February 2008 Red Lake Rosie’s Rescue Newsletter
January 2008 Statistics
16 dogs and 4 cats rescued, sheltered and placed
17 neuter/spays
2 major medical
2 quill removals
Twin Cities Pet Expo
It was our first time at the Expo and it was very exciting and worthwhile! Our friendly RLRR volunteers, happy ambassador dogs, DVD, photos, brochures, t-shirts and dog & cat treats drew people to our corner booth. We raised $460 in t-shirt & treat sales and $271 in donations for a $731 profit. We collected a lot of high quality dog and cat food from vendors at the end of the Expo for RLRR. And we had 23 people sign up to receive the RLRR Newsletter, several of whom are interested in volunteering and transporting!
Several people told us they had adopted a Red Lake dog or cat through rescues and shelters that partnership with RLRR. Hearing comments like these is what it is all about!
1) We feel so good that we adopted a dog that had such a hard life – living outside with no shelter, scavenging for food and water. He truly appreciates every little thing we do for him.
2) I have never had such a wonderful loving dog.
3) When our eyes first met and I held Katie with her sparse fur and a raged ear and she cuddled in my arms, I knew that I had to get to know her better. After half an hour, we adopted each other. My life has never been so fulfilled!
4) I can’t imagine that he lived at the dump like many dogs do. No one cared if he lived or died until RLRR rescued him. As a foster, I had to coax him into the house with food and then he didn’t know how to walk on a floor. I’ll never forget how he stood frozen with his eyes wide open. I dribbled bits of food in a path that lead to the living room carpet. His body seemed to melt as he walked on something soft for the first time. It didn’t take him long to curl up into a plush doggie bed and start dreaming of a better life which happened a month later when he was adopted into his forever loving home.
5) My Red Lake dog took coaxing by her owners to surrender her. I didn’t know what I was getting myself into but after reading his terrible abusive story, I had to take him. It seems like he can’t do enough to show us his love and appreciation. Our hearts are one.
6) I tell everyone that I am the proud parent of a Red Lake cat. One of my friends also adopted one. When I got Pearl home, she hid for several days and then came out a little more each day. With TLC and patience, she now sits on my lap as soon as I sit down. She loves it when I hum to her.
7) I had never heard of Red Lake dogs until I read about them on the Pet Haven website. Thank you Red Lake Rosie’s for rescuing them and Pet Haven for fostering them. Max is an older needy dog and is such a sweetheart. We took him to obedience school. Who says you can’t teach an old dog new tricks! (RLRR has several wonderful rescues & shelters that we work with).
Thanks to our amazing volunteers and ambassador dogs who worked the RLRR booth: Diane Dunker, Tanya Hobbs, Idelle Day, Debra Stockhill, Colleen Meyers, Tanya Koester-Radmann, Daisy Bowman, Nathan Streit, Rory Welles, Laurie Seebart & her beautiful Red Lake dog Kaycee, Claudia Wielgorecki, daughters Ann & Ellen Fisher and their sweet RL dog Ginny, Kay Freitag and her precious RL dog Minnie. Thanks to Barbara Bowman for making RLRR information sheets. And thanks to Benay Rosenthal and Laurie Seebart for making home-made all natural yummy dog and cat treats! Laurie drove 6 hours to help.
March Meeting
1) Tuesday, March 4 at Perkins Restaurant, Midway area 6:30pm (we tried to choose a central location).
2) Topics: Pet Expo follow-up, garage sale, fundraising (share your ideas), animal clinics, humane education on the reservation.
3) RLRR T-shirts in S, M & L ($20) & home-made dog biscuits ($2) for sale. Profits to RLRR.
4) More meeting details forthcoming in email from Denise Luke.
Volunteer Opportunities
1) ** Take up supplies and transport animals to the Cities March 9th weekend. **
2) Work on the garage sale fundraising committee. Sale will be in April or May.
Spring Garage Sale
It’s time to start early spring house cleaning and collecting quality items from friends and family for the 3rd annual RLRR fundraising garage sale. We need well cared for household & domestics, sports, art & crafts, toys, furniture, electronics, yard & garden, movies & music, books, pet and clothes – all in good shape please. More details in March newsletter. This has turned into a big fundraiser for us!
Needs
1) Heavy duty stainless steel bowls & pails of all sizes (easily sanitized and chew proof)
2) Monetary donations for kennels, shelter supplies, milk replacement, bedding, vet supplies and medical. DOUBLE your donation with matching donations from your work.
Make out donations to Red Lake Rosie Rescue Inc, and send to Karen Good. CONTRIBUTIONS ARE TAX DEDUCTIBLE. RLRR is 501c3.
Tom and Nancy O’Sullivan inspired visits to RLRR
We have never met such a compassionate person as Karen Good. She adores each animal that needs her tender touch and she takes pride in healing their beaten down bodies and their lost spirits. The first time we visited Karen's shelter and saw what she was doing for these poor sweet souls, we had tears in our eyes on our drive home that day. We were used to the Twin Cities and how pampered pets were (including our own), and how we always had access to the best of the best.....the best vets, groomers, pet stores, huge money-making fundraisers. It isn't like that in the Red Lake community. So many animals suffer at the hands of their owners and are discarded by them in a blink of an eye. The children suffer in Red Lake....the animals suffer as well. How do you educate people about animals when they cannot take care of their children?
We believe Karen is on the right track, providing humane education at health fairs, going door to door offering food and information about being responsible pet owners, holding free animal clinics with humane information and making sure as many dogs and cats are spayed and neutered as possible. If Karen can spread the word in her community and recruit others who feel strongly about her mission, this will have a positive impact.
Karen is a guardian angel for the animals in every sense of the word. We feel so blessed to have met her and to be a part of her circle of friends who want to help her with her mission. We are inspired to help her and have been back many times.
Jackson (Tavish) Got Adopted – Part 2
Tavish’s family stopped at the Pet Expo booth to thank us for rescuing him (thank you Karen Good). All 4 family members adore him and say he is so loving just like nothing terrible ever happened to him. He had suffered a brutal beating to his head and face resulting in complete teeth loss on one side
Thank You’s
1) Crystal Berntson, Benay Rosenthal (drove 11 hours to help) and Dee Dee Welles for taking supplies and transporting animals in January.
2) Denise Luke and Dee Dee Welles for fostering.
3) All the compassionate rescues, shelters and fosters who so lovingly take Red Lake cats and dogs to be adopted.
4) Everyone who has adopted and welcomed RL animals into their family.
5) Denise Luke for scheduling our meetings and Mary Ann Cameron for taking minutes.
Where to Stay when going to Karen’s - RLRR
1) Karen’s house (next to the shelter). She has a spare bedroom (single bed) and room on the living room floor for air mattresses and sleeping bags. Karen lives in the peaceful country on the west end of the reservation. Cross the street and you are out of the reservation. She & Kevin love to have company.
2) Piper's Inn, Clearbrook (20 miles from Karen’s). www.pipersinn.com
877-776-2323; 218-776-2323. Corporate rate: $39 (1 person), $50 (2 people).
3) Hotels in Bemidji. 60 miles from Karen’s.
Contact Lynn if you would like to help, have a RLRR story to share, have information for our newsletters (such as thank you’s), know someone who would like to foster or adopt or if have any questions.
Lynn Mecum
Stillwater, MN
RLRR Support Team Coordinator
lmecum4@msn.com
Karen Good
Red Lake Rosie Rescue, Inc.
RR #1, Box 56
Trail, MN 56684
keg@gvtel.com
www.redlakerosies.piczo.com (check out website)
January 2008 Statistics
16 dogs and 4 cats rescued, sheltered and placed
17 neuter/spays
2 major medical
2 quill removals
Twin Cities Pet Expo
It was our first time at the Expo and it was very exciting and worthwhile! Our friendly RLRR volunteers, happy ambassador dogs, DVD, photos, brochures, t-shirts and dog & cat treats drew people to our corner booth. We raised $460 in t-shirt & treat sales and $271 in donations for a $731 profit. We collected a lot of high quality dog and cat food from vendors at the end of the Expo for RLRR. And we had 23 people sign up to receive the RLRR Newsletter, several of whom are interested in volunteering and transporting!
Several people told us they had adopted a Red Lake dog or cat through rescues and shelters that partnership with RLRR. Hearing comments like these is what it is all about!
1) We feel so good that we adopted a dog that had such a hard life – living outside with no shelter, scavenging for food and water. He truly appreciates every little thing we do for him.
2) I have never had such a wonderful loving dog.
3) When our eyes first met and I held Katie with her sparse fur and a raged ear and she cuddled in my arms, I knew that I had to get to know her better. After half an hour, we adopted each other. My life has never been so fulfilled!
4) I can’t imagine that he lived at the dump like many dogs do. No one cared if he lived or died until RLRR rescued him. As a foster, I had to coax him into the house with food and then he didn’t know how to walk on a floor. I’ll never forget how he stood frozen with his eyes wide open. I dribbled bits of food in a path that lead to the living room carpet. His body seemed to melt as he walked on something soft for the first time. It didn’t take him long to curl up into a plush doggie bed and start dreaming of a better life which happened a month later when he was adopted into his forever loving home.
5) My Red Lake dog took coaxing by her owners to surrender her. I didn’t know what I was getting myself into but after reading his terrible abusive story, I had to take him. It seems like he can’t do enough to show us his love and appreciation. Our hearts are one.
6) I tell everyone that I am the proud parent of a Red Lake cat. One of my friends also adopted one. When I got Pearl home, she hid for several days and then came out a little more each day. With TLC and patience, she now sits on my lap as soon as I sit down. She loves it when I hum to her.
7) I had never heard of Red Lake dogs until I read about them on the Pet Haven website. Thank you Red Lake Rosie’s for rescuing them and Pet Haven for fostering them. Max is an older needy dog and is such a sweetheart. We took him to obedience school. Who says you can’t teach an old dog new tricks! (RLRR has several wonderful rescues & shelters that we work with).
Thanks to our amazing volunteers and ambassador dogs who worked the RLRR booth: Diane Dunker, Tanya Hobbs, Idelle Day, Debra Stockhill, Colleen Meyers, Tanya Koester-Radmann, Daisy Bowman, Nathan Streit, Rory Welles, Laurie Seebart & her beautiful Red Lake dog Kaycee, Claudia Wielgorecki, daughters Ann & Ellen Fisher and their sweet RL dog Ginny, Kay Freitag and her precious RL dog Minnie. Thanks to Barbara Bowman for making RLRR information sheets. And thanks to Benay Rosenthal and Laurie Seebart for making home-made all natural yummy dog and cat treats! Laurie drove 6 hours to help.
March Meeting
1) Tuesday, March 4 at Perkins Restaurant, Midway area 6:30pm (we tried to choose a central location).
2) Topics: Pet Expo follow-up, garage sale, fundraising (share your ideas), animal clinics, humane education on the reservation.
3) RLRR T-shirts in S, M & L ($20) & home-made dog biscuits ($2) for sale. Profits to RLRR.
4) More meeting details forthcoming in email from Denise Luke.
Volunteer Opportunities
1) ** Take up supplies and transport animals to the Cities March 9th weekend. **
2) Work on the garage sale fundraising committee. Sale will be in April or May.
Spring Garage Sale
It’s time to start early spring house cleaning and collecting quality items from friends and family for the 3rd annual RLRR fundraising garage sale. We need well cared for household & domestics, sports, art & crafts, toys, furniture, electronics, yard & garden, movies & music, books, pet and clothes – all in good shape please. More details in March newsletter. This has turned into a big fundraiser for us!
Needs
1) Heavy duty stainless steel bowls & pails of all sizes (easily sanitized and chew proof)
2) Monetary donations for kennels, shelter supplies, milk replacement, bedding, vet supplies and medical. DOUBLE your donation with matching donations from your work.
Make out donations to Red Lake Rosie Rescue Inc, and send to Karen Good. CONTRIBUTIONS ARE TAX DEDUCTIBLE. RLRR is 501c3.
Tom and Nancy O’Sullivan inspired visits to RLRR
We have never met such a compassionate person as Karen Good. She adores each animal that needs her tender touch and she takes pride in healing their beaten down bodies and their lost spirits. The first time we visited Karen's shelter and saw what she was doing for these poor sweet souls, we had tears in our eyes on our drive home that day. We were used to the Twin Cities and how pampered pets were (including our own), and how we always had access to the best of the best.....the best vets, groomers, pet stores, huge money-making fundraisers. It isn't like that in the Red Lake community. So many animals suffer at the hands of their owners and are discarded by them in a blink of an eye. The children suffer in Red Lake....the animals suffer as well. How do you educate people about animals when they cannot take care of their children?
We believe Karen is on the right track, providing humane education at health fairs, going door to door offering food and information about being responsible pet owners, holding free animal clinics with humane information and making sure as many dogs and cats are spayed and neutered as possible. If Karen can spread the word in her community and recruit others who feel strongly about her mission, this will have a positive impact.
Karen is a guardian angel for the animals in every sense of the word. We feel so blessed to have met her and to be a part of her circle of friends who want to help her with her mission. We are inspired to help her and have been back many times.
Jackson (Tavish) Got Adopted – Part 2
Tavish’s family stopped at the Pet Expo booth to thank us for rescuing him (thank you Karen Good). All 4 family members adore him and say he is so loving just like nothing terrible ever happened to him. He had suffered a brutal beating to his head and face resulting in complete teeth loss on one side
Thank You’s
1) Crystal Berntson, Benay Rosenthal (drove 11 hours to help) and Dee Dee Welles for taking supplies and transporting animals in January.
2) Denise Luke and Dee Dee Welles for fostering.
3) All the compassionate rescues, shelters and fosters who so lovingly take Red Lake cats and dogs to be adopted.
4) Everyone who has adopted and welcomed RL animals into their family.
5) Denise Luke for scheduling our meetings and Mary Ann Cameron for taking minutes.
Where to Stay when going to Karen’s - RLRR
1) Karen’s house (next to the shelter). She has a spare bedroom (single bed) and room on the living room floor for air mattresses and sleeping bags. Karen lives in the peaceful country on the west end of the reservation. Cross the street and you are out of the reservation. She & Kevin love to have company.
2) Piper's Inn, Clearbrook (20 miles from Karen’s). www.pipersinn.com
877-776-2323; 218-776-2323. Corporate rate: $39 (1 person), $50 (2 people).
3) Hotels in Bemidji. 60 miles from Karen’s.
Contact Lynn if you would like to help, have a RLRR story to share, have information for our newsletters (such as thank you’s), know someone who would like to foster or adopt or if have any questions.
Lynn Mecum
Stillwater, MN
RLRR Support Team Coordinator
lmecum4@msn.com
Karen Good
Red Lake Rosie Rescue, Inc.
RR #1, Box 56
Trail, MN 56684
keg@gvtel.com
www.redlakerosies.piczo.com (check out website)
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