Check it out Everypawdy!
Calamity Jane was the First Runner Up for the HSUS Valor Dog of the Year & People’s Hero for 2010
Calamity Jane is hereby inducted into the Tripawd Girldogs with 2 Names Rule Club! WOOOOO HOOOO!!!!!!! She can be president, queen, empress, whatever!!!!!
Here is her story:
Calamity Jane
Owners: Homer and Shar Pauley
Aledo, Texas
Calamity Jane was still recovering from having her leg amputated following an old gunshot wound and giving birth to a litter of seven puppies when her foster mom, Shar Pauley, took her and the family’s other two dogs outside for a break on a cold January night. Suddenly, Calamity Jane bolted to the neighbor’s yard, hackles raised, and began barking and growling with ferocious intensity. Shar then heard a car door slam and watched a car speed out of her neighbor’s driveway. She grabbed the dogs and hurried back inside.
Minutes later, the neighbor came to their door and asked them to call 911. His family and guests, including two children, had been held at gunpoint for close to an hour during a violent home invasion. But when the intruders heard Calamity Jane, they yelled to one another that there were people outside and quickly fled the terror stricken home.
To read about all the winner pups go here
Hey Everypawdy!
The Animal Rescue Site (and Petfinders) is having a contest…..they will award big money to your favorite rescue organization. All you have to do is vote everyday between now and April 18. GSRNC is the rescue that saved ME, Wyatt Ray Dawg and Travis Ray. They have saved other tripawd shepherds too—-Murphy, Odyssey, and Sampson, and little Rocky, probably a tripawd-to-be too! You might want to vote for some other rescue, and that is fine. But we are currently in 6th place in California! And we are rapidly closing in on 5th place. We actually have a chance to win some money to help us save dawgs! WooHoo! So please vote for us! Its easy!
1. Go to: http://www.theanimalrescuesite.com/clickToGive/home.faces?siteId=3
2. Click on the button that says “Click Here to Give“–your click helps provide food for shelter animals across the country. Its FREE. The Animal Rescue Site will NOT spam you for clicking.
3. A new browser window will open thanking you for clicking–at the top of that page click on the button that says “Vote Today“.
4. This will take you to a window where you can vote for……German Shepherd Rescue of Northern California!! You have to choose the state and type in our full name, the acronym does not work. After you do this once, the next time you go to vote GSRNC’s name will already be there, all you will have to do is click on the “Vote” button! How easy is that?
5. Once you vote a new window will open asking you to confirm your vote by identifying a photo of an animal. Done!
You can add a shortcut to the Animal Rescue Site on your desktop to save time. You can also sign up to get daily reminders from the website–they will honestly only send you one email reminder a day—No Spam! Finally, you can set your home page on your browser to the Animal Rescue Site, so you are reminded to vote every day!
That would be Jerry, not Jesus. Click on the photo for the full glory of two tripawd shepherds in the snow……
Hey Hey Everypawdy!
Hoppy New Year! Me and Wyatt Ray Dawg and Travis Ray and Smokey B had a pawesome day in the snow on the first day of this new year. Way to get the year off on the right foot if ya ask me 
. Click here for more pix of our snowday fun!
Sled dawgs
Lead dawg
Wolf dawg
Catcher dawg
Tired dawgs
Wow! Mom’s been too ‘busy’ (more like lazy if you ask me) to get anything posted lately but we never stop thinking of all of you, our Tripawd Heros, each and every one of you. Thank you all so much for joining together to form what has to be the greatest online community on the planet! Especially in our hearts on this Christmas Eve are all our heros who have passed this year and their pawrents. Some weeks it seemed as though the pain would never stop. But your brave stories help to educate the world that, yes indeed, tripawds rule! And your love serves to inspire the rest of us when we feel down, and gives us all the strength to carry on. Thank You!
xoxox,
Codie Rae and the Oaktown Pack
Oh yes, we have much to be thankful for around here today! Woohoo Tripawds Rule! Yes They Do!! We are so thankful to know each and every one of you, canine and human. Everyone in this pawesome community is a True Tripawd Hero!
xoxoxoxxoxoxoxoxoxox,
Codie Rae, Travis Ray, Smokey B., Ralph, and Martha~the Oaktown Pack
Woohoo!!!!! I have a new Boy Toy!!!!!! A certain young tripawd pup
has come to stay with us for a bit. Yeah! Hey, dude, this boy doesn’t even know how to play! But, as you can see on Wyatt’s latest post, we are just the crew to teach him the ropes and he is catching on fast!
My pawrents are fostering Travis Ray for GSRNC. He is from Monterey and has had a pretty nasty life up until his rescue. We dont even know all the details and are not sure we want to know…..But he has not let life get him down and he is just as sweet and frendly with everybody as if he had grown up in the most perfect of homes. He is scared of strange things (like towels) though and, like I said, doesn’t know a Kong from a 
Holee Roller.We don’t know much else about him yet, as he just joined us yesterday–he has had no accidents in the house, he rides well in the car (in a crate), he slept all night in his crate last night, and spent time in it today w
hen my pawrents were both out (about 2 hours at a time) with no apparent issues. Travis Ray is about 11 months old and he is tall! He is twice as tall as me! He is already getting around pretty good–his amp was on October 13. Stitches are out and all. He is still building up his strength and spends a whole lot of time sleeping.
If you live in Northern California and might be interested in giving Travis Ray a loving home let my mom know. If you are a tripawds member you can send her a PM over on the forums. She can hook you up with GSRNC. Check out their website and their adoption protocols. 
They are pretty strict and my mom will be even stricter! Travis is a real sweetheart but he is also a GSD and will need a firm hand and loving heart to help him be the best tripawd he can be!
p.s. TR is known as “Caruso” on the GSRNC website…….
My mom ran across this sweetie on the web today http://www.homelesshounds.us/animals/detail?AnimalID=1891616 , she is with Big Dog Rescue in Penngrove, near Santa Rosa. I should call them and tell them she needs two names–Gretchen Rae? Gretchen Sue? Gretchen Mae? Watcha think? Then she could joint the Awesome Tripawd Girldodgs With 2 Names Club! My mom posted this in the forums but I wanted to put her info here too to maximize her exposure. Won’t you think about giving her a home?
Gretchen in Penngrove, CA
Gretchen is a black and silver German Shepherd puppy. She’s about 7 months old. She’s a very sweet girl and loves to play. Gretchen unfortunately had a run in with a car and lost her right rear leg in an accident, at the time of the surgery she was also spayed. She is very good with dogs and not aggressive but very curious about cats. Her foster family is working on house training, basic obedience (she already knows sit and down), and strengthening her rear leg. She has become quite adept at going up and down stairs. Gretchen can jump into a car but needs help with taller vehicles. She’s a special girl with special needs, her new family will need to keep her fit and trim because of the missing leg. Despite her handicap, she loves to cuddle, walk, run and play.
If you are interested in adopting this dog please fill out an online adoption application by copying and pasting the following address into
your web browser:
http://www.homelesshounds.us/f…..FormID=584
You can check out more about Big Dog Rescue, where Gretchen has her own web page, at: http://www.homelesshounds.us/
Me and Smokey B
Tagged: Caira Sue, Codie Rae, Ruff Wear, Sherman Island, tripawd girldog
