Feral no more

Red Lake Rosie's Rescue recovered 12 puppies recently from two litters in a feral colony in Red Lake.

The life of a feral dog can be a very sad and hard life. Puppies born in feral colonies have to compete for food and have parasites that are never treated. Most never survive to live adult lives but die in misery and are often victims of violence from the older pack members.

The pups were pretty wild at first, and we had hoped we could get them socialized and adoptable, but in some cases in the past, this was not always possible.

Thankfully these were young and that was in their favor. Also the lady who lived where the feral colony had puppies fed them after they stopped nursing, so they were somewhat accustomed to people.

There was a litter of 5 and a litter of 7 in the colony. The puppies were taken to the shelter and each litter was set up in a kennel with straw, food, and water. The pups were wormed and given a parvo/distemper shot, and topical revolution for fleas. We could meet their physical and medical needs but we knew we could not meet their emotional and social needs here at the shelter.

A request went out to several rescues, and thankfully we were able to send them out to foster homes.

Only one day later we get the good news as a picture speaks 1,000 words.

Thank you to all who helped to save these pups!

Karen

Here's an update from one foster mom:

They are doing great - the little boy - we call him Dirk - is the one who will need some work, he is food aggressive, but even tonight he is doing better. The little Girl - Gracie - is just a wonderful thing and should be ready to go in a few short weeks. They both are already taking to all the animals (Sheep, Chickens, Ducks, Dogs and Cats) just fine. They know who to stay away from and who to go to for comfort.

Thank you so much for letting me take them, I hope I will get the opportunity to foster for RLRR also, you are such an incredible group, and let's face it, then you would be getting the adoption fee and that would help you out. Maybe I could do a kitten for you all or something.

Rick is more than happy to help, we did decide, that next one, we will meet you or I will come up and get them and help out for the day/night.