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OUR FEATURED PET...
All our dogs are featured pets! They're all wonderful, loving dogs with great temperaments. We courtesy post for other rescues & shelters too from places close to us. Please contact those rescues directly - they're info is in their dog's Bio
Adoption Info: Please fill out an application form before calling or emailing questions. If we do not receive an application your email will be deleted. Our time is spent caring for these dogs, sometimes as many as 30 dogs at a time, and you show us serious intent to adopt when you take the time to fill out the application. Email the completed form to info@camplotsadogs.ca The Adoption Donation you give includes spay/neuter, all shots, Heartworm test, deworming/de-parasitng by us at least once and is $450
Please, if you want to adopt a dog - we require you take up to 24 hrs 'think about it' time and when an aggreement is reached you take the dog home as quickly as possible. We can not 'hold' adopted dogs "til the weekend" or you "are back from holidays" as there are many, many other dogs dying in shelters who need that space.
There IS such a thing a BBDS - BIG BLACK DOG SYNDROME - these dogs are in shelters and rescues for much longer, sometimes up to a year, before being adopted. When I read about it in People Magazine a while ago, I was shocked! I LOVE BLACK DOGS and it never occured to me that anyone else wouldn't but apparently the perception is that they are menacing looking. I know for a fact they don't take great pictures without perfect light - takes hours or days to get some of the shots of of our black dogs that are on the site now. PLEASE! If you think black dogs are menacing or unattractive, GO LOOK AT SOME at your local shelter or rescue or make an appt to meet them here. You'll be amazed at how many wonderful, loving dogs are being passed over - IT's NUTS! Sometimes we fear too much what we don't know or isn't familiar. Go pat someone's black dog today!
Top Ten Reasons To Adopt A Black Dog
1. We cannot clash with your furniture or clothing, and some of you actually worry about that.
2. We cannot clash with any collar you might choose either! Ditto for bandanas. Accessorize us!
3. Ease of vaccuuming! You can quickly spot the areas of most urgent need.
4. Excellent night walk protection, the "bad guy" won't see us til it's too late!
5. We hide dirt well (doesn't mean we don't need that bath after a messy play, but your guests won't be able to see it so quickly).
6. We make an excellent "backdrop" for a second, more colorful dog if you choose to have more than one.
7. Availability! We are available now at every shelter you can imagine, in every age bracket, no long waiting lists, no long search!
8. Status symbol potential. Black pearls are the most costly you know....
9. No annoying queries "what kind of dog is that" people are content with "big black dog" and don't ask!
10. We need you!
Top Ten Reasons to Adopt an Older Dog*
1. Older dogs are housetrained. You won't have to go through the difficult stage(s) of teaching a puppy house manners and mopping/cleaning up after accidents.
2. Older dogs are not teething puppies, and won't chew your shoes and furniture while growing up.
3. Older dogs can focus well because they've mellowed. Therefore, they learn quickly.
4. Older dogs have learned what "no" means. If they hadn't learned it, they wouldn't have gotten to be "older" dogs.
5. Older dogs settle in easily, because they've learned what it takes to get along with others and become part of a pack.
6. Older dogs are good at giving love, once they get into their new, loving home. They are grateful for the second chance they've been given.
7. What You See Is What You Get: Unlike puppies, older dogs have grown into their shape and personality. Puppies can grow up to be quite different from what they seemed at first.
. Older dogs are instant companions -- ready for hiking, car trips, and other things you like to do.
9. Older dogs leave you time for yourself, because they don't make the kinds of demands on your time and attention that puppies and young dogs do.
10. Older dogs let you get a good night's sleep because they're accustomed to human schedules and don't generally need nighttime feedings, comforting, or bathroom breaks. *Adapted from Labrador Retriever Rescue's "Top Ten Reasons to Adopt a Rescue"
We're also For The Love Of Dog, a Wellness Centre using Homeopathic and Holistic treatments for common emotional and physical problems as well as diabetes, IBS, Pancreatitis, Addisons, Alopecia X (Pomeranians) and Cushings. We do behaviour training as well - we rehabilitate the dogs and train you. We have resources available to help and our consultation fees are not too high and it all goes to the rescues anyway.
CLD now sells our own raw diet - Love My Dog. It's complete, ready to serve in convenient 1/2, 1 and 2lb containers, frozen. Delivery available to the GTA or you can pick it up here. See our website for info and testimonials www.SuSteiner.ca You can also purchase our food at Feel Good Natural Health Store on King St in Oshawa and it is available thru Go Natural Health food Store in Oshawa and Whitby! We are going green in jan/09 - we sell out food fresh in 25lb containers. You take it home, package it in your own convenient sized containers and freeze it. The cost drops substantially because you aren't paying for packaging or labour. give us a call 905-655-7575 ,b>
Our food fixes allergies, immune system & skin problems, ear infections, eye & coat problems, stomache and bowel.... to name a few. If you've tried everything else and it hasn't worked - Talk to US! www.SuSteinerca
We do everything we can to assist rescue groups and their dogs in finding good, solid, happy homes. Because of our dog camp boardng experience we're uniquely able to spot and fix problems. If you've adopted a rescue from us, we're the only rescue able to help you with behaviour problems, emotional problems and adjustment problems because we also work with rescues. We have sources and resources to help make your match work. If you haven't adopted from us and are getting no help from youre rescue we can help on a consulting basis - see www.SuSteiner.ca for fee schedules
If the dog listed is marked 'COURTESY POSTING' the dog is in the care another rescue group, their contact info (tel# or email address) will be provided. PLEASE CONTACT THEM DIRECTLY.
Unless otherwise stated, all dogs have their shots, are spayed or neutered (unless too young), dewormed and de-parasited and in good health and you get 6 weeks free pet insurance as well.
Obedience training or behaviour training is usually required for young dogs. These dogs want to be part of a family and we do everything we can to ensure they are housebroken and not food or toy possessive but we can't train all the dogs - that's your job. We will always have resources available to you for help at anytime after adoption and expect you also to do everything possible to make the adoption stick and look forward to a rewarding experience for you, the dog and us.
Adoption Costs - Why We charge them: The donation made for adopting a rescue goe sto pay vet fees and medications we incur to ensure the dog you adopt is as healthy as possible. Those donations go directly to the vets and more dogs are able to be rescued. We cap our donation request even though 90% of the dogs cost us well in excess of those donations. Please don't ask us to lower fees 'cuz you can't afford it' or 'it's a small dog' - vets don't care what size the dogs is or your incme. They charge what they charge and we pay it (a BIG thank you to the vets who do 'rescue rates; for us and help with the astonishing costs).
PLEASE NOTE: We do NOT use or advocate the DNA MY DOG company as threir results were so far off the mark on one client and suspect in many others that we can not in good concience recommend them. The pet industry is a $4 BILLION dollar industry and there are too many companies out there trying to take your dollars without giving value or quality for your hard earned dollars.
This is from and article written by a columnist who is friendly with a shelter worker and wrote it tongue in cheek to people who think there is profit made in rescue and object to our fees.
THE HIDDEN TRUTH ABOUT THE 'RESCUE CULT" Columnist's Larry Powell's website:
"Yessir, I'm going to yank the veil back on the hidden truth about the 'rescue cult.' Here goes:
There is a secret society of animal rescuers who pool their immense profits made from cornering the market on mangy dogs and wormy cats, poorly-groomed purebreds with congenital in-breeding problems and un-socialized dogs who have been kept in filthy conditions in the house of a backwoods hoarder. Those critters are pure profit! These rescue cultists take those truckloads of cash and buy bricks of gold each day to hedge against hard times in the market and to make trips to Vegas a little more fun.
Rescuers vacation for three months each summer in Switzerland and spend their Christmases with their extended families in a fantastic villa at the North Pole. And they all dress like movie stars at the Oscars -- yes, they all go to the Oscars.
Most of the time they all ride in their chauffeur-driven Bentleys or they drive a Ferrari so they can get to adoption events in a hurry.
When they talk about boarding animals, they mean staying with them for a couple of weeks or months in some swank Dallas hotel or maybe, if they're hip enough, Hotel Zaza.
Yeah, the people in rescue lead a dream life. I don't understand why more people don't get involved with animal rescue and start dipping up their share of the gigantic profits.
Back to reality. You know, folks, there are people who will believe all that. Oh, for crying out loud. A rescue group is like George Bailey's Building and Loan in It's a Wonderful Life – the money isn't always kept in the vault, it's invested in assorted properties to benefit the whole community. I might give a $400 adoption fee for a Pom whose care and upkeep was minimal and it cost about $30 to get the rascal ship-shape. But someone else may donate $400 for a Pom who cost about $4,000 to repair after a lifetime of bad living at the hands of some idiot human.
I asked Cheri about Recycled's state this week: 'We have 20 dogs currently available for adoption and two un-adoptable dogs (one has a brain tumor and the other is a fear-biter). We just recently had one come to us anemic with a broken leg, broken tail and open sores all over her body. We even had to remove some tar like substance from her ears... not to mention the million fleas.'
On a personal note, Cheri says, 'I currently have 12 foster dogs in my care alone. I don't live on a ranch and they don't get put in kennels. At least 6 of them sleep in my bed each night. We really could use some foster mommies or daddies, too. We have four dogs in boarding because we don't have foster homes for them to go to.' (FYI: Boarding isn't free -- there's where some of that $450 fee goes.)
You know the recent move to smaller cars and more efficient fuel-burning engines? Animal rescuers did that years ago. They needed to save money on gasoline so they could feed their rescue habit and efficiently drive rescued dogs from one city to another, from one state to another. Earlier this year, a rescue group took a heeler mix from Dallas to Minnesota and got snowed in near the final destination. That cost money nobody expected to spend. That money often comes right out of a rescuer's pocket and isn't replaced -- except that their hearts feel better about saving an animal.
I've been to many, many rescue events. I have yet to see a rescuer show up in designer fashions and shoes that you couldn't wear to wade into a storm sewer to find a mewing kitten or a whimpering puppy. Not that rescuers don't clean up good, it's just that they look at a $300 suit or $500 dress and think, 'That would buy a lot of dog food' or 'That would pay for a lot of spaying and neutering.'
These people make sacrifices to help animals. When some foul-minded human tries to get rich via an animal rescue group, they usually wind up spending their money on criminal defense attorneys. Rescue groups sometimes set what looks like a high fee because it theoretically makes the person who pays it feel more responsible about the dog or cat. That motivation might just work with some people -- but other people fall in love with the animals and they become part of the family no matter what they cost.
Free dogs and free cats often wind up in shelters. But, so do the expensive critters. No animal is safe when the human factor is out of control. Oh, yeah, when these dogs and cats come into a rescue group, they don't arrive with a folder containing their medical records. So every dog or cat has to go through a vet exam and gets shots and usually gets a treatment for some minor problem. There'll be heartworm testing and if the result is 'positive,' there's the added expense of heartworm treatment -- at the least a few hundred bucks if there's a charitable vet involved. And lots of vets work with rescue groups to try to keep the expenses down. Still, if you get 5 fresh dogs one week and four of them are heartworm positive, that's still a bundle.
OK, that's just scraping the surface of rescue expenses -- we're not even touching on boarding or special medical situations such as broken bones or open wounds, horrifying physical problems caused by lack of grooming, etc. Oh, geez, don't get me started on the problems with cocker spaniels' ears and eyes. Or retired racing Greyhounds with their broken hocks and wrecked tendons. Or cats that arrive looking pregnant and actually are -- delivering five or six kittens that need immediate treatment for upper respiratory problems. Or ... well, it's just flat sad what happens to animals in the custody of idiot people.
So, to you shallow thinkers who believe rescue groups are in it to make money, let's just ask this: For crying out loud, are you nuts?
Are you blind to reality? You think caviar is the official snack of Straydog Inc., the sanctuary for down-on-their- luck dogs at Gun Barrel City?
The assorted rescuers of Goldens, Labs, Great Danes, Siamese, Tabbies, Rabbits, Hamsters, etc. are people who'll sacrifice nearly
everything to achieve the mission of saving the animals.
Then, after a good adoption day, they'll splurge for a cup of coffee or a Slurpee, talk about how they're worn out from juggling their job and their mission, and try to drive home without picking up another stray that crosses their paths.
Yeah, they're all getting rich -- just not with spending money."
Camp LotsaDogs
DURHAM REGION - GTA
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info@camplotsadogs.ca
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