Early this Saturday afternoon, Terra and I attended to NYCSR’s second adoption. Bri greeted us at the door of her foster home with wagging and kisses and love. We carried her crate and supplies downstairs, and she gleefully hopped in the car to see where we were going. In less than a month’s time, this girl has been dropped off in a shelter, spayed, picked up by a stranger and driven to a strange city, renamed, and fostered in two different apartments. You wouldn’t know it from her attitude though! Here she was on her way to another new place and just as happy-go-lucky as could be. I can’t stop wondering how anyone could surrender a girl with such an amazing temperament to a shelter!

When we walked up to Carol’s building, she was waiting outside with treats. Bri was perfectly happy to say hello and eat some treats, but she did seem a little like “ok, so what’s up?” Then we went and got her crate out of the car and she knew immediately that we were going inside with Carol. We took Bri and all her stuff up to Carol’s apartment and Bri proceeded to make herself right at home while we chatted and completed paperwork. Carol already had a new bed and a bunch of toys there for her and Bri had a GREAT time slinging a stuffed football around the apartment and chewing on some rawhide sticks.

All in all it was a great experience. When Terra and I left, we knew we were leaving Bri in her perfect forever home. She and Carol are a great match and we think they will be very happy together.

Posted on May 7th, 2007 by jenna
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I picked up a sad little shiba from an upstate shelter near my hometown. She had been left at the shelter because her owners no longer wanted her…it was the usual excuse…we don’t have time…So I picked her up on the April 21, just five days after she arrived at the shelter. Her 4th Birthday fell on April 17th, nothing like going to the pound for you birthday.
So this no name shiba endured the long drive to the city and all the traffic and noises that went along with it. We took a walk when we finally got home and a family stopped us and told us how beautiful our dogs where and asked if they could pet them. I gave permission for the kids to pet Cadence (my shiba) and said that I was not sure with the other one becuase I had just rescued her from a shelter. So we started talking and the first thing the kids asked was “whats her name,” I told them we were trying to figure out a new name and asked for their help. The two little girls started firing off names and finally someone said Sabrina…and I thought Bri for short would be PERFECT. So Bri it is. I thanked the girls very much for their help and they wished us luck. The next morning we played the name game and she learned her new name in under 10 minutes. What a great way to get a new name!

Posted on April 29th, 2007 by terra
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Meet NYC Shiba Rescue’s third foster dog.

On Thursday of last week, I received an email that a female Shiba near Albany needed out of a shelter. I thought “how can we possibly do anything about a dog way up there?” but I know one person about 20 miles from there, so I dropped her an email and then sent out an email to the NYC Shiba Rescue list. Then, the most unlikely thing happened… a few minutes later I received an email back from Terra that she was IN Albany through the weekend and not far from the shelter in question at the moment! By that evening she had evaluated the dog and we had agreed to take her. On Friday, paperwork was faxed and she was spayed and microchipped. Saturday, Terra picked her up and brought her home to NYC. Sunday, she - now named Sabrina (Bri for short) - attended a training workshop that a bunch of us already had planned. Considering everything this dog had been through in one short week - being left in the shelter the day before her fourth birthday, being subjected to shelter temperament testing (which includes pinching dogs’ feet, not something a Shiba can tolerate), being spayed, and then picked up by a stranger, driven 150 miles away and introduced into a new home in a completely new and strange place - she was amazingly easy going and happy. Everyone loved her and I’m sure she’ll be adopted out pretty quickly.

Posted on April 22nd, 2007 by jenna
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