Events – Current & Pupcoming
THE 2025 CALENDARS ARE HERE! The wall calendar – a beautifully curated calendar where each month unfolds with a delightful collection of heartwarming dog portraits capturing the joy and charm of man’s best friend in every season. The desk calendar – one great photo each month sits on your desk giving an easy overview of the month. Buy in bundles and save! Add 2+ calendars to your cart to see a discount.
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 $75 adoption fee for adopters aged 60 and over who adopt dogs nine years old and older or special needs dogs. If interested in one of our senior/special needs dogs, contact Candi Lynn here.
Fund$ for Foster$
Feed your pets NATURAL BALANCE? Please save the store receipt & proof of purchase labels, staple them together, & mail to MAESSR at P.O. Box 807 – Goochland, VA 23063. Once we collect 50 labels, we can apply for a refund.
DOGWISE is another MAESSR affiliate whose mission is to bring humane, understandable & scientifically sound information to people who enrich their lives by working with, playing with & loving dogs. Many of the books, including the booklets, in the MAESSR library can be found at Dogwise.com. You can support MAESSR & get great training advice by shopping. They also sell some training products. Look for the $5 books on sale while you are there!
The Marketplace
The MAESSR MARKETPLACE is open 24/7 for purchases. We’ve also got cool toys for man’s best friend and companion. The MAESSR store and website are in transition – thanks so much for your understanding while we make improvements to the store and website.
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 by simply adding them to the shopping cart and checking out. The material will be mailed to you and is due back in three weeks; YOU ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR RETURN POSTAGE.
Featured Library Titles
THE LANGUAGE OF DOGS: UNDERSTANDING CANINE BODY LANGUAGE AND OTHER COMMUNICATION SIGNALS – two DVD set (2 hrs. 12 min.) by Sarah Kalnajs. What is your dog saying to you and to other dogs? How can you tell when play turns to aggression? How do dogs show friendliness, fear, or stress? This educational video features a lively presentation and extensive footage of a variety breeds showing hundreds of examples of canine behavior and body language. Behaviorist Sarah Kalnajs teaches you how to read these signals so that you can develop a better understanding of what’s really going on in the canine world. This video is perfect for dog owners or anyone who handles dogs or encounters them regularly while on the job.
DR. KHALSA’S NATURAL DOG: HOLISTIC THERAPIES, NUTRITION, AND RECIPES FOR HEALTHIER DOGS (303 pages) by Deva Khalsa, VMD. A pioneer in holistic veterinary medicine, Dr. Deva Khalsa shares her effective, integrative approach to natural health and healing for dogs in this invaluable book. Expanded and updated, Dr. Khalsa’s Natural Dog, in its second edition, presents an inspired way for dog owners to design a diet specifically for their dog’s needs, lifestyle, age, and health. Developed over decades of practice and study, Dr. Khalsa’s methods combine traditional veterinary medicine, wholesome nutrition, and holistic therapies, such as alternative methods, herbal remedies, and botanical medicine. In the new edition, Dr. Khalsa will present the latest research on such important issues as avoiding and treating cancer, chronic gastrointestinal problems, allergy elimination, and effective holistic treatments for ten common problems. Donated by Debbie Lipcsey.
Library Wish Lists
The TRAINING LIBRARY has TWO Wish Lists. New or used titles can be purchased from the Amazon list; 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!
Rainbow Bridge Crossings
MAGGIE 31 (Class of 2012) was relinquished to MAESSR by her owner after onset of a debilitating disease and was fostered by CHERYL AND RICK LARNER. She was their first foster; they quickly fell in love and adopted the 7-month-old pup. She arrived with a great love of balls, Frisbee, and being outdoors. Maggie was extremely intelligent and routinely surprised everyone with her problem-solving, ability to help with other fosters, and training humans to do her bidding. She loved her family, watching squirrels and greeting guests. Maggie was helped to the bridge after a series of strokes early Thanksgiving morning. She was age 13 years 20 days at her death. The twelve years and four months she was with the Larners went by way too quickly. Maggie was an incredible dog and left a huge hole in their lives. They could not have gotten a better or sweeter dog.
HARRY (STEDMAN, class of 2014) came as a shelter stray. He was first fostered by EVA VAN STRATUM & then fostered/adopted by RYAN & NANCY FERRELL. A year passed before discovering that Harry was blind as a result of past contact with Lyme Disease. His loss of vision never affected his life; blindness allowed him to see more than most. Harry hiked throughout the Sierra Nevada following his brother Hiro without hesitation. As long as his feet could feel the bottom of a lake, he was all for swimming. At home, Harry would greet at the door with a huge stuffed animal in his mouth which he also used as a buffer to make his way around the house if something that had been left out of its normal place. As Harry aged & his mobility decreased, he never missed a chance to go for a car ride. Harry was the very best & a reminder how lucky it is to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard. Thanks, MAESSR family, for being a part of Harry’s wonderful life.
Did You Know?
If any volunteers wish to promote MAESSR and the work we do at an event in their community, please email Vicki Phillips. These are marketing events only to hand out information.
To learn more about the website, check out the tutorials here.
If you need to contact MAESSR, please click on & read our CONTACT page to avoid your message going to the wrong place. The CONTACT button is immediately to the left of the MAESSR logo on the website homepage.
If you have a PET IN NEED OF PRAYERS, please email 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 re-homed 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 dog 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 should be emailed here. On the new website you can also set up an account under the Shop tab so that MAESSR can keep track of your mailing address; your email can also be changed under Your Account in the top right-hand corner with Edit Profile.
If you need 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 IAABC.
Gentle Nudges
RAINBOW BRIDGE CROSSINGS are shared on a monthly basis. If you want your MAESSR dog included, send your name, dog’s MAESSR name if different than the post-adoption name, year of adoption, and a PHOTO here. Feel free to include who fostered and a little background info about your dog. To have the information posted on our Facebook page, send it (including photos) to the social media team.
When you send your notes about events or requests for help, please cc: here 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 updates email.
Pictures! Pictures! Pictures!
To share pics, videos, and/or articles about your MAESSR dog to our social media team. Videos for adoption pages & YouTube channel get sent here. Be sure to include dog’s MAESSR name including number, if one, and adoption year.
Pup-ulation Report
Total dogs in our care: 22
Permanent fosters: 3 with Toby 18 joining the pack
Dogs pending foster home: 2
Moving to foster home:
Ollie 3 to Laura Beckendorf
Moving to furever homes:
Phillie to Drake
Woo-woo-woo!
Submitted by volunteer Cathy Moyer with thanks to those who contributed submissions/info.
PO Box 807 Goochland VA 23063 – Phone (804)774-6730
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