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 Last week the rescue community was frantic as CAWL volunteers were made aware of a tragic situation in Aurora where two Labrador Retrievers were hit by a semi truck and left on the side of the road to die. The male black lab died from his injuries, but luckily for Sophie, the beautiful chocolate pure-bred female, Malcolm and Julie McLaughlin were driving home from Texas and found her in center median of the road watching the traffic.
The dog, with no tags or microchip, was rushed to Seven Hills Vet Center in Aurora, CO and and was found to have a sinus fracture, a jaw fracture, and a possible ligament injury to her left front leg. Even with all of her injuries, Sophie prognosis was an 70-80% chance of full recovery – with a slight chance the leg would have to amputated if it didn’t heal from the ligament damage.
Sophie’s angels, the McLaughlin’s have spent close to $2,000 on medical care for her and hope to raise another $2,000 to cover any medical care she needs in the next six weeks while healing from her accident. The Heigl Foundation also made a generous donation for Sophie’s care.
Sophie’s story touched the heartstrings of CAWL volunteer Julie Cox especially hard. She was the first to approach the CAWL Board of Directors and express her desire to help Sophie. While we waited for a decision from the McLaughlin’s on how they wanted Sophie cared for during her recovery period, Julie spent hours with the dog at Seven Hills laying with her, petting her, and coaxing her to hang on. She was instrumental in opening a space at one of our foster homes for Sophie’s recovery and organized a meeting between the McLaughlin’s and Maggie, the foster mom, to ensure the McLaughlin’s had a level of comfort with the foster home and our organization.
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My name is Audrey and I adopted a sweet black lab mix named Dutch from you last April. I just wanted to give you an update on his well being and to let you know how much we love him.
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Skye is a very lucky girl. She was picked up as a stray in Nebraska and made her way, by various channels, to the folks here at Colorado Animal Welfare League.
She stayed with her foster mom for a few short days and then [Read more...]
 Charlie was first noticed by rescuer Tanya Bomberger on February 1st, 2010. Tanya was driving her regular school bus route and saw a Golden Retriever in the yard of one of her young, student passengers. The child told her it was not his dog and Tanya recognized that he was not a dog from the area.
Intrigued, she finished her bus route and returned to where she first saw the dog. Charlie had not left and after an quick assessment of the dog, Tanya realized he was wounded. She put Charlie on the school bus and took him to her vet and was given antibiotics for what was initially determined to be a dog fight wound.
Tanya then called Kami Brandt of K&K Pet Rescue in Nebraska and told her about the beautiful, purebred, Golden Retriever that she had found on the side of the road. Kami proceeded to call CAWL for assistance with the dog. Charlie was transferred to CAWL in Colorado on February 4th, 2010.
CAWL volunteers were fully expecting a wounded dog, per previous discussions, but it turned out to be much worse than they had initally thought.
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Hello,
I just wanted to let you know that Logan (I renamed Zorro), has been doing very well. He is a very smart boy and has been eager to please. He has learned commands very quickly and especially loves to give out high fives. [Read more...]
 Galleta was approximately 7 weeks old when she was found wandering the streets of Cabrera, a small, seaside town in the Dominican Republic. Galleta was pretty near death, covered in fleas, full of worms, dehydrated and hungry. Her little belly was distended, due to her worms, and who knows the last time that she had eaten or drank anything that wasn’t from a gutter.
Galleta and other female puppies like her are a dime a dozen in Cabrera, and other Dominican towns and cities. The people living here usually can’t afford to spay their female dogs on their own. Many of the dogs are free-roaming and come and go as they please. They become impregnated by the unaltered male dogs that roam the streets, and when a litter is born, the owners of the female dog often keep the males and dump the females, so they don’t have to worry about those puppies having more puppies and on and on. The females are usually dumped at one of the many beaches, with the thinking that tourists will feed the puppies and they’ll be fine. Sadly, most of the dumped puppies don’t survive.
Luckily, for Galleta, she hit the Puppy Powerball, and ended up in the care of Emma Clifford, who runs Animal Balance, a non-profit dedicated to spay/ neuter in impoverished countries. Emma currently lives in Cabrera, and her Animal Balance organization holds several campaigns in Cabrera annually, to spay and neuter the dogs and cats of Cabrera. Also, luckily enough for Galleta, the second campaign in Cabrera was getting ready to start, meaning several vets, techs and other animal lovers would be converging on Cabrera for the campaign. Galleta was still touch and go the week before the campaign started, with her survival in question. She began to improve slowly, and then, when the volunteers rolled into town, she took up residence with one of the volunteers from Canada, in her motel room. There, she was fed consistently, doted on consistently, and watched round the clock. She began to thrive. She stayed with this volunteer for the better part of two weeks, before it came time to make a decision……..what to do with Galleta now.
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We adopted Guinness from the Colorado Animal Welfare League in October. We had a similar lab in the past that we lost to cancer and we weren’t really looking to replace her at the time. My husband saw a picture on Facebook of a [Read more...]
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