Puppy Mill Update: 1/26/09
All of our Puppy Mill Rescues have been successfully adopted into loving forever homes. They are all adjusting well and as happy & healthy as can be!
Puppy Mill Update: 12/27/08
Kristin and I had planned to pick up our Puppy Mill rescues late Sunday night from New Paltz and Albany, NY and split the group with 1/2 of them with me in NYC and 1/2 of them with Kristin in MA for evaluation. Unfortunately, the winter storm kept Kristin from being able to drive safely. This meant all of the pugs (initially) needed to come to my apt in NYC! So, we rolled up the rugs, cut up all of our towels, upgraded our rental truck and headed out for our midnight rescue.  Two of our rescue pugs were pregnant & the stress of the earlier trip brought on labor. One of the pugs, Angel gave birth during the transport! Our wonderful vet Dr. Doug Meade (Burlington Vet Hospital – www.burlingtonvet.com) who was so incredibly patient & caring, helped direct Kristi (our initial transport angel) via cell phone. About 4 hours later - another puppy was born. Unfortunately, even after lots of loving from her mommy, and our amazing transport driver Kristi administering "mouth-to-mouth" on her, she did not survive. One puppy remained, Little Liam.
We met Kristi in New Paltz and we were able to get all of the pugs safely into NYC. We went immediately to our NYC Curly Tail vet, Dr. Tufaro. He met us at 12:30am to take Angel into emergency care and get fluids & milk into premature Little Liam. Gidget, who was also pregnant, came in as well. Both pugs and puppy stayed with Dr. Tufaro for a couple of days. We were able to transport some of our rescues into foster care (throughout NYC and NJ) and some up to Kristin in Massachusetts. In MA, Kristin brought Gidget and some of the other puglets to get the additional medical care they needed. Angel and Liam were not well enough to make the trip up to MA and stayed behind in NYC. I brought Liam and Angel home with me. Angel didn't really know how to be a mom, so I had to give Liam IV fluids and bottle feed him Angel's milk. Sadly, after lots of ups and downs, we lost Little Liam in the middle of the night. Christmas day arrived.....Kristin & I were notified that Gidget went into labor! After several hours, she safely delivered her litter of jet black Christmas puppies! They are healthy and doing well so far with 24 hr medical supervision. Many of the pugs are healthy and safe. They are in foster care with our amazing volunteers and doing incredibly well with their crate training...something we didn't think was possible with puppy mill rescues! They are unbelievably sweet and well behaved! We do have 2 more dentals to provide, several pugs with untreated ulcerated eyes and 2 females that are not doing well from the surgery they had prior to transport. We are taking care of all medical treatment needed. Our healthy pugs (who are all spayed/neutered, UTD on their shots and had their dentals) will be placed with some of the many wonderful families we have already on our pre-approved list. This rescue effort cost us over $6800. Your support and donations during this time are very much needed. Any donations received now will help defray some of the expenses we have already paid and the medical bills that are coming in daily. Thank you to all that have helped with this rescue through transports, emergency medical & foster care, supplies & monetary donations and much much more!   Puppy Mill Rescue 2008 Chip-In
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