June 17 Transport

It was a rather complicated transport on June 17, but many willing helpers made it happen.

JENNY & NANCYJenny brought animals from Roseau including a dog and a number of cats. Tom & Nancy loaded up the Roseau animals and animals from Red Lake Rosie's Rescue and headed to Motley to meet Barbie for the transport to the Metro.

Meanwhile a metro team of Jenny, Heidi and Sandra all drove from Minneapolis to the Leech Lake Impound and picked up 4 large dogs and a puppy. The metro group met up with the others in Motley, and everyone continued on their journey.

LIAMLiam, a handsome 3-year-old bull mastiff/pitbull mix boy, went to Tricounty. Liam came as a surrender after living as a chained dog, and had a great time at the RLRR shelter for about a month learning to be social with the other dogs and puppies. He turned out to be a great dog. We are hoping he gets a good home and never has to be chained again!

FAWN KISSES LINDA LAST WINTERFawn has been at the shelter for nearly a year and finally gets a foster home with All DogRescue -- more about Fawn's story in another blog post.

PUPSSeveral puppies also went to foster care including Konan, Kole, and Micah.

TOM, JENNY, NANCYThank you to this great team and also to the rescues that continue to take the northern animals who otherwise would have no hope! Also to those who financially support these efforts.

Sincerely, Karen RLRR

NANCY & PUPSNANCY ADDS:
Lots of bright eyes, smiling faces, wagging tails, and purring with these dear critters!

Chow time

KAREN SENT OUT A PLEA FOR DOG FOOD RECENTLY:
Hi Friends:

Red Lake Rosie's Rescue has thankfully been able to transfer many animals to recues the past months. We have gotten plenty of cat canned and kibble, however, are very low on dog food. We have puppy kibble but not much adult dog food left.

People from Red Lake and other areas of the reservation have been coming for food and we have very little to give. (They are actually mixing dog food with some cat food for filler, as we have the cat kibble. Not the greatest, but better than having nothing in their stomachs)

I was wondering of any of the great volunteers getting food from Chuck and Don's have any food collected?

Thank you so much for your help in keeping the dogs at the shelter and those hungry in the community fed.

One day last week we had EIGHT dogs reported in Red Lake with porcupine quills. When dogs are hungry they hunt for food- and when they have to eat porcupine, the results are not good.

Have a nice day and let me know if you have collected any food.
Sincerely, Karen Good

AS USUAL RLRR SUPPORTERS RESPONDEDSome badly needed food supplies were received by Red Lake Rosie's Rescue thanks to the generosity of Erich Russell, John Vaughn, Jenny Fitzer, Pet Haven, Ann Vareka, MaryAnn Cameron, Target, K-Mart, Chaska Shed, AHS, and Chuck & Don's.

MIKEWe estimated the load to be about 2,700 lbs.

TOMTom, my sister Carolyn, and I met Erich and John in Little Falls, loaded up the trailer, and then headed back to RLRR to fill up the empty food shelves.

MIKE WITH RADAR & LEO (puppies found at the dump) AND FAWNIt was an ideal variety of food for all of the animals. Great team work required.....a huge thank you to all involved.

KARENIt was a long day but a very good day overall. We are grateful to everyone
who pitched in on such short notice to help provide much-needed food for the animals at RLRR!

NANCYThanks so much.............
Nancy O

The Year of the White Dog

GRACESILAS & SOLOMONIt seems that in rescue, we go in cycles.

ASTRA & NOKOMISLITTER OF 7Some years it is the black dog- some years the brown dog- and this year it happened to be the white dog.

FAWN AND BELLA & BETABETA & BELLAWe had so many white dogs and puppies this year.

MILENAPETRA & PEACHESFortunately, white dogs are very desireable and we moved many to rescues and foster care.

SILVERSTARREnjoy the white dog pictures!

Karen

FEATHERASTRA & FAWN

Busy weekend at RLRR

FAWNI wanted to let everyone know we had a transport on June 13 with a very special rider- an orphan white tail deer fawn enroute to Wildlife Rehabilitation Center in Garrison, Minnesota.The fawn was brought here by a young clouple that found it orphaned. They were going to keep it and I talked with them about the fact that it would be best for the deer to go to the Wildlife Rehabilitation Center and then the next day they came back and surrendered the deer. By that evening, Wildlife Rehab said, yes, we will take the fawn.

FIVE KITTENSKristin and her husband Mike came all the way from Robinsdale to to transport 3 dogs, 5 kittens, 2 cats, and yes one deer. Izzy and Blonde, two white labs went to Pet Haven, Tnkerbelle to MUSHR, and kittens and cats to Tricounty Humane Society.

BLONDE & IZZYWe want to thank them and all other transporters who take time out of their very busy schedules to drive this precious cargo to various destinations and a chance for rehoming.

TOM & NANCYTo add to the excitment today Tom and Nancy delivered 8 new kennel panels to repair the two -pod kennels which had been on order from Home Depot. They also brought plywood for another project to make elevated beds for the dogs to lay on in the kennels.

Thanks to all
Sincerely, Karen and RLRR

KRISTIN & MIKECOMMENTS FROM TRANSPORTERS, KRISTIN & MIKE:
These kids were ALL wonderful! I really fell in love with Tinkerbelle and the two yellow babies were SOOO sweet! They were all EXCELLENT passengers and the rescue folks were all very nice! It was a GREAT day for a road-trip!

TINKERBELLEThank you Karen for saving these kids. Once again - you amaze me!

Thank you!

Make it a GREAT day!

Kristin
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Fawn & Precious/Piper find homes

Karen,

Both Fawn and Piper (aka Precious) were adopted!

FAWNFawn went to live as a mostly outdoor dog at a farm with a completely fenced yard. I brought Fawn out there myself - the farm is about 20 minutes from me. She has goats, chickens, horses and an older husky so Fawn will have to get along with the other critters. I tried to get Fawn to come inside my house last week, but she had to be carried in and then couldn't wait to get back outside so I felt good about placing her as a 'farm dog'.

PRECIOUS/PIPERPiper went to live with a 40ish yr old man and his two daughters (9 and 12) in Mound, MN.

Just thought I would share the good news with you.

Patti
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