September 2015
Northwest Samoyed Rescue is looking for someone with experience listing items on eBay. If you know how to list things and can help us, please let us know. Rescue has a stack of donated items and none of us has time to spend on eBay sales. If you can help we will be very glad to hear from you.
Every so often a placement doesn’t work and it’s nobody’s fault. Holly is the young dog we placed in a wonderful home a month ago. Her name was Bebe and she came from north Seattle. She moved in with two other Sammies, and for a while everything went perfectly. Then Holly (her new name) and another dog decided they didn’t like each other. In our experience, once that happens there is no chance they will get along well again. With great reluctance they decided Holly should have another home, and she moved back in with us.
We had applicants in the Portland area with experience with Samoyeds and they have been waiting a long time. They came to visit Holly and it was a good match so she went home with them. They are committed to making it work and they understand she needs training (within a day they had scheduled it). The only problem is their cat; we thought Holly would be fine based on her experience with chickens but she chased the cat on sight. The people are still working on that and we have our fingers crossed.
We had a request from the Make-A-Wish Foundation to help a boy who just had a bone marrow transplant. He loves Samoyeds and they asked if we could help arrange a meeting with a bunch of Sams. By the time you read this the meeting will have taken place, and right now it looks like a large group will have taken part. The organizer keeps saying how impressed she is a the number of people willing to help, and we keep thinking what a great bunch of friends we have. After the gathering we’ll put a link on our website to the pictures.