Dog Rescues in NY/NJ/CT area

[vxf111]

[QUOTE=Impractical Horsewoman;8721985]
OP–somewhat off-topic but I just clicked the link in your signature and I love, love your photography! I’ve followed your feed for quite some time–it’s one of my favorite Instagram accounts with a focus on horse shows! You have such a crisp and distinctive style!

I live in the Monmouth County, NJ area and there was a recent, well-publicized case of a dog hoarder’s home being evacuated in the Howell area. The Monmouth County SPCA is handling the case and the 276 (!) dogs that were removed are slowly becoming available.

There is more information about some of the rescued dogs on the organization’s Facebook page:

https://www.facebook.com/MonmouthCountySPCA/?fref=ts

The Howell dogs currently aren’t listed on the SPCA website, except for one or two, but here is a link to some other adoptable dogs at the shelter:

http://monmouthcountyspca.org/adoption/dogs/

It’s a beautiful, clean, well-run shelter that has a wide selection of dogs and does a great deal of good work for the community of pet owners in general. I’m not ready to get another dog yet but when I do it is the first place I will look.[/QUOTE]

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[nycequestrian]

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Thank you!

[horsenut_8700]

[QUOTE=Lady Eboshi;8723551]
Since you have worked with Big Fluffy Dog, I want to IMPLORE that group to consider being less rigid in their adoption rules. Awhile back they had a fantastic St. Bernard/Aussie mix I would have taken in a heartbeat and given the world’s GREATEST doggy life–but I didn’t “qualify” because of two of the rules; that the dog must LIVE IN THE HOUSE and no “Invisible Fence” systems allowed. I had to go out and buy an Aussie from a breeder instead. I’ve had a lifetime of ownership of St. Bernards and have an older one now. They are FAR happier outside!

For Big Fluffy Dogs, house life is not nearly as healthy as yard and farm life–which at my place includes living with other dogs in a kennel house and the use of an electric fence to keep 'em “down on the farm.” He could have run with my happy pack loose all day getting constant at-will exercise, and kenneled communally all night, rather than locked alone in someone’s empty house while they’re at work all day and having to settle for a “walk.”

Please, PLEASE “rescuers,” consider that there are MANY different management situations that can give dogs a long, happy, healthy life–there is NO one size fits all! Don’t let “perfect” be the enemy of “much better than nowhere.”

While I agree that there is no ‘one size fits all’ way of managing dogs, I think the electric fence rule is because they are primarily a Pyr rescue and they don’t tend to respect boundaries very well. My first foster destroyed a window unit air conditioner to escape the house- I came home to find him just gone! Thankfully, he had just gone two houses down the road to sit on their deck?

[Rayme]

Eleventh Hour out of NJ is a great rescue. They’re out at many of the pet stores around NJ every weekend doing adoption events. I’m biased because my dog came from there but they were really amazing to work with. http://www.ehrdogs.org/ is the website.