Another great adoption event!

Our adoption event this week kept us all jumping, and I'm guessing everyone is as sore this morning as I am! We expect the dogs to have 'accidents' during the event and there's always one of us ready to jump to clean it up. But this weekend they had us all jumping in different directions all day long. Phew!

The good news is Ebony found herself a new home and family. We were so happy for her. After being dumped in a field in the middle of nowhere she finally has people that love her. Her new grandparents had been in for a few weeks looking at Charlie Brown and sent their son and his family in to see him. Poor Charlie Brown was afraid of their dog though, but Ebony did just fine. After spending time with both, they chose Ebony as their new family member. By the end of the afternoon she was even walking on a leash for her new brother.

We had 2 wonderful new volunteers stop in. One is a high schooler that's looking for a place she can help out at. She was wonderful, spending so much time with the dogs, playing with them and loving them. They all just adored the extra attention! The other is a local couple that offered to come help us out, and we really needed the extra hands this week. Having them to help clean up and walk dogs was great. We're just hoping all the cleaning up after them this weekend doesn't scare either of them away!

We've got some good looking applications for some of our other dogs and we're very excited about that. We took in some more dogs this week too, and some others went to foster homes, some are ready to leave this week for foster homes. It's been a busy week, that's for sure!

We pulled Bullwinkle, a young male Boston Terrier from Jessamine SAVE Center in Nicholasville, KY. We saw at least half a dozen other amazing dogs there that we wanted so badly but someone (the Director's husband who has to care for all these dogs that first come in) put their foot down. We won't mention any names though....................John.................... ;)

Bullwinkle has an approved application already, so we're thrilled with that. He'll go for his neuter this week. He's been sneezing and our initial reaction was worry about kennel cough, but we're thinking now it's allergies. Our chihuahuas have them too and it seems more like that than kennel cough, but we'll keeping watching to make sure. He also has some tummy problems, but that's very common with dogs that go from their home to a shelter to the rescue. That's a lot of change for them and different foods; it all usually ends in an upset tummy for a few days. He's a bit underweight as well so once we have his tummy problems under control we'll be switching him to a more nutrient dense food and get some weight on him before he goes home.

We also took in Willow, a precious little 8 or 10 week old pittie or American Bulldog / Boxer mix girl. A wonderful woman in AL had found her as a stray. They weren't able to find her owners so they started looking for a rescue. We got the e-mail about her and fell in love with her picture. We applied to be the rescue to take her and they agreed. Our pittie foster mommy and daddy drove down this morning to get her for us. They said she's just as wonderful as we thought she'd be. Our Liza, who they are fostering, and their Princess (both female pitties) are all over her, kissing and cleaning her and giving her the full mommy treatment!

We took in 2 puppies from a local couple that said they found them at the dump. We'd been giving them food for them for a month or so, hoping we could find them homes or a rescue. When we picked up a new foster home that offered to keep them, we jumped at the chance to go pick them up. They are both underweight and very scared; they seem like people haven't been too nice to them all their life, which breaks our heart. Their foster mom said they are starting to relax though and she's got them walking on a leash already. We'll get them in for their neuter this week and get some weight on them and start bringing them to our adoption events. They are estimated to be about 12 weeks old. One looks like a black and white border collie mix and our adoptions coordinator has named him Batman. The other looks like a lab / shepherd mix and he's been dubbed Robin.

We took in two owner surrenders this week, a male Boston Terrier named Rocky and a female Boxer named Dixie. Rocky is all ready for his new home once he's neutered, but poor Dixie is afraid of her own shadow. She does not like other dogs around her at all. We think it's all fear at this point but we'll need to work with her for a while before she's ready for a family.

The last we took in is Garrett, a 5 month old Toy Fox Terrier boy that only weighs about 7 pounds. We don't expect him to get too much bigger than he is now. We got an application in for him within 24 hours of picking him up. We'll be checking the references on that this week and hopefully this weekend Garrett will have a new home!

Snoopy, the cockapoo we took in a few weeks ago has a good application in for him, so he's been moved to a foster home until that goes final. If they do sign the contract they are going on vacation for a couple weeks so he'll stay in the foster home so that when he comes home his new family will be there full time to be with him. We've got our fingers crossed for him!

Later in the week, Charlie Brown, the absolutely adorable little Australian Shepherd / Sheltie mix boy will go to his foster home, with Alvin's foster mom. She's got a couple other dogs of her own too, so they'll have tons of friends to play with in her huge fenced back yard or wrestling on her deck. We're very excited that he'll have a smaller household and get some more attention!

As always, we're always looking for foster homes. We've got dogs of all ages, sizes and breeds. We provide everything for the foster pets, including food. We also provide our foster homes with annual vaccinations for their pets and food for them as well. If you have an unaltered pet we can assist you with that as well. We do require you be an indoor home and not breed pets or have any unaltered before we can send a dog to you, and you must be able to attend at least 2 adoption events per month in Murfreesboro, TN with your foster. Please contact us if you'd like to help out.