Camp Wolfgang’s founder Wally Swanson has died
June 30th, 2011
(photo fair use from examiner.com)
8 German Shepherds need homes…
Wally Swanson, the founder of Camp Wolfgang, a German Shepherd rescue, died last week. Services were held today, in Minnesota! He closed down Camp Wolfgang in October of 2009, and after that, keeping only a few dogs as health issues made it difficult for him to keep up. When I first learned of Camp Wolfgang, there were over 300 dogs he was caring for, and I’d thought that when Ken and Krie died, I’d get a dog from Camp Wolfgang, but he closed it before then. The GSD rescue world was scrambling when he shut down working to accommodate over 120 GSDs and other dogs, but they did it, all the dogs who needed homes were adopted out or sent to rescues across the country.
He also founded a program called “Paws in Prison” where local prisoners worked with dogs, training the dogs for future adopters (and training themselves in the process). Here’s a blog post about a 2007 Paws in Prison graduation:
In the STrib:
Wallace Martin Swanson
GSDs – out from under CapX 2020!
April 2nd, 2009
Here are the most adorable German Shepherds, available now. Just so happens that they’re in the planned CapX 2020 transmission preferred route, in a substation siting circle! So, rather than “Buy the Farm,” get these little grrrrrrrls away from CapX! “Buy the Shep!” They’re all females and are such sweeties. They’re from a litter of 11, 2 males and 9 females, and now there’s only 6 looking for homes. They’re just west of New Prague, at Union Hill.
GERMAN SHEPHERD PUPS 8 wks, 6 F healthy, farm rsd, both parents on site $450
952-393-1121 952-564-1082