Elsa's pup, Grace

All Dog Rescue update received March 2014:
I wanted to update you about Grace who we adopted on March 1. She has been here 1 week and we have been enjoying her very much! We have renamed her Sophie, but have kept Grace as her middle name. 

SOPHIE GRACE

Within 2 days she was going outside for potty. She seemed to catch on quickly. Maybe a couple of accidents in the house, but 99% of the time she has been good about going outside.We crate her at night for now, and she settles down quietly and sleeps for 4-5 hours before having to go out. Then we'll go outside and she'll come back in and sleep some more until about 6:30. 

Tom taught her how to fetch the ball and bring it back. That also was the 2nd or 3rd day. Our house is a split level so she did good going up the stairs on the 2nd day but was afraid to go down the stairs . On the 3rd day we taught her how to go down the stairs and she wouldn't stop going up and down the steps. Now she runs down them! 

She is very intelligent. We have brought her to the local pet store and riding in the car with us and visiting. We have the fenced in area in back as one of her exercise areas, and since it was full of snow (3-4 ft) we shoveled out little pathways similar to a maze and she likes to run around that and we will hide behind the higher snow mounds and she likes to come find us and chase us through the maze. She likes to climb the snow mounds so she can get a better view of her yard. 

She has been so much fun. Everybody who has seen her thinks she's the cutest little puppy. We want to tell you thank you for letting us adopt her. She's really a great puppy.

Elsa and her icy pups revisited

Elsa and her icy pups were rescued by Red Lake Rosie's Rescue just after Christmas 2013. Elsa had her nine pups under a porch on the ice and snow. Even once we got there, it took an hour to chip away the ice to get them out of there. Amazingly only one newborn pup had died, the other eight survived. There were four boys (Cash, Carter, Chace, Champ) and four girls (Hope, Serenity, Grace, Faith). 

MAMA ELSA

Once Elsa had protection from the weather in an enclosed kennel with deep straw and fleece blankets and plenty of nutritious food and fresh water, she was a fantastic mother producing lots of milk and caring tenderly for her pups. Once they could be weaned, the family was taken in by All Dog Rescue for foster care. Linda, who has fostered so many pups from RLRR, took in all eight pups.

ELSA'S PUPPY PILE AT RLRR

We were so happy to hear that Elsa and all of her pups have been adopted!

FAITH, THE RUNT

FAITH, GROWING UP

CARTER AND HOPE

ADR update received March 2014: Here's Carter in his new home hanging out with big sister Athena.

CARTER AND NEW BIG SIS

Updates on more of the pups will follow in coming days!

Severely emaciated mama Grace and her pups

On the second day of the October clinic, Dan and Karen were able to pick up a beautiful, but severely emaciated white shepherd and her little family of nine pups -- eight white and one black -- that had been born only days earlier.

Gracie was very hungry and her puppies were very rundown from prenatal and postnatal malnutrition.  The mama had no milk to give in her condition. 

Upon her entrance to the clinic, there was help and food. 

As usual, all the great, compassionate, animal lovers were there feeding Gracie and also bottling the puppies to give them a chance.  The little black one was particularly weak.  Bear Stately, a local volunteer helped feed the puppies.

Gracie had many smaller meals at first and took many bathroom walks. After two days in our care,  they all had gained strength. Gracie was a wonderful mama and such a friendly and nice dog. She walked well on a leash and anxiously wanted to return to her babies each time.

It was such a relief when Julie Cross took Gracie and her puppies to Secondhand Hounds.  With winter coming and limited shelter space at Red Lake Rosie's Rescue, it was a great blessing. 

Thank you Dan, Julie, Bear, and all the clinic volunteers who pampered Grace and her family at the clinic!

 Sincerely, Karen

UPDATE TODAY FROM FOSTER MOM ON FACEBOOK:
I'm fostering them! They are in fact doing very well. The puppies are somewhat walking and climbing and are very vocal, and gaining weight every day! Gracie is a sweetheart and seems to get along with everyone. She still has stomach issues from being neglected/starved/emaciated but we are working through it  

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