Posted on 11/12/2017 10:35:47 PM PST by beaversmom
Paralyzed back legs didn't slow down Fozzie, a young dog from Nepal, as she scooted around Hank's Pet Food Market in Loveland recently, lapping up attention and love, sharing her excitement.
"When you look in her eyes you see she's full of life," said Zoe Katsulos with the Louisville-based inside/out Humanitourism Adventure.
"This girl needs a life."
That is why Kasulos and her nonprofit, with help from the owners of Hank's, brought Fozzie, who was hit by a car while living on the streets of Nepal, to Loveland, where she is currently being fostered by Kathy Brodersen.
Though she has fostered many dogs, Brodersen said she feels a special attachment to this special needs pup, who she is considering adopting.
"I think she picked her home," Brodersen said.
The nonprofit recently brought 11 special needs dogs to Northern Colorado from Nepal. The owners of Hank's, Lisa Sauer and Teresa DeGuelle, donated a large amount of the airfare needed to bring the second batch of six dogs to Colorado, including Suni and Tika, which they have adopted.
Each of the dogs has a tragic story and a need for a special home, which Katsulos hopes they will find here, in Colorado, where she believes they actually have hope for finding a permanent home.
Biju was hit by a car then thrown in a river and left to die. Someone found her and helped her heal, but in the days that she languished, her puppies died.
James had a home in Nepal, but it was not a happy one. He was tied outside by the garbage, alone. When he broke free to try to join his family, he was severely beaten and left to die.
Yet, this small dog still loves people, and though he may flinch when petted, the 2-year-old loves the attention and is free with his kisses.
Each of the dogs, most which were rescued and cared for by Snehau's Care, a rare animal rescue shelter in Nepal, has lingering issues.
Grayson, who is being fostered in Greeley, lost half of his lower jaw after he was attacked and mutilated by a larger street dog.
However, here, they have a chance at a life with a loving family — a chance they would not have in Nepal, where adoptions of even the healthiest of dogs are rare, Katsulos said.
"Nobody in Nepal would adopt a dog who's missing a jaw, missing an ear, paralyzed, missing a leg," said Katsulos. "They have zero chance unless we get them out. There, they're doomed."
Recently, Sauer took a trip to Nepal to work with animals through Katsulos' nonprofit and was moved to help by what she saw. She and her business partner decided to make a donation to help bring some of the dogs to Colorado, where homes and resources are abundant, and to each adopt a special pup.
In addition, Sauer contacted her network of dog-lovers that she has met through Hank's and through the work with animal rescue groups they do on a regular basis in Loveland, and found foster homes for each of the six dogs, the second batch that Katsulos brought to Northern Colorado recently.
Sauer said she and DeGuelle stepped in to help to raise awareness and because these special animals deserve a chance at a happy life. After all, helping animals is a big part of their lives.
Four of the six dogs they helped bring to Colorado, sniffed around Hank's Pet Food Market recently, checking out bones and toys and getting lots of love, attention and smiles.
"How can you not smile at them," said Katsulos, "When you see how happy they are, how hopeful."
Information on what dogs are available for adoption and on the efforts to rescue special needs dogs from Nepal will be available online at www.theinsideandout.com. Details on how to donate to help the animals is available online at www.hipaw.org.
I wonder if these weird international dog rescues [as if we are short of dogs to rescue here] are just “expenses” a nonprofit’s officials can deduct ... in order to get free trips to exotic places like Nepal, and people don’t notice because they are too busy going “Awwwww, puppies!”
I’m betting they are.
Its their private donation money, its not government money.
Plus they actually do save the dogs.
As long as charities and resuces are above board and not pulling shady stuff on their donors and volunteers, their goals are fine goals.
Something isn’t just right about this. There is some money somewhere through donations.
If it is non profit money it is taxpayer funded.
Things are never as simple or quite what they seem
https://joeforamerica.com/2016/03/rescues-push-foreign-disease-ridden-dogs/
Dogs are dogs no matter where they live.
I am so happy the HSI is saving them from the meat markets in South Korea and bringing them here to find homes as well.
In countries where there are no laws for humane treatment dogs suffer terribly.
It's a bald faced lie that they are brought here with diseases. In truth they are probably more healthy than many dogs already here in the US.
It’s worse than that.
Peoples’ pets are being stolen and shipped far away, as “poor strays”.
This is all a very bad thing.
I know people whose dogs died from the ‘imported’ canine influenza.
A lot of my dog friends are having vets come out and give annual vaccines to their dogs, in their cars, because the office is potentially infected with God knows what, from these imported dogs.
Much as I love all dogs, I love MY dogs more and do not want them exposed to the horrors these people are bringing here.
Wonderful story but you have to wonder how long it will take before they learn English......
Sorry, but it’s simply not true.
The animal importers are making a mint and the health of the dogs coming in is not always vetted properly.
http://tyrannyandliberty.blogspot.com/2014/08/retail-rescue-fuels-deadly-diseases.html
*Your* dog may have been famously healthy but too many others were not.
“as if we are short of dogs to rescue here”
Our shelter (I volunteered there) was seriously short of dogs to rescue 20 years ago, it’s worse now. We used to “import” dogs from other regions if we had too few (having too few adoptable dogs effects fund raising). Any puppy was instantly gone, we had a waiting list for them.
I’m for this turn of events. Rescuing dogs from Mexico and Central America has been going on for some time but with nobody being notified that the dogs weren’t sourced in the US. As long as people know where the dogs are from, I don’t see what the problem is.
On the minus side, the big question is what the adoption fee is. I know a guy who spent several hundred dollars to “rescue” a Chinese German Shepherd. My guess was that he really just paid for a Chinese puppy mill dog. Oh well, he has his “rescue” dog and gets to virtue signal.
We were pulling dogs north from California shelters (to Wa State) to the tune of 40-60/month for about 4 years and they had to be healthy, pass a vet exam, heartworm testing neg..some were euthed because of not passing the testing required.
Additionally we moved five from Wa state to Michigan a few years ago and that was expensive and rigorous as well. Including individual crate inspections at the airports, on top of veterinary certificates of health and proof of all vaccines.
So my experience doesn't match to your links.
Vaccines are the only defense against parvo. It has been here since way before anyone brought in dogs from other countries or states.
Parvo can live for a year or longer in the ground, and can only be killed by bleach. It happens to great shelters, it happens in dog parks, it happens everywhere.
Most of your second link is about parvo.
It is a common myth. What we did in those days was choose rescues and personally investigate them, then I would market the dogs who were out of time at the shelters to find them a place at a rescue.
It cost us about $150 for each small dog and several more hundred for the larger ones to get them all the necessary paperwork and on the transports.
We sent dogs to lots of nonkill shelters in Portland and Seattle, and to rescue groups from Portland to Vancouver Island.
When I had a border collie in need I had a woman I loved in central Oregon who would take them, and I could make arrangements with the transport to have them dropped off there. Jack Russells, etc. I had a serious network in place. We saved many thousands of lives.
Some of the high kill shelters in LA are horrid and dogs would get sick with kennel cough kinds of things. But since the transports only ran on certain days I had to have someone pull them for me and board them until the transport picked them up. I boarded at a vet clinic in Anaheim. They probably still remember me.
Only once did I send them a seriously sick dog, a small chi who arrived there with a dental abcsess. I knew about that...they did the surgery but he never really got better. So we did some lab work and found out he had leukemia. He never made it on a transport north and cost me $700 to pull, board, and treat, then euth.
It's very expensive. And after medical things, there are behavioral issues. Many shelter dogs in LA were highly adoptable but some were there for a good reason. I took them to a behavioralist when they were bitey and gave them 3-4 months of working with them. If they could not show improvement, I PTS.
Sure there are unethical rescues - we all knew about them and shared about them. The mainstream folk are good people however, no matter what country they are pulling them from. I looked up customs requirements and could not find any for dogs from Taiwan so it seems as if they rescue we worked with was just doing it right. Because our fosters and the one we kept were tested for every tickborne disease, heartworms, etc. before getting on the plane.
All dogs deserve a chance at a life. God Bless those people who have picked up where we left off.
Both TBDs and heartworm are curable.
Why were they rejected, anyway?
My dog forums are full of alerts to scammers.
What may have started as a noble cause has naturally attracted scumbags looking for a quick buck.
As a related aside-from, Burt Ward [Robin, the boy wonder] is universally loathed by the dog community because he started up a “rescue” which is really just dog-flipping scam.
To make it worse than that, his “adoptees” must only be fed “his” dog food brand, which is obscenely over-priced.
There are always maggots in every barrel of apples.
Our local ‘real’ shelter has not that many dogs to adopt, most of them pit mixes, because private rescues are rampant, here.
A lot of them are run by wonderful people who literally pay out of their own pockets and care only that the animals get good homes.
The rest are owned by dog flippers and crazy people.
You *rarely* find a purebred anything because the breed rescues grab them up, first.
And then they charge obscene “adoption” prices for them.
[$600 and up]
Bizarrely, that’s part of why we have so many pit-type dogs in the area.
No purebreed rescue wants them and normal people can’t afford the breed rescue prices.
Where you are is obviously a much better place than many others.
Dogs are still being euthanized...healthy and adoptable dogs. I do not give a hill of beans that they may be pitmixes. When I was a kid, tbe animal control shelters had a wide range of dog breeds. Now they are primarily pitmixes or chihuahuas courtesy of the large number of illegals who have no sense of responsibility towards their charges.
That is just nuts.
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