Meet our latest little rescue. We are still working on a name. This precious little lady was so neglected and her coat was in horrible shape. She had almost been eaten alive by fleas. We answered a plea from the animal control shelter to rescue her and my husband and my sister Sharon took a day trip to drive out to Chester. When I walked in the door of animal control she came running up to me and put her paws on my leg as if to say. “I’ve been waiting on you!” She has white on her face but she has wonderful teeth and acts like a young dog. She is graceful and loves to dance on her hind feet. We shall have her spayed, vaccinated, microchipped and tested for heart worms in the next couple of weeks. She is going to make some folks a wonderful, best friend. She is friendly and likes everybody she meets, walks beautifully on a leash, enjoys the company of other dogs and is one very sweet little girl. If you might be interested in adopting her please send us an email to PomRescueCom@aol.com
We are going to create another Fall Fashion slide show to post on the PomRescue.com Facebook page and on the PomRescue.com web site. Please email your animal dress up pics( the sillier the better!) to me at PomrescueCom@aol.com. It does not have to be a Pom, or even a dog. We just want to see your furkids in their Fall fashions and costumes!
Trapper left us last Wednesday night in his sleep. Always my wake up barker, I noticed things were quiet this morning, and when I checked on him, he was in his bed as if he were still asleep. He had been with us a few years. After all of the years of starvation, sickness and neglect in the Sanford NC puppy mill he had known how to be loved since he had been rescued. I still cannot believe Trapper is gone. I catch myself listening and looking for him. We will miss him terribly.
If you would like to read more about his story you could visit this page:
Trevor received a box of goodies and a donation to sponsor his Vet expenses. Trevor was born blind, has a thyroid condition with hair loss, and was recently diagnosed with Diabetes. Thank you Auntie Jo!
Thank you Melinda McMillion and Christy Mallard for the donations of towels! We wash the dog towels every day with warm water & bleach. I just thought I would post a pic of what this does to the towels in a few months. We sure will put them to good use!
Our mailing addy is:
PomRescue.com inc
PO box 482
Drayton SC
29333
Heads up! Dog Fancy magazine September 2010 edition has as the cover story: Pomeranians! It also has a centerfold Pom pic. If you decide to subscribe to Dog Fancy you could use the Pom link on the right(#6 PomRescue Magazine link then search: Dog fancy) and PomRescue.com inc will receive 40% of the fee.
(12 issues for 15.00!) While you are there ck out the other mags! You might find some you just can’t live with out! Magazine subs make great gifts!
I am borrowing some of the info in the magazine for our trivia question this week: What country is the Pomeranian named for?
PuttPutt was founding walking beside a busy road. Someone scooped him up and brought him to the Charlotte-Mech Animal Control. When he was examined by their Vet, he was found to be blind. Poor little PuttPutt was given that name by the employees there as he would just ‘putt putt’ around in the Supervisors office. He was at animal control about 12 days and I was then contacted about him. On Sunday a wonderful, kind hearted lady took him home and gave him TWO baths and fostered him over night. God bless her! I did not get her name but if she could only know what a blessing it is to make the long ride home with a non stressed, CLEAN, non-stinky dog! It was wonderful. Most times I have to roll the windows down(even in the heat!) on the ride home. He has found the water bowls, his food dish, the dog beds and waits to potty until I carry him out. When he is through outside, just like Bear, he will sit still until I pick him up to carry him back inside. Blind dogs are such a joy! I wish I could convey to folks that are thinking they could only want a ‘normal puppy’(hey I was one of these people about 9 years ago!) How wonderful and loving and sweet these little special ones are!
Pics/videos and pupdates to come!
BTW- Times are really tough for everybody. But we could sure use your support. No amount is too small. We have no paid staff & no facility. Every donation goes to keeping up and vetting the Poms. THANKS!!!
“There is no limit to what a rescued dog can do”. You know I really believe that, and we are shamelessly plugging this campaign as ProbioticSmart.com has promised the Pommies 10# of Probiotic treats for posting the link! I am all for getting these rescued dogs healthy and keeping them that way! So far they LOVE the treats! It is so nice to be able to give them something yummy that that is GOOD FOR THEM!!! :0)
Enjoy the Benji video clips. I always loved those movies!!!
Bear is the little blind, Pom that was taken to Greenville SC animal control after he was found wandering in the rain, cold and lost, last winter. I just had to share this picture. Most times when he sleeps, he rolls over on his side with his back leg sticking up in the air. We call this his ‘ROAD KILL’ position. I don’t know how a dog could be comfortable like this, but he sure is!! He is doing very well and his personality is beginning to really shine. He still needs regular medicated baths for his skin and ears. He gets vitamin supplements, fish oil and medicated ear drops each morning. When I wash his face and ears he will sit up on his haunches just like a little Bear so we are naturally giving him treats for his ’sit up’. He loves a tiny bite of Pupperonies. I have a tiny AirForce lazer flash light that I have attached to a collar that I hang on the door knob and slip it on him at night when we go out. This way I can spot him when he is ready to come back in and I can use the light to navigate the steps as I carry him back in.
We were feeling frustrated about the oil leak in the Gulf. What could we do?
So we had a grooming week and packed up our ‘Winter fur coats’ and sent them to make booms to soak up some of the oil in the Gulf.
The PomRescue.com Pomeranians were heard from in the Gulf!
It is not much, but it feels better to do something, rather than nothing. Our motto continues to be :
“Doing nothing is not an option”.
Roosevelt is improving and getting stronger. He was left at animal control and had very little use of his hind legs. This deemed him unadoptable. We were then emailed and we responded.
We are in need of donations so that we can respond to the next needy Pom, and care for the ones here.
Can you help us? The PayPal button on the left is really fast if you would like to use a card or our mailing address is:
PomRescue.com Inc
PO Box 482
Drayton, SC 29333 THANK YOU!!!!
I am sorry to have to post this, but we lost Tracker Jackie. She left us in her sleep. She went fast, peacefully and in her own bed.
If anyone ever considers adopting a blind dog, I wish they would just remember Jackie. She was the easiest, sweetest and most wonderful girl. Once your house is set up correctly for blind dogs, you forget & they forget that they are blind.
Jackie was blinded by the ammonia from the urine in her closed box that she lived in at the puppy mill. She was in a barn in a dark box with a lid. When the rescuers lifted the lid & measured the the levels of ammonia, they were higher than a bottle of TopJob.
I have no idea how old she was. Blind & toothless, she was rescued from the Woodley puppymill in Sanford NC in 2005. She had been with us five years.
What has been happening here at PomRescue.com? Poor Roosevelt came in carrying the Bordatella(kennel cough) virus. It took a little while to finally pass on to me. All the dogs did fine. Two coughed a little for a couple of days and were over it. They have had their vaccines so it is no big deal for them. But I have a weakened immune system and it seems to hit me pretty hard. I am finally recovering and so glad to be back on my feet. Did you know people can get kennel cough? Me neither! LOL After about 5 trips to the doctor w/ coughing, I made a joke to my doc, that I had kennel cough. She didn’t think it was funny. Checked me out, and yep- I had kennel cough. Did you also know that there is no vaccine for kennel cough in humans? How fair is that?
Then the stress of watching our son, Luke leave for deployment in Iraq, has been well, indescribable. There are really no words that can be written to express those feelings. He has now been gone 3 weeks so we look forward to his safe return- to his wife and baby(they are expecting!!) :0) We have only been a military family now for about 3 years, and believe me I have a whole new appreciation for our military. When these young men and women sign up, they probably don’t realize that they are enlisting their whole families as well. But we step up to be their support system because that is what family does.
So on to PomRescue.com business. Roosevelt is continuing to improve. He is appearing more painfree and going longer distances before he starts dragging his back legs. At night however he wants to sleep on the hard floor so I have to put him in a wire crate on a memory foam pillow. If he does not sleep on the pillow he can hardly move the next day. So he is the only one that has to be crated at night. He does not seem to mind and never barks, just lays down & goes to sleep.
Little blind Trevor is doing better. We have his insulin regulated and he is back to his old playful self.
Blind Bear is getting more confidence and is becoming very happy. He has gained a little too much weight, so we are having to work on that.
My sisters, Sharon Harris and Melinda McMillion took Tracker Jackie to the Spartanburg Chapter DAR luncheon and presented the program about PomRescue.com, Out of Harms Way rescue networks and talked about puppy mills and animal rescue. I was to have been a part of this but was at home coughing! So they graciously did my part. Jackie was no worse for wear, and ate the attention up. Just a reminder, Jackie is blind, toothless and was rescued from the Woodley puppymill in Sanford NC.
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