Featured Adoptables: Gramby
May 7th, 2008 12:13 pm by Kelly G.Update, 2/18/09: I’m absolutely overjoyed to announce that Gramby has FINALLY been adopted! After almost 2 1/2 years at Animal Haven, Gramby has found his forever home. It’s such momentous news that Animal Haven even blogged about it:
Gramby was our longest term dog here at Animal Haven and was recently adopted. Gramby was found as a stray from a city with a breed ban on October 13th, 2006 when he was just a pup. Last week he was adopted out by a fantastic lady from Blue Springs. He has adjusted very well to life with his new mother and is having the time of his life now that he finally has his lifelong home. He even gets to cuddle with his mother’s baby granddaughter for nap time.
And, what a wiggler he is too! Our ants-in-the-pants pal Gramby is always on the lookout for something interesting. Who can blame him? Gramby’s dedicated friends here at Animal taught him a few things before he went to his new lifelong home, and he’ll sit for a treat (though he likes to be sure it’s abundantly tasty).
My heart sings for him! Thank you, thank you, THANK YOU, anonymous “fantastic lady from Blue Springs,” for giving Gramby another shot at life.
This week’s Featured Adoptable is Gramby, a young pit bull terrier mix who is currently staying with Animal Haven.
18 months, 55 pounds. What a wiggler! Our ants-in-the-pants pal Gramby is always on the lookout for something interesting. Who can blame him? There’s a lot going on around here! He has been in the shelter for over one year. He is patiently and eagerly looking for his forever home
Found as a stray from a city with a breed ban, he’s just a youngster, ready to learn anything you can throw his way. Group training classes will set him up for success, and you’d certainly want such a handsome dog to be out in the world, strutting his stuff. Gramby’s dedicated friends (Animal Haven volunteers/staff) have taught him a few things, and he’ll sit for a treat (though he likes to be sure it’s abundantly tasty). He’s playful with all, even fond of other animals.
Gramby is also Animal Haven’s current Featured Pet, and is the inspiration for their Tire Marks logo! (On June 21st, the group is holding their first annual Poker Run benefit; you can find out more on their website.)
If you’re interested in taking Gramby home with you, check out his Petfinder listing for more on Animal Haven’s adoption fees and procedures.
Please note: Because Gramby is a pit bull mix, you’ll want to find out whether your municipality has any ordinances restricting ownership of this breed (“breed specific legislation”, or BSL).
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Each Wednesday, the Kansas City Freecycle blog will feature one adoptable animal from a local KC rescue group or animal shelter.
We do this for several reasons:
- To highlight the plight of companion animals in the Kansas City area.
- To remind members of our no-animal policy, and provide an alternative venue for members who wish to adopt an unwanted animal.
- To encourage members to adopt a furry friend.
- To help out out local animal rescue groups and animal shelters, many of which are overwhelmed by the sheer number of animals in need.
- To illustrate these animals’ unique personalities and characteristics, thus underscoring the fact that they are not objects and should not be “freecycled”.
Click here to view past Featured Adoptables.
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May 8th, 2008 at 1:07 pm
Love. What is love.
You can not touch it.
Or can you.
A loving wife can be touched.
My 2 dogs Pandora and Cypress can be touched.
My past girl friends who I was in love with could be touched (one of them by my friend with out me knowing, but thats another story).
Love. Can you hold it in your hand?
I can hold my dogs in my hand.
They are pure bread American Pit Bull Terrier.
The breed is very smart, strong and loving.
No other breed has been temperament tested (by way of 2 dogs in battle with
2 dog handlers with in inches of the fight knowing that the dog would never
bite them) the way the APBT has.
Love.
I would never, ever, ever even think about fighting my dogs.
I have never seen, wanted to see, or been to a dog fight (or a cock fight for that matter).
Does that mean I can not respect how someones grandpa can win The Ultimate Strong Man competition,
or be boxings’ Heavy Weight Champion of the World?
Love.
Does that mean that you love unconditionally.
Can I say “I love the way I see your grandpa Swartz in your eyes to your Jewish grandson
wile being in front of Nazi guards looking for Jews to exterminate and throw in jail?
I love my Jew.
I love my American Pit Bull Terrier.
Hear me scream.
Here me Thomas Jefferson!
Here me god!
Here me you people on the “left” trying to take away my rights.
Here me people on the “right” trying to take away my rights.
Here me fellow amputees who are in pain!
Here me single people who have no family but there pet!
Here me!
Here me!
Here me! The humane society openly hired ALF members and claim to want to help the APBT -
by putting them to sleep.
The rights that are the most important are the ones you don’t believe in.
America here me!
America I cry for you.
I am 34 years old.
What has happed to our freedom loving ways?
Is it just the “headline mentality”, or are we as a country judging people way to much?
Punish the deed, not the breed.
Any one remember Our Gang.
The Little Rascals?
The dog Pete was a match dog.
He was an APBT.
Did you ever see him act mean toward the kids?
Were they scared, or did they love the dog Pete with his big black circle around one eye?
My dogs have been on TV to promote kids to be good people.
It was a 3 minute Character Education Program that ran on many cable channels.
We should have made one for the “adults”,
I think they needed it more.
They wanted to pay me for the use of them, but I said no.
Its my duty to help make the APBT more respected and loved.
It helped!
My photo of my dog Cypress was chosen to be displayed at a local museum in a photo contest.
She did not win, but the breed did!
Among various photos was mine.
“Cypress at the Salmon”.
A older lady asked me at the opening night show “where is the Cypress tree”.
I told her the dog was named Cypress.
Cypress and her puppies were the only photo used in the American Dog Breeders Association magnet
handed out at the Las Vegas Dog Convention in 2003.
They were used for the cover of the ADBA Spring 2003 gazette.
Our girl Addy is helping mentally disabled children at a school in San Francisco.
The parents and kids love their Addy.
Come and kill her.
Come and take Addy away from the children in the Bay Area.
She is Vicious!
She is a pure bread American Pit Bull Terrier.
Thousand of family members killed off in Denver!
I will die for her.
I will die for America.
We fought (along with our dogs, some of which were APBTs’) to long for our rights to loose them in
my life time.
Cypress is love.
Pandora is love.
A strong marriage, thats love.
The bond between myself any my family who live 720 miles away, thats love.
Willing to die for your family, that is love.
Good luck America.
I still love you.
a guy trying to keep the SS away