Our Friend Whiskey Is A Recycled Dog

We want to introduce you to Whiskey. She is one of our pals we met on Doggyspace.com. Whiskey is a "recycled" dog and the little sister to 12, a Newfoundland, and Chappy, a Leonberger. The happy pack and their family live in Santa Cruz, California.

We intereviewed Whiskey and her family and asked them how she came to be living in her furever home and got recycled. It seems that 12 and Chappy's family decided they wanted to add another dog to their pack and wanted a rescue dog. In September 2008, they started their search at two local pounds. After finishing their search for the day and thinking it was going to take weeks to find just the right dog, they decided to head to a favorite restaurant for a snack. As they were driving towards their destination, they remembered that Animal Friends Rescue Project has a once-a-month adoption day outside of a coffee shop. The coffee shop is on the same road as the restaurant. Unfortunately, they found out the adoption day ends at 1pm, and it was almost 3pm. As they were driving past the coffee shop, they saw a truck containing crates and realized Animal Friends Rescue had not left yet! They pulled in and asked the tired volunteer whether they could take a look at the dogs they had up for adoption. The lady could tell 12 and Chappy's family were not going to leave without meeting the dogs. So the lady from the rescue started to pull out crates. Most of the dogs had already been taken back home, but she had a handful of adorable dogs, mostly Australian Shepherds. After meeting many of the dogs the rescue had, 12 and Chappy's family wanted to meet the little one still in the crate. They were informed that this dog had just been rescued from a kill shelter two days ago and had not even had a bath yet. The lady from the rescue asked if they really wanted to meet her. They said yes. The little pup had a fear of all humans, and they had to do a lot of wrangling to get the pup out of her crate. Once she was out, they could all tell that this girl was really scared- none of the other dogs were. But as you can guess, they fell in love with her right away and decided they were up for the challenge of adopting a "hard to place" pup. They named her Whiskey and filled out the adoption application. It was with great joy and excitement that a week later they took Whiskey home. Whiskey is now a happy, loving family member, and they can't imagine life without her!

When we worked on designing our Recycle. Adopt a Dog shirts, helping doggies like Whiskey find new homes and celebrating these "recycled" doggies were our goals. Whiskey wears her Recycle. Adopt a Dog shirt proudly and looks absolutely beautiful and of course is eco-chic since it is 100% organic. And, thanks to the purchase of this shirt by her mom, two rescue organizations benefited. Read My Paws sent a donation from the purchase of the shirt to the Miniature Pinscher Rescue Outreach and Lizard Wizard Animal Palace.

Everywhere you go, everything you read is about ways to go green. We feel that recycling, adopting a dog is one of the best ways to be eco-friendly.