Weekly Update-Dec. 12-18, 2011-12 Adoptions!

   This was a very nice week.  The dogs were pretty good at the shelter-unlike the previous full moon week.  Not too many sick ones except for the little kittens.  We did 12 adoptions this week-Mila, Wilhela, Smiley, Max, Rocko, Finley, Nikki, Aida and Yoshi were the dogs going to new homes.  The kitties were Isidora, Corgan, and Bob.  Kisses got to go to a foster home with Sue and Walt!  Perry, Titus, Mango, and Zippity went to foster homes.  We were able to pull about 10 dogs and 4 kitties.  We were able to rescue a momma dog and her 5 babies that were strays.  This week we were able to rescue the other mom with 8 brand new babies so they will get to be safe and warm for Christmas.
   On Friday, we had a wonderful surprise at the shelter. Melissa makes the cutest hats you have ever seen.  She knits them with frogs, dogs, lambs, pigs etc. on them.  They are really great and people love them.  She sells her hats and on Friday she donated all her proceeds to P4P!!  I am constantly amazed at the kindness of people.  Thank you Melissa!! 
   Santa Paws pictures ended on Sunday at Petsmart.  Big thank you to Santa Rich and his elves for the Santa pictures.  Petsmart gives P4P half of the proceeds from the pictures we take.  Haven't got the total pictures taken but I'm sure it is near 300. 
   On Sunday we had a great Christmas present!  Hannah and Danielle, two teenage girls, brought us a truckload of supplies and a check for $250.00.  The supplies were 40 bags of kitty litter, food, towels, toys, treat, and more.  The girls had worked for over a year to raise money for P4P.  Very awesome!
   We have been getting all kinds of Christmas cards from people that have adopted from us with pictures.  It is really great to see a once hopeless animal all happy in their new home.  Check out Molly and Micah's story on the blog. We have also been getting some wonderful Christmas gifts from some really great people.  The animals at the shelter really appreciate all the presents.  Thank you!
   This weekend is Christmas so we will not be going to Petsmart for adoptions.  We have had several people call about fostering an animal for Christmas or adopting.  If you would like to foster please call Nev at 618-540-7387.  Merry Christmas to all from Partners For Pets!!

Danielle and Hannah with Santa Rich

All the supplies they collected

Katie's Kookies 4 Pets

Katie is one of our young volunteers that helps at adoptions, fosters some dogs and make dog cookies to sell to help the animals at our shelter.  Her Mom posted this on Facebook and I just wanted to share this with you.  Way to go Katie!!  Awesome!!

Katie's Kookies 4 Pets are being produced in bulk this week! $10 gets you approximately 35-2" cookies--- All profits go to @partners 4 pets. Katie has raised over $75 this fall with her Kookies. If you want a batch let me know ASAP! By the way...there are 25 ounces of biscuits in a $10.00 batch.  They are pretty popular around our house.  Would you like to help Katie reach her goal of $100.00 for P4P this fall?  Elizabeth Dugger-Riesberg   By the way... there are 25 ounces of biscuits in a $10 batch. They are pretty popular around our house... Would you like to help Katie reach her goal of $100 for Partners 4 Pets this fall? So close... So very close and I am so very proud of her!

Merry Christmas From Molly!

Merry Christmas from Micah!

What a great picture of Micah.  She was an older girl that was left at the pound.  I love old dogs.  They are so wonderful and the thought of them living their last days at the pound is hard to bear.  Micah was very dirty, scared and thin when we got her.  She will have a wonderful Christmas this year in her new home!  Thank you for giving her a second chance.  Merry Christmas Micah! 

Merry Christmas From Hannah and Danielle!!

On Sunday, Dec. 18,  two teenage girls, Hannah Stricklin and Danielle DeMay, brought a very welcome Christmas present to P4P at Petsmart.  Both girls, age 14 and 15, have worked for the last year and a half to collect money and supplies for the shelter.  They held yard sales, lemonade stands, did odd jobs, babysat, and collected money in their Piggy Bank to help the animals at the shelter. 

   The girls brought the gift to the volunteers at the adoption event at Petsmart.  There were approximately 40 bags of kitty litter!!, towels, dog food, toys, shampoo, blankets, treats and canned food along with a check for $250.00!  Everyone was so excited. 

   I think it is really amazing that these two worked so hard to help the animals at our shelter.  It is just really awesome and so kind.  Their accomplishment is very inspiring.  What great girls!  It just goes to show you how the work of a few can make a huge difference in the lives of the animals.  Thank you! 

Update on Kisses

   After spending two weeks recuperating, Kisses has left us to go with Sue and Walt.  Kisses was at the pound several weeks ago with a compound fracture of her back leg.  It had been broken for some time and infection had set in.  Dr. Ervin at Horseshoe Lake AH felt the only option to save Kisses was amputation so within hours of rescue the surgery was done. 
    When we got the call from animal control about Kisses they had said she was a Dalmatian.  We called the Dalmatian rescue group, SpotSavers, for help since we had had way too many emergencies and surgeries in the last month.  They said they would help with her medical costs and work on a foster home for her.  When Kisses arrived at the shelter after surgery, it was determined she was not a Dalmatian at all but a rat terrier mix with spots.  We emailed SpotSavers back to tell them thanks anyway but Kisses was not a Dal and to our surprise they still said they would help!  On Sunday after her surgery, Sue and Walt came to see Kisses.  They volunteer for SS.  Kisses loved them and even though she was in pain she curled up on Sue's lap.
   This last Monday Kisses got her stitches out and her surgical site was healed.  On Friday Sue and Walt came to pick her up and Kisses was transferred over to SS.  What a great bunch of people.  Very awesome!!

   We got an update from Sue and Walt and Kisses, aka Missey, is doing great.  Sue said she was running and playing like she had all her legs.  She has settled right in and thinks Walt is it.  Big thank you to all who helped Kisses go from a hopeless, seriously injured pooch to one that is really enjoying her life again.  Way to go Kisses!!

We are Rescue

Saint Francis Animal Sanctuary Inc. Vermilion, OH

We find beauty in the most incomprehensible places and the otherwise homely faces.
It is our gift to see beyond the dirt, terror, sadness and defeat and find the true soul that lies within.  We are Rescue.

Weekly Update-Dec. 4-11, 2011

Great week.  Terrible week.  Full moon.  First the good news-we did 20 adoptions!!! The dogs going home were:  Axel, Panda, Delilah, April, Ferd, Reeny, Barkley, Winter, Christmas, Noel, Frosty, Holly, Princess, Bruiser, Ava, Raffie.  The cats going home were:  Delta, Turkey, Phillip, and Elliot. We were able to take in about 25 dogs and cats for the week and able to put our name on several at the pound.  We took in a litter of 4 week old kittens who had been separated from their momma.  They were very happy to be reunited with the mom and all are doing well now.  We also took in 10 six week old puppies.  They are so cute!  There was also the two chi girls that were left in a home when the owners moved.  One is just a little crazy and had to be lassoed to get her out of the pound.  She was pretty happy with Nev on the car ride to our shelter and gave her a kiss.  She did climb up on my lap on Sunday.
   All the great dane pups have gone to their new homes.  I know Nev is very relieved.  That is really hard work to foster pups from birth to adoption and when you have 22 pound (yes, they were big), 8 week old pups it is really hard.  Good job Nev!!
   Update on our disasters.  Misty is doing very well and got her cast off.  She will get her pins out in a few weeks.  Bates is doing well except for his leg.  The infection has settled in the hock and is not healing.  They want to give him a few more weeks of antibiotics so let's hope it works or he may lose his leg.  Kisses is doing great and going to her foster home on Friday.  Her stitches are out and she is getting around just fine.  Virgil is in a foster home and doing well with only one eye. Scarlett the boxer is doing great.  She has gained about 7 pounds and is enjoying her foster home.
   Now the sad news-we lost our momma great dane-Cadence.  She had been through so much.  Found as a stray, having the pups, going thru heartworm treatment.  Last week she was spayed and developed bloat.  Within minutes she was gone.  Cadence was a great mom and did get to see her babies safe and sound.  She also got to enjoy the comforts of a wonderful home and love for the time we had her.  She was a beautiful girl and we will miss her.
   That's about it.  Have a good week.  Lisa

Skinny Scarlett or Don't Dump the Dog

   On 12/3/11 one of our volunteers, Denise, got a call from a friend of a hunter who had been hunting and a dog walked up to him.  He said the dog was skin and bones and didn't know what to do.  The hunter said he had called other rescues and they had said they were full.  The friend took her to a vet in Pontoon Beach and called Denise.  Denise went and got her. The boxer girl was probably around a 1 year old. 
    When Denise first arrived,, there were no words for the dogs' condition.  She could barely walk and was  so weak she had to have help to get in the car.  The boxer was about a year old and so emaciated.  She also had a bad wound on her leg.  When they first weighed Scarlett, as she was named, she weighed 32 pounds.  Denise said she knows "bye bye", and is house broke, kennel trained, good with kids, other dogs and loves to sleep in bed. She loves kids, men, women and dogs.  Scarlett was very hungry and ate well but the smallest amount of exertion made her very tired.  The vets at Creekwood Animal Hospital , where she was taken, gave her DHLPP, drontal plus, her wound cleaned and an Advantage. 

   On 12/6/11 she went back to the vet at Horseshoe and she weighed a whopping 35 pounds.  She is heartworm neg which is a big surprise. Denise said today is the first day she has had any energy and actually got excited and tried to jump up.  She also was able to get out of her crate without help.  Scarlett's tail is always wagging even though she was about at the end of her rope.  She has a sore on her foot and won't put any pressure on it.  It really hurts. Sue came by to take some pictures and she was getting some peanut butter which she loves.  

   Scarlett was found near Horseshoe Lake Park where people dump animals.  People have to understand that dogs do not know how to take care of themselves when they are dumped.  Dogs that have lived in homes do not generally know how to hunt.  They starve to death like Scarlett was about to do.  My other concern is she was dumped in that condition which is a terrible thought.  I really doubt she would have survived in that area for as long as it took her to get that emaciated.  Too many coyotes.  People need to understand it would be much kinder to take the dog to the pound than to dump it.  There are too many other options to dumping. 

   Lucky for Scarlett someone cared enough to help her.  She is now enjoying sleeping with the kids, eating some food and cuddling up in a big comforter.   

 

Here are a few pictures that Sue took at Denise's of Scarlett  on 12/06/11.  

 

 

Weekly Update, Nov. 28-Dec. 4, 2011-12 Adoptions!

   Very busy weekend.  We had adoptions on Sat. at O'Fallon and on Sunday at Glen Carbon.  We had 12 adoptions with the dog adoptions including Rio, Dora, Cooper, Killian, Ingrid (was returned and readopted), Rollo!!, and Chastity.  The kitties were Suzy, Gris, Nala, Clarrissa and Sorrel. 
   Santa pictures were this Sat. and Sunday at Glen Carbon.  P4P has the best Santa ever and we did about 100 pictures this weekend.  We will be doing pictures again next Sunday from 11-4 at Glen. 
   We also did the Holiday Magic event at the Edward Jones Dome with the Purina St. Louis PetLover Coalition.  It was very nice and fun.  There were all kinds of events going on, carnival rides, shopping, food, and adoptions. Big thank you to Purina for hosting our area. 
   Two rescues this week that were very sad.  Kisses, a rat terrier mix, came into St. Louis Co. AC with a severely broken leg.  It had been broken with the bone exposed for two weeks.  Not sure of the whole story.  We took her straight to Horseshoe Lake Animal Hospital and Dr. Ervin said the only option was amputation.  Too much time and infection.  So within 2 hours the surgery was done.  Kisses is recuperating here and doing well.  The surgery area was pretty painful but today she is doing great and wagging her tail.  She also has heartworms but will have to heal well before she is treated. 
   Just yesterday a call came in that a boxer had been found by a hunter and the dog was in bad shape.  She was at a local vets office and they asked if we could take her.  One of our volunteers went to get her and was shocked at what she saw.  The adult female boxer weighed 30 pounds and could hardly stand.  She also has a bad cut on her leg.  Fortunately, she is eating and is warm and cozy in her foster home.  I don't know what her name is but will let you know with some picts when I get them. 

Chastity and her new family

Rolo and his new family

Ingrid and her new family

Killian and his new family

Kisses surgery

   Bates, our little pit pup that was terribly hurt, is doing much better at his foster home. He is eating and getting along with her dogs.  The wound on his back let is not healing well and the infection has settled in the hock. He is going back tomorrow for another check.  His ear seems to be doing better. 
   That's about all I know.  Have a good week!  Lisa