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Event Calendar |
CEBR Market Days Food Order Deadline (Noon)
January 21-22
CEBR Market Days Food Order Pick-up Save The Dates! February 25-27 Chicago IKC Dog Show McCormick Place Chicago Be sure to visit the CEBR booth! March 18-20 Chicago Family Pet Expo Arlington Park CEBR's 4th year at this great family event.
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CEBR Welcomes Our Newest Affiliate Sponsors
Looking for great tickets for sporting, concert or theater events for any venue in the US? Check out our newest sponsor - Chicago based (and bulldog friendly) Ticketchest.com. Enter promo code CEBRfor online orders or mention Chicago English Bulldog Rescue at checkout and Ticketchest will donate 5% of your order to CEBR.  Think about how many times a day you do a Google search or place an order with top online retailers like Amazon, Target or Ebay (to name a few). Turn those clicks into cash for CEBR! Set your browser's search tool to goodsearch.com and set your favorite charity as Chicago English Bulldog Rescue and you are making a donation with every search - it's that easy! Add the tool bar and link directly to dozens of online retailers that will donate a percentage of your purchase to CEBR. Click the logos above to access Ticketchest and Goodsearch.
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REGISTRATION NOW OPEN!!!
Are you and your bully starting to get cabin fever??
It's time to break that fever and sign up for a CEBR 6 Week Signature Training Class.
Winter Quarter 2011 starts February 6th and we are offering early enrollment for Spring Quarter 2011.
WINTER QUARTER COURSES
- Bully Manners for Life
- Bully Puppy Wrinkles
- Rescue Bully Basics
SPRING QUARTER
COURSES
- Bully Manners for Life
- Intro to Bully Agility
- Rescue Bully Basics
Get complete course descriptions, class dates & times and register at:
Bulldog U Registration |
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Does Your Bully Have da Gear For The Playoffs??
Bears Jersey
Bears Cotton Tee
Bears Collar Loop Bandana The eBully Boutique has plenty in stock ready to ship. Click the image of your favorite gear and order yours today!! |
Save a Life and Foster
Ever thought about opening up your home and your heart to a bully in need? Fostering is a fun and rewarding way to help to save a life. We're looking for foster homes with prior English Bulldog experience, big hearts and lots of patience.
Complete an application at ebullymatch.com.
Fostering not only saves lives, it just may change your life too. |
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Love Connections
"We couldn't be happier to have added Lola (formerly Tallulah) to our family! She is perfect and we couldn't imagine our life without her!".
Jamie, Randy, and Lola
Adoption: December, 2010
Henry (left) and Fo are BFFs
Adoption: December, 2006 (Flo) April, 2009 (Henry)
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"Deck The Haus"
Adopted by Adrian & Steve |
Happy New Year!!
We hope that you, your family and your pets had a wonderful holiday and are looking forward to the new year as much as we are. We want to thank everyone who took time to make a year-end tax deductible contribution to Chicago English Bulldog Rescue.
CEBR will celebrate it's 4th Anniversary on May 27, 2011 and we are incredibly proud of the accomplishments we have made. We have successfully rehomed over 325 English Bulldogs to date and expect we will cross 400 this year due to a continued difficult economy.
We open the New Year with 25 bulldogs in foster care (7 pending adoption) and another 45 families in discussions with our counselors about possibly having to surrender their bulldogs to rescue.
We have also seen increasing increasing pressure on rescues as a result of various humane initiatives to curb or shut down puppy mills in states like Missouri. As these mills move toward state compliance, one of the more humane alternatives they can choose is rescue surrender. CEBR is the type of non-profit organization that would love to be out of business due to lack of demand but we are needed now more than ever.
So how is this a Happy New Year introduction you ask?
- We are happy that we have a passionate group of subscribers like you that have taken the time to sign up for this newsletter.
- We are happy about the incredible written and financial support you have given all of the bulldogs in our care as well as our special medical cases.
- We are happy that we have a network of just short of 11,000 friends, adopters, volunteers and corporate sponsors that have demonstated incredible support of our mission to bring the best medical care and rehoming services to these beautiful bulldogs.
We are excited to continue the services we offer in 2011 and look forward to the many challenges we will face. Please enjoy this issue and we hope you will continue to follow our group and our bulldogs throughout this new year. If you have some room in your heart and your home, you might want to think about rescuing a bully as your New Year's Resolution!
The Editors |
Where Are They Now? We love the holidays at CEBR! It's the perfect opportunity for us to connect with our extended adoptive families and hear about the joy our bulldogs and families have brought to each other.  | |
"House" with new baby brother Elliot (Eric & Tara P.) |
Send us a picture of your adopted CEBR bully to news@ebullymatch.com and you just might see him or her featured in our next edition. |
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Cranberry Update 
This beautiful, spunky girl arrived in Chicago on December 5th and her story was profiled in the December 2010 Edition of The BULLetin. Her's was the most widely read article in that edition and we know our readers have fallen in love with her as much as we have.
Cranberry heads back to Iowa State University this Thursday January 13th to be ready for a surgery on Friday that we are optimistic will enable her to walk on her front legs for the first time.
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CEBR Featured on the WGN Morning Show With Ana Belaval
CEBR volunteers set their alarms early on December 29th to head out to All Pets Animal Hospital for a live broadcast of Ana Belaval's "Around Town" segment on Chicago's WGN Morning News.
Watch the complete segment at CEBR at WGN Morning Show
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How About a Shot of Tequila!
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This 6 year old beauty was dumped off at a shelter when her owners decided she was too old to breed after having 3 litters. Now she's enjoying here retirment from breeding and is no early riser. In fact, she loves to sleep in her crate and will paw at the door to get in if it's closed. After coming into CEBR's care she was spayed and had a dental and is now in good health. She just needs daily eye drops and she does love a nice walk.
Tequila is looking for a family that will have time to cuddle with her. She's okay with laidback dogs after a suitable introduction, but she won't be pushed around by smaller dogs.
This girls is full of personally and can be a bit of a drama queen when it comes to ear and tail cleaning, but mostly she lives for belly rubs. If you are interested in making Tequila a part of your life, please submit your adoption application online at eBullymatch.com. |
Volunteer Spotlight - Molly Marino
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Animal rescue is truly a passion and there is a special group of people that not only participate in animal rescue, but also rise to the challenge to lead others in this great cause and help to define rescue standards of excellence.
As President and CEBR Co-Founder, Molly has led Chicago English Bulldog Rescue in the successful rehoming of over 325 English Bulldogs. We are proud to salute her for her extraordinary contributions to animal rescue.
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Ask Our Expert Panel
Ask our panel of expert-bully-certified volunteers for their advice and lean on our years and years of experience. In each edition of the Bulletin we will respond to your questions about training, bully behavior and those nagging bully medical issue we all face. Send your questions to experts@ebullymatch.com.
Question: My bully Pickles is two years old and we seem to be constantly battling itchy skin and rash issues. I tried changing foods about 6 months ago and it didn't seem to help. Can you offer any ideas? -- Aimee J.
Answer: This is a relatively common problem in bulldogs Aimee and here are some ideas on how we would work towards a solution. There is a good chance Pickles has allergies, but you want to be certain her vet has ruled out other possible causes (i.e., demodex or staph infections by doing a scrape; an eye exam to rule out entropian for watery eyes, etc.)
If everything checks out fine, you may want to consider an allergy blood test panel. The cost for the test is in the $250-300 range, but that's a relatively small price if it helps to avoid trips to the vet for recurring problems. The report you will receive is a comprehensive list of possible food or environmental triggers and it scales your dog's sensitivity to those triggers. This report becomes an invaluable guide when selecting a different food or trying to eliminate environment allergens.
Some bulldogs may require "allergy shots" and we have had great success in using these shots to help highly allergic bulldogs build a resistance to some of the more common allergans that are unavoidable. A vial of the medicines runs about $100 and can last a couple of months depending on the vet recommended dosages. These allergy shots can be administered at home.
There are many premium quality foods on the market today that can help you avoid most protein or grain allergy triggers. Just be sure to read the ingredient labels carefully. Most of the premium food retailers have trained staff that can help you select a food that meets Pickles needs.
Good luck and we hope Miss Pickles starts to feel better soon! |
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CEBR Partners With lllinois Chevy
 You met them at Bully Bash 2010, and CEBR is proud to have been selected in 2011 to be part of Illinois Chevy's philanthropic project "Your Mission. Our Drive." Chevy will be helping us to further our mission by providing transport vehicles to get rescue bullies and our volunteers where they need to go. |
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Chicago English Bulldog Rescue Board Members |
BULLetin Editorial Staff | |
Molly Marino, President & Founding Director
Greg Shives, CFO & Founding Director
Erika Mathews, Secretary & Director
Ann Barclay, Director |
Greg Shives
Lisa Jo Clark
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The Bulletin is an official publication of Chicago English Bulldog Rescue, a 501c3 not-for-profit, volunteer-based organization. Donations are tax-deductible as allowed by law. Please visit us at ebullymatch.com for more information on our services and adoption policies.
© 2011. Chicago English Bulldog Rescue, Inc. All rights reserved. |
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