save friday!

this is friday, a sweet, young energetic pit bull pup, who through no fault of his own, ended up in the south los angeles animal shelter. a neighbor came to me hoping i could help him find friday a permanent home, but before i could, animal control intervened and the pup was taken to the shelter.  where he is one of dozens of pit bulls,  meaning sadly, this happy boy is likely to go unnoticed, and thus in danger of being killed.  since i met friday in person, i know he is a gentle giant, someone's former pet and basically just a big happy pup in need of love and a little training. sadly, other people visiting the shelter may see a big, 77 lb male pitbull who might have been a stray or a fighter, and never think of him for adoption.  he can be put down at anytime. i can't let that happen.

look at what a sweet boy he is:

so friday needs our help. if you know anyone who might want him, or anyone who can foster him, PLEASE put them in touch with the shelter. his ID is #A1402059, and if a qualified non-profit rescue group agrees to take him on as a foster, he also comes with about a $1000 worth of pledges (for obvious reasons, this offer is not open to individuals), so any rescue, please get in touch with me personally.

friday has his own facebook page, to make him easy to share, so please help me save this boy's life!

ps: while friday has me to help network him, so many other pets don't. next door to friday was bella (#A1398916), an owner surrendered lab/pit mix who was so desperate for attention, she literally flattened her entire body against the the bars of her cage and quivered in anticipation of being petted, and in the cat room kittens were literally trying to crawl through the wires of their cages to come out to play with me. so heartbreaking. PLEASE make adoption your first option!

bella, so sweet and so hungry for love...

look at the loving eyes on this guy

please let me out to play!

ridiculously cute- adopt today!

UPDATE: friday was rescued by the smiling dog rescue in tucson AZ, and is available for adoption! arizonans, get on this!

everybody needs some buddy, sometimes... (can you help a fella out?)

ok, we've said it before- this is NOT a pet adoption website- petfinder.com does its job far too well for us to compete, but it seems that m21's friends are just a bunch of wonderful, caring, people, so when they do good deeds like rescuing a dog from the mean streets of los angeles, it seems a small thing to make the occasional lil announcement on this (rather limited) public forum in an effort to help...

today's orphan is "buddy", a handsome and sweet 2-3 year old shepherd (?)/pit mix found in elysian park, los angeles, on january 17th- no tags, no chip and a looking a bit thin. buddy followed a facebook friend of ours and his 3 small dogs to their home, desperately looking for somewhere to belong. our friend, being a good samaritan (and father to 3 rescues already) took him in, got him to a vet where he was neutered, given shots, and a good bill of health. buddy is housetrained, so he was undoubtedly someone's pet at one time, and other then being a bit shy of people, buddy seems pretty well adjusted for somebody who was dumped in a park and left to fend for himself (just typing that breaks my heart). buddy needs some training, as you can imagine, but his foster describes him as "very sweet, quite the kisser, and not much of a barker"). because buddy's current foster's dogs are smaller and older, buddy is being kept separate, so he really needs to find a loving, forever home ASAP (though he seems to get along with the other dogs just fine, btw). buddy weighs weighs about 46 pounds and is 18 inches tall at the shoulder and 34 inches from nose to butt, so will be a great companion for someone who wants a dog as a hiking and active sport companion (that rules us out ;-).

if you live in southern california, and think you could could give buddy the love, exercise, and training he deserves, please contact me, and i'll put you in touch with his current foster; and PLEASE forward this post to anyone you think might be able to help find this handsome, sweet boy a home, as well as please post to your FB pages, blogs, twitter etc.- the more people exposed to this lover, the better the odds in our search to find him a forever home!

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