Dog Rescue Organization in Portland, Tennessee

Happy New Year "2011"

Posted on January 1, 2011 by admin

“Cheers to a new year and another chance for us to get it right”
~Oprah Winfrey

It’s “2011″ A New Year & we will continue to achieve the same goal as past years… Saving Lives! More to post, but for now, please view our Smilebox and smile that because of your support these faces live on!!!

Over 700 dogs/cats saved this year…

Will post more in a day or so…
A Revolution for LIFE, begins at “A Place To Bark”!!!
“2011″ is going to be an AMAZING year!
Stay Tuned!

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"Change The World" Help us win for animals in need!

Posted on October 4, 2010 by admin

“Dare to reach out your hand into the darkness, to pull another hand into the light”
~Norman B. Rice

Another year almost at end… Where does time go?
Will try to catch you up in the next few blog posts, but for now…
I need to ask a favor of every person who Believes in LIFE!
I NEED YOU TO VIEW, RATE & SHARE THE VIDEO BELOW!
Every person who loves animals &

Believes that they should be given every reason to LIVE,
I NEED YOUR HELP!
We have done a commercial for the “Go Daddy” contest& hope to win!
Or at the very least inspire people to come together
join the movement of a no kill nation mindset…

I am doing everything I can, to not close the shelter at the end of this year. Even with the least amount of donations, we continue to save more dogs than last year, but the bills need to be paid. So we will just keep the faith, hope & pray that we inspire a nation to follow our model, to build more quarantine/rehab rescue facilities & save lives in bulk!

This is my friend Claudine & oneof two of her rescued pets she has adopted from A Place To Bark. Maggie who is nuzzled in Claudine’s neck in this photo, was scheduled to be put to sleep an hour after I rescued her.

Can you imagine?
Look at that beautiful face…
She is an AMAZING dog!!!
A victim of circumstance, as most of these precious animals are!
Together we can change the world, but it will take all of us!
Come & join our “Revolution for LIFE!!!”
They depend on us… Let’s not fail them!

BE A PART OF SOMETHING GREAT!!!

SAVING LIFE!
(Photo Credit: Joe Frazz Photography)

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help a place to bark with ebay! It’s easy!

Posted on July 20, 2010 by admin

Support A Place to Bark on eBay today! Do you use eBay? Did you know you can help A Place to Bark when you buy and sell? Here’s how:

SELLERS: Sell your unwanted items on eBay and donate 10-100% of the final sale price to A Place to Bark.You’ll get a tax deduction and a credit on your basic eBay selling fees.

SHOPPERS: Buy items listed on eBay to benefit A Place to Bark. You’ll get a great deal and A Place to Bark will get funds from your purchase.

EVERYONE: Make us your Favorite Nonprofit and you’ll be invited to donate $1 (or more) whenever you checkouton eBay.

SPREAD THE WORD: Help spread the word! Please Twitter this blog post and mention it in Facebook too! This will all help A Place to Bark!

GET STARTED today by visiting our dedicated page on eBay here!
thank you so much for your support of the animals!

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Operation Bark "A Place To Bark" HELP US In our "REVOLUTION FOR LIFE"!!!

Posted on July 13, 2010 by admin

“It is the greatest of all mistakes to do nothing

because you can only do little,

Do what you can”

~Sydney Smith

The months that have past have been a true test of Faith for me as always, time passing faster & faster, moments gone in a blink of an eye…

A struggle of my mind & heart, but even more so with the recent loss of my mother.

My emotions running high & deep, each and everyday.

Looking into the eyes of those that cannot speak, but yet, I know what they say…

The emotional exhaust that comes with taking care of hundreds of animals yearly, but also the elation that follows, when they are adopted, loved & held in the arms of their new families.

The phone calls, pictures & Love, THAT is what keeps me going…

Focusing on the good, the end result of all the work.

You can just imagine what it’s like….

Knowing the dark side of the world, but also knowing that there is HOPE for all these animals if people work to save them!

The unfair side of what I see, is where life is put to sleep needlessly for mere dollars, while it costs hundreds to save.

Life isn’t fair, many things can change if we come together to make a difference for these helpless animals.

This is where I need you, to help me fight & make a statement with the numbers saved!!!

Fight to save these animals from a needless death…

JOIN ME IN A REVOLUTION FOR LIFE!!!

Our rescue is in need of serious donations to keep taking in the hundreds of animals we do yearly.

Please, I hate asking for money or help, it is not for me, it is for these animals I rescue.

Just think…. I struggle everyday with funding, but yet we still save & continue to rescue.

IF we had an endowment, enough money to pay the vet bills, buy a transport vehicle & finish the shelter how many more we would save!!!

For a mere $10.00 monthly /or more, if we could get 1000/ or more people to do this recurrent donation, we really could make a huge impact & create this program into a national model.

Currently we are working with 2 shelters & 3 others (one as far as Nova Scotia) are willing to take our dogs into their adoption programs.

So life is waiting for these dogs on death row at every animal control in the nation, they just need someone to step up & take responsibility for their lives like we do here.

It takes work, but the end result is LIFE!

Please consider making the ten dollar or more monthly donation to “A Place To Bark” thru Network For Good or PayPal & help us save the lives of these precious pets!!!

Please spread the word about our campaign.

Ten dollars can help us save LIVES!

It’s up to us to make a difference in this world!!!

The Power of ONE + One= The power of EVERYONE!!!

This picture says it all: Love & Life lives on because of your donation!

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!! From: A Place To Bark

Posted on December 31, 2009 by admin

A happy New Year!!! Grant that I may bring no tear to any eye…

When this New Year in time shall end. Let it be said I’ve played the friend.

Have lived & loved & labored here & made of it a HAPPY Year! ~Edgar Guest

In the blink of an eye…

Another year passed.

WoW!!! And what a year it’s been!!!

Never have I worked so hard & felt so behind…

But it’s all about lessons, this life, this journey.

I’ve learned so much, this past year & even as old as I get, I’m always learning something new:)

First I want to say “Thank YOU!!!!” to all who visit & read this blog…

Your support, friendship & constant compassion helps me continue on & find strength daily.

Thank you seems so inadequate, but please know, I do appreciate you so very, very much!!!

As so far behind as I get, my disappearances from the blog & my e-mail, I’m learning to find balance & will one day master it:)

This year in a nutshell, has been our most AMAZING ever…

I’m still wondering how we did, what we’ve done.

The sleepless nite, the non stop round the clock, care, cleaning, etc..

All pays off & we have saved 611 dogs this year & 42 cats.

Here are some of our highlights:

We were able to assist the animals in need saved by The Humane Society of the United States this past year on 2 separate occasions. Here are a few before & afters:

Just a few of our HAPPY videos. The dogs from the confiscation above & their progress:)
Learning to trust again: A Tail wag first…
And we’re UP!!! On the road back to trusting people

The other assist was a Horse rescue where 84 horses were saved in Tennessee.

At this confiscation several dogs that we took in and cared for have now been adopted!!!

Here is one of their before & after pics:

I’ve been at almost every confiscation done by HSUS in Tennessee over the past few years.

The people who have dedicated their lives and live most of it on the road, saving these helpless creatures, get my deepest respect. I’m blessed to know many of them & call them friend.

Until the day there are no more in need, together we work together, cry together & pray for a better future…

This is just a few of the many dedicated AMAZING people on the HSUS Emergency Services Team, led by Scotlund Haisley.

Next I want to introduce you to some AMAZING kids!!!

They have presented us with a $1000.00 donation this Holiday season.

Their organization Assist A Pet believes in our vision!!!

In 2010 we will be partnering with Audrey, Andrea & Jack to make

a difference via our social networks.
These driven kids are going to be our spokes kids for a new website we will be launching later in the year, dedicated to everyone coming together to make a difference, via our social networks. Focusing on being socially responsible, spreading awareness & believing in a common vision of saving Lives everyday & the end of needless killing of shelter pets!!!
“A Revolution For Life” begins at “A Place To Bark”!!! Stay Tuned it will be VERY exciting:)
Our younger generation will lead this revolution…

Another puppymill confiscation where 285 dogs were saved by the ASPCA in February of 2009. Another AMAZING group!!! I don’t know what would happen to the world without this animal welfare organizations….
We took in 28 of these dogs who were all extremely emaciated & extremely pregnant.
All of which left healthy, loved & have ALL have been adopted!!!

A VERY special THANK YOU to PetSmart Charities!!!

Without their support we would have never been able to care for the medical needs of so many of these dogs.

This is one of the babies who is now an adult & happily living with artist Julie Bergmann & her family. Pom Pom is very loved & spoiled as all dogs should be:)
Another artist Sue Pelletier has sweet Eloise who also was born out of that horrible situation. Both live perfect lives & for that I am forever grateful!!! Thanks for adopting instead of buying:)

The key to our success is networking & working together. Sometimes we don’t see eye to eye, but the bottom line is, we have to learn to agree to disagree and keep working towards the common cause & vision. That is to end the needless killing. The only way it will happen is by EVERYONE working together. So that is what we try to focus on everyday!

Here’s a little video on our daily efforts in making a difference where we live, by working with the Sumner County Sheriff’s Dept Animal Control.

They deliver dogs weekly to our rescue & help us save lives.

Our partnering shelter Anti Cruelty Society in Chicago is really who makes us successful.

They have the staff & facilities to place the hundreds of animals we save yearly.
By coming together, each doing our part, to get these animals healthy & well adjusted, it becomes a win/win for the animals, adopters & the humane society.

This is the wave of the future!!! The collaborative efforts SAVE lives!!!

The staff keeps me updated on my animals via my Facebook, Twitter & my social networks.
If one does not shelter well, it is returned to us, for private placement.

As you can see, I’m proud to call these people my friends!!!

How could we not be, after all, what feels better than saving life…

Yes, shelter policies and procedures are changing!!!

But we have to BELIEVE & be the CHANGE, if we expect to see it!!!

The extreme emotion & hard work it takes to run a rescue successfully & the huge numbers we have been taking has been taking it’s toll on me… But the vision is almost complete.

The matching grant from the Zoline Foundation & your donations have brought us to a place we can continue to finish the shelter.

I’m not sure yet, if we’ve met the match, but whatever the case, we are grateful for whatever we have collected:) In the next few months, we will have walls, plumbing, electric, heating & air!!! All that will left to finish will be the veterinary equipment, washer/dryer, dishwasher, stainless steel sinks, kennels & veterinary cages. So much to do in the next few months, but we are almost there!!! WooHoo!!!

It’s been a tough year for all & financially everyone has been stretched, but you’ve come together for us and it’s been a MIRACLE to say the least. Again: “THANK YOU ALL!!!”