A Home For All Barrio Dogs: Raven Update

Sunday, September 9, 2012

Raven Update

Raven

Raven was at our Martini Hardware adoption event and community awareness day on Saturday, September 8, 2012. He’s rarely out of the kennel and we wanted to take him out to see how he would do in public. He was great most of the time until late in the day when he nipped at a volunteer who had him on a leash.

Raven has never shown any aggression. Ernie Zenteno and the owners of AC are around him daily, move him and let him and in out of the kennel and he has been fine. We think the incident resulted from food aggression and happened because Raven wanted some food on the ground behind the volunteer; however, regardless of why it happened, we need to do a more thorough evaluation of Raven before we work with him closely.

Raven gets out of the kennel and into the yard daily when Ernie is at AC and we think that is sufficient for now. We are asking all volunteers to please not work with Raven until we do a formal evaluation. We will keep you posted. Thank you.

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Who We Are

A Home for All is a project of Barrio Dogs, Inc. in Houston, Texas that focuses on our rescued dogs, in particular, those dogs that are living in boarding because we haven't been able to find them foster or permanent homes.

Dogs living in boarding are typically confined to cages or kennels. The isolation and restricted activity can cause health and behavior problems that diminish a dog’s quality of life and chances for adoption. In addition to trained staff, we utilize volunteers to provide our dogs with exercise and human interaction. Our goal is to make their stay in boarding a stimulating and learning experience. Experience has taught us that increased interaction with volunteers improves our dogs’ likelihood of being adopted and making successful transitions into new homes.

While not a rescue group, Barrio Dogs has rescued a number of dogs, many of them injured or ill, as we carry out our mission to educate, empower and transform Houston's East End community where we are based. We do so by raising awareness about proper animal care and educating residents about leash and chain laws, the importance of reporting animal neglect and abuse and above all, promoting and when possible paying for spay and neuter of dogs and cats. To learn more, go to www.barriodogs.org.