Nobody's Perfekt Dogs and Cats

04/02/2025

SPECIAL SALE!

Dog beds are a popular item at the Pet Stuff Boutique. We get lots of folks looking for large/giant dog beds. Unfortunately, donations of dog beds (especially large size) in good enough condition to sell in the store are rare.

BUT . . .

We just got a generous donation of XXL dog beds (brand new - never been used). There are a total of 5 with the possibility of more coming in the next week or two. Don't wait too long to jump on this great deal. Feel free to send us a message for pricing information.

04/01/2025

We got back Skye's DNA results. We were going to play "Guess the Breed," however, we already posted earlier what the shelter had guessed was her breed. The DNA simply confirmed it.

Here is a recap of Skye's story: the family that "found her" (jury is still out . . .) in San Lorenzo brought her to our adoption center. We checked for a microchip (none) and told them to take the dog to the East County Shelter in Dublin. The dog looked like a medium size very senior dog with lots of health issues that someone had "thrown away." We checked in with the shelter a few days later to get a status on the dog to see if it needed rescue. The shelter confirmed that the dog was a female medical rescue and we agreed to pull her when her stray hold was up. When we showed up at the shelter to take her, she had just been seen by the shelter's vet. We were shocked to learn that the dog was a puppy, probably around 4 months old. The shelter had a pretty good idea after noticing that she had double dewclaws on her back legs.

She was very undernourished and her coat and skin were in rough shape. Putting her on a quality puppy food diet and a few days on some antibiotics did the trick. Hopefully, we can find a forever home for her sooner than later (before she gets TOO BIG!)

03/20/2025

We could really use a couple of foster homes right now . . .

03/17/2025

This is an open forum post inviting people to share your thoughts / suggestions on rescuing and/or caring for incontinent dogs. All comments are welcome (just please be somewhat respectful). Feel free to share this post far and wide - the more feedback the better. Here is the thing:

So many French and English Bulldogs are being bred in such a way that they are born incontinent. Most breeders (backyard and otherwise) will have the puppy euthanized if it is determined to be incontinent.

When incontinent dogs end up in the shelters (which most do), most shelters will usually euthanize them because no one will adopt them nor will any rescue group take them.

For those rescue groups that are open to helping incontinent dogs, the foster home that volunteers to help the dog is then stuck with the dog because again, no one will adopt them.

03/16/2025

One of our partner shelters, Berkeley Animal Control Services, has reached out to us about a pitbull (Chowder) who has no eyes. The left eye appears to have already been missing when he came to the shelter, while the right eye was present, but useless. So it probably is not a very big adjustment for him to have the right eye removed.

We have rescued a handful of dogs over the years that had to have both eyes removed. All of them had no issues adjusting and every last one of them were the sweetest dogs that we have had the pleasure of rescuing. Chowder should be no different.

However, we don’t have any foster homes available that take Chowder. If we are going to be able to save him, we need someone to volunteer to foster him.

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03/14/2025

Hazel, one of our "boomerang" rescues crossed the Rainbow Bridge unexpectedly last night.

As hard as we try to find "forever" homes for the dogs we rescue, occasionally we have dogs that get returned. Hazel was returned or moved around multiple times in the 5 years since we pulled her from the Fremont Shelter, and not really for anything that would be her fault: family had a baby, owner passed away, shuffling foster dogs to make room for others, etc. For the most part, everyone who had the privilege to know her, loved her. She has left a whole in many people's hearts. Thank you to Alisa, Paul, Holly and others for loving her.

03/08/2025

Microchips are always a good idea, but we strongly recommend to folks who adopt from us that the dog also has a collar and tag that has the owner’s contact information. There are a couple reasons: a dog running loose with a collar and tag is more likely to be picked up by a good Samaritan than one without a collar. Secondly, sometimes the shelter’s microchip scanner doesn’t detect the microchip.

We have had a half dozen rescue dogs over the years that we pulled from the shelter where we assumed they were scanned for a microchip, but our vet discovered an undetected microchip (either through more careful scanning or via x-rays). Dinky, whom we recently pulled, is a prime example of a missed microchip – and the story gets really interesting from there.

Dinky came to us in pretty bad shape – missing a bunch of fur on his hind end with the remnants of some kind of skin injury (a burn?) that was slowly healing. Upon examination by our vet, it appeared that he had some dental issues, but because of his small size and discomfort being examined, we held off on the mouth exam until he was under anesthesia for his neuter surgery. During the surgery, the vet called us about his mouth. The majority of the missing teeth were the result of them being broken off with the roots still embedded in the gums. There was the possibility of some infection. Normally the vet would have simply removed everything, but the challenge was that Dinky’s jaw was fractured due to some kind of trauma – trying to remove the teeth would likely have exacerbated the injury. We had the vet do a full body x-ray to see if there were other areas of trauma. We got the phone call again from the vet’s office. The vet tech let us know that a microchip (not previously detected) showed up on the x-ray. The microchip had migrated pretty far from it’s original location. We also learned that Dinky had other old injuries (ribs and spine) that were indicative of probably abuse.

We took the microchip number and looked it up online. It was registered to someone 3 years ago under the name of “Lil” and it was dispensed by the same shelter from where we pulled the dog. We contacted the shelter with the information. As soon as we told them the name on the microchip, they immediately recognized the name and were flabbergasted that they didn’t recognize the dog (however, they probably could have done a better job scanning him). They explained that the dog wasn’t really named Lil but the actual name was much longer, very derogatory and somewhat racist (they didn’t tell us what the actual name really was). Lil’s registered owner was involved in a single car accident, that put her in the hospital for a number of days. Law enforcement brought the dog (who was uninjured) to the shelter until the owner was released from the hospital. It was during that time when he was microchipped. No one has come looking for the dog in the two weeks we have had him. Given the current condition of the dog, the shelter may pursue an abuse case, if they can track down who the last owner was. (The problem with trying to build an abuse case is that the previous owner just has to say that they gave the dog away to someone else, but they don’t who that was – end of investigation).

The most important thing is that Dinky is now safe and in a great foster home . . . all’s well that ends well!

03/07/2025

When we signed a lease for our new adoption center on Castro Valley Boulevard two years ago, we were very excited about the location: being in Castro Valley and right on one of its busiest throughfares. There seemed to be ample parking with Rite-Aid’s seldom-used large parking lot. However, we soon discovered “all that glitters is not gold.” The building that where we spent lots of donated time and money to renovate hadn’t been open to the public in decades, and was virtually invisible to the citizens of Castro Valley. The few people who even remembered that there was a building next to Rite-Aid, didn’t know that we were now occupying it and open for business. We did the best we could to help folks see us on the very limited nonprofit budget. We used a-frame signs (a.k.a. “sandwich boards”) that we had from our last location. We bought flags to put our during our open hours and we put up a couple banners on the building explaining our special needs rescue in hopes of attracting people who wanted to help our special needs dogs. We found this approach did help somewhat.

A few months ago, we lost the use of the Rite-Aid parking lot when the owners of the building fenced off the area after Rite-Aid moved out. What little available street parking was taken up by local residents parking their unused vehicles for days/weeks on end. Then last month, we (and our inconsiderate neighbors) lost street parking with the installation of the Castro Valley Boulevard bike lanes. These parking developments were the first few “nails in our coffin.”

Then a couple weeks ago a code enforcement officer paid us a visit telling us that all of the signage that we use to help people see our building/business needs to go away within 10 days or start facing penalties. So we are back to trying to run a nonprofit business in an invisible building with no parking – probably the final nails in our proverbial coffin.
For those who may not be familiar with Castro Valley and its aversion to business signage, A-frame signs placed anywhere outside the building are a big no-no, flags are not allowed, freestanding banners or those attached to the building (temporary or permanent) are not allowed. Any signage on the outside of a building needs a permit (and permits are not free, nor cheap).

Our volunteers pointed out that many, many businesses in Castro Valley have A-frame signs outside of their buildings, have banners attached to the building or fences, and there a few flags if you look closely enough. When we mentioned that to the enforcement officer, the response was that they don’t proactively go looking for code violations. They wait until someone files a complaint. He asked us if we wanted to report those businesses that we see with the same violations that we were slammed with. We politely declined (we aren’t snitches). We are well aware that there are a number of residents of Castro Valley that DO NOT WANT US HERE (you know who you are, and sadly, we also know who you are . . . ) Oh well.

02/27/2025

We may have screwed up a little on today's rescue. Long story . . .

A couple came to our adoption center in Castro Valley wanting to drop off a dog that they said they found in San Lorenzo. I explained to them that we are not a community shelter and do not take in stray dogs. I told them to take the dog to the East County Animal Shelter in Dublin. I also offered to scan the dog for a microchip. The dog was in their van. It looked to be a small to medium size dog in pretty bad shape. It barely reacted to my scan. I assumed that it was a very neglected senior dog with health issues (the type of dog that we would normally rescue). I followed up with the shelter a few days later. The dog was a female and had very bad skin issues. She was definitely a medical rescue (I was thinking maybe even senior hospice). When I went to pull her from the shelter this morning, I learned that I couldn't have been more wrong!

She is actually a young puppy (3-4 months old). When they handed her to me she was so much bigger than when she was curled up in the van on Saturday. She is actually a Great Pyrenees puppy! I wanted to change my mind, because we weren't really prepared to take on a large puppy, but if I left her there, it would have been bad form.

So now, we are desperately looking for a foster home that can foster her. We had a plan when she was a medium-ish senior dog, not a large breed puppy. She is really sweet and friendly, okay with other dogs, low energy (for now). Anyone out there?

02/26/2025

This is our newest rescue. His foster family named him "Dinky" (an appropriate name for a 4 lbs dog). He came to us as a medical rescue due to his skin issues. It appears that he has an injury that is healing. The loss of hair may be dure to hypothyroidism. He preliminary blood work suggests that may be the case. It appears that he only has one tooth left (but a more thorough mouth exam during his scheduled neuter surgery will give us a better idea).

Once he is comfortable with someone, he is very affectionate.

02/22/2025

We finalized Abby's forever home adoption today. She came to us in pretty bad shape (horrible skin issues, very underweight, etc.) She is the now picture of health and enjoying the good life. We were especially stoked that she got to be in a home with another Boston Terrier (Tucker). They are very bonded.

02/20/2025

NOBODY'S PERFEKT DOGS & CATS ADOPTION EVENT
ADOPTION EVENT: Saturday, February 22nd
TIME for DOGS: 11am - 2pm;
TIME for CATS/KITTENS: 1pm - 3pm
WHERE: 3810 Castro Valley Blvd. (Between Forest & Marshall

Our Current Kittens
Fern and Po are bonded siblings born indoors on 9/14/24. They are a super playful pair. Fern is a high energy girl and her brother Po is more laid back so they are a great pair together.

Tango & Cash are brothers that are about 6 1/2 months old. They were born outside but taken in and cared for by a kind family when they were about 2-3 weeks old. They are the friendliest kitties! They're not shy around new people, immediately coming up & wanting pets. They are also gentle with children. Being raised around small and large dogs, Tango & Cash are friendly with dogs. Such handsome boys.

Nobody's Perfekt will showcase our available dogs from 11am - 2pm and our cats from 1pm - 3pm on Saturday, February 22nd. We always do "sleepovers" first to make sure it's a good fit for all concerned.
All of our cats are healthy, friendly and ready for their forever home. Our very low cat adoption fee of only $100 ($150 for kittens) includes spay/neuter, vet check, vaccines, microchip, combo test for FIV/FeLV, deworming, & flea meds.
Please come for a visit with our lovely cats and dogs or shop in our Pet Boutique for your furry friends. Our boutique will be open Saturday from 11am-5pm. Our Pet Boutique is also open on Sundays 12-4 and Tu-Fr 12-4 (closed on Monday's). Our Pet Boutique has an incredible selection of BRAND NEW dog clothes as well as BRAND NEW leashes, collars, & harnesses for dogs & cats.
We also have a variety of crates, carriers, stairs and other pet items. Everything in our boutique is sold at great prices!

Go to this link for Adopt a Pet to read about all of our available kitties:
https://www.adoptapet.com/shelter/190316
To see all of our available dogs:
https://www.adoptapet.com/shelter/90840
Go to our website to fill out an application of interest:
https://www.nobodysperfektdogs.org/

02/20/2025

NOBODY'S PERFEKT DOGS & CATS ADOPTION EVENT
ADOPTION EVENT: Saturday, February 22nd
TIME for DOGS: 11am - 2pm;
TIME for CATS/KITTENS: 1pm - 3pm
WHERE: 3810 Castro Valley Blvd. (Between Forest & Marshall

Our Current Kittens
Fern and Po are bonded siblings born indoors on 9/14/24. They are a super playful pair. Fern is a high energy girl and her brother Po is more laid back so they are a great pair together.

Tango & Cash are brothers that are about 6 1/2 months old. They were born outside but taken in and cared for by a kind family when they were about 2-3 weeks old. They are the friendliest kitties! They're not shy around new people, immediately coming up & wanting pets. They are also gentle with children. Being raised around small and large dogs, Tango & Cash are friendly with dogs too. Such handsome boys.

Nobody's Perfekt will showcase our available dogs from 11am - 2pm and our cats from 1pm - 3pm on Saturday, February 22nd. We always do "sleepovers" first to make sure it's a good fit for all concerned.
All of our cats are healthy, friendly and ready for their forever home. Our very low cat adoption fee of only $100 ($150 for kittens) includes spay/neuter, vet check, vaccines, microchip, combo test for FIV/FeLV, deworming, & flea meds.
Please come for a visit with our lovely cats and dogs or shop in our Pet Boutique for your furry friends. Our boutique will be open Saturday from 11am-5pm. Our Pet Boutique is also open on Sundays 12-4 and Tu-Fr 12-4 (closed on Monday's). Our Pet Boutique has an incredible selection of BRAND NEW dog clothes as well as BRAND NEW leashes, collars, & harnesses for dogs & cats.
We also have a variety of crates, carriers, stairs and other pet items. Everything in our boutique is sold at great prices!

Go to this link for Adopt a Pet to read about all of our available kitties:
https://www.adoptapet.com/shelter/190316
To see all of our available dogs:
https://www.adoptapet.com/shelter/90840
Go to our website to fill out an application of interest:
https://www.nobodysperfektdogs.org/

02/18/2025

We said goodbye to Chico (a.k.a. Mr. Muggles) this morning.

We pulled him from a local shelter where he was heartlessly dumped by his owner of over 16 years. He was in one of our loving foster homes for 3 and a half years, which makes his final age near 20 years old. During his time with us, we ended up having to remove both of his eyes. He favorite pastime was finding a warm, sunny, comfy spot in the foster's backyard and chill. Thank you Ken and Roxanne for giving him the best last few years any dog could hope for. Safe travels over the rainbow bridge Mr. Muggles.

02/16/2025

Amen!

Teach them to respect each other!
~ lis

02/16/2025

A post from Francine's foster mom

Francine just wants to be loved on.

She’s fighting and making headway but bad breeding and long-term neglect has left this sweet thing with more than her fair share of issues. Our biggest hurdle of finding someone willing to take in a dog in diapers, lays ahead.

02/07/2025

After being in foster care for a number of months, Shasta (whose new name is "Coco") was adopted by her foster mom.

Shasta came to us with two very bad eyes: mature cataracts, bulging, and off-the-scale eye pressures (glaucoma). She was likely born with this condition. The pain must have been immense. We quickly had both eyes removed. She is the sweetest dog - loves everyone. Since she was likely blind from a young age, removing the eyes wasn't that big of an adjustment for her.

Congratulations to the new family!