Hope sees the invisible, feels the intangible, and achieves the impossible. -- Anonymous

Mission Statement

Our Purpose is to rescue and re-home existing Lethal White Australian Shepherds.  Our Mission is to ensure, through support and education, a positive environment and successful life-long union for those adopted.  Our Vision is to prevent, and ultimately eliminate, Merle-to-Merle breeding of Australian Shepherds through continuous efforts to EDUCATE!

                Mesa, Arizona

Take a chance...make a difference!!!

Way too MANY wonderful, precious Lethals from all across the USA are in need of loving homes!  While some are safe in rescues familiar with Lethal Whites, even more are sitting in shelters awaiting their destiny!  Most rescues are so overloaded, there is just NO space!  Please consider giving a Lethal a chance, whether it be a "forever" home or just a safe, loving foster home.  To see the many Lethals-In-"urgent"-Need, please visit Amazing Aussies "Coast-to-Coast" page.  Click on link or pic to see more Lethals, along with contact information.

Please help us stop this tragic breeding!  We are being contacted from all over the US with pleas of help to save these babies.  Together, we can stop them from ever being born simply by educating.  Meet some of the Lethals-In-Need across the USA (listed below).

We have printable materials to hand out to make the public aware of what happens in Merle-to-Merle breeding.  Please, be a part of the solution, help educate.  For printable materials, click here.  Before you continue, please read Miss Arkansas' story!

Read a sad story of what can happen when a precious Lethal White pup ends up in the wrong hands!  For details, please click on Scrappy's Story.

Here are a few (of many) of the Lethal Whites that need to find a loving family so that they may live a full, rewarding life.  Remember, that little extra care and effort that they may take can't compare to what they give back in return.

Click on pics for more information!

Campbell

Australian Shepherd
Lethal White
Male - Born 7/5/04 - 8 lbs

Texas Aussie Rescue Association, Inc. (TARA)

This little sweetheart if available for adoption in the Dallas/Ft. Worth (TX) area...and there are many other wonderful Lethals in need of new loving homes in the Austin area, as well.  Their ages range from pups to adults, so there's sure to be someone just for you.  Please click on the links above to learn more about TARA, their adoption process and don't forget to check out all the great doggies available for adoption!

   Faith  Austin, TX (click on pic for details on Petfinder site)

   Buddy  Austin, TX (click on pic for details on Petfinder site)

My Guy  Sacramento, CA

For more information, please contact Cindy Walden at cwalden@onemain.com or call at 916-652-9639

6/23/04 update: 

He has 4 other roommate / foster friends.  He does well with everything that comes his way, cats, dogs, chickens,  goats, and children.  He has learned to sit and stay off.  It is seldom that he jumps up on me now.  He ride well, knows that when we stop and I tap him on the chest, it is time to jump out.  This is where the complete trust has come in....he just leaps.  He walks anywhere with me on a leash now, and I am learning not to trip on the leash on the occasion that we cross paths.  He  can shred blankets and sheets like every other shelter dog.  The perfect home would be a community that gets up at 4 AM, because that is when he insist on barking......for no apparent reason.  He can be inside, outside, crated, even on the bed....it is just early morning and his mission in life it to see that no one stays asleep, and misses the alarm.  Not to say that because I am up with him so much, I would like to sleep right thru it many a time. 

We made a visit to the local Animal Eye Doctor, and after an exam found that he will always be 100% blind.  His eyes are underdeveloped and are set  extremely low  in the sockets.  It was well worth the office visit.  Which the doctor cuts in half for rescue and shelter dogs.  Because now I know that there is nothing I can do to make it any better.

 

I will get updated photos soon, he looks so puppy with his clip.  But baths are a breeze now. 

4/6/04 Well this guy has been here for a little over a week now, and boy have I learned allot.

I have really struggled with a name, because I really want it to tell who he is.  I know he is not mine to keep, as I can not make the commitment to the time required for him, but I have been calling him "MyGuy".  To me he is so very special.  I have taken him with me to two days of classroom visits with 1-3 rd graders and a special -ed class.  He was great, but we had to limit the petting, as he just got too excited.  Touch is so stimulating for him.   I had one of the special ed teachers interested in him, but has decided it is not the right time now.  He has made visits to the police department with me, as well as city hall.  So we have at least taken the opportunity to share him, his story, and educate a few more people.   We (both of us) are learning how to walk on a leash together.  (I even put my perfume on my pant leg so he could follow me.)  We have learned and have done stairs.  And I have also carried him up and down the stairs ( I called it exercise).  I am sure that the leash thing  all comes with more time.  He does not really buddy up with my other dogs, just sort of hangs alone. 

3/28/04 Well I just got home with this wonderful guy.  He is so soft, so loving and so young.  He is about 8 months old( still squatting), and just so handsome.  He is all white with a few black hairs (and I mean just a few) around his very short stub tail.  There is maybe some reddish hairs there too, or maybe they are stained??? not sure there.  He has a black nose and some color on his gums.    He was given his annual vaccinations and rabies.  The vet felt he was in great overall health,  but did not do any blood work etc. (remember it is a county facility).   He has not broke with the upper resp. that we see so many of the shelter dogs break with.  Maybe it is because he had no clue as to what was going on around him, or that he was in a kennel by him self.   His coat is in good condition, and while he was a little uncertain when I gave him a bath at the shelter, over all he was good. (Better overall than my tri aussie).  He did not have fleas, and has been started on revolution.   He does not appear to be highly food motivated, would not even eat his Mc Donalds Cheese Burger. ( they all get one upon breaking out of the shelter).  He does well with the other dogs, big and small.  He did not care about the cat, even though the cat (all 18 lbs of him) wanted to establish just who is boss here.  He may be able to hear a little, or maybe it is just my imagination...but...when we were out back in the yard, when he was headed for something, I shouted "lookout" and about 80% of the time he turned and avoided the crash.  I would clap my hands and he would quickly find his way back to me.  He has gently explored the house, and appears to be settling in.

     October, 2004 issue of the Lethal Whites across USA newsletter.  Just click on the Aussie icon. 

• July, 2004 issue

• April, 2004 issue

• January, 2004 issue

• October, 2003 issue

•   July, 2003 issue

•    April, 2003 issue

• January, 2003 issue

Please check out some deaf Aussies available for adoption listed on the Deaf Dog Education Action Fund site.

We have successfully adopted several Lethals from our rescue, along with others posted on our site from across the states.  But remember, the ones who were able to be adopted had one thing on their side...TIME.  The generous people who took them out of the kill shelters and into their homes gave them the chance for caring people to find them.  The ones that are turned into the pounds rarely make it out because they are considered unadoptable and room needs to be made for the adoptable dogs.

If you are interested in helping give them that time...to save their lives, please visit our Lethal Whites page to learn more about who they are.  Visit Amazing Aussies to find out how you can help.

•  Lucky Lethals  

• "See Me Now"

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• "Lucky Lethals" Stories from Across the USA

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