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Bella's Surgery Fund |
TOTAL amount raised and sent to Northtown Animal Hospital in Brampton toward Bella's surgery was $493.40...
THANK YOU to all those who contributed!
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Welcome to Toronto German Shepherd Dog Rescue |
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Who are we?
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Written by Anna Young
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Oct 05, 2005 at 01:00 AM |
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 Eva, one of our rescue girls...
WE ARE A SMALL VOLUNTEER BASED ORGANIZATION dedicated to saving lives of no longer wanted German Shepherd Dogs. We love the breed and all it has to offer and have respect and understanding of its too often misunderstood nature and behaviour. Please stay a while and visit our pages. Whether you are looking for a companion to add to your family, just looking for information, or need support with taking care of your own German Shepherd Dog, please surf our pages. Afterwards, please let us know what you think. This in turn will help us to become a better Rescue. In our efforts, we rely on dedicated volunteers. We are very, very lucky to have Frieda helping us. She joined as a volunteer several years ago, fell in love with Reena, one of our rescue girl who arrived into our care the very same day and adopted her. Frieda helps with various events, she helps with fundraising, helps with walking and socializing rescue dogs who lack social skills and need that extra individual attention- we could not survive without Frieda's help.
We could not succeed without foster homes. Thank you to all foster moms and dads. We know how difficult it is to welcome a homeless dog into our lives only to say good-bye short time later, when this lucky dog leaves, to join his new 'forever' family.  Scarlet & Xavier - perfect attention
We need more members to join our group. We need people who can help to better organize our efforts. We need foster homes, education, outreach, resource work, and fundraising. If you would like to get involved, please e-mail or call us. We are always looking for new ideas and new people.
To see the dogs available for adoption please click the Dogs in need of homes button on the left side menu.
We do want to know more about you and we do require that you become a member before you gain access to ALL our available dogs. We want to make sure that you are serious about your future commitment to a new member of your family and I'm certain that you would like to know more about us as well.
So after browsing our pages, we invite you to take a moment and apply for membership to join our Forum, our virtual support group.
If you wonder whether a German Shepherd Dog is a Right Dog for you, or what to expect from a rescue Shepherd, please look at our RESOURCES page (still under development).
 Roxie, our rescue girl with her blue bone
On our Useful Links Page (still under development) we provide links to some German Shepherd Breeders and to other groups, organizations, and businesses which should help you with care of your German Shepherd Dog or help you find your very special friend.
As German Shepherd Dog is a very popular breed contributing to enormous number of mixes, we simply have to limit our efforts somewhere. We do limit our rescue to purebred German Shepherd Dogs, or as we call it- single breed German Shepherd Dogs, since we do not require registration papers in order to take a dog into our care. (Legally, in Canada, you can only call a dog purebred if it has registration papers with a Club recognized by CKC- Canadian Kennel Club). There are many other, very hard working, rescues devoted to all dogs including mixes. We do offer space in our Courtesy Page to people who want to find homes for mixed Shepherds. On our Courtesy Page you'll also find German Shepherd Dogs currently in various shelters. Please contact the shelter directly.
 Fun with Ridge, Lia and Xavier
Thank you Peter Hasty, new proud owner of Whitby Mazda dealership, for your generous donation to our rescue! Peter learned that the engine warning light came on in our Mazda MPV and was causing serious concerns. And he also knew how important a reliable vehicle is for our rescue work. Thanks to Peter and Steve, Service manager, our Shep-mobile is back on the road. We want both of them to know how grateful we are that the car was not only diagnosed and repaired, but it was done on the spot! After lunch in the neighbourhood, we waited in the air-conditioned waiting room and were not inconvenienced by having to go back home and back to Whitby again! While waiting, we were impressed by professional, very knowledgeable and very friendly staff looking after their customers, both in the service area and in the showroom. It was refreshing to see this old fashioned, family ambiance and care everywhere... Thank you Peter!
On June 29th, 2001 the Toronto German Shepherd Dog Rescue was featured on Toronto's Breakfast Television on CITY TV. This gave us an opportunity to stress the importance of German Shepherd Dog as man's best friend. Two of our rescue dogs, Lady and Benz, were trying to make the good impression even though the strange, noisy environment of the busy TV station terrified Benz. (There were racing cars and kangaroos featured the very same morning). We're very happy and thank Breakfast Television for this great opportunity! We would love to do it again...
Our web site is still very much a work in progress and we update it regularly, please come back often for new information, see new dogs and resources. Please tell us what would you like to see on our site.
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