January 2013
Last month we heard of a dog in the Clackamas (Oregon) shelter. Our experience is that they don’t especially like to work with rescue, preferring to place dogs on their own. There are still a few like that, but fortunately more and more shelters are recognizing the benefit of purebred rescue groups. Melissa contacted them and was promised they would call her if he wasn’t adopted. It appears he is still available, so we will touch base with them once again.
We realized a few weeks ago that our NW Samoyed Rescue website had been hacked. There was malicious code on every page, and after uploading new files to the server it happened again, three more times. Hours and hours were spent on the phone with the service provider, passwords were changed, and ultimately the entire website was deleted and re-created. It’s difficult to understand who would want to do something like this to a dog rescue group. It finally appears we defeated the hacker, but it’s a good time to remind everyone that good virus software is a necessity, not a luxury.
We enjoy getting updates on the dogs we have placed over the years. We recently had a message from Holley about Mori, the first dog we ever fostered, who passed away a year ago. She told us that her vet still talks about him, and that he had a note on his chart that he could be bribed with a Kleenex. Nicky is still with them, and we received this picture of him with an antler, his favorite chew. If you would like to send pictures of your adopted dogs we would love to see them.
At the end of 2012 we received a number of donations, which we deeply appreciate. Please remember that all donations to Northwest Samoyed Rescue are tax deductible because we are a 501c3 charitable corporation.