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Benny the Boston Plays Soccer

I got this from Kris and Ana, who adopted Benny, our splash Boston. Obviously, Benny, Kris and Ana hit the power SOCCER ball.

Click here to see Benny's video:
http://www.youtube.com/tofer3

-- Joy Riley

PetCentric Boston

Guess what breed is featured on the email campaign for Purina's PetCentric Community?

Happy Easter f rom the Jansky Zoo

Love from Easter Doggies Monty, Maggie, Macie and Lucky

Stamps to the Rescue

With these 10 stamp designs, the U.S. Postal Service hopes to raise awareness of the need to adopt shelter pets.

Photographer Sally Anderson-Bruce found these beautiful, adopted pets in her hometown of New Milford, Connecticut. Each of these animals was given a good home thanks to animal rescue shelters and the families who adopted them.

One of the featured pups is a Boston Terrier.

You can also pre-order them online on April 30 at Stamps to the Rescue.

-- Contributed by Lisa Vaughan

Half Time at the Dog Show

-- Discovered by Roxanne Creen

Is This Dog Good With Kids?

Is This Dog Good With Kids?
I get asked this question alot. Here is your answer:

Very few dogs dislike kids. What dogs dislike is being sat on, hit, poked, carried around like a stuffed toy, having their ears and tails pulled, or being otherwise abused. Would you like these things? Probably not. Be aware: Abuse is still abuse, whether the perpetrator means it that way or not. A puppy who is tossed into the air and injured has been abused, whether the tosser is an adult or an unsupervised two year-old. So rather than ask a rescuer, "Is this dog good with kids?", ask yourself the following:

- Have I taught my child that animals are sentient beings with feelings?

- Have I taught my child to treat animals with respect?

- Is my child old enough to understand that he is capable of hurting an animal? And that an animal who is being hurt is not at fault for defending itself?

- Have I arranged to give my pet a safe place in our home where my child may not approach him?

- Is my child old enough to recognize a pet as a responsibility, not a toy?

- Am I committed to constantly supervising all interaction between my very young child and our pet?

If you answered "Yes" to every question, you're ready to introduce a pet to your family. If the answer to even one question is "No", you need to consider waiting until your child is a more appropriate age.

-- Contributed by Carolyn McCarthy, courtesy of Help Save One

Trudy and the Scary Easter Bunny

Contributed by Debbie Philpott

An Easter Message from the Boston Bunny

Contributed by Shela Walton

Beware of Identity Theft This Easter

Happy Easter!

From Northeast Boston Terrier Rescue

From Northeast Boston Terrier Rescue

From Northeast Boston Terrier Rescue

From Northeast Boston Terrier Rescue

From Northeast Boston Terrier Rescue

From Northeast Boston Terrier Rescue

From Northeast Boston Terrier Rescue

From Northeast Boston Terrier Rescue

From Northeast Boston Terrier Rescue

From Northeast Boston Terrier Rescue

From Northeast Boston Terrier Rescue

From Northeast Boston Terrier Rescue

From Northeast Boston Terrier Rescue

From Northeast Boston Terrier Rescue

From Northeast Boston Terrier Rescue

From Northeast Boston Terrier Rescue

-- Contributed by Roxann Creen

Special Needs K9 Organization in the Press

Mike and Stacey Pravec, who are the heads of Special Needs K9,Org, were recently featured in The Leader Newspaper. The Pravecs, who are also NEBTR members, having been instrumental in the placement and care of Mr. Blue, a Boston Terrier, have founded Special Needs K9 to help with the medical bills for medically challenged pups, works on finding foster and permanent homes for them, and coordinates rescues.

You can read the complete article here.

From that initial dog, the organization grew. “Mr. Blue is the reason this all started,” Mike said.Special Needs K9 began when Stacey started volunteering at the Teterboro shelter. “It was the day before Thanksgiving and I said I had a lot of thanks to give in my life,” said Stacey, who has suspended her interior designing business to focus on Special Needs K9, Inc. “I have a love for animals, so I thought, ‘What can I do to give my thanks back?’ It’s not about me; it’s about giving. So, I went down to the shelter.”

Shortly afterward, Stacey began volunteering and Mike followed suit. At first, Mike said he was hesitant, because he knew he would become emotionally attached to these dogs in need. “When I started volunteering, I saw what these animals had to endure and go through and they don’t have a home,” said the retired police officer from Paramus. “What I was afraid of happening has turned into the best thing in my life. … It started as something on the side, but very quickly, within weeks, it spiraled to something full-time, full-blown, full-steam ahead.”

To help in their small way, the Pravecs are asking for help. “We need some people who are willing to open their homes to these animals, even if temporarily just to foster, not even adopt,” Mike said.

Stacey added that all the funds raised by Special Needs K9, Inc., which is an accredited 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization, have gone to the dogs. All over-head has been taken care of by the Pravecs. And although they have three special-needs dogs themselves, no funds are used on Stacey and Mike’s pets.

Their own dogs have similar stories to the animals they are trying to place in homes.

Tater Tot is a Boston terrier who was rescued after eight years of never visiting a veterinarian. Ruben is a shar pei who has had eye surgery, blood clots, stones, allergies and mange. Lily is a pit bull who has had mange, a urinary tract infection and hip problems.

NEBTR thanks Mike and Stacey for all their tireless work on behalf of these pups.

A Cat and Her Friend

A lady in Harrisburg PA has a cat who has a special friend that visits every morning. She finally took pics.

From Northeast Boston Terrier Rescue

From Northeast Boston Terrier Rescue

From Northeast Boston Terrier Rescue

From Northeast Boston Terrier Rescue

From Northeast Boston Terrier Rescue

-- Contributed by Anthony Ferrarese

Bostons and Bagels at Kamp Kanine Photos

From Bostons and Bagels at Kamp Kanine

Carolyn McCarthy, owner of Kamp Kanine in Little Falls, New Jersey, and NEBTR foster mom, recently held a get together called "Bostons and Bagels" at the Kamp.  Present were a number of NEBTR families and their Bostons.  Check out all the fun photos of the event in our picture album!

You Know You've Been Doing Rescue Too Long When...

You know you've been doing rescue too long when. . .


1. You have a mental list of people you'd like to spay or neuter.

2. You stopped at a house with a "Free Puppies" sign in the yard to
have an Educational "Chat," and your kids had to post your bail.

3. Running out of paper towels is a household crisis.

4. You not only know all the characteristics of a good "stool," you
discuss them at dinner.

5. Your checks have messages on them like "Subtract Two Testicles For
Every Four Feet."

6. You have a bumper sticker that reads "My Boston Terrier Is
Smarter Than Your Graduate Student."


7. You secretly wonder about such things as ‘how animals can manage
without wiping.’

8. You pray they will someday manufacture Teflon furniture.

9. You have phone calls forwarded to PetSmart.

10. You absentmindedly pat people on the head or scratch them behind their ears.

11. Given the choice of having your teeth cleaned or their teeth
cleaned, they get their teeth cleaned.

12. You not only allow pets on the couch, guests have to sit on the
floor because the dog has "territorial issues."

13. Your spouse missed the final game of the World Series because the
cat wanted to watch his favorite video, "Birds of North America."

14. Anytime the animal appears lethargic, you go on-line and
investigate vet med websites, pose questions to your address book and
on e-lists, and by the time you digest all the information and field
the correspondence, the animal has torn out the window screens,
masticated a couch cushion and left something disgusting in your
favorite pair of shoes.

15. Your chatroom handle is "Queen of Spayeds."

16. You and your vet are on a first name basis and he genuflects when
you enter the waiting room. His daughter at Harvard refers to you as
"Auntie."

17. You needed a prescription to recover from "Old Yeller."

18. You've forwarded more warnings about the dangers of chocolate,
onions and mistletoe than the National Center for Disease Control has
issued about anthrax and smallpox.

19. You wear white year 'round, not because you are flaunting a
fashion law or belong to a religious sect but because you have a
Dalmatian, Great Pyrenees, Samoyed or white Persian at home.

20. The world would never guess from your "dog or kittyspeak" posts to
e-lists that in reality you are chairman of the IBM corporation.

21. By the time you investigate different flea control products, their
advantages and potential risks, natural versus chemical methods, and
study the life cycle of the flea, any fleas have died of old age.

22. You tell your children to "heel!" in a grocery store.

23. For relaxation, you went mall hopping with your girlfriends. Your
eyes glazed over when you saw a sign in front of a pet shop, "20% Off
All Puppies & Kittens," and you slapped three security guards before
they got you safely contained in the manager's office.

24. People are still talking about your spay-neuter holiday greeting
from last year, "Deck the Halls with Balls of Collies."

--Contributed by Debra Brigham

Be Careful When Around Sand with Your Bostie

My wife took our Bostie and Lilly to the beach on Saturday.  Bostie ate "some" sand as my wife put it.  To make the long  story short, Bostie is at Oradell animal hospital receiving IV  and enemas.  She'll need surgery if they don't take.  I saw the  x-ray and her intestines are packed with sand from her stomach all the way to her colon.  She was not even able to walk. I'm writing this to let you guys know that if your Bostie just like ours likes to eat dirt or sand, this can be a life threatening  situation and never mind the couple of thousand dollars.

Mike P.

Cute Dog Photos

-- Contributed by Evelyn Dudziec

Hurt Dog Shows up at Emergency Room

FARMINGTON, N.M. (AP) - The patient was only slightly injured when he limped into a hospital in the northwest New Mexico city of Farmington.

The only problem was, he was a dog.

When the automatic doors at San Juan Regional Medical Center's emergency room slid open Saturday night, the pooch walked in, blood on his nose and paw, and a puncture hole in one leg.

Animal control officer Robin Loev (LOHV) responded to a call from the hospital and suspects the puncture wound was from the bite of another dog.

Loev says the German shepherd mix appeared to be intelligent and calm - and knew enough to go to the right place.

The animal was taken to the Farmington Animal Shelter and claimed by its owner.

Update on Belle

Belle after 5 weeks

Belle and her brother Duke

It has been about five weeks since I drove to Pennsylvania to pickup our abandoned little old lady, Belle. I thought I would give you and update. Poor Belle had a few problems in the early days. She was very thin, her bones stuck out, her coat was so thin as to be non existent in places. She settled in and kept to herself at first, accepting my dogs but not interacting much. I fed her the food that came with her until I transitioned her over to what I feed my gang. There was Science Diet canned food to be mixed with her kibble so I opened a can of a chicken flavored one. Shortly after that Belle broke out in a nasty rash, mostly on her hind end and back. I treated with Benedryl and anti itch spray and cream. Did not change much. I discovered the problem was an allergy to chicken when the can was finished and we switched to a beef one. Rash went away. She is now on the lamb and rice that my gang eats, with a spoonful of pumpkin and a fish oil capsule. After reading about it here, I have also added Aloe Vera juice to all the dogs' food. Belle went to the vet this week as the titer showed she needed a distemper vaccination. She now weighs 14.8 lbs! (was 12.5 at first vet visit). Her coat is coming in nice and thick with only a few bald places left. No more bones sticking out. She is obviously feeling better and more at home. She now greets me at the door when I come home and seeks me and/or my husband out for some scratches and belly rubs or cuddling. She is wagging her little stub of a tail when we pet her and she comes running and begs like everyone else when it is treat time. Biggest surprise came this week when she actually started playing with Duke the youngest of our dogs. She was doing the "you chase me, I'll chase you" game and has initiated this a couple of times since. She also does this little happy dance when I bring the leash out. She knows we are going to playgroup! She has just blossomed in the last week or so and I am so happy for her. Everyone who sees her falls in love with her and she is an entirely different little dog from the scared, skinny little old lady I picked up in Pennsylvania.

Belle 5 weeks ago

Joan Starkey, Ontario NY