Annual Christmas greetings from 3 RLRR canines in one family!

We wanted to send you Christmas greetings again this year from former Red Lake Rosie's Rescue kids!

Phoenix (aka Cinnamon) is doing very well. She is quite the love and is learning hand signals! No formal training on this either - but if we point in one direction, off she goes in that direction! If we put our finger up to our lips & say "sshh"..she immediately becomes quiet and listens. She is also quite the mouse hunter - I'm thinking it's from surviving alone for 1-1/2 years. But she never bothers my inside cats when she's in the house. She is incredibly smart and is still the "boss" of all the boy dogs.

Dylan is still doing great too. He still goes to the chiropractor every 6 months, but we have seen no indication of issues with his back, which is very encouraging! He loves to play with the other dogs, but has no interest in hunting anything (unlike Phoenix). He appears to be a "lover" and not a "fighter"! He is also the instigator to get the other dogs running over to the fence to bark at our neighbor dog. He'll start running over to the fence - stop and look back at them - and pretend to run again to get them to run with him. Quite the tease! The Husky is also coming out in him - boy, can he talk! It's fun to hear him carry on.

Casey (aka Eddie) is doing good too. He watches Phoenix & I know is learning a lot from her. He's not quite so interested in hunting as she is, but will run with her if she chases something. If he's alone, he doesn't "hunt" like she does. He loves his stuffed toys and loves to play football outside. He is always carrying around some stuffed animal toy, and I have to keep him from going outside with them, where they'll get lost or weathered. He's learned to throw the toy at the door before going outside (tantrum??) He has learned what "football" means and will run and find one of his 3 outside footballs when we ask him where it is. He loves to chase it, but not quite willing to give it back all the time! When he gets frustrated (when Phoenix steals his toy) or excited (when we just get home), he howls like a train whistle! Not sure where he gets that from, but we love it!

Apollo, the big cream/white shepherd in the picture, is from a local rescue and tries to keep Dylan in check. Even though he has slight difficulty walking now, he still tries to chase Dylan occasionally. He's doing great for 12 years old!

They are quite the crew and we love them so much. Each has their own personality and it's so fun to watch them together. Thank you Karen for all you do and for rescuing these beautiful babies. Have a very safe and Merry Christmas and Happy New Years!

Love, Cliff and Tammy

Remember Eddie?

At a Red Lake clinic back in the spring of 2010...

"SPECIAL ED
Special Ed's family brought 2 other dogs in and when a volunteer was helping them get the dogs out of the car, the volunteer asked about the pup. The owners said nah, he's too young and the other dogs had just attacked him. They had to talk them into letting him get checked out and neutered. It wasn't until examination that they learned that he had a deformity to his skull.

COCONUT HELMET FOR SPECIAL EDEd had a puncture wound on top of his head and, upon further examination, Dr. Roni discovered he has a soft spot on his head and his skull is separated halfway down his nose. They will be building him a helmet to prevent further injuries--the coconut shell was just a joke :-) Unfortunately he will need to be in a helmet for the rest of his life, but, on the bright side, vet tech Lindsay from Akin Hills Animal Hospital plans to care for him in her own home!"

Eddie was about to get even luckier. He was featured on the blog in 2010 and 2011 as "Casey" with his three dog siblings in their Christmas photo card.

Then Karen received a note from Eddie/Casey's adopter, Tammy:

Just curious - do you know who Casey is? He was "Eddie"..the 3 month old puppy that had a puncture wound in his head, and they found out his skull wasn't completely formed yet. I think they termed it "fontanel", and he had to wear a coconut helmet! Well, he did for awhile, but not long - we couldn't keep it on him, and he didn't like it. So it was a matter of just careful monitoring of him with all the other dogs until it healed.

One other interesting thing about Casey - 80% of the time he has a stuffed animal in his mouth. He's either playing tug of war with Dylan or Phoenix, or just carrying it around. Most don't have stuffings - he tries to open a hole & pull out the stuffing as fast as he can!

I made the mistake of buying an indestructible squeaky toy. He loves to wake me up with that - and it truly is indestructible...what did I do? :)

Sure love these guys and girl - not sure what I'd do without them.

Thank you again!
Tammy

KAREN'S RESPONSE:
I remember Eddie at the clinic and had no idea he was Casey. Wow!! THANK YOU for taking such great care of him!

Karen :)

CASEY

Ellen returns

Ellen made the trek north to Red Lake Rosie's Rescue on August 9th and stayed until August 12th helping care for the dogs and cats. She picked up Geri in Bemidji on the way here and the cathouse got as great cleaning.

HAWKEYEEllen enjoyed visiting with the dogs and had many new friends. She and Geri took total care of the shelter for 2 days, which was a great vacation for me. Thank you Ellen and Geri for all your hard work.

ELLEN AND HER DOG FRIENDSEllen transported Eddie and Hawkeye to Tricounty Humane Society, Wendy a German Shepherd to her new adoptive home, and Emily the cat to Feline Rescue when she left early Friday morning.

EMILYEmily is a very sweet grey long haired girl. She was left on Polly's porch one day in a paper box, and she came to the shelter. She was very depressed and shy at first, but came around nicely and turned out to be one of the favorite "lovebugs". Now she has a chance to get her forever home with Feline Rescue.

Ellen also took the time to go to AHS on her way up to RLRR to get Eddie, the black labbie pup. Little Eddie was the only one of three sibling pups from Leech Lake who had failed the food test, so he came back to us.

EDDIEEddie was only at RLRR for 3 days, then went back to Tricounty with Ellen. We saw his picture appear on their webpage and very soon a deposit was placed on him and today he has been adopted. Thank you Ellen for your kindness in taking the time and effort to reclaim Eddie!

Karen