Cat treets!

Red Lake Rosie's Rescue had an overnight visitor, Nancy B. She arrived Tuesday and took care of all the cats and then left the next morning, September 14th, with a transport of 12 dogs and puppies going to various rescues. She also transported Orson, a little dog from the Bemidji Pound.

NANCY & VASHTINancy brought gifts from herself and other RLRR friends. One of the great treats for the cats was a tall beautiful cat tree donated to Chuck & Don's for us. Jane Norling picked it up with donated food. The cats were very happy to have the gift and many enjoyed climbing and enjoying the sights from the top of the tower!

NEW CAT TREE!Nancy has a special gift with the cats and kittens. The cathouse was bustling with activity and fun. Not only did she catch us up on laundry, she had lots of time to show love to the kitties too.

TRANSPORTEarly the next morning Nancy was busy with cats again and then helped load up the transport with outgoing dogs and puppies.

KIDS IN THE WOODSHeaded for Animal Ark was a group of 5 puppies from the woods that I found the day Nancy arrived. Animal Ark had taken another 5 of the litter last Saturday. The mama dog had 11 puppies, and started moving them out to a den in the woods. I was able to get five on my first visit and when I returned there were only 5 left, so we are not sure what happened to the 11th pup. Anyway, the ten are safely reunited with their littermates in the care of Linda who fosters for the Ark. The mama dog was fixed at the clinic last weekend!

DANCERAlso on transport was Dancer, a small breed dog that was surrendered with another blind Poodle we call Diamond. Dancer was accepted by All Dog Rescue and will be in foster care. He came in very frightened and cowering, but improved so much over the past 2 weeks.

TUTUAll Dog also took Tulip aka TuTu. Tutu is a little shep mix that came in a month ago with her brother Tutter. They were badly starved and had many parasites. It took a long time to get them to put on nice body weight and get over diarrhea.

TUTTER & TUTUTutter is still looking for his special placement. Both are wonderful dogs now that they are no longer starving.

We sent 2 juveniles and a litter of 3 puppies to our friends at Tricounty.

SARGESarge was a surrender at Ponemah during the clinic,

JILLIANJillian was abandoned by her owner who moved out and left her behind, and the little litter of 3 was found by Tony and brought to the shelter.

DEMI, HARLEY, HANNAHWe named them Harley, Demi and Hannah.

Thank you to Nancy, Animal Ark, All Dog, and Tricounty for taking all
these great animals. Thank you, Jane, for your help getting us the great cat tree.

Also, to all the great foster moms and dads who help each and everyone on to a new life!

Sincerely, Karen RLRR

Too, too cute puppy in a tutu!

LINK TO COMPLETE POST BY FOSTER FAMILY/PHOTOGRAPHER:
Unbelievable ballerina puppy prodigy discovered in the Twin Cities!

Or maybe it’s just people being silly.

It’s hard to tell.

Our very good friends from California flew out to adopt Mindy, one of our foster puppies. Darlene (her new mom) made a tutu for her just for this photoshoot. We assumed we’d put it on her and get maybe two photos before she tore it off. Much to our surprise, she was an absolute rock star for the shoot.

We must have spent at least half an hour taking photos of her in a tutu and Darlene and her daughter in various balletic poses. It was amazing! So proud of Mindy, and pretty happy with the photos I got, too. Check them out!

FROM KAREN:
Nine orphan pups came to Red Lake Rosie's Rescue in the cold early days of February. Their mom had been hit by a car and killed on Friday and the nine little hungry and cold pups were brought to Red Lake Rosie's Rescue on Sunday barely alive.

We syringe fed them puppy milk in the cathouse and hoped they would survive -- and they did. We struggled with them for a week and thankfully sent them out the following weekend to rescues in the metro.

Act V took six puppies and we are so delighted today to see that one of these little ones now has moved to California to live the good life -- a ballerina no less!

Thank you to the foster family for caring for three of the pups, sharing these beautiful photos and finding this wonderful home. This made our day!

Karen
RLRR