The Problem with Treating a Dog Like a Pet – Kim Brophey
There are many differences in dog breeders, owners, trainers, rescues……. what we all ‘should’ have in common (which we do not) is respect for the animals we represent.
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16 pieces of writingThe Shops at TSK
We have been hard at work over the past year building an online shopping ‘mall’ to help support the growing need for funding for Stafford rescue. Sadly we are now helping families re-home their pets mainly due to lack of support from their breeders. Some breeders are also selling puppies to anyone with the cash
Continue readingNo good deed goes unpunished
I volunteer my free time to help Staffords. I do this freely and of my own will. I spend hours each day on some sort of project related to Staffords. I am either promoting The Stafford Knot, helping raise money for the parent club, assisting with rescue, running online auctions where I give away my
Continue readingWho would ever know?
In the days prior to Facebook we had Bullbreeds Online. Before that Yahoo groups. Prior to that there was Compuserve chat rooms. Even before that, before the internet, people actually called on the telephone to speak to one another. The phones usually were attached to walls or at least a base unit was. Those who
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Open your laptop just about any morning to FB and you will see all varieties of nutjobs typing away on just about any topic. I try to avoid nutjobs but seeing as I am involved in purebred dogs and rescue its nearly impossible to avoid completely. The latest craziness was on FB concerning those who
Continue readingWhen rescue cant fix it
There is no shame to ask for help when it is truly needed. I have known several breeders who have allowed their hobby to grow out of control. I don’t know if you would call this a hoarding situation, or if somehow keeping ‘just that one or two’ from each litter began to take over
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