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There are so many resources out there for you. Whether it is books, DVDs, or Web Sites linked to reputable companies & organizations. With the help of the web, you can educate yourself about the species you are guardian to. We have compiled a few links to get you started. Enjoy!
Ask your Veterinarian "Who do I call & where do I go in the event of an emergency outside your business hours?" You may reach a recording that refers you somewhere else, or sends you to a pager. Be prepared. Do you know where to go in an emergency?
For general information (not emergencies) have a link handy to your Veterinarian. It could save you and them time answering many general questions that they have already prepared the answers to.
.Here are links to our local Veterinarian Clinics and Hospitals on the West Shore and the only 24 Hour Emergency Centre in greater Victoria.
The Tree of Life Veterinary Care - Dr Marlene Smith well know for her HOLISTIC treatment of animals including Chinese Medicine. When western medicine has you going in circles, the tree of life can help. They are in Courtenay, but you can arrange telephone consults.
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Consider getting your Canine First Aid Certificate. It could save your dog's life! Courses are held @ K9HQ a few times a year. Check our Events Calendar or Training page for dates & information.
Emergency Information- This link has many interesting articles for your information. The links may be gone on some, but it gives you an idea of what to be aware of and what to inform yourself about. Some very important ones where time is critical are: Canine Bloat & Antifreeze Poisoning.
Canine Cancer AwarenessAn information site for dog owners about CANCER the #1 killer of our precious dogs.
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HandicappedPets.comThis site is for the caretakers of elderly, disabled, and special needs pets, providing all the products, services, and support you need including dog wheelchairs, help and advice, as well as listings of the service providers you need. Consider this site for dogs recovering from knee or hip surgery.
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Marista Vet - An excellent resource for the health of your dog. Great little library to search anything from Addison's Disease to Zinc Poisoning, with everything in between. Many pictures and videos to help explain the basics to us lay people. Also, check your own vet's office to see if they have a resourceful website. -http://www.marvistavet.com/index.html
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Pet Education-Another great resource site for your dog's health. Book mark it for easy reference.
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Rabies Challenge FundHere's a great site for the future of our dogs. The newest study being conducted on vaccines. The goal is to raise money to be able to continue the study for seven years. The Rabies Challenge needs everyone's support so they can complete this imprtant study: Proving that the Rabies Vaccine is only needed every 5 or 7 years instead of 1 or 3 years. Saving countless dogs from often nasty if not deadly side effects from the necessary vaccine.
Animals Asia To protect animals from cruelty throughout Asia, focusing on two major issues: Ending bear farming and the trade in bear bile. Ending the consumption of dogs and cats.
Citizen CanineCitizen Canine is a non-profit network of individuals and organizations working together to promote and protect the interests of the dog-owning community in Greater Victoria. Three areas of focus are advocacy, public education, and canine community building.
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Pet-Abuse.com"Never doubt that a small, group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has." -- Margaret Mead
Unfortunately, there is no quick fix for animal abuse, but there areso many things we can all do to help. None of them will make animal abuse disappear tomorrow, but every little bit helps lower the risk further down the road. And you don't have to be an animal "fanatic" to do it. You don't have to be a member of every animal rights organization on earth. There are so many things "regular"people can to do to have an impact... Take care of the animals you have, and encourage others to do the same...
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Are you considering getting a purebred puppy from a breeder? Watch this video first, and then do your research.
This is an excerpt from the BBC Documentary Pedigree Dogs Exposed. You can find parts 1-6 on Youtube to watch it in its entirety.
Accent Inns are Pet Friendly! Check them out next time you or family are travelling. They have locations in: Victoria, Vancouver Airport, Burnaby, Kamloops, and Kelowna. Certified by Pets Can Stay as meeting or exceeding all criteria required for the Standard Certification designation.
Academy of Vancouver Island Dogs- AGILITY, the most fun you can have with your dog! AVID provides dog agility training & schooling for ALL dogs.
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.Buddies Natural Pet Food - A natural choice for feeding your dog. K9HQ sells Buddies on a special order basis. Check out the K9HQ Events Calendarfor order and pick up dates. Minimum Order $50.00
Located in Saanich, this club promotes responsible dog ownership through the sprt of Agility. Offering lessons and club membership for practice through competition level of the sport.
Buy Dog Toys at k9tuff.com ... the tuffest, most durable stuff for you and your dog.
Maximum Overdrive Flyball Club - We strive to ensure flyball is a fun experience for both dog and handler, an experience that helps build that special bond we have with our dogs. Most success in flyball is measured in points and run times; we like to measure success by how much enjoyment we get playing this exciting sport with our dogs.
Sociable Dogs ~ Julie is an instructor at K9HQ as well as doing private in home training. Julie also specializes in the dog sport of AGILITY. For more info. check out her bio on our site.
Total Anarchyis a competitive flyball club from beautiful Victoria, BC Canada. We have many proven training methods and are always looking to improve both handlers and their dogs. We strive to ensure a safe, positive and fun environment at all times.
The Whole Dog Journal -Best magazine out there. Well worth the subscription fee. Good information well researched by reputable people. Health, Training, Behaviour, and Nutrition information, and more. No paid advertisements, so you get the real scoop as opposed to most magazines whose big advertisers tend to sway opinions.
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Fort Victoria RV Park & Campground - If you are visiting Victoria, or have family and friends visiting, consider Fort Victoria. Conveniently located a few short minutes away from the centre of town yet minutes from the ocean. Pet Friendly
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Meetpaws.comintroduces pet-friendly accommodations, hotels, B&B, dog travel, dog daycare, dog training, dog off-leash parks, dog rescue organizations, new puppy tips, and more.
Makers of Schutzhund Leather Leashes, Collars, Harnesses and Training Equipment for Dogs. K9HQ carries a small number of the SB Pro collars & leashes. For ultimate durability leather collars with a metal quick release! Great Quality & workmanship, come on in and feel for yourself. .
One of these organizations may have the pet you are looking for! (Listed in alphabetical order)
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Our prime focus is on small/medium sized dogs as these are the ones in greatest demand. In turn this demand is what feeds the lucrative puppy mill industry. Our rescue efforts also include cats and at times, other small animals in life and death situations.
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Your new best friend is just a mouse-click away! Search from over 900 resources all across Canada! Are you looking to a adopt a dog, cat, rabbit, ferret or any other type of animal? Just type in your postal code and see the rescues, pounds and shelters in your area!
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- Dog & Cat Adoption - See purebred & mixed breed pets. Find humane society, spca's, or animal shelters/rescues.
Reduce Animal Suffering
To find homes for every adoptable animal we take in. Whenever possible, help other organizations or rescuers with their adoption programs by providing foster care and posting available animals on our website.
BC Poodle & Small Dog Rescue - We are a new rescue group based out of Victoria, BC. We mainly rescue poodles and poodle-mixes, but will never say no to saving other small breed dogs in need! Currently we are working with rescue groups in California. These rescues pull the dogs out of high kill shelters where they are scheduled to be euthanized, and send them to us so we can find homes for them.
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.- Victoria- Adoptable animals as well as volunteer opportunities
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.The Best Friends Animal Sanctuary at Angel Canyon, in southern Utah, is home on any given day to about 2,000 dogs, cats, and other animals, who come from shelters and rescue groups around the country. This is where they filmed DOG TOWN. .
Broken Promises Rescue is a non-profit rescue, located in Victoria, BC. We help local homeless animals find forever homes. Our focus is on improving the lives of abandoned, neglected and orphaned animals on Vancouver Island (as well as remote communities and other areas of B.C. if our resources allow us to.) Most of these animals are in the shelter system and are not being adopted for reasons like medical issues, looks, size and age.
- Animal shelter for lost, found, and adoptable animals plus volunteer opportunities
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- To rescue, rehabilitate, spay/neuter, and rehome distressed, abandoned, or neglected cats and dogs considered unadoptable by reason of health, age, appearance, or temperament.
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Our mandate is to save the lives of companion animals who would otherwise be euthanized in US shelters. Please consider adopting a homeless pet and be part of the solution.
Focus is to help small breed dogs
German Shepherd Rescue of B.C. TheGerman Shepherd Dog is a dog that can do everything well. Guide dog, Police dog, Search & Rescue dog, Herding, Obedience, Agility dog, & always a Loyal Familydog... the German Shepherd Dog.
Mex-Can Pet Partners - Street dogs from Mexico. Also helps other domestic animals in Mexico.. After rescue, health check, & healing, the dogs are put up for adoption. Once adoption requests come in the dog is flown to Canada. Please - think it through before you send in an application. Moving dogs from rescue to foster doesn't help them get on with their lives.
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- Mosaic Rescue is a non profit society dedicated to the rescue and adoption of small and medium sized mixed breed dogs (Mosaics) who end up in US kill facilities.
Check out both Adoptable pets (already in Canada) & Pets waiting for homes in Taiwan.
HIGHLY RECOMMENDED by Deborah Sanders owner of K9HQ. Both she & her neice Jessica have adopted through ODR with no regrets. K9HQ offers a complimentary Training Consultation to assist with any training/behaviour hurdles you & your dog may encounter in the the Ocean Dog rescue transition.
Ocean Dog Rescue is a group of dedicated volunteers who love animals and have joined together to help rescue, provide medical care, rehabilitate and re-home abused, abandoned, homeless animals like stray dogs from Taiwan and look for their forever home in BC Canada which we call Overseas Cross-Ocean Adoption Program. That's where the organization's name Ocean Dog Rescue came from. Very organized, extremely passionate in the work they do.
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Petfinder is an on-line, searchable database of animals that need homes. It is also a directory of over 10,000 animal shelters and adoption organizations across the USA, Canada and Mexico. Organizations maintain their own home pages and available pet database.
To rescue, rehabilitate, spay/neuter, and rehome distressed, abandoned, or neglected cats and dogs considered unadoptable by reason of health, age, appearance, or temperament.
Bender & Fry's Website -Two Golden Retriever's brothers that have been visiting us since they were puppies. First on a daily visit, now as adult well mannered dogs they come for a social visit every 2nd Tuesday. Their Dad, Mark needed a push to update their site - here it is...
The following are a few poems and stories about dogs (or other creatures). Please, feel free to submit any poem or story, be it sad, funny, or just a tale. We would be happy to post it to share with others. Thanks, Deborah
My kind of Heaven
A man and his dog were walking along a road. The man was enjoying the scenery, when it suddenly occurred to him that he was dead. He remembered dying, and that the dog walking beside him had been dead for years. He wondered where the road was leading them.
After a while, they came to a high, white stone wall along one side of the road. It looked like fine marble. At the top of a long hill, it was broken by a tall arch that glowed in the sunlight.
When he was standing before it he saw a magnificent gate in the arch that looked like mother-of-pearl and the street that led to the gate looked like pure gold. He and the dog walked toward the gate, and as he got closer, he saw a man at a desk to one side.
When he was close enough, he called out, 'Excuse me, where are we? 'This is Heaven, sir,' the man answered. 'Wow! Would you happen to have some water?' the man asked.
Of course, sir. Come right in, and I'll have some ice water brought right up. 'The man gestured, and the gate began to open. 'Can my friend,' gesturing toward his dog, 'come in, too?' the traveler asked. 'I'm sorry sir, but we don't accept pets.'
The man thought a moment and then turned back toward the road and continued the way he had been going with his dog.
After another long walk, and at the top of another long hill, he came to a dirt road leading through a farm gate that looked as if it had never been closed. There was no fence. As he approached the gate, he saw a man inside, leaning against a tree and reading a book.
'Excuse me!' he called to the man. 'Do you have any water?' 'Yeah, sure, there's a pump over there, come on in.' 'How about my friend here?' the traveler gestured to the dog. 'There should be a bowl by the pump.’
They went through the gate, and sure enough, there was an old-fashioned hand pump with a bowl beside it. The traveler filled the water bowl and took a long drink himself and then he gave some to the dog.
When they were full, he and the dog walked back toward the man who was standing by the tree. 'What do you call this place?' the traveler asked. 'This is Heaven,' he answered.
'Well, that's confusing,' the traveler said. 'The man down the road said that was Heaven, too.' 'Oh, you mean the place with the gold street and pearly gates? Nope. That's hell.'
'Doesn't it make you mad for them to use your name like that?' 'No, we're just happy that they screen out the folks who would leave their best friends behind.'
The following was found posted very low on a refrigerator door.
Dear Dogs and Cats: The dishes with the paw prints are yours and contain your food. The other dishes are mine and contain my food. Placing a paw print in the middle of my plate and food does not stake a claim for it becoming your food and dish, nor do I find that aesthetically pleasing in the slightest.
The stairway was not designed by NASCAR and is not a racetrack. Racing me to the bottom is not the object. Tripping me doesn't help because I fall faster than you can run.
I cannot buy anything bigger than a king sized bed. I am very sorry about this. Do not think I will continue sleeping on the couch to ensure your comfort, however. Dogs and cats can actually curl up in a ball when they sleep. It is not necessary to sleep perpendicular to each other, stretched out to the fullest extent possible. I also know that sticking tails straight out and having tongues hanging out on the other end to maximize space is nothing but sarcasm.
For the last time, there is no secret exit from the bathroom! If, by some miracle, I beat you there and manage to get the door shut, it is not necessary to claw, whine, meow, try to turn the knob or get your paw under the edge in an attempt to open the door. I must exit through the same door I entered. Also, I have been using the bathroom for years - canine/feline attendance is not required.
The proper order for kissing is: Kiss me first, then go smell the other dog or cat's butt. I cannot stress this enough.
Finally, in fairness, dear pets, I have posted the following message on the front door:
TO ALL NON-PET OWNERS WHO VISIT AND LIKE TO COMPLAIN ABOUT OUR PETS:
(1) They live here. You don't. (2) If you don't want their hair on your clothes, stay off the furniture. That's why they call it 'fur'-niture. (3) I like my pets a lot better than I like most people. (4) To you, they are animals. To me, they are adopted sons/daughters who are short, hairy, walk on all fours and don't speak clearly.
Remember, dogs and cats are better than kids because they (1) eat less, (2) don't ask for money all the time, (3) are easier to train, (4) normally come when called, (5) never ask to drive the car, (6) don't hang out with drug-using people; (7) don't smoke or drink, (8) don't want to wear your clothes, (9) don't have to buy the latest fashions, (10) don't need a gazillion dollars for college and (11) if they get pregnant, you can sell their children .. (that last part is just a joke because we do not advocate breeding)
Her eyes met mine as she walked down the corridor peering apprehensively into the kennels. I felt her need instantly and knew I had to help her. I wagged my tail, not too exuberantly, so she wouldn't be afraid.
As she stopped at my kennel I blocked her view from a little accident I had in the back of my cage. I didn't want her to know that I hadn't been walked today. Sometimes the shelter keepers get too busy and I didn't want her to think poorly of them.
I shoved my shoulder and side of my head up against the bars to comfort her.
Gentle fingertips caressed my neck; she was desperate for companionship. A tear fell down her cheek and I raised my paw to assure her that all would be well.
Soon my kennel door opened and her smile was so bright that I instantly jumped into her arms. I would promise to keep her safe. I would promise to always be by her side. I would promise to do everything I could to see that radiant smile and sparkle in her eyes.
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I was so fortunate that she came down my corridor. So many more are out there who haven't walked the corridors. So many more to be saved. At least I could save one.
I rescued a human today.
Written by Janine Allen CPDT, Rescue Me Dog's professional dog trainer. Janine's passion is working with people and their dogs. She provides demonstrations for those who have adopted shelter dogs, lends email support to adopted dog owners that need information beyond our Training Support Pages, and aids shelter staff and volunteers in understanding dog behavior to increase their adoptability.
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