Tehachapi's Online Community News & Entertainment Guide
Tehachapi's Online Community News & Entertainment Guide
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When the Supervisory staff at CDCR California City came calling, Marley's Mutts was ready. Lisa Porter, our lead trainer and energy specialist, took the point position and worked tirelessly on assembling a training team, and the other components necessary for a successful program. Lisa, who also works at Cesar Millan's Dog Psychology Center, recruited Lia Marques, the interim Director at the DPC, as well as Kim Eriksson to join our team. With Lisa at the helm, we set out to create a curriculum,...
I just finished a five-mile run during which, by some sweet stroke of serendipity my iPod went dead, leaving me undistracted to ponder the life and influence of Dr. A Richard Grossman. While he was not generally a practicing veterinarian, rather a doctor for humans, Dr. Grossman handled one of the worst dog injury cases Marley's Mutts has ever seen. Not only did he save the lives of two special puppies; he greatly influenced my life as well, and I am a better man for having known him. Phoenix...
It was a frigid December morning in Ridgecrest, CA, when Kern County Animal Control Officer Ashley got a call that chilled her to the bone. A couple hiking off the beaten path in the desert had come across a wire crate with three big dogs inside. Two of them were alive, shivering from both cold and fear. The third dog lay lifeless between them. Shotgun shell casings and swerving tire tracks surrounded the abandoned cage. Temperatures had dipped below freezing the previous night, so it wasn't cle...
This is a day in the life of a dog rescuer: the emotional process, the actual rescuing and the undeniable reality of it all. The point of this article is to give a vulnerable insight into what I go through on a daily basis and I’m sure that some of you will relate – it may even help. On this day we rescued two dogs that had been left in a crate in the middle of the desert near Ridgecrest. A group of hikers found the dogs (there were three, one deceased from hypothermia) in a semi-large cra...
