I spent a few hours yesterday at the Labs 4 Rescue Adoption event held at the Mellow Mutt, LLC.
While I’m not officially involved with Labs 4 Rescue, I have a friend who does the dog intakes so I go to lend moral support, help out where I can and basically spend time with some awesome dogs.
I also get to meet and talk to those who are really involved in rescue and sometimes make some great connections. Like the woman I met yesterday who does dock diving!
This event was run a bit different then the last Labs 4 Rescue event I attended. For one thing Sara didn’t have the agility equipment out. The last time it was out I think the kids played on it more than the dogs. 🙁
The other thing that was different was that most of the dogs were off leash so they had the opportunity to run around and really interact with people.
We did our best to get name tags on the dogs so anyone that was interested knew who to ask about, this didn’t always work but we did our best.
All told there were probably at least twenty dogs there and I took a ton of pictures, sadly I don’t remember some of their names, but I’m putting their pictures up anyway! An event like this is a great place to learn about the dogs and their personalities.
For the most part they all got along really well. There were one or two that got a little over-excited, and some that should really go to a home with an experienced dog person.
Hubby showed up too, and we were joking with a couple of people how the only color dog we were missing was black.
Then Hubby said and yellow because technically Sampson is a golden, and then my friend Marcie said, I think they even have gray ones.
I love my dogs but I think I’m quite content with the two that I have, HOWEVER there were two black dogs that I really fell in love with and if I were going to take one home it would have been Maddie or Rocky.
I really want my black lab to be a male because I intend on re-naming him Sirius Black Stone, but you’ll notice in the pictures that Maddie really took a shine to me. I could tell the second I met her, she would be another challenging dog as she was all lab. 🙂
(You can enlarge the photo by clicking on it.)
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- Can’t remember this guy’s name, but he was adorable. I think he was adopted.
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- I can’t remember this guy’s name.
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- Is one of them my furever family?
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- Is this not the sweetest photo?
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- This is Summer. Sweet girl.
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- This is Gus, he’s only been with his foster mom for a couple of weeks. He loves playing with water bottles.
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- This is Maddie, I could see her giving me a run for my money.
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- What do you mean I can’t go home with him?
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- Lots of lovies going around.
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- This lady took the floor approach as well.
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- Look at that smile, that’s a happy dog.
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- Chaz was all tuckered out. He was adopted! Yay Chaz!!
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- What’s with that black dog syndrome? I’m loveable.
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- This guy didn’t want to leave his foster family.
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- Marcie gave her share of lovies. She was a rock star at this event!
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- This young man just sat down and waited to be loved on.
I don’t think I’m a glutton for punishment but I do like a good challenge. 🙂
Normally at these types of events the dogs do not go home with someone the same day. There were a couple of folks there who already had their adoption paperwork completed and were just waiting on the home visits. There were two home visits that took place yesterday based on dog interest, so the beautiful yellow, (whose name I can’t remember) and Chaz (the little exhausted black lab) should be in their forever homes by the end of the day.
I love a happy ending, don’t you? Do you know anyone on the east coast looking for a great dog? I’d be happy to work something out…..after December 1st of course!
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