| K-9 Bed &
Biscuit is making news!
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“Puppies
burned by acid - rescued by local shelter!”
I
have been volunteering for a local shelter in
Northern Colorado
for quite sometime. This shelter is the only NO-KILL shelter in
Weld
County
. This time of year we see many sad sights… families go on
vacation and drop their dogs off at the shelter- and never pick
them up… dogs and cats go unspayed and neutered, therefore
having numerous litters of unwanted pets… people bring their
sick pets in to the shelter for boarding and bring in unwanted
kennel cough, etc… But the latest sight was the most upsetting
I’ve seen in quite sometime,
On
Tuesday evening I stopped by K-9 Bed & Biscuit to show some
new volunteers around. I was appalled at the number of new
animals in the shelter. Every cage available is full. You would
not believe the number of animals that have been rescued just in
the past week! But the worst sight was a litter of puppies with
pink burn marks all down their backs. It appears someone poured
acid on them. The puppies were abandoned on the side of the
road. Animal rescue brought them into K-9 Bed & Biscuit just
this week.
The
good news… they are healthy and doing fine. THEY ARE AVAILABLE
FOR ADOPTION.
But
these little guys, just like all of the other rescue animals,
could really use
some loving homes.
The
staff members of K-9 Bed & Biscuit are real-life angels.
They work tirelessly to rescue and accommodate hundreds of
unwanted pets.
If
you can help this shelter in ANY way, please contact them.
K-9
Bed & Biscuit (970) 352-5330
14253
Highway 392
Greeley
,
CO
80631
Written
by: Christine Kovacs 303-886-3068 or
Christine_kovacs@cable.comcast.com
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Links to
recent coverage:
-The
Coloradoan (
fort Collins
)
http://www.coloradoan.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060617/NEWS01/606170302/1002
-Channel
9 NEWS
http://9news.com/acm_news.aspx?OSGNAME=KUSA&IKOBJECTID=daa6d0ad-0abe-421a-01b9-fe8a2df8ebcb&TEMPLATEID=0c76dce6-ac1f-02d8-0047-c589c01ca7bf
-Channel
7 NEWS
http://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/9379296/detail.html
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FOX 31 NEWS
http://www.fox31news.com/
-Greeley
Tribune
http://www.greeleytrib.com/article/20060617/NEWS/106170069
-Windsor
Tribune http://www.windsortribune.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=2527
-Channel
16 http://www.local6.com/family/9382681/detail.html
-The
Denver Channel 4 http://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/9379296/detail.html
-The
Johnstown Breeze
http://www.johnstownbreeze.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=1577&mode=&order=0&thold=0
All
of our pets are also listed on PetFinder.com:
http://www.petfinder.org/shelters/CO59.html
-Greeley
Tribune 6/22/06
Puppies Find
A HOME
Rachel Wassenberg, 15, of
Severance helps her sister, Kristina Souza, 19, of Fort
Collins pick a puppy to adopt at the K-9 Bed and Biscuit
animal shelter near Windsor. The puppies were
brought to K-9 Bed and Biscuit after being rescued from
a shelter in Kansas. All six of the puppies, who
have scars from some sort of chemical burn on their
backs, were adopted Wednesday.
Shannon Wick, 26, of Fort
Collins get acquainted with here new pjppy she adopted
during a lottery drawing at the K-9 Bed and Biscuit
animal shelter.
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By Emma Schmautz
eschmautz@greeleytribune.com
Shannon Wick stood
anxiously in the lobby of K-9 Bed and Biscuit and looked
down at the red ticket in her hand.
Since the story broke about the six
Labrador-chow puppies who were burned with acid and
abandoned in Kansas, the phone at K-9 Bed and Biscuit
east of Windsor has been ringing nonstop.
Owner Rachel Kruidenier even cleared the
parking lot in preparation for a rush of perspective
puppy parents.
But shortly before noon on Wednesday no one
had arrived to enter the lottery for the six puppies
rescued by the K-9 shelter.
Aside from scars up to 1/2 -inch in width on their backs, the puppies were
healthy and deemed ready for adoption by the staff at K-9.
The shelter Fally expected nearly 100 people to come and wait for a chance to
take one of the puppies home. But as Kruidenier has witnessed
time and time again during her time at K-9 and other animal shelters around
the country, the public’s attention to animals is often short-lived.
Kruidenier said that before the media focus, people entering K-9 did
not pay attention to the six puppies. “We had them here for days, and no
one would look at them:’ Kruidenier said. “In every shelter, there are similar
stories."
Wick, a special education teacher at Rocky Mountain
High School in Fort Collins.saw the puppies on televisionand, unlike most who called
the shelter. was serious about adopting one of the dogs.
"I've always been someone who wants to help in any
situation," said the 26 year old Fort Collins resident.
‘Whenever something is wrong, I try
to fix the problem."
Wick waited with the other eleven people who
came to K-9 and were entered into a lottery for the puppies.
The fourth number drawn from the glass jar matched
the ticket in her hand. and Wick went to the sawdust-filled kennel to choose her
puppy
A few minutes later. Vick was out the door with a
Black bundle cradled in her arms.
Each of the puppies has been adopted and were
given to people who have a fenced yard. wont put the dogs on a
chain and have promised to
make the puppies a part of their family.
As the dogs disappeared one by one, the barking from the
kennels was a reminder of how many dogs still remained at
the shelter.
Kruidenier said it is common for people to abandon
animals at the shelter, especially when they are moving to a
new house.
“Moving is no excuse to leave your animal:’ Kruidenier
said. “Would you think of leaving your kid?”
A few days ago, someone left a whole litter of puppies atK~9.
"We had them pull into the driveway and just throw them
out of the car,” Kruidenier said.
K-9 is a no-kill shelter, and some of the dogs have been
there for more than four years. Kruidenier hopes that after
the media attention about the
puppies has died down, people will still remember that the
shelter still has more than 100 dogs that need homes. She said the dogs can make
wonderful pets as long as they receive enough care and
attention.
"It’s frustrating when people come in and want a perfect
dog,” Kniidenier said. “People need to be patient with shelter
dogs and be willing to put
some time in:"
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Greeley
Tribune 9/3/06
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On the road between Windsor
and Lucerne, little breaks up the Scenery of houses and agriculture. Sometimes,
the drive from the burgeoning town of Windsor toward U.S. 85 seems to last
forever as the hills roll on.
Seemingly out 01 nowhere, the word.'Adopt' flashes as you drive by taking
about as long to read it as you pass.
Its a sign of plastic cups spelling out simple words that are getting great results. All that
for less than $5.
“You wouldn’t think that something
that simple could catch people's attention, but it has,” said Rachel
Kruidenier, owner of K-9 Bed and Biscuit, a no-kill animal
shelter along Colo. 392. where red cups in a chain-linked fence have done
much more for the struggling business
than traditional advertising. "This kennel has been here for 20 years, and
I’ve owned it for two. I’m amazed at how
many people come in and say they didn’t even know we were here."
The cups were the brainchild of one
of K-9’s volunteer dog walkers, Christine Kovacs, who just happens to work in
advertising in Fort Collins. Kovacs. said she got the idea from a
similar stunt she pulled in high school when she used cups to spell out “happy
birthday” on the school fence for a friend. She and a friend change the sign
at K-9 regularly to keep passersby looking for more.
--Sharon Dunn, Greeley Tribune
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