Wednesday, August 12, 2009

Misha's Beginning

The rescue group that saved Misha has been in existence since 1982. It had begun when 2 friends talked over coffee about how there were so many dogs in the town shelter and how they did not seem to get adopted readily. What if those dogs were fostered in homes? What if the fosters assessed them and did some basic training with them? Could they get these dogs out of the shleters and adopted? Thirty plus years later the group is still going strong. And they are doing more than rescuing just their town dogs. In the spring of every year a local high school group takes a trip to the southern U.S.A. There is an overpopulation of stray dogs there. Often these dogs end up in shelters where they may have only 3 days to live before being euthanized. So, the group of kids heads south in a van and picks up as many dogs as they can.

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