Before & After

Before & After. To make a difference in an animals life is not only a transformation of their spirit but as you can see in the pictures, quite often times a physical transformation as well. These 3 stories show the life changing events created by adopters, rescue volunteers and Barc staff members. We all have the power to make a diffence in an animals life!

1. Ollie, aka Elmo. Remember Elmo, the poor hair-bedraggled little boy dog who we "lost" in the system a few times and who bumped into walls cause his hair was so matted and completely covered his eyes?
He found a lovely home with a lovely woman who sent in an after "pic" of now-named Ollie -- wow!Who would have known there was a cutie pie under there? Petsmart groomers donated one entire day to working on Elmo -- they were happy to do so, reports Amy. Amy reports she and Ollie are in love and happy for ever and ever and ever. Thanks Amy.

2. Jamie, the Westie. This is a rescue group story and I will let Sandy tell it (slightly edited for length) in her own words, "Mr. Robertson:When I first saw this dog, I thought he was a cream/silver cairn terrier in the darkness of his kennel (North Ward A). Can we say dirty westie? I've attached his shelter pic and an after grooming pic. You can see that he's very sweet and cute; we're calling him Jamie. I just want to thank you for helping me pull him.We are totally in love with this boy and can promise you we will find him a wonderful family that will love him, too.Thank you so much for helping the poor animals who need help in the City of Houston. This little boy is very thankful, too. You and your team have helped so many dogs. All they want in this world is to be loved and Westie Rescue Houston will make sure the dogs we pull will get that." Come anytime, Sandy.

3. Lloyd. Lloyd, one staff member, recognized a very large Sharpei/Rottweiler male dog that was ready to be euthanized. He asked for a few days to see if someone would want to give this dog, whom he was partial to, a home. He was granted that and he asked volunteers if they would spread the word about Lloyd, the "purebred Sharpei/Rottweiler mix". A crusade began on behalf of Lloyd -- one volunteer took photos, sent them to several other volunteers, who >contacted rescue groups, placed photos on craigs list on the internet, called friends, promoted him at BARC...and a lovely couple responded. Turns out, they have a spayed female Sharpei/Rottweiler mix and they started receiving tons of Lloyd's photos from many different sources. It's a match made in heaven -- Lloyd got a bath, ear cleaning, flea treatment and was loaded into a very small car for a very happy and crowded drive home. Kellie, you're a dream come true.

Wallisville Petsmart Adoption Report 5.5.07

We had a good day yesterday, when we got to BARC, wonder of wonders, small dogs, this does not happen. So we proceeded to pick them quickly. And when we got to the store, we meet Maggie and her foster mom, Susan. Maggie had been one of the dogs, that had been on death row last year, she was very thin and needed a lot of love back then but her foster mom Susan has done a great job, so good in fact that even though she was a “large” dog, Maggie had one person seriously interested in her, and left to consult with his wife, while he was gone Maggie was adopted by a very sweet gentleman to live with his wife and their other dog at home. The gentleman had been concerned about his dog being alone so much during the day while he and his wife were at work, when he saw Maggie he was amazed at the similarity between her and his dog, he swore that they could have been littermates.

One of our small dogs was adopted rather quickly as well, she is a cute Chihuahua mix and she went within the first hour to no one’s surprise. Chihuahua’s being the fashionable dog of the moment. her new owners gave her the name “Chica”, she’ll be going to a home with two young boys and they were quickly impressed with her fearlessness, while they were looking at her in the store. “Little” Chica was being walked by the children and a huge, emphasize Huge husky happened to be walking a little to close to the boys and Chica was ready to fight, a small Chihuahua ready to take out a dog four times her size, the boys were thrilled and Mom was impressed, and best of all, Chica found a home.

We had Cat adoption as well, its not one I usually do on the weekends and it was kinda nice, this kitten went to a man and his family that work in the salvage business, and the fathers other job is a yoga instructor, he’s very knowledgeable about yoga and excited about it, he’s working toward saving enough to open a yoga studio in the area.

sincerely
Joyce Moore
Friends of Barc Volunteer

Wallisville/Pasadena Petsmart 4.29.07 & 4.30.07

We had a good weekend at the 2 PetSmart stores I worked. Though Saturday was a slow traffic day, we still managed 2 good adoptions. Thanks to Kathy and Tracy for coming with foster "Sally" and helping out all day! Hopefully Sally will have better luck next weekend!
The first adoption was to Candy and her grandmother. She was looking for another dog to go with the cocker she has at home, and chose "Maurice". I didn't know his name til I got back to BARC and Barb told me I did a good thing! I was more excited about my second adoption!
I had been packing the 2 remaining dogs in the crates for the trip back to BARC, and cleaning the adoption room, when I get a phone call asking if we had dogs for adoption. Felicia said she would be right over, so naturally, I wait! She and her 3 daughters got there very quickly and looked in the crates and immediately wanted to see Midge! They took her for a walk around the store, then came back to look at the chihuahua mix I also had. As soon as I pulled her out, they said no thanks, they wanted Midge! The girls were very nice and gentle with her and will be coming back for visits! Midge had visited all our PetSmart stores, so it was nice to know she will be sleeping in someone's bed from now on!
Today at the Pasadena store, my only adoption was the brown and white lab mix. Tarrah and her husband will be planning to have a child in a year or so after she finishes her degree, so they wanted to have a dog used to the home first. This was another good match! I also possibly recruited a new volunteer for that store, unless Linda hires her as an employee first!
All in all, a very good weekend for 3 good dogs! Hope to see all of you this Saturday, May 5th, at the 1 year birthday celebration of the monthly Meet & Greet in the Heights!

Mike

Friends of Barc Volunteer