I am a rescuer… and a dreamer of greater things. Simple things. But things bigger than just me.

Things like cats and dogs with happy homes and loving companions, food to eat, a roof over their heads, warmth, security. Love. Long lives.

I subscribe to this reality.

I am quick to offer help when an animal is in need. I believe if I take care of the immediate needs – health, food and shelter — the rest will fall into place.

But I am only successful if I have a network that supports me. The larger the network and the more far-reaching the network, the more I can do… the more ALL rescuers can do.

Not everyone can rescue just as not everyone can perform brain surgery or walk and chew gum at the same time, but there are other areas of help that are just as important and just as needed. These include, but are not limited to: fostering, medical assistance, transport, social media support.

Yes, even just using your network of friends and family via Facebook and Twitter to SHARE/ReTweet our messages can help us find foster homes, adoptive families, financial contributors and more members.

Let’s Adopt! is an all-volunteer international animal welfare group that is spreading around the globe to help animals in need. We use the strengths of one area to aid the weaknesses in another so we can offer the same level of commitment and care everywhere we are. And we want you to help us. Join us!

Tell us what your interests are and what talents you bring to the group. Let’s roll up our sleeves and save some lives. Add your info to our community map so we can see where our members are when a situation arises.

The weekend is almost upon us. Maybe there will be more time to peruse the web and catch up with friends. This weekend please share this message with your networks and ask them to join Let’s Adopt! Canada.

I really do need you! And so do Buster and Patches.

Ciao, Holly.

If you are old enough to remember the 70s, you might also remember this iconic poster entitled “Building a Rainbow.”

At first glance, it’s pretty cool. There are a lot of little stick people building a rainbow.

But the beauty to the image is in the details. Look closer at it (click the image).

Aside from the references to Edith and Archie Bunker from All In The Family along the bottom, it illustrates the work involved in creating great things today. Success takes the concerted effort of a lot of people doing different tasks to reach a common end goal.

At Let’s Adopt! Canada, we want to continue building our “rainbow.” We want to increase our community, our tribe, our resources. And we want you to be a part of it.

We are expanding our worldwide network of volunteers and activists to aid us as we rescue homeless companion animals… people with big hearts and a loving concern for animals. Our mission is to find homes for our homeless cats and dogs. It’s do-able.

The power of social media to bring their stories into so many homes has helped us place cats and dogs across the globe. To continue the momentum, we are asking more people to join us and share our stories through their networks. As the membership builds, the stories spread further and the work becomes easier.

A bigger network will help us contact volunteers quickly when we need local fosters, volunteers, transport/rescue or for local action alerts. Same as building a rainbow — the more hands you have helping, the less each has to do and the more we can accomplish.

Imagine how many lives we will save together. Imagine being part of that joy.

So if you haven’t already, join us on Facebook. And if you have, please share us with your friends.

There are homes for our homeless.

Let’s Adopt! Canada
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=101251555667

Give Our Angels Wings:
http://bethechange.chipin.com/simbas-fund

Put Yourself On The Map:
http://bit.ly/LetsAdopt-Network-Map

Ciao, Holly

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The first time I met Rocket, he was laying in a ditch on the side of the road with three people standing around him. As I approached, he made eye contact and wagged his tail a bit. A good sign.

It was a Sunday afternoon. Andi, a fellow animal rescuer and her husband had been out on their motorcycle when they drove past a woman pulled to the side of the road and standing outside her vehicle. Thinking she might need some help, they pulled over. What they found was that the woman was from out-of-town; she was just passing through. As she was driving, she noticed a small movement out the corner of her eye in the ditch. In a quick glance, she realized it was a brown dog. He was lifting his head. Being a dog lover, she pulled over to see what she could do.

Andi and Kenneth saw her… and pulled over to see what they could do.

Because they were on a motorcycle, there wasn’t much they could do, so they called me. I loaded some emergency supplies and a backboard into my car and headed out.

We gently moved the dog onto the backboard and loaded him into my car. I drove him to a vet tech’s house where she did a preliminary exam. She administered some meds to stabilize him until we could get him into one of the clinics in the morning that works with us on our rescues.

Long story short and a few months later, Rocket was returned to his original home some 50 miles away where he has been reunited with his other doggie playmates. His broken leg is healing, he is regaining motion in his foot and he is a rocket man zooming around his yard once again.

The simple beauty of the story is the ripple effect a few people had on this gentle soul. Had the first woman not spotted Rocket in the ditch and stopped, he may well have eventually died there. The vets working on him thought he had already been there for a few days.

This is the spirit of volunteerism and community that can make the difference in the lives of our companion animals. It is work that is done one-by-one. While this may seem like slow progress, to the animals saved, it’s more than they had. So it is a good place to start.

A few years ago, rescuers and shelters counted on people coming to them to adopt. But the internet has changed all that. We now create websites to introduce people to our adoptable animals. And with social media, we can now GO OUT TO THE PEOPLE with our messages and their stories. We can share our adoptees with many more people in many more places. In turn, those people can share the messages with their friends and their friends can pass it along still further.

We are able to extend our reach until we find that forever home whether it is down the road, across the country or on another continent. We are no longer limited to our immediate community.

Statistics for the United States show that there are currently 20 million households. On average, the US kills about 4 million cats and dogs a year. There are homes out there for our companion animals. We just need to move beyond the borders we have known in the past and grasp all the opportunities available to us to find homes.

The key to this is people and participation.

People that work in whatever capacity is comfortable for them: rescuer, foster, adopter, other. Let’s Adopt! Canada is looking for these people as we expand our reach throughout Canada and redefine what “community” is. Let us know what talents you have to offer. We’re listening.

Join us! on Facebook.

Let’s not stop until all shelters are empty and every dog and cat has a loving home!

Ciao, Holly

Hi everyone! Hope your holidays went well.

Most of us are aware of the importance of expanding our Canadian network in order to ensure the progress of the group in our country. Since Let’s Adopt! almost entirely relies on its network of volunteers, we are seeking to reach more and more people like us to join our team to be then able to save even more animals and have an even greater impact.

We are looking for adoptive families for our animals as well as foster homes.

Being a foster home means temporarily welcoming an animal in need and taking care of him until he gets adopted. If you’re interested, contact viktor@myletsadopt.com.

To view dogs and cats for adoption, click here. These animals are located in Turkey and will travel in company of flights volunteers.

Perdita

Let’s Adopt! is neither a shelter or a typical animal rescue. Each ”new” animal is under the responsibility of the rescuer until a permanant home can be found. Potential new families must agree to the following adoption conditions:

- The animal must live inside the home;

- The adoptive family must already have another dog or cat at home;

- The adoptive family must agree to send an update with picture (if possible) after the adoption;

- There can be additional condition(s) depending on individual cases.

Currently, we have no animals available for adoption in Canada, but we will soon.

Contact viktor@myletsadopt.com if you’re willing to help us!

Cath

P.S.: Got talent, girls?