Cute Puppy Pictures

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A Starling named Howdy Doody. I have him for 3 weeks now. He's quite a character lol:

The 2 (out of 16) surviving Mallard Ducklings, now 1 week old and doing great:

Other news:

The Chihuahua Beagle mix puppies had to be euthanized due to severe mange mites infection. I had accidently thought that those were ant bites, but when they didn't get better I had the pups checked out and the diagnosis was not good.

Since we don't have the funds to cover the treatment, the puppies were humanely euthanized.

It was not an easy week at the Rainbow Wildlife Rescue, but life goes on and we need to concentrate on the babies that are making it!

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Josie is THE sweetheart!

The bigger dogs are picking on her a bit, but it's not too bad. Her leg could heal better and faster if it was for me, but we have to let nature run it's course, I guess.

Here she is with Butters:

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Glimpses of the open eyes:

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13 days old, eyes opened today, teeth are coming in too:

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11 days old today, eyes still closed, feeding every 5 hours:

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I just got back from the local animal shelter. Rusty and lil Tim are still there, but they are having a ball with the other kittens.

Yes, that's Kicker on the bottom left!

The kittens are in the same size cage that I have..there is nothing more I could for them here at home. At the shelter a lot of people come in and out, so hopefully they will be adopted soon.

I often see people get this sad look in their faces when they hear the word animal shelter. They immediately feel sorry for the animals and have all these horrible ideas in their heads.

Besides the necessity of having to euthanize animals due to the lack of space and funding, the animals that actually do spend time at our local shelter couldn't have it any better from the animals' point of view.

The dogs are not locked up in some cages, they run around free in a save enclosed environment, can socialize with each other and have dog houses and lil pools with water and toys to play with.

Cats of course can't be kept outside, but they are sheltered savely in clean cages and get played with a lot.

Everything they need is provided and this place couldn't be any further from "horrible". The 2 ladies who run the shelter here have a heart of gold and my deepest admiration, because they sure work miracles every day. I extent that admiration to our 2 Animal Control Officers as well!

Here are a pictures of some of the puppies that are currently at the shelter:

and here is Luise today:

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and back in his old pen he grew up in:

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Kicker is 2 months old tomorrow on the 18th, and Buttons is approx. 6 weeks old. Both get along well, even though there is an obvious size difference, Kicker is the gentle brother :-).

Both got their first shots and were de-wormed, received heartworm and flea prevention medication. Both are weaned as well. All we need now is a good home for them!!!