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Please help us raise $10,000 before end of year!
We have had an incredible year of dog rescue and took on many medical and
special needs cases. As a result, we really need to raise $10,000 to see us
through the end of the year.
Every dog we save gets top notch and immediate medical care before going
into experienced and wonderful foster homes. Once these dogs are groomed,
well fed and rehabilitated- which can sometimes take many months, they go
into wonderful forever homes.
Below are just a few of the dogs with medical issues that we saved in the
past three months.
We need your help so that we can save a few more urgent dogs before the end
of the year. All donations are tax deductible.
Below: Molly- a senior blind poodle found on the streets and taken to a very
full shelter. No one was going to save her- but we did. See the before and
after pics below.
Tiny three and a half pound, Zoey was found in a field and taken to a county
shelter with a huge bulging and painful eye. She was to be euthanized the
next day because surgery was urgent. We saved her that day and our vet
removed her eye immediately. She is now safe and happy in a loving foster
home.
Tiny Maltese pup Fiona, just five weeks old and just two and a half pounds,
was relinquished to us when owners found out she had a huge hole in her
heart and would die without surgery. We got her immediately to our wonderful
team of cardiologists and fed her very well for 6 weeks to get her to the
four pounds she needed to be for the surgery. She had expensive heart
surgery ten days ago.
Fiona is now as good as new and will have a normal, long and happy life. She
will be up for adoption in three months.
These are just a few of our most recent medical rescues, which does not
include dogs that come to us needing less major medical. Strays, owner
relinquished and shelter dogs that also need love and kindness and some
medical, but not major.
We are dedicated to our cause and will be saving many more dogs in 2019, but
right now funds are low, and we could really use your help!
We have a donate button on our home page: www.theforgottendog.org or checks can
be mailed to:
The Forgotten Dog Foundation
1112 Montana Ave suite 166
Santa Monica, CA 90403
With thanks and gratitude,
Linzi
Executive Director
Happy Holidays
“We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give”
Dear Forgotten Dog Foundation friends and supporters,
We can’t thank you enough for all your kindness and generosity over the past eight years, helping us to save dogs in need.
We rescued almost 600 dogs this year, some we took into our foundation, while others we helped facilitate and transport to rescue organizations that we know well and trust. Many of the dogs we brought into our organization were dogs in terrible shape, with medical needs, that required surgeries and long recuperations. We saw them all through the rough times, and watched them go through miraculous transformations, then found them wonderful forever homes.
This year we started a spay/neuter program in Tijuana, Mexico, with the help of a generous donor, who wishes to remain anonymous. In the four campaigns, lasting just one day each, we spayed and neutered 847 dogs and cats. We also provided dog and cat food, blankets, leashes and collars and snacks for the families that waited patiently for their animals to be sterilized. We aim to continue this program in 2018.
Please help us continue the work we do, saving one dog at a time, and changing their lives for the better, forever. Your tax-deductible donation is greatly needed and appreciated.
On behalf of our amazing group of volunteers and board members we wish you all a happy, healthy and joyous holiday season.
With gratitude,
Linzi Glass
Executive Director, The Forgotten Dog Foundation
Non profit 501 (c) 3
www.theforgottendog.org
Click here to view our holiday newsletter: Happy Holidays newsletter
IMPORTANT: Flip the Trend WARNING
IMPORTANT!
WE HAVE NEVER BEEN INVOLVED WITH FLIP THE TREND, NOR DID WE EVER AGREE TO SPONSOR ANY FREE GIVEAWAYS THROUGH THEM.
We only learned of who they were after someone inquired where their dog beds were. They are, without our consent or permission, using our good name and reputation to create false offers. Please contact them directly about their disreputable conduct. Our focus is saving dogs lives. We do not do promotions or giveaways. We are very sorry about this very dishonest representation of us and your expectation of receiving free dog beds/treats/clothes etc.
This Little Dog Was Found On The Streets Of LA Right Before She Gave Birth
Bridgette, a little Chihuahua, was homeless, covered in fleas, wandering the streets of Los Angeles in the 100-degree heat — and she was enormously pregnant.
“It was very obvious to anyone that saw her that she was VERY pregnant,” Linzi Glass, executive director of The Forgotten Dog Foundation, told The Dodo. “She had a huge abdomen. She was only a few days away from giving birth when we got her.”
Almost as soon as Bridgette got situated in a safe, cool room at her foster family’s house, she gave birth to four tiny puppies.
And this happy ending very nearly didn’t happen at all.
Apparently, a concerned resident had taken Bridgette in for a few days before The Forgotten Dog Foundation heard about her. Not only did Bridgette end up homeless again after the landlord of the building found out about the dog in the apartment, Bridgette had also been given the wrong kind of flea bath and so when rescuers found her, she stank of chemicals from a soap meant to treat lice in human hair.
“Our vet office immediately bathed her multiple times and treated her for fleas with a product that is safe for pregnant moms,” Glass said. “Fortunately no harm was done to the puppies from this, nor did it harm Bridgette.”
Sadly, Bridgette is not the only homeless Chihuahua struggling to survive on the streets; California has a problem with Chihuahua overpopulation. It has been estimated that Chihuahuas represent up to 50 percent of the homeless dog population in California shelters. And many stray Chihuahuas still struggle on the streets.
“Chihuahuas originated from the state of Chihuahua in Mexico, and made their way across the border,” Glass explained. “There are so many in California because many of them do not get spayed/neutered, like Bridgette.”
Fortunately, Bridgette was found just in time. And now she and her puppies will have a chance to know what a real home feels like, once they are ready to be adopted — probably in at least 12 weeks.
For now, Bridgette is nursing her babies in a comfortable bed and is eating many meals herself, to gain strength. “We are feeding her four times a day, a combination of wet high-calorie puppy food, chicken and rice and puppy kibble,” Glass said.
For the complete story, visit The Dodo here.
Support Stray Dogs in Kenya
Please support stray dogs in Kenya and buy these beautiful collars made in Africa. Email Joseph at joyworld4@gmail.com to order and learn more! Pictures of our rescue dogs wearing his collars.
Rock Star is ready for his home!
PLEASE SHARE THE HOPE FOR PAWS RESCUE OF SCOOBY, now a FORGOTTEN DOG FOUNDATION BOY.
This adorable Maltese, that we call ROCK STAR, is ready for his FOREVER HOME. A big thanks to Eldad Hagar and Lisa Arturo for saving him. We are so glad to have him in our rescue pack!. A special thanks to his wonderful foster, Gina.
PLEASE SHARE THIS VIDEO! THANK YOU!
Miracle Tiny Chihuahua pups – Pinky and Peanut! Read their amazing rescue story.
Pinky(the white one) and Peanut are our miracle puppies! They are now almost 12 weeks old and were rescued by our foundation when they were an hour old. Their poor mom was a tiny chi who arrived at a downtown vet clinic with two puppies already dead inside her! The owners waited too long to get her medical attention. An emergency C section was performed and Pinky and Peanut were saved, but their poor mom, who was septic, died that night. An incredible angel named Christina Becker stepped in immediately to foster and bottle feed the two little girls. She has had them from day-one and has seen them go from bottle feeding babies to adorable tiny pups who love to play with her cat and pitbull Bella! Pinky and Peanut are very bonded and we will not separate them, so we are looking for one home for both girls. We want a very safe and calm home, no chaos or anywhere where they could get hurt.
They are going to be very small, even full grown. Experienced small chihuahua owners would be ideal. We would like owners who are not gone all day and can devote lots of time and attention to the tiny pair.
Please do not contact us if you are only looking to adopt one of them. They absolutely are going to be adopted as a pair. Pups are vaccinated but not yet spayed or microchipped. They are still too young but will be spaying them when we feel
they are big enough.
There are no words to thank Christina for giving them unconditional love and round-the-clock care when they were tiny babies, and her continued care as the little girls went from bottle feeding to solid food. She truly saved their lives!
The Miraculous Rescue and Transformation of Lizzy
After astounding medical treatment, Lizzy the Schnauzer is ready for her forever home!
A brave, stray Schnauzer mix named Lizzy had her jaw shattered after being brutally kicked as she was defending a puppy on the streets of Tijuana, Mexico. Unable to eat or drink for weeks, word of Lizzy’s desperate situation reached the rescue community in Los Angeles. Lizzy was rescued, and rushed across the border by The Forgotten Dog Foundation, along with the puppy she was defending. With time of the essence, Lizzy was taken immediately to a veterinary hospital in Los Angeles, where, after a week of being on a feeding tube, her jaw was put back together, saving her life. Thanks to skilled orthopedic surgeon, Dr. Robert Olds, who performed a five-hour surgery on her broken jaw, Lizzy was able to eat and drink again within 48 hours post surgery.
And then her journey of healing began…
“Lizzy reminds us all in rescue that everything is possible when a pack of people work together to save just one dog. Miracles can happen. Lizzy is one of those special, spirited dogs that keep us all going, even in the darkest hours of being in the trenches of animal rescue.” Linzi Glass, Executive Director of The Forgotten Dog Foundation shared.
Watch the amazing video of Lizzy’s rehabilitation and miraculous transformation, and witness how, after all she had been through, Lizzy found happiness and love.
To view Lizzy’s video click here:
Lizzy – Before
Lizzy – After