We at Second Chance want to wish you all a Happy Thanksgiving and to tell you how thankful we are for all of you!
Nubian says he is thankful for his foster dad’s slipper but is really hoping that this holiday he will find a home.
Tag: Charities
Good Bye To Our Friend Maureen Murray
We are sad to say we had to say good bye to Maureen Murray, one of our best adopters and foster moms. She passed away last week and we are so sad to lose her. Maureen was a true Cocker mom, she had over 15 Cocker Spaniels over her lifetime. We know she adored her current “kids” Sweetie Pie” and “Goof” both SCCR alumni. They are coming back to us so we can find them places to live out their lives in comfort and love. We so appreciate that Maureen made sure they were taken care of before she had to leave us. Thank you Maureen for being a great Cocker mom right up until the end.
Wandering Lost And Bewildered
Darby was dumped at a park in Long Beach. He was wandering lost and bewildered when a woman picked him up and called one of our volunteers. He was in bad shape so she had him taken straight to a vet for evaluation. He cried when Steph, the nice woman who rescued him left him at the vet, poor baby. What a traumatic day for him.
A big thank you to Ann, Carolyn, Steph and the other wonderful people at the park who helped rescue him,
Donations towards Darby’s medical bills
Rescuing “rescued” Cocker Spaniels
This is Tiny. She was pulled from the San Bernardino shelter last month by a “rescuer” who is very prominent on Facebook. Lots of promises were made but Tiny was left stuck in a temporary foster home. The temporary foster mom is stuck with broken promises and a sick senior cocker girl. Pledges were paid and everyone believes that Tiny is safe and sound. Nothing could be further from the truth. The foster mom contacted us asking for help. SCCR has agreed to step in and rescue Tiny from her “rescuer”.
This isn’t the first time SCCR had to clean up after this particular “rescuer”. She abandoned 12 cockers at our favorite kennel last year. We found each one of them a great home and turned over their adoption fees to the kennel to help cover the thousands of dollars she owed them and never paid.
Rescuing dogs doesn’t stop at pulling dogs from the shelters. Tiny has nine tumors that need surgery and her bills will run close to $2,000 if not more and she has nowhere to live
We are going to make sure Tiiny gets the best medical care and finds a loving Sanctuary home where we will pay for her medical bills for the rest of her life. That is what real rescue is and we are so grateful for your support so we can be there for dogs like Tiny.
SCCR Halloween Cocker Costume Contest
We are holding a super duper Halloween Costume Contest for cockers this year. Molly is our spokesCocker and will be policing the contest. Molly wants to see some wild and crazy cockers in costume. For a $25 or more donation for our senior cockers you can enter your favorite picture of your cocker in costume and win some fabulous prizes:
1-Make a donation of $25 or more towards our Sanctuary Program to care of our senior cockers
2-Send the picture of your cocker in costume to elizabeth.mazzetti@cox.net
3-go to the SCCR facebook page and vote for your favorite
We will be posting all the contestants on our facebook page and you can vote for your favorite. The contest ends Oct 31st and winners will be announced on Nov 1. The winners will have the most votes.
Prizes
Update From Lulu’s Family
Lulu had her cataract surgery. She can now see again for the first time in years!! We got a report from her family.
“Lulu is healing great! We are very grateful and happy. Love, Claudiia”
Thank you to everyone who donated towards her surgery this year!
What A Day!
Wow, what a year for our Annual Cocker Reunion Picnic’s….we had over 80 SCCR cockers come to both our picnics this year! The Santa Barbara picnic was Saturday and boy did we have a great time. We got to visit with old friends and new ones. Ate amazing food, (we will post the tortellini recipe soon, as requested by so many of you), played on the beach, visited with our fabulous vets Dr. Fisher and Dr. Kristin from Carpinteria Veterinary Hospital, got a grooming demo,got a henna by Felecia and shopped for cool cocker stuff.
The Spring Raffle brought in enough to pay for Lulu’s surgery and part of Romeo’s too! Two of our raffle winners, Rushelle Vasak and Tim Morrow donated their winnings back to the dogs. You guys Rock!
The dogs all got a yummy Happy Birthday doggie cupcake baked by Stephanie while we enjoyed her scrumptious chocolate cake with almond frosting, yum!
Romeo was the hit of the day as he worked the crowd as only a puppy can do. He raised over $1000 towards his surgery. Good job Romeo! You can see all our pictures on our Facebook page.
Thank you so much for celebrating our Tenth Birthday with us this year and we can’t wait to see you next year.
Romeo Is A Real Heartbreaker
Romeo was only 12 weeks old when his family called us and said they wanted to find him a new home because he was blind. He had juvenile cataracts and was having trouble adjusting. When we met Romeo he was afraid to come out of the crate and he flinched when anyone got too close. He had nightmares when he was sleeping where he cried and whimpered.
The first thing we did was make an appointment with our eye specialist in Arroyo Grande. We have to wait until the 25th to see her but in the mean time we started working on his self confidence and training him to deal with the world as a blind boy. He has learned to come when called, to navigate strange places and meet new people. He has learned to deal with stairs, door ways and walking on and off leash. He now loves to go for off leash beach walks, meeting new dogs and people. The nightmares have subsided and now he loves to tease the other foster dogs in the house.
We can’t wait to schedule his surgery so he can see again but until then he will be a well adjusted boy and will enjoy his puppy months instead of living in fear of the black world around him.
An Unlikely Pair
Bella Maria is an older woman who has fallen for a younger man. She and Roscoe lost their human family when they were taken to the shelter but they vowed not to be separated and managed to convince the shelter staff to beg us to take them both. They are adorable together. They sleep together, they check in with one another all the time and they share food bowls.
Bella Maria is about 8-10 yrs old and a purebred Cocker girl while Roscoe is only 3 yrs old and a Maltese /Shih tzu who looks just like a Muppet and snorts when he is excited. She is a sweet gentle soul and he is silly and full of himself. Roscoe has cataracts but she takes care of him and he watches out for her. When they came in we could tell no one took very good care of them for a long time. Bella’s nails were grown into the pads of her feet, several of her teeth were abscessed and their fur was matted and filthy. But as long as they were together they were happy.
We got them both cleaned up and gave Bella Marie a dental and pedicure. Now Bella Marie and Roscoe desperately need a foster home while they are waiting for their forever family to find them. Can you help?
Quiggly
Quiggly’s dad was elderly and when he passed away at home the paramedics did not know that Quiggly was in the back yard. They left without notifying anyone about him. Lucky for Quiggly the neighbor noticed him and started throwing food over the fence and dripping her hose over so he would have food and water until she could get him out of there.
Her friend Frank agreed to keep him until we could pick him up on Saturday. When we met Frank and Quiggly in Elk Grove after our annual picnic he was stressed and confused from everything that had happened to him. He quickly settled down in his foster home and immediately made friends with their other foster girl, Sarah Jane. He and Sarah Jane would play and play and play for hours.
