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Starting Over – Summer 2019 Starting Over Volume 22 Issue 1 Airedale Rescue and Adoption of the Delaware Valley Summer 2019 ARADV AT “MEET THE BREEDS” AT WESTMINSTER DOG SHOW! By Miley & Kathy Appleton ARADV was proud to be asked to help represent the Airedale breed at the “Meet the Breeds” show at the famed Westminster dog show in New York City! It was a busy, excit- ing day for our group of 4 plus 4 dogs. Volunteer Kathy Ap- pleton brought Miley & Charlie and here is their account of the Airedale Rescue & Adoption day: of the Your rover reporter Miley here. It was a brisk, windy Sat- Delaware Valley, Inc. urday morning when the human woke me and my sometimes www.AiredaleRescueDelVal.org sidekick Charlie up at the undogly hour of 5 am. We were told nothing about this the night before although I did see the President: human gathering things as if for a short trip. Hmm maybe a Deb Ciancarelli day trip is what she has in mind. And just like that we got har- 609-313-4765 [email protected] nessed up and driven for what seemed like hours (it was only For correspondence: 2 1/2 hrs) to our destination. Dewey Yesner Along the way we stopped and picked up another 115 Locksley Road human, a friend from Airedale Rescue named Deb. I know Glen Mills, PA 19342 Deb, she’s nice and very helpful to Airedales. But this is Char- lie’s first time meeting Deb. Charlie really liked Deb. I think Vice President/ they have a special connection. I digress. OPEN We drive through this thing that makes it very dark in the car (it’s a tunnel, Miley) and then there’s sunshine again Corresponding & Recording Secretary: (and now we’re out of the tunnel). We drive a little more and Heather Hon back into darkness (the drive was really quite an easy one, 267-535-1561 [email protected] little traffic into the city and straight away to the parking gar- Treasurer: (Continued on page 2) Dewey Yesner 610-659-8002 [email protected] Shelter Contact: Advisor Ruby’s Lost Greyhound Rescue FreshPet Dog Food Representative Announcements…………… 3, 9 Mary Jo Johnson Heartstrings………………. 4-5 610-703-5438 [email protected] Birthday Corner …………. 6 Inside: Heartfelt Thanks……….…. 7 Newsletter Editor For Your Information….…. 10-11 Keith Johnson [email protected] 302-242-8201 Lets Talk Airedale……………. 12-115 Website Manager Tina Elsner [email protected] 610-755-5602 Visit our website at www.AiredaleRescueDelVal.org (Continued from page 1) shared all they know with prospective Airedale par- age). Charlie and I are anxious to be out of the car ents. Some know all about how wonderful we are and sniff this place out. Wow, those are some tall while others were hearing about us for the first time. buildings I spy with my own Airedale eyes. And a park But everyone fell in love with all 8 of us! Char- with lots of dogs. Oh the great smells to be had, but lie and I had the softest coats of the ‘dales there, we alas we weren’t given enough time to linger and are not very wiry. So mom answered a lot of ques- check it out. Onward to the pier. tions about why our coats are different (I clip, not strip We walked and walked (it was just a few Miley and Charlie.) We met many, many people! blocks away) until we got to this building near the wa- Small people (aka children) and tall people (adults). ter. Inside, more walking until we get to our spot. Some were prior adopters, some had Airedales at Doesn’t look like much. A couple of curtain walls on a home now, some knew an Airedale growing up while concrete slab but then wait ... they bring in wagons others just thought we looked darn cute and friendly. and wagons of stuff. Airedale stuff. Pictures of Aire- We Airedales stole the show in my opinion. We dales. Signs explaining what great hunters we are, are just the bestest breed around and everyone how adorable we are as puppies, showing off our ath- wanted to stop by to meet and pet us, scratch our leticism, generally furry heads and saying how awe- soft bellies and some we are—all learn more about true you know! Once us. We greeted our home for the tirelessly until the day is set up it’s a crowds started to beautiful thing, eve- thin around 3 or 4 rything you’d like to pm. Whew we know about Aire- w e r e a l l dales, all in one pooped! But a place. great day was Let me tell had by all! My you a little about the buddy Charlie other great humans even had her 15 we worked with that seconds of fame, day. There was Cin- ok maybe 5 sec- dy and John. They onds. They filmed brought their boy- her “singing” and dales Brewster and Ozzie. They are a little bigger than added it to cover- Charlie and me and oh so fun. Those boy-dales, they age that aired just love their tummy scratches! There were 4 other about “Meet the very perfectly groomed Airedales. They are all show Breeds” on the dogs and wow, they were gorgeous even if I say so local newscast. myself! We met a junior handler named Hugh and his {Mom: all the Airedales did great. Miley is a mom Nancy. Very impressed with Hugh, a young man registered therapy dog and has her CGC. While Char- well beyond his age of 10 or 11, handling his own lie is not a registered therapy dog, she has been on ‘dale named Berry. We also met Virginia, Anne and unofficial therapy visits and done very well, and she is Ed from the NY Metro Airedale Terrier club. a wonderful “singer.” Virginia orchestrat- I was honored to be asked to represent Aire- ed the setting up of the dale Rescue for the day at Meet the Breeds with Deb, Airedale booth as if she’s Cindy and John. It was a pleasure sharing the love of done it a million times, Airedales with fellow enthusiasts Ed, Virginia and Anne and maybe she has. Short- from NY and Nancy and young Hugh from Virginia. } ly after, we got busy. Peo- {From Deb – we were very happy to have ple started strolling in, and Kathy, Miley & Charlie at the show. They were super before you know it all we friendly, social and of course, Charlie’s singing voice could see were legs. (You filled the convention center with the joy and happi- understand, at Airedale ness of having an Airedale! You can see Charlie on height we mostly see the news if you follow this link: kneecaps.) People stopped https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CR3JWBqJaJ8 to hear about our breed, what great temperament Thanks to NY Metro club for inviting us! } we have, what’s involved with grooming, where we come from originally, bark, bark, bark. Our humans 2 RESCUE YEAR-TO-DATE By Deb Ciancarelli As you know, starting January 1st, I assumed the role of president of ARADV, and it has been quite the whirlwind!! We started the year with one dog in rescue, the lovely Zoey, who came in right before the holidays. Then came Winston, then Bosco and then Abbey --- all in the month of January! I thought that Angel Joey was up there at the Rainbow Bridge sending all of these Airedales to us to see what I was made of. Well, I think we passed her test because all of our charges so far this year (6 total) are in their forever homes, doing well. In February we braved the icy winds of New York City and proudly represented “The Airedale” at Meet The Breeds at the Westminster Dog Show. What fun we had spending our day “Talking Airedale” to the folks at- tending the show. We had a special visit from Bonny Hart, an adopter who lives right in NYC – it was really nice to meet her after all of these years! Read all about our fabulous day in the headlining story by Kathy Appleton. On May 4th we had a productive rescue meeting at the home of Dewey Yesner for the local volunteers and via Zoom web conferencing for others out of the area. We had a great mix of alumni & current volunteers, members of our adoptive family and brand new people who found us on Facebook! For the first time, we were able to loop in members from the far reaches of our territory and share rescue news and ideas, and to cultivate new volunteer opportunities. We talked about transports, fostering, upcoming events and how volunteers can become active in their community by proactively visiting local shelters. If you are interested in this type of activity in your area, please reach out to me for materials. We are developing a “shelter brochure” and we have new business cards that have a space for your name and number as the local contact. We also made business card sized magnets for handouts to the shelters. Hopefully they will wind up on shelter breakroom refrigerators all over our territory so we will not be forgotten when an Airedale shows up at the shelter. If you have interest in volun- teering in any way, please contact me at [email protected] and I will include you on our volunteer up- date email list. Our next fundraiser will begin in September when we start our next raffle! We have 3 beautiful hand- made quilts to give away to the lucky ticket holders! The tickets will be sold on Facebook and via email cam- paign.
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