Welcome Missouri River Kids!

Written by CP's VP of Intakes

A river is a lifeline in many US communities. It can be a source of harnessing electrical power, a transportation link, source of food and a beautiful recreational respite. There are many different types of rivers from ones like the mighty Mississippi, to much smaller, local waterways. They have been romanticized in music, had entire books written revolving around them and immortalized in poetry. Rivers flow through all parts of the country, passing through communities of every social strata. The flow and ebb of a river's water can be hypnotic and never ending ...

Flashback about two years ago to Kathy telling the story of finding their way to a puppy mill to pick-up a lone male Cairn. They left the main road and the country road kept getting narrower and narrower the farther they went. Coming to the end of the road stood a ramshackle, old mobile home and beyond that were row after row of rabbit hutch-like cages filled with dogs sitting under the shade of trees and positioned so they would all drain down a hill -- forming a river of excrement ...

This past Sunday, Kathy and Barney H. once again made their way back to this same PM. Thanks to Intakes being notified by a new volunteer to CP of an ad in a local newspaper of a PM wanting to get rid of all of their Cairns, this river runs deep. The dogs are now all housed in a dilapidated building to "protect" them from the winter weather, but the stench and the filth remains and the river now runs inside. CP will be bringing in the remaining 20+ Cairns from this PM over the next couple of months, stopping the flow from this one "river" forever.

Please help me welcome the first Missouri River Kids:

Couivre: M, red wheaten, DOB 11/10/06



Charlton: F, silver brindle, DOB 5/18/06



Nodaway: F, wheaten, DOB 9/20/05



Wyaconda: M, red wheaten, DOB 2/5/04



des Peres: M, brindle, DOB 5/2/07



Courtois: M, wheaten, DOB 5/24/07



Fabius: M. wheaten, DOB 11/14/07



Current: F, wheaten w/ black ears, DOB 11/22/06



Niangua: F, red wheaten, DOB 4/19/01



This will require a HUGE commitment of resources by Col. Potter - from foster homes, to transport volunteers, even Blanket Aunties -- but no commitment more important than financial! The cost to vet and get these 20+ Cairns set-up in foster homes will be HUGE. Once again, please consider supporting these PM kids by donating to Name a PM Kid or just sponsoring one of them. These 9 are no longer living along the banks of a filthy, smelly river running through a dilapidated shed, but their kennel mates remain and are waiting for us to once again send the Rescue Barge down the river to bring them to safety and freedom.

LET'S KEEP ROLLIN' DOWN THE RIVER TO HELP THESE FURKIDS!!

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