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Marty the clean Boston

Ok, the funniest thing happened tonight with Marty. My son Jonathan had just finished taking a bath and was training the tub when Marty came in the bathroom and proceeded to investigate the water in the tub. Then he JUMPED IN!!! I was laughing so hard i had tears coming down. So i ran some more water and gave him a unscheduled bath. he stayed in the whole time,  Has anyone else's Boston ever done this???? Now i have a nice clean Boston!!

Gunner sunning himself

Here's the handsome man catching some rays!
I was trying to get his brindle markings - can you see them?

Sarah Perrone-Scheffler

Thanks to Nature's Variety

NEBTR would like to give a very special thank you to Nature's Variety - a small, independent pet food company in the midwest. Nature's Variety is dedicated to proper, holistic nutrition for pets and they just gave a very generous donation of their dog food to NEBTR for our foster dogs!

Our rescues need a healthy diet just as much as they need love and shelter.

Thanks Nature's Variety! Our partner in rescue!

I’ll Be Watching You

Update on Bizzy

 

Adam Lichtman:

Thank God for my dog. As insane and odd as she may be, somehow she manages to keep me sane.....well, as close to it as possible.

Happie and Zelda Together

Happie and Zelda looking like they're behaving

 

What a wonderful happily ever after for these two! They met in foster care with Cynthia and Craig Musselman, became bonded, and were adopted by Diane Kratz as a pair. A wonderful success story! And look how happy they are!

Dooley Settles In

 

Someone is very comfy!

 

 

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Brady and Rudy are Here!

Brady and Rudy are very exciting. They are both very affectionate and like to jump.

They are alot of fun to play with in the yard and they like to fetch balls and like most Boston's, do not like to give them back ! But they sure can fetch.

Both will be settling in with their foster family and soon to the vet to get neutered. As they get settled, we will bring you more information on this pair of lively boys. We posted a video on the page with Rudy on his Bark Pets! He love to be petted.

Thanks to Christine Manzella for opening her heart and home to them.

She writes, "one really cute thing that Rudy does which i think is so cute is when my daughter pets him and then stops, he lets out a small bark EVERYT IME she stops petting him, it was so cute i took a video. I hope you got to see it and enjoyed it."

Please welcome Vic and Bruno to NEBTR

Bruno is the larger of the two at 30 pounds, he has more gray, yet he is the younger of the two at 7 1/2 years old. He is very sweet.

Vic is small, only 20 pounds according to the surrender sheet, and he looks to be the brains of the operation. He's 9 years old, but looks nowhere close to it. He too seems to be a sweet little guy as well!

We will have more coming on this pair of sweet boys as they get settled in.

Chris & Vic & Bruno

Louey Gets Adopted!

Foster Mom Conni Varano was new to our group she joined to help me when I am in over load. Louey was her first official foster with NEBtR. Today she is in tears as my hubby is picking up Louey from Conni this morning and driving him to Fanwood, NJ. A repeat adopter fell in love with his big eyes and will love him for all the years to come. Happy adoption day Louey!

Bless the Budries, they have opened their heart and their home to Louey.

Joanna Budries sent an email stating Louey is doing fine. He slept through the night and they are about to go for a walk. She already hired a dog walker that will come at noon each day. She has thanked us for all we have done for Louey. I told her what we do is a period in time, she is the real hero, she will give him love forever!

Thank God for special people that want our seniors or hard to place dogs!

--Maria Pastusz

Former Foster Otis - Update

When the shelter listed Otis, they said he should not be in a house with children but 3 months into living with his forever family, we think he did amazing well. But we will let you be the judge.

Sarah
Woodbury Hts, NJ

Beanie Makes Progress

 

 

Just had to share with all of you to show that there is always hope for the dogs we take in.  To remind everyone, I pulled Beanie from the local Humane Society on Dec. 23, 2011.  They released to rescue due to his dog aggression.  (this was nerve wracking as I had five others at home at the time)  To shorten the story, due to a number of factors, the aggression being primary, it was decided to make him a forever foster since he got on well with the dogs here. 

We fell in love with him and changed his status to adopted as we felt he was family.  He still has some aggression issues outside the house - mostly due to high anxiety.  He has always been a piggy when it comes to eating and would scarf down his food and then try to eat the food of any of the other dogs who were not finished.  He wasn't aggressive about it - just would stand VERY close and give the other dog a push with his rump - we, of course, stopped this right away.  We initially fed him in another room with a gate. 

He is now able to eat in the same room as everyone else and minds well when I tell him no.  We worked with a trainer for many months and Beanie would always listen to me to sit - but I had to be right there on top of him.  We had an enormous breakthrough today.  This morning after I put the food out for everyone, I got distracted with a phone call.  When I turned around, Beanie was finished eating and he just sat down and watched the other two - all on his own!!  I was so excited and praised him to the moon and back.  He has come such a long way and I am so proud of him.  He is such a love and absolutely gorgeous. 

 

Joan Stark

 

That’s awesome, Joan.  You must be so proud!  What progress you’ve made with him!  And he is very handsome.

Former Foster Marley getting ready for Halloween

Marley in his Halloween finery...

Please welcome Pugsley

Hello everyone.  We broke Pugsley out today after two years and four months at the shelter.  He's four years old and has plenty of energy. He's just great. The shelter said he's not good with other males but we have two and he doesn't seem to care about them at all (through the gate).  Apparently he bit a child and that's why he was surrendered. But that was a long time ago and I've seen no signs of aggression towards us, but we don't have kids. He needs a bath but other than that I anticipate no problems from this guy. I'm so happy to be a part of his new beginning! Big thanks to Jackie and Jane for Shawshanking him!  More pictures to come

Henry Got Adopted

Henry found his very own forever family. The Millers and their Boxer girl brought home Henry. As you can see they look very happy. Dakota loves having a Henry as a brother and playmate. Congratulation to Henry and the Millers!

Muno Update from the Marshall Islands

From Muno's Family;

Muno (our one eyed adopted NEBTR baby) and Walter have arrived in Kwajalein Atoll in the Marshall islands.  They spent the summer in NJ with my family (we got here in early August) until the weather was cool enough to fly them here.  They are settling right into island life.  Walks in the early morning and late evening to keep them out of the sun.  I think they had a little bit of jet lag the first night as they came cruising into our room at 4 am wanting to play with their toys (we are 16 hours ahead of the east coast)!  Our sons brought home a whole caravan of kids to meet them and they are adoring the attention!  We are so happy to have them here!  Our family is complete and they are now island dogs!

Pam Hess
US Army Kwajalein Atoll (formerly Berlin, NJ)  

Stolling With Lisa Vaughan

Patsy says - Thank you NEBTR for all presents!

Hi Everyone!!

Patsy got all the treats that she wished for from her Amazon wishlist!!  She was so happy today when her foster mom opened the mail and gave her one of the treats.....Thank you NEBTR's secret admirer.   

In the attached picture, Patsy wants to know, "Are all these for me?!!!!  Do I have to share?!!"

Wow Patsy - you sure are loved.

Harley and Dad love to nap together

My husband is so popular!  :)

Erin Sullivan