On 5/15 RESCUE dog Kira moved into foster care. She is doing AWESOME! You may recall that she was the dog we saved with the cherry eye and the ulcer on her eye... additionally Kira was quite despondent when we rescued her. :( I am very happy to report that through the love and care of RESCUE's volunteers Kira has become playful, loving and happy. Her foster mom Susan continues to help her flourish and Kira is becoming quite animated! We couldn't be happier for her! New photos will follow soon.
On 5/22 RESCUE dog Bailey was adopted. His adopter is a former RESCUE adopter of Skittles, now Mia. Bailey and Mia are best buds already and have been playing non-stop! :) Joe, the adopter promises to send us photos soon of the happy family!
On 5/23 RESCUE dog Hank moved into foster care with Bailey's former foster mom Jessica. Bailey was Jessica's first foster dog so she was understandable sad (but happy) when Bailey was adopted. Jessica helped Bailey so much with his confidence and manners and we have no doubt that she'll help our young boy Hank in the same manner. Stay tuned for updates.
On 5/26 RESCUE dog Gretel moved over to our doggie day care location. She is going to have an adoption appointment with the adopter of former RESCUE dog Willie. He has an awesome life and we think Gretel and him will be fantastic playmates. Stay tuned.
On 5/27 RESCUE was privileged to save two more lives. Mandi is a white and black adorable young terrier mix. She is so spunky and fun. When I look at her video now, I think I should have named her Flower. She was a CUTE black stripe up the underside of her tail. She will need to be spayed before going up for adoption but I'm sure she won't be with us for long!! Danny is a whippet/beagle mix, weighing a mere 12 pounds!!! :( He is just skin and bones. But despite that he has an amazing loving personality. He moved into foster care shortly after we rescued him. I'm sure he'll get fattened up in no time. Danny was at Animal Control for nearly a month before we stepped in. He also had some sort of cloth embedded into his neck. :( He lost nearly all his fur on his neck but it is growing back in. We'll get Danny up to a healthy weight, build up his confidence and he'll be a happy go lucky doggie in no time!!
We have several adoption appointments over the next couple of days - thank goodness! It's very unbearable slow on the adoption front. All the groups are suffering, not only from lack of adoptions but with being filled beyond capacity with dogs and cats.
The Humane Society here in the valley only takes in "owner surrenders," which means that strays are not accepted, only animals that someone physically owned. It's very sad that we have an organization that solely exists for the purpose of taking in animals that people don't want! The Humane Society reported this week that they have taken in 2,600 cats during the month of May!!!!! :( I can personally attest to the overflowing numbers of cats at Animal Control as well. They had cats in every open cage and multiple cats in dozens of cages. :( Animal Control reported that they took in over 17,400 dogs and cats during January through April of this year (normally a slow time)!! While RESCUE does not take in animals from the public (we save the dogs and cats that are going to be killed at Animal Control or the Humane Society) we too have seen a drastic drop in our cat adoptions. And the dogs are not fairing that much better either.
I had mentioned in a previous post that the summer months are the most challenging for the animal community and it appears this year will not be an exception. :( While none of this news is good, there are still ways for all of us to help - Adopt, Donate, Volunteer. If you can't adopt, donate or volunteer, you can help us by telling others about RESCUE. Believe it or not but there are people out there that don't know about all the homeless animals that are being killed or about how RESCUE helps save and place as many as we possible can. Please do what you can to help.
We really appreciate your support! Thank you for continuing to follow our journey. We hope to see you again.
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