Poignant sign of the economic times....foreclosures force some to seek new homes for pets.

[madfloridian]

I had not thought of this aspect of our economy. It adds to the tragedy.

Thanks to Ybor City Stogie for this sweet but sad picture and link.



Cookie and Coco inseparable. Need new home

Here is more on the story of these 3 year old labs.

Two female dogs need home

From a Florida blog, Seminole Heights.

This family has lost their home and the apartment does not allow dogs.They are looking for a home for the two Labs.
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As many of you know, we are moving in just 2 weeks. Unfortunately, I have still not been able to find a good home for Cookie and Coco. We're not able to take our beloved doggies with us and I've been desperately trying to find a home for both of them 'together'. They were raised together and pine without each other. The Lab Rescue have already said that they would probably separate them, so this is my last resort.

Recently, I tried to take Coco out in my car alone and she TOTALLY refused to even get into the car without Cookie.....!!!! She absolutely pulled back on her haunches until Cookie was by her side. Both doggies are in great health, have been spayed and have ID chips implanted under the skin.

Cookie turned 3 December 10th and Coco will be 3 on April 1st. Cookie is my mellow-yellow, and just loves her tummy rubbed. Coco is adorably funny and lives for her "ball". She also loves the water. Cookie loves lots of attention. Both doggies are loyal and love to walk. They have been raised with my 3 kids running around all over the place, and have survived Sammy's constant hugging and love of 'dress-up', so they are fantastic family dogs. This is by far one of the most difficult decisions I have ever had to make, but under the circumstances I have no choice.

Please, please forward these pics to all you know and help me find a great home for these fabulous doggies. They are just adorable and it's heartbreaking to let them go. In a perfect world, I hope that we could find someone local so that we can still keep in touch and visit them. I pray that someone somewhere can help us keep Cookie and Coco together, and love them just as much as we do. Thank you all from the bottom of my heart.

:cry:

[Triana]

1. Awwwwr! Any Florida DUers who can give these babies a home?

They're so sweet!

:cry:

[madfloridian]

2. It would be special if someone in the area could do it so they could visit.

It is so sad.

:cry:

[Ichingcarpenter]

3. I'm getting foreclosed on and my dog's future is a concern

she is my best friend who saved my life during a fire by waking me up.
I'm trying to find a good home for her.

[madfloridian]

4. This is just so depressing.

I saw the doggie's pictures at Stogie's site, and I sat and cried. Our pets have always been part of our family.

Best to you. :hug:

[williesgirl]

5. How can we help you?

Edited to add a heart for you, cause mine sure goes out to you.

[Ichingcarpenter]

6. I really don't know

I just got off the the phone discussing my dog's fate.
I might try to take her with me. I don't know yet.

[Fire1]

9. In each of our counties there are adoption shelters for homeless

animals. They take care of them until they are adopted. Are there any where you live?

[Ichingcarpenter]

10. I really don't want to do that.... she was a shelter puppy

I'm trying friends and family first.

[Fire1]

11. Gotcha. My heart goes out to you. I can't imagine giving up

my 'poochies.' I know you worry b/c noone takes care of them like you do. i'm tearing up writing this. I'm so sorry.

[Bryn]

12. Can you turn her into your service dog?

If you are disabled or have health problem ,etc. you have a right to have a service dog with you. That way you can keep her anywhere. Even if you're not disabled, make up one! Certification is not required. :)

WHAT a dog can do for a person who is disabled. A service dog can do many tasks, depending on the person's disability. A dog guide is the eyes for its blind handler, taking the handler around obstacles. A hearing dog alerts the handler to sounds, a Seizure Alert/Response dog responds when the handler has a seizure, and a Mobility Assist Dog (also called a Service Dog), is the arms and legs for a disabled person. A psychiatric service dog keeps a person with an psychiatric disorder calm and able to be going to out in public.

[williesgirl]

13. What a great idea. Here's a heart for you for thinking of it!

[Ichingcarpenter]

16. Thanks for the heart and the suggestion

It was coincidence I was just talking on the phone about my dog
when this thread popped up. I will look into the service dog thing.

It is very emotional for me.

[Bryn]

19. Here you go

http://sdog.danawheels.net/

This link gives you plenty of information you need to know. Even if you don't appear to be disabled no one has a right to ask you, even ask to see ID card, etc. according to ADA law. There is no official ID card for your dog so you can make up one. I did when I started to self train a puppy I rescued and she became my first hearing/signal assistance dog (I am deaf) and she was wonderful! I lost her a year ago due to drug adversary caused by her "trusted vet" which broke my heart. I filed a compliant against him last November so it is still in process, don't know the outcome yet, but what he gave her goes against Pfizer, drug company..giving a dog dexamethasone and Rimadyl within 24 hr frame is a bit NO NO. She died two days later from kidney/liver failure plus internal bleeding. I took her in for shoulder limp. She wasn't sick at all! Anyway, when I had her I was often asked about my handicap since I don't look like handicapped. Deafness is invisible.

I now have two young dogs to train. One is from a rescue group and another one is purebred Beauceron I got from her breeder.

I hope this works for you. I know what it is like not to have your best friend with you.

[Bryn]

18. Thank you so much for giving me a heart

:loveya:

[arikara]

20. Of course!

Especially since she already saved your life. She already is a service dog with no stretching of truth.

Best of luck to you, my heart aches for all who are having to give up four legged family members because of this financial mess.

[DesertDiamond]

27. Service dog! I never knew you could! Will someone make sure that Cookie and Coco's humans know?

The idea of preventing people from having their pets is inhuman, for both pets and humans. Even now that pets have been scientifically shown to be beneficial to the health, apartment owners are more interested in increasing their profit margin. A lot of apartment owners keep the deposit even when there's no damage. I guess they think it's even smarter to make sure there's no pet to damage the apartment, so the deposit just becomes free profit.

[Bryn]

32. Since Cookie and Coco are Labradors

They will make great service dogs. Labradors are number one being the best as service dogs. One person who adopt them together can have 2 service dogs or more. There is no ADA law that says you can have only one. That's why I have two in training to be my next hearing/signal service dogs.

[Bryn]

For Service Dogs, deposits are not required. ADA law says NO!

Service dogs are not pets. No one can charge money for service dogs like "pet fees". Even in hotels/motels that are pet friendly cannot charge extra fees for service dogs. They do not count as pets and are not considered pets. Hope this helps. :)

[KamaAina]

42. Why do landlords hate pets so much?

Oh, right. I guess they think it's even smarter to make sure there's no pet to damage the apartment, so the deposit just becomes free profit. :grr:

Things are so bad out here, there was actually a move at the legislature a couple of years ago to void the damnable no-pets clauses. (It failed.)

I am now in my third no-pets hellhole in succession. Thing is, if I had a cat, I'd have to keep the place much neater than I do now, to "catproof" it. :eyes:

edit: spelling

[Liberty Belle]

21. Wow. Where do you live? Are you in Southern CA?

[bdamomma]

47. oh Ichingcarpenter, oh I feel so bad.

:( for the both of you.

[Jane Austin]

7. I've sent the link to some dog people I know

in Florida.

[madfloridian]

24. Thanks so much.

This would be in the Tampa area.

Much appreciated.

[flvegan]

8. I'm talking to my foster families to try and find space for these two right now.

We're local and yes, we'd adopt them out together. Trying to find two spaces in one home is the tough part.

[madfloridian]

15. Thanks so much.

I saw that post today and it was just heartbreaking.

[flvegan]

17. My rescue gets at least 10 calls a week from people losing their homes.

Most of them seem to wait until it's last minute, like they don't think it's happening. Tragic and depressing. Very depressing.

[ladywnch]

14. I work for a shelter in CO and our intake desk has been inundated

with intakes due to job loses, home forclosures etc. we've got about 200 dogs and I don't even know how many cats. they are coming in like 5 - 10 a day. They expanded the shelter about a year ago thanks to an endowment from a woman from NYC which was great, expect our costs have skyrocketed to the increase in volume and utilities and our donations have plummeted due to the economy.

It's not pretty.

[Liberty Belle]

22. My daughter works for a vet in San Diego; same problem here.

She recently found a home with a friend for a black lab in the same boat.

[BrklynLiberal]

23. I have sent this out to everyone I know. I hope this story has a happy ending.....

[bluedawg12]

25. I can't even bring myself to read the full story.

I have thought of the pets, the ones left behind with empty homes and roaming the streets.

I cannot imagine this heart ache, as a dog and cat lover and companion to a whole mess of wonderful creatures.

I pray for the little guys.

[yy4me]

26. Good News, This information just came to me from a friend

of the dog owners. A home (together) has been found for Cookie and Coco. The are lots of great people in this world, thankfully someone saw this plea and came to the rescue of these two beautiful dogs. My heart breaks for the original owners.

I am afraid more of this will happen. We should all try to help.

[madfloridian]

29. Thanks for the good news. Are they in the same area?

So the previous owners can see them?

[blondeatlast]

33. Wonderful! Now for the remaining tens of thousands. I don't mean to rain on your parade,

it's just such a sad scenario all around and repeated far, far too often now.

[Bryn]

34. Wonderful!

My heart is jumping for joy for Cookie and Coco.

[bdamomma]

48. oh that is great news. thank goodness.

[northernlights]

28. worst case, make sure they go to NO KILL shelters

Anybody who is facing eviction and is forced to put their dogs and cats up for adoption, especially in states in the deep south, PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE be very careful about the shelter you take them too. Georgia, the Carolinas, Florida, Arkansas, Alabama, all gas and "heartstick" a lot of dogs, along with Ohio and Michigan. These are neither quick nor painless deaths. There are rescues working night and day trying to pull the dogs and cats.

This is just horrific, and most people don't realize it, but at many "kill" shelters, surrendered dogs are the first to be killed. I'm not sure why this is...I'm guessing that in normal times they assume the dog has some serious problem or wouldn't be surrendered.

But the foreclosure situation has been horrible for animals. Many have been abandoned -- some found starved in their homes, others left in the streets to fend for themselves.

I'm not in a good financial situation myself, hardcore unemployed after a 17+ year career in high tech. But I just adopted a dog about to be gassed in Georgia. The rescuer drove 24+ hours straight bringing a load from Georgia to NH -- she is on the road most of the time transporting rescued dogs, and so are many others. I would have taken all 8 that were on the critical/urgent list if I could have. I figured, if I lose everything at least I live in a dog-loving state with mostly no-kill shelters. (One of the few things I like about life in Maine).

[Greyhound]

30. You should see the dump we rent because it was the only place we could get with our four.

This is so sad and repeated thousands of times a day.
:kick: & R

[REACTIVATED IN CT]

31. This one has been making the rounds of rescue lists for the pAST

week or so. As far as it can be determined, they have already been placed.

HOWEVER, there is a great need for foster homes for displaced dogs. Many rescue groups will reimburse you for some out of pocket costs in addition to paying vet expenses.

If you have room in your heart and your home for a displaced animal, you can find local rescue groups on Petfinder.com

If you can help a rescue group financially, they would welcome donations in any amount. SHelters also need blankets and other supplies. Some are operating Pet Food Banks that you could donate to

[madfloridian]

35. It was posted at the site I linked on Feb. 19...by request.

I think your "several weeks" is an exaggeration.

[REACTIVATED IN CT]

36. Actually, I wrote "past week" and since I first saw it 10

days ago, I don't think I am exaggerating. YMMV

[madfloridian]

37. "past week or so"....but you already effectively made the post unimportant.

Thanks so much. :shrug:

[madfloridian]

38. Hey, you win. If you saw it 10 days ago....ding ding ding

A post above verifies they were placed.

The 19th was 4 days ago, BTW

What you did was throw cold water on people who really do care about other people and care about animals as well.

I don't know your intention, but I sure got your message.

[leftchick]

39. this has been happening for a long time now

A year ago my dream was to buy a farm and start a rescue. I had no idea how tethered we would become to our urban home. I do have room to foster pets so that is what I plan to do to help.

btw, I have a black lab/golden rescue who is three and looks exactly like her black lab dad. I would LOVE to take these dogs. How cool to have all three colors the same age and omg what fun! I live in NC. I wonder if I could convince my husband to bring them here. But three females together? I am not sure about the dynamics.

There are many Lab rescues in FL. I hope she looked into all of them.....lab rescue florida....

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=lab+rescue+florida&aq=1&oq=Lab+Rescue

[Arugula Latte]

40. Kickin' for the Kitties, too.

:kick: There are SO many kitties who need homes. I wish I could take them all. :cry:

[jwirr]

41. The Humane Society shelter here in MN is so full that people are

having to go back several times to leave their pets. This on top of the fact that stores have raised the price of pet foods and supplies. So far we have been able to keep all of our pets except an older animal that was sick. This is indeed heart breaking. Those poor animals do not know why they are being left alone.

[gjj3]

43. Do a little research

If you google "Cookie and Coco" you will find that these dogs live in Ca, TX and MA. It's an email scam. How about we do a little research before passing around junk that is easily verified or dispelled.

[Bryn]

44. Maybe this thread happens for a reason

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

45. Welcome to DU

:eyes:

[bdamomma]

46. poor things, even the most innocent is affected by what

the repigs and bushies have done to this country.