Rescue without Borders ... part 3

Do you remember Shep ? He was part of the first vehicle full of good dogs that East Coast German Shepherd Rescue brought up from Georgia. They all stopped to rest and regroup in New England with volunteers.

Shep was part of the first group of four dogs that have made the second leg of the trip to Nova Scotia ... and is the only one of the three that hasn't been adopted yet.

You can see he's having a good time while he's waiting. Shep has been discovering the newfound delights that Nova Scotia has to offer .. including our early snow: )))

Yesterday, the last three of the original seven dogs that made the first trip up from Georgia arrived in Nova Scotia.

Monica, the woman with the van, brought them to the mall parking lot in Truro where she met with Leah and Paula from ECGSR.

The two boys you see together were picked in Mississippi, where they had been picked up and were being kept at a police holding facility. Monica picked them up on her travels down south, saving two more lives.

The older fellow is Benson, and he was one of the three that Leah had arranged to be pulled out of Cobb county animal control. Leah describes him as a "sweet older guy"

It takes a lot of dedicated volunteer energy and love to take on a project like this. Love is not all they need, and if you want to assist in any meaningful way with the next trip that is being organized as we speak, contact Leah at leah@nsgsrescue.com

The other day, a friend of mine was asking why this was being done, when we have so many homeless dogs right here in Nova Scotia. Unfortunately, a lot of the great things that are done by rescues here in this province never come into the public eye.

Very few folks outside of the rescue community are aware of the lifesaving work being done by Ador-A-Bull Rescue, saving lives from a sure death sentence in the land of BSL. Nor do most know how many times rescues in the Maritimes have pulled out all the stops for their adoptables by sending them where the adopters are.

And of course there is that whole other end of the stick that I go on and on about like a stuck record .... any publicity for the animals helps all the animals. The person who notices the story about the good dogs from Georgia on one of their friend's facebook site, might not adopt one of the Georgia dogs. But upon occasion, it opens their eyes ( and their minds ) to the possibility of adopting A dog. ( or a cat/rabbit/gerbil/iguana/etc )

What time is it? Its always time to remember that we can't cherry pick which lives count. Its just frosting on the cake that the work being done with Rescue without Borders is doing more than opening a new door for the Georgia dogs ... its opening a few eyes right here.