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DOGSTOCK’08 – Akita Adoption and Rescue Foundation Fund Raising Event

by kensho-go

DOGSTOCK is a four day music and camping celebration of the dogs in the coming Memorial Day Weekend (22-25 May 2008). This is a yearly, multi-faceted, pet-friendly, all ages event designed to:

  • Raise community awareness of crucial animal welfare issues.
  • Highlight the availability of healthy animals looking for good homes.
  • Raise much needed funds for the Akita dogs of the only licensed shelter in Osage County: the Akita Adoption and Rescue Foundation (AARF).

DOGSTOCK has become an exciting community event each festival. Dog lovers are invited to bring their lucky dog to the festival, though a few rules apply: all pets must be spayed/neutered, a pets must have a current vaccination record and, all children must be accompanied by an adult at all times.

The Akita Adoption and Rescue Foundation specializes in special needs dogs and older dogs. They have many stories to tell about rewarding relationships that have developed from their good work. Here’s one that will certainly convince you to give a rescued Akita a second life:

An elderly Akita, Jake, was adopted by a family with a seriously epileptic child. Akita’s are very good observers and intelligent thinkers. The Akita started predicting the seizures and would then get help! Before Jake succumbed to old age, he had ‘cured’ the boy of his seizures.

Other stories include folks who adopted a dog one day and the next were protected from intruders.

Dogs give us unconditional love and when we allow 8 to 10 million to be killed yearly just because they were inconvenient, that is unforgivable!

Let’s all help create a better world for dogs and ourselves and hope that DOGSTOCK will become a major source of fund raising.

Details for visitors

DOGSTOCK’08, a celebration of and benefit for the dogs with music and camping memorial day weekend, may 22-25 at the AARF humane sanctuary and campground 6206 E. 317TH St. Melvern, KS 66510 (just 5 miles east of Melvern, Kansas).

A $40 donation at gate covers camping and entertainment for all four days and nights.

Sidenote

The event is NOT canceled though the man in charge of the fund raising, Randy Long (52), is in jail. He is now accused of writing numerous bad checks to people who provided services for the event such as bands, crews and vendors, according to a press release from the Osage County Sheriff’s Office.

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Akita Dog Stolen

by kensho-go

Police are searching for a beautiful and very much loved Japanese Akita dog which went missing from outside Widnes indoor market (Cheshire, UK) on April, 30th.

The Akita owner, Alan Killen, 69, said he had tied his dog to a post outside the market at 12 noon while he went inside for two minutes. However, after returning to pick the dog up it was nowhere to be found.

This is every dog owner’s nightmare!

Mr Killen said: “I think he’s been stolen because they’re quite valuable. I can’t believe he’s gone. I lost my wife in November and Ben is really special to me. Everyone in the market loves him too.”

You don’t see an Akita every day and they are very beautiful and charismatic. My daily experience when I walk Kensho is to hear multiple people saying: “What a beautiful dog”. I can imagine some people wanting to steal these kind of dogs.

The missing Akita’s name is ‘Ben’. He’s micro chipped and is 8 years old. His coat is white chested and black brindle. He has a white tip on his tale and four white marks on his paws that look like socks.

Mr Killen asks for anyone with information to contact him on 0151 228 6339.

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Akita Rescue Video

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