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Name: Lydia

Rescue ID: P-235

Status: Adopted!

Species: Dog

Breed: Shepherd / Mixed (medium coat)

Sex: Female (spayed)

Current Age: 16 Years 1 Month (best estimate)

Indoor or Outdoor: Indoor Only

Good with Dogs: Yes

Good with Cats: Yes

Good with Kids: Yes

Description:

Just Arrived!

In mid October, 2009 Red Lake Rosie's volunteers found Moneya and her litter at a house in Redby, Minnesota. (Moneya and the female pups Roxy, Zoey, and Lydia are in need of rescue foster homes.) The people who lived at the house had accidently driven over one of the puppy's mouths and it appeared it had a broken jaw. The mother, Moneya was malnourished and her puppies were hungry. Their hair was sparse and they itched due to mange mites. They had no shelter and wandered around a yard near a highway with no fence. The people would not give up any, not even the poor little injured pup!

Two weeks passed and Moneya and her family got more hungry and left
their home, and went looking for food. Now they were homeless and
walking around from place to place in hopes of finding something to eat. By this time there were only 4 pups and Moneya.

One of the social programs contacted Red Lake Rosie's and they were able to take Moneya and her four kids.

A day later and a call came that another of Moneya's pups was also
found near death, our little black and white Lydia. So, they then returned her to her family. Lydia was skin and bone and needed to had special feedings and nearly died.

The whole family has been on an antiparasitic, which killed the mange
Mites and they are regrowing hair and gaining weight. The pups were
weaned from their mama and Moneya has since been spayed, and has
gotten her shots. She is positive for Lymes and Anaplasmosis and is
currently taking antibiotics.

Akin Animal Hospital took out 2 males on their last visit, leaving
Lydia, Roxy, and Zoey with Moneya at the Red Lake Rosie's shelter.

With winter fully arrived (last night was -12 below actual temperature) they are anxious to help the rest of the family get to foster care. RLR only has outdoor housing available at this time, so these poor pups are sleeping outside in dog houses. MARS has stepped in to help and is seeking foster homes so we are able to bring these poor dogs in to our rescue.

They are wonderful, lovely, well socialized and are so happy to be
eating and getting better.

AN UPDATE FROM HER FOSTER HOME:

I took her to the dog park yesterday and she was overwhelmed, but very happy. She is extremely sociable. She was greeting people as well as dogs. She just loves everyone even my cats. She loves my cats and they love her, especially my male. They wrestle, and sleep together. She will do well in a home with pets and kids.

Please feel free to fill out an ADOPTION APPLICATION on our main website, www.midwestanimalrescue.org, by clicking on the Form/Applications link under Website Features.

Thank You!

*The pet you are viewing is a rescued pet which is most often from an animal control facility and does not come with a pedigree. The breed(s) listed are our best guess and are in no way guaranteed. Sometimes the pets appear to be a particular breed(s) in the pictures we receive from our rescue partners and when they arrive we are surprised to see an entirely different breed(s) in person! If you choose to DNA test your adopted pet, test results may vary from company to company and our breed guess may not be reflected in those results as it is just that, our best guess. It is with deep longing that we wish there was a breed called "cute" as we believe all of our dogs would fall under this new breed classification!

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