Loretta Update: Loretta Has a Foster Home
I’m going to take a break from the current series on Methods of Endurance Training: Winter 2010/2011 to post a quick Loretta update. I’ll pick things up with that series on Friday. I was sent this via email and a special Austin Humane Society Newsletter that Loretta is currently out of the shelter and staying in a foster home. Volunteers often foster dogs to get them out of the shelter temporarily. Once again, the donations that my readers gave contributed to this and the following appears on the Austin Humane Shelter’s webpage about Loretta:
Thanks to donors like you, young Loretta has a new lease on life and it certainly is turning out to be a happy one! You may remember Loretta as the sweet, but very sick dog, who we rescued from an uncertain future at Town Lake Animal Center after she was found abandoned on two couches on a rural road (you can see pictures of her when she first arrived to the right). Since you first met Loretta, she has certainly come a long way! Thanks to your donations, we were able to fund extensive skin treatment and two eye surgeries to cure Loretta of her ailments. Now her skin is almost healed and she has successfully completed her first eye surgery, and it is clear that she is extremely thankful! Please watch the video below to see just how happy Loretta truly is to be feeling better and living in a loving foster home!
Loretta still needs a forever family, so if you think you might be the right fit for this sweet girl, please contact fostercare@austinhumanesociety.org.
This is Lyle again: Looking at the video, I see no indication of what she’s gone through. Her back looks normal, if her eye surgeries (again, she kept both due to the excellent work of the surgeons) are holding her back I can’t see it. She’s just a great dog in need of an equally great home.
Once again, I want to thank everyone for their help. Loretta is clearly an amazing dog; to have gone through what she went through and be this happy and playful is a testament to her. And it couldn’t have happened without you.
I wish I had half her energy – I’d get a lot more done :`)
Thanks for the update; it made my day!
Happy as a pig in slop. Awesome.
The eye is still so so red; it’s saved but will it have any function?
What a sweet story! A good friend does similar animal rescue, always ends up fostering a few chihuauas at any given time. Chihuahas and pitbulls seem to be the bulk of the dogs in the shelters around here, and they do a good job of placing those whose times are up. Even with the older dogs, they’re still so full of love!
You need to put this on TV…the amount of publicity would be quite astronomical!
I so wish I lived in the area — Loretta has stolen my heart! Glad to hear she’s making such great progress. I’m sure that it won’t take long to find her the great home she deserves.
It’s strange — no matter how crappy I may be feeling at the time, seeing happy, bouncy doggies at play always lifts the spirits
Thanks to reading your dog series, Lyle, I’m going to be fostering a shelter puppy (from Poland) soon! I’m so excited I can hardly stand it…can’t wait to meet the little guy and help him learn that people bring GOOD things.
Great work and commitment, Lyle. I’m glad you gave those of us who wanted to help the opportunity to do so and I hope you don’t hesitate to do so again when the need arises for another dog in that kind of shape.
It is truly amazing how a dog can turn so quickly into a happy dog even after such severe abuse.
Now I’m jazzed to go walk my two rat terriers.