mrs does, and she is so very jealous,
and really
only shows her loving side when
you can manage to pry them apart.
Jonesy is a Pit cross (maybe a French Bulldog Pitt cross).
That, plus the
fact that he and the Mrs
are a package deal, has limited both their adoption
options.
Mr
and Mrs Jones are now official members
of the snips @ Pawsitive Energy Pack.
Their silly personalities and funny quirks
are so endearing that it's impossible
not to fall in love with them.
Ezra
has lived at snips @ Pawsitive Energy for three years.
He was much loved
at his previous home, but the
combination of a move across the country,
a toddler just
learning to pull ears and another
baby on the way was a little too stressful
for him.
Ezra
bit his little human sister on two occasions, and
his
heartbroken family
decided it just wasn't safe for him
to continue living with them.
Ezra
went on to develop some aggression
issues toward adults, as well. I actually
considered euthanasia,
but somehow knew in my heart that he could be rehabilitated.
We
had amazing sucess with
positive reinforcement and counter conditioning,
and he's a great dog now. There are still
some food aggression issues,
and that, combined with his history,
make adopting him out too much of a liability.
Ez
is
now an official member
of the snips @ Pawsitive Energy Pack.
He lives
a great life, and loves the routine
of the Bed & Biscuit. We all love
him
dearly, and will do everything we can to
make this guy happy ~ long
walks, rides in the car,
treats, and lots and lots of FETCH!!
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A
Few More of Dogs Who Have Found
Their Perfect Humans
Other
Than Us ; )
Ishmael
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Snazzy
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Desmond
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Holly
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Calpurnia
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Molly Jo
Murdock
Alice &
Her New Sisters
Malley &
His Girls
Tucker
Neville
Robby
Pete
Stormy
Red
Dorey
Amos
Owen
Still
waiting on Jamie to send a picture of
Reilly
Marysville, Ohio
614/774-3472
snips@pawsitiveenergy.com