Gabe 10-3-1995 to 9-17-2010 Gabe was everything you could ever want in a companion, he was loyal, happy, sweet, non reactive, welcoming, tolerant, easy-going, beautiful and grateful. My world is a little less bright without him in it, but he is the extra star in the sky at night watching over my family and he was met by all his own friends and all your dogs and puppies, cats and kitties that have crossed to the Bridge before him.... Rest in Peace, my loving friend, I will meet you again someday....... http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v346/jcmnh/gabe/ Rainbow Bridge http://www.indigo.org/rainbowbridge_ver2.html Thank you for visiting our website and for your interest in adopting a rescued dog or puppy! When you adopt one, you save two, by allowing room to bring in another needy dog into rescue! Who We Are! We are a liaison rescue in New England facilitating the re-homing of puppies and dogs in need, all of them come from the efforts of our affiliate Alabama, Tennessee and Mississippi rescue groups and their wonderful dedicated foster homes who rescue and rehabilitate and take care of these babies for so long before coming northeast to their furever homes. The majority of dogs and puppies in the south will be killed within 7 days of being dropped off at a shelter IF they are thought to be strays, IF an owner drops them off they could be on their way to the gas chamber as the owner walks to their car. IF we have room in a southern foster home we can pull many of them and place them into foster care for, at least, 5 weeks, with a private foster family until they are fully vetted. When there is a litter of puppies in need of rescue and their Mom is available we ALWAYS take her in, too, once her puppies are weaned she is spayed. Then they head north to new furever homes! There are a lot of IFs in rescue..... Our adoption process involves a completed application, a vet reference, an interview/home visit and an adoption agreement must be signed. The adoption fee goes to the vetting and personal care of the dog/puppy you are adopting as well as the care of other dogs/puppies coming into rescue. The adoption fee will be due upon pickup and the transport fee will be due, Tuesday, the week of transport and is paid directly to the transport company via PayPal. Adoption fees vary per dog or puppy. Each profile will indicate that particular dog's/puppy's adoption fee. Please click here: The Reason We do not have one physical location. Our dogs and puppies are kept in private foster homes in Alabama, in Tennessee and in Mississippi for 3-6 weeks or longer, as part of a family, to help prepare them for transition into their northern forever homes and also to have enough time to have them receive all the necessary vetting we require before placing them with an adoptive family, for their health and safety. You are very
welcome to speak with the the foster family about the dog/puppy you are interested in after we receive your Application! IF a dog or puppy is marked as "New England" or "Maine" it simply means they will come into northern foster care IF they are NOT
adopted first, if they are adopted first they will arrive from AL, TN or MS directly to their new family, once in their new home they must stay within the family's home and yard until they are one week out from their fourth DHLPP vaccine! Once a dog is committed to, they go on the next available
transport. If they remain in the AL, TN or MS foster
home they are taking up a space where another dog or puppy could be
pulled from the shelter, or kept from going into a shelter, and come into rescue. Stray dogs and puppies
have a 7 day "hold" in the shelter (waiting
for someone to come in and claim them) before they are killed / euthanized, so an adopted dog or puppy remaining in a foster home
could mean the death of another dog or puppy. How Our Puppies Travel!
All our dogs and puppies will be transported from TN, AL or MS to the northeast via All Paws Transport Services, LLC. Puppies need to be spayed or neutered seven days before transport. Spay or neuter is mandatory. Their cost is only $125 prepaid via PayPal! Adopting a friend from us! Our puppies or dogs come into Alabama, Mississippi and Tennessee rescue in many ways, it could be from the shelter, a phone call from someone who is planning to dump their dog or their dog's litter of puppies at the shelter UNLESS we will take them or they are found on the side of a road, in the woods, a bag fished out of the water with puppies in it, a covered trash can, or a box. 1) They will receive their first DHLPP, bordetella and panacur if rescue feels they are approximately 5-6 weeks of age. 2) At 7-8 weeks they get their second DHLPP and are wormed again 3) At 9-10 weeks they go to the vet for their spay or neuter 4) At 10 weeks they get their third DHLPP and Albon 5) The day they leave on the transport to go to their furever homes in the northeast they go to the vet for their health certificate and another fecal Preference is given to those who have submitted an application. Application If the dog or puppy you are interested in has a notation of "adopted!" next to their name they are not currently available, although, occasionally, people do change their minds and the dog or puppy becomes available again. The adoption fee also helps to defray expenses for their food & veterinary
care: Our adoption fee includes: 1) spay or neuter 2) DHLPP with Corona (1st vaccine, 2nd booster & third booster for puppies under 16 weeks- third booster if they are in rescue foster care long enough and came directly from a shelter, 2 vaccines for over 16 weeks) D- distemper, H- hepatitis, L- leptospirosis, P- parvo, P- parainfluenza When your dog or puppy arrives to AL or TN rescue foster care they will be in isolation quarantine away from every other dog or puppy, except for the puppies/littermates they arrived with, for 21 days before they are allowed to mingle with the rest of the dogs and puppies in the home- this allows enough time for almost any common puppy illness to present itself. Please realize- quarantining does not simply mean out of a shelter or boarding facility and into a foster home. Once a dog or puppy is pulled from one of those facilities and goes into a foster home they can expose the animals already there to whatever they were exposed to in the shelter or boarding facility. If a new group of dogs or puppies come out of a facility and into a foster home they HAVE to go into another isolation quarantine or they risk exposing the puppies and dogs that are still in isolation quarantine. Unfortunately there is never a 100% guarantee that two or three vaccines will be enough to completely protect them. We are using the vaccine protocol from the University of Florida which allows the first vaccine to be given as early as 6 weeks, second at 8 weeks and third at 10 weeks. 2010 UFVMC Small Animal Vaccine Protocol If the puppies come into rescue older than six weeks their first vaccine is given at the time they come into rescue and again every two weeks until their third vaccine is given. IF they get a third vaccine it will be given no later than 72 hours before they leave on a transport. Your puppy will definitely need the next DHLPP vaccine 2-3 weeks after his last one at your own vet, please discuss this with them when you bring your puppy in for the initial exam. 3) rabies vaccine with certificate and tag IF puppy is 12 weeks and older required by the USDA to cross state lines 4) Bordetella (kennel cough) 5) worming bi-weekly during fostered quarantine 6) flea/tick control 7) heartworm control over 8 weeks of age 8) vet records 9) professional transport A health certificate, http://www.aphis.usda.gov/animal_welfare/downloads/manuals/dealer/healthcert.pdf, is required by the US Dept of Agriculture for any animal that has crossed or is crossing state lines and states that at the time of issue the animal has no communicable diseases. The health certificate is only good for ten days. A veterinarian is required to do a physical exam on any animal needing a health certificate, this includes a fecal. The health certificate is signed by a vet AFTER a physical exam is performed and there is no sign of any health issues. Most health issues require an incubation period, if anyone (canine/human/feline) is incubating for any disease there is no way to recognize that until symptoms are present.
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