2010. Already. What a fast passing year 2009 was and the last 2 weeks of holidays passed all too quickly too.

We’ve had a great year for adoptions, food and wellness and we hope to grow more especially thru referals.

We’ve finally also figured out how to keep track of adoptions, how many each month. Dec/09 was 11 and that’s pretty good considering i don’t adopt out ‘gift’ or ’surprise’ dogs during december.

So far, 3 this month and it’s only the 3rd!

Home For The Holidays Foster Program was terrific! We had 5 dogs fostered out and 2 were adopted (that was not the intent but it’s a good thing and the dogs were more or less picked by the fosters who were looking for a 2nd dog) and one more likely will be.  The other two, Andy and Chaz were adopted this weekend BECAUSE of the HFTH program. Their Bio’s were updated re what they were like in homes and candid, ‘family’ shots added  to their site as well.

When people came to meet the dogs the fosters graciously came too and talked about their experience with the dog, their likes and dislikes, the funny and naughty things they did. Made it more personal and gave life to the dog’s stories.

I’m really glad we participated in the progam and definitely will next year again – hopefully more of you will take part too.

OUR SPECIAL STORY.

In the summer we lost our precious dog Mandy of Cancer and we were very depressed as was our 15 year old Cockapoo, Sara.

Sara had gained weight to about 27 lbs, had no energy,was sleeping all the time and really had aged.

After searching Pet Finder we adopted a dog through Susan Steiner at Camp Lots of Dogs in Myrtle, Ontario.

Susan met Sara when we went to pickup Molly our adopted beagle and she said that Sara would have to lose weight and raw diet was the way to go, as Sara was originally taking Eukenebia dog food.

We put Molly and Sara on a raw diet and also Sara had bad Arthritis so we got Dr Clarke’s Healthy Hips from Susan, as she had very shaky back legs from the Arthritis.

In about 4 weeks Sara went from 27 lbs down to just over 20 lbs, her shaking was reduced about 90% and she has so much energy she runs is more alert and happy and gained about 5 years on her life.

Molly our adopted dog remains at her current weight (20 lbs)  and is so happy to have found a home and we love her so much.

We strongly recommend adopting a pet through Susan Steiner and the raw food that she makes herself. She is very knowledgable on all types of ailments for dogs and is very loving and caring about her dogs and their placement and there is no where else we would go for advise or adoption in the future or for nutrition advise.  We continue to buy our dog  food through Susan Steiner.

Thank you Sue  for all your help and support,   we are so happy with both our dogs.

Donna and Allen Kozlov

Whitby, Ontario.