Friends of Linden Animal Shelter’s “Princess”

Here’s a couple photo’s of Princess, a 9 year old mixed breed dog from Friends of Linden Animal Shelter (FOLAS) in New Jersey. Princess had spent most of her life in an animal shelter before coming here to Spirit Animal Sanctuary. She follows Heidi, another dog that ‘Folas’ brought up to us a couple of [...]

Painting Idea’s Needed for our New Animal House

Here’s a couple photo’s of Spirit Animal Sanctuaries new animal house, that should be completed in about eight weeks. We’re having a hard time picking out some interior colors that will look good, got any idea’s ?
Below is the floor coloring we choose. Check out their site everlastepoxy. The kennels which have already been delivered [...]

Pet Food Recall Nutro Pet Products dry cat food

Dry Cat Food Recall, Nutro Pet Foods
From The FDA :
The cat food is being voluntarily recalled in the United States and ten additional countries. This recall is due to incorrect levels of zinc and potassium in our finished product resulting from a production error by a US-based premix supplier.
Affected product was distributed to retail customers [...]

Happy Dogs at Teagan’s First Birthday Party

These are great photo’s of our friend Teagan’s, first birthday party across the pond. Look how happy all the dogs are, must of been a great bash.
We lifted more than a couple glasses of stout for you Teag’s.
( Brewster )

More Teagan’s Birthday Party Pictures, HERE.

Happy Birthday Teagan

from The Spirit Dogs

Cesar Millan The Dog Whisperer, Proof that this Guy’s a Putz

You just can’t make this stuff up.

Below is the time line of the dog whisperer, discussing everything that he was doing, and everything the dog was doing.
Listen in Cesar’s own voice as he proves just how little he knows about animal behavior and how to communicate with dogs.
link to video ( when you reach the [...]

Ducks and Dogs Friends 4 Ever

These photo’s are so cool,
two dogs Maggie Mae and Lou Lou with Daisy Duke (sorry Lonnie).

See many more photo’s of Duck and Dogs
At Maggie’s Place Here, Here, and Here.

The Spirit Dog

The Alpha Dogs Rules

Alpha rules in the animal world are real simple, the animal with the most attitude usually gets his or her way. The alpha is not always the biggest or strongest animal. Regardless of the species, this rule applies across the board.
Everybody has seen this rule in action, and I’m not talking about something you have [...]

Gmail and Email Spam : CAUTION

Lately I’ve been receiving spam mail from my own Gmail address. If you have similar problems or you receive any emails from what you think is a friend, DO NOT click any links provided, even the link that asks you to ‘unsubscribe or Opt-out’ of further e mailings.
For further information about spam on your Google [...]

The Socializing of Bella Bear

These dog photos, will show our normal routine for socializing new dogs here at the spirit dog sanctuary. Little Bella Bear the brindle terrier mix was pretty comfortable meeting some of our other dogs.  Even for the dogs that were described to us as having dog aggression problems, our introduction process is the same.
It’s ( [...]

Guess Again Where That Pet Store Puppy Comes From

Just about everybody that has devoted their lives to rescuing and saving dogs lives. Knows the awful truth behind where pet shops and puppy stores, get their puppy dogs from, commercial breeding kennels.
Not all of these commercial breeding kennels will fall into the category of puppy mill breeders, but the number of substandard puppy breeding [...]

God, Was I Ever That Young

A Lifetime With Dogs
When I look at these pictures, I can’t believe how long I’ve been doing this stuff. I don’t know exactly when it started, but days, weeks, months and years, just seem to be flying by at a rather disturbing rate these days. Since I turned forty (like yesterday) I have thought about [...]

Submissive Wolf Dog with Two Standard Poodles

Dogs and Wolves
This is a photo of Big-Big at about 2½ years old meeting two of my friend’s Standard Poodles. To get a better look, click on the picture to enlarge it.
What you will see is what in some peoples mind is a ‘big bad wolf ‘, clearly showing submissiveness  to two other dogs with [...]