What an amazing year we had in 2016! Because of your support, our deaf dog rescue sponsorships grew over 30% from last year. Our Deaf Dogs Rock community helped our organization sponsor just over 100 deaf dogs into rescue plus at least 10 medical sponsorships to help deaf dogs become adoptable (most of the medical sponsorships went for spay/neuter surgeries, parvo medical expenses, in addition to a couple of vet bills as a result of neglect cases). We can’t thank you enough for your support and kind consideration for helping us to continue our work of saving one deaf dog at a time.

We also want to thank all of our special needs partner rescues who work with us every day to make room for the rescue requests we sent their way. We work with truly amazing and strong rescue warrior women. The rescues we work with “just do it”. When we send a request they jump into gear to line up a foster home, work out transportation for each dog, and the vetting for each rescue dog.

The organizations we work closely with also carefully screen potential homes to make sure each deaf dog or puppy has a chance at a happy and healthy life. We would be dead in the water without each and every one of them.

Here are just a few of the deaf dogs sponsored into our partner rescues by our Deaf Dogs Rock community. 

(A few of these deaf pups arrived in January 2017)

Thank you, thank you, thank you for helping Deaf Dogs Rock to educate the general public, eradicate myths about deaf dogs being more aggressive than hearing dogs, and to change the minds of people (and shelter staff) who discriminate against deaf dogs in their shelters by not putting them up for adoption. We do appreciate the shelters across the U. S.  who take the time to reach out to Deaf Dogs Rock to help a deaf dog in need. Deaf Dogs Rock encourages you to reach out and talk to your local shelters/rescues to let them know our organization is here to help them any way we can.

More of the faces who were sponsored into rescue by our Deaf Dogs Rock community. 

If you work/volunteer at a shelter that may have a deaf dog who needs more networking, you can post the deaf dog’s information on our Deaf Dogs Rock Facebook page but be sure to add the dog’s full bio information, location and direct shelter contact information. If the deaf shelter dog is already spay/neutered, you can also list the deaf dog available for adoption on our national website by going to www.deafdogsrock.com and then filling out the adoption profile for the dog under the “List A Deaf Dog” section.

Thanks again for helping Deaf Dogs Rock help deaf shelter dogs and puppies have an opportunity to live, love, thrive and be happy.

According to our deaf dogs Nitro, Bud and Bowie, you all totally rock!

 

~ Christina Lee – Deaf Dogs Rock