My name is Suzie Ashton, I am the Founder and Rescuer of 4 the LOVE of German Shepherds Rescue. It has always been a dream of mine and life long passion to open a Rescue and help animals in need. I have been doing animal Rescue for the better part of my life since I was a child as I grew up in a household where animals were always welcome, loved and respected. My parents both loved them and taught
me to have the same values, passions and compassion to help homeless and in need animals. I want to give back to our Society and help with getting them to wonderful homes rather then the alternative of Euthanizing them to overcrowded shelters and local and State Programs. I work worth many local Agencies like the Humane Society and our local High Kill Shelters to help reduce the intake of dogs and then having to euthanize them due to either health issues, owner surrender or the shelter being out of space and needing the room they put a perfectly healthy adoptable dog down for this reason alone. As an adult I volunteered for many other Rescues and about 9 years + I finally was able to open my own Rescue after working so hard to gain funding and many personal sacrifices. I have over 35 years experience with the German Shepherd Breed from having my own, to training, rescuing and rehabilitating them. Rescue is hard, time consuming, expensive and often times thankless work, but it's also very rewarding, honorable and saves lives of those animals in desperate need. I run my own small private GSD Rescue here in Arizona. I have 2 acres of fenced off yard area, a dog park, dog runs, kennels, a converted 2 car garage which also has air-conditioned kennels, dog beds, crates, supplies and doubles as the meet and greet area for all our potential adopters. We have an Isolation room also that is dedicated as a dog room with heating, air-conditioning as well as music for their entertainment. We have a 20 thousand gallon pool for the dogs to play and get trained in, rehabilitated in due to injury. Our Rescued GSD's live with our family until they get a family of their very own. I try to give this amazing breed a second chance at life when their families cannot keep them any longer for whatever reason or they have been abused, neglected, strays, lost, left at high kill shelters or breeder turnouts. We don't ONLY rescue these dogs but we also REHABILITATE and TRAIN them. We believe a well rounded, GSD is a good GSD and will have a a successful relationship with their new adopter and family. The quicker they become a part of the pack/family the better off they are. A little about me, I have grown up with German Shepherds from the time I was 8 years old to today. I have been around them all my life working in training them, rescuing them and of course loving them. They are truly the BEST breed in the world to me. I have a LOVE for our breed like no other. I love all dogs but GSD's are just a breed of their own as most of you know that have them. I am a Flight Attendant that travels all over the US and the World for a Major Legacy Airline Carrier, I love my job and the income allows me to run my Rescue which is my PASSION. I am a trainer in Basic handling and obedience. I work with the dogs that need extra and special attention with behavior modification. We are a part of the Scottsdale Schutzhund Club and all our dogs are active participants in the program working on their various obedience titles from BH to SchH3. I am also a Licensed Animal psychologist, PhD. We love our Rescue work and our training work in helping all GSD's to become the BEST they can be! We believe after the rescue you have to follow up with the training, socialization and then positive placement into the right environment. We do not take in a large amount of dogs here. We prefer to work with a smaller number this way we can have one on one time with these dogs and work with their given issues. I am a small Rescue that depends on the donation of supporters. I am sustained through the kindness of friends, co-workers, strangers, animal lovers and myself through donations. We do all the work myself. We Foster them, give them all medical care required, giving them basic training (doggie manners) and then try to place them with their "4 ever family". :) (We do have a small Foster program and are always looking for qualified foster homes and families to help us save more dogs.)
*Please consider donating today. Because of your tax-deductible donations, which go to support our efforts to help save as many dogs as possible we can save many more lives. Please donate what you can, and help us save more German Shepherds in need of Rescue. "I hope to make people realize how totally helpless animals are, how dependent on us, trusting as a child, that we will be kind and take care of their needs (They) are an obligation put on us, a responsibility, we have no right to neglect, nor to violate by cruelty." James Harriot
Never believe that animals suffer less than humans. Pain is the same for them that it is for us. Even worse, because they cannot help themselves. "Of all the creatures, man is the most detestable. Of the entire brood, he is the only one that possesses malice. He is the only creature that inflicts pain for sport, knowing it to be pain. The fact the man knows right from wrong proves his intellectual superiority to the other creatures; but the fact that he can do wrong proves his moral inferiority to any creature that cannot." Mark Twain
"The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated". -- Mohandas Ghandi"
"By the love of those I've been privileged to rescue, I have been rescued" A. K. Tucker. I am a small private GSD Rescue that depends on donations.
