What a beautiful day in downtown Kennebunk! We enjoyed the parade and had several Lucky Pup alumni and foster dogs. Our alumni were Sully, Captain, Arlo and Rhett - and the available sweeties were Caroline, Rocky and Ivy. We also had a booth with a carnival game and items for sale -- the fleece dog toys were a big hit! Check out the pics.
Oh my gracious! Our Arkansas friends Lisa, Leanne, and Cissy arrived yesterday with 20 dogs! We are so excited, and we spent the day snuggling with puppies! Check out pictures below! Of these we have approx. 6 available for adoption - Mason, Maddox, Jeremy, Jerry, Jason and Jacob, Maureen and Molly, and Caroline. You can see all of them under "available pets" at www.luckypuprescue.org. I think we'll have to do this in more than one post. So these pictures have the "J pups" - Jenny, Jeremy, Jerry, Jacob, and Jason.
Moe has been here a few weeks now and is already starting to shed pounds and inches. He is such a sweetheart and his foster family has all great things to say about him. He likes the teenagers and the female dog and is doing great with adult males now. He loves everyone he meets and is just a happy guy! Could your active family be the right one for him? Moe is a 3-year old black lab mix. Contact us about meeting him today!
His foster mom in Arkansas says "Scrappy is the sweetest dog! We believe him to be a 2-3 year old schnauzer/poodle mix. He is housetrained, great with kids and absolutely LOVES to go for rides in the car! He would love nothing more than to be adopted by a family where he can receive the love and attention he deserves. Sadly, Scrappy was diagnosed with a genetic eye condition. He was born without tear glands. This went untreated for so long in his previous “home” that he has lost all vision in his right eye and part of the vision in the left. It is only a matter of time before he will go completely blind. We were thrilled to hear that there is a surgery available to help Scrappy and save his vision, but it is very expensive. The cost for the procedure (the doctor will route part of his salivary gland to his left eye and remove the non-functioning right eye) is 1800.00. We know it is a lot of money, but Scrappy so deserves a chance at a good life. He has had such a rough start, but still manages to wag his tail and jump up in his foster mom’s arms for kisses. He also stands patiently while his eyes are treated several times a day with drops to help keep him comfortable. He is so grateful to finally have someone to take care of him! Please consider donating to Scrappy’s surgery fund. It really is his only hope…. "
Scrappy will be available for adoption once he completes his surgery and recovery - just a few weeks away!
Ivy is one of our sweeties who needs sponsorship funds. She has come to us after going through absolute torture -- she was run over by a car in September and crawled up on a porch. When the people came out in the morning, she pulled herself with her two front legs and hid underneath a car. They had to jack up the car to get her out. Since she was a stray, they could have easily euthanized her then and ended the life of this sweetie. Luckily the medical staff saw something special in the eyes of this girl. After three surgeries, an external fixation device, and battling infections that threatened her legs and life, Ivy has overcome every obstacle and is now here in Maine in foster care. She still needs to get spayed after she gains some weight and gets herself medically stable. She is battling osteomyelitis and demodex and winning those battles as well. Her leftover bill from Arkansas is, remarkably, only around 800.00 -- and a huge thank you needs to go out to the Shelby Animal Hospital in Memphis for their donation of a lot of care and boarding -- and her bills here are already around 300.00. Sponsorship funds are greatly needed to help us continue to care for her and other needy dogs in our rescue. Thank you for every single penny - it all helps! Click below or contact us today at luckypuprescue@yahoo.com if you'd rather use check or cash. Thank you so much!
Smokey is a gorgeous adult Catahoula Leopard Dog mix. His coloring is so beautiful; you have to see it in person to appreciate it, it's almost a shimmery silver. He is a big boy who would love a forever home in your family. He loves older kids but can be a little bossy with younger kids and cats. A furry female playmate would be great, or Smokey could be an only-dog. He is house-trained, crate-trained and ready to join your family. Please contact us if you would like to meet this handsome guy! He is already in Maine in foster care.
Sometimes you just have to take time out to play! That's exactly what we did Friday night and we had a great time and raised some much-needed funds for the rescue. Rumble Tumble is a fantastic spot for the kids to play, take a class or have a birthday party. We can't wait to go back!
Thank you to Amber and Rumble Tumble for hosting us on Friday!
OK, it's time for a heart-to-heart.....if you live in the north you can't possibly know what our fellow rescuers in the south face every day. There are agonizing decisions about (literally) who lives and dies because they have too many dogs surrendered, found as strays, dumped at their doorsteps, and born in their care and it's just unmanageable. Some of us from Lucky Pup Rescue went to a lecture about dog rescue and transportation and we heard about a shelter who has to euthanize 180 dogs a month - that's 40-50 sweet lives each Friday that are brought down the hall, if they're lucky, to a waiting needle. In many southern areas, the gas chamber is how they do it. This is NOT euthanasia, which is defined as "mercy killing" or "the practice of ending a life in a painless manner" - gassing is neither merciful or painless, and if you want to know how it affects the body you can certainly look it up. We hate thinking or talking about it.
We get lots of questions like "what can we do about it"? "we can only save one life at a time, what difference will that make long-term?" Well, part of each adoption fee goes to the southern vet for the spay or neuter fee which means one less pregnant female or one less breeding male - this can ultimately mean hundreds fewer dogs that need to be saved. Also, the rescues and shelters are helping blitz the media outlets in the south with spay/neuter messages; that is made possible by your donation as well. It's true that attitudes of the humans take a lot longer to change, but one family at a time, one dog at a time is what we can all do. Look into some of these sweet faces if you think you wouldn't make a difference by donating, fostering or adopting.
