Be A Good Dog University

At the pound: Adult Rottweiler male picked up at Fountain apartments running loose. Obviously has had a collar at one time but not today no chip. If you recognize please call City Hall 573-378-4634.

Words Out!!!! Ava sends a warm THANK YOU to all her sponsors and supporters during her rehabilitation!! She says if it wasn't for YOUR loving support, she may have never found her new family!! Rejoice with us over Ava's new start!!! ... As an important part of Ava's adoption agreement, she will be visited for the next 3 weeks by a Be A Good Dog University professional dog trainer to over see her transition. Rescue. Recover. Rejoice.

Dogs at the Springfield Animal Shelter

Update!!! Our Charlie went on a weekend getaway with a foster family! Need something to read while waiting for the election to be over? ... We have just what you need to warm the heart and maybe even bring a tear to your eye. This is about our sweet boy Charlie. A caring community member found out about two dogs abandoned by a previous owner on a property that was also abandoned. According to neighbors there was multiple dogs out there at one time but only two survived being all alone. They were hard to catch but after finding out that they had been alone for close to two years we understood why they lost trust. So began our mission to get these babies some help. The first one was eventually caught and needed immediate vet care to treat what we know now as suspected heart failure and cancer. Charlie took a team of experts we've used before to help our feral dogs. Liz-Bradley from Sedalia set the trap for him, who was being stubborn and it took over a week to catch him. It took about 10 days at the shelter before a tail wag or any interest to socialize and then boom, he was a dog again. You say his name and he just pounces around full of excitement, happy to be leashed up and go for a walk. If you sit down near him he will own your lap. We have worked long and hard to gain his trust and to win him over. We have finished his vetting and he is finally ready for adoption. He is needy and will demand your attention, he doesn't care to be left alone, and we don't blame him one bit. Charlie needs a forever, he deserves only the best gentle and loving home. He will be a hard one to let go, but we know he has so much to offer a family.

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Hello: You have reached (123) 456-7890. Due to the high volume of calls we have been receiving, please listen closely to the following options and choose the o...ne that best describes you or your situation: Press 1 if you have a 10-year-old dog and your 15-year-old son has suddenly become allergic and you need to find the dog a new home right away. Press 2 if you are moving today and need to immediately place your 150 pound, 8-year-old dog. Press 3 if you have three dogs, had a baby and want to get rid of your dogs because you are the only person in the world to have a baby and dogs at the same time. Press 4 if you just got a brand new puppy and your old dog is having problems adjusting so you want to get rid of the old one right away. Press 5 if your little puppy has grown up and is no longer small and cute and you want to trade it in for a new model. Press 6 if you want an unpaid volunteer to come to your home TODAY and pick up the dog you no longer want. Press 7 if you have been feeding and caring for a stray for the last three years, are moving and suddenly determine it’s not your dog. Press 8 if your dog is sick and needs a vet but you need the money for your vacation. Press 9 if you are elderly and want to adopt a cute puppy who is not active and is going to outlive you. Press 10 if your relative has died and you don’t want to care for their elderly dog because it doesn’t fit your lifestyle. Press 11 if your cat is biting and not using the litter box because it is declawed, but you are not willing to accept the responsibility that the cat’s behavior is altered because of your nice furniture. Press 12 if your two-year old male dog is marking all over your house but you just haven’t gotten around to having him neutered. Press 13 if you previously had an outdoor only dog and are calling because she is suddenly pregnant. Press 14 if you are calling at 6 a.m. to make sure you wake me up before I have to go to work so you can drop a dog off on your way to work. Press 15 to leave us an anonymous garbled message, letting us know you have left a dog in our yard in the middle of January, which is in fact, better than just leaving the dog with no message. Press 16 if you are going to get angry because we are not going to take your dog that you have had for fifteen years, because it is not our responsibility. Press 17 if you are going to threaten to take your ten-year old dog to be euthanized because I won’t take it. Press 18 if you’re going to get angry because the volunteers had the audacity to go on vacation and leave the dogs in care of a trusted volunteer who is not authorized to take your personal pet. Press 19 if you want one of our PERFECTLY trained, housebroken, kid and cat friendly purebred dogs that we have an abundance of. Press 20 if you want us to take your dog that has a slight aggression problem, i.e. has only bitten a few people and killed your neighbor’s cats. Press 21 if you have already called once and been told we don’t take personal surrenders but thought you would get a different person this time with a different answer. Press 22 if you want us to use space that would go to a stray to board your personal dog while you are on vacation, free of charge, of course. Press 23 if it is Christmas Eve or Easter morning and you want me to deliver an eight week old puppy to your house by 6:30 am before your kids wake up. Press 24 if you have bought your children a duckling, chick or baby bunny for Easter and it is now Christmas and no longer cute. Press 25 if you want us to take your female dog who has already had ten litters, but we can’t spay her because she is pregnant again and it is against your religion. Press 26 if you’re lying to make one of our younger volunteers feel bad and take your personal pet off your hands. Press 27 if you have done everything to housebreak your dog and have had no success but you don’t want to crate the dog because it is cruel. Press 28 if you didn’t listen to the message asking for an evening phone number and you left your work number when all volunteers are also working and you are angry because no one called you back. Press 29 if you need a puppy immediately and cannot wait because today is your daughter’s birthday and you forgot when she was born. Press 30 if your dog’s coat doesn’t match your new furniture and you need a different color or breed. Press 31 if your new love doesn’t like your dog and you are too stupid to get rid of the new friend (who will dump you in the next month anyway) instead of the dog. Press 32 if you went through all these ‘options’ and didn’t hear enough. This press will connect you to the sounds of tears being shed by one of our volunteers who is holding a discarded old dog while the vet mercifully frees him from the grief of missing his family.

Update- Ace is tagged! This sweet boy is Ace and he needs rescue by this Friday the 6th. Ace didn’t have the best start to life and came to animal control as a... cruelty case. As you can see in his before pictures he was scared, emaciated, and covered with sores that typically come from being confined. In spite of that he is a playful, happy boy that loves you once he trusts you. He takes some time to warm up and is a typical adolescent dog that will need a confident handler. He has been very reactive to other dogs in the shelter as well. Once he is in a different environment he may be able to meet them with very slow introductions. He does seem to prefer women to men at the shelter. Ace is HW positive and has $820 in sponsorship, $170 in pledges, plus $500 of HW sponsorship from St. Louis County SAVE. If you are a licensed rescue that can tag Ace please email me at [email protected].

They Deserve To Spend Their Golden Years Surrounded By A Loving Family