Gateway Pet Guardians

Jewel was just rescued May 3,2012. We tried to rescue the puppies at Ridge’s old hang, but they were not falling for it-on that day anyway. So we ended up with Jewel, who looks like Shiloh, and is totally adorable. If you want to foster or adopt Jewel, please fill out applications! We need you!

Knuckles and Pop’s. You have probably heard by now that Knuckles passed away May 2, 2012. Pj found him in the street-he had been hit by a car. We are all very sad about this. Our own Jamie Case was going to foster Knuckles, but we just were not able to pull him yet because did not have the space. Pj does not think he suffered much and at least we know that he was not a victim of dogfighting or another type of torture. RIP Knuckles. We all loved you & we wish that it could have all worked out differently. We actually had concerns the day this video was filmed, as Knuckles was just very still on the sidewalk, and we crept the car up slowly, with much trepidation as we thought that he may not have been alive. It was only a couple of weeks later that the story had a different ending.

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And our man, Horton. Father of some of Savvy’s kids…….Pj hadn’t seen him for nearly 2 weeks. We need you fosters! All of us really want to pull this guy asap but we need someplace to take him!! Such a sweetheart and has already spent too much of his precious life on the street.

Ferris….Ferris needs a FOSTER!! This guy is adorable & a bundle of love & kisses. Doesn’t anyone want to foster this guy so Pj can pull someone else!!

And the day we rescued Daiya….Watch how Pj goes underneath the house and pulls her out. Daiya had been cut with a very sharp object. Cut so deeply, that it severed her muscles and she had to have her leg amputated. Watch how Pj and the owner of the home carry sweet Daiya to safety and then watch as we take her to Dr. Ed’s at Hillside Animal Hospital.

RaRa!! RaRa is STILL on the streets!! If anyone has a submissive male dog, Pj thinks RaRa might be the pup for you. She is a real sweetheart. The man of the house lets RaRa stay in his yard, but she isn’t “his” dog. We are thrilled that we were able to provide her with a doghouse, but we still would love to let her retire in an indoor home.

Little Petey. Pj doesn’t see Petey much. But when she does, she dotes on him. And he adores her.

Holding our breath. One day we saw a group of dogs when we were coming from the Washington Park Feedings to the East St. Louis area. They were very close to the road, which was full of zooming rush hour traffic. Pj & I were horrified. She pulled over & we watched and held our breath as one of the pups got “stuck” in the road. A lot of Bleeps. I said a lot of words that I don’t usually say in front of Pj. Bad words. It was stressful and we exhaled after the poor dog finally safely made it. Pj looked for these kids again, but never saw another sign of them.

Fallon & Shiloh have both been rescued, YEAH!! Shiloh is at Pj’s and really needs another foster home. Why? Because he is completely adorable & completely normal & completely full of puppy love. We need to keep her place open for dogs we don’t know about yet. Not for the most adorable puppies that walk perfectly on a leash & let you give them baths. I saw Shiloh on a walk last night and I was a pathetic “ooher” and “aaher”. He will steal your heart. We are looking for a foster and/or a forever home. We are hoping that Shiloh will get adopted pretty quickly, just because he is so darn cute.

More Fallon & Shiloh. Fallon is the mom to Shiloh. And Fallon had puppies at Ms. Julia’s after her rescue. We spay as soon as possible, but sometimes the puppies are “calcified” within the mommy and then it is too dangerous to “spay”. Too dangerous to the life of the mom, so Fallon had her puppies. Both Fallon & all of her kids need homes.

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• Love this book because it’s broken down into short chapters about the best veggies & fruits for each “goal”.  The ingredients tend to be on the lower “sugar” side of smoothies and also have a fair amount of information on the “why’s” of the ingredients.  Lots of greens & super nutrients.  So heal your bod while you are “healing” the dogs.  Throw a few things from your garden in the blender, and a few seconds later you will have some of the most nutrient dense food ready for consumption!  No cooking.  No fuss.  No dirty dishes.  Just a high powered blender & a glass.  Oh, glass straws are the “new green bling” and make the whole drinking “green” thing SO much sexier.    No crazy packaged foods.  Just good stuff from the earth!  Enter!!

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Meet Memphis!!  Memphis was an easy rescue & seems to get along with everyone.  Memphis is in a foster home now but is still looking for a forever home!  Please fill out an adoption application or give us a call if you are interested in meeting Memphis in person.

Daiya is such a sweetheart!!  She was just rescued (video to come) April 5, 2012 because she had received some sort of injury to her leg.  She was losing a lot of blood and her ability to walk, but Pj was able to go underneath a crawlspace of a home & pull her out.  Pj & GPG rushed her to Dr. Ed’s at Hillside Animal Hospital and they were able to save her.  She will lose her leg, but not her life.  Somehow she ended up getting named after Daiya Vegan Cheeze.  I was telling Pj about some non-dairy, cholesterol free cheeze options for her mum’s heart, and Pj remembered the name & how to spell it (Pj is a master speller!).  She needed to be named upon arrival at the vet, so Pj pulled Daiya out of her brain & this pup will melt your heart (it’s also one of the cheezes that brags about it’s “melty” qualities!).  Meet Daiya!!

Blondie is doing everything possible to get adopted.  She runs perfectly on a leash and never even tries to get into trouble with other dogs while we are gallavanting around.  Such a sweetheart! Don’t you need someone to walk and jog with you this spring??  She is such a great dog and is getting a little bummed that she gets overlooked.  She tries her best to play her “A” game & she adores her foster mommy, but then she also would love to be in a home where she is a permanent fixture.

Ridge.  Pj loves Ridge.  Ridge loves Pj.  We have to wait and see if we can help Ridge out in the future.

30 seconds with RaRa.  RaRa doesn’t want you to forget about her.  She is still out there & while she is grateful for her little dog house (she uses it!), she still would like a chance to be with someone!

Fallon & Jughead……We haven’t seen Jughead for awhile now.  Fallon is really warming up to Pj these days & She & her son Shiloh are anxious to find fosters.

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In case you haven’t heard, GPG won 10,000 in the “Grow St. Louis” Contest.  We are pretty happy because apparently our vet bills just came in, and they are not good news.  The good news is that GPG treats countless dogs that others would simply discard.  We treat heartworm, fighting wounds, hit by car wounds, and more.  We help everyone we can help.   The bad news is that we need those green pieces of paper that we all barter with daily, to continue to help these kids.  It takes money.  After all, our vets can’t live on doggie kisses alone.   Above a short clip of a super friendly grey cat.  We thought he may belong to someone, especially because he is so “normal”.  But the neighbor said that he did not have a home.  Sad.  Because he follows Pj’s car down the road!  And as soon as she gets out he is rubbing all over her.  Does anyone want to give this kitty an indoor foster home?

And then we have Horton, the beautiful Brindle dog that is sweet as can be.  He used to hang out with Mischa, Womba, and Jonesy.  Well, they all got rescued.  Of course we are STILL on the lookout for Womba, who escaped within 24 hours of her winning lottery ticket.  In any case, Horton seems to have made friends with a lot of the dogs.  On this day he was hanging out with “his girl”, who Pj has since named Savvy.  Savvy was either chilled or scared, or both, that morning.  She was shaking a bit.  She has warmed up to Pj though.  But she is not seen everyday.

These cats are such “regulars”.  We are going to be working with a cat colony group, to at least try to stop them from having more babies.  But we would love for all of them to have homes.  They are not “feral” as they let Pj pet them.

RaRa does not want to give up.  She feels like it is “her time”, that living so much of her life on the streets she has already “paid her dues”.  She just needs a foster home.  She would probably do best with a submissive male.

Rebel is a newer little girl on the route.  Pj says she is an adult.  Pretty shy still, but she is coming out when Pj calls and you can tell that she “wants” to be comfortable with us.

Horton & Knuckles.

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Ra Ra is just the sweetest, shy little girl.  Somehow, she has never been able to find a foster!!  Even though she is a movie star, appearing in our documentary.  She has spent her entire life on the street and still has the capacity to love & take cookies from Pj’s hand.  Is there anyone out there, please, who will give RaRa a chance??

Knuckles always runs up to greet us.  He is a bit limpy these days and Pj is keeping an eye on him to try to figure out if it’s just cold weather and grumpy joints, or if he may actually have something dislocated.

Kitties……..We are thrilled that our friends are going to being trapping & releasing these kitties soon.  However, we would still love to be able to rescue these kids so they can make it into actual homes.  They aren’t truly feral cats, as they run out to see us each time, and Pj can pet all of them.

Pj tried to talk me into taking our bipolar siamese cat and exchanging her with this sweet guy….but I didn’t bite.  Beautiful “sealpoint” would love a warm lap this winter!  And Mr. Tux is adorable beyond words.

Oh, Lloyd….you are getting gray on the streets.  Amie, our past president, had a major soft spot for this guy (who couldn’t?) and it’s hard to believe he has survived this long!!  Sometimes he is nowhere to be seen for extremely long periods of time and then he just reappears one day.

And below, Alice.  Alice was previously chained up outside of a business and a wonderful friend of Gateway Pet Guardians, decided to get permission to give Alice a refuge from the cold for a long weekend.  Well, that turned into him releasing Alice to her and GPG is taking care of the medical and looking for fosters.  Alice has spent her life on a chain but seems pretty happy & loving here.  She needs a forever home now!

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