Eight Doodle Puppies Need Your Help!!!

These 8 10-week-old labradoodle puppies were relinquished to DRC volunteer and rescue partner Elizabeth Gunn of Gunn Dogs Rescue by a BYB in Arkansas. The DRC and Gunn Dogs are collectively caring for them.

There are 3 chocolate girls and 5 boys, chocolate and black.

These babies are severely malnourished, flea and worm infested, have various skin conditions, eye and ear infections, diarrhea, and giardia. They have never seen a vet.

(Their parents also have never been seen by a vet. Gunn Dogs and the DRC were unable to negotiate the release of the parents with this "breeder".)

These puppies were starving, dehydrated and lethargic when they arrived. Initial vetting indicates that they are Parvo free but they need to be closely monitored for symptoms over the next few weeks and fecal tests will need to be repeated with or without presentation of symptoms.They all required sub-cutaneous fluids and they are being treated for all the various infections along with the worms and giardia. Elizabeth is also providing them with electrolyte supplements and high calorie puppy food.

We are in the process of finding suitable fosters/care-givers. Needless to say, the task ahead of us is huge, but I have no doubt that the day will come when all of us here will smile at photos of 8 healthy, beautiful doodle puppies, going to their loving forever homes.

We need your help to make that day a reality.

Please make a donation to the DRC on behalf of the Arkansas Puppies. Any amount will help so much. And thank you, DK Family, for your generous and caring hearts, from the bottom of mine.

The puppies thank you, too!

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Permalink Reply by Amanda and Quinn on July 27, 2010 at 4:08pm

Trade Pluto for Uranus - no one will mind!

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Permalink Reply by Karen, Jasper and Jackdoodle on July 27, 2010 at 4:15pm

It still leaves us one short..."Earth" is a dumb name for a dog, or any animal. So....
Mercury, Mars, Venus, Jupiter, Saturn, Neptune, Pluto....one short.And other than Venus, none of them are really good girl names.

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Permalink Reply by Amanda and Quinn on July 27, 2010 at 4:23pm

Moon Unit? Worked for the Zappa family... hehe.

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Permalink Reply by Amanda and Quinn on July 27, 2010 at 4:11pm

I think the reindeer names are very cute - I would just worry about anything Christmassy putting off people who don't celebrate it.

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Permalink Reply by Karen, Jasper and Jackdoodle on July 27, 2010 at 4:18pm

LOL- I don't celebrate it, and I came up with the names. Reindeer are not religious!
.They're free to change them when they're adopted, though.

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Permalink Reply by Jane, Guinness and Murphy on July 27, 2010 at 4:16pm

Is there a way to tie in sponsoring one of these puppies with picking a name? I'm thinking for anyone who donates $_____ to cover the expenses of the puppy through adoption, they get to select a name. The only thing I worry about with this idea is that it's a little exclusionary, but I'm betting it would generate the funding that DRC is going to need to see the eight puppies through to moving to their forever homes.