Extract from Paws for Thought
Nancy Seevers of North Carolina doesn’t have a shelter, but she and her co-workers take in many dogs and puppies
and foster them until they can get a ride up north. She has provided us with some of the sweetest puppies on
earth and some beautiful adults. People in her area leave dogs by the side of the road or outside the local Walmart.
Nancy scoops them up and nurses them back to health. She and her husband will drive them for miles, just to
get a ride up north.
Then they hook up with rescue hero Sandy Fisher, who lives in PA and often drives dogs
as far north as NYC - she is an amazing woman. Sandy has a conversion van outfitted with crates and spends
most of her waking hours driving dogs here and there. She does this as a labor of love!
Shirley Moore, President of Save A Dog
Paws for Thought is the quarterly newsletter of
Save A Dog (click here to see their website).
Help needed to rescue animals Evelyn Howell-Herald Staff Writer
The Rainbow Rescue Animal Rescue, a non-profit local animal rescue organization that helps stray animals,
is in need of volunteers to adopt a stray cat or dog or just baby-sit animals until someone adopts them.
Click here to read the Daily Herald article.
Were local animal rescue efforts in vain? Luci Weldon
Local animal rescuers are keeping a close eye on a case in Hertford County in which two
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) representatives are accused of dumping the bodies
of dead animals in a shopping center garbage bin.
Click here to read the Warren Record article.
Abused Dog Recovers, Alleged Owner to Appear in Court Jennifer Heaslip-Herald Staff Writer
"Sweetie" continues to recover from a wire that was twisted around her waist.
Click here to read the Daily Herald article.
Local homeless pets take to the Internet Jennifer Heaslip-Herald Staff Writer
ROANOKE RAPIDS - When Nancy Seevers first saw Ellen, a sweet young female dog, earlier this week,
she was homeless with two puppies and little hope.
Click here to read the Daily Herald article.
New Animal Rescue Group Works to Place Homeless Pets Beth Rodriguez-Herald Staff Writer
ROANOKE RAPIDS -- Lynn Roberson has a motto: Don't breed or buy while shelter pets die.
Click here to read the Daily Herald article.
Gemma (little black female mix with 3 legs) - a Success Story
NC, Roanoke Rapids: Little black female mix w/3 legs (poss. help w/trans). A while ago this title
caught my attention when it was posted on the seniordogrescue list. Although we all see literally dozens
of postings of dogs needing homes across the US and Canada every day, somehow this one jumped out at me.
It was a kind of inner knowing. There were no pictures, no description as to what kind of dog or how old -
just that she had three legs. Despite the fact that I already have a 10 year old female Boykin Spaniel
(rescued) and 1 female adult cat plus 2 kittens (also all rescued) and I foster animals on an ongoing
basis and I live in a fairly small apartment.
I still contacted the person who posted the request stating that if they couldn't find anyone to adopt
this little dog, I would take her. I never imagined that they would send her all the way from
North Carolina to Toronto to find her forever home with us.
The two women who rescued this
little dog from a kill shelter and fostered her for several months are miracle workers.
They live in the Blue Ridge Mountain area of NC and travel daily to nearby kill shelters,
landfill dumps and highways where dogs are literally dropped off to die. They rescue as many
as they can at a time and then try to immediately find them homes. They took in little
"three-legged Gin Gin" (aka Gemma) after seeing her at a kill shelter and tried unsuccessfully
for several months to find her a home in the tri-state area. As well as the "disadvantage" of
only having 3 legs, she was also a puppy mill mama, unspayed and not housebroken at the age
of 6 or 7. They finally posted her plea on this e-group appealing to anyone no matter how
far away.
When I offered to adopt Gemma, I had no idea that so many caring people would
come forward to assist her transport from Roanoke Rapids NC all the way to Toronto,
Canada, but they did. I want to thank Rebecca Wall (Gemma's Foster Mom) from
Roanoke Rapids NC for caring for Gemma while she waited for a forever mom;
Nancy Seevers (also Roanoke Rapids NC) for driving Gemma to Charlottesville VA
where she left her in the capable hands of;
Ursula overnight until; Sandy Fisher drove down from Harrisburg PA to take Gemma to her home
for a week while she waited to connect to; Carol Robinson of Arkport, NY who drove to PA
and picked up Gemma and drove her to her home for 2 nights waiting for me to drive from
Toronto and meet her in Batavia, NY to collect Gemma.
Gemma is a little black Beagle mix
about 15" high and 15 lbs heavy with huge brown soulful eyes, constant wagging tail and
very loving nature. She has no "disability" I can see - she can run faster than my
4 legged Spaniel (and faster than me too). She learned to be housebroken and how to
adapt to indoor living in only 3 days (!) after probably living in a cage her whole
life and she has captured my heart and the hearts of all my animals - yes the cats too!!
So, my inner knowing somehow knew that Gemma would enrich our lives probably even
more than we could ever enrich hers. Her gifts to us are priceless and continue to
give. Thank you Gemma. You are finally home.
From the now deleted Animal Spirit website, Angus, Ontario, Canada.
info2@rainbowrescue.org
Page updated: May 15th 2009
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