Weekly Pupdate for 1-26-25

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. We can apply for a refund with fifty labels.

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.

MAESSR Training Library

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Featured Library Titles

NEW TO THE LIBRARY! WALKING TOGETHER: LOOSE LEAD WALKING FOR HIGH ENERGY DOGS (168 pages) by Simone Mueller. Say goodbye to intense lead pulling & hello to relaxed walks. Are you embarrassed about taking your dog for a walk, as you are left thinking “who is walking who?” Are you tired of being dragged around by your high-energy dog while they are choking themselves? Do you feel like you have already tried everything & nothing seems to work? Teaching a high-drive dog to stop pulling on the lead can feel impossible. It’s true that working breeds, especially those with a high prey-drive, need a special approach to achieve loose lead walking, which is missing from most conventional training protocols. But there is a way to teach any dog to walk on a loose lead without resorting to forceful or aversive measures. By following this training program, it will soon become second nature for your dog to walk nicely close to you. With the help of this book, you’ll: Learn why dogs with a strong prey drive are pulling in the first place, so you can recognize how it is best to help them to stop; Understand why common loose lead walking advice isn’t always the right choice for you & your high-energy dog; Discover easy-to-implement exercises which set your dog up for success with their loose lead walking training by fulfilling their innate needs; Feel empowered to successfully apply your learning to your daily life, to make relaxed loose lead walking a reality! Get ready to start enjoying your dog walks again & make stressful lead pulling a thing of the past! Donated by Cathy Moyer.

ROSE AND KATE UNLEASHED: OBSERVATIONS, ADVICE AND HUMOR FROM TWO VERY OPINIONATED DOGS (157 pages) by Rose Hill and Kate Power. Rose the Irish Setter & Kate the English Springer Spaniel, best friends for more than a decade, discovered several years ago that they had an amazing talent: they can blog. Since then, they have been writing down their observations, experiences & fun times and now they are ready to share them with you in their book, “Rose and Kate Unleashed.” While “Rose and Kate Unleashed” is appropriate for any ag, it is not a children’s book. Photos are in black & white in the paperback format. Rose and Kate’s two-legged companions, Brian & Dee, have been on these adventures every step of the way & helped Rose and Kate translate their dog vocabulary so humans will understand. For Kate, for example, “the sucky-uppy thing” is the vacuum cleaner. And the “tappity thing” is the computer keyboard. Dogs see the world much differently than people do & in this book they open up their world for us to see, with all its excitement & humor & vibrant color. They are special girls who bring joy to everyone they meet through their bright and exuberant personalities. Rose is a bit edgy & vain about her beautiful red looks, Kate is a bit wacky, with an attention span of about 5 seconds. Donated by Pam Nealer.

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

Permanent foster Jingles was found as a stray in MD although the shelter strongly suspected that his “finder” was actually his owner. Despite not being a Springer, MAESSR has a soft spot for Cockers so Jingles became a MAESSR boy and was fostered by DEBBIE LIPCSEY. This sweet older gentleman settled into his foster home seamlessly. He was low key and easy to walk. And, most of all, he was a loving, affectionate senior! Jingles was Debbie’s constant shadow and had to be within 2 to 3 feet of her at all times. He was so lucky to have come to MAESSR. He got 3 years of a great life thanks to MAESSR. He was loved and is missed so much. Run free, Jingles!

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: 20

Permanent fosters: 3 with Kelsey joining the pack & Jingles crossing Rainbow Bridge

Dogs pending foster home: 1

Moving to foster home:

None

Moving to furever homes: