Miss Millie
This is our Miss Millie. We adopted her from "Reach Out Rescue" in January 2012. She came us as a senior and already quite sick. She has spent her time with us as a sweet, gentle little girl. She really had no adjustment period to get used to our family, which told me in her hey day she was probably a fiesty lil thing. Millie came to us already with tumors and blind as well as other issues. Over the last 2 months we have seen her health really decline. Our vet (thank you Dr. Redmond) would visit our home often as it seemed there was one thing after another. (we kind of knew it was the beginning of the end) Yesterday it was clear she had horrific pain in her hind legs/back and was unable to walk to get up and go potty or eat. She was clearly miserable.It seemed everything was going wrong and she had lost her will to fight. Last night Miss Millie went home to be with Jesus. It was an indescribable night for us, yet a peace came over me to see her at resting so peacefully. This morning has been difficult not to find her in her bed. I just had to remind the children (and myself) that she is now playing like a puppy, running, able to see and feeling whole. Its a blessing to know that she was able to shed her old body and live on. Just wanted to share our amazing "Miss Millie". Warmly, Maria Burns

Cookie
It is with a very heavy heart that I write this. After exhausting every effort to help our sweet Cookie be pain-free and comfortable, it was clear that she could not be. She stopped eating and drinking and was no longer receptive to my attempts to force feed her. The pain she suffered throughout her GI tract kept her from eating and drinking and the medications she has been on have not helped enough. At 9:30 this morning she went quietly into what I hope is a place where she finds peace and where I too will find her one day. She certainly was loved here and will desperately be missed. She was the most humble dog I will ever know. She didn't want to be a bother. She was a beautiful, beautiful life......dear, sweet Cookie, I love you so! It was a privilege to have you in our family. Be free little one.

Jolly Wally
Wally's gone He had not eaten since Tue morning. He was drooling and vomiting up yellow bile. I tried everything..I took him to the vets last night He received meds for nausea Dr Morgan suspected maybe a tumor in the brain but hoped it was old dog nystagimus. He had problems with his gait. This came on suddenly He was a pretty happy fella until Wed morning. He was just throwing up ,even with three doses of the antiemetic meds, he would not even eat boiled chicken.I did not want my sweet boy to suffer. He crossed the bridge this afternoon...My heart is broken.I laid on the floor with him at the vets for about 30 min I massaged his back and neck. I told him how much he was loved and what a good boy he was. When the tech came in to insert the catheter he kissed her face. I think he knew.I held him in my arms as he left this world headed for another where he will be pain free. He was an older dog , his owner became homeless. He had to have been loved enough that he was not skinny when AC picked him up, his owner had him neutered, he had no issues. I hope somehow his past owner will know that Wally was loved til the end. He had good food, a soft bed and his foster sister (a little GSD) worried over him all the time. I worried over him all the time. My old man will be missed He will be cremated with other dogs and his ashes scattered over an orchard. Run free my little grumpy old man. Hunt with the hounds and swim with the retrievers.........I miss you so. I am glad I pulled him He did not leave this world laying on a cement run in a noisy animal control center.

LuLu
I had to have Lula put to sleep today. Very sad day. Seniors can give us so much in their short time. Marsha, our deepest sympathy to you!

Lil Boo
The hardest part of rescue is knowing when to let go. Sadly Lil Boo was put down on thursday due to a multitude of issues. He needed a dental for broken and infected teeth, yeast infection all over his body, ears infected and the left one almost closed with scarring, blind due to never having his dry eye treated and an infection set up swelling the eyes, not neutered with a small tumor, both knees permantly out of the joint and painful and last but not least a grade 4 heart murmur and lyme positive. Instead of being 12 he was most likely over 15. He had one week of good food and love, which he was so grateful for. Reach Out Rescue & Resources appreciates the love & care given to Lil Boo by his foster. He left this world knowing he was finally safe, had good food, was cared for, and most of all, loved.