Time to winterize the kennels

Once again Linda and David came to Red Lake Rosie's Rescue to winterize the kennels.

Kevin & Karen were even able to get in a little four-day vacation, while Linda & David cared for the animals and transported a load to the metro area.

Just in the nick of time!! We got snowy foul weather- and all the dogs are tucked in warm and toasty, and dry thanks to you both!

Duchess: More Quills

When Duchess first arrived at Red Lake Rosie's Rescue, she was very thin and had an infected foot. The infection was caused by porcupine quills in her foot that she had tried to chew off.

She went to Dr. Vicki of ACT V Rescue & Rehabilitation who had to do two more surgeries to amputate more of the foot to clean up the infection.

Duchess went to Pet Haven in foster care to recover and remained there for a year and a half with foster caregivers who loved her very much.

She is in a forever home now with a mom and a grandma who have worked through all of her quirks and learned to live with a few.

UPDATE FROM NEW HOME:
Duchess's new name is Georgia and she has a favorite spot by Minnehaha Creek. She lays there and watches the water go by for a long time every day. She seems so peaceful there. 

Her mom says, "Sometimes I wonder about her past on the reservation and what she took solace in. Maybe flowing water was one thing that was good in her life."

LOOKS TO ME LIKE SHE ALSO ENJOYS A SOFT BED AND A WARM FIRE :-)

Hannah is recovering

Hannah came to Red Lake Rosie’s Rescue cowering in her crate- Her eyes were swollen shut and she had porcupine quills embedded all over her.

The quills were broken and she was badly infected. We feared Hannah would be blind! Paul and Phyllis picked up Hannah in Ponemah and were told she had had the quills for over a week. 

 
The next morning she was taken to the vet where they began pulling the remnants of the broken embedded quills. She was tranquillized and when the procedure was done she slowly wagged her tail as if to say “Thank You.”

Hannah remained at the vet for the next day, on antibiotics and pain management. On the second day she returned to the RLRR shelter where her healing began. This little lady had been a mama and the evidence of lactation was there. She was medium sized, but very thin. After the quills were removed, she began eating canned and dry food eagerly.

Twice a day ointment was put in her eyes and she was given pain medications and antibiotics. Soon one eye opened, and there was a glimmer of hope. Finally, the other eye opened and, although it was very red and infected, it slowly began to look like sight was restored.

Hannah was a lovely girl, who was soon accepted by Pet Haven. It was discovered there that she also had heartworm, so will undergo treatment under their care.

Thank you to our supporters and Pet Haven for helping Hannah. Now this little girl will live out a full life and have something we all treasure- eyesight!

Karen

RLRR 

UPDATE FROM FOSTER HOME:

Hannah has been a champ about taking all of her medications. I was also able to get her eye ointment in without a problem. Her eyes look much better and the swelling continues to go down on her face. We may have more quills to remove. I think I feel some on her face. She seems to be feeling better and is getting some energy. She likes short walks and is friendly to other dogs she meets. I don't let her off of her leash because she doesn't know her commands and would probably be in the next zip code given half a chance.

Her favorite things to do include lounging on her bed or any other comfy place, walking on a leash and chewing on her bone.

UPDATE FROM PET HAVEN:

‪We first told you about Hannah in November. At that time, all we knew was that a shepherd mix from Red Lake Rosie's Rescue had porcupine quills in both her eyes and her snout and needed a calm, quiet foster home.

Since then Hannah has secured an amazing foster home and she has been doing pretty well, learning the ropes of indoor living and trying to recover from her many ailments.

Today she went to the vet where she got more quills taken out of her snout and additional eye medication. We are so proud to report that she was a “perfect patient.” We will start her heartworm treatment in a few weeks and by spring she will be ready for her forever home!

Gilligan has matured into Gill in a year

UPDATE FROM FOSTER MOM:
I called this group of pups that came to me in August 2014: Gatsby, Gomer, Grover, and Gilligan. I still use their pix on my facebook page :-)

Linda Ratay

All Dog Rescue

UPDATE FROM ADOPTERS:
Today is our 1 year anniversary with Gill! He is an awesome dog and has really become a huge part of our family. He loves going for rides and trying to get the cat to play with him. I was sick with bronchitis earlier this month, he wouldn't leave my side.

Here is a comparison picture for you :)

Thanks!!
Carol and family

Goldie/Bella finds a home and her smile :-)

GOLDIE/BELLA (center) AND FRIENDS

I was so happy to receive a call from a lady named Krissy with updates on a dog we named Goldie last summer. This little girl came to Red Lake Rosie's Rescue with a Housing employee who said that the people where he found Goldie did not want her. She came very hungry and dehydrated and scared. It is wonderful news to see how her life has changed now!

Thank you, Dale and Krissy and all our supporters who make this possible for Goldie, now Bella. All Dog Rescue took her and found this great home for her!

Karen :)

GOLDIE AT RLRR

UPDATE FROM ADOPTERS:

We had lost our beloved dog Daisy July of 2014. I knew we were eventually going to get another. We were thinking of the following spring or summer. We happened to be out shopping for a birthday card when we came upon the adoption day at Petco in Eden Prairie. My husband said, "You don't want to look at those dogs over there do you?"

That was the beginning. I saw Bella and she was so cute just sitting there with her foster mother. It was love at first sight. Then I remembered my cats. Thank God she said that Bella did like cats.

Then she told me that Bella did have lyme disease. Well, I was already in love with her. And I researched lyme disease and it's not a death sentence. It's actually not that big of a deal. Like a cold, sometimes you have symptom, sometimes you don't. They treat with antibiotics. 

We have had her a little over a year now. She so sweet. She loves her sisters, the cats Poozie and Princess. She actually licks them real gentle. Loves people and other dogs. She goes to the dog park every weekend. And gets two walks a day. We are so happy with our Bella.

Dale & Krissy

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Moje (formerly Robin): Another five-year RLRR alum!

UPDATE FROM ADOPTER:

Just sending an update on a puppy we adopted from you in 2011.....mostly because he's just so darn cute, I like to show him off!

ROBIN AND BATMAN AT RED LAKE AS PUPS

This is Moje - formerly Robin. He's turning 5 this winter, and he remains a joy. He is obsessed with chasing balls (and jumping off the dock for them in the summer), running around in the woods, and chasing/being chased by/wresting with his sister, and is continuing his quest to have at least one person (preferably more) touching him and/or playing with him at all times.

 I do wish he didn't always pull the stuffing out of his toys within the first 5 minutes, 

that he would sometimes settle for sitting in the back seat of the car, 

and that he would let me read a bit more. 

But he's an absolutely awesome dog with a big personality who loves everyone and everything. 

Thanks for everything you did for him, and all you do for all of the other dogs & cats who come through your doors.

PREVIOUS POST ON ROBIN/MOJE:
http://redlakerosie.blogspot.com/2011/07/adventures-of-moje.html

Sora's Nosework Journey Continues

Red Lake Rosie's Rescue is always so happy to receive updates on our dogs and cats. We have been following Sora's story since she left us as a pup named Crimson in 2011. I think we are almost as proud as her mom about her achievements!

NOTE FROM ADOPTER:
Update on Sora (RLRR class of 2011, Oct. Spay-Neuter Clinic)

Sora and I have been training in K9 Nosework since she was about 6 months old. As a puppy and adolescent, Sora was so skittish in busy places (such as parking lots and pet stores) that I couldn't imagine taking her to an obedience class - actually, we did try one, and she had a bad experience with some puppies that weren't being controlled by their owners or the trainer, so we didn't go back - but not to worry, I've been a trainer for 12 years, so she didn't lack for training, just the socialization experience that offered). One of my other dogs was taking agility classes at a school I really liked, and when the offered nosework classes, and I found out that it could help with her fearfulness, I signed her up.

K9 Nosework is like detection dog training (think sniffer dogs of any kind: drugs, arson, fruit, etc.), except our dogs search for 3 specific essential oils - birch (like wintergreen), anise and clove. Dogs learn to search in 4 'elements', containers (boxes, luggage, cans, etc), interiors (just what it sounds like, indoor rooms), exteriors (outside) and vehicles (only the outside of just about anything with wheels). To attend a trial, a dog must demonstrate that they know what odor they are searching for. Each title level adds an odor, Birch for NW1, Birch and Anise for NW2 and Birch, Anise and Clove for NW3. The test to demonstrate they know what to search for is called an Odor Recognition Test (ORT), and one must be passed for each of the 3 odors.

Sora passed her first ORT for birch in February of 2013, and received her NW1 title in July of 2013. For this title, she had to find one birch hide in each of the 4 elements, within 3 minutes time.

Since then, we've had a lot of training challenges: getting her to many many new and unfamiliar places and not being too anxious to search, getting her comfortable with going under things, and in narrow places, teaching her 'close' isn't 'good enough' most of the time, as well as passing her Anise ORT (October of 2013) and after 3 tries, her Clove ORT this past January.

This year we entered an Element Specialty trial (4 searches, all in the same element; they follow the levels of the other trials, so Level 1 is like NW1, one birch hide), but it was a very hot day in early spring, and she was too warm to compete well (a dog can't sniff and pant easily). Next we entered an NW2 trial in Hudson over Labor Day weekend. For NW2, she has to find birch, anise or a combination of the 2 odors, and there are multiple hides, always in interiors, and possibly in the other elements, as well as an additional challenge of having 'distractors' in the containers (such as toys, food, etc.). At that trial, despite heat and humidity, she did very well - getting 7 of 8 hides, including the container search that foiled most of the dogs there.

This past weekend, at Buck Hill Ski Area in Burnsville, MN, we finally earned an NW2 title. She successfully found 7 hides, 1 in containers, 2 in the exterior area on a deck, 1 on the 4 vehicles, 1 in a small interior space and 2 in a larger interior space. She rose above all her insecurity, was able to focus, relax, was resilient to my needing to be told more than once that she'd found the hide; what an incredible feeling to be really working as a team.


Check out previous posts about Sora:
http://redlakerosie.blogspot.com/2012/05/crimson-is-now-sora.html
http://redlakerosie.blogspot.com/2013/03/sora-is-training-her-nose.html
http://redlakerosie.blogspot.com/2013/09/sora-gets-her-canine-nosework-1-title.html
http://redlakerosie.blogspot.com/2014/12/sora-continues-her-k9-nosework.html

ONE WEEK FROM TODAY: Red Lake Rosie's Rescue is participating in Give to the Max Day, Nov. 12, 2015

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Buy an Xbox or help save an animal?

Young Jayden Lussier and his brother Alan decided they would rather help save a dog or cat.

ALAN AND JAYDEN DELIVERING THEIR DONATION

The two Red Lake Reservation community members, ages eight and seven, brought their savings jar with $30.93 into Red Lake Rosie’s Rescue’s October community spay/neuter/vaccination clinic. The brothers had been saving their money to buy a Sony Xbox game system, but had a change of heart and decided to donate the money to help animals. This was our best clinic donation ever!

JAYDEN

We shared the story on our Facebook page, and within hours, an amazing thing happened. One of the 20,000 FB viewers, Kevin Smith, contacted RLRR with an offer. He wanted to reward the boys’ generous act of kindness and buy them their own Xbox system.

ALAN

Kevin had volunteered as an addiction counselor on the reservation, so he was familiar with the community. He knew that the boys’ unselfish act was especially significant, because the reservation has a very high poverty level.

KEVIN AND LARRY

There was another reason Kevin was so touched by Jayden and Alan’s donation. Several years ago, Kevin struggled with depression. He and his wife adopted a rez dog, Larry, a cute black and white terrier mix. Kevin says that “With Larry here, I’ve returned to feeling joyful more often than not and look forward to what adventures are waiting for us once we walk out the door. That’s the power of his companionship.”

“It’s clear that without individuals like Jayden and Alan supporting rescue work, I wouldn’t have Larry, and that would be a shame,” Kevin said. He was reminded that all the good in the world starts with someone, in this case, two boys only seven and eight years-old.

On October 20th, just 10 days after donating their savings, Jayden, Alan, and their mother arrived at Red Lake Rosie’s shelter. Jayden and Alan toured the shelter and met some of the rescued animals and then, much to their surprise, Karen Good and Jo Tallchief, president of the RLRR board, presented the boys with Kevin’s gift. They were overjoyed!

A HUGE thank you to Jayden, Alan, and Kevin. You are all examples of true generosity of spirit!