2-9-10 8pm, just posted another video! (see the videos down below) We still have another dozen dogs that aren't even on our website yet! If those puppies weren't pooping so much, we would have more time, LOL! Keep those $3 donations coming in, because of you, we were able to give $400 to our vet yesterday towards the huge bill we have there right now.
The Camp Cocker WORRY list! Dogs still in shelters that we have no room for!
Hello friends and wiggle butt lovers, Camp Cocker got all of our vet debt paid off to zero on December 31st and then in January, we went and got eleven new shelter doggies and ran up a whole heck of a lot of new vet debt. Camp Cocker's January veterinary bills crisis!. We are inviting you all to just donate $3 each and pass on the word to everyone you know. Maybe find some loose change under your couch cushions? make your cup of joe at home one morning? pack a lunch for work? We also want to invite you to become a friend of Camp Cocker on Facebook and meet other wiggle butt lovers just like you!
BREAKING NEWS: Cuteness alert!Puppy Webcam Cocker puppies who all need cherry eye surgery! If you enjoy their cute puppy webcam, suggested donation is $1 per hour (hey, we gotta raise the money somehow)! The picture on the left is when they were in the shelter. Their breeder couldn't sell them because of the cherry eyes. Luckily Camp Cocker got them out of doggie jail asap! Awww, they are just small babies!
Oh my dawg! How did the time pass by so quickly? In the last month, Camp Cocker has taken in eleven new dogs, none of which are even posted on our site yet because there has not even been one day "off" to sit down get pics posted. Cathy will be working on this on today (2/1/10), so sorry for the delay!
We are in a bit of a crisis right now, financially. We had such a successful fundraiser over the holidays and our Secret Santa helped to bring in matching donations. We not only paid off our vet debt by the end of December, but we raised enough for three cataract surgeries (Josie, Minnie and Travis). But then guess what we went and did? We rescued a whole lot of new doggies and started all over again. One of the new boys needs a crypt orchid surgery, one needs to see a neurologist, one needs to get an orthopedic consult for a limping leg (either it is an old break that healed wrong or it might be his patella). Bunny needed her hernia surgery redone (we still owe for that surgery). We then rescued a six month old cocker girl name Samantha whom had a bilateral pelvic break and needed orthopedic surgery (we think her bill might be $3,000 so far, including all of the medical boarding). We have two dogs in the hospital right now that have URI, one has a fever and is getting sub-q fluids. Then we went and took in three eight week old cocker pups, all three of them have cherry eye. And Josie's cherry eye just popped back out only twice as large now. Oh boy . . . guess we better hurry up and start fundraising!
We also are looking for Los Angeles area foster homes whom can make a long term ongoing commitment to foster (we have 16 dogs in boarding, all on the list to get a foster home while waiting for adoption). We are in need of ongoing volunteers to help with email answering (we get more than 200 emails a day) and returning phone calls (people are calling us daily to inquire about turning in their cockers). And of course, how to pay for it all. Anything you can donate, will go directly to our vet debt and please help spread the woof to everyone you know! If 500 people each donate just $10 each, we can get through the January vet debt and start all over again in February. Thank you SO MUCH!
Please help donate towards the veterinary bills from January!
HAPPY NEW YEAR everyone!
It has been a whirlwind around here this last month and still so much to be done! Thank you to our Secret Santa, because we not only raised ALL of the funds for the three cataract surgeries, we also were able to pay off two of the four vets that we owe money to! On our to do list: write thank you notes, send tax receipts, update our website with new dogs, update our petfinder pages, and try to keep up with the more than 200 emails we are getting on a daily basis. Oh and we need to find more volunteers, lots and lots of ongoing reliable volunteers. And foster homes too. Oh so much to be done, and not enough hands to do it all. But it is worth it, all for the doggies!
We were particularly touched by this story contributed from one of our donors, Susan, to honor her dog KATIE. We dream of finding adopters for all of our dogs who feel this exact same way about their own dogs. Not people who own dogs but rather dog people! Thank you to Susan for sharing such a beautiful story about Katie.
Okay, have to get busy doing another video update because our fans are asking for a new Catching up with Camp Cocker video! Happy New Year everyone, two footed and four footed. We love and appreciate every single one of you!
Oops, not a cocker, but a real sweetheart. We should stay out of the shelters or look what happens! We have found him a rescue that can foster him in a home!
Camp Cocker has a secret Santa this year!
We have been given a wonderful offer by one of our donors! Through 12/31/09, they will match any donations we receive for up to a maximum of $2,000, or actually, they just raised that to $3,000! That means if you donate even the smallest amount, it will bring the doggies of Camp Cocker double! We are aiming to have our vet debt from 2009 paid off (and we still owe $1200 from 2008 for an old eye surgery) plus finish raising the cataract surgery funds for Travis, Minnie and Josie. No amount is too small and remember that we Woof You all very much!
What the heck is going on at Camp Cocker? Seeking a translator who can speak "dog" and tell us what Sweet Pea is doing?. This is both hilarious & perplexing!
Check out the new Cockers in Los Angeles Shelters blog by Camp Cocker volunteer, Jill, who is searching shelter websites daily. We can't save them all, but you can help by adopting a dog directly out of a shelter!
Do your holiday shopping online at ShopForThePaws.com! All Amazon shopping is under the "anything" category and they are having GREAT deals!
Who can use some cheering up? This will put a smile on your face!
Okay everyone . . . this is an unusual request but we need your help in spreading the word about rescue. The holidays are approaching and many people right this very minute, are out there considering buying puppies from pet stores/street vendors/backyard breeders. PLEASE spread this video far and wide, to everyone you know. Let's promote a positive message to invite more people to adopt!
Catching up with Camp Cocker (part two)
Catching up with Camp Cocker (part one)
Check out LIFE WITH LILY (to your left), a beautiful story written by one of our adopters, Josh Gloer, chronicling the journey of how he and his wife came to adopt Lily. The inspiring stories are a reminder that true beauty exists in every rescue dog, and about having faith to see past the shy dog you first meet.
New Cocker Halloween EMERGENCY!
New faces at Camp Cocker (and two more just came in on Halloween after we posted this video). We are drowning in cockers, donations for medical, boarding and reliable ongoing foster homes needed as well!
Guess who's walking!
Click HERE to follow Maddy's story from the very beginning!
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This is a bit of a sad video, sharing a private side of animal rescue that we don't normally talk about.
We are in need of donations to help with boarding and medical!
Picture of the day . . . its raining cockers in San Francisco!
Sorry folks . . . this cutie pie has a home. This is Camp Cocker alumni, Stuart,getting ready to brave the rain for a walk.
Click here for the SWEET PEA update . . . he is out of the hospital, yaaay!
We invite each and every one of you to become a "Friend of Camp Cocker" by pledging a monthly donation so that we can save our struggling rescue group. Sadly, the economy has created a situation where adoptions are down, donations are down and yet the shelters are more packed than ever with animals in need. Please help to spread the woof for us!
Camp Cocker focuses on Cocker Spaniel Rescue in Los Angeles. Camp Cocker is a Los Angeles based Cocker Spaniel Animal Rescue Organization that adopts out dogs all over the state of California. Most of our adopters live either in the Sacramento, San Jose or San Francisco area and we do monthly mobile adoptions where we drive the dogs to the adopters. We rescue Cocker Spaniels from high kill shelters in Los Angeles County and at times the surrounding counties of Kern County, Orange County, Riverside County, Kings County, San Bernardino County and Ventura County. We encourage anyone who is considering getting a Cocker Spaniel as a pet to please adopt, don't buy. There are so many gorgeous and very worthy Cockers in shelters and if we don't have a dog that you might enjoy, please check out the many other Cocker Spaniel rescue groups that are all over Southern California. Thank you so much for supporting animal rescue and for giving a rescue dog a second chance!
Click here for the SWEET PEA update . . . he is out of the hospital, yaaay! 
