Hey guys we are here at DogFest in Ithaca, New York. You're gonna meet a
whole bunch of awesome shelters, rescues, and vendors in today's video.
Hey guys Ian and Christi here with Simpawtico Dog Training now before we get into the ins
and outs about DogFest please make sure you subscribe so you never miss any of
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links and other resources. Awesome now Ithaca, New York is a little bit
outside of our service area as far as Simpawtico Dog Training goes so we're
actually here supporting Rainbow of Hope Animal Rescue which we are both
volunteers for. So let's go check them out and see what else is happening
around. Rainbow of Hope Animal Rescue is an all breed dog rescue based out of Big
Flats, New York. They're a nonprofit organization staffed entirely by
volunteers. Today they brought two of their adoptable dogs with them: Archer
and Ceasar.
This is my friend Lynette! Tell us about yourself, Lynette. I am
the Adoption Coordinator and Director of Fundraising for Rainbow of Hope Animal Rescue and we are here
at DogFest.
How's it going so far? We're doing well. We have a bake sale, we have a toy sale,
and we are selling beverages. Fantastic!
Located for the third year in a row at Cass Park in
Ithaca New York, DogFest featured over 40 shelters, rescues, and vendors of
products and services. This was the biggest yet bringing together dogs,
owners, and dog lovers from all over the surrounding area.
Hey guys this is my friend Matt from the Chemung SPCA; tell us about it Matt.
Yeah absolutely so we're glad to be here at Ithaca DogFest in Cass Park and we
brought with us the adorable Sundance, so hopefully you''ll get to see her around today
and a great time get to meet a lot of friendly people and have even better
friendly dogs and hopefully get some good information out there about the
Chemung SPCA. Absolutely! Now you guys
on the channel know that I work a lot with the Chemung SPCA, so I'm there every
week, they're an awesome, awesome group of people and they're a pleasure to work
with every single time. They teach me a lot every time I'm out there. So I'm glad
to see you here my friend. Yeah thank you and for everything you do! Thank you I appreciate that!
Hey everybody this is
Juli Lathrop with the Kramer foundation and Julie and I had just met today
actually even though we've been working in the same area for a while now, and
it's a pleasure to meet her. Now Juli is founder of the Kramer Foundation, so just tell us a little
bit about what the Kramer foundation is and what you do. Kramer Foundation
primarily fosters dogs that would normally be euthanized in shelters for
behavior problems and then we rehabilitate them and rehome them. Most of
these dogs really need a job, you know, when they're rehabilitated we start
training them for different venues and we donate to law enforcement, New York
State Fire, therapy dogs, search and rescue, and some of them just go on to be really
great pets because they needed they needed the foundation and
nobody had ever done it.
You know, they fall in love with that puppy, bring it home and then realize: it's a puppy! Right.
So you probably do a lot of those high drive, high-energy dogs
that just, they have to have some place to put that focus into. Yes and then
those behaviors, because they get adopted or purchased as pets, goes back to
the breeder and not making sure their dogs go where they need to be. And then,
so when they get dumped off at shelters those behaviors turn to aggression
because they aren't...nobody taps into the mind. Yeah, everything
in a shelter is always magnified. Yeah. So now you used to be in law enforcement
right? Yes with the Sheriff's Department. So you had a lot of
experience with those kinds of dogs? Not the traditional. When I was with the
department I wasn't the traditional k-9 handler.
I had a big hundred and fifty pound Rottweiler—Kramer which started this
whole thing—and I started using him when I bid for the school position. I used him
to make me approachable as a uniformed officer to the kids right and it just
branched into crazy programs. So we have over 40 programs that went through the
schools that many of them continue on not only here but across the nation and
then it branched off into fostering the dogs that need it a little more.
We had paired with the SPCA to pair our problem dogs and problem kids and then
branched off to just... it worked so well that it was with every kid and it
brought all of the kids of any walk of life, race, religion... it just... everybody was
the same for the dogs. It branched off to that now, and now our fostering
program were just ready to take in our 978 foster. That's fantastic!
So now on an average how many dogs do you actively work with at a time
do you have in your facility? I usually have between 35 and 40 dogs at a time up
there. It's not an open to the public, it's specifically a rehab
place, but we do place with the general public. Usually they call or
we have a list of what people are looking for and then we evaluate
the dogs as they go through training and if we don't have something we look at
the local shelters and rescues. Fantastic! So we're going to
put the Kramer foundation's website in the YouTube description and I definitely
encourage everybody to check it out and learn more about it and see what you can
do in your community to join the cause. Thanks so much Juli, I really appreciate
it. I thank you! It's been really awesome meeting you!
Take care; have a great day.
All right oh this is my friend Dee. We've run into each other
many, many times at different kinds of functions and stuff like this. I think all
sorts of little places we always seem to bump into each other. Yeah. So Dee's here
with the Horseheads Community Shelter, so tell us a little bit about that.
We are a privately run shelter. We have been open for almost a year now so
we take in owner surrenders and also help out other shelters that don't have
the resources and bring them in. Chip here that I have with me is 8 years old;
he came from Howard which is one of the shelters we help.
He was found as a stray so we do take strays too. We are mainly volunteer
based. We have low staffing right now. We currently have three dogs and five cats
but we are in desperate need of foster homes especially for kittens. So we need
some fosters. All right so for those of you guys in the Twin Tiers of
New York get on it! We need some help. All right thank you!
We'll put a link to the Horeseheads Community Shelter in that YouTube
description.
In addition to all the rescues and stuff there are some really great vendors around
here too. So this is Jamila with Eye4Design New York, so tell us about
Eye4Design New York. Hi everybody we started off as a jewelry company and we
started in 2010, and now we've blossomed into event planning and also
tabeling at different events, so you'll find us here at Ithaca DogFest and
hopefully you'll find us here next year as well. We do a lot of sewing projects
and arts and crafts, lots of things that are hand made. So this year we're
featuring handmade bandanas that go right with small dogs or large dogs. We
have little t-shirts, blankets for transporting your dog in
your car, back to the kennel, back and forth for dog training potentially, so
lots of fun. Nice! Well we're going to put all the links to Jamila's stuff
in the YouTube description so make sure you check it out. Thanks so much!
Alright guys this is Kristina, another great vendor at DogFest with
Polka Dot Tails, so tell us about Polka Dot Tails, Kristina. Polka Dot Tails
started four years ago when we first started fostering dogs and I just
couldn't find the type of things I needed, and we've expanded the last four
years. We're based here in Ithaca, and we have collars and leashes and accessories
for dogs. We do things for special-needs dogs—dogs who are deaf or blind, all the
way up to these really fun kind of inspired, trendy
you know Harry Potter things or other types of fun things that are out there.
And every portion of every purchase that you make is donated back to an
animal rescue. That's fantastic! So we're going to put a
link in the YouTube description. You have an Etsy store, right? I have an Etsy store,
you can also find me at www.polkadottails.com. Thank you so much, Kristina!
All right guys, well that's it. DogFest is all over and we're just picking up a pizza on the way
home. So we will see you in two weeks at Walk N Wag, and don't worry we've still got
some regular videos on the wa.y But until then: keep learning, keep
practicing, and we will see you next time. Thanks for watching guys!