A Message from Rose...

Dear Friends,

First and foremost, thank you.  We have been blessed with the generosity of so many supporters - individuals, families, and benefactors from the local business community. Of course, we could not manage to do what we do without such needed funds and are extremely grateful for those who continue to remember us and our cause when sharing their abundance.  

But along with money, there is another important resource that we never seem to have enough of - foster homes for our rescues to go to.  Without more foster parents, we can't take in more pets and thus are somewhat limited to the help we can extend to those homeless pets in need, even if we have the funds to do so.  

If any of you have ever considered fostering (or know of someone who has), we would love to have you on board, or at least speak with you more about it to answer any questions you might have.  For more information, please call and leave a voicemail message at 330-850-7042 or check out the "Foster for Us" page from the menu to the left.

Please keep in mind that the rescue pays for everything - food, supplies, even vet care!  All you need to do is open your heart and home to a pet without a place to go. 

Feel free to to share this message. You never know who it might reach!

Again, thank you one and all for all the support you have given over the years.  And the very best to you and yours (both two-legged and four) in 2012!

Rose and the Rose's Rescue family

Rose's Rescue is pleased and proud to work in such close association with the Portage County Dog Warden's office.  We sponsor dogs there that we don't have room to bring out, work along side their volunteers at events (many of whom are RR volunteers as well), help with vet care, and provide whatever support we can so that they might in turn provide the best care that they can for the dogs that are there.  The majority of the dogs at Rose's Rescue come from this pound, but we simply don't have enough foster homes to bring out as many as we'd like.  We want our own supporters to know that if they don't find a dog that piques their interest among our own RR dogs to not hesitate to check the Portage County Dog Warden for a potential new best friend.  The staff and recently-formed group of volunteers have been working very hard over the last couple of years to make the pound a better place, and it is working.  The following is a note posted on the volunteers' social media site by someone who drove all the way from New York to adopt a senior boxer from this facility.  I am reposting it here with her permission:

Observations from an outsider:  I've been to the Portage pound twice in my life. The first time was 4 years ago;  the second time was Saturday.  I adopted dogs both times.

Mind you, the first time I went there, I had a perfectly good experience.  The staff was very pleasant, and I ended up with a wonderful dog.

Four years later, I probably wouldn't have recognized the place.  The pound seemed brighter, happier, full of energy, enthusiasm & optimism. It was full of volunteers.  And even on a cruddy, grey, snowy morning, it was lively with potential adopters.  Wow.  Every person in the place, whether employed, volunteering, or looking for a new dog, seemed friendly and upbeat.  I met a couple outside that volunteers for some group that donates dog food to low income families who need it; I'd love to know more about that (great, great, great project).  The dogs I saw seemed well socialized and happy.  Even when I peeked back at the kennels, the inmates didn't look like they were on the verge of spontaneous self-combustion from stress.  The kennels were clean; the empty ones were marinading in disinfectant.

I'm not typically like this, but I was on the phone with friends on the way home, just swooning about how terrific things looked and about the great job Portage is doing.  It can feel sometimes like a thankless, never-ending, uphill battle, but no one there should ever doubt that your efforts go unnoticed or unappreciated by the dogs or people who pass through.

~ Kate C.

For more information on the Portage County Dog Warden, go to http://www.petfinder.com/shelters/OH184.html

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