This is a special page for a few "special" senior dogs.
If you are interested in adopting one of our seniors, please contact the foster parent listed on their bio. If you cannot adopt, but can sponsor a dog with food, monthly Heartworm prevention and Frontline or yearly vaccinations, we accept Paypal and any donations are tax exempt. Each dog's Foster would appreciate any help you can give!
Thank you for considering our rescued dogs!
Forgotten Friends - Mixed Breed Rescue
GROW OLD WITH DOGS
When I am old... I will wear soft gray sweatshirts and a bandana over my silver hair... and I will spend my social security checks on wine and my dogs. I will sit in my house on my well-worn chair and listen to my dogs' breathing. I will sneak out in the middle of a warm summer night and take my dogs for a run, if my old bones will allow.... When people come to call, I will smile and nod as I show them my dogs...and talk of them and about them...the ones so beloved of the past and the ones so beloved of today....
I will still work hard cleaning after them, mopping and feeding them and whispering their names in a soft loving way. I will wear the gleaming sweat on my throat, like a jewel, and I will be an embarrassment to all... especially my family...who have not yet found the peace in being free to have dogs as your best friends....
These friends who always wait, at any hour, for your footfall... and eagerly jump to their feet out of a sound sleep, to greet you as if you are a God. With warm eyes full of adoring love and hope that you will always stay.....I'll hug their big strong necks....I'll kiss their dear sweet heads and whisper in their very special company....
I look in the mirror and see I am getting old.... This is the kind of person I am... and have always been. Loving dogs is easy; they are part of me. Please accept me for who I am. My dogs appreciate my presence in their lives; they love my presence in their lives...... When I am old this will be important to me; you will understand when you are old... if you have dogs to love too. Author Unknown
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BASKET | Female | 10-12 years | 6 lbs. |  |
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UPDATE 6/18/08: Why are some little lives so much harder than others. Basket aka "Grammie" came into rescue in terrible shape, a mouth full of rotten teeth, a fistula that led from her mouth into her sinus, thin,
bad skin and through all this she struggled and survived. Now she has been diagnosed with bladder stones and needs another surgery. This is so unfair but we will all get old someday and need help, so we have decided to continue to help Basket live out her last years in comfort and without pain.
Basket is scheduled for surgery this week and we need to raise $475.00 to open her bladder, remove the stones, flush it out and put her on the road to comfort. If you can help this sweet old lady, please click on her Paypal PAW! UPDATE 5/25/08: POOR LITTLE BASKET! Basket has had two dental surgeries. The first was to clean and remove teeth and the second to close a fissure. She is doing well now and eating hard food although she really enjoys canned food. Basket came into rescue from a country kill shelter. We believe she is a long haired Chihuahua mix. This darling little dog appears to have had a very hard life. Her coat is thin and dry, she is underweight, has bad teeth, and hasn't been able to get enough proper nutrition. She requires expensive dental work and we are asking for donations for her dental cleaning and the removal of most of her teeth. This girl has been suffering in pain and unable to get help for long enough. If you can help us restore Basket's ability to eat and enjoy life, please click on her PAYPAL PAW!! Basket is current on vaccinations, heartworm negative and will be spayed and have her dental care before she is adopted. Her adoption is $200. No children under 8 years please. Free Puppergarten class with Natalie McMahon, CPDT, with adoption of this dog. $10 off a group class. www.urbandawgy.com If interested, please contact MBR. |
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TYE | Male | 12 years | 50 lbs. | |
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UPDATE (Sept. 2007): Tye is getting along fairly well, although he sometimes has problems getting up and down……especially after he plays too hard herding tires.:-)
Our Vet feels that his diagnosis of Cancer was incorrect as Tye's leg is no longer large and painful after medications and time. Sometimes he will start limping in the middle of a run but he seems to be enjoying life, his food and his stuffed snake toy.
UPDATE (Nov 2006): Our wonderful Tye has been diagnosed with Osteosarcoma of his right front leg. This is a fairly aggressive Cancer and he most likely has 8 months to live. We love this guy and want to give him Hospice care until he is unable to continue in his normal happy state. He is on several medications which are quite costly and any help with the purchase of his medications would be greatly appreciated. We are not expecting Tye to be adopted now but will continue to give him love in his Foster home as if he were our own, until sadly he crosses over the Rainbow Bridge to a pain free and hopefully not, "tire free" life. MICHELIN MAN! Tye is a pretty, long coated Border Collie mix who is house trained and will wait patiently for his foster to let him outside. He loves to catch frisbees and even being 11 years old, he isn't stopped from this sport he enjoys! He likes to swim, chew treats, bones and rawhides. He sits, shakes and knows down. This "old man" is young at heart and totally fixated on any kind of tire or moving object! He probably would have made a great herding dog. Tye is current on his vaccinations, heartworm negative, neutered and microchipped. Waiting in foster care since March 2005. Free Puppergarten class with Natalie McMahon, CPDT, with adoption of this dog. $10 off a group class. www.urbandawgy.com To foster, adopt or meet Tye, please contact MBR. |
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