Second Chance Pet Rescue sponsored Brooklyn, a pitbull mix, owned by Jonathan Offi at the Shasta County Sport and Boat Show this last weekend. Brooklyn is a competition frisbee dog but showed a high willingness and interest to jump into water.

Dock Diving is a sport dominated by Labs and Retrievers where the dogs jump from a 40 foot platform into a pool of water for a target toy. Brooklyn placed #2 in her "wave" of 20 dogs where she jumped 20 feet which was the 3rd longest jump for the entire 3-day event. That jump qualified her for the Pro Finals which included the top 12 dogs for the weekend.

Brooklyn's final jump of 21.1 feet was good enough to place 3rd out of the top 12 dogs. Where will Brooklyn go next? Stay tuned and we'll keep you posted. Look for a video soon of Brooklyn dock diving.

It's a constant struggle to keep pen space available and get dogs out to new forever homes. Sometimes it is disheartening.

Today 3 dogs went to rescue. By 5:00 those 3 pens were full once again. GAWD, will it ever end? Why do people think that tossing their dog outside to fend for themseleves gets them off the hook and their dogs safe?

It's a never ending battle.

In three weeks we've been flooded three times. We currently have every pen full inside the shelter with 6 dogs in crates. While I wonder if this is inhumane I have to wonder about where the dogs would be if they were not in our shelter. Poor mama dog who has just given birth came in without her babies. No one has come calling for her. Where are the babies? I dare not think that they were deliberately let go in the floods to "get rid" of the problem. Such a sad thing to think that people are so heartless and uncaring. They are, after all, just a dog I hear time and time again. Damn.

We have wonderful media supporters of the work we are doing at the shelter. Today we were on the 6:00 news and 11:00 news regarding our consistent flooding. City spokesperson Ross Turner states that the shelter is not a priority. Things will continue as they have for ... well, I guess as long as the shelter has been here. At least we don't shoot the dogs in the head if we leave for the weekend. A sad thing to think about for dogs that belong to the city.

We were supposed to get 1-3 inches of rain today. When I went to bed at 11:00 the water looked good, the rain had stopped, the river was not over the bank, and the 10 dogs outside appeared to be safe for the night. So here it is at 2:30 AM. When I woke at 2:00 to check the water we were submerged again. Poor dogs outside were standing in 5 inches of water. The dog houses were unusable because they were full of water. The shelter has been sandbagged and the dogs are all in. One is in a crate, two have been doubled up in one pen. Earlier today our Trixie, a fabulous blue pit bull who had been in foster care for 4 months, finally went to her permanent home. Otto, a Doxie mix also went to his permanent home today. Hooray!! Team Pit Bull Jonathan and I went to several homes to teach how to set boundaries for dogs and people with very good success. A load of laundry is in the washer as we will no doubt need fresh, dry, blankets tomorrow morning.

Tinker has been in his foster to adopt home for about a week now. "He has been devine" says Judy "but . . ." And so me and Jonathan (Team Pit Bull extrordinaire behaviorist)paid Judy a visit today in Shasta Lake City. Boundaries were set for not bounding out of the front door and proper car etiquette for not only our Tinkerbelle, but for Asia and Max as well. It went fabulous!!!