April 18, 2005
SFist Wants You To Find A Friend: Prince, from Grateful Dogs
We're big animal lovers here in the Bay Area, as evidenced by the dedicated employees at many of ourarea humane societies and city shelters. In addition to these established animal care organizations are the many animal rescue organizations who save and seek homes for many of the animals that could no longer be accomodated by these societies and shelters. Here in our SFist bully pulpit, we realized that we have the chance to highlight some of these organizations and the animals that they are taking care of until someone -- maybe you -- takes them home. We'll be featuring a new adoptable pet every week (you can see the animal in question all week long on the right side of the site, below the ads), and we hope that you'll take the time to check him or her out. Isn't that a bit more rewarding than surfing the personals?
This week's adoptable pet comes to us from Grateful Dogs Rescue (full disclosure: Grateful Dogs saved our dog from certain death, so we're totally biased on how awesome they are), which was established to rescue San Francisco Animal Care and Control "unadoptable dogs," (shelter dogs not made available for adoption because they needed some medical help or some behavioral training) from euthenasia. Grateful Dogs volunteers foster and work with these dogs until they get "up to speed" enough to find an appropriate Bay Area adoptive family. This week's dog is Prince, a very handsome husky:
"Prince is a 5-6 year old neutered Husky with a wonderful disposition. His ideal situation is in an adults-only home with an adopter who has some experience with or knowledge of issues typical of this breed. For example, Prince is an escape artist who needs a very secure environment. He also can be cocky with other male dogs. This handsome boy will be an excellent companion for someone who truly appreciates the unique Husky spirit."
To learn more about Prince and Grateful Dogs rescue, see their site.
Have a rescue organization with adoptable pets you'd like SFist to spotlight? Let us know in the comments, or by email
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Huskies are great dogs. They take some work, but they are very sweet and eternally loyal. They have endless amounts of energy so if you just have a tiny apartment a husky will probably tear it up when you leave. They also howl at sirens so it might not be an ideal situation if you think you're neighbors will complain or if you live next door to a fire station or hospital.
As far as the escaping goes, we hooked up a Petsafe Radio Fence (http://www.petsafestore.com/radiofence.html ) and haven't had a problem since. The key is you have to buy the biggest collar they make and turn it up to level 5. Trust me, huskies have an extremely high tolerance for pain. Our dog got shocked once and now all he has to do is hear the warning "beep" and he backs away from the fence. That was 2 years ago. He weighs over 100 lbs.
Before any of you say it's cruel, the railroad tracks are directly behind our house and just after we moved here our dogs escaped and were on the loose back there for 6 hours. If we didn't invest in the radio fence, they would surely be dead by now. It's a great product and it works.
Now someobody please give little Prince a home. And if Prince isn't the husky you're looking for check out the Bay Area Husky Rescue Organization at: http://www.bayareasiberian.org/ , for other huskies in need of homes.
And thanks to Eve for helping our dog friends.