Ivy's life was saved too - please vote!

Beautiful Ivy is another testimony to the power of love, perseverance and overcoming overwhelming odds.

When she was just a young girl, Ivy was run over by a car. She crawled up onto a woman's porch, dragging her hind legs, and laid there all night until someone came out in the morning. In spite of barely being able to move, she wagged her tail and waited for help. Ivy was immediately brought to the hospital where it was all bad news. She had four fractures in her back legs and required immediate surgery. After a total of three surgeries where MUCH hardware was installed, Ivy had an external fixation device on the more unstable leg and had to be carried in and out to go to the bathroom. After many months of care and some complications, including osteomyelitis (a bone infection) it looked like she might end up requiring an amputation after all! Once she came north to us, our wonderful vets treated her and helped her avoid losing her leg. She got strong very quickly and just wanted to play, play, play! After re-gaining strength and re-learning how to use those muscles and repaired limbs she was adopted into a loving forever home in southern Maine and is doing amazing. You won't believe the first picture of a frail and tentative girl is even her! The second picture is Ivy in her new life - the joy in that picture says it all - it shows you that she was worth every penny it took to save her - many thousands of pennies!

Please vote for us at http://www.refresheverything.com/luckypuprescuelpr !

Jadea asks for your vote too!

Jadea is a miracle dog but she would have never survived without people taking a chance on her and putting a lot of time and money into her care.

Over a year ago, she was found on the side of the expressway in the south - starving, lifeless, and completely broken. No one knows how long she laid out there on the side of the road suffering and starving. A caring person saw her raise her head and stopped to pick her up, starting her long journey to recovery. A rescue volunteer was mobilized and brought her to a wonderful animal hospital where they began the process of putting Jadea back together. Many would have given up right then - Jadea was emaciated beyond belief, she was heartworm positive, she was infested with intestinal parasites, had rips in both her ears, scars and cuts all over and to top it off she had a crushed pelvis and broken femur! Treatment had to wait on her broken bones for over a week because she was too unstable to operate on. Her surgeries had to be split up because there was so much damage. Both hips had to be repaired and have screws placed to secure them. She also had to have her femur plated to hold it together. Her recovery has been both long and painful but she never stopped loving and wagging her tail through it. No one could look into her eyes and tell Jadea she wasn't worth it. After almost a year she was brought north into a loving foster home, and months later she was adopted into a wonderful family with a canine buddy and people who love her for the amazing girl she is.

Your Pepsi Refresh vote could help us save more miracle dogs like Jadea. The first picture is a "before" pic - well, after the major part of her physical recovery - and the second picture is of her now in her amazing new life (and she is now Gracie, the luckiest of pups!).

Please log on and vote: http://www.refresheverything.com/luckypuprescuelpr

Here's another reason we need your votes!

Wesley was abandoned as a young puppy at a southern shelter. He came north and was adopted, only to be turned back in to us after he became a big pushy puppy who needed discipline. At that time he was also Lyme positive and Heartworm positive. After almost $1,000.00 of care, he has become a loving, marvelous guy who is ready for a forever home of his own. He needs experienced dog owners to help him continue to be a great and loyal companion. Wesley loves the water, playing soccer, taking walks, and playing with other dogs and his humans. He enjoys riding in the car and is such a handsome big guy at about 85 lbs.
Without adoption fees from our other dogs as well as donations and our marvelous vets, we wouldn't be able to care for Wesley and so many others like him.
Check out our site at www.luckypuprescue.org for more info and ways you can help!

Here is one reason we need your vote!

Gage is a beautiful puppy at about 8 months old. When he was younger he got hit by a car! He was saved by wonderful vets but it damaged his hip more than they knew at the time. He now needs surgery which will set us back over $1000.00. We will do it because we can't let anything bad happen to Gage, and he is SO worth it - a sweet boy who is in foster care loving life with 4 other dogs, 2 cats and 2 little kids. He will be able to keep up with them all so much better after his surgery. Maybe you can't adopt or foster right now, or can't contribute to Gage's surgery financially. But you can go on and click a few times for us! From each email address you have, you can sign up (takes less than a minute one time), then vote every day in July for us to receive a $25,000 grant from Pepsi.

You can also spread the word! Tell your co-workers, family members, your Facebook buddies, and tweet about us!

The direct link is http://www.refresheverything.com/luckypuprescuelpr

Pepsi Refresh! We are back in the running for July!

We are hoping to receive this grant money to increase the outreach our rescue - promote spay/neuter education, pay for medical needs and we hope to get a vehicle to make it easier to transport dogs. Can't you see the "Pepsi Pet Wagon" rolling down the highway? ; 0 )

Please spread the word and vote every day

Please vote for us!

http://www.refresheverything.com/luckypuprescuelpr

Please consider voting for us to win a Pepsi Refresh grant for $25,000. This money will go a long way to supporting our mission to help dogs in need, no matter their background. Other shelters and rescues are starting to cap what they will spend per dog on medical or behavioral needs, ruling out many local surrenders and dogs who could be repaired and rehabilitated into great family dogs.

At this link, you sign up just once and you can vote every day.
http://www.refresheverything.com/luckypuprescuelpr

Thank you for supporting our rescue!

Which are the adoptable ones?

Make sure you know which of these cuties are the adoptable ones! A big thank you to Caroline and Maddie for carrying the Lucky Pup sign the WHOLE parade route! And to our teenage volunteers for snuggling puppies ( a hard job, we know, but SOMEone has to do it! )

Parade Goers!

Some of our available cuties joined the May Day parade and got some lovin' from the twirlers and other fans!

Easton is the small black schnauzer, and Oreo is the black and white lab puppy lovin' the baton girls. Gabby is the super close-up and her brother Garrett is pictured as well.

More May Day photos!

Maggie is now Ivy (she has the pink vest on in the bottom picture) and she enjoyed the day with her new family and some old friends like Courtney.

Ladybird is a beautiful adult English Coonhound who is doing so great and really would love to find her forever home. Foster mom extroardinaire Shannon got some double-doggy lovin' from Arlo and Ladybird!

Ben, now Finn, is the brown dog who is visiting with new pals Arlo and Sully.

May Day fun!

We were so thrilled to have 18 Lucky Pups join us for the May Day parade and festival in Kennebunk last weekend! It was great to see Barney, Maggie (now Ivy), Sunny, Sully, Arlo, Bear (now Finn), Reed (now Buddy) and Andy (now Bruin). Our adoptable cuties were there too - the G puppies like Gena and Gabby along with Ladybird, Courtney, Easton and Ethan.

Enjoy some photos from that day! Bruin is the white-looking shepherd at the top and Barney is the very relaxed golden dog at the bottom. The two black dogs are Sully (adopted two years ago!) and one of the available "G" puppies.

Thank you to all the alumni and fosters who came out on a beautiful Saturday!