The Milton Animal League, a no-kill shelter, is having its annual benefit & silent auction Saturday Oct. 20th from 6:30-9:30 p.m. at the Wollaston Golf Club, 999 Randolph Ave. in Milton.

Tickets are $75 and will help provide food, supplies and medical care for the homeless animals of Milton.

If you want to attend, call (617) 698-0413. The shelter is located at 181 Governor Stoughton Lane in Milton, MA.

The shelter hosts a lot of beautiful pets. Pictured above is Bella, a five-year-old spayed female pit bull terrier. Bella lives at the Milton shelter: everybody loves her there but she is looking to be somebody’s only pet!

You have probably seen this cute orange poster around in Boston: the illustrator is Edward St. John Gorey (1925-2000). The poster promotes a fundraising Halloween event organized by the Animal Rescue League of Boston: the Moonlight Ball. During the event there will be an auction, too! The event will take place at the Boston Cyclorama on Saturday, October 20th.
A good reason to attend this event is that the proceedings will benefit the ARL mobile programs. An ARL track, in fact, moves from a location to another throughout Massachusetts by offering a subsidized spay/neuter program for individuals who have financial need, mobile adoptions, and a transport program for homebound individuals and their pets.

What a sweet face Taz has! It almost seems that he is smiling!
Taz, who is almost 11, is a member of the Boston Chihuahua meetup group.
As his mom wrote us, he was a breeder dog at a Missouri puppy mill. At age 7 they “retire” the dogs. This one breeder was humane enough to give her unwanted dogs to a small little rescue out of a lady’s house.
Her name is Charlene “Charly” McCarthy and her shelter was called Second Chance Chihuahua Rescue.
Charly put Taz on Petfinder.com which is how his mom found him!
She says, “She was convinced to adopt him out to me, despite the fact that we lived in Miami and he would have to fly on a plane. It has now been 4 years and for the past 2, we have been living in my home state of Massachusetts, where Taz really likes it since it is not as hot as Miami! And he is furry!!”

Taz has helped spread the word of animal rescue by helping his mom volunteer at the Manchester Animal Shelter (NH), where she now on the Board of Directors, and by participating in their many events.

Taz says, “Adopt a shelter dog!!!”, and we, as volonteers at the Animal Rescue League of Boston, are with him!

Laureen sent us the pics of her two babies, Bubs and Maddie.
Her husband does dog training on the side, just because he loves dogs. He even learned how to handle aggresive ones because he hates to see dogs put down. Isn’t that amazing?

Bubby, the smaller one, was left behind in an apartment building up the street from Laureen’s place with no food and water for three days! They heard his story and decided to take him into their home. He was about 1, very scared, skinny and shy. He was 15lbs, today he is 4-year-old and is 35lbs…!

Maddie, the bigger one, was adopted on May 1st, which is national Adopt A Dog Day, from the Worcester ARL. She was a puppy who was there with her sister. Her sister had also been adopted that day. They were rescued from a kill shelter days before they would have been put to sleep. Maddie has been with us since she was 5 months old!

This beautiful girl is Sashi, a 6.1 pounds Chihuahua with beautiful brown fur. Liz adopted her in the winter of almost 2 years ago from a MSPCA Adoption Center.

What she did for Sashi is an example for everybody: as you can see in the pic below, Sashi was pathetic - a little underweight, bald and terrified.

She was curled up on a pillow, and she wouldn’t eat unless you fed her by hand. It turned out that she had sarcoptic mange and food allergies - she had scratched herself nearly furless. “Poor thing. Sweet as pie though!”, Liz told us.

After Liz adopted Sashi, the little girl really needed to bond and feel safe, and for six months slept under Liz’s shirt as often as she could.

Now she is fabulous, healthy and happy. She’s really smart, of course, great manners and a total sweetheart!

Do you remember Dotty, the sweet girl who lives at the Animal Rescue League in Boston? We walked with her in the South End last week. The ARL recorded a video about her, to help her to find a new family.

You can even write an email to Dotty at dotty@arl.com.

To watch more videos about pets looking for a new house, click here.

Dotty is a lovely 10 year old spayed female who lives at the Animal Rescue League in Boston. Her permanence at the ARL will hopefully be short. She is looking for a new owner. Unfourtunately, her previous dad couldn’t take care of her anymore.
I walked Dotty in the South End last weekend, during my volonteering hours at the ARL.
We took a walk along Warren Ave, where a moving sale was taking place. Dotty stopped to say hi to some of the local dogs there.

We then stopped at Polka Dog for a treat. Dotty met Laura and her three wonderful Yorkies: Sophie, Teddy and Winstor. Laura, other than three dogs, also owns six cats (all of them adopted!) and she is an exceptional activist in defending animals’ rights.

We then stopped at Peters Park, in Washington Ave. Due to legal reasons, Dottie can’t go inside of dog parks, as any other dog from the ARL. So, she can’t wait to be adopted to finally join her friends inside of the park!
For more information about Dotty and the ARL, click here.