Woman's Best Friend

Let me start by stating the obvious, I LOVE DOGS!  The bigger the better, the more misunderstood, the more I love them!  Matt and I both have a soft spot for the bully breeds, the 'aggressive' breeds, the breeds least likely to be adopted.  That's why we have a Rottweiler and a Pit Bull and fostered a Rottweiler last year.  If I had my way I would have many more dogs!  Some permanent, some foster, all loveable dogs needing a second, or third chance!  However, our house is a bit small and our current work schedule doesn't allow for time to give a foster dog the love and attention it would need to shine!  HOPEFULLY once Matt falls in to a normal, semi-predictable schedule, we can foster a bully!  Since I can't foster/adopt right now, I figured I would share my favorites no-kill shelters, blogs and websites for dogs dogs dogs!

First, our favorite local no-kill shelter in Family Dogs New Life Shelter.  Yes, this is where Mary and Brian recently adopted Murphy and no, we have not adopted a dog from them.....yet!  Why do we love them so much?  Well there are several reasons, first, they love pit bull mixes!  In fact, they make videos about all of the pit, called piteos!  Here are a favorites (yes I've watched them all, yes I love them all!)


Boomer's Piteo from Family Dogs New Life on Vimeo.




Braden's Piteo from Family Dogs New Life on Vimeo.



Sallie's Piteo from Family Dogs New Life on Vimeo.



Second, we love them because they have a pack of dogs rather than dogs in individual kennels.  This helps them socialize the dogs, relieve shelter stress and let the dogs have fun!  We think this is awesome!  Third, we LOVE their mascot dog and the dogs on their homepage, we love everything about this shelter!

FDNL Mascot Triffi

Our favorite dog blog....BAD RAP!  It stands for Bay Area Doglovers Responsible About Pitbulls.  We love them because they rescue pit bulls, educate the community about responsible dog ownership and how loving and sweet pitbulls can be, fight bully breed legislation AND helped rescue and rehabilitate many of the Michael Vick dogs!  Take some time and check them out, they are on Facebook as well!  LOVE them!!

My favorite dog book would be The Lost Dogs: Michael Vick's Dogs and Their Tale of Rescue and Redemption.  Not an easy read, made me angry, made me cry, but also made my smile!  I am so thankful to everyone involved in saving those dogs and cheer against the Eagles every time they play!  Any team playing the Eagles is my favorite team of the week!

Favorite dog accessory companies...I have a few!  First, locally run RuffWear.  Why?  Well lets start with the fact that their logo dog is a Rottweiler named Ursula!  Yupp, love it!  Second, because they are located in Bend, OR!  What's not to love about a local company?! Third because their products rock!  We have a backpack and boots for Po!  Remi doesn't have anything yet, but give us some time!

My second pick is a new one, but I already love them because they are donating 10% of their sales to BadRap PLUS giving you 10% off your purchase.  PLUS they are located in Seattle!!  All you have to do is enter the code BADRAP.  The company is called Idawg and they sell awesome cold weather/rainy weather clothes for dogs!!  I want to get this for Remi:

 And I want to get this for Po!

I hope everyone enjoyed reading this as much as I enjoyed putting it together!  Cheers!