We are trying to help some Utah families place their family dogs they cannot keep:  Application for Low Cost Spay/Neuter is available on our Community board at the Orem WalMart. They have been Spayed/Neutered, Vaccinated and Microchipped, come with 7 weeks obedience/trick training, and are ready for adoption: Foster homes needed! Samson needs a  foster home by New Year's Day!

This is the kind of dedicated and willing to listen home we look for:  Thank you Kendall for offering to give Brigitte a wonderful caring, safe, and responsible home:

my name is kendall  and i must apologize for not getting back to you on mon. i want to answer
as many of your questions as i possibly can. i live in my own home on three acres on the edge of a
very small town by the name of absarokee,mt. we are 56 miles sw of billings. i have one daughter  she is 22 yrs old and away at school. in the past i have had many cats and 6 dogs. my beloved white
german sheperd was given to me by my parents when i lived in colorado. she was 11 yrs old when she died suddenly of a brain annurism. her best friend and companion in life was a cattle dog of mixed sorts brought into my life by my first husband,he was around 15 yrs old when our vet. put him down at her insistance because of cancer. my first husband also had two chessies. both lived to be
maybe 9 or ten?? we divorced and he took them with him although i loved them very much. my daughter wanted a bulldog,a breed i know nothing about. we found a breeder in n.d. and she sold us a  
pet quality pup??? ellie (the dog) had many defects. an ethical breeder would not have sold this pup to anyone. our vet. helped us through 5 yrs. of heartwrenching decisions we loved ellie,she was so innocent and so sweet but just medical problems one after another. in the end ellie developed some sort of septecemia(sp?) and we were advised to put her down. it was so sad and i miss her so. now
we have a wonderful mutt. i went to the farmers market in 1995 to buy potatoes and squash, a little
boy had a litter of puppies- two left. one white one and one black. i fell in love with the white one. he had a stubby tail,probably froze off at birth. we were told that his mom was aussie but that he had an  unknown father. we have had him ever since. his name is kramer. we live in a mining town where people come and go -- and as they do this they have a very bad habit of leaving their most prized possessions behind-cats and dogs! i do not know why but alot of the cats end up at our front porch.
i have 6 indoor cats,and at least 4 front porch kitties. some of them i can pet some of them not. i feed them and make beds for them to sleep in during the winters. one of my vets. helps me with spaying and neutering and shots for these semi-wild cats. i feed them. of my 6 indoor cats two were
given to me  by owners that no longer wanted them and 4 were wild cats that ended up on my front porch and they were not wild at all. in fact someone went to the trouble and expense to declaw them and spay/neuter them then just leave them to fend for themselves. i love them all along with kramer and would never think of leaving them behind if i ever had to move!! people make me so mad and sad. okay, back to some of your answers. our three acres is fenced, but, it is a four strand barb wire to keep cattle out. did i just kill any chance?? i would most certainly agree to further training of brigitte. i believe the 4h club in the next little town(columbus) has classes. and that petsmart in billings has classes. my husband and i both work, i work a rotating shift and a strange schedule. four on,three off,three on, one off, four on seven off. my husband works four tens straight days.!!!!! so it seems that someone is almost always around and if the animals are home alone it's not for long. when we are at work kramer stays in the house. he is only in the yard when we are home. every morning one of us takes kramer up the hill behind our house. it's a pasture that belongs to a rancher that we know and it's at least 4 or 5 hundred acres. when the weather is nice in the spring and summer we go all the way up the hill after work and take long long walks. kramer loves to play ball and frisbee. we live at the base of the absaroka mts. and in the summer on our days off together we go hiking, kramer loves to go and he is always on a leash. my sister in co. has a rottie x  that is crate trained and that is about as familiar as i get with crate training. none of the dogs in all my life were crate trained. but,if it were necessary for brigitte i'd learn and comply. i would gladly have my drs.
send letters to you telling you about myself and how i am with my pets. also, i welcome home visits.
i am a good person and love all animals. whenever possible i feed the birds in blgs. or the ducks. i feed the deer in winter that come down from the pasture. i feed millions of birds in my yards.and of course all my porch kitties. i can tell that brigitte looks like a sweetheart! she looks alot like kramer. oh, and by the way, kramer is not a big dog, he is neutered and he is a sissy!!
when we go on vacation this weekend,our local vet. tech. will be babysitting. one of our cats is 17 yrs old and a diabetic, he gets shots of insulin twice a day and a pill. maybe that can give you an idea as to how much we love our animals-- opie, thats the diabetic cat is a big commitment. we are always home to give him his shots. this is the first vacation that we have ever been on and we are only able to do this because we trust our vet tech to give opie his shots and feed the other cats and take care of kramer and walk him and feed all the porch kitties. does brigitte like to go for drives? kramer hates  to go in the car otherwise we would take him along.
well, it's been nice chatting with you. please consider us for your very special little girl. just knowing that you will have her until you find the right home makes me happier. so many dogs and cats that don't have someone to love them--and thats all they ask of us. can you believe that we call them man's best friend then treat them like we do?? god bless you-- you are an angel here on earth.

                                                                       an animal friend in mt.
                                                                                              kendall

Family of the Year Award

Click Bandit and Silver's New Family Picture to see what a wonderful home they have in California. Siamese kittens can be very skiddish and we were thrilled to find such an experienced indoor only Siames home.

      FAMILY OF THE DECADE AWARD

Click their pictures to see the  Best Foster Home in History (Yes that is a Malamute mix, Our TAu Tau, best trained/socialized dog thanks to Angela!!)

PRINCESS AND SMOKEY ARE Sister and brother, 5 mos old, and Russian Blue Mixed shorthaired Beauties. They are so loving and love to be petted under the chin.  Completely indoor litter trained.     Thanks Angela and family for fostering them, they are being socialized with cats, dogs and kids.  They are so loving and  found the best  home in the Boston area..

HOW CAN WE STOP THIS?

A teenager was selling 11 German Shepherd/Border Collie mix puppies on Center St. in Orem yesterday and told us that she would not fix her German Shepherd females who have 2 litters a year.  Who knows what will happen to these puppies. No special screening of homes just give her $50 and the pups are yours. This has got to stop!

BY HAVING WONDERFUL FAMILIES WHO ARE RESPONSIBLE LIKE THESE SHOW THE EXAMPLE:

Dear Denise,

Denise,

Thank you so much for picking us as Tau's family.  We adore him.  Everywhere we go people comment on how well behaved he is, how handsome he is and how BIG he is!!  We thank you also for trusting us to be family to Princess and PK (Pretty Kitty).  They are the BEST cats.  PK has taken quite a liking to Bob.  And both are great with the girls!  Tau LOVES Princess....Princess is still thinking about it.  She lets Tau sniff her and lick her...but when she's had enough, she tries to walk away VERY slowly.

What great additions to our family.  When it's Kesia's time, we hope to be able to adopt a young female dog from you!  Will talk to you soon.

Love to you and yours,

Angela Sanscrainte (New Hampshire)