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$
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 & watch the savings pour in while donating to MAESSR! Type in Mid Atlantic English Springer Spaniel Rescue. (Note: no hyphen between Mid & Atlantic.) Highlight & click on MAESSR to adopt it as your cause. Start shopping, MAESSRland!
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 CANINE KINGDOM OF SCENT: FUN ACTIVITIES USING YOUR DOG’S NATURAL INSTINCTS (115 pages) by Anne Lill Kvam. Help give your dog the key to the kingdom of scent! Your dog truly rules when it comes to scenting ability, but you hold the key to allow him to learn how to more fully explore his kingdom. And that key is your willingness to work with him in what dog trainers call nosework exercises & games. While your dog has a wonderful innate ability to scent, nosework will present fun & interesting challenges which will make your dog more physically & mentally fit as well as to help solidify your relationship with your dog. Anne Lill Kvam’s The Canine Kingdom of Scent provides you all you need to know in terms of training techniques & tips so that you and your dog can both get all the benefits from doing nosework. You will learn: How to motivate your dog to follow a scent trail or find a hidden item through the use of positive reinforcement & effective rewards. – The importance of teaching your dog is step-by-step increments & allowing sufficient times for breaks and relaxation. – The best way to teach your dog the names of his toys, find lost keys, & how to retrieve items left on a track. – All about the “pancake tracking” method used to begin to teach your dog how to track & then how to keep your dog challenged as he begins to tackle more difficult tracking exercises. Donated by Cathy Moyer.
ALWAYS BY MY SIDE: LIFE LESSONS FROM MILLIE AND ALL THE DOGS I’VE LOVED (274 pages) by Edward Grinnan. The editor in chief of Guideposts magazine shares the heartwarming story of Millie, his beloved golden retriever, & how she taught him to be a more compassionate person, deepened his faith, & inspired him on his long-term path of recovery from addiction. From the moment his new golden retriever puppy jumped into his arms, Edward Grinnan & his wife, Julee, were in love with her. Edward didn’t know it yet, but Millie would change his life. In this moving memoir, Edward Grinnan writes about his life with Millie – from their first joyous meeting through her struggle with cancer & eventual heartbreaking death. Edward shares how her sensitivity, unconditional love, & innate goodness helped him discover those qualities in himself & put his complicated past in perspective. Edward also shares the lessons he’s learned from other dogs he’s loved – like Pete, a poodle his father bought him in the wake of his brother’s death; Rudy, who introduced him to his wife; Sally Browne, a mischievous cocker spaniel who befriended the homeless in his neighborhood; & Marty, a 100-pound Labrador whose behavioral issues challenged his & Julee’s marriage – as well as lessons he’s learned from the celebrated dog stories in Guideposts magazine. Poignant & insightful, Always by My Side is an inspiring book that explores the unbreakable bond between man & dog, how faith shapes our love for our dogs & how our dogs shape our faith.
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!
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.
VIDEOS – VIDEOS – VIDEOS! We have a new YouTube channel called Mid-Atlantic English Springer Spaniel Rescue. FOSTER HOMES ARE ENCOURAGED TO SEND IN VIDEOS OF THEIR CURRENT CHARGES FOR BOTH YOUTUBE & THE DOGS’ ADOPTION PAGES. We need the dogs’ official MAESSR names & 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 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
Dogs pending foster home: 1
Moving to foster home:
None
Moving to furever homes:
None
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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