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| Before you Adopt |
| Adoption Process |
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| Dogs Available For Adoption |
| Re-homing Your Dog |
 Mia needs your help - she is fighting for her life!! She was saved at the last minute from a gassing shelter in South Carolina. She traveled all day to get to her foster home only to end up in the ER all night. No one new how sick she was until she passed so much blood and was rushed to the ER to be diagnosed with Parvo. She has a good white blood cell count but nothing else. Her ribs stick out and you can see her spine. She can't keep anything down and is currently on IV fluids to help support her and flush this nasty virus from her body. Please consider becoming a Guardian Angel for Mia so BrightStar can continue funding her care and get her on the road to recovery and in to her forever home. Just look at that beautiful face. Doesn't she deserve a chance at a life filled with a family and another doggie friend to call her own? BrightStar is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization based out of Rochester, NY dedicated to saving the lives of German Shepherd Dogs. Every year BrightStar helps hundreds of homeless German Shepherds find new forever homes. Visit our "How Are We Doing" page for our exact placement statistics. BrightStar is a dedicated team of experienced owners, handlers, trainers and breed fanciers that have one common goal.... When BrightStar accepts a German Shepherd Dog (GSD) into our rescue, we make a commitment to that dog to make sure that it will be happy and healthy for the rest of its long life. In placing our dogs with their new forever families, we have a lengthy Adoption Process to assure the quality and commitment of each home. Before adoption, most of our dogs live in foster homes where they live as part of the family, being socialized, trained, loved and spoiled until adoption. Our dedicated team of volunteers is what makes us able to save so many lives. New Team Members, Sponsors, and Foster Families are always needed and VERY WELCOMED! Our dogs receive the best of Veterinary Care; including spaying and neutering. The adoption fee for a dog is $325. We receive our GSDs mostly from animal shelters, other rescue organizations, breeders and individuals that for one reason or another cannot keep their dogs. Visit our Where Do We Get our Dogs page for more information. According to the US Humane Society, every year between six and eight million, dogs and cats enter U.S. shelters; three to four million of these animals are euthanized because there are not enough homes for them. Twenty-five percent of all the animals entering shelters are purebreds. That is approximately 450,000 purebred dogs in our shelters EVERY YEAR. According to AKC 2003 registrations, German Shepherds are the 4th most popular breed in the US. In 2003, 43,950 or 4.8% of all AKC registered dogs were German Shepherds. Many of the 450,000 dogs in our US shelters every year are purebred GERMAN SHEPHERDS...and thousands do not make it out of the shelter alive! Want to Help? Please visit our How You Can Help page and explore the many ways you can show your support. Take a look at some of the Happy families that have found true love and devotion of a BrightStar German Shepherd. (Common misspellings of shepherd are: shepard, sheppard, sheperd, and shepperd). Please also consider adopting a Senior German Shepherd Dog. We also have a Senior to Senior Program, visit this link to learn more!  Click below for Miscellaneous Items:  |
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  BrightStar is now a member of PetsSmart Online Affiliate Program. The PETsMART.com Affiliate Program is an online revenue partnership between PETsMART.com and BrightStar. When you purchase PetsSmart products by clicking on ANY PetsSmart icon on BrightStar's website, PetSmart sends us money for the dogs we rescue! |
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