Weekly Pupdate: 10-1-23
News & Pupcoming Events
THIS WEEK! FRIDAY, OCTOBER 6th from 5 pm to 9 pm: WARRENTON FIRST FRIDAY street fair, Main Street, Warrenton VA. The MAESSR store will be at the Warrenton First Friday Street Fair – also joining us will be our canine MAESSR ambassador who will show the world how wonderful rescue dogs can be! Other vendors include Old Town Warrenton businesses, food trucks, a beer and wine garden, and events for kids and adults. It promises to be a fun evening, and we hope to see you all there!
IT’S A FUNDRAISER! To mark 25 years of MAESSR, we’ve launched a t-shirt fundraiser. You can choose from two t-shirts, a long-sleeve t-shirt, or a crewneck sweatshirt in a variety of colors. All proceeds help MAESSR continue to find homes for Springers in need.
Featured Dogs
Check out our senior/special needs dogs! Our program, SENIORS FOR SENIORS, charges a $75 adoption fee for adopters aged 60 and over who adopt dogs nine years old and older or special needs dogs. If interested in one of our senior/special needs dogs, contact Candi Lynn here.
Misc. Funding/Resources
Go to GOODSHOP.COM to get Gumdrop for free! Goodshop is the world’s first-ever shopfunding site. When you shop at thousands of stores, a percentage of what you spend will be donated to MAESSR. Gumdrop finds the best coupon codes wherever you shop. Auto Apply Savings – just one click automatically applies the best coupons for you. Never search for a coupon again and watch the savings pour in while donating to MAESSR! To choose MAESSR as your cause, type in Mid Atlantic English Springer Spaniel Rescue. (Note that there is no hyphen, just a space between Mid and Atlantic.) Highlight and click on MAESSR to adopt it as your cause. Start shopping, MAESSRland!
Thanks to all of the families who feed VeRUS dog food. The free bags that MAESSR receives from the Rescue Frequent Feeder Program help the foster homes. It is a really easy way to help foster homes. If you need a frequent feeder envelope, please email Debbie at springerfarm@aol.com.
The MAESSR MARKETPLACE is open for business! We’ve got cool toys for man’s best friend and fun things for their humans. Have you seen our spooky Halloween garden flags? They’re the perfect addition to your ghostly decor. Cold weather is right around the corner, so check out our selection of fleeces and sweat-shirts for the whole family. And don’t forget your pup! The shop is full of wonderful enrichment toys & games for your Springer. Free shipping on all items!
Training Library
The MAESSR Training Library has over 250 titles of ACTUAL DVDs, CDs, and books, both fiction and non-fiction, to lend out. You can BORROW items directly from the Training Library at library.maessr.com by simply adding them to the shopping cart and checking out or you can email your name, address and material you wish to borrow to the librarian. The material will be mailed to you and is due back in three weeks; YOU ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR RETURN POSTAGE.
MAESSR Training Library
Training Library Facebook
Featured Library Titles
MINE! A PRACTICAL HOW-TO GUIDE ON RESOURCE GUARDING (102 pages) by Jean Donaldson. Contents include: aggression basics, nature of resource guarding, kinds of resource guarding, behaviorist vs. medical models, recognizing guarding, prognosis, safety tools, treatment overview, management, desensitization and counterconditioning, resource sample hierarchies, generalization, trouble-shooting, body handling desensitization, operant conditioning. Donated by Phyllis Chan + Beth Reid.
*ON TALKING TERMS WITH DOGS: CALMING SIGNALS (78 pages) Norwegian dog trainer and behaviorist Turid Rugaas is a noted expert on canine body language, notably “calming signals,” which are signals dogs use to avoid conflict, invite play, and communicate a wide range of information to other dogs and people. These are the dogs’ attempt to defuse situations that otherwise might result in fights or aggression. • Learn to identify situations that are stressful to your dog so that you can resolve or avoid them. • Rehabilitate a dog that has lost her ability to read or give calming signals.• Become a keen observer of canine behavior at home, in the community, and among dogs to get better behavior and build a solid relationship. *Recommended by the Association of Professional Dog Trainers.
Library Wish Lists
The TRAINING LIBRARY now has TWO Wish Lists. You can purchase materials (new or used) off the Amazon list; the Dogwise has new books and DVDs. Purchases can be shipped directly to the library. Pretty quick and easy way to help out MAESSR as well as educate adopters!
Did You Know?
Would you like to write content for our blog? We’d love to feature articles from MAESSR volunteers. If you’d like to contribute, click here and either send us your article or let us know your idea.
ADOPTED DOG PROJECT: Please check to see if your dog is listed on our “Success Stories” page. In migrating the dog profiles over to the new site, we found several dogs that were missing information or had their information confused with another dog. If your dog is not listed or the information/pictures are incorrect, click here to let us know. Please specify which dog, what year they were adopted, and include their proper write up and/or pictures so we can amend the errors. Thanks.
IMPORTANT INFO! The io mail groups will be going away in the near future, and everyone will need to re-subscribe to the Weekly Pupdate on the new website to receive it. The “Subscribe to Weekly Pupdate” link can be found in various places on the new website, at the bottom of the home page and usually in the right sidebars. Fill out your name and email address, complete the captcha, and confirm your subscription in your mailbox. Remember to check your Spam folder for the confirmation email. In the future, if you need to change your email address, you can do that in your account settings once you set those up. You can set up your account under Register/Login at the top of the home page. Access to your account will be in the top right-hand corner. In the meantime, the Weekly Update will still go out in the io mail groups and on Facebook until the complete switchover is made.
Look for more info on the new website in the coming weeks! In the meantime, check out the tutorials here.
From Tiffaney Williams: “We’re creating a gallery of MAESSR stories and we want to hear from you! In one paragraph, tell us about your favorite MAESSR memory. That can be about a dog you adopted or fostered, how you first found MAESSR, a memorable event you attended, or anything else. Please include a relevant picture, or just one of your MAESSR dog. Send here.” Click here for an example of a story.
VIDEOS – VIDEOS – VIDEOS! MAESSR has a new YouTube channel (called Mid-Atlantic English Springer Spaniel Rescue) linked to our new website with videos from the old YouTube channel (MAESSR) and our other dogs being uploaded. FOSTER HOMES ARE ENCOURAGED TO SEND IN VIDEOS OF THEIR CURRENT CHARGES FOR BOTH YOUTUBE AND THE DOGS’ ADOPTION PAGES. We will be coming up with a few simple guidelines but will definitely need the dogs’ official MAESSR names and numbers as nicknames are too confusing. When sharing videos of adopted dogs, please also include the adoption year along with their official MAESSR name. Please send your videos here.
If you have a PET IN NEED OF PRAYERS, please contact Linda Shope or Linda Johnston. They would be happy to add your pet’s name to the pet ministry prayer list.
IF YOU SEE A SPRINGER NEEDING RESCUE: For a springer being rehomed in an ad on social media or in a newspaper, please email the relinquishment team. For a springer in a shelter, please email the shelter team. In your email include contact info such as links to the online post, shelter name, state, and phone number.
Did you move? Did you change your email address? ADDRESS CHANGES. This is changing with the new website. Please set up an account under the Shop tab so that MAESSR can keep track of your mailing address; your email can be changed under Your Account in the top right-hand corner with Edit Profile.
If you need some advice regarding behavioral issues, certified and credentialed trainers that use positive methods only to help guide people to the correct resources can be found at CCPDT and at IAABC.
Gentle Nudges
RAINBOW BRIDGE CROSSINGS are shared on a monthly basis. If you would like your MAESSR dog included, please send your name, dog’s MAESSR name if different than the post-adoption name, year of adoption, and a PHOTO to here. Feel free to include who fostered the dog and a little background info about your dog. To have the information posted on MAESSR’s Facebook page, send it (including photos) here.
When you send your notes about events or requests for help, please cc: updates@maessr.org to help ensure that all events are mentioned in the Weekly Pupdate.
Mistakes happen! Corrections or omissions to the Weekly Pupdate can be sent to Cathy.
MAESSRland Pup-ulation Report
Total dogs in our care this week: 11.
Permanent fosters: 3
Dogs pending a foster home: 3.
Moving into foster homes: None.
Moving into furever homes: None.
Submitted by volunteer Cathy Moyer with thanks to those who helped with submissions/ information.
PO Box 807 Goochland VA 23063
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