Current rescues can be seen on the Greater Chicagoland Staffordshire Terrier Club's site. Also, please contact Sylvia if you are interested in a rescue dog.
July 24, 2005:
From Liz:
This Am Staff is gorgeous, if I do say
so myself! 
Liz is the contact for this AST..
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Every breeder finds themselves rescuing the "orphans" of today's society. Here are two such rescues:
"Ratboy"
Kind of an awful name. I
agree totally. But when my vet brought the
box over to me and showed me the emaciated 5 day old pup with the abcess (the
size of the tip of your thumb) on his side and the hairless tail...and the
extreme overbite, the name stuck. Ratboy's mother had decided to attack
him and kill him; his owner's were not overly concerned with feeding him.
Miraculously, he was still alive! All his bones were visible, and his hips
jutted out of his back like the Alps.
I had a litter of pups on the
ground, Topaz' litter. They were far far stronger than the little guy so
he became my "cooler" buddy. I placed a hot pad in a cooler, a
towel, and took him with me to work, quietly. I checked him every 15
minutes to prevent overheating, and proceeded to tube feed him every two
hours. In three days he was pushing the lid off of the cooler; in 5 days
he was nursing alongside my litter.
And Topaz? From the first moment she saw him, she was convinced I stole one of her babies! Ratboy is now CHESTER. Guess the name no longer fit! He gets read to, and gets to go to show and tell. What a lucky boy! Yes, he is placed in his forever home!
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Regan:
Regan may or may not have been a problem child...more likely just disadvantaged. When she came back to Illinois from Ohio, I had no clue what I was in for. She had no inkling at 6 months what the grass was for...no clue that she shouldn't do it in her crate and roll in it. And this was not even the half of it.
I knew with her problems she would be difficult to place, and only the RIGHT person could take her on.
On the scene came Jackie, who rescued Dominic (black and white) from the same household as Regan (red), a year before. Jackie has provided tireless efforts on continuing the rehabilitation of Regan and she continues to improve daily. Glad that this one could have such a happy ending!
