NESR C/O
Melinda King, Treasurer
10602 Brittney Lane S. E.
Olalla, WA 98359

  You may also donate through paypal with the link below.

NESR is organized and operates exclusively for exempt purposes set forth in section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code.  As such, your donations may be tax deductible.  Please consult with your tax advisor for guidance.

This is a fabric patch color printed with a embroidered border.

We are accepting pre-orders for the patch now.  On February 1st we will place the order.  Proceeds will be used by NESR for helping Operation New Beginnings in Billings MT. 

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$5 a piece (includes shipping and handling)

Chew Toy Drive for Montana Puppies

Click here for details

Interested in fostering for National English Shepherd Rescue?  Please download our  Foster forms and return them to:

NESR Foster

415 Springbrook Road

Myrtle Creek, OR 97457

or

nesrinfo@yahoo.com

or Fax to

408-519-6492

Here is a flyer you may print out to pass out to alert others to the need for foster homes, adopters, and donations for this rescue effort click here

3/1/09

FALSE Email Plea For Help

http://www.billingsgazette.net/articles/2009/03/01/opinion/letters/50-golden.txt

2/26/09

The ES community thanks the volunteers in Montana

2/23/09

http://www.billingsgazette.net/articles/2009/02/23/news/local/23-shadylane.txt

http://www.billingsgazette.net/articles/2009/02/23/news/local/22-shadylane.txt

2/22/09 Not much to tell of late.  Puppies continue to be born, adults continue to be trained.  The third barn for the puppies is open but work on further stalls in the barn continues.  There are now 3 barns and the vet facility at Moore Lane now housing the growing population. 

2/17/09

The Valentine cookies we sent to the Volunteers at the Metra and Moore Lane were a big hit.  Again a big thank you to the volunteers helping to care and train these dogs.

A Puppy Population Explosion!!!
 
Volunteers with Operation New Beginnings are approximately 8 weeks post-seizure and the litters are coming fast and furious, with  14-16 females yet to whelp.  Litter size has been 5 - 8 puppies (some more, some less).  We should see the end of the litters in early March, as the Girl Barn and the Boy Barn have been kept quite separate since the dogs were seized.  Many in the Girl Barn recently went into heat, presenting a whole new dimension to the work the Montana Volunteers have been doing.  But each dog in heat was one less litter to expect, so that was good.   
 
Most of us have suppressed the "Jaws on Paws" memories: those days when your pup ate the bottom rung of a chair that was a family heirloom is now a distant memory!  The remote that was destroyed has been replaced; the little squirt guns have been put away.  But if its not too painful, remember the damage those little puppy teeth can do.  Those who have raised a litter or two can remember how the work increased as the dogs got older...directing mischievious little puppies to better outlets for play.  Remember?
 
Now multiply that by 100+.  By 100 little dogs that don't always have someone with them to correct inappropriate chewing.  By 100 little mouths looking for some way to relieve anxiety, boredom, and the pain of teething.  By the over 100 volunteers who are not only working to socialize puppies, but also working to prepare the adult dogs for a life with humans.
 
We really urge you to support the Operation New Beginnings Volunteers by participating in the Puppy Chew Toy Drive.  And help us count down the days to the first week of March...
 

Appropriate chew toys are solid rubber bones and balls made by "Kong", Nylabones and Gumabones in a variety of small sizes suitable for ES pups. These toys are available at most national pet stores or the following websites:

www.EntirelyPets.com <http://www.entirelypets.com/>

www.SitStay.com <http://www.sitstay.com/>

www.Dog.com <http://www.dog.com/>

www.Jbpet.com <http://www.jbpet.com/>

www.Drsfostersmith.com <http://www.drsfostersmith.com/>

We cannot use any fabric, fur or soft stuffed toys, or toys with plastic squeakers in them. These will just be destroyed and present choking hazards to the pups.

If you would like to help the puppies, please send (or have shipped) appropriate chew toys to one of the following volunteers:

Sally Romoser
c/o Brand Savants, Inc
2240 Shelter Island Drive, Ste. 210
San Diego, CA 92106

Jenn Wiegand
25 Pearl Ave.
Hamden, CT 06514

Martha Connolly
c/o Ernstrom & Dreste
180 Canal View Blvd., Ste. 600
Rochester, NY 14623

To streamline the process, we will collect and ship weekly donations
to Montana.

A printable copy of a flyer with the Toy Drive information is available http://www.nesr.info/PuppyChewToyDrive.pdf The flyer has also been uploaded to the following Yahoo lists: AWFA, English Shepherd,EngShepClub, RawEnglishShepherds, and ES Performance.

Questions about this toy drive may be directed to Martha Connolly at mconnolly@ed-llp.com  Thank you for your
generosity and support of this effort.
 

2/6/09

http://www.billingsgazette.net/articles/2009/02/06/news/local/24-dogs.txt

2/4/09

The trial date has been set for May 4, 2009.  We continue to hear how more and more dogs are learning to trust human contact.  There are celebrations for each female that goes into heat confirming they are not pregnant. 

Check out this article rom the Gazette

2/2/09

Wow, it has been a month since the seizure.  It has been an extremely busy month.  Douglas just returned from Billings and posted this videos 

This video is of Love and Happy helping the morning feed and clean crew in the bitches barn. Happy is the Lab and Love is the tri.  Love and Happy are in the first stall and slipped out while the feed and clean crew was working. Since they are both so social, the crew left them out to help. Click here

1/30/09

See the progress of some of the dogs at the Metra

Please support those businesses and organizations who have
contributed to NESR and Operation New Beginnings on behalf of the dogs
in Montana.

Fort Dodge Animal Health

North American Dog Agility Council

Dee-O-Gee

Honest Kitchen Dog Food

Dog Star Enterprises

Got Dog?

Glacier Chasers

Flint Creek Fliers

Riverbend Agility Dogs

ARF and Running

Billings Regional Agility Group

A Rover Runs Through It

Galloping Dog Agility Club

Paws and People

Avalon Agility

Jean Justad

Rising Star Agility

Three Pines DVD s

K9 Fundamentals

Dreamer just after the seizure

Dreamer renamed Cher Today 1/29/09

Harmony with her new puppies

Just after the seizure

Faith now playing snow Angel

Faith Today 1/29/09

Douglas is leaving Montana tomorrow.  Thank you for all your time and talent Douglas!

1/29/09

http://www.billingsgazette.net/articles/2009/01/29/opinion/guest/20-hoarders.txt

http://www.billingsgazette.net/articles/2009/01/29/news/local/21-puppies.txt

1/28/09  We have received a donation of $1000 of medication from Schering Plough.  If you use this company please give them a big thank you.  We received a donation of 5,000 pounds of high quality dog food from a manufacturer that would like to remain anonymous.  There isn't much to report, the training continues, progress is slow but moving forward.  We don't have any further news on the trial date.  . 

1/26/09

The computer has arrived and is being put to use.  Douglas Surber has arrived in Billings to help with training and assessing the dogs.  He reports that the volunteers are accomplishing amazing things with but are in need of further long term volunteers.  There are dogs that are slowly coming around but there are many that are still extremely shy.

An ongoing need is the ability to buy food to supplement the pregnant and lactating bitches. We have NESR volunteers looking for donations of vitamins and other supplements.  Anyone who would like to contribute directly to this need we are suggesting buying gift cards from Albertson's (a grocery store directly across from the Moore Lane) where they can purchase things like cottage cheese, and ground beef to supplement the bitches diet.    You can click here to purchase gift cards directly from Albertson's and have them sent to:

Operation New Beginnings

50 Moore Lane

Billings, MT 59101

1/19/09

Thank you to everyone that has donated money to the rescue of these dogs.  Here is what we have spent so far. We have purchased a laptop computer, for $350  to help with the organization of the rescuers on the ground at the Metra (once they are finished it will be returned to NESR), we have purchased martingale collars for 150 dogs, we have funded Heather Houlahan's trip to Billings to assess dogs, help train the volunteers, and consult with all the authorities.  She has reported that everyone has been very receptive to her help and thanked her profusely.  She helped to establish the baseline protocols for working with the dogs.  Others  have volunteered to go to Billings to help from the ES community including, Erin McKee, Pam Kaye, and Douglas Surber.     In addition we continue to solicited companies for donations of dog food. 

I am sure there will be other needs that we will fund as they become known to us.  We will also hold the majority of the funds in reserve to help with the transportation to foster homes, and expenses that will arise while the dogs are in foster care if/when the dogs are released.  

1/18/09

http://billingsgazette.net/articles/2009/01/18/opinion/gazette/20-gazetteopinion.txt

Heather reports that taming of the dogs at the Metra continues. She is impressed with the work of the volunteer handlers and the progress some of the dogs are showing.  While passing a stall in the male barn Heather was stopped by the sight of two male dogs playing bowing to each other.  She said she hadn't realized until then that she hadn't seen any of these dogs playing.  It is a good sign that at least some of the dogs are progressing beyond pure survival mode and finding enough trust to actually play together. 

Please read Heather's most recent blog "Baby Steps" http://cynography.blogspot.com/2009/01/baby-steps.html

1/17/09

More updates from the Montana media

http://www.billingsgazette.net/articles/2009/01/17/news/local/24-kennels.txt

http://www.montanasnewsstation.com/Global/story.asp?S=967239

1/14/09

Heather's blog - She is in Billings now

http://cynography.blogspot.com/2009/01/operation-new-beginnings.html

Billings Gazette Article

http://www.billingsgazette.net/articles/2009/01/14/news/local/18-breedofficial.txt

1/13/09

Trainer/behaviorist Heather Houlahan in Montana http://www.kulr8.com/news/local/37545489.html?video=YHI&t=a   http://www.kulr8.com/news/local/37545489.html

Linda pleads not guilty to charges  http://www.billingsgazette.net/articles/2009/01/13/news/local/21-kennels.txt

1/12/09

Charges were filed today.  Read about them at:

http://www.kpvi.com/Global/story.asp?S=9660626

http://www.montanasnewsstation.com/global/category.asp?c=43947

http://www.billingsgazette.net/articles/2009/01/12/news/local/20-felony.txt

Charges as filed by Yellowstone County click here (this is a pdf)

1/10/09

http://www.billingsgazette.net/articles/2009/01/09/news/local/24-volunteers.txt

http://www.billingsgazette.net/articles/2009/01/09/news/local/26-kapsa.txt

From the reports we are getting there are 191 dogs total, and 16 of them are pregnant.  15 of the puppies have gone to the Prison Paws program for continued socialization.  Watch the training video everyone is working very hard to make sure these dogs are getting everything they need.  Your generosity continues to humble us thank you to everyone for opening your hearts and pocket books.   We continue to need donations to meet the needs of this huge under taking  We have sent  a computer to use to organize care, training etc.  We are working on getting corporate donations of dog food. 

1/7/09

NESR's  Trainer/Behaviorist Heather Houlahan & Douglas Surber will be traveling to Billings Montana to help with the evaluation and training of the dogs.  We are working with the authorities to put together a list of supplies they need. 

1/3/08

http://www.kulr8.com/news/local/37046939.html

http://www.billingsgazette.net/articles/2009/01/03/news/local/24-vetdogs.txt

12/30/08

Here is the latest reports from Montana.

http://www.kulr8.com/news/local/36884879.html    http://billingsgazette.net/articles/2008/12/30/news/local/19-dogkennel.txt     http://www.montanasnewsstation.com/Global/story.asp?S=9508818       http://www.billingsgazette.net/articles/2008/12/31/news/local/18-kennel.prt

http://www.greatfallstribune.com/article/20090101/NEWS01/901010304&referrer=FRONTPAGECAROUSEL
 

We hope to have more news soon.

12/12/08

Animal control believes that there are 200 English Shepherds left after they removed 10 dead ES and 3 sick/injured ES, 3 dead Pugs, 5 Pug some puppies, 2 kittens and a retriever mix, yesterday.   Animal control states they believe the rest of the dogs have inadequate shelter, food or water. 

You can read another article on the situation at http://www.billingsgazette.net/articles/2008/12/12/news/local/20-dogs.txt  

and

http://www.montanasnewsstation.com/Global/story.asp?S=9508818