(Updated) Update

I've had lots of questions about how the dogs are doing nowadays. The quick answer is pretty damn well.

Many of the dogs are still being treated for heartworms, and it's gonna be a couple few more weeks before they're ready for adoption or fostering. The good news is that so far there's enough space in the shelter here for them to stay put and get the treatment they need. This includes Flat Stanley, who's doing much better these days, and who has a foster home already lined up with our friend Judi and her dog V. It's good to know that, if he doesn't get adopted pretty quick-like, he'll have a great place to go to.

Some dogs have been adopted already. Big Head (now known as Louie) has been adopted and is comfortably dug in at his new home. Recent accounts have us convinced that this dog will now have the most comfortable and fulfilling of dog lives. This is Louie with a tennis ball:





















Here he is in his new digs:

















With his new friends:

















As you can imagine, getting these photos made us very happy.

The skinny broke-footed hound has been adopted for good by our friends Chris and Chuck and will be undergoing surgery next week to fix her bad foot. We were able to hang out with Trina, as she's now called, over Thanksgiving, and we're happy to report that she now has the dog's dream life. She gets on great with Anna, the youngster of the household, and appears predisposed to get on well with the baby that will arrive in January. She's got a cabin in the woods and dog friends named Daisy and Paw Paw. She'll have a good life.

There are plenty of dogs still in need of homes, but early indications are good. We visited them last weekend (Cathy's been back a number of times besides that), and we were told that they had just put 5 of the dogs up for adoption the previous day, and they were all taken home already. That's a good sign.

So, so far so good.

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