I hope everyone is enjoying their holiday weekend! We had another busy and exciting week here at PAWS! Sadie had nine puppies on Friday and is being such a good mom! All the pups continue to be healthy and Sadie is starting to relax a little. When I was over on Saturday, she was coming up to me asking for some attention. She is such a sweet, pretty girl. I think she will find a home as soon as she's able to wean her puppies.
We have about 10 dogs waiting to go to their forever homes and seven more that got to go home this week. We'll be getting caught up on some of our spays and neuters this coming week, so we should be able to get more dogs home this coming week.
On Saturday, I borrowed the president of our rescue's Jeep, packed up my foster dog, and headed out to Hagerstown, MD to meet transport. I was picking up four puppies from a rural West Virginia shelter. Thankfully, we missed most of the bad Memorial Day traffic and arrived just in time to meet transport. It was quite full this time around. There were at least 15 dogs that were on their way to rescues. Our four are Lab / Mountain Cur mixes - three girls (two black, one tan) and one boy (cream colored with a black tipped tail).
The condition of dogs off transport always varies. Sometimes they are very clean, sometimes they are covered in dirt because they've been living outside as strays, sometimes they have had accidents in their crate and are covered in that and everything in between. They are almost ALWAYS happy to be there though. Occasionally, we have incredibly shy ones, but even then, the tails usually start going at some point. I can't imagine what the dogs think is happening to them when they go on transport.
In the case of these four, they were in ok condition. They needed baths and some flea/tick treatments, but still happy to be there. They weren't sure where they were going, but they seemed to figure out that it's better than where they came from. I pulled them out of their crate and moved them into the crates in the jeep and we headed back to PetCo for the end of our adoption event.
As usual, a HUGE thank you to the Sterling PetCo for supporting us during our adoption event! Unfortunately, due to the holiday weekend, not much was going on when I got there. I had some of our Key Club volunteers help me unload the dogs and bring them in. It was there we realized that the dogs were covered in fleas and baby ticks. We got some flea and tick medication for them, but it wasn't enough. We saw the fleas jumping off the dogs and onto the volunteers. Definitely not a good situation! Thankfully, we were able to bring them to the groomers in PetCo who gave them all a flea and tick treatment before they went to their new foster homes. Keep your eyes on the website for pictures of these new additions!
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Monday, May 25, 2009
Thursday, May 21, 2009
Change of Venue - Saturday's Event
In case you didn't see it on our website, our adoption event is now at the PetCo Sterling from 12-3pm. The address is 22000 Dulles Retail Plaza, Sterling. We hope to see you there!
Tuesday, May 19, 2009
A HUGE Thank You to Ms. Elgin's Class!!!
Earlier this month, PAWS received a great email from Jennifer Elgin on behalf of her third grade class at Beth Chaverim Reform Congregation in Ashburn. PAWS was selected by the class to receive their charitable donation for the year called a tzedakah. We were incredibly honored and excited to be chosen by the class. They have been fundraising for us all year by selling cookbooks that they wrote as well as other donations such as parts of their allowances.
This past Sunday, I packed up Honey and Annabel and we headed over to meet the class and accept the donation. What a great visit we had! All the kids were great with the puppies and were very excited to have us there. They asked me really great questions about what we do and what the money will be going towards. The donation will help us care and feed for some of the dogs at our rescue. Spays, neuters, microchips, shots, food, beds, toys...the list of needs seems never ending some days and any amount helps. Thank you again for your generosity and thinking of us! We are truly touched and it's experiences like this that really excite me about the work we are doing.
Once I got Annabel and Honey back to their foster home, we brought all the dogs in the house outside for a bit. We had 10 puppies, 4 adults and one pregnant dog all running around the yard and wearing themselves out. It was quite the sight with everyone so happy and playing. The four adult dogs belonged to the foster parents. The other 11 either have found their forever homes and are waiting to go there or are still looking. After a very challenging week at the rescue, the events of the day were a great way to end that week and start a new one.
Before I go into the details of that, I'd like to say a quick thank you to the doctors and staff of Caring Hands in Ashburn. I saw them quite a bit this past week and they were great every time (as usual)!
So, where to start with this past week? Sunday morning (Mothers Day), I found myself in urgent care with a allergic rash from the Demodex shampoo for my foster dog. Tuesday night, we had a complication from a spay where an internal stitch was popped and the the dog started bleeding quite a bit. She is fine now, but it was a long night getting her situated and then back to the vet in the morning to get the problem fixed. At some point between Tuesday and the end of the week, we had a round of kennel cough and puppy mange sweep through the home of one of board members and foster parents. Thursday morning, I was driving one of our pups to get to his neuter. He's peeing in the backseat, my foster is throwing up in the front seat (she was on her way to the vet's), I have a rash up to my elbows and I'm thinking "how the heck did I get here?!" Of course, now that it's behind me and everyone in that scenario is ok, I find it quite humorous and am very thankful for the leather seats in my car that clean up nice and easy.
There is plenty of good news. Our adoption event at PetCo was a success - five dogs found their forever homes at the adoption event and three found homes outside the adoption event. Everyone has rebounded from their various ailments. We were able to finalize adoptions on ten of our dogs between 5/10 & 5/16. That's ten lives that are getting to start over and live a life where they can be dogs instead of being scared, hungry, or in a shelter. That's a pretty good week if you ask me.
This past Sunday, I packed up Honey and Annabel and we headed over to meet the class and accept the donation. What a great visit we had! All the kids were great with the puppies and were very excited to have us there. They asked me really great questions about what we do and what the money will be going towards. The donation will help us care and feed for some of the dogs at our rescue. Spays, neuters, microchips, shots, food, beds, toys...the list of needs seems never ending some days and any amount helps. Thank you again for your generosity and thinking of us! We are truly touched and it's experiences like this that really excite me about the work we are doing.
Once I got Annabel and Honey back to their foster home, we brought all the dogs in the house outside for a bit. We had 10 puppies, 4 adults and one pregnant dog all running around the yard and wearing themselves out. It was quite the sight with everyone so happy and playing. The four adult dogs belonged to the foster parents. The other 11 either have found their forever homes and are waiting to go there or are still looking. After a very challenging week at the rescue, the events of the day were a great way to end that week and start a new one.
Before I go into the details of that, I'd like to say a quick thank you to the doctors and staff of Caring Hands in Ashburn. I saw them quite a bit this past week and they were great every time (as usual)!
So, where to start with this past week? Sunday morning (Mothers Day), I found myself in urgent care with a allergic rash from the Demodex shampoo for my foster dog. Tuesday night, we had a complication from a spay where an internal stitch was popped and the the dog started bleeding quite a bit. She is fine now, but it was a long night getting her situated and then back to the vet in the morning to get the problem fixed. At some point between Tuesday and the end of the week, we had a round of kennel cough and puppy mange sweep through the home of one of board members and foster parents. Thursday morning, I was driving one of our pups to get to his neuter. He's peeing in the backseat, my foster is throwing up in the front seat (she was on her way to the vet's), I have a rash up to my elbows and I'm thinking "how the heck did I get here?!" Of course, now that it's behind me and everyone in that scenario is ok, I find it quite humorous and am very thankful for the leather seats in my car that clean up nice and easy.
There is plenty of good news. Our adoption event at PetCo was a success - five dogs found their forever homes at the adoption event and three found homes outside the adoption event. Everyone has rebounded from their various ailments. We were able to finalize adoptions on ten of our dogs between 5/10 & 5/16. That's ten lives that are getting to start over and live a life where they can be dogs instead of being scared, hungry, or in a shelter. That's a pretty good week if you ask me.
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