Last week I got to thinking… Adele has not been available for adoption because she is so afraid of people. What if the perfect family was out there - ready to adopt? If Adele stayed on hold, we may miss them. So I checked with DLRR and got approval to make Adele available. On Friday morning, Adele’s...

Day 8 – May 31 We continued our lunchtime activity, fetch the tidbit of food, but today Adele came within one foot of me to pick up a goodie – the closest she has ever come. Later in the evening I sat by her in the living room and held out my hand. She smelled it briefly. Then I put my hand on the floor...

A few weeks after Piper (our sweet 14-year-old black Lab) passed away, Michael and I became volunteer fosters with Desert Labrador Retriever Rescue (DLRR). Our first foster was a beautiful puppy Mercedes (also a black Lab), who loved everyone and everything. Soon after the one year anniversary of Piper’s...