a lot of people always want a puppy and there s plenty of adults and seniors in shelters. but that you plan ahead. you get a certificate to a shelter. and then you let you give your children like the card at one of the big pet stores and they buy all the things ahead of time and they have those for christmas and afterwards, they go out and pick up their dog. ok. how do the dogs feel about wearing these outfits? these aren t doing too bad. they seem to like them and they seem to adjust. the hat is incredible without a chin strap? right? it does have a chin strap. that s fascinating. how do we go to your web site and how do we click on it and find out if there s a dog there for us? it s www.mixbreedrescue.com. great. deborah and makala, thanks so much. paws for a cause series is now concluded and your forgotten friends is out there. hopefully we ll get 30 homes for you. thank you very much. bye, smokey. bye, bagel. don t get up.
brian? you got some cute ones over there. i do. and cute women as well. today is the last day in our paws for a cause series which we ve been telling you about all weekend long week long. you always can lend a helping hand and a paw to help animal shelters in need, so to speak. deborah allrich is the founder of forgotten friends mixed breed rescue based in austin, texas and michael aramos is a board member and rescue coordinator. with them are bagel and smokey, who is who? bagel. that s bagel and this is smokey. he s a new york bagel. tell me about your organization. forgotten friends was founded about 12 years ago and became a nonprofit in 2004, we originally started out with bigger dogs and all mixed breeds and now we take all sizes and pu purebreds or mixed breeds. you can actually adopt these dogs? yeah. tell me about this one.
and we ve been doing that for, you know, a long time. they did it last night. and this was a picture of freese s jersey after the home run. almost in shreds because his teammates were all over him. game seven tonight at 8:00 p.m. right here on the fox broadcast network. all right. mr. kilmeade? [dogs barking] today is our last day in our all week long series paws for a cause. where we give you a chance to save the lives of animals who have already been rescued. these organizations need your help. these animals need homes. so let s see if we can put it together again. deborah allrich is back with us. she s the founder of forgotten friends mixed breed rescue based in austin, texas, and she is a board member and a foster volunteer and with us here are bitsy and nelson, as you see and amanda west is wide right.
kicked five field goals and they beat the broncos. arizona s seven game losing streak is over. and that s a quick look at the world of sports. what a play! that s one of your best, brian. this christmas instead of buying someone another sweater, consider giving the gift of pet rescue. deborah allrich is founder of forgotten friends, mixed breed rescue based in austin, texas. joy woods is a volunteer and board member and with them are mommy and daughter dogs, is that true? sarah and molly. good morning. yes. good morning to you. merry christmas. merry christmas. you know, it s such a lovely idea to give a dog at - for you know to somebody who has been thinking about it, you don t want to spring a dog on somebody that doesn t want it but what is the importance of mixed breed rather than purebred? there isn t necessarily i think that we when i started out, the group was concentrated on that. it was just really important to me because everybody was fixed on mixed breeds.
his people are going to call her people. did you guys watch the show? what did you think? i was watching football. i was asleep. i d.v.r.ed it. i watched a half-hour. i wanted to be surprised by your report so i bowed out of it. see how the ratings are. jimmy fallon i thought did a pretty good job. check in with you again. see you next hour. all right. 23 minutes before the top of the hour now. it s estimated that animal shelters care for six to eight million dogs and cats every year in the u.s. where we live. and with the tough economy, many of those shelters have been hit hard with more homeless animals and less demand to adopt so what can you do to help? deborah allrich is the founder of forgotten friends, mixed breed rescue based in austin, texas and sandy daniels is a board member. with them, they have fancy and lucy lu. which one is fancy? fancy pekingese is what she is.