Events – Current & Pupcoming
Saturday, September 20th from 10 am to 4 pm at Lums Pond State Park – 1068 Howell School Road – Bear, DE 19701. Link for REGISTRATION and details on Zeffy.
Candlewood Suites is available for those that need accommodations for the Delaware Picnic. Rooms are available for $154 a night.
For info on raffle baskets, log on to Facebook.
MAESSR’s First Annual VIRTUAL Springer Sprint 2025: Wednesday, 10/1 – Tuesday, 10/7. Never done a virtual walk/run? It’s easy and fun! Simply sign up, and then walk or run 5k during National Walk Your Dog Week. Do it all at once or over the course of the week, and log your progress on the website. Do it by yourself, with a friend, or with your dog. Get a tee shirt and a bandana for your furry friend when you’re done! Sign up by August 31st for the early bird discount. Check out link or send email for information
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.
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!
Featured Library Titles
WHO TRAINS WHOM – OFFICIAL BOOTLEG VIDEO (2 hours) by Dr. Ian Dunbar. This thought-provoking lecture examines the often-complex relationships people have with their dogs, and illuminates the many ways in which it is often the pets who are the ones training the people. Dr. Dunbar has long been the leader in explaining dog behavior and training in a manner that is both educational and supremely entertaining. This lecture was filmed in 1994, but you will be amazed at how many of the ideas which are presented remain revolutionary and relatively under-utilized by owners and trainers of pet dogs. Donated by Judy Hart.
RESCUING SPRITE: A DOG LOVER’S STORY OF JOY AND ANGUISH (216 pages) by Mark R. Levin. From the New York Times bestselling radio personality Mark Levin and his family comes the true story of the two years of joy and anguish they had with a rescue dog named Sprite. Mark Levin, while known as a lawyer and nationally syndicated broadcaster, considers himself first and foremost a dog lover. In 2004, Mark’s family added a new member to their bunch—a beautiful, Spaniel-mixed dog they named Sprite. With his beautiful face and soft, huggable fur, Sprite immediately bonded with the Levin family. But on Halloween night, just three weeks after being adopted, Sprite collapsed and had to be rushed to the animal hospital in what would turn out to be the first of many such visits—and a difficult, heart-wrenching journey for the entire family. Over the next two years, Sprite’s health deteriorated, but his spirit remained high and his beauty and grace continued to inspire, until the holiday season of 2006, when the Levin family had to say a final goodbye to their beloved pet. Rescuing Sprite is a stunningly intimate revelation of the strong love that can develop between a family and a pet, and the realization, as Mark Levin puts it, that “in the end, we humans are the lucky ones.”
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.
We’re on Mastodon now! Twitter throttles low-follower accounts, making it pointless for us to post there. Come on over to Mastodon & discover lots of other wonderful animal rescue groups, dog owners, & shelters, & posts on any topic you can think of. It works much like Twitter, so the format will be familiar.
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 to updates email. 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: updates email 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 the 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: 21
Permanent fosters: 3
Dogs pending foster home: 4
Moving to foster home:
Puddles to Candi Lynn
Atlas to Debbie Lipcsey
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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