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Monday, January 16, 2012

Off to a Great Start-45 Adoptions since 1/1/12!

    The year has started with a bang.  The first week of January we did 23 adoptions and the second week we did 22 adoptions.  Week one saw adoption of 15 dogs:  Cadence, Piper, Toodles, Chewey, Smalz, Tuck, Alicia, Ginger, Fizzle, Sophie, Judah, Nanette, Gus, Bashful!!, and Gizmo.  Kitties were: Walker, Simba, Buddie, Speckles, Ashes, Porkchop, Pat and TBone.  The second week dogs were Seva, Cassie, Riley, Gracie, Ranger, Quigley, Borders, Bunky, Hedges, Booger, Jagger, Charlie, Alex, Dreyfus, Addie, Bang Bang, BEa, and Pepe.  Kitties were:  Winkey, Tabby, Chante, and Binky. 
   Some of these guys had been at the shelter for a long time.  Bashful had been with us almost a year.  Ranger since June.  Bunky, an older girl,  since May. Chante since summer.  Good for them finally!  Tonto, who came in with Ranger, also went into a trial.  Jagger was the shepard that was living at the gas station in Pontoon.  No one could catch him and a very nice lady set up a live trap for him.  We pulled him from Madison Co.  Nannette was abandoned in a house with her sister when a family moved.  Both were scared to death at Mad Co. but now Nanette is in a new home.  Her sister, Theodora, is a bot more of a challenge but doing well in a foster home.  Gus was adopted by a lady 90 years young!  She was great!  Dreyfus had heartworms and we were having trouble getting the heartworm meds so he has been around since summer.  We have been able to pull quite a few from the pound.  It has been very busy.
   Last week was a rough dog week.  We lost little Henry to seizures.  Ritchie was diagnosed with severe disc degeneration and is having a very hard time walking.  Meds and therapy are not helping.  One of the pups became constipated and had to have an enema.  Yuk.  He is doing great now.  All of the 9 pups that have been bottle fed since their momma left when they were 5 days old are doing great.  All weigh almost 5 pounds at 4 weeks!  They are very cute and happy.  Great job to the four people acting as surrogate moms.  Bottle feeding pups is really hard and time consuming.  Hats off to you!
   We got wonderful news that Nathanial was adopted from Cocker Rescue in Michigan.  Nat was a wreck when we got him.  Terrible cleft palate, deformed nose and teeth.  Bad cherry eye.  Whoa! It was bad.  I have never seen a dog with a cleft palate let alone with one that bad.  I really don't know how he lived.  He was always snuffling around and couldn't have been able to nurse well.  He was the most positive, happy boy though.  Sometimes the other dogs were not very nice to him and he just was always wagging his tail.  He had surgery at Horseshoe Lake AH to fix some of it but it was too bad to totally correct.  We had Nat for many months with no luck with adoption so Cocker Rescue was called to see if they could help.  He got to fly up north and finally got a new home!  Way to go Nathanial! 
   The Stars to the Rescue event at the Peabody Opera House was great!  Every year Tony LaRussa hosts the concert to benefit his shelter ARF.  He also helps shelters in the area by giving us tickets to sell.  This year we were invited to participate.  Luke Bryan, country western,  and  Timothy B Schmidt from the Eagles
sang and were really good.  Many others also.
    Several events are coming up.  Feb. 10-12 will be adoptathon weekend.  We will be at Glen Carbon and O'Fallon Petsmart for the event.  Feb. 25th is Trivia Night.  Make sure you book your table ASAP.  Should be fun.  The info. is posted on the web site and the blog. 


Booger

Gracie

Gus


Pepe

Quigley

Ranger!!

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