Bonnie Snowbelle spends Christmas in her new home

UPDATE FROM LAUREN:

This is why I foster: Snowbelle, (formerly Bonnie, now Siggy), came to me after being attacked by a dog and had a large, open wound on one of her back legs. She limped and was malnourished. 

She's been in her forever home for a week now and is being spoiled and loved by her new parents. Makes me smile :-)

Read previous post about Bonnie here:
http://redlakerosie.blogspot.com/2014/10/bonnie-attacked-by-dogs.html

Bonnie: Attacked by dogs

BONNIE IN FOSTER CARE

Bonnie is a beautiful blue-eyed, Siamese-mix cat that was attacked by dogs in Red Lake. Poor Bonnie had no treatment for 5 days and then came to the Red Lake Rosie's Rescue.  Bonnie received a safe cage and antibiotics until a vet could help her 2 days later. 

BONNIE WHEN SHE ARRIVED AT RLRR

Bonnie has a wound that goes all the way through one side and out the other. Thankfully, the bite did not go through the urinary or digestive tract.  It is a flesh wound with some exposed bone.  In spite of her condition and pain, Bonnie is a wonderful young cat with a great personality.

BONNIE'S WOUND

Bonnie has a very good prognosis.  She is a fighter and is now doing some walking, drinking, eating, and using the litter box. 

A very special Thank You to Mary Ann at Pet Haven for agreeing to take Bonnie. I think her luck is changing because she will be fostered by friends of RLRR, Mike and Lauren!

Karen
RLRR

CHECK OUT PHOTOS OF BONNIE IN FOSTER CARE!!

Treacherous transport

December 15 was challenging and frightening- I had 17 little furballs from Red Lake Rosie's Rescue in the transport van enroute to Minneapolis and hit a major ice storm in Bemidji. I got stuck on an exit ramp and could not advance forward. Car pileups were all over the freeway, but I had to walk for help.

CLYDE AND BONNIE

BONNIE AND CLYDE

Thankfully, I got to the O'Sullivans who were parked waiting for me and we were able to get the van and load of animals to the Animal Care Clinic and Bemidji Animal hospital for boarding overnight.

DENNY

DUFFY

The O'Sullivans also had a load of 8 Leech Lake and Bemidji Pound animals who were supposed to ride out, but they were boarded for the night, too.

ILLIAD

IMAGINE

ISIS

We called everyone to cancel the transport and I spent the night at the O'Sullivans hoping for better weather the next day.  Althought a number of animals remained at the shelter I had fed, watered and cleaned all dog and cat areas before leaving.

ESTHER

ADRIAN

We are all safe- both people and animals! WHEW!

KITTIES

Thank you to all transporters and rescues for understanding.

NANCY, TERRI, JOHN

Peace- Karen

Special needs transport on July 7

The transport on July 7 left Bemidji with 20 dogs/puppies, 3 cats/kittens and one rabbit!!

SHEEBAOf this group we had 3 special needs kids including Sheeba with a broken front leg and heartworm; Jake with one eye blinded needing removal; and Justin with cut or burned off ears and mange.

JAKEJake and Justin are headed to MARS where they will both receive medical care and tlc for their health and emotional healing.

NANCY & JUSTINA special thanks to the Tom, Carolyn, Nancy and Barbara for transporting the very large load of animals. There was no extra space as they left Bemidji, so Justin sat on Carolyn's lap on the way to Motley to meet Barbara.

BONNIEBonnie, a female doxie, went to Pet Haven.

BORISBoris, a male doxie, went to Tricounty.

WABOOSEWaboose, which means rabbit in the Ojibwe language, also went to Tricounty.

BRYANBryan, the cat, went to Tricounty, too.

KITTENSTwo darling kittens went to RLRR foster care.

BRANDIJULIABrandi and Julia and a litter of 3 pups went to All Dog.

2 OF 4 LABBIES4 LABBIES4 male labbies went to Animal Ark.

LITTER OF 8 SHEPS8 shep puppies found in the woods in Ponemah- 2 went to Act V, 3 went to Secondhand Hounds; and 3 went to All Dog.

ELENAElena the brown shep went to MARS.

A special thanks to the rescue groups taking the very "broken" ones with so many medical needs.

Karen

Colleen's winter weekend at RLRR

Kristin took these great photos, but just look at the sad eyes on all of these dogs.
Denise

PUPS WITH BLUE EYESCOLLEEN SAYS:
Hi everyone- I know some of you enjoy hearing about weekends up in Red Lake so having just come back I thought I would give you a weekend recap.

REILLYI left and drove up to Karen's mid day on Thursday- in time to help with chores around 6:30 pm. I arrived to find blood on the snow and ice and come to find out one of her dogs, Riley had cut his pad on ice or something and was was bleeding pretty readily. Looked worse than it was on the snow, but he ended up getting a couple of stitches and now has the "cone" head attire.

BELLE & BONNIE HAVE RICKETS AND MANGEBUT THEY NOW HAVE BEAUTIFUL SWEATERSThe saddest story of the weekend was about Kena- a large golden retrvr mix whose people had called Karen earlier in the week to come and get their dog as "he had been hit by a car"... Karen brought him to the vet where it was determined that he didn't have any broken bones and most likely would mend with time. So the next day we drove to Gonvik vet to pick him up. We kenneled him on Friday nite and by Sat am found that he has passed in the kennel over nite. It was sad and unexpected as he had looked like he was doing quite better the night before- so his internal injuries must have been pretty extensive.

SPRUCED UP CATHOUSEKristin and a new volunteer Heidi arrived on Friday night and worked very hard all day Saturday cleaning and moving cartons from the cat house to the new storage shed, clearing room in the cat house and lessening the claustrophobia. They cleaned light fixtures, put in new bulbs, did continuous laundry and dish cleaning.

KARMAIn the midst of that they socialized "not so social" puppies that were brought in on Friday, while Karen and I took a trip to Thief River Falls to do a WalMart run. The kid in the pet supply area about fell over when we asked for 15 bags of cat litter!


It was beautiful up there as the temps were fairly mild and the fog hung on the trees in the morning both days and it looked like a crystal forest.

ONE IS THE LONELIEST NUMBERTWO IS BETTERTHREE IS BEST: CRYSTAL, COCO, CURTWe transported out 16 animals on Sunday, but not before I managed to slide off the new road a bit, near the kennel and get stuck. So Karen and the girls then had to push me out!!

Many thanks to Kristin and Heidi for their very hard work and to Karen for her endless commitment to animals at RL. For anyone thinking of making a Red Lake trip the road is always open and Karen is always grateful for the help. If any of you would want a firsthand report from the new recruits I could put you in touch with them!

Colleen

All sad eyes, except the dog in Karen's arms.

Denise