Are you looking to adopt a small dog such as a cocker, poodle, yorkie, shihtzu, pekingese, terrier or chihuahua? Perhaps we can help. We rescue these breeds, plus many more.
Cocker Spaniel/Small Dog Rescue of Central Florida is staffed by a small group of dedicated, unpaid volunteers. We receive no commercial or government funding.
Most of our dogs come from local animal shelters where rescue organizations like ours are considered a "last resort." This means that we are called upon to rescue the dog after it has not been claimed or adopted, and is scheduled to be euthanized. Because the shelters are oftentimes very full, the amount of time a dog has before being euthanized ranges from 3 to 10 days.
After the dogs are rescued we place them in foster homes until we can find them a permanent home. Because we have already placed them in a home environment, we can tell you a little about their habits and house manners--something you will not know if you adopt from a shelter or kennel.
Our dogs are fully vetted before being placed. This includes spay/neuter, occult heartworm test, deworming and vaccinations. The dogs are bathed and groomed. At times, we may rescue a dog which has severe hair loss, a broken leg, is heartworm positive, or has another serious problem. We make sure the dog receives proper veterinary care before it is placed.
If you don't see a dog on our site that you would like to adopt, please
bookmark our site and check back frequently. At this time, due to lack of funds
caused by hurricane repairs, we are only accepting a small amount of dogs and
the majority of these are coming from shelters.
Before adopting a dog, prospective owners must fill out an adoption application. Once approved, a home inspection will be required before the adoption can be finalized.
At this time Cocker Spaniel/Small Dog Rescue is unable to adopt dogs to
individuals
living outside of the Central Florida area (generally defined as within 200 miles of
Orlando, Florida).
To get the latest information on pet foods being recalled, we recommend checking Itchmo.com. This website, along with Howl911 seem to provide information long before it hits the news. We personally have not seen an increase in renal failure in the last year (which is how long they think these poisons may have been in our pet food), but we have been seeing a severely increased amount of dogs with chronic digestive problems such as chronic colitis, IBS and IBD. Is this a coincidence? We don't know. We have been recommending supplements to our pet sitting clients, and also giving supplements to our own dogs which are displaying these symptoms. Specifically, we are using a supplement called "Gastriplex" which has done wonders for our IBD dogs. This supplement can be purchased at a wonderful holistic pet medication/supplement website called holisticpetinfo.com. The Gastriplex helps the pet to digest it's food and also "heals the gut". I understand it can be given to cats as well. Our local holistic veterinarian also prescribes this supplement.
