SSD REALLY ROTTEN NEWS - 10-01-08
A little over 2 weeks ago we had a catastrophic drive failure that totally destroyed our main source of data and the backups were also damaged in the process. The drive was sent to California but the data recovery specialists were unable to salvage any data from it at all due to the damage sustained.
So we've now started the arduous task of trying to rebuild all the information that we can, entirely from scratch. Unfortunately that means that donation gift items will be delayed during this time. We hope it will only be a couple more weeks and we sincerely apologize for the inconvenience.
If you have made a donation within the past month or so where a gift item is to be sent to you, we will be contacting you by email as soon as we can to let you know when your gift items will be shipping out.
Thank you very much for your patience and understanding during this very traumatic time.
Shore Service Dogs, Inc., a small corporation registered in Maryland as a non-profit organization, was created to provide second chances for both people and dogs in need of assistance. Located on Maryland's beautiful Eastern Shore, SSD brings abandoned, and abused dogs, into our founder's home and custom trains them to become Service Dogs for people with mobility disabilities.
Shore Service Dogs relies on fundraising, grants and charitable donations from businesses, corporations, civic organizations and individuals to offset the costs of training these amazing dogs. Your support helps make our goal of assisting others possible. Please help us help those who's lives would be made easier with the aid of these wonderful dogs!
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iSearch, YouSearch, We All Search With iSearch!
iSearchiGive is a brand-new search engine, powered by Yahoo! Search and iGive.com. It's fast, free, requires no registration and best of all Shore Service Dogs earns a penny for every separate search you do! By making iSearchiGive your default search engine, it's the perfect way to donate to Shore Service Dogs without costing you a cent! It's a win, win all the way around!!
So if you'll please use this search box for all your web search needs you'll help us to help others!! And make sure to tell all your friends about it too!
Click in the search field below to start supporting Shore Service Dogs for free while you search!
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Invisible Service Dogs!
Mary & Major
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Well, if you've visited the website within recent months you've probably wondered why it hasn't been updated much... at all. No, it's not because Mary's been lazy. It turns out, the reason Mary's not been bouncing back from that major surgery (that almost killed her) that she had over a year and a half ago at Johns Hopkins hospital, was because she is one very sick puppy.
After years of health problems, seeing legions (or darn near close to it) of doctors, undergoing several serious surgeries that didn't help at all, and recently having her health start to go downhilll at a pretty quick clip, she found one place that finally put the pieces of the puzzle together and ran a specialized test. It came back positive for Lyme Disease and Babesia (similar to malaria) that apparently she's had for at least 10 years.
She's now battling the disease and hoping she's on the road to recovery but unfortunately the delay in diagnosis and treatment has left her with a lot of serious and painful health problems. Hard to believe so much destruction can come from such a tiny bug! She won't know for a while whether the harm done is permanent or not. So if you will, please say a prayer, or cross your eyes, or toss a penny in a well, that she'll be able to pull through this soon!
It's been rough but Mary's a firm believer that there's a reason for things happening and a silver lining in everything and one of those silver linings is being able to pass on her hard won knowledge to help others recognize possible tick borne infection symptoms and hopefully avoid her experiences. Lyme and Babesia as well as other tick borne illnesses are nasty diseases. They are devastating to humans but are just as dangerous if not more so to dogs, cats, cows, and horses, as well as many other animals. And they can be fatal in both humans an animals!
So make sure to protect yourself and your animals from ticks and should any of you start feeling ill after being bit, get tested with the proper tests! To learn more about tick borne diseases and what to look for as to symptoms in yourself or your pet, check out our new Neat & Impotant Stuff page.
And for some light reading and a chuckle or 2, make sure to check out our Fun Stuff page too because laughter really can be one of the best medicines around (in addition to doggie kisses and cuddles)!
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The Puppy Picassos Are Featured On The Jim Bohannon Show On Early Monday morning 8/25/08, 5:27AM; Monday night 8/25/08, 12:55AM & also on Sunday morning 8/31/08, 8:20AM.!
For all of you who listen to talk radio, the Jim Bohannon Show and America In The Morning are probably names you're very familiar with. His shows are always entertaining and informative and he's had some amazing guests including President Jimmy Carter! You can hear his shows on over 500 radio stations across the U.S. And Shore Service Dogs is going to be on it! Or at least Mary will be heard. Seems the cats got the dogs' tongues for this interview! ;-)
So make sure to keep tuned to your local radio affiliate to listen to the feature that Jim does about our amazing dogs or you can listen to it on the web at his show archives at http://www.jimbohannonshow.com/pg/jsp/jimbo/aitmarchive.jsp!
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The Doggie Da Vincis Were Featured On French TV's TF1 & National Geographic TV's "Dog Genius" Program!
The pooches here at Shore Service Dogs are getting quite a bit of publicity both on air and in print. They're famous around the world and their popularity just seems to keep growing by leaps and bounds!
Recently the Doggie Da Vincis were featured on several TV programs. One was a feature documentary by the French TV station TF1. Unfortunately, the video clips are still in production so we aren't able to post them at this time. But make sure to keep checking back for it to go live on the site!
The puppers were also part of National Geographic Television's program, "Dog Genius" ! This program was one of the installments of their highly acclaimed, Animal Genius series that has showcased various species' prodigies. The guys had a number of their Service Dog tasks shown as well as a demonstration of their famous artistic prowess. We hope you got a chance to watch it!
While this clip of the program unfortunately does not show our amazing dogs here at Shore Service Dogs, it does show some wonderful examples of various Mobility Service Dogs tasks. It also explains how some organizations go about the breeding and preparing of puppies to become Service Dog trainees.
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Painting Pups! No, Really... They Paint!!
Ah, the joys of fundraising. So important and yet not so much fun. But we decided to change that! So our dogs have been hard at work learning a new skill... they can now paint! No, not by walking across canvases with painted paws. Not even by scratching at canvases. Our dogs are over achievers. They do it with paintbrushes held in their mouths and they paint canvases on easels no less! They're even starting to learn how to choose their own colors so that the artwork is entirely created by them! Don't believe it?
Check out some of their paintings and videos!
Make sure to also check out the items that have been donated to local animal charities to help them raise much needed funds. Our current charity auctions will even be featuring a guitar body painted by both Major & Sammy during the filming by French television TF1.
PS... If you go to the Shore Service Dogs' YouTube Videos page, please make sure to rate the videos. The higher the rating the more people will learn about Service Dogs!
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Shop Online At iGive.com
& You'll Help SSD!
Shop in the Online mall at www.iGive.com and help by choosing Shore Service Dogs as the organization you'd like to help when you join.
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*** IT DOESN'T COST ANYTHING TO JOIN OR USE *** and you'll get the same fantastic (and sometimes even better) deals you'd get by visiting the online stores directly. But each time you make a purchase through iGive, a percentage of your total purchase price will be automatically donated to help SSD train more dogs to help those in need. In addition, for every new member that signs up and chooses SSD as their charity, they'll also donate an extra $5.00. So tell all your friends about it and not only will they get some fantastic deals, they'll be helping a wonderful cause while they shop till their fingers drop!
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Great low prices and you'll be helping SSD while you save with the stores donating up to 27% every time you shop!
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