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Greetings!
I hope everyone is enjoying their summer! With Fourth of July just days away I want to urge caution. Some dogs are not affected by fireworks but most of them get frightened. Please remember to be sure all of your gates and fences are secure!
We would love to share pictures of your vacation or family fun with your poodles. If you have pictures that you wouldn't mind sharing please email them to:
news@floridapoodlerescue.org.
I'm happy to announce the return of our Fall Picnic! The date this year is set for October 29th. We will have a costume contest for your furry family members! The event is a potluck so please bring a dish. There is something so beautiful about a 100 or so poodles running and playing together. Check out the
Save the Date Card.
Longtime volunteer Charley Sims wrote a great piece for our Volunteer Spotlight on being a Foster Parent for FPR. He even did a great composite photo of a few of his and his wife's fosters over the years. Please check that out
here.
This month we took a different route with our Health News. Hope you enjoy the article on porpoises and how they control their heart rate. Very interesting! Click
here to read more.
We have a couple of new options on T Shirts. I know our designs haven't changed in a bit so we are working on new concepts and offerings. Check out
two ideas here.
With your help we continue our rescue work and hopefully educate the public on animal safety. Every dog we save brings light and love into another person's life. It's like a double dose of joy!
Wishing you all a very happy and safe Fourth of July!
With love,
Tricia Bonati Robles
Founder & President, Florida Poodle Rescue
People are the problem - not the animals. Someone has to speak for them. And that's what we do.
Can you help?
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Charley and Beth Sims
My wife and I foster poodles for Florida Poodle Rescue and have been asked many times, "How can you foster? It must be so hard to let them go." Beth and I have discussed this question and, no, it is not hard to "let them go." Letting them go is what fostering is all about.
When the dog meets its new mom or dad, it is a joy filled occasion. The dogs always seem to understand that there is something new and exciting waiting for them. They know they are going to a new place that is filled with love. The absolute joy in the faces of the new families and the dogs is heartwarming and is so very rewarding. We have helped to bring great joy to their lives!
Yes, we miss the dogs and there may be misty eyes or even tears but that is only natural. We have unlimited room in our hearts for another foster and another after that and on and on. The joy in seeing a ragged, possibly neglected, unwanted and sometimes shy dog blossom into a confident and loving creature is rewarding. The love these dogs give to us is much more than we can give to them. The only way to return that love is to pass it on to a new foster.
If you are considering fostering a dog, your job may have many parts and seem overwhelming, but the entire job consists of one thing: Love that dog like it is your own BUT love it enough to let it go!
Here is a composite of just a few of our foster children!
Would you like to join our volunteer family? Please apply online
: Volunteer Now
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Florida Poodle Rescue at no extra cost to you! Just click below.
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Poodles on Vacation!
We are Looking for Pictures of FPR Poodles
on
Vacation or at the Park!
Basically wherever you and your poodle are having fun!
If you have pictures of a foster or adopted poodle enjoying their summer and would like to share it,
please send it to:
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- Jesus Gonzalez. NexusHaus K9 Services
"When training a dog it is not about domination, it is about finding the correct path to communication with each dog. Domination can often create conflict. My method is forming a deep bond and providing leadership as opposed to domination."
Jesus E. Gonzalez
Have training questions and not sure who to ask? Well, now you have a resource! Our trainer Jesus E. Gonzalez has over 30 years of experience.
We will have Jesus's answers in the following newsletters as space allows.
We are looking for volunteers to work with our trainer!
This would be perfect for teens looking for Service Hours or
anyone that would like to help out an average of two hours a week
and loves being around dogs.
All work will be done with the guidance of our trainer and includes:
Walking and interaction with the dogs on the property.
Work with our trainer and poodles on socialization.
Feeding and changing water. Cleaning the kennels.
The location is in beautiful Odessa, Florida!
If this interests you, please fill out an application at:
Volunteer Now!
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Meet Roy Disney!
If you are looking for a walking companion, Roy Disney is the guy for you! Roy is 7 years young, loves to walk, and gets so excited when he sees his foster mom get the leash out. He greets everyone he meets, both human and canine, with a tail wag. If you aren't out walking, Roy likes to be in your lap or next to you, getting a belly rub.
Roy is a miniature poodle who came to Florida Poodle Rescue when his person died, and we have no idea why he was named for Walt's younger brother. Roy was overweight when he arrived, but the frequent walks and fewer treats are revealing a new, more svelte Roy. If you would like this happy guy to join you on your excursions around the neighborhood, please complete an adoption application online!
If you are interested in adopting, please click below to fill out an application.
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"Oh, he owns a treasure which nobody steals, Who walks down the road with a dog at his heels." -Edgar Guest
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New Study Reveals Porpoises Consciously Control Their Heart Rate
It's long been known that marine mammals have a slower heart rate on deep dives, but it was long thought that this was an "all-or-nothing" reflex. However, research conducted in the 1970s in pinnipeds, including sea lions, revealed that the response is not only autonomic but is also controlled cognitively by the animal. Decades later, researchers decided to find out if cetaceans, such as porpoises, can also consciously control their heart rates.
Lead study author Siri Elmegaard of Aarhus University in Denmark told New Scientist, "Until now, we knew that the heart rates of porpoises and cetaceans in general correlate with different dive factors, such as dive duration, depth and exercise. Now we can conclude that harbor porpoises have cognitive control of their heart rate."
To find out if
porpoises maintain cognitive control over their heart rate, researchers fitted two captive porpoises with special monitors, then trained them to dive either a 20-second or 80-second dive. The animals slowed their heart rates much more at the beginning of the longer dive than they did at the start of the shorter dive. Their heart rates measured between 15 percent and 26 percent slower on the longer dives than they did on the shorter dives, which is likely done in order to optimize oxygen usage.
The porpoises not only lowered their heart rates but also constricted blood vessels. "Combined, these decrease heart output and perfusion of oxygen into organs, maintain blood pressure and conserve blood oxygen, essentially redistributing oxygen to the brain and heart, which are the organs most sensitive to lack of oxygen," New Scientist reported.
While the ability to consciously manage their heart rate, and therefore their ability to stay under water longer, is certainly beneficial to the species (and likely exists in all cetacean species, including dolphins), it could be affected by underwater noise.
If the animals are startled by an unexpected noise from shipping traffic or sonar, for instance, the researchers suggested they could panic and lose control of their heart rate, causing them to surface too quickly or lose control of oxygen and nitrogen levels in their bodies. As in humans, cetaceans can suffer from decompression sickness - a toxic buildup of nitrogen in tissues that leads to pain and potentially paralysis and death.
Paul Jepson, Ph.D., at the Institute of Zoology in London told New Scientist that this could even be implicated in some unexplained strandings. "If abnormal cognitive physiological control of dive profile occurred, for example due to naval sonar exposure, this could result in radically altered nitrogen gas kinetics and - potentially - increased risk of decompression sickness - as has been suggested for some mass strandings of beaked whales linked to human-made mid-frequency sonars," he says.
Keep up with FPR on Facebook!
We are posting health news,
dog food recalls,
training info and more daily.
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The Art of Rescue Shop
We have a couple of new ideas for you!
These shirts are not yet on our website. We are gathering orders!
Order by August 15th for September 15th delivery.
If you would like to order one, please email news@floridapoodlerescue.org.
Please specify size and which shirt:
Namastay or Love is a Four Legged Word.
The cost is $25.00 for each shirt.
(Thank you to Breanna Witt for the Namastay poodle drawing.)
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For the love of poodles!
Would you consider a $10 donation this month?
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We are adding videos as we receive them.
If you have a foster or adopted poodle video to share, please send it to:
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The kindness one does for an animal may not change the world...
but it will change the world for that one animal.
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As always, if there is something you would like to see
included in the Newsletter,
please let us know.
Thanks for reading!
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