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Turtle Gardens has Rescued and placed almost 4000 animals since we opened our doors to unwanted pets. Each is vaccinated upon arrival if needed, wormed, fed premium dog food, spayed or neutered and started in basic obedience training. We use positive
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Short term foster home needed for 3 rescue puppies in Victoria
Three little guys are looking for short term foster in Victoria from November 29th for about 3 weeks. What’s involved? They will be going to the Man and his Dog Fashion Show – Stan will pick them up and return them. Then they will be speu...
Bandanas Posters & Hugs from King
Hey Momma Yvette My mom’s been teaching Princess MollyDawg to sew and they just finished sending out yet another BIG order of bandanas. I’m glad Jillian and SweetPea like the personalized ones I sent for them. That was MY Idea you know. ...
Rescue dogs in Vancouver – search engine optimization
What the heck does that mean? Stan has been telling me what I need to do to “optimize” my web site. Why I ask. And he gives me all his reasons – when people google to look for a rescue dog your blog doesn’t come up in the top ...
A TG Alumni from 12 years ago!!!
The sun is shining and the dogs are playing! The storm did not materialize though we did get a snow flurrie last night. The dogs were running in and out covered in snow – making a mess and running back out again. They finally got tired out by 1...
Updates – TG Alumni – Vancouver
It is milder with blue skies – but a big storm is coming! It is -3 just after noon – still quite chilly but the dogs are all outside playing. Then a big pile up to warm up. And pictures of Yvonne’s dogs! And pics of Bella now...
Tidbits at Turtle Gardens
-15 this morning!! But the sun is shining with no heat whatsoever. The dogs had slammed the door opened so t was just as cold inside as out! Why is it that some dogs don’t like the door to touch them as they go through! Willow and Ruthie are tw...
Fundraiser: Man and His Dog Fashion Show – Victoria
Enjoy a fun evening with the latest in mens fashions and the greatest in mens friends as 12 guys and their dogs take to the ‘catwalk’ at Outlooks for Men. Tickets are $25, available in store. All proceeds benefit animal rescue. Cash bar. ...
News from Turtle Gardens and Sweetpea and Jillian model their peronalized bandanas!
It was 3.30 am and all of the dogs were outside noisily playing in the falling snow!! They were having a blast! Scrooge got up and turned off the yard floodlights and chased them all back to bed! Get a grip guys – it is too early to play!! The ...
Lola and Misty model their bandanas
The girls are pretty in red!! ©Turtle Gardens Animal Rescue Society. Have your pet spayed or neutered today. ...
Zoe and Gemma Joy looking stylin’ in their new Turtle Gardens bandannas.
©Turtle Gardens Animal Rescue Society. Have your pet spayed or neutered today. ...
This week at Simond’s Sanctuary:
We have had a busy week at Simond’s Sanctuary, we have seen new loving homes finding our little shelter, opening up their hearts to our little orphans and welcoming new additions to their families. Thanks to our award winning photographer’...
more Turtle Gardens bandana photos- Teya
Hi Auntie Del, This is Teya here. Boy here we go again, Mommy put those awful bananas around our neck AGAIN! She said we had to model one more time and we have to sit nicely just one more time. Anyways, I thought I’d show her. She tried to put...
Dog days of summer at Turtle Gardens
Dog days are hot days! Days for lazing around the beach – it is too hot. I hate hot. I find it too hot these days and the long range forecast is for more HOT SUNNY days to come. I am not happy. Hot makes me cranky and the dogs too. They play an...
The faces of Turtle Gardens
It is way too hot! Summer is green and beautiful and colorful and way way too hot for me and half my dogs. my big girl Shaney was almost given her eternal rest before her time simply because with all the recent deaths I thought she had cancer or a st...
Introducing TG’s Yeta and pups and The case of the dying litter.
Someone mailed me a copy of Dog World Magazine. Thank you so much who ever you are! Inside was an article written by D. Caroline Coile PHD – The Case of the Dying Litter. The case was so like Gressie’s that is was an eye opener. It is definitel...
Another sad day for Turtle Gardens and a new arrival
Having old dogs means having death as a frequent visitor. Dave and I have a few senior dogs – Squire is 11, Miss Sasha is 18, Gopher is 16, Marty is 17, Redman is 16, Aardvark is 17, Colby is 15, JohnB (a sherriff dog) is 15, Patches is 13, Mi...
The Faces of Turtle Gardens again
Lord love a duck - it is still hot! It cools down at sunset which is close to midnight. The dogs start playing and eating around 9.30 pm so by the time the heat is finally disipated they are ready to hunker down for the night. Today they slept in; so...
More updates some from long ago!
Hello Yvette, It was great to talk to you again and connect. I have attached some pictures of Morice now. I have pictures of him when we first got him but they are not digital, so I can not easily send them through. {I have his adoption picture!!} ...
New arrivals and cool updates!
The sun was shining, the sky was so blue and it was so bloody cold -3 is just too darn cold!! Then the clouds came rolling in, the wind came blowing in and the sun disappeared. All before 10 am. The weather network says that we will have -2 or so for...
Neuter day at Turtle Gardens
It was supposed to be a spay day but the two demodex girls have had a flare up! So they will have to wait until they feel a whole lot better. I will need to double up their immune boosters and maybe add some more supplements to their regimen and mayb...
A sleepover and an adoption!
It was a gorgeous day yesterday lots of sunshine some showers but not many. Dave was busy working outside - spreading the hill in the dog yard to level it all so we can plant grass. The dogs will be moved into another yard with access from the back o...
