Wacky Wednesday!

Wednesday is the day to be WACKY! Each week we will showcase a terrierific cairn picture with an appropriate caption. If you have a terrierific cairn and would like us to consider YOUR picture and caption for an upcoming "Wacky Wednesday" send it to us at cpcrnblog@gmail.com! (All photo submissions become the property of CPCRN and may be used for fundraising, promotion and/or outreach purposes.)


A big shout out to Angel for being the Wacky Wednesday model this week! Angel remember the grass isn't always greener on the other side of the fence and the cookies are ALWAYS close to home! :)

Silk has 3 puppies and we have a photo!

Written by a CP Media Team volunteer

Silk had her puppies early this morning!



In keeping with the fabrics theme, they are named Corduroy (male, 8.5oz), Spandex (female, 7.5oz) and Pique (male, 7oz).

Very sadly, after more than a half hour of trying to bring Silk's fourth and last baby into the world, the little soul of 8 plus ounces was unable to make it.

The birth was hard, due to the nice size the puppies all are, and being the last puppy we are sure that Silk was fatigued as well. Foster mom and dad really worked to save this precious baby.

We are thankful for the birth of these three puppies and sad for the loss of their sibling. Thank you to Silk's foster parents and to everyone who has supported the efforts of CP and Silk's journey to rescue and motherhood. Please welcome these three little ones into the Col. Potter family and say a little prayer for the puppy that didn't make it.

FOOD FOR THOUGHT...IF OUR DOGS COULD TALK

Contributed by a CP Volunteer

I don't know alot about the cartoonist Patrick McDonnell but he is truly an advocate of rescue and from time-to-time his comic strip Mutts focuses on the plight of shelter animals . . . thought I'd share his one . . we can all relate to it. -

Note from CP: Many of our dogs come from situations where they have received little care or affection. They go to foster homes where they are assessed and provided with the opportunity to become a companion animal in a comfortable home. This cartoon should make us all pause.

Urgent Notice: Potential Danger of Dog Hair - Comic Relief

In a press release today, the National Institute of Health has announced the discovery of a potentially dangerous substance in the hair of dogs. This substance, called "amobacter caninii" has been linked with the following symptoms in females: Reluctance to cook, clean or do housework, a reluctance to wear make-up, good clothes or high heels heels. Reluctance to spend money on home or car repairs until after 'Baby' has new collars, leashes, beds, treats, food, blankets or toys.

"Amobacter caninii" usually results in long hours away from home and exhaustion which may lead to a loss of physical contact with other humans (especially husbands and boyfriends). "Amobacter caninii" is thought to be addictive, driving the need for additional sources - this may lead to a "pack mentality" or like the potato chip commercial, "you can't have just one". Beware! If you come in contact with a female human infected by this substance, be prepared to talk about dogs for hours. We have even heard from a self professed "cairnaholic"

Surgeon General's Warning: Dogs are expensive, addictive, and may impair the ability to use common sense.

FINALLY - MORE PICTURES OF JOIE'S PUPPIES!!

Written by Joie and her puppies' foster mom

Sorry this has taken so long folks. I've been struggling uphill all week, trying to catch up for losing one whole night's sleep Sunday night. It made this work week a bear. BUT.............here are some pictures of the puppies, from Mirth's birth up until tonight. Mirth looks like he might be a red. His daddy was, so it's in his genes (I didn't see his grandparents, so I can't really be sure.) Jocularity has very striking markings. Glee, our little girl, is the biggest and calmest of the three.

I hope you enjoy seeing how much they've grown!

Sunday Sweets

Sunday is full of SWEETS! Each week we will showcase the sweeter side of Cairns. If you have a sweet filled cairn and would like us to consider YOUR picture for an upcoming "Sunday Sweets" send it to us at cpcrnblog@gmail.com! (All photo submissions become the property of CPCRN and may be used for fundraising, promotion and/or outreach purposes.)


Zander


Wiggles


Tucker


Scorpion


Rocky


Polly and Tess


Miri


Maisie


Ling and Bling

Check out our New Leash on Life Fundraiser!

A New Leash On Life XVI: Weathering the Storm

OPENS: Wednesday, November 18th, 2009 at 9:00 AM EST
CLOSES: Sunday, December 6th, 2009 at 9:00 PM EST

$15.00 Donation / 1500 Tickets available / 1 in 10 chances of winning gift
Check out all the Cool Prizes

Storms come in many forms - hurricanes, rain, snow - and financial. They hit different areas of the country at different times, and with differing severity. The little cairns we take in are survivors of so many hard times - living year in and year out in a puppy mill - only the strong survive. This years financial storms have impacted CPCRN and its ability to assist cairns, but we have still managed to have surpassed the 'magic' number of 2000 Cairns saved since our inception. This has been thanks to all of our volunteers, adoptive families and everyone who has cared enough to donate to us.

This New Leash has our usual wide range of gifts, Cairn Terrier related items and more. Besides the fun you are about to have participating in this much anticipated event, you will have the chance to win something really special, as well as helping us help these spunky little dogs. How would you like to spend a week in Hawaii? Or get a VISA GIFT CARD – or any of the OTHER five gift cards? Or a Canon Camera? A new monitor? In the need for a quilt?– we have several beautiful ones waiting for you! Maybe a hand crafted dog bed?We also have a lot of Christmas items!!! There is a wide range for all interests.

Pledge NOW!!!

Your contributions to A New Leash on Life are what gives these dogs a chance at a better life. There are more waiting at the door!

Friday's Feature

Written by a CP Media Volunteer

How could something that requires a person to dedicate a significant amount of their own time, effort, emotions, and even money, be so rewarding?

Col. Potter Volunteers have signs around their necks, marking them as pushovers for any outstretched Cairn paw that needs a helping hand. Many times, the volunteers experience more vexing moments than potentially getting peed-on, but they continue to come back for more. The volunteer can find it reaffirming, as if going that extra distance might show the confused, and in the beginning, "manners-challenged" Cairn that they still have a buddy standing by them, even if they aren’t showing their best side, at the moment.

The volunteer might also be demonstrating to themselves that their commitment goes beyond ear scritches, tummy rubs, and the easy joy of watching a happy Cairn at play. Hanging in there with a new furry acquaintance, who may smell badly, have serious and evident health and hygiene issues, in addition to being scared and defensive, is a true test of commitment. It will require that a sense of the future be present from the very beginning. One must also know that there is an organization behind the volunteer, which knows how to deal with those various hardships and illnesses. An organization which will enable the volunteer to promise the Cairn, life is going to get better; he won’t just be getting a change of scenery, but will also get a completely different life.

When I found Col. Potter, I was exploring the concept of rescue in general, with the idea that I would find a source for a Cairn in the future. I had no idea such small, sweet-natured dogs could have so many things go wrong with their health, or that they could endure so much abuse, and still maintain a core of hope and gentleness, in which many humans would do well to take note. My fondness for the breed grew stronger, as I realized at what length, a large group of very diverse, talented, and dedicated people would go, in order to salvage broken, but not wrecked, Cairn lives.

Volunteering for Col. Potter may open one up to the possibility of being exposed to things that can strain the senses and test one’s emotions. However, once the time of testing passes, what will remain, is a clean, bright-eyed, and loyal friend. A friend who might spend the rest of his life adjusting to freedom, but will know, that because someone accepted him for who he was, he won’t have to go back to his former life ever again!


Col. Potter Cairn Rescue Network is in need of volunteers in all areas of the organization. If you interested in helping, we would love to talk to you! You don't have to have "mad skills", just a mad love for cairns! :)

Email our Director of Volunteerism by clicking here, or fill out the volunteer information form by clicking here.

If you are unable to volunteer but you would still like to help change the world, one dog at a time, contribute to rescue by clicking here.

Bling is 2 weeks old and his eyes are open!!

Written by Bling's foster mom

Bling is 2 weeks old, but looks like 3. This boy is growing like a weed. This week his eyes opened, which you can see on at least one of the pictures.

Friday's Funnies

DID YOU KNOW THAT CP TAKES CHARGE CARDS????? YUP WE DO! AND MORE

Written by Danielle Rackstraw, Founder of CPCRN

Good morning everyone: I just wanted to drop a note to remind you all that Col. Potter accepts CHARGE CARDS. We have for quite a while, but it's amazing the folks who don't know this. For any donation to CP, adoption, Mall purchase, fundraiser, etc., you can pay through PayPal, by personal check or by clicking on the PayPal button, you can also pay with any of the larger type credit cards [Visa, American Express, Master Cards, Discover Card, etc.] and do your own payment planning at home. YOU DO NOT HAVE TO JOIN PAYPAL in order to use our SECURE SERVER and PayPal is the safest in the Nation for purchases.

This is a HUGE advantage with the holidays coming up. Our calendars are selling fast [over 750 sold], and our ANLOL (A New Leash on Life) with 150 fantastic prizes is going on now . . . with a HUGE chance on winning. We are only offering 1500 squares/chances and we have 150 GIFTS. The ratio of winning will not change, all 150 gifts will be given. SOME ABSOLUTELY FANTASTIC and very pricey items for humans and fur kids alike. So go to our web site at CairnRescue.com, and click onto the FLASHING ICON for A NEW LEASH ON LIFE and then the Calendar icon. We have some great deals going also on the calendar. BUY 2 get free PRIORITY mail.

Order in the next day or so and you will most likely have these for thanksgiving as a special gift. We really truly appreciate your love and care in helping CP to help more Cairn kids. We have over 130 dogs in foster care now, with a pregnant baby due to whelp [after our 3 babies born on Monday] with many more that are in desperate need of help that we have already committed for. One ANLOL square is $15.00 which feeds one of our fur kids for a month. What a great gift to give them. Thank you.

NOW TAKING CP CENTER STAGE -- ROCKTOBER STARS 3

Written by CP's VP of Intakes

The lights are dimmed and the curtain rises ... the audience starts applauding and screaming with excitement at the sight of the performers on stage!!! The music comes to life and the party begins!

OK, we all have our own personal favorite Rock Stars, those that you would pay more than you should to see perform, those that, well, get your pulse racing and you fantasize about. Well, this is just a warning that the Rocktober Stars III that I am about to introduce are X RATED for EXTRA CUTE, CUTE and more CUTE!!!

Let's give a rousing CP welcome to the Rocktober Stars III:

Madonna: Female, DOB 5/3/08, wheaten brindle

BeeGees: Male, DOB 8/5/09, gray brindle

Wings: Male, DOB 8/19/09, dark brindle

GoGos: Female, DOB 8/19/09, dark brindle

Santana: Male, DOB 6/20/09, blond

Styx: Male, DOB 7/21/09, cream

These Rocktober Stars III are all currently performing in the Atlanta area, awaiting the destination of their home performance. Madonna in particular is in need of a stage to perform on in a foster home. She would prefer to travel to her home performance via ground transport, so if you have a home stage in the southeast and have room for Madonna to perform live on your stage, please apply to foster.

My thanks to the behind the scenes stage crew who helped to make this performance possible for the Rocktober Stars III. One more round of applause for the stage crew and the Rocktober Stars III please!!!

Silk has settled in - her puppies are due next week!

Good Morning CRM. I know I have been amiss giving updates on Silk, but life gets busy this time of year for me with kid's sports. With football season over, I have more free time, which is a good thing, as Silk is due sometime next week! Silk is an 8-year-old wheaten cairn that has lived her entire life in a commercial breeding facility. She is my first older foster, and the first week I had her, she learned to go through both the front door and back glass sliding doors. She also mastered a full set of outside deck steps. Above is a picture of Silk in her whelping box. She is a sweet, wonderful cairn, we've fallen in love with this one; it's going to be hard to let her go.

She never messes her whelping box, and only messes her xpen overnight. She walks on a leash cautiously, but I'm not pressing that right now, after she has her pups we'll work more with her. I have never heard her bark, I have a hunch she might have been debarked. In the middle of the night she will try to howl, when I rush downstairs to see what is wrong, I find her sound asleep. I believe she is dreaming! Her howl is gooselike, low, but honky.

I've had Silk with me for 3 weeks. Silk smiles, mostly when she's with my pack, she'll look back at me, and give me the biggest grin you've ever seen on a cairn. It's like she's saying, this place just might be ok! She will go to the gate on her room and wait for me to put her leash on to go outside. When it's time to go back in her xpen, she scoots right in. However, she does not want to be held.

She does not like to be on my lap. She does not want close contact with any human. Over the past few weeks I've gotten her used to being beside me, on the floor. She tolerates that for 10 mins at most. She allows me to do anything to her, petting her, grooming her or taking her temp. She gets free time in the house while I'm making her meals. For three weeks she nervously investigated every part of my first floor. Just this week she calmed down enough to lay on the big dog bed with McKenzie, my senior lab. It's so heartwarming to see her relax in a family atmosphere. Her tummy is getting quite large, those pups must be pressing on her bladder. She also flattens to the ground less when approached, and lets me kiss her sweet face without pulling away. Yesterday we had a breakthrough with her trusting me. My neighbor started up his tractor, and the noise scared her. She ran straight for me, and hid behind my legs. I almost cried!

She is wonderful with my pack, and they are with her. She tries to run with them, it'ss more like loping, and it only lasts a few widths of my yard. Then she walks slowly over to where I am, staying close till we go in. She tries to play with them, and once actually stole a toy from Izzy. She wasn't sure what to do with it, and it was quickly stolen back, but it's a start.

Silk had a vet appointment last week. The vet confirmed she had grade three, approaching grade four, luxating patellas on her back legs. They don't seem to bother her, but she is an older girl, and slow moving. I'm hoping once we have those pups, I can get her out to exercise more, strengthening her muscles can only help. The xray showed two pups, but there could be more. The vet thinks Silk's pups will be born the week of Thanksgiving. Lucky me! I'm just hoping I won't be basting a turkey and whelping pups at the same time. She has another xray scheduled for this Friday. Everyone keep your fingers crossed that it doesn't show more pups. Two is enough for her last litter.

Silk has learned to use the doggy door, all by herself. Normally she follows my 2 in the door, but today Silk decided she wanted to go in the house all by herself. Of course, I couldn't allow that. She's been such a good girl about doing her business outside, I didn't want to give her the chance to make a mistake. She wasn't very happy with me when I made her go out back again, but that's ok, I'm sure it won't be the last time. I took some pics of Silk's tummy today, below are the pics. Poor baby, she's so short legged, her tummy is about 2" from touching the ground. She's starting to eat more, 4 meals one day, 3 meals the next day. If that tummy of her's grows much more, she's gonna be swimming through my house.

Wacky Wednesday!

Wednesday is the day to be WACKY! Each week we will showcase a terrierific cairn picture with an appropriate caption. If you have a terrierific cairn and would like us to consider YOUR picture and caption for an upcoming "Wacky Wednesday" send it to us at cpcrnblog@gmail.com! (All photo submissions become the property of CPCRN and may be used for fundraising, promotion and/or outreach purposes.)




A big shout out to Rocky for being the Wacky Wednesday model this week! Rocky are ya saving up your treat money for Mr. Rat's bail??

I AM A FOSTER HOME -WHAT ABOUT YOU?

Written by a CP Foster Mom

I am a foster home.

I have teenagers.
I have 3 other rescued furkids with their own issues.
I work fulltime.

I do have a tonne of love to give.
I do have a warm, safe place for a foster to call their own for the short term.
I have an extra dish or two and beds and blankets to share.

I do have time to take a few pictures and post a fosters' accomplishments on the website.

I am horrible at training. (teens and furkids)
I cannot groom worth a darn, although I have all the tools.
I live on the most western part of BC.. on an island...

I am a CP foster home and although not perfect, I know I am needed and 10 fosters later, I wouldn't change a thing.

Note from CP: If you would like to consider being a foster home, please click here to learn more.