March 2006 

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This is the first month in a long time that we have not been notified of the death of a beloved pet. If we overlooked any death, we truly apologize.

Becky & Jim still need our prayers as their baby boy is still in the hospital since his premature birth on Jan. 1. Johanna's mom and family still need our prayers as her mom has been moved to a care facility.

Visits to the Good Samaritan Care Center were a bit slow this month. Elvira needed the most social time, thus we concentrated on her.

Our adoptions for the month were Blue, Frost, Ice, Jonah, Wilson, Madeline & Audie.

Fosters for the month include Bijou with Jim & Margie, Charlie Brown with Mindi & Steve, Charo with Gerry & Art, Sir Alex still 18 wheeling with Buck, Misty with Colleen, Winston with Marti, & Bathsheba (Baby) with JoAnne.

One of our goals for 2006 was to educate young people about being kind to pets. The future of pets depends on the children of today growing up to be responsible adult caregivers. Priscilla started up our Mighty Mutt Youth Program to help achieve that goal. Evidently the Lord thought we needed some professional help. He sent us a First Grade Teacher who adopted Audie, and also went home with Madeline. Thank you, Lord, Lana & family.

Julie returned with Gertrude NKA Gretta to visit for an afternoon of doggy social time. We are always thrilled to see our adopted fur-kids and their family.

The Cole Camp city pound had a record month for intakes and adoptions/transfers. One dog was microchipped. However, the owner failed to update his change of address. The original shelter was located, agreed to take the dog back. We delivered the dog meeting up with the shelter mgr. at a halfway point, Jefferson City. While in Jeff City, we met up with Sally & Carol of Flaw Dogs. Tami and her husband, Jim, hosted our lunch, we met their fur-kids, all dachshunds. Marti, JoAnne and I took along cookies from the Maple St. Cafe & Bake Shop.

In Feb. we reported "We took in yet immediately transferred to another rescue 6 young dogs." That transfer involved a road trip to Morse Mill, Flaw Dogs. Mary, Marti, Jo Anne and I all went there for lunch, had a tour, we were all impressed with the facility. Even prior to meeting Sally and Carol, I borrowed part of their home page to send to adoptors interested in one of the retired breeding dogs. They take special handling and no one knows this better than the folks at Flaw Dogs. At that time, we took a 17 mo. old dachshund, owner surrender, a 3 yr. yellow lab/basset from a vet's where she was to be killed, 4 puppies from a local farm before they were taken to a high kill shelter. All of those dogs are spayed prior to being placed for adoption. Pediatric spay/neuter is done by this rescue. Umbrellas were set up for shade, separate play areas, heated dog houses, tiled floors and pillows all about the house, doggy door. We came back with many great ideas. My mind shifted to Carl and the great job he would have with electrical outlets.