January 2006 

Senior Pets for Senior Homes www.7bellssanctuary.petfinder.com

We begin with sympathy to Pam's dad on the loss of China, Johanna and family on the loss of Sinatra, Joe on the loss of Brandy. It is never easy losing a pet, yet Christmas is especially tough. Our rescue cat, Tigger Tanner, passed away suddenly. Maggie also went to the Bridge. Her pain is now over.

Visits to the Good Samaritan Care Center included Jaxs accompanied by Jerry, Bijou, Lil Hans and Peaches. Both Lil Hans and Peaches were wearing the sweaters sent by donors after reading of the need on our home page. Thanks!! The residents do so love the furry visitors. Lil Hans made a surprise visit to the Brauersville Lutheran Ladies Aid quilting bee this month. He was quite the hit, running about, sniffing feet, even got on one of the blankets as the ladies were tacking it.

Adoptions for the month were Jaxs, Morris, Chip, & Lil Henry. We also facilitated the adoption of JuJu, a yorkie. While Michele did not adopt from us (as Katie found a wonderful home) we contacted other rescues and found a wonderful little yorkie with St. Louis Sr. Dog Project. We picked up JuJu near Jefferson City, then she stayed here a few days until Michele could drive up from Arkansas and pick her up. Even if folks don't adopt from us, we try to help them adopt from other rescues. What joy!!

Fosters for the month include Sir Alex still 18 wheeling with Buck promoting rescue adoptions. Charlie Brown is still with Mindi & Steve and making remarkable progress with the help of Charlie's Angels praying for him. Misty is with Becky and her family, Winston is with Marti, Charo is with Gerry and Art, Blue is spending the Christmas break with Heidi and the girls, & Bijou spent a couple of weeks with Jim & Margie at the Buzzard Roost Woodcarving often going home at night with them. We could not do what we do without our great foster homes and doggy day care families.

Please check out the update on Tarot Yoda from Sue, who has relocated to Arkansas with the gang. We have also had some educational updates from Martina who adopted Monique NKA LuLu and from Ron who adopted Chip. They are located on our Happy Tails pages.

We are thrilled at a couple of pieces of exciting news to share. Lexington MO now has a licensed rescue, Friends of the Friendless. This group has several volunteers that recently began to help the Lexington city pound. They set up and are maintaining Petfinder. We had helped them get started as Petfinder works!! They need to get exposure, network with other rescues, list the dogs for the public to see to adopt. Yeah!!

Thanks to Mary and Tipi Girl, we recently received a winning September contest prize, courtesy of Petfinder.com and Purina. Wow! We were overwhelmed. It came just before Christmas so a swell gift. Mary and Marti will accompany us on a shopping trip in the near future to make life better for the old ones here. We are extremely grateful for the donated sweaters, towels, feed, litter & Kuranda beds.

We are finding more young volunteers. Priscilla has started a new program within our senior dog rescue. Mighty Mutts! Remember the song "Here I come to save the day, Mighty Mouse is on the way? Her first project will be Lexi. She is a young mixed breed, good with kids, other dogs. We have to admit, if we want to reach young people, they need a first time dog and mixed breeds possess the best of everything.

Priscilla, Mary, Marti and Johanna are doing more computer work to help the rescue effort. Johanna is now maintaining petfinder.com for the entire cat population in her local shelter. Yeah!!