Is it already March? What happened to February?
3-1-10: What a busy weekend, whew! Friday morning was a home check in San Diego (thank you to Amber & Kellie for doing this for Camp Cocker), Saturday we showed some dogs at the Petco in Anaheim Hills (thank you to Kristi and Chad for lending some helping paws). Saturday night a home check in Newport Beach for Darby. It was raining but oh so worth the long drive because Darby is now in his new home. Gigi then got adopted to the people in San Diego and is now enjoying her new life as a lap dog. Then on Sunday, another home check and Einstein got adopted (thank you to Fran for doing such an amazing job with fostering Einstein and his doggie health makeover). 
It is now March 1st? Seems like it was only five minutes ago that it was January. The generous donations we received this weekend brought our total vet debt down to $2648.16. We spent $3,000 on boarding in the month of February and hope to reduce that in March as we try to get some more dogs adopted out and find additional ongoing foster homes. Thank you so much to everyone who has been sending the $3 donations, you have no idea what an impact you are making, one donation at a time, it all adds up and helps us day to day. We appreciate each and every one of you!
Eli is back with Kramer on the web cam today!
2-25-10 update: Cherry eye puppy WEBCAM HERE!. Thank you to everyone who has been sending positive wishes for Kramer to get over his pneumonia. He has to finish his anti-biotics and then get another chest x-ray, but he is not breathing as heavy and his appetite and energy level are good. Eli has just come back from his temporary foster home and they are both sharing a dog bed on the web cam. Brady will be back in the next two weeks as well (we had split them up while Kramer was sick). A special thank you to Camp Cocker volunteer Pauline whom has been home cooking organic Chicken Rice Soup for Kramer and now Eli will get to enjoy it as well. Wow, what lucky puppy dogs!
2-23-10: Minnie and Bunny saw Dr. Chang, the eye doctor. Bunny's lazy right eye is actually just fine, no glaucoma, nothing unusual, the eye is just a bit lazy. That was great news. But Minnie had a bit of disappointing news. Her cataract surgery eyes are healing great, but her left eye is potentially pre-glaucoma and so she is beginning anti-glaucoma medication and will need her eye pressure checked on a regular basis to monitor it. We know those cockers and their glaucoma eyes, so this is nothing new, but it is still a disappointment that Minnie has the potential to one day have to lose her eye if the pressure can't be controlled with the meds. Let's cross our paws and just hope for the best for her. Little Minnie is so funny. Since she started her thyroid medication a few weeks ago, she has starting behaving like a much younger dog. She has energy, runs around, chases the other dogs, she has even started to get a bit "frisky" with some of the other dogs and we have to ask her to stop humping them please. It is amazing to see her act like a puppy and this silly side of her is now revealing itself.
WE CELEBRATE ALL OF YOU, our supporters and donors! Because of YOU spreading the word to ask people to donate just $3, all of you together are helping us to pay down the huge vet debt we have right now. Until we get it to zero, we can't help any more new shelter cockers.
The Camp Cocker WORRY list! Dogs still in shelters that we have no room for!
2-19-10: New rescued girl, Peggy Sue! Thank you to Camp Cocker volunteer, Jill, for going to get this sweet dog out of the Long Beach Animal Shelter and getting her to the vet right away. The first video is from the shelter and the second video is Peggy Sue's first walk of freedom leaving the shelter and the third is in Jill's home for the night but we desperately need to find Peggy Sue a foster home asap, with someone whom is around (she craves being around people and requires medicated baths). You can see that Peggy Sue is needing a lot of comfort right now. Thank you to Jill for making it possible for Peggy Sue to get out of the shelter! Now we just have to find her the most amazing forever home ever!
Where did January go?
Oh my dawg! How did the time pass by so quickly? In the last month, Camp Cocker has taken in eleven new dogs, many of which are not even posted on our site because there has not even been one day "off" to sit down get pics posted.
We are in a bit of a crisis right now, financially. We had such a successful fundraiser over the holidays and our Secret Santa helped to bring in matching donations. We not only paid off our vet debt by the end of December, but we raised enough for three cataract surgeries (Josie, Minnie and Travis). But then guess what we went and did? We rescued a whole lot of new doggies and started all over again. One of the new boys needs a crypt orchid surgery, one needs to see a neurologist, one needs to get an orthopedic consult for a limping leg (either it is an old break that healed wrong or it might be his patella). Bunny needed her hernia surgery redone (we still owe for that surgery). We then rescued a six month old cocker girl name Samantha whom had a bilateral pelvic break and needed orthopedic surgery (her bill is more than $3,400). Then we went and took in three cocker pups, all three of them have cherry eye. And Josie's cherry eye just popped back out only twice as large now. Oh boy . . . guess we better hurry up and start fundraising!
We also are looking for Los Angeles area foster homes whom can make a long term ongoing commitment to foster (we have 16 dogs in boarding, all on the list to get a foster home while waiting for adoption). To foster a dog takes a special person, someone willing to be inconvenienced by the surprises that every shelter dog brings. Fostering is also a very rewarding experience as you help to transform a shelter dog into an adoptable pet for some lucky person. If you can make a commitment to foster a dog for as long as it takes for them to find a great home, then please fill out the online application (it is the same as our adoption application). We are in need of ongoing volunteers to help with email answering (we get more than 200 emails a day) and returning phone calls (people are calling us daily to inquire about turning in their cockers). And of course, how to pay for it all. Anything you can donate, will go directly to our vet debt and please help spread the woof to everyone you know! Thank you SO MUCH!
Please help donate towards the veterinary bills from January!
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