Love of Labs, Indiana

Famous Shamus Update 9/25/09

lolin — Sat, 15 Aug 2009 21:00:36 +0000

‘FAMOUS SHAMUS’ UPDATE

Shamus is going to the Rainbow Bridge on Monday, Sept. 28. Please say prayers and send good thoughts for all.

7/29/09 Sham does not know the words, ‘give up’, he is still enjoying life, belly rubs, going ‘bye - bye’, and treats to even think about ‘throwing in the towel”. Plus, who would keep Buck in line by ‘dominating’ him several times a day?:) Sham has now mastered the ramp, too! Shamus just LOVES life still. He is on 4 pain pills a day to make sure he is not in pain.

6/15/09 We have built Sham a ramp over our 3 steps from our porch to the ground.

He is a tad afraid of it, but he is USING it.. He is still the MOST loving dog we’ve ever seen.

Shamus says ‘WOOF’ (dog talk for Hello). He is doing great & is still a very happy, well loved, old gent.

He does have a very large fatty tumor on his spine. When the vet biopsied it was fatty fluid with some muscle cells. He is having a difficult time getting up our 3 outdoor steps. We’re keeping a close eye on it..

Update 6/19/09 ~ The tumor is about the size of a softball right now…….it is bothering him, too. The time may be nearing the end for Sweet Boy Sham Sham.

Please keep those prayers and good thoughts coming for Sham Sham.

Miss Daisy

lolin — Sat, 15 Aug 2009 20:58:09 +0000

Just because Daisy is 10 & blind SHOULD NOT mean she is unadoptable and she won’t have her own home…… She is a WONDERFUL girl.

*written by current foster in Dayton that has 2 other blind dogs**

Daisy is doing great. We have yet to hear her bark. Our other dogs bark when it’s time to go out or play ball, but Daisy doesn’t. We’ve taught her to play ball (a ball with a bell in it). We throw it about 10-15 ft away. Miss Daisy hears it and then smells it. Once she finds it, she brings it back to him. We also walk her down the blacktop lane (1/3 mile) in the morning with the other dogs to get the paper. She sits and stays about 50 ft from the main road.

Beautiful Miss Daisy is 10 years old. Her ‘parents/owners’ were elderly and found their 2 dogs were just ‘more than they could care for &/or afford’. Their other dog found a home first, so they gave that family the pen that Daisy & her sibling had lived in all of their lives. They were taking Daisy in to the animal shelter on 2/16 to put her down, after all, who wanted a ten year old blind dog?? She is a very trusting 90lb yellow lab. She is great with kids, dogs and older people. She is looking for a loving forever home where she can be spoiled and treated like a princess.

Daisy is doing great. We have yet to hear her bark. Our other dogs bark when it’s time to go out or play ball, but Daisy doesn’t. We’ve taught her to play ball (a ball with a bell in it). We throw it about 10-15 ft away. Miss Daisy hears it and then smells it. Once she finds it, she brings it back. We also walk her down the blacktop lane (1/3 mile) in the morning with the other dogs to get the paper. She sits and stays about 50 ft from the main road.

Daisy has not had any accidents in the house. If she wants to be pet she puts her head in our lap. At night, while we’re watching tv, she’ll be with us and the other dogs. When we go to bed, one of our dogs comes up the stairs, but she sleeps down stairs with our other dog. She has figured out the dog door quickly and her way around. I don’t think she’d be any problem for anyone wanting a special needs dog.

We think Miss Daisy would be therapeutic in two ways– for herself and for her owner.

Mission Statement

lolin — Sat, 15 Aug 2009 20:50:34 +0000

LOLIN’s Mission Statement

Love of Lab’s (LOLIN, INC) mission is to reduce the euthanasia rate of Labrador Retrievers and LR mixes throughout animal shelters/animal controls of the Midwest (ESPECIALLY INDIANA). LOLIN will accomplish this goal by increasing the public’s knowledge regarding the care, the adoption and the responsible ownership of these wonderful dogs.

LOLIN volunteers have united to donate their love, time, energy and financial resources to save as many dogs as possible before they are killed at these shelters by gas, heartstick or lethal injection (some in the US, still actually SHOOT them with a gun). Society in general is not providing these shelter dogs with basic life supporting measures, such as necessary food, water, and shelter; let alone the needed medical attention, the very necessary sterilization or the LOVE & compassion all dogs need to thrive. No dog should have to die because we as humans have failed to provide for it simply by failing to spay it’s Mother!

The dogs that come into LOLIN’s program, receive all medical needs, are temperament tested, and sterilized immediately! We also provide these dogs with a loving foster home that helps to rehabilitate them while we locate a WONDERFUL forever home.

Labs CRAVE human companionship, more than food and water sometimes. It is cruel to deprive them of human contact, as they are denied at shelters, simply due to lack of funds and being under-staffed. LOLIN knows that our dogs will be an exceptional addition to all that desire a wonderful life-long canine companion.

LOLIN, INC. is a not-for-profit, 501(c)3, IRS deemed Public Charity and your donations are tax deductible to the full extent provided by the IRS. Love of Lab’s receive our operational funds through adoption fees, donations, and various fundraisers ONLY, we do not receive any county, state, or federal funding EVER like shelters do. We depend on you, the public, for help.

We find FOREVER homes to ensure that our dogs will NEVER return to any shelter ever AGAIN! We have 484 (8/15/09) dogs adopted into wonderful forever homes! If you want to help LOLIN help the unwanted, unloved, abused &/or neglected Labs, please donate via check or money order to LOLIN, PO Box 237, Noblesville, IN 46061-0237. Thank you.

There are so very many labs and lab mixes dying daily at Indiana’s shelters for space ONLY! We are desperate for FOSTERS, the most rewarding ‘job’ in dog rescue. If money is the only reason that you cannot foster, please contact us at lolin@comcast.net ASAP.

WE ENCOURAGE you to speak with some of our current fosters ……we have a few volunteers that have fostered more than 30 dogs (and that is fostering Labs 1 at a time, never more than 2 in a foster home at once!) We do not ‘warehouse’ our dogs, all are in family environments!

Ramblin’ Rose

lolin — Sat, 15 Aug 2009 20:34:34 +0000

RAMBLIN’ ROSE

**HORRIBLE UPDATE 8/13/09**

Rose has NO Range of Motion in either leg…. X-rays reveal muscle atrophy….also has no control of her bladder or bowels, she is staying at the vets for a couple more days…..please send good thoughts and prayers…..she may need aggressive physical therapy, but it would be terribly painful. We don’t want her to suffer anymore so we need to make a decision soon. If we have to put her down, she will be 1 of only 2 dogs (of 483 dogs) that LOLIN had to put down due to health/injury.

** GREAT UPDATE 8/12/09**

They did NOT remove Rosie’s leg yet…..they may be able to save it after all.

**UPDATE 8/11/09**

It appears Rosie may lose one of her back legs….Please say some prayers and send good thoughts for our Rosie girl.

Ramblin’ Rose is with us now! 8/9/09

Rosie has landed (via airplane, thank you Joanne K & especially TOM N, the pilot!) in Indi today! Rosie was found in a small town in KY in a ditch with 2 broken back legs! Perhaps she was hit by a car? Perhaps she was thrown from a car? We’ll never know, but we do know Rosie is very small (8 lbs) for a 4 month old Lab mix, but then if her owners did the things above, I’m sure they weren’t feeding her well either.

Oldest Dog Ever

lolin — Sun, 26 Jul 2009 02:31:16 +0000

This image & the accompanying text came from The Guinness® Book of World Records Revised & Enlarged Edition, 1966

“ Dogs of over 20 are very rare but even 34 years has been accepted by some authorities. The oldest reliably reported dog in the world was “Adjutant,” a black Labrador gun dog who was whelped on August 14, 1936, and died on November 20, 1963, aged 27 years 3 months, in the care of his lifetime owner, James Hawkes, a gamekeeper at the Revesby Estate, near Boston, Lincolnshire, England. On December 18, 1937, the death of a collie, aged 27 was reported by its owner, Mrs. Cole of Cyrus Street, Clerkenwell, London, England.“