All I need to know I learned from the Easter Bunny!

All I need to know I learned from the Easter Bunny!


Don’t put all your eggs in one basket.

Everyone needs a friend who is all ears.

There’s no such thing as too much candy.

All work and no play can make you a basket case.

A cute tail attracts a lot of attention.

Everyone is entitled to a bad hare day.

Let happy thoughts multiply like rabbits.

Some body parts should be floppy.

Keep your paws off other people's jelly beans.

Good things come in small, sugar coated packages.

The grass is always greener in someone else's basket.

To show your true colors, you have to come out of
the shell.

The best things in life are still sweet and gooey.

May the joy of the Easter season fill your heart.

AND MAY GOD BLESS YOU!


Happy Easter!



Shela, Toby, Tyler, and Trooper

Happy Easter

-- Contributed by Shela Walton

Pabby's Pet Pantry NEBTR Event

Hi All,
We had a great turnout and even better time Sunday at Pabby's Pantry! We 'sold' $75 worth of Boston Kisses. While all contributed, a special thanks go to Astro Wilson and Cal Riley for their tireless efforts of kissing everybody that came within leash-reach .
It was so great to meet Ellen Thelin (our webmistress extraordinaire) and her incredibly fun and talented daughters, Alyson and Alex. Of course, Charles and Rory kept us all entertained. Charlie is one of those pups that makes you laugh just by looking at him--he's always up to something!! Lisa Vaughn and Louis came along with Penny, Cleveland and Lucy the baby (who went from one lap to the other to sleep :-). Hunter and Astro Wilson were an immense help in setting up and taking down. And, of course, a special thank you to Barb Carnahan who made all the arrangements and has made one of the coolest 3 panel displays of our dogs' and their stories. It is truly a professional job!! And Carol Becker was there with her wacky puggle! We even had a special visit by Rufus, who we adopted out last year. There were also several people from the Boston Meet Up group that dropped in.
Pabby's is such a nice store and Sue and her staff are incredible. I think we all contributed to their bottom line today as a number of our Bostons now have cool new harnesses, tags, toys, cookies, etc.
Boomer and Cal are absolutely exhausted. I was really proud of Boomer in his first "public" outing. He was a little overwhelmed, but settled down nicely.
Ellen's daughter Alyson took a ton of great pictures. We'll get them posted.
Thank you SO much to everybody! We really must do this more often!!!!
Joy
Cal and Boomer

Some Photos from Pabby's Event

Rory

Lucy

Astro

Boomer

Cleveland

Cal

Penny

Charles

Rufus

NEBTR at Pabby's - Photo Gallery

Pabby's Pet Pantry April 2009

Rocky: Brain Damaged Foster

Rocky was rescued from a shelter by NEBRT. They were a caring shelter, and they adored him. He stayed in the office with them, and they all hugged and kissed him when he left, followed me out to the car, insisted on photos and updates. They were a very caring group.

Rocky had an inflammation of the cerebellum, which caused disabilities. Rich and Marcia Goldstein offered to foster him. The Goldsteins have a foster failure named "Bug". This was a match made in heaven, because Bug also has special needs in the brain department. Both are very loveable pups too, and the Goldsteins are an amazing foster family.

Rich Goldstein writes:

"Hi to all,

Rocky is doing well and still adjusting. I spoke prematurely about Rocky's disabilities not being so visible; they really are quite visible. He walks like a drunk on gravel and on certain surfaces. We feed him on a small skid proof rug, because his rear legs begin to spread apart when he's eating and then he falls. His depth perception is really bad also, so he's having a hard time learning to go out the doggie door. And does have housebreaking issues. He growls when you pick him up; however that bad habit seems to be getting better. He might just be scared.

What's really funny when he walks beside Bug they look like two drunken sailors :) He gets along with all three dogs and the cat. However he's much younger then my guys and he wants to play. This is the only time we have fights between them. He tried playing with the cat today and "got smacked". He never barks, he loves sleeping in the bed with us (although Bug hates it) and without any other animals in the house he would be a quiet little dog. He's crate trained.

Keep you all posted on his progress.

--Rich Goldstein"

Walking the Dog

On a flight from Seattle to San Francisco, unexpectedly, the plane was diverted to Sacramento. The flight attendant explained that there would be a delay, and if the passengers wanted to get off the aircraft the plane would re-board in 50 minutes.

Everybody got off the plane except one lady who was blind, her Seeing Eye dog lay quietly underneath the seats in front of her throughout the entire flight.

She must have flown this trip before, because the pilot called her by name, said,
"Kathy, we are in Sacramento for almost an hour. Would you like to get off
and stretch your legs?" The blind lady replied, "No thanks, but maybe Buddy would like to stretch his legs.'"

All the people in the gate area came to a complete standstill when they looked up and saw the pilot walk off the plane with a Seeing Eye dog! The pilot was even wearing sunglasses. People scattered. They not only tried to change planes, but they were trying to change airlines!

...Things aren't always as they appear!

Ambrosia is Wonderful!

Here is a note from Ambrosia's (f.k.a. Amber) new Mommy. Ambrosia was a puppymill momma adopted from us in February. I am so happy she continues to make progress with her new owner (she was set back a bit going from foster to her forever home).

Emily

"Ambrosia is Wonderful!"

Emily & Jeff,
I haven't written in a while and wanted to give you an update. Ambrosia is doing great! My hands have healed and she has bonded with me a lot more. Her little accidents in the house have greatly reduced. If she does have an accident now she will go into the kitchen to have them, which I would rather her do if she must. She still makes tiny puddles now and then that are unexplained and right after I saw her go outside. I have also noticed a strange thing that could only be a coincidence, but in the middle of the night she will wake me up my shaking (her collar jingles then) and will be right next to my bed staring at me. I get up and take her outside and she goes right out to do her thing. I truly believe she is doing this because she has to go, and it has happened in this manner many times, she has still had no accidents in my room at all.

Ambrosia has also started a new little ritual in the morning. As soon as my alarm clock goes off she stretches and comes over next to my bed, and if I don't get up or stir right away she will start to bark and jump around in an exited manner. Unfortunately she doesn't understand that I like to push snooze a few times before getting up. I think all the excitement if for breakfast! I am still working on a strategy to get a few more minuets of sleep.

She has also shown signs of bonding my jumping up onto my bed while I was in it during a thunderstorm, she never gets on the bed. Today we had another thunderstorm and as soo n as I sat on the couch she jumped up into my lap! The only problem is that I instinctively went to put my arms around her and she jumped right out of my lap, but she did sit close by and let me pet her until the thunder passed.

We have been taking a lot of walks in the woods together and she is starting to get the hang up keeping up a good pace while I am walking (as long as I allow for breaks when she catches a really good wiff of something)!

Putting on harnesses and jackets is still like dressing a wild orangutan, but once everything is on she likes the warmth and doesn't shake like a leaf.

We are making great strides and it is hard to believe it has been less than two months already!

I hope everything is well with you both!

Sandy

NEBTR at Pabby's Pet Pantry

Hi All,
We had a great turnout and even better time today at Pabby's Pantry! We 'sold' $75 worth of Boston Kisses. While all contributed, a special thanks go to Astro Wilson and Cal Riley for their tireless efforts of kissing everybody that came within leash-reach .
It was so great to meet Ellen Thelin (our webmistress extraordinaire) and her incredibly fun and talented daughters, Allison and Alex. Of course, Charles and Rory kept us all entertained. Charlie is one of those pups that makes you laugh just by looking at him--he's always up to something!! Lisa Vaughn and Louis came along with Penny, Cleveland and Lucy the baby (who went from one lap to the other to sleep :-). Hunter and Astro Wilson were an immense help in setting up and taking down. And, of course, a special thank you to Barb Carnahan who made all the arrangements and has made one of the coolest 3 panel displays of our dogs' and their stories. It is truely a professional job!! We even had a special visit by Rufus, who we adopted out last year. There were also several people from the Boston Meet Up group that dropped in.
Pabby's is such a nice store and Sue and her staff are incredible. I think we all contributed to their bottom line today as a number of our Bostons now have cool new harnesses, tags, toys, cookies, etc.
Boomer and Cal are absolutely exhausted. I was really proud of Boomer in his first "public" outing. He was a little overwhelmed, but settled down nicely.
Ellen's daughter Allison took a ton of great pictures. We'll get them posted.
Thank you SO much to everybody! We really must do this more often!!!!
Joy
Cal and Boomer