Author: Codie Rae

She doesn’t even have a name yet!

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!

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 when 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…….