We are planning an adoption event at Forever Home Rescue New England, 106 Adams Street, Medfield MA 02052 for Monday afternoon, Labor Day, Sept 6. We’re planning for 12-4pm or so.
We’ll have lots of pups and likely a few adult dogs at the event and it will say in their postings if they will be there. Dogs marked “UPDATE” are in New England or on the way for that weekend, and the first line of the writeup will let you know if the dog will be at the event. You can apply ahead of time by going to any of our dog’s postings. Just put ‘Adoption Event’ in the space for the dog’s name and we can process your application and hopefully get you pre-approved to adopt that day. Then you can come and choose a pup and take a pup home that day!
Look forward also to our Grand Opening of our new facility on Monday, October 11. We’ll be posting details here on our site and sending emails to all our adopters and volunteers.
Please note we will not be at Pet Rock this year.
Our latest adventure is to start a prison dog program where we team up with a prison and have our rescue dogs benefit from fostering and training by the inmates. Our good friend and foster, Michelle Riccio, is starting this program in CT. She can use all the help she can get with starting this and she has applied for a Pepsi Refresh grant. Please support her (and our Forever Home Rescue dogs) by clicking this link:
http://www.refresheverything.com/dontthrowusaway
In order to vote, just click on”Join Refresh Everything” Voting begins August 1st and ends Aug 31st. Michelle’s prison dog project is in the $25,000 request category.
You can vote daily via text message (if you decide to)! Effectively
each person can now have two sets of votes daily; one from the phone
and one from the online voting account!
Please spread this good news!
Here’s the specific information for Don’t Throw Us Away:
Vote from your mobile phone
Text* 101191 to
Pepsi (73774)
*Standard text messaging rates apply.
If you’d like more info about prison dog programs in general, there are 3 links you can click to videos of other programs around the country:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MpziXQMxINc&feature=related Paws in
Prison Program, Austin, TX
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xyXzPl8d0bY&feature=related 2nd Chance
at Life, Hernado County Jail, FL
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ASX2lDuU7RQ&feature=related Project
Pooch, Maclearn Youth Correctional, Portland, OR
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WiRXjf3KQ1M&feature=related Prison
Pups, California Institute for Women, CA
THANK YOU FOR YOUR SUPPORT!
Forever Home Rescue New England is an all-volunteer, non-profit 501(c)3 rescue group. Our mission is to find loving forever homes for homeless and unwanted dogs that we have rescued from high kill shelters or abusive and neglectful situations. We invite you to learn more about us and our wonderful dogs. Thanks very much for visiting our website!
We are in process of building our own site for our dogs in MA. This will be a site where we can do MA required quarantine as well as hold adoption events and ‘alum’ get togethers, sibling reunions, training sessions, etc. This is a very expensive project and we need all the help we can get. If you can help us with the construction, please donate by going to the HELP US BUILD donation button on the left side of this page.
OR, you can now DONATE YOUR CAR!!
Donate your car, boat, truck, RV, Jet Ski or snowmobile to the Forever Home Rescue New England and receive a tax deduction. This no cost, no hassle process begins when you contact our fundraising partner, Donation Line LLC at 877-227-7487. Make sure to ask for our extension, 2623. Or you can click here, Car Donation to Forever Home Rescue.
and complete the Vehicle Donation Form on line. Make sure to select Forever Home Rescue New England from the dropdown list. Please have your title in hand when you donate.
THANK YOU!
Joanne, Sharon, Terry, Linda, Kathy, Marie, Christine, and Julie
Once I was a Lonely Dog
Once I was a lonely dog,
Just looking for a home.
I had no place to go,
No one to call my own.
I wandered up and down the streets,
in rain in heat and snow.
I ate what ever I could find,
I was always on the go.
My skin would itch, my feet were sore,
My body ached with pain.
And no one stopped to give a pat
Or to gently say my name.
I never saw a loving glance,
I was always on the run.
For people thought that hurting me
was really lots of fun.
And then one day I heard a voice
So gentle, kind and sweet,
And arms so soft reached down to me
And took me off my feet.
“No one again will hurt you”
Was whispered in my ear.
“You’ll have a home to call your own
where you will know no fear.”
“You will be dry, you will be warm,
you’ll have enough to eat
And rest assured that when you sleep,
your dreams will all be sweet.”
I was afraid I must admit,
I’ve lived so long in fear.
I can’t remember when I let
A human come so near.
And as she tended to my wounds
And bathed and brushed my fur
She told me ’bout the rescue group
And what it meant to her.
She said, “We are a circle,
A line that never ends.
And in the center there is you
protected by new friends.”
“And all around you are
the ones that check the pounds,
And those that share their home
after you’ve been found.”
“And all the other folk
are searching near and far.
To find the perfect home for you,
where you can be a star.”
She said, “There is a family,
that’s waiting patiently,
and pretty soon we’ll find them,
just you wait and see.”
“And then they’ll join our circle
they’ll help to make it grow,
so there’ll be room for more like you,
who have no place to go.”
I waited very patiently,
The days they came and went.
Today’s the day I thought,
my family will be sent.
Then just when I began to think
It wasn’t meant to be,
there were people standing there
just gazing down at me.
I knew them in a heart beat,
I could tell they felt it too.
They said, “We have been waiting
for a special dog like you.”
Now every night I say a prayer
to all the gods that be.
“Thank you for the life I live
and all you’ve given me.
But most of all protect the dogs
in the pound and on the street.
And send a Rescue Person
to lift them off their feet.”
~Arlene Pace (September 18, 1998)
