Yordi

One day last January, I saw a picture of a little dog on Petfinder named Yordi. He was a adorable Yorkie mix in a kill shelter in rural Arkansas. He had three days to live. The shelter had labeled him as "not friendly to children" and "not housebroken".  I realized when I looked at his picture that this little guy had nothing - no friends, no freedom, and, with those labels, no hope. If I didn't help him, no one would and he would be killed.


I called the shelter and they agreed to give Yordi another week in exchange for a donation. We sent dozens of emails to various rescues offering to make a donation if they would take him. Finally, a wonderful group, the New Beginnings Shih Tzu Rescue http://www.nbstr.org/

agreed to help. They pulled him from the shelter, got him checked out medically and neutered him.

A very patient and loving woman took him into her house and fostered him along with 5 other dogs for six months. This picture is Yordi in his foster home. 

Finally, they found a family to adopt him! 

This picture of Yordi  is the end goal of rescue - save them from the kill shelter, foster them temporarily and then find them a good home for the rest of their lives! 

The world of dog rescue is filled with selfless, dedicated people who put in huge amounts of time and money into rescuing and fostering dogs and finding permanent homes for them. With the recession, the rescue world has been overwhelmed with dogs, and many are completed overloaded - they don't have enough people, space, fosters or money. In the meantime, the wholesale killing of dogs by kill shelters continues every day.  the New York Times estimates that 5,000 dogs are killed in shelters everyday in the United States.

The goal of the Doomed Dogs Rescue Club is to find dogs in kill shelters that are adoptable, find rescues that are willing to take the dogs and them provide some funding to make it possible for the rescue to pay for vetting and boarding and other costs.

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