Mom says "DANG DAWGS!!!!"

WOOF Y'all!!!

Two of the furkids dug under the fence and disappeared!!! Mom  and Dad searched all day and into the night for them. They yelled themselves hoarse calling the two little demons!! Climbing up and down steep mountain terrain searching. Our place is surrounded by coffee fields so they could easily be lost. No road to actually follow back home.
Mom was posting, throughout the day, on Facebook, to Kristi, (the lady who is planning to adopt Gracie) 
Ya gotta remember when you read this that Mom was NOT in a good mood after climbing up and down mountains all day. (giggle)  Here is that exchange:

3:44pm

Gracie and Clem have disappeared. Gracie has begun digging under the wall out back and has escaped with Clem and Sprinkles in tow about three times. We fixed the area where they were digging out but they found a new place. We have searched everywhere and yelled ourselves hoarse. Have distributed flyers in the area with photos and a reward. Have gone on the ATV all the way down the back road with no luck. Say some prayers that we find them. We are extremely worried.

They've been gone for about four hours now.

Saturday 4:56pm

4:56 Just got back from another trip down the mountain on the ATV. It's about to get dark. I don't know what to do.

I have all the neighbors watching for them and have told the neighborhood kids.

Oh god. Hopefully they will get hungry and come home. I'm praying they don't get out on the road and are just playing in the bushes! I'm praying for them and I think miss Gracie needs to be grounded when she gets home!

They are still not here. Cannot find them. I too hope they will come home. We are leaving the gate partially open so they can get back in the front. When Gracie DOES return she's going on a cable run. I'm too damn old to be running up and down this mountain and worrying about this kind of crap.

I hear u! Cable run for sure, rotten damn kid! Wish me luck tomorrow, going to catch a stray male pup. His sister got run over and died yesterday so really want to get him before he gets hit looking for her.

Saturday 8:16pm

They are back. I hate BOTH of them!!!! I had made one last trip down and back up the mountain calling and yelling. No luck. Then I thought I heard dogs barking when I took the others out to pee. Bruce and I climbed down the steep, east bank again, in our night clothes, to call and look with flashlights. We could hear dogs barking on the other side of the valley but were not sure if it was them. Stayed there and called and called. They'd bark back but still could not tell if it was them. We were down there for about an hour calling but they didn't seem to be coming nearer. We climbed back up the hill with me pushing Bruce from behind because his knee was killing him from all the climbing. Mr Fox, an hour later, in the bedroom with Bruce, kept barking. Bruce finally got up and took him out. Mr Fox stopped in the grass to pee and Bruce heard something on the other side of the gate and then saw a paw reach under the wooden gate. That bitch Gracie. He let her in and came out front and called up to me. I went out with my flashlight and down the banks we went again to try to find Clem. After about 30 minutes of calling and listening I heard a whine down at the bottom end of the property. We trekked down there, still barefoot and muddy, and found Clem trying to come back in one of the holes Gracie had dug the first time. Had to pull the boulder out of it we had blocked it with. They are each now in crates. Don't trust them overnight not to dig again and disappear. Son is coming down tomorrow to try to help me fix the wall so they can't dig under. I ought to just shoot the two of them damnit!!! Good luck catching the little guy. Please hurry here and get this damn dog!!!

So glad they are home and safe. Tell Gracie she is on my s--t list and she's on restriction until I can get her brought to Arizona. Get some sleep girlfriend! Love you!

Can't tell her anything. I'm not speaking to her.

WMFWB!!!! Mom was pretty mad at them for escaping. Of course Gracie is still running with us on the property, getting plenty of lovin' and is not on a cable run....and Bro came down today to help Mom and Dad figure out a way to fix it so they can't dig out anymore.

We just did a new video of our new furkid, Benny. HE WAGGED HIS TAIL TODAY AND ACTUALLY CAME TO MOM INSTEAD OF RUNNING AWAY!!! We're all doin' the happy dance!!!
You can see the video here.

http://youtu.be/YM0FQr8iwxs

TAILWAGS from the Lighthouse Crew.

RESCUED!!!! Thanks to good people.

8-16-13
Mom had seen a story about a dog in Limon Costa Rica who had been attacked with a machete. He had two horrendous wounds on his shoulders.
Of course Mom offered to take the dog in and try to save it as the woman who had originally found the injured dog has no money for vets and for care.
Someone volunteered to drive the dog here to Atenas to our shelter.
The dog was to arrive here yesterday but Mom never heard from any of the parties involved. She was getting pretty worried because she knew the woman had gotten a neighbor to sew the wound closed and Mom knew that infection would be starting quickly. 
Also, from the original photos she had gotten it looked like the spinal column might have been severed or at least damaged.

We got information today that the womans' neighbors all chipped in and got the dog to a vet. He opened the wound and had to do surgery on some sliced muscles and arteries. He put 42 stitches in. Half inside and half outside. The vet feels pretty sure that the dog will survive but may walk with a limp due to the muscle damage.
The woman has decided to keep the dog for now and a rescue group near her has offered to help her with meds and after care for the dog!!
YAAAAAAAYYYYYYYYYY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Thank GOD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

We are attaching the two before surgery photos and the after surgery photo. They are VERY graphic so if you have a weak stomach maybe don't click on them.

We're just glad this dog got the help it needed and that there were actually enough people who cared!!!
Thank you!!!!!
Tailwags!!!!!!!!!

Another New Kid.

Tailwags Y'all!!!

Just a little update on what's going on here at our place!!
Gracie, Mercy and Mr Fox are all doing great. Healthy, (at last) and happy!!!

We got a new kid in two days ago. Mom named him Benny. He was abandoned in Atenas and is now here. He is in pretty bad shape but he's is eating good and is learning to not be so scared of humans.
Please say some prayers for him and send some healing thoughts.

And here's a link to a video Mom did yesterday of some of us furkids playing!! You'll see Mercy, Gracie and Mr Fox all having a good time.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i4l2r6NoHWQ

Y'all have a great day and COME SEE US!!!

Tailwags from the whole Lighthouse Crew.

Update From Lighthouse 7-31-13

Wags Y'all!!!

We've been pretty  busy around here so we have gotten behind on our blogging again. Sorry about that but we'll try to catch you up with this blog post.

We lost our Andre on July 2nd. He had not been feeling well for a couple of days due to the cancer he had. When he started refusing to eat we knew it was time to let him go. Up until then he never seemed "sick" but we knew the time would come when he needed to go to the bridge to be with all the others.
He was a most precious member of our family and we miss him like crazy. 
Rest peacefully at the bridge our little man.

Gracie, who was emaciated when I picked her up off the street, has done incredibly well and is running the other dogs ragged!!

 Here's her video!!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j3EpuK8LYSw


Miss Mercy, the little girl who was starved almost to death, is up and runnin'!!!!! She's doing great and will soon be ready to be spayed. What a little scamp she is!!!

Here's her video!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8t5HBgOmku4

Mr. Fox, the dog who was terribly sick and who had been injured in his hind quarters is doing much better too. He is still weak in his back legs and pelvic but he is learning to deal with his handicaps.

Here's his video!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UYx0CPeJiCc&feature=youtu.be

We'll try to do better in the future about updating the blog but we can't make any promises. Mom says us furkids come first.
Y'all have a great day!!!
Tailwags from the whole Lighthouse Crew!!!

6-29-13 News From Lighthouse

Wags Y'all!!!!

Important news about the shelter challenge in this post so please read  the whole post.

Things have been pretty busy here 'cause Mom's got a new kid named Mr. Fox and she and Dad have been pretty busy with him. 

A kind lady rescued him. She's gonna take him back when she comes back from the states.

He was pretty sick when he got here and they've had to do lots of stuff for him. He weighed 6 pounds when he got here and now he weighs 12 and a quarter. But he's still a skeleton!!  Mom says he probably should weigh about 20 or 25 pounds when he's healthy again.

Us furkids have been helping him too!!!....well....one of us has.

Laika gave up her BLOOD for him!!!!!!! WOW!!!!!!!!!!!! They took it right out of Laika and put it in Mr. Fox!!!!! How neat is that!!! We all stood on the steps and looked in the clinic room window!!

Laika sure was BRAVE!!!! 

The rest of us furkids kinda thought we might wanna keep all of our blood but Laika stepped up to the plate and let them take some of hers!!!

It really helped too 'cause Mr. Fox has been getting better ever since!!

Laika's a HERO!!

Gracie and Mercy are doin' fantastic and runnin' and playin' and eatin' and everything. 

Mercys' blood platelettes are still not right so she's on antibiotics for that but she seems totally healthy and she runs like the wind and plays all the time!!!

You can't tell Gracie was ever sick!! She's just a totally normal, active furkid!! And GUESS WHAT!!!! She's gettin' ADOPTED!!!!!

Kristi, our great volunteer is takin' her back to the states with her to live on her moms' farm!!! WHOOOOOO HOOOO!!!!!!

News about the shelter challenge.

It looks like we won't be able to participate in any more shelter challenges. 

They have changed those "rule" thingys and now you have to be a 501c3 to participate.

Mom says she has never been a 501c3. She says it costs a lot to become one and all her money goes to the animals. Not to lawyers.

She says she can have 100 dogs and/or cats spayed or neutered or help LOTS of sick or injured animals with the money it would cost her to become a 501c3.

She says she and Dad do what they do all by themselves. We get a volunteer occasionally but 95% of the time it's just her and Dad who do all the work, pay all the bills, and all that stuff.

She says if she was a 501c3 she would have to find people to be "officers" or "members of the board" or stuff like that and there just is not enough time, in rescue the way we do it, to have meetings and do fund raisers, and the things that most 501c3s' do.  

The way Mom puts it is..."I take care of animals. THAT is what I do. I don't have time for all that other crap."

She figures the Animal Rescue Site needs to be able to deduct that $1,000.00. She says it's a shame that "deducting" is more important than helping the shelters that really need it. The individual rescue people/families who are totally dedicated to helping the animals and spend their own money in doing so but who can't afford to pay a lawyer to do a lot of paperwork and filing and, like her and Dad, don't have time for all the junk that goes with it. She says her time is for the animals. Not for meetings and stuff.

She said she knew it was too good to last. It usually always turns out to be about the bottom line. (Us furkids don't know what "bottom line" means but it must be more important than most stuff.) 

Mom says we have been able to save more animals when we won the grants and that's what's important and she's very grateful to the Animal Rescue Site and Petfinder for all they do to help animals and humans. So she just says, "That's ok," She's done it for over 60 years without the grants so she figures she can still do it....only on a smaller scale.

Problem is she has a really hard time turning away animals in need. 

Anyway, here is a new video we did yesterday of the new kid,
Mr. Fox," and some of us other furkids. We're all doing fine and just enjoyin' life. Mom says we're the best and we keep her heart young.

Thanks for all the votes in the past and helping us to win the grants we have won. It has helped LOTS of animals.

YOU FOLKS ROCK!!!!!!!!!!

Here's the new video!!! ENJOY!!!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MnYIUebrw1U

Tailwags!!!!

The whole Lighthouse Crew

Mr. Fox....A New Kid

Wags Y'all!!!

Sorry we got behind again but Mom's been real busy with a new kid. He's in really bad shape and Mom's workin' like crazy to save him.

His name is Mr. Fox. He's super skinny and so anemic his blood is as thin as water!! You can SEE through it!!!

Mom's been giving him lots of meds, subcutaneous fluids, supplements, feeding him by hand to try to get him to eat, and all kinds of stuff.

He got a blood transfusion today. Our Laika gave her BLOOD for him!!!! WOW!!! She's a HERO!!!! Mom and Dad gave her extra treats and food tonight!!

He's sleeping right now and has stuff running down a tube and into his arm. Mom says it's "intravenous fluids" and he needs it really bad.

He's getting lots of medicine too.

You folks please say some prayers and send healing energy for him ok? He's awful weak and sick.

Tailwags from the Lighthouse Crew

We Got To Meet Miss Mercy!!!

WAGS Y'ALL!!!

We got to meet Miss Mercy yesterday!! Mom brought her out and introduced her to us and she just made herself a HUGE part of our crew!!

She loves all of us and is not at all afraid!! We couldn't meet her before 'cause she's been really sick. We always know when one is really sick 'cause Mom spends a lot of time going out to the clinic room to take care of them.

We had been allowed to meet her through the screen door but Mom said she was to weak to join in until now.

She tired out pretty quick but after a short nap she was right back out playing with us!! She's one happy girl!!!!

Mom video'd the introduction so you folks could all see it. 
Enjoy!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tq_zP_CLuuQ

Tailwags from the whole Lighthouse Crew!!!