Don't want to adopt
but do want to help?
We depend on donations to supplement our adoption fees.
Sometimes, the cost to rescue a dog far exceeds our adoption fee.
We accept checks or Paypal.
You'll receive a letter acknowledging your gift for your tax records.
You can also help by visiting our Paws To Shop section.
Thank you in advance for your generosity!
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(You don't need to have a PayPal account yourself.)
You can do a little or a lot:
no experience necessary!
Make reference check phone calls, do home visits, help with transporting dogs, fundraise, maintain webpages, help at rescue booths, or become a foster home.
Your fellow New Spirit volunteers will be there to help every step of the way!
What we do: We evaluate Australian Shepherds and Australian Shepherd mixes from selected shelters and private owners no longer able to keep their Aussies. If we judge a dog suitable for placement with an average adopter, we foster it in private homes and get to know the dog. We then post the dog to our website and place it in an adoptive home where the energy levels, expectations and personalities are a good fit.
Think of us as a "doggie dating service"!
New Spirit 4 Aussie Rescue, Inc.
New Spirit 4 Aussie Rescue is an all-volunteer non-profit 501(c)(3) organization serving Australian Shepherds and Aussie
mixes on the East Coast.
The K9 JYM is the largest and most complete indoor facility for dog fitness, sports and
training in the region.
Read our latest newsletter here!
The New Spirit Aussie Ambassadors:
left to right, Kye, 15, Shasta, 4, and Ranger 2, appeared at many fundraising events in 2009 and thank you for your generous support of New Spirit.
We look forward to seeing you again at events starting in April 2010! Watch this page for announcements of dates and times.
Clover's Story
On Sunday, January 31st, an urgent plea went out over the internet for someone, anyone, to help this little black tri Aussie who had been struck by a car in GA. The weather and her injuries were so severe, we can only be thankful that the stranger who hit her stopped immediately and called for help. She was almost certainly destined to be put to sleep unless a committed rescue stepped up to take her.
Rachael Eley and New Spirit answered
As of February 6, she's looking much brighter. Despite fractures to her pelvis, she is trying to spend more time out of the crate with her foster family, and gets out to the yard to potty under
her own steam on 3 legs. The swelling in her back leg has gone down quite a bit and is localized to the ankle where the break is, but it still just hangs there. (picture at right )
We're waiting for the vet to decide when or if the lef g can be splinted or operated on.
New Spirit appreciates any donation however small to assist Clover’s journey back to health.
Moving Dogs by Air, Land, and Sea*
Got it on the third try!
Jon Wehrenberg of TN flew this beauty of a hgh wing Cessna 500 miles up to Harrisburg, PA on February 1. That was after snow and ice blanketed the south and he was forced to cancel twice.
Jon is one of the founders of Pilots 'n Paws, an organization of pilots who volunteer their time and planes to move rescue dogs over long distances, from where the need is greatest to where medical help and adopters are abundant.
Jon says, "That plane is my trusty steed. I have owned it for 23 years, flown out 3 engines and used it in all kinds of weather flying to a schedule when I had a real job. I am more conservative now, but still enjoy flying the plane. Any time I can put it to work transporting pups I consider it a success because I am not only keeping my passengers from being euthanized, I am keeping the pipeline open so more animals will not be killed."
L-R: Michelle Barnhart of York, PA with her adoptee, Dallas, Jon Wehrenberg, little Tiki in the small crate, and Todd Barnhart with Sawyer, another passenger bound for CT by car
Ah, the glamorous life we lead in rescue!
At right, Sawyer and Tiki with Virginia Ellen and Kristin Haas on the next leg of their journey, meeting in almost tropical conditions at the Lehigh Valley Interchange of the PA Turnpike.
Just like Punxatawny Phil the next day, we sure as heck saw our shadows and knew another six weeks of winter was on the way!
Virginia brought her foster, Tavi, to join Tiki and Sawyer, and Kristin headed north to NY with all three to meet Laura Derevensky, another New Spirit adopter and volunteer.
By 5 pm that day, Jon was safely back on the ground in TN, Dallas was in his new home, Tiki was on her way to CT with Dr Dorraine Waldow, a prior New Spirit adopter and volunteer, to be adopted, and Sawyer was picked up by his new family, the Merciers of NH.
What a great day!
Tavi is still looking for his forever home: click here to learn more about him.
*Just kidding about the sea part
Jon couldn't be more right!
This run not only moved 3 dogs north from New Spirit foster homes in GA to adopters in the north, it freed up space in GA that enabled that team to take in a critically injured dog (see "Clover's Story" above).
the call, and spent the first night laying on the floor next to the crate, anxiously monitoring her breathing. That first night, things didn't look so good (above).
