Help us win for the new kids at Lighthouse

Hola Y'all!!
Here's a short video Mom did the other day of us kids here at Lighthouse right now!! Hope you enjoy it!!
Keep voting for us okay? We really need to win that grant. We've got a spay/neuter clinic coming up on the 4th of April and that money would help a lot!!
Just go to www.animalrescuesite.com and click on the purple tab that says "Shelter Challenge." Then type in Lighthouse for the shelter name and click on Costa Rica for the country. Search..and when our name comes up vote for us and wait for the vote confirmation question. It's free and it will help LOTS of animals here in Costa Rica.
Enjoy the video!!!!
Tailwags!!
BudBud

Good Times At Lighthouse

Hola Y'all!!

We've had a GREAT couple of weeks here at Lighthouse!!! We got to meet Aunt Karen and Uncle Frank!! AUNT KAREN MAKES HOMEMADE TREATS!!!! WHOOOOO HOOOOO!!!!!!!!!! They have a really cool cat named Merlin


and a little girl dog named Sissy!!



She's a real cutie. She's not quite used to hangin' with so many perros but she's getting there. A couple more visits and she'll be putty in my hands. Y'all KNOW how charmin' I can be!! I think she's a little scared of ol' big mouth Laika.
Aunt Karen helps Mom give us baths!!!!!

They came up again today to meet the new pups who got dumped Wednesday. Mom and Dad were dressed and ready to go to a St. Patty's Day party when a woman showed up with two puppies she said were dumped on her road. She owns a restaurant and she said her cook saw them first, told her, and she ran out to the road and picked them up seconds before a big bus came over the hill.




Mom just took them in the clinic and put them in a big soft fleece in one of the kennels until she could get back from the party. They seem pretty healthy but they have a little bit of mange. They're pretty cute kids. Mom says they are Schnauzer mixes about 6 weeks old. We named 'em Patty and Marty.

AND GUESS WHAT!!!! Our clinic refrigerator died and Mom lost LOTS of her dog and cat medicines and a lot of expensive tests!! She was really sick about that.
Well today a good friend, Jose, donated a little refrigerator he was not using!! Now all we gotta replace are the meds and the tests!!

And we got to meet some MORE really nice people!! Art and Caroline, some people Mom met on Costa Rica Living, went and got the refrigerator for us and brought it to us!!!! Mom gets lost every time she goes to Alejuela so Art offered to get it for us!! How's THAT for really nice people!!!

Bingo and Annie are still here and needing homes. And we think Super Mom Lisa has decided she's stayin'. There's a new kitten too. Her name is Mariah.



We're still in 2nd place in the shelter challenge and that's ANOTHER good thing!!! It's just been a really good couple of weeks!!! Y'all be sure to keep votin' ok? We need that grant to replace some of the meds and stuff.
All ya gotta do is go to
www.animalrescuesite.com and look for the purple tab, on the right, that says "Shelter Challenge" Type in lighthouse for the shelter name and click on Costa Rica for the country. Search and when our name comes up click "vote" and wait for the vote confirmation!! Do it every day until April 19th and help us win!!!

We love it when good things happen!!!!
Tailwags!!!!
BudBud

Meet Beatrice!!!

HOLA Y'ALL!!!!!
Meet Beatrice!!!
She just came into the shelter last night and GOT ADOPTED TODAY!!!!!!!!!

She is another victim of idiot humans who put a cord around her neck and tied her to a tree.
A kind rescue lady in Atenas rescued her from her situation and sent her here to Lighthouse so Mom could look after her til she heals!

Well we had a veterinarian come for a visit today and when he saw Beatrice he fell in love!!!
He adopted her and took her home with him!!!!!!!!!!!!!

We'll get to see her real often because he is planning to come to our shelter and using our clinic room once a month to do clinics for the animals in our area. YAAAAAAAAAYYYYYYY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

He has a clinic in Grecia and is specializing in dentistry for animals.

This happened so FAST!!! Mom is still in shock!!!

Beatrice had already been spayed and was in good general health except for the embedded collar and an infected eye.

Why are some humans so stupid? Us dogs would never tie up a human and hold them a prisoner!!

Anyway, a VERY happy ending to this short story!!!!

Be sure to vote for us in the www.animalrescuesite.com grant competition. We have to vote every day until April 18th!!
Just go to the link and click on "shelter challenge." Then type in Lighthouse, click on Costa Rica, search and when our name comes up VOTE for us and wait for the vote confirmation.

Tailwags!
BudBud

Estrella Got Adopted!!!!

Hola Y'all!!
GREAT NEWS!!! Estrella, the cocker with the embedded collar is all well!!!! Her neck has healed beautifully and GUESS WHAT!!! She's got a brand new family!!!!

The family who adopted her has children and Estrella adores them!! They carry her around like a baby and love on her all the time!!!

Three woofs for Estrella!!! WOOF WOOF WOOF!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Help us spay and neuter all the street dogs!!!

ALL YA GOTTA DO IS VOTE!!!!!! It's free!!! It only takes a few seconds!!! You don't have to join anything!! You don't even have to give your email address!!!

Hola Y'all!!
Just this week we have been able to round up 7 dogs and have them spayed/neutered!! YAAAY!!!!!!!!!!!

Did you know that a female dog and her offspring can produce 67,000 puppies in just six years???? WOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! That's a LOT of puppies!!! And most of them will be without homes. There's just not enough homes to go around!!!!
Anyway, me and Mom did the arithmetic and with just these 7 dogs we have helped stop
469,000 street dogs from being born!!!!!

We're still competing in the petfinder/animalrescuesite shelter challenge so you folks PLEASE go vote for us every day through April 16th!!!
The prize is $1,000.00 and that will spay and neuter LOTS of street animals!!!
It will also help to buy food for the animals here in our care!!! You can check some of them out on our last post. Me and Mom did a video of the kids playing.

Just go to www.animalrescuesite.com and click on "shelter challenge" Then type in lighthouse for the shelter name and click on Costa Rica for the country.
Click "search" and wait for our name to come up. THEN VOTE FOR US!!! Be sure to wait for your vote to be confirmed!!!!

HAPPY TAILWAGS Y'ALL and THANKS!!!!!
BudBud the incredibly smart and handsome perro primero

Me and Mom Did a New Video!!

Buenos Dias Y'all!!!

We're waggin' our butts off around here at Lighthouse!! We got 6 more furbabies "fixed." yesterday!!! WHOOOO HOOOOO!!!!! That can mean THOUSANDS of unwanted puppies will not get born.
Mom says a female dog can make LOTS of babies in her lifetime...and then you have to count all the puppies her female puppies will make!! AND!!! Us boy dogs can make WAY more than that!!!! It can be in the THOUSANDS!!!
Mom says that's why there are so many street dogs. Nobody cares enough to round them up and have them "fixed."
And lots of OWNED dogs don't get spayed or neutered either!! Mom says that is where the street dogs come from. The dog gets pregnant and the owner doesn't want the responsibility of so many dogs so they dump the mama dog AND the puppies and then THEY all go make puppies!!!!!! They never even consider the fact that if they spayed the mama dog she would never make those unwanted babies.
Anyway, we're working on slowin' down the population explosion the best we can. WHEW!!!! It's a lot of work!!!

We're still needing votes in the shelter challenge. You guys have kept us in second place and that's GREAT!! There is a thousand dollar grant for 1st and 2nd place this time so even in second we'd still get a grant!!!
We're startin' to get a little worried though cause another international shelter is gaining on us!! And that mexican shelter that is in first place is WAY ahead of everybody else!! They're even in the top ten OVERALL!!!!!!!!! Man!! I wish WE could get that many votes!!! There's a chance we could win one of the TOP prizes if we could do that!!! But we'd still be thrilled to win second place in the international category!!! Mom says that would spay and neuter LOTS of dogs and cats and prevent a lot of furbabies from being homeless!!!!!

Me and Mom just put together another video!! We thought you folks might like to see it so we added it to this post!!

AND PLEASE DON'T FORGET TO VOTE!!! Go to http://www.animalrescuesite.com and click on shelter challenge. Then type in lighthouse. Click on Costa Rica for country. "Search" for our name and then click VOTE then wait for the vote confirmation thing to come up so your vote will count!!

Help us win PLEEEEEEZE!!!

Hola Y'all!!!!

We're in the competition again for a grant from Petfinder and Animalrescuesite!!!
It could mean a one thousand dollar grant for our shelter!! We sure would appreciate it if you folks would vote for us every day until April 18th!!!

All ya gotta do is go to www.animalrescuesite.com. Click on "shelter challenge." (purple tab on right hand side)
Then type in "lighthouse" for the shelter name and click on "Costa Rica" for the country. Click "search" and when our name comes up VOTE FOR US and wait for the vote confirmation question to come up.

It sure would help out with the expenses here at the shelter. You guys are the BEST!!!
Thanks!!!!
Tailwags,
BudBud