This is not a site I am familiar with, but I just wanted to say thank you for adopting Rambo. I'm the one that took his original video. I am a pro photographer that volunteers my time and talent with my still camera to present the animals in the best way possible in order to help make them more adoptable. The shelter staff helps tremendously--they bathe and groom the animals and bring them out for each to have their own individual photo session. I don't normally video the animals, but I have seen Rambo get passed over numerous times in the past month. I'm not quite sure why because he appears to be such a fantastic dog. I had told one of my friends on another board about him because his euthanasia day was 7-23 and I was worried he would not get adopted. My out of state friend requested video so that she could see some of his personality--a month in the shelter is too tough for some dogs to come back from. I did the video, but before she could commit to taking him, someone passed the link to someone else who passed the link to someone else and, next thing you know, he's adopted! She called me back to tell me she wanted me to go pull him and I had to tell her that a lucky local someone got him! I was thrilled to see he got a good home. And I wanted to also thank all of the other members here that volunteered to send donations for toys and things. It was very inspiring. :)

Someone emailed me and asked me why a lovely 4 month old puppy was being euthanized. The city and county shelters have so many animals coming in they don't have the room, resources, or ability to handle them all. There are far many more animals picked up off the street and turned in than there are adopters. The average length of stay in the shelter Rambo came from is generally around 10 days. He was there well over a month--that should tell you how much the staff was pulling for him to get a home. I was hoping with the adoption of Rambo and Daisy and a couple of others when I was there Thursday that nothing would have to be euthanized yesterday. But sadly, after I left, there were five more dogs admitted to the shelter which means several of the existing dogs at the shelter had to be euthed in order to make room. Rambo and Diasy for sure would have been euthanized this week. I did also pull Daisy on Thursday just after Rambo was adopted and she goes to her new home in Nebraska on Sunday.

Every dog or cat in the shelter is in danger of being euthanized. Please spay or neuter your pets to help control the unwanted pet population. Instead of buying from a pet store, please consider adopting a shelter animal and save a life.

If anyone in the Tulsa area is interested in an awesome pup, I picked up another one yesterday that was dumped. He is not in danger of being euthanized because my group is no-kill, but I really would like to find him a good home. You can see "Cola" at www.pawsinneed.petfinder.org

Thank you again for all that you guys did to save Rambo. I appreciate it because he has truly become one of my favorites over the last month. To the adopter: if you don't mind if I get your contact information from the shelter, I'll get in touch with you and donate a photo shoot for a family portrait for you and Rambo.

To all the haters of the music on the video--blame the damned blocking software on youtube. It muted the original I had on there and that song was the first on the audioswap suggestion list. I was in a hurry, what can I say? :)

Thanks again.