Best day ever!

Our adoption event yesterday was an unbelievable success!!! I was absolutely shocked at how very busy we were. By the end of the event, Rocky, Charlie Brown, Garrett, Willow, and Lord Farquaad had all been adopted. Willow will be staying with us an extra week while her mommy and daddy are on vacation. Rocky's new family will be going on vacation next week so he will return to his foster mommy while they're gone - how about that? At Hilltop we even provide babysitters for your new family member!

After leaving our event one of our foster mommys called to let us know she'd gone to visit a potential home with Liza. The adopters had brought their dog to make sure they'd get along ok. She said they pretty much ignored each other, both being very much the couch potatoes. The application looked wonderful and pending a home visit on Friday, it looks like Liza may have a home as well!!!

We'll be headed back to Jessamine SAVE Center on Thursday to pick up some more. We've had a couple people contact us about fostering for us as well, which means we've been able to pull at least 2 more dogs off of euthanasia lines, possibly four more! For every foster home we have agree to help us out, we can save another one or two. It's a fabulous way to have a fur kid in the house with no expense from it and save their life in the process. The ultimate gift of love - life!

We've also got all those kittens! We'd planned on someone coming to help transport at least 16 of them to the event but they didn't show, so we weren't able to bring them. Next week though it looks like we may have a 3 vehicle caravan headed up, so we could possibly bring everyone!!! I can't even begin to imagine where we are all going to fit, but we'll certainly manage somehow! If you're looking for kittens, swing out to the Petco in the Avenue shopping plaza. We've got at least 16 of them from 8 weeks to 14 or 16 weeks that will be there. $30 adoption fee includes their first set of shots and de-worm. You can't beat that!!

We've got an appointment for Gomer on Monday afternoon for x-rays on his knee. He has an approved adopter, so we're waiting to see what x-rays show to find out when he can go home. If he needs surgery they'll need to wait to bring their little boy home until after he heals. If he's cleared for adoption and only has arthritis and just needs meds he can go home now.

Once we get them through and get Dixie, the female boxer we took in for her spay ready, we'll be taking in the kittens that Munchi has been nursing. They're staying incredibly small. We've got a litter of kittens their age and they are half the size of the others. They seem very healthy and quite active though. We're quite eager to see what the vet says and are wondering if they're going to be mini-cats??!!

If you missed the Munchi and the kittens stories, the link is here, with a video on the right side of the link. You can see her playing with them, nursing them, and cleaning them. She's a very good mommy!

http://www.wkrn.com/global/story.asp?s=12479395

In the meantime we're gearing up for our two big events leading up to 4th of July. We'll be having contests at Petco on June 26th and July 3rd. Categories are cutest pet, best trick, best costume, etc. Gift certificates and other prizes from local businesses will be given out as prizes. These events will lead up to the 4th of July event in Smyrna where we have a booth set up with information and photos and info on all of the pets we have available for homes! Stop in and see us!