Chester

Chester is a PUGGLE - a PUG-BEAGLE. He is a 2 year old neutered male. He's a great guy. Sweeeeet. Not aggressive at all. Good with everyone and other animals. For adoption info go to: www.njafa.org

Success Stories: 'Magnificent 7'

Update on Magnificent Seven Adoptable Animals

All the pups from the "Magnificent Seven" have been adopted into great families!

Success Stories: Dog with Hernia

NJ Aid for Animals goes to Camden City, NJ weekly to pickup dogs and cats from owners who have no transportation or funds to get their animals altered. This little dog when we picked her up to be spayed also had a hernia. Of course, we cannot return this dog with this kind of medical problem. Each spay/neuter costs $25.00 and we also pay for the shots which totals $42.00. We also try to Frontline the animals as they usually have fleas but because our funds are limited, we provide the most basic medical needs first. This hernia cost extra because of the surgery required.

Best news is that this little dog is happy and healthy with its owner.

Adoptable Pets : Chester

This is Chester!!! (A puggles?) who was surrendered by a family in Camden City, NJ because they could not take care of him any longer!!!

He is soooooooooooo friendly and loving.

The family could not afford flea medicine for him so he has a terrible skin condition on his back where the fleas irritated his skin but he will be good as new in a short time. He is loving, non aggressive with food, other animals, people or cats. He is housebroken and can even sit!!!

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Success Stories : Snickers

UPDATE 9/24/07 -

Snickers, a Cairn Terrier, was surrendered in Camden. He was filthy dirty, full of fleas, badly matted and fearful of men. Our friends at Animal Control Dog Training socialized and trained little Snickers and now he is in his forever home with Lucinda! What a happy ending for Snick A Doo Doo.

OUR NEWEST LITTLE BOY FOR ADOPTION

Don’t let this little guy’s funny teeth scare you off!!! He is a love bug. He rolls over on his tummy and loves to be petted. “Snickers” is a Shih Tzu mix. He had to be shaved down because he was so matted and full of fleas when he was surrendered in Camden City to our President, Kathy McGuire.

Poor little Snick-a-Doo-Doo……He also had a severe ear infection and flea bites all over his skin.

Snickers hair, although matted severely, was very long and once it grows back will have long beautiful hair … he is neutered, maybe 2 yrs old, all shots and sleeps next to the foster’s bed in his little crate all night without a problem. He also follows the foster around like a little SHADOW.

Snickers gets along fine with the other dog in the house (a Finnish Spitz) and doesn’t seem to mind the cats.

Snickers will do best with someone who is home or with someone he can ”travel” with so he isn’t left alone all the time unless there is another dog for him for company.

For adoption information contact: info@njafa.org

Adoptable Pets Loveable Lola

Lola our loveable pitbull is going to be going to a wonderful individual who will be giving her PRIVATE TRAINING lessons while they foster her AND help us to find her forever home.

She is already PERFECT but will be more perfect after our friends tweak her manners a bit.

Lola can already sit, down and rolls over. Needs to work a bit on come and stay!!!! She LOVES potato chips and you can take a rawhide right out of her mouth and give her a pill with no problem. She loves to just lay on the couch and do nothing next to you.

You can still contact us if you are interested and we will put you in touch with Loveable Lola.

Thanks to EVERYONE who contributed toward her surgery. She had three badly infected teeth removed and had her patella luxation repaired. She will be limping a bit for awhile but that hasn't daunted her wonderful friendly spirit.

For information on adopting Lola or to give a donation towards helping animals, see NJAFA's internet site.

Adoptable Pets The Magnificent Seven

Fourth of July came in with a bang this year; three Siberian Husky mixed girls and four boys were born to a beautiful Siberian Husky mom. However, because mom was malnourished, young and inexperienced, she experienced complications with the births and passed away.

The owner was also inexperienced, overwhelmed and confused as to what she should do with her puppies. Luckily, she remembered a former co-worker that helps rescue animals and is a foster-mom for NJAFA. As soon as the call was made, our volunteer ran to Camden to assist with the seven puppies that had gone 24 hours without their mother.

The puppies were immediately taken to our vet to be tested for Parvo and given a thorough health examination. All seven were given the green light to go home and the puppies are being nurtured with kid gloves by our fosters.

One foster has four pups. Liberty, (“Libby”) who is the team leader and loves to eat. Once they were introduced to ‘mush’, Libby laid across the entire plate, as if to tell the others to get their own plate. There is also “Betsy”(named after Betsy Ross) who is the smallest of this group; however, size does not matter as far as Betsy is concerned. When Libby decided to cover a plate of food, Betsy was doing the same at the second plate. Both girls are very affectionate and playful. This foster also has “Benny” and “Lenny”. Both boys are very attached to their surrogate mom and are the two bigger puppies of the group. Benny has longer hair and is usually referred to as “Gentle Ben”. Lenny, on the other hand, loves to call out for his mommy to let her know he loves her! All four have their mother’s crystal blue eyes!

In the second foster home, you have “Princess”, “Prince” and “Indy” (for independence). Princess is the smallest of the three, but she is the leader of the pack! She initiates all new ventures and is very playful. Indy has a longer coat of hair like his brother Benny. Indy is very laid back and affectionate, while Prince seems to be a bit more adventurous. Both foster moms bring all seven together at least once a week, so they can remain familiar with each other and go through the important transitional and socialization stages with their siblings.

All pups are being monitored by vets and expect to be fully vetted by August 30 and will be ready for their new homes on September 2nd. We are presently accepting applications for these darlings. Once applications have been received, they will go through a thorough process and all approved applicants will have the opportunity to meet with the litter and their foster moms.

Please be advised that it is a strict policy of the Board of NJ Aid for Animals that no dog will be adopted to an individual or family without a fenced yard.

For info on adopting one of these 7 puppies, please see NJAFA's website.

Success Stories - Taz - Miracle in Camden

MIRACLE IN CAMDEN


Many times in the past as a volunteer with one of the animal humane enforcement officers in Camden, I have reached out to help local citizens who either cannot afford to take care of their animals or do not have a car with which to transport their animals for vet care. Such was the case on a hot night in late June when I received a call from a Camden animal control officer that a resident needed help transporting her dog to a vet.

Arriving in Camden, the temperature was a scorching 96 degrees. No breezes cooled the hot cement that doubled as “backyards” nor were there any grass or trees to offer respite in Camden that night. I entered the tiny house with no air conditioning late in the evening and saw a thin German Shepherd lying with its head on its master’s lap. I immediately sent my husband to the CVS to purchase a thermometer to take the dog’s temperature. While it was hovering around l03, which is a little above normal, we all decided the best place for Tazzie, the shepherd, was to come home with me so I could transport him to my vet first thing in the morning.

Once at my home, Tazzie slept in a soft bed with a gentle breeze in a backyard full of trees in a safe, quiet environment, away from the chaos and cacophony of Camden.

The next morning at 7:00 am, when I went to check on Taz, he was dead. Dead in the literal sense that he was almost not breathing, he was in shock, he had no capillary response, his eyes were fixed and dilated, he was totally limp. Taz was lying in and covered with blood and diarrhea..

Still in my nightclothes, I scooped him up and put him in the back of my SUV. Minutes away from my local vet I reached the office just as they were opening.

We carried Taz into the hospital on a stretcher. When asked “how far do you want to go to save this dog”, I didn’t hesitate. I advised my vet to “do whatever has to be done to save this dog.”

Tazzie was plunged into a bath of cool water and an iv drip was started. Taz’s temperature was a staggering ONE HUNDRED AND EIGHT DEGREES!!! Taz should have been and by all rights was dead.

Urgently, the doctor and the vet tech pumped Taz with antibiotics and fluids. Ice packs were placed around his body while I used a hose to keep cool water flowing on him and rinse away the blood and feces covering his limp body. I was told Taz would probably not make it and to be prepared to make the decision to put him down.

Miraculously, Taz survived that day and into the night. The next day Tazzie was trying to hold up his head. Each day that went by, his will to survive was stronger and stronger. He spent four days in intensive care and was released to me because it was a holiday weekend and I lived very close to the vet in case Taz would go back into a coma again.

Tazzie had survived the mean streets of Camden, a temperature of l08 degrees and four days in intensive care. Almost two weeks after Tazzie’s near death experience, he was surrendered to me so that I could provide him with a safe environment and a loving family.

As summer continued her sojourn and Taz regained his strength, he started to gain weight and began to play and discover his new surroundings. One day Taz decided to venture a paw, with trepidation, into our pool. One paw, two paws and off Tazzie went the rest of the summer swimming in our pool, with or without us, it didn’t matter. We had to buy him a life vest so that he would be safe while he swam all the time.

We knew the family Taz would be adopted to had to love the water and that is the family we found. Although I received literally dozens of requests to adopt Taz, only one stood out among them all. One family I knew almost immediately would be the family I would select to provide the love and a second chance at a happy life for Taz. The fact that they had emailed or called me every day for two weeks to see if they had been selected certainly made me feel that I had made the right decision.

Almost two months to the day on Labor Day weekend, I delivered Tazzie to his new home. He could not be more loved, adored or spoiled. Taz swims with his new brother and sister, Nicky and Samantha and they even brush their teeth together!!!

Taz’s story is a miracle and demonstrates what all of us can do when we are willing to go the “extra mile”, put ourselves out for an animal and never give up even in the most extraordinary circumstances. Tazzie, didn’t.

Success Stories - CHi

CHI
Many times in Camden, a resident will approach me to ask for help with their animal. The family at this house told me about their little Chihuahua that had a hernia and it was very very large. Of course, NJAFA took this poor little baby to the hospital immediately.

She had two inguinal hernias and an umbilical hernia. All three were the size of an orange hanging off her little body. The horn of her uterus and part of her intestine was in one of the hernias.

This little girl is thriving now and the family is now happy. NJAFA was there for another little animal in Camden that probably would not have survived had it not had surgery.

Success Stories - Precious

UPDATED 8/2007 - Adopted

Precious – Adorable Black Chow

What can we say about this little girl? Her owner was selling puppies on the streets of Camden and she was the only one left, so we told the owner we would take the puppy but we would PAY FOR the mother to be spayed and get all her shots.

Precious’ mother was spayed last Thursday courtesy of NJAFA after having had four litters of puppies. She is an adorable little dog and the father is a full bred black chow whom we have not been able to locate. We were able to find the owner of Precious’ sibling and we will be having that puppy altered as well.

Precious is currently living with a foster who has small children, a baby, a large German Shepherd and two other small dogs. She is paper trained, crate trained and friendly with cats….she doesn’t mouth like most puppies .. 4.9 pounds and 9 weeks old…she loves to be held and will be about 40 pounds full grown

Success Stories - Heidi

HEIDI


She was surrendered to Kathy McGuire in Camden City where she had been living outside for the last year....she has found a home with some very wonderful people in Northern New Jersey.

Thanks to our friends at Pretty Up Your Pup in Williamstown, NJ who sponsored Heidi for her fabulous haircut!! They sure work miracles there as is obvious!!!

NEW PHOTOS OF HEIDI 8/8/07

Success Stories- Cha Cha

CHA CHA
Update: BREED: American Pit Bull Terrier
SEX: Female AGE: 9 years
WEIGHT: 65#

This devoted dog was taken to a shelter after her owner was hospitalized in the terminal stages of AIDS. Without the intervention of Kathy McGuire, a DCO who is devoted to pit bulls, she would most certainly have been euthanized because of her age. Because it is the older dogs who especially touch our hearts, we at Out of the Pits are hoping that someone will offer Cha Cha a chance to live out her years in peace and happiness. More information will be posted here as we get to know this lovely dog. So far she's great with other dogs and ADORES people

Camden, New Jersey

December, 2006 NJAFA received a call from NJ Animal Rights that a dog had been left by its owner in an apartment in Camden, NJ. NJARA had pleaded with a couple of other rescue groups that do work in Camden, but they would not help. Because NJARA is headquartered in North Jersey, NJAFA was asked to intervene because of their work in Camden.

Kathy McGuire, President of NJAFA, obtained the proper surrender information from the owner and forwarded it to animal control to have the dog removed from the property.

Cha Cha, had been left for several days without her owner. She was in good shape but scared and lonely. Her owner would not be coming back ever.Cha Cha went into heat the second day she was taken in. She also had a severely infected paw from trauma to it that had not been treated.. The paw was oozing and very swollen

The kind owners of Halo House in Franklinville NJ gave Cha Cha a home at their kennel while we searched for a rescue and/or a home for her to go to.

Cha Cha was spayed, had several tumors taken off her neck and chest and four mammary tumors taken off (all begnin). One nipple had a large tumor on the end and because of the weight was very severe and hanging down almost to the ground

All during the time Cha was at the kennel NJAFA went to visit her and play with her. On Christmas Eve, we took her presents and played with her, on New year’s Eve day, we also visited her and made sure she knew someone cared about her. NJAFA also took Cha to all her vet appointments, check ups and to our home for “day trips” and transported her to NY for final leg to a pit bull rescue in Northern NY

We were lucky the rescue group took Cha as she would never have had a chance at the local County shelter where they are very high kill and are already over burdened with pitbulls. Additionally, she had so many medical issues money would not have been available.


Kathy McGuire spoke to the owner who is terminally ill with AIDS. Cha was treated very badly before her new owner of the last ten years rescued her. She used to go to work with him and they were together 24/7. He was a wonderful person to take in Cha Cha and give her a good home. He said he misses her very much.

Cha spent her last night in NJ at the McGuires sleeping with Kathy McGuire. Cha Cha was let out for the evening to potty which she did immediately, and came back in and went to sleep promptly through the night with no disturbances and no crying. Cha Cha slept next to Kathy the entire night with no fussing, crying or problem. She felt a human body sleeping next to her for first time in weeks.

CHA CHA SNORES!!!!!

Success Stories - Teddy

Poor Teddy. Chained to a tree by a man who went on vacation and forgot about him. A neighbor called NJAFA to tell us no one was feeding the dog and it had a horrible smell coming from him. We rushed to the house where we saw Teddy who looked like a small bear matted and covered with fleas and an embedded collar. The "smell" was from an infection on his neck.
Teddy turned out to be a very handsome boy indeed. He stayed with NJAFA for about two months until we could place him for adoption with a no kill rescue in PA.

For more info on this sweetheart, check out the main NJAFA page for Teddy.

Success Stories - Norton

NORTON aka "Snort"

While driving through Camden it is very common to see little puppies foraging for food and water. They really belong to no one and have somehow managed to eek out a life on these unforgiving streets. NJAFA while on a trip to Camden to pick up animals for altering, saw this little guy loping along the street searching in garbage cans.

We scooped him up and took him to wait at the shelter for seven days. No one of course claimed him but because he was so gangly and goofy we named him "Norton" like the character in the old "Honeymooners" series.

"Snortie" got adopted to a very loving family in Jersey City. This is a picture of one of their children. Who says pitties are dangerous? Couldn't prove it by this picture!