We’d like to introduce this beautiful lady Lily. Lily was rescued from a puppy mill in Missouri on Friday. Thanks RAGOM! Pictures do not do her justice and she is a gorgeous, soft light blonde girl. Lily is 8 months old and shares the exact same birthday as our resident puppy Sierra. It only took 10 minutes for Lily to come out of her kennel last night and begin playing with Sierra. Once she isn’t nervous the inner puppy comes out and away they go playing! Autumn (07-180) also welcomed Lily with kisses and bringing her, her chew hoof. Lily has taken to all of our dogs rather quickly, but is still nervous about humans and house life. She sniffed noses with our cats and didn’t seem to care about them. She is scared of doors and foster Dad had to actually carry her outside last night to go potty. Today she is doing better and walking a little better on her slip lead. Lily doesn’t like her crate and cries when put in there. She prefers to hide behind our kitchen table and sleep on the rug there. This is fine during supervised times, but at night she is in her crate. The crying only lasted a few minutes until she discovered her new Nylabone, thanks to someone at the RAGOM Petco event who bought this bag of goodies for her! We know Lily came from clean conditions, seems to be in relatively good health with the exception of both ears being infected and still needs to be spayed. She will go to our regular vet this week for a more lengthy examination. She is such a pretty gal she will turn heads everywhere. More updates to come as we get to know Lily better.
Lily (left) with foster dad and Autumn 07-180
| Golden Retriever | Born: August 2006 |
| Female | Weight not specified |
Status: Adopted
We’d like to introduce this beautiful lady Lily. Lily was rescued from a puppy mill in Missouri on Friday. Thanks RAGOM! Pictures do not do her justice and she is a gorgeous, soft light blonde girl. Lily is 8 months old and shares the exact same birthday as our resident puppy Sierra. It only took 10 minutes for Lily to come out of her kennel last night and begin playing with Sierra. Once she isn’t nervous the inner puppy comes out and away they go playing! Autumn (07-180) also welcomed Lily with kisses and bringing her, her chew hoof. Lily has taken to all of our dogs rather quickly, but is still nervous about humans and house life. She sniffed noses with our cats and didn’t seem to care about them. She is scared of doors and foster Dad had to actually carry her outside last night to go potty. Today she is doing better and walking a little better on her slip lead. Lily doesn’t like her crate and cries when put in there. She prefers to hide behind our kitchen table and sleep on the rug there. This is fine during supervised times, but at night she is in her crate. The crying only lasted a few minutes until she discovered her new Nylabone, thanks to someone at the RAGOM Petco event who bought this bag of goodies for her! We know Lily came from clean conditions, seems to be in relatively good health with the exception of both ears being infected and still needs to be spayed. She will go to our regular vet this week for a more lengthy examination. She is such a pretty gal she will turn heads everywhere. More updates to come as we get to know Lily better.
Lily (left) with foster dad and Autumn 07-180
Lily has been adopted and has moved into her new home! We're so happy for our pretty blondie, and for her adopters Randy and Laura. Here's some pictures of Lily exploring her new home, and her new golden sister Niña.
Another great dog saved from a tough past and given a golden future! RAGOM rocks!
Today has been a big day for Lily! The pretty blond girl continues to come out of her shell a little more each day. Today she thought it would be really fun to go romp with Sierra around the back yard all morning, and then she discovered a fun game called "pull all the toilet paper off the roll". Lily is quite comfortable roaming the back yard now, and formerly scary things like stairs and doors are no problem anymore. We are continuing to treat her ear infections, and she likes it when we scrub all the yucky stuff out so they must be feeling better.
The REALLY big news is that Lily has met her forever family! Randy and Laura S. met Lily today and fell in love, and want to make Lily the newest member of their family. They live on a lake and have a resident golden for Lily to learn from and play with. We're so excited for Lily, she's getting a fantastic home and an absolutely great forever family. The adoption is pending until Lily can meet her new sister Niña, and all the paperwork can get completed. Lily has shown absolutely no signs of dog aggression so we don't foresee any problems. She also has her spay appointment on Tuesday, so she will be able to join her new family after that. We'll provide another update when the adoption is finalized. YAY LILY!!!
Lily shows Stetson her fun new chewy toy.
Shredding TP is fun!
First I just have to say it is a really rewarding experience to foster these puppy mill dogs and see them learn what love is. I can’t explain it, I just know it has really meant a lot to my husband and I to help these dogs and RAGOM too and is a life changing experience we will never forget. The first few days were really tough because Lily (as most mill dogs) was frozen to the ground. She hid behind our table and didn’t want to move. She would let you go and pet her, but didn’t show much interest in food or coming out of her shell. We even had to carry her outside to get her to potty. She didn’t like the leash at all and would lie down instead of walking so we had to either coax her with treats (which sometimes worked) or carry her again. A day makes a world of difference for some of these dogs and patience is definitely the key. Lily is a beginning to be a different dog now.
The past 48 hours have been great with Lily. She is really starting to learn what it is like to be a “house” dog. Today was the first day she pottied outside on a leash without someone carrying her and ate her first meal out of an actual dog bowl! Yeah Lily! I brought hot dogs outside yesterday and just worked with her on getting her used to the two steps on the deck. Now she likes the steps because every time she goes up or down them she gets praise or treats, so she has figured out that now it is fun to go up and down them a lot. She is very easy to have around and did I mention how pretty she is. Lily continually looks to our dogs to make sure it is ok to try out something new. Today she saw all the resident dogs run to me and give me kisses and pets after work and I was pleasantly surprised to say she gave me some too. She didn’t stay close for long but I am just grateful to be earning her trust. I got some cute pictures of her smiling today and she even wagged her tail a little. Not the full golden tail wag yet, but at least it isn’t tucked anymore from being scared. I spent most of the afternoon with her yesterday and today. With my husband and I working opposite shifts, she and the resident dogs are not alone much at all. Lily had two baths this weekend and her pretty blonde coat is starting to look nice. Each day I get about six brush-fulls of fur out of her so as she is getting better nutrition and baths her old, dead fur is being replaced slowly by an even more gorgeous coat. Lily met our next-door neighbors two RAGOM gals today and was happy to meet them. She also hasn’t shown any interest in our cats. There is still plenty of puppy in Lily’s personality. She and our resident puppy, Sierra, play a lot! Lily retrieves things and hoards them like the typical puppy mill puppy. She isn’t mean about it and doesn’t resource guard (at least not that we have noticed but we picked up all “hot items”). She just thinks it is fun to retrieve our rugs, Autumn’s kennel blanket, shoes, toys/bones, and even the tablecloth.
Before Lily can be adopted she still needs to be vet-checked tomorrow and spayed at a later vet visit (while still in foster care). She also needs a little more socialization and time but is coming around quicker than we expected. We are being very patient with her, and her new forever home will have to do the same. She will benefit from obedience training as she still has plenty of puppy energy. Lily’s forever home should also have another dog for her to learn from. Stay tuned for more Lily updates after her vet appointment tomorrow.
Smiley Lily!
Lily snuggling with Autumn (07-180) after her first bath.