Flacas Bath

We're pulling some old photos of previous Lighthouse kids for the "funny photos" this week. Todays' funny photo is our Flaca. She lives in Buenos Aires now and is treated like a queen!! YAAAAAAAAAAYYYYYYYYY!!!!!!!!!!!!!
You GO Flaca!!

Tito the cat

We still don't know if we won the weekly so KEEP ON VOTING PLEASE!!! Just go to www.animalrescuesite.com and click on the "shelter challenge" tab. Choose Costa Rica for the country, click search and that should bring up our name. Click "vote" and then type in the letters and numbers that appear to confirm your vote.

Last night Tito had both back feet AND his neck bandaged. This morning he still had on the feet bandages but his neck bandage was off all except for the tape.???
We don't know how he did that but at least the wound was not savaged again. Mom and Dad just medicated it and left the neck bandage off so it can get some air and we'll have to check on him every few minutes, all day, to make sure he hasn't gotten one of the foot bandages off. It only takes him seconds to tear his neck up when he starts scratching it.
Y'all say some prayers and send healing thoughts please.

Tailwags!!!!!
BudBud

Tito the cat

Mom is really upset today. Tito got one of his foot bandages off last night and tore his neck open again. It's a holiday here so all the vets are closed.

He came into the shelter with a horrible neck injury from something that had embedded itself into his neck. Mom has photos but they're pretty gross.

We doctored him for about a month and he was healing real nice. Then the vet told us to stop the honey bandages we were using and let the wound form a scab. To allow the neck to get some air we had to leave the bandage off.

Tito started scratching at his neck and ripped open the wound. We had to do the honey bandages again for a couple of days and then Mom put bandages on his back paws so he could not scratch at his neck.

That worked for a couple of days and then he happened to get one of the foot bandages off and did it again.

Mom says she just doesn't know what else to do. She's tried everything and he still manages to mess it up again. He's been here over a month and we've used up LOYS of medical supplies on him. When he does this it just breaks Mom and Dads hearts. They want him to heal. Not to mention he's breaking our shelter account.

Y'all say some prayers and send healing thoughts for him ok?

Tailwags,
BudBud

Just a quick update

Our volunteers were here yesterday and worked with Storm and Honey on their manners!!! They're both learning real quick and the volunteers are doing GREAT jobs!!

Me and Mom and Dad went to the big store yesterday to buy beer and wine for tonights spaghetti dinner at Aunt Kays!! If you live in Costa Rica be sure to be there!! It starts at 5:00 and Mom and Dad will be selling the beer and wine to raise money for the shelter.

Tito, the neck injury cat, is doing good. He got checked by the vet on Thursday and she is very happy with the way he is healing. He finally kicked off his "boots" last night and so far he is not scratching at his neck. Mom is letting him run loose in the clinic all the time now cause he's been cooped up for so long.

Milana, the four and a half pound pom filed a complaint with Mom yesterday. Don't miss the video!! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OXRlFeIiHvc

Gotta go!! Our volunteers are coming again today. You guys are SOOO super!!!! Please keep voting and forwarding/sharing these reminders.

Tailwags!!!!
BudBud

Back by Popular Demand

Back by popular demand!!!

"The Perils of Juliette"

Miss Juliette cannot pay the mortgage on her lil' ol' ranch and the evil banker, BudBud the Villain, is determined to have her hand in marriage or he'll tie her to the railroad tracks!!
Who will save her??

WE WON!!! YAAAAAAAYYYYYY!!!!!! THANKS!!!

Honey












Bingo















WE WON THE LAST SHELTER CHALLENGE!! It was a miracle!! We were in 2nd place the whole time but the 1st place shelter won a weekly vote and that disqualified them from winning the 1st place prize!! Both awards are $1,000.00 so they did alright too!!! YAAAAAAAYYYYYYYYY!!!!!

BINGO GOT ADOPTED!!! He's gone to live in the US and will be neighbors with Paco!!! They'll get to see each other now and then!! Is that great or what!!!

We've had some fantastic volunteers last month and they're coming back again tomorrow!! We'll all get baths!! And Bingos new mom and dad, Jessica and Evan, are both vet techs in the states and they did all kinds of stuff to us while they were here!!! Cleaned our ears real good, cleaned our anal glands, trimmed our toenails, and helped Mom with doctoring the cat who has the neck injury. It's been a great June!!

We're posting some photos of the new kid that came in yesterday. Mom named her Honey. She was thrown out of a car window. The man tossed her out and drove away. She ran back out to the middle of the street and watched as he drove away leaving her behind. A really nice woman saw it happen and stopped. She got Honey and brought her to her vet. The vet called Mom and Mom brought Honey home. Honey had been starved for quite some time. She is doing really good though since she is getting good food, clean water and lovin' from Mom and Dad. She's a real sweetheart and loves everybody. We think she might have had puppies recently and since she has no milk we are guessing they probably didn't survive.

Another shelter challenge has started so please vote for us!! The grants we have won have helped to keep our shelter doors open!!
Just go to www.animalrescuesite.com and click on the "shelter challenge" tab. Choose Costa Rica for the country and that should bring up our name. Click "vote" and then type in the letters and numbers that appear to confirm your vote.

If you want to be added to our daily reminder list just send us an email!! We'll be happy to add you!!

Tailwags til next time!!!
BudBud

WE JUST MIGHT WIN!!!!!!

HOLA Y'ALL!!!!
ONLY THREE MORE DAYS TO VOTE!!!!! Sunday, June 19th is the last day for voting!!
Things were looking pretty grim for a while there and we thought we weren't going to win!! Mom and me and lots of people started asking for a miracle AND WE GOT ONE!! The 1st place shelter won a weekly prize and that makes us the 1st place shelter in the international category!!
We just GOTTA win the weekly prize this time!! If we do then the 3rd place shelter can win the international prize!! That would mean THREE INTERNATIONAL SHELTERS could win prizes in the shelter challenge!! Wouldn't that be GREAT??? All ya gotta do is go to www.animalrescuesite.com and click on the shelter challenge tab. Then choose Costa Rica from the drop down menu for country. That should bring up our shelter name, Lighthouse Animal Rescue." Click on vote and then type in the letters and numbers that appear to confirm your vote!!

GUESS WHAT!!! Paco and Maracita got ADOPTED!!!!! And the new dumped puppies all got adopted too!!!
Paco went to live in California!!! Maybe he'll be a movie star!!

Maracita went to live with the only person she ever loved. The woman who rescued her and brought her to our shelter!! She is SOOOOOO happy!!!

The puppies went down to Dr. Cs' office and he found homes for all of them!!

Sophia, the little three legged kitten is doing GREAT!! She doesn't even KNOW she's missing a leg!! She teases Larry and Spanky all the time and they adore her!!!

We've had some great guests here the past few weeks!! We LOVE having company cause we get LOTS of extra petting!!! We're renting out our guest room to raise money for the shelter!! You folks need to come for a visit too!! Just look for our place at http://www.airbnb.com/rooms/37923
You'd LOVE it here!!!

Gotta go!! Mom says it's almost bedtime and us perros are getting sleepy anyway.
Don't forget to vote for the next three days!!!!
TAILWAGS!!!
BudBud