OLD DOGS,
GREAT FRIENDS!
The Sanctuary for Senior Dogs
a 501(c)(3) organization dedicated to old dogs
Welcome to The Sanctuary for Senior Dogs web site
OLD DOGS, GREAT FRIENDS!
Deadline for submissions to Graying Muzzles 2011 is September 1, 2010.
Get your photos in to enter your senior dog in the 8th annual popular calendar celebrating old dogs. All proceeds help us in our work to save the lives of abandoned old dogs.
Meet your best friend at Adoption Sunday on August 29, from 2-4 PM
at the Adoption & Education Center, 4681 Broadview Road, Cleveland
New Shelter+ Challenge begins September 20, 2010. We need your support every day!
Check back for the beginning of the next Animal Rescue Site Shelter+ Challenge. We finished the last challenge in 3rd place in Ohio and #112 overall. Come back in September and help us climb to #1! Click the purple Shelter Challenge tab on the right side of the Animal Rescue Site home page and enter The Sanctuary for Senior Dogs and Ohio as the state. You will only have to enter the information the first time you vote. After that, you will only need to click on our name and validate your vote. It only takes a second, but the old dogs will benefit for quite some time to come.
Help us save more abandoned old dogs like Grady and Joey! Vote every day beginning September 20, 2010 at www.theanimalrescuesite.com
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Important Note: You must indicate The Sanctuary for Senior Dogs in the message section
during the check out process for us to receive the donation from your sale.
The weather and airline schedules conspired to keep author Maureen Kelly from her scheduled book signing on October 9. Our apologies to those who came out to meet her. We have her book Pet Types: Communing Heart to Heart available at the Adoption & Education Center. The Sanctuary for Senior Dogs receives 50% of each book sold. So stop by and get your copy soon.
SPECIAL THANKS
Special thanks to our 2010 Platimun Paw Scoop sponsors:
Bridgewater Studios, Youngstown, Ohio, Phone: 330-301-3868.Ginger Pet House. 6594 Brecksville Road, Independence, OH. Phone: (216) 642-7676.Hillcrest Hospital, a Cleveland Clinic Hospital, 6780 Mayfield Road, Mayfield, OH 44124. Phone: 440-312-4500.Sweet Pe, Inc., Mickey Edmonds, Photographer, 216-956-2145Crazy Dog Studio, Linda Farace, Photographer, 330-220-2313The Honest Kitchen, dehydrated, human grade raw food for your pet, 866-437-9729Special thanks to Judith Rimerman for her generous support and pledge of continuing support to the Sanctuary in memory of her senior dog The Mop. The Rimerman Family Foundation donation guarantees that senior dogs will continue to receive state of the art medical care when they enter the Sanctuary. Thank you Rimerman Family, from all of the senior dogs at the Sanctuary.
from left to right: Durga, Judith Rimerman, The Mop
Judith Rimerman adopted The Mop, already an older dog at the time, from a Berlin shelter. Like so many of our senior dogs, The Mop was a survivor. Judith says that "despite continual health problems and some kind of trauma that she must have witnessed . . . , as well as serious abandonment issues, she loved us passionately and loved life." Judith believes that helping to save other dogs like The Mop is the best way to honor her spirit. Thank you, Judith, for your generosity.
Special thanks to Carmen Giannini-Kemper for her generous donation in memory of Louie (below right), a sweet little dog that Carmen and Bill adopted from the Sanctuary several years ago. Carmen's words speak eloquently of the beauty of our relationship with the senior dogs who share our lives: "Thank you for opening my heart to the deep joy that senior dogs bring. Our relationship with Louie was life changing . . . . It is truly a blessing of love and joy to have these dogs in our lives." Thank you, Carmen, for your generosity and for your dedication to the cause of helping senior dogs.
Sadly, Carmen passed away on April 18, 2009, leaving her husband Bill, her two dogs Romeo (below left with Carmen in March 2009, the day they proudly passed the Delta Society therapy dog test) and Chase, and a host of family and friends who miss her greatly. Carmen's dedication to old dogs and her belief in their worth will live on thanks to her generosity and the generosity of the many people who have donated in her memory. The lives of many, many old dogs will be saved as a result, just as Carmen wished.
Please join us in our work with senior dogs. Your donation is completely tax deductible to the full extent allowed by law. Without your generosity, we cannot continue our work to save senior dogs.
Click above to donate to the Sanctuary through our secure PayPal account.
THE SANCTUARY FOR SENIOR DOGS is a nonprofit organization dedicated to the rescue, adoption, and lifelong care of senior dogs abandoned in shelters and pounds. All of our dogs live in Sanctuary-approved foster homes until a permanent home can be found. Senior dogs too ill to be adopted stay in a Sanctuary hospice foster home for life. All senior dogs are spayed or neutered prior to placement.
Your generous donation allows our work with the abandoned senior dog population to continue and to grow. Without your support, our work would not be possible. Please give generously. Dogs like Oscar and Mandy are counting on you. Click the link above to donate through PayPal. Visit our Support the Sanctuary page for other ways of donating and helping. Or visit our Sponsor a Sanctuary Senior Dog to make your pledge of monthly support to help meet the ongoing needs of a sanctuary senior dog.
All Sanctuary dogs live in foster homes with families to care for them and love them; we do not house our senior dogs in a shelter. At times, senior dogs may enter short-term boarding until space opens up in our foster care system.
You can meet our Sanctuary dogs and your next best friend at our Adoption & Education Center in the Old Brooklyn neighborhood of Cleveland on the last Sunday of each month between 2 & 4 PM. If you want to meet one special dog, call us first to see who is scheduled to attend.
To meet a special Sanctuary senior dog at any other time, just call or e-mail and we will gladly set up an appointment
Visit our Adoption & Education Center
4681 Broadview Road, Cleveland, OH 44109
216.485.9233
Detailed directions are on the Upcoming Events page
Hours for the Adoption & Education Center:
Tuesday & Thursday evenings from 5:00-7:00 PM
Friday & Saturday afternoons from 1:00-4:00 PM
Adoption Sunday, the last Sunday of every month from 2:00-4:00 PM.
Visit us at 4681 Broadview Road in the historic Old Brooklyn neighborhood of Cleveland, Ohio. We usually have at least one friendly senior dog with us, sometimes a foster looking for a new home, sometimes a therapy dog just waiting to give some love and affection, sometimes a dog adopted from the Sanctuary. No dogs are housed at the Adoption and Education Center.
The Sanctuary is part of i-Give.com. We have raised over $1600 to date from i-Give.com, an online shopping mall that donates a percentage of your purchase to the Sanctuary. If you shop the Internet, please join i-Give and let your shopping help raise money for the Sanctuary. Click the Save A Dog link below to go directly to the Sanctuary's i-Give site.
Sign up today and earn $5 for the Sanctuary just for signing up. Help us help old dogs just by shopping on the Internet!
Search the Internet, benefit the Sanctuary. Use GOODSEARCH and earn money for the Sanctuary every time you search the Internet. Visit the GOODSEARCH web site at www.goodsearch.com and download a tool bar to your computer to help the Sanctuary save senior dogs. We received our first check for $120.00 from GOODSEARCH in December 2007. Every penny really does count.
If anger wells up within you, because people are the problem,
remember your humanity and that people are also the solution.
--from “We are Their Heroes” by Jim Willis © 2001
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--Stevie Wonder
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Last Updated: August 23, 2010