Facebook Photo Winner:
Rudy!
The theme for March was favorite toy.
Thanks to all who participated!
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It's time to elevate your favorite accessory, your phone! Grab this PopSocket and show off your favorite breed. $8 plus shipping.
Click here to get your Boston PopSocket and to shop much more items!
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ARE YOU TRAVELING THIS SUMMER?
As many of you know MABTR covers 13 states. 75% of our adoptions occur between foster homes and adopters in different states, requiring MABTR to set up a transport by car. We do not fly our dogs.
Many of us travel for business or pleasure by car so we ask that you share with us your travel plan should you have room for a Boston to hitch a ride.
- Just some examples, and not limited to, of routes completed. Note that some routes are short distances where others a whole day:Colorado Springs, CO to Cheyenne, WY
- Omaha, NE to St Louis, MO
- Omaha, NE to Boise, ID
- Des Moines, IA to St Paul, MN
- Kansas City, MO to Springfield, MO
- ... the list goes on
Share with us your travel plans - even those scheduled in the future.
The doggies thank you for allowing them to hitch a ride!!!!! Without drivers we would struggle moving our dogs closer to their forever homes.
Remember that you can write off at tax time your gas or mileage when transporting our Bostons.
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15 years of service AND
4000+ lives saved!
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March Fundraiser Results
Clothing auction: $654.62
Thanks to everyone who participated!
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Did you know that many employers will match your donation to a 501(c)3 organization? Some even pay a flat fee to the organization in exchange for your volunteer hours!
Check with your human resource department for details and opportunities on how your donation and time can go further!
Just to name a few companies we know offer such programs:
- 8z Real Estate
- Allstate
- AT&T
- Benevity: Apple, Google, ADP
- CenturyLink
- CNA Surety
- CSG
- Dish Network
- First National Bank
- Great Western
- Johnson and Johnson
- Lockhead Martin Corporation
- Microsoft
- MidAmerica Energy Holding Comp.
- Pfizer
- Pinnacol Assurance
- SalesForce
- Thrivent Financial
- United Healthcare
- United Way
- Verizon
- VMLY&R
- Walmart
- Wells Fargo
- Western Union
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Spread the Word
We want to encourage our followers that should you come across a Boston or Boston mix in a local animal shelter or posted for sale or free on craigslist or Facebook to please share the ad and details with MABTR. Our mission will be to reach out and make them aware of our existence and services when it comes to finding new home. Though we have been in service for 15 years some organizations and individuals still do not know about us. We just may be the perfect outlet for the dog, ensuring they land in a safe and happy forever home.
Our contact info is
Thank you for spreading the word about us!
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2021
Online Auctions
2021 schedule
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April: Plush Bostons, Socks/slippers/shoes
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May: Accessories (bags and jewelry)
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June: Statues
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July: Christmas in July
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August: Artwork (original and prints)
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September: Blankets, towels and over sized items
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October: TBD
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Weather is perfect to get outside and have fun with your dog!!! |
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SAYING GOOD-BYE
"Keep their memories close to your heart and remember in another time, in a beautiful place, you will see them again."
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Our Love Story with Deuce
We thought we’d never find another to take the place of Joejoe. We had looked for over a year knowing that he was getting older. When he went over yonder we were just devastated. We wanted to sell our home because it was too hard to come home without him running to us.
Then, I saw a Boston for adoption online with the same name. Unfortunately, that one was already taken. Fortunately, one of MABTR’s foster parents notified us of a new arrival that could be a good match for us. His name was Deuce. We stuck with his original name since he IS a Deuce of Hearts. He is just as sweet as the day is long and a little clown.
We would be Deuce’s third home not counting his foster home. We were told he was picked on by the larger dogs on the farm thus leaving him to eat so cautiously, looking around every few seconds to see if they were going to scare him off. Second home was just too active for him which left him to be very nervous.
Unlike other dogs who flop on their back to get a belly rub, Deuce will sit upright like a prairie dog to have us scratch his tummy. The hilarious part is he fades to sleep and s-l-o-w-l-y falls backwards for the night or a nap. Tooooo funny.
We have had him a little over two years now. At first he was so timid and pretty much kept to himself. Although, we pushed our hugs and kisses on him.
He didn’t even have his own voice and we didn’t even think that he knew how to bark, but, he would make yippy puppy-like barks in his nightmares which he no longer has. If he wanted our attention he would do this little guttural sound like a cross between a hum, purr and a snoring sound. After a few more months it would be a bark instead of a yip. For weeks every time he made a noise in his sleep I woke up to tend to him to make sure he wasn’t scared. Now, he is pretty sure of himself and his position in our family and communicates with a row of confident barks to let me know it is time to eat, go outside or go night night. Yes, he tells ME when it is time to go to bed. He won’t let me alone until I retire. Sometimes, I’ll sneak off the bed after he falls asleep, but, if he wakes up and I’m not there he’ll make me go back to bed.
He charges to the car to go shopping and you would never know that he was ever timid, because he is the welcoming committee every where we go and is the conversation starter for every Boston lover that crosses our path. He is not only at home at our house, but, now, everywhere he goes. Like when I was shopping for a new throw rug, he took it upon himself to try them out like Goldilocks until he found the one that was just right and hopped on the rug pile on the bottom shelf and took his nap. Bought the rug.
Literally, like Goldilocks, he takes naps on every pillow, couch, stuffed chair, rug or clothes he can find. If we don’t take him with us every where we go, when we get home you can see his imprint evidence that he has slept on every pillow, blanket, robe, towel and rug while we were gone. Once he even curled up inside a suitcase that I was packing for a trip.
My husband had to leave town for a couple of months. He was so sad and sat at the corner of our bed at night watching the door for him to come home until he would fall asleep sitting up. When my husband came home we thought for sure that Deuce would be so excited to see him. So, I opened the door when I heard him coming up the walkway so Deuce could run out and meet him. He just ignored him. We realized how it must have hurt him to be abandoned by someone he loved. It took a couple days before he allowed Larry to make up with him. Such a sensitive and sweet little thing.
The heartache of losing Joejoe is equaled to the joy we have with Deuce.
I want to thank MABTR for all the healing you have done for the precious little ones and the healing miracle that Deuce brought to us. – Vicki B
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All donations (monetary or items)
are tax-deductible.
MABTR is 100% volunteer-driven.
Your entire donation amount goes towards rescuing, rehabilitating, and re-homing Bostons in need in foster care.
Do your part and help spread the word of MABTR's Existence!
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Thank You for Your Donation! |
$200 in memory of Sugar
$200 in memory of Aunt Laurie
$130 in memory of Frank Centarri
$40 in memory of Bici
$645 Facebook
$270 Chuck and Don's
$250 Candace L
$200 R Brandon C
$120 Raymond N
$100 Susan S, Jana W, Kristin H
$59 PayPal Giving Fund
$50 Michael M, Mary S, Patricia N, Kathy W, Caroline M, Kellee S
$35 Duane C
$30 Lori L, Leslie M, Cynthia K, Edward D
$25 Gina O, Pamela B, Emily N, Charity C, Paul M, Melissa A, Reynold P, Alice B, Angela C
$20 Tammie P, Susie M, Meghan P, David A, Matthew S, Haley S, Pam M, Sara S, Alice B, Michael M, Lauren K, Lisa B, Mountain Colors Paint & Design
$15 Leah G, Annabelle H
$10 Nanette S, Amy H, Ann A, Angela C, Kelly H, Angela P, Robin B, Mart D, Rita B, Cindy F, Loni D, Robin S, Danielle K, Jim L, Target
$5 Pat M, Andrea M, Maritza M
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23 dogs rescued
in March!
37 dogs rescued so far in 2021!
4,143 dogs rescued since November 2005!
We ask that you help us educate the public about their options when looking for a new pet.
We appreciate the fact that you are not purchasing your pet from a pet store that sells lives animals
since 98% of all puppies in a pet store come from terrible situations such as puppy mills.
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Adopters age 60 plus who adopt a Boston age 7 and older receive $50 off the adoption fee!
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Rescue is a Lifestyle
It’s not a hobby.
It’s not a passing fad.
You live it….
Breathe it….
Love it 24/7.
Your purpose for living is
to change the lives of
homeless animals….
one at a time.
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