“One by One Until
There are None.”

In this issue:

1. Retreat 2006
2. How To Read The Contents Of A Pet Food Bag
3. Adoptable Dog of the Month
4. Virtual Foster
5. The Truth About Skin & Coat
6. Retreat Pictures
7. Help Wanted

Kennel number: 864-489-0291

To mail donations:
Carolina Poodle Rescue
10901 Reidville Rd.
Greer, SC 29651
or Paypal: carolinapoodle.rescue@gmail.com

Virtual Foster email: carolinapoodle.rescue@gmail.com

Visit us on the web:

www.carolinapoodlerescue.org

www.carolinapoodle@petfinder.com

Remember to use www.goodsearch.com as your search engine. Goodsearch contributes to Carolina Poodle Rescue every time you use it!

Total adoptions: 523

Virtual Foster Program

You know that we adopt most of our dogs. However, there are some that are not adoptable due to medical issues and or age. We pay any charges our “sanctuary” dogs incur for as long as they live. These dogs are the ones that are in most need. Each month we will showcase dogs that are available for virtual fostering! Pick the one that touches your heart and donate whatever you can. No set fee. Anything contributed is tax deductible. The dog’s actual foster will keep you posted on his or her progress. Are you interested in helping one of these dogs? Send an email to carolinapoodle.rescue@gmail.com and let us know who you would like to help.

Retreat 2006

We had a great turnout for our 4th annual Retreat. The retreat started four years ago when six friends who worked together in rescue went to the beach for a weekend getaway. We had 25 in attendance at our training session. What a far cry from our first “retreat” four years ago when six ladies, all of them interested and involved in rescue work, went to the beach for a fun weekend.
Friday evening we had our annual Board meeting. Of the many items that were discussed and voted on, the most satisfying was the approval of our business manager, Beth Jancse, to the board of directors. Welcome Beth!
Saturday morning starting bright and early as the volunteers arrived for training shortly after 8 am. Donna Ezzell opened us with discussion on Volunteering and Fostering.

After lunch we were able to take a mini-tour of the property, led by Beth Jancse, a fun walk with our Poodles. Our next session was led by Terry Abell discussing the Adoption process. We want to be able to speed up the process, but not lose our integrity. We can always use new volunteers to help with vet check references, personal references, and adoption counselors to do telephone interviews and matching. Hint: you can help too! We broke from the training around 3:00 until dinnertime. During the dinner, we had our Silent Auction running. Thank you to those who contributed items to be auctioned. We had one item that went down to the last second with frantic scribbling. It was quite fun to watch.

Special thanks to Tom Johnson and his crew for preparing our meal of lasagna, salad, bread and a scrumptious pound cake. We also raffled off a dozen stuffed poodles. Yes, Debbie Poston, you won one! Dinner broke off around 8:00 or so. We were able to hang out around a bonfire the rest of the evening.
The day was a lot of fun with all of the standards, mini’s and toy poodles running all around. We also had in the mix our Hannah and Nugget (golden labs). Aren’t you two girls getting big!

Sunday was training in the kennel. This is what Donna Ezzell does every day!
We would like thank the following for their help: Karen Martin for spearheading the event, Donna and Wayne Ezzell for the location, Terry Howe for all the work he did the week before at the kennel, Beth Jancse for the silent auction, and Terry Abell, Judy Chaet, Mickey Chaet, Shirley Hamilton, Beth Jancse, and Terry Howe for their help in washing out the kennel and moving pea gravel on the Friday before the Retreat! And thank you to the Tyger River Presbyterian Church for the use of the tables and chairs and BMW Performance Center for the use of the tents.

We still have some t-shirts! We have the following sizes available in tangerine: medium, x-large and xx-large. They are $15 for the mediums and x-large and $17 for the xx-large. Please add an additional $3.00 for shipping. If you are interested in a shirt, email: carolinapoodlerescue@charter.net and let us know what size you are interested in and we’ll let you know how much and how to pay.

It was a wonderful weekend and it’s been suggested that we try to do this twice per year.

Thank you letter from Donna:

Well, the retreat has come and gone and, as in years gone by, this year was even more successful than the last. I can’t tell you how satisfying it was for Wayne and I to host all of you wonderful volunteers and adopters at our first retreat at Dreamweaver Farms. Yet another one of my dreams was fulfilled to see all of you, and your beautiful poodles, walking our fields and enjoying the beauty that is Dreamweaver Farms. I am still finding “presents” that I didn’t expect. Yesterday, I was making our shopping list and included paper towels. Then I went into the storage room to pick up some more newspaper and found not only an 8 pack of paper towels but, when I reached for one bag that I thought contained plastic grocery bags, there were stacks of bandannas in there too! I found more laundry detergent under another pile. It was a wonderful way to bring the fun of the retreat back to me. Thank you! There is still much to be done here, as ya’ll could see, yet we have come so far. When I think back to those early days in April with no fencing, no kennels, no grooming area and then look around now, I am amazed. I can’t wait to host you all next year and to see how much farther we have come.

Thanks again – without CPR volunteer and adopters, none of this could be done.
Donna, Wayne and the poo’s at Dreamweaver Farms

How To Read The Contents Of A Pet Food Bag
Contributed by Dorothy Day

The first 5 ingredients are the most important, with the bag containing most of the first ingredient, which should be a named meat, beef, lamb, chicken.

Meat meal is cooked, dried and ground beef, lamb, chicken

Whole grain should be brown rice, rice, oats or barley

Fat identified by name, chicken fat etc.

Preservatives should be vitamin c/e (mixed tocopherols)

Poor nutritional value

Meat by products-leftovers after processing not handled as carefully as whole meat

Meat digest-skin, feet, etc heated and mixed with water into a soup

Food fragments-brewers rice, corn gluten etc

Any item identified as "animal" can be from any source

Artificial preservatives or colors

Sweetners-corn syrup, sucrose

Beet pulp-cellilose-no nutritional value.

Note: most grocery store brands list corn as the first ingredient-dogs need protein (meat) put an ear of corn and hunk of meat in front of a dog and see which he chooses!!

Our Adoptable Dog of the Month

Spirit is a sweet girl that loves people and attention. She is about 5 or 6 yrs old. She only has one eye but that doesn't stop her a bit! We call her the pekaboo pekapoo! She is housetrained and ready for a lap to call her own. She's spayed and up-to-date on shots. Spirit will do best as an only dog.

Our Virtual Foster of the Month

Meet Topaz
 

Hello My Friends.

My name is Topaz. CPR saved me and my Poodle, Yorkie and Chihuahua siblings from a back yard breeder who was no longer able to care for us due to illness. Compared to most BYB dogs, I had a good life. We lived in the house and I am perfectly paper-trained. I just had a litter of puppies every time I could. My Mommie really didn't know any better. It was just a way to make money.

I'm 12 yrs. old and I'm a happy, well adjusted girl. I don't have any teeth and had several c. positive mammary tumors when I came home with my New Mommie in Nov. of '05. CPR fixed that and had me spayed. Whew! What a relief!! I also have a deformed tongue. Mommie says she wonders how many babies I passed that to.

I weigh in at a hefty 4 1/2 lbs. I love to play games' with Mommie. When she takes a shower, I stick my head around the door and she says, "I'm gonna get ya girl" and I take off down the hall just a'laughin'. I think that's the funniest thing in the world!

I'm a happy girl and if it hadn't been for CPR I'd still be havin' babies and I would have never learned how to work this 'puter.

Annette Clark Hiott and Christina Clark are Carolina Poodle Rescue Board members and they have their own line of shampoos and conditioners called Groomer’s Secret. They have done years of research to formulate all natural products to prevent skin and coat problems in dogs. It is our mission to educate the pet owner and in turn promote healthy skin and coat through the use of all natural products designed for prevention and to meet the needs of those with skin allergies. They also have their own grooming salon. If you wish to visit them online, their website is:

www.groomerssecret.com

The Truth About Skin and Coat
By Annette Clark Hiott

Part Two
Parasitic Dermatitis - The most common response a pet caretaker makes when they see their dog scratching and biting at itself is “I think he’s got fleas”. And sometimes this guess is correct. There are a number of highly effective and safe flea preventatives your veterinarian can prescribe. Fleas are ubiquitous, but an understanding of their life cycle, where they hide in the dog’s environment, and utilizing modern pharmacology breakthroughs, no dog needs to be “driven crazy” as a result of flea infestation. Repeated exposure to fleas can trigger a hypersensitivity (an abnormal, excessive reaction) to the bite of even a single flea. Every veterinarian has been fooled into making a diagnosis of “allergy”, not even suspecting fleas, simply because no fleas were discovered at the time of the physical exam. This is a classic example of a Parasitic Dermatitis (flea bites) triggering a complicated Allergic Dermatitis (due to the flea saliva).

Infectious Dermatitis - Bacterial, fungal and yeast organisms are skin and coat worst enemy! 

Yeasts, most notably a common contaminant of inflamed, red, sometimes moist, and stressed skin. It is especially notorious for creating long term, low-grade external ear infections/inflammation. Yeast infections typically create greasy and odorous signs in affected dogs. The skin is stressed by the waste products of the organisms and responds by releasing histamine - which triggers further inflammation.

Bacterial dermatitis rarely occurs spontaneously. Normal healthy skin has tremendous numbers of a variety of bacteria present all the time. If something upsets that balance, such as antibiotics or harmful stripping of the natural oils in the skin by improper bathing products, the bacteria can multiply. Anything that damages the normal, healthy, intact skin will hamper the skin’s defense mechanisms. Any Environmental Dermatitis, such as contact with grass, or airborne triggers, an abrasion or moisture, can adversely affect the skin’s defensive barriers and opportunistic bacteria then have their way. Parasitic damage to the skin will also allow invasion by bacteria and trigger the body’s healing defense mechanisms.

Infectious Dermatitis often is so irritating that dogs will lick continuously at the lesion and undo any healing that has taken place. A moist, sticky, inflamed skin lesion along with hair loss is characteristic of bacterial dermatitis. These can spread rapidly and even be transposed to other areas of the skin through biting, licking, and scratching of previously uninfected areas.

The treatment for Infectious Dermatitis should include clipping the hair from the area to allow the air to assist drying. The application of gentle, preferably all natural, topical medication is helpful as is the administration of oral antibiotics to fight the organisms that are deeply invading the skin. Yes, cortisone may assist in alleviating the stinging or itchy sensation, but may also suppress normal healing processes. Whenever an infection is present, the decision to use cortisone needs to be very carefully evaluated. A better choice may be antihistamines, such as benadryl, orally. Cortisones should always be a last resort, both orally and topically. The side effects are damaging to the overall health of the dog and should be explained by your veterinarian.

Allergic Dermatitis - Veterinarians spend entire weekends and lots of money attending seminars on this topic alone! It is common, it can be lifelong, it is a challenge to diagnose, and once identified it can be resistant to attempts at treatment. All the other categories of dermatitis must be ruled out before a diagnosis of Allergic Dermatitis can be made. Food ingredients, synthetic and natural fibers, medications and pharmaceutical products, shampoos and conditioners, plant material and even dust all can trigger an Allergic Dermatitis.

Even common bacteria on the dog’s skin can provoke an allergic reaction to themselves! These cases of sensitivity to normal resident bacteria are very challenging to correct.

To what are dogs allergic? Take a look around you right now. Odds are that your dog could be allergic to half-a-dozen different substances in the very room you sit; that doesn’t even include microscopic substances in the air you and your dog breath! Food, cleaning products, carpeting, blankets, and dust mites, mold spores in the air, pollen, plastic food dishes, furniture stuffing and ornamental plants all have the potential to trigger an allergic reaction in your dog. Food allergies are so common that pet food manufacturers have invested millions of dollars in research, development, promotion and delivery of “antigen specific” diets to help in the therapy of dogs with food allergies.

How can you help poodles in need?

We are always looking for dedicated volunteers!

We need people to help check references, do telephone interviews & become adoption counselors, foster dogs in their home, help with newsletter, computer entry and fund-raising stuff, or go to the farm to play with poodles and help out with poodle chores! Just drop me a line at tabell@mailer.fsu.edu

Terry Abell, Vol. Coordinator

Our Mission

To rescue, rehabilitate, offer permanent sanctuary and, when appropriate, rehome needy poodles and small dogs.

To encourage the human-animal bond by promoting activities that serve to bring animals and their people closer together

To support the efforts of those in the animal rescue community seeking to end euthanasia as a means of population control.

Carolina Poodle Rescue
Kennel Telephone 864-489-0291
Email: carolinapoodle.rescue@gmail.com
www.carolinapoodlerescue.org
www.carolinapoodle.petfinder.com

For donations mail to:
10901 Reidville Rd.
Greer, SC 29651

Or PayPal: carolinapoodle.rescue@gmail.com

Registering

Aren't I Cute?

The group resting before the big tour

Time to let them rip…

Volunteer Training

Nope, not spoiled

Sometimes big people have to pose too…

Before dinner and the Silent Auction

Future Adoption Counselors

Aren't we a pair?

The Walk About

You are supposed to want OUT ... not in a kennel!