We have an opportunity to win a $1,000.00 grant to help us continue our work. All we need are YOUR votes EVERY DAY!! AND ASK ALL YOUR FRIENDS TO VOTE TOO!!! Just go tohttp://www.theanimalrescuesite.com/clickToGive/shelterchallenge.faces?siteId=3 For "shelter name" type in Lighthouse For "Country" choose Costa Rica Cilck on "search." When our name comes up VOTE FOR US!!!!!!
"Tommy" is just one of hundreds of our success stories.You can see more stories on this blog
Just click on the photo for a larger view!!
Just go to the animal rescue site link above and: For "shelter name" type in Lighthouse Animal Rescue. Under "country" click on Costa Rica. Then click on "search."
When Lighthouse Animal Rescue comes up, click to vote for us!! And be sure to tell all your friends to vote too please!
You can vote once a day through December 20th.
VOTE TODAY AND EVERY DAY, PLEASE!!!
Lighthouse is a privately run rescue shelter operated by Frances and Bruce Jones....and of course me, Mr. BudBud. (I do MOST of the work but don't tell Mom and Dad I said that) It is located in the Atenas Costa Rica area. You can visit our blog at our web site at www.lighthouseanimalrescue.com.
We take animals from the streets and from abusive and neglectful homes. The animals are brought back to health, spayed/neutered, vaccinated and made available for adoption. We are always in need of donations of food, towels, pet shampoos, medical supplies, bedding for the animals, and of course money.
Winning this international grant would be a real blessing for the animals we care for. The grant for an international shelter is $1,000.00.
It would purchase food for 6 to 8 months!! VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE!!!!!! Tailwags and THANKS!!! Mr BudBud
There's been lot's of stuff happening here at Lighthouse so me n' Mom thought we'd sit down and catch everybody up.
First things first. We need prayers and healing thoughts for Dad. He's not been feelin' real good. And Juliette is not feelin' good either so she needs 'em too!!
I think maybe I already told y’all about the little Mama dog somebody dumped out on the road right before she had her puppies. She was pretty skinny and didn’t have any milk for her 1 day old puppies so Mom started makin’ her better and now she is REAL healthy and her puppies are all fat and sassy!!
They will all be ready to go to new homes in about a week!!! And Bingo is still here so we have six furbabies who need homes!!
OH!!! Wait’ll I tell you what Mom and Dad and our vet did to us the other night!!
Dr. Solano works in his office until 8:00 at night. So after he closed up shop he came up here to our house about 9:00.
Doc and Mom went in the clinic room and started movin’ stuff around. When they got ready Dad took each one of us perros into the clinic room and Mom and Doc stuck needles in us and sucked out our BLOOD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Then they would drip the blood into these little plastic thingys and add a few drops of some blue stuff!!! Mom would take the blood mix and pour it into these white plastic things. She would watch it for a minute and then put her thumb on one end and make it go SNAP!!!!!
She and doc kept watchin’ the white plastic things real close and then they’d grin and look real happy!! I thought maybe they were turnin’ into vampires or mad scientists or somethin’.
Mom held me up and let me look at the white thing MY blood was in and said, “Look BudBud!! Negative!!” I dunno WHAT she was talkin’ about!!!!
She said somethin’ about “tests” and heart worms, and ehrlichia and lyme disease and nasty stuff like that. Then she said we “passed with flyin’ colors” but I still don’t know what it was all about. All I know is they stuck us with needles.
Anyway, they did that to 16 of us but they didn’t do it to the puppies. I guess it is an “adults only” kind of thing!!
Mom got a pretty good photo of a wild Amazon parrot that landed in our tree the other day. He just sat there for a long time. Mom went down to the tree and tried to talk to him but he just ignored her.
It’s rainy season here so we are getting’ lots of rain and thunder storms. We can see ‘em comin’ across the valley!! Us perros HATE thunder y’know. It’s scary!!! So Mom just sings to us and makes us feel better while the storm is goin’ on. Laika hides in the pantry when a storm happens. She’s pretty big but she manages to get in there!!
WMFWB!!!!!!! Mom had a bottle of salsa that had a little Panama hat on the lid. When she finished the bottle she took the hat off of it and put it on Milana and Andre and took pictures. They weren’t very happy about it. They thought it made ‘em look goofy…but you know Mom. She does some goofy stuff anyway.
Me and Mom posted some of the pictures at my photo site. http://mrbudbud.shutterfly.com
The album name is “What’s New At Lighthouse” Y’all go check it out and let me know what you think..ok? I’m not getting’ NEARLY enough emails!!
Anyway…..tailwags and snuggles til next time!!! BudBud the test passer
Want a daily reminder to vote? Just email mrbudbud@gmail.com and ask to be added!
Letting Them Go, By Frances Jones
The hardest part is letting them go.
By Frances "Kitten" Jones, 2008
Harder than having to look at the terrified eyes and having to smell the stench of their mange and the poop in the matted fur around their raw and oh so tender backside.
Harder than seeing them cower in a corner because they have been so badly abused in the past they have no reason to expect anything different.
Harder than cleaning up the puddles because they urinate out of fear every time someone looks at them.
Harder than shaving them to the skin because they are so horribly matted they could never be combed.
Harder than finding festering sores or even broken limbs under all that matted fur.
Harder than cleaning their poop off the floor or out of their crate because nobody ever cared enough to teach them about going outside.
Harder than seeing them frightened by grass because they have spent their lives on wire floored cages.
Harder than smelling their rotten breath because their diet has been so bad their teeth are all destroyed.
Harder than watching them bump into walls because they are blind from the ammonia stench in the lower puppy mill cages.
Harder than hearing the vet say, "There's not really anything we can do."
The list could go on forever.
None of this comes close to being as hard as letting them go once they are whole again.
But it is all part of doing rescue. If we kept them all we would eventually run out of space and there would be no room for the next one who needs us. Therefore we have to let go.
Animal rescue is one of the most heartbreaking jobs in the world and there are not enough people doing it. Our hearts will be broken again and again. We are horribly outnumbered by the animal abusers, irresponsible owners, greedy breeders and the like.
But then, there is the reward. Seeing the most disheveled, terrified, emaciated animal blossom into a loving, beautiful, loyal, healthy, confident creature.
They look into your eyes and you know. It is worth doing over and over and over.
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