Love-A-Bull Festival

Rescue Ink!!

LOVE these guys! Champions of abused animals - traveling the country rescuing our furry friends from neglect and inhumane treatment!

I'm holding a picture of Freckles - my rescued Pit Bull. I wish Rescue Ink had been here when Freckles managed to run away from the mean people who had the Pit Bull fighting ring a few miles away from where I live. Rescue Ink would have set those cowards straight!

The Love-A-Bull Festival downtown Austin on November 7th, 2010
was attended by hundreds of dogs and their humans!

Bringing awareness to the community that the Pit Bull breed is getting a BAD RAP!
Bad behavior is taught by the owner, not inbred in the breed!

Everybody got along just fine!! :-))

There was a parade to begin the festivities with. I saw it on the news, but not in person. I did get a couple of photos of participants in the costume contest...

This guy has an angelic smile to go with his angel outfit!

Mama's little babies...

And at the Rescue Ink booth...

"I'm a Dalmation, and I'm beautiful!"

Hugs, love, skritch, treats, purr, spay, neuter and ADOPT!

PLEASE!!!!

Jakey the Clown

Freckles

Freckles

Showed up next door seeking the solace of fellow doggies. He was 3 months old, scared and ½ starved. Because he is a Pit Bull, I think that he had been treated mean to make him mean to participate in illegal dog fighting. He had run away…

I fed him through the fence for over a week, while he made friends with Pup and my neighbor’s doggies Demo and Teddy. I opened my gate for him to come inside, but he was so scared. It took 12 tries, but finally he entered the yard! I closed the gate and he has been here since. He and Pup became best friends, though Pup has always maintained being the alpha dog.

He remained a scaredy cat when it came to people. I would have to set his food bowl down and walk away before he would eat. It was obvious he had been horribly abused… I contacted a local dog trainer (Trish) who volunteered her services to help me with Freckles. The main goal was to get him neutered – I would adopt Freckles, but being a male Pit Bull, his being fixed was mandatory.

Trish is a true Dog Whisperer! She fell in love with Freckles and called him her “Sugar Bear”. After several tries she got him on a leash. I set up a fence inside the house so he would have a space to recuperate from his surgery. He was VERY scared.

It took 6 months before he would come up on the porch.

He would take Pup’s lead to join in “Cookie Time”.

(Picture) It's Cookie Time!!

A lot of baby steps (some backwards), but after about a year and ½ Freckles began to trust and love me, knowing that I would not hurt him. He now comes inside every night and is a very loved member of the family! Freckles is very smart and SO sweet, doling out kisses to not only me, but Pup, Squeek, Skritch & Skratchy as well!

I gave Freckles the birthday of August 11th when he will celebrate his 3rd birthday!

Definitely a big juicy bone for my sweetie!