Santa Paws 2012

Flyball Dog Champion

Peanut won Flyball Dog Champion at Santa Paws, her 3rd flyball competition this weekend. Peanut was sick at last years Santa Paws tournament. It was right after she came down with Small Dog Shaking Syndrome  Now fully recovered yet a few pounds heavier from the steroids and new food stealing habit she was able to compete and won her Flyball Dog Champion ribbon! I can't wait to see her times and points, she must be getting close to Flyball Dog Champion Silver.




Here is Peanut in one of the races. She runs last- If I could get her to stop paying attention to the dog running back she would be so much faster! You can see her stop and snap at Maddie before running down. This was only her 3rd tournament, hopefully she'll get there!

Cause for Paws Bar Crawl!

Lollypop Farm Young Professionals are having the first annual pub crawl "Cause for Paws" to benefit the animals at Lollypop Farm Humane Society of Greater Rochester on July 14th. The party will start at Salingers at 3:00pm and continue to Temple, Matthews, and end up at Murphy’s Law. Presale tickets are $10, $15 at the door. Email jhatch@lollypop.org for presale ticket information. Tickets include Tshirt, drink specials, and entry into a 50/50 raffle.
For more information check out the event on Facebook and follow us on Twitter @LollypopFarmYP!
Looking for other ways to participate with Lollypop Farm YP’s join our Barktober Fest team! You can walk or run to help homeless animals on September 22nd. This is the second year the YP group has had a team, help us beat our last years donations of $3,817!

Build a Better Lollypop!

Yesterday May 17th Lollypop Farm had the ground breaking ceremony on their new $4.5 million expansion! Lollypop Farm is the best humane society in our area and will soon be in the big leagues along with Best Friends Animal Society in Utah, and Dumb Friends League in Colorado.

This expansion will have a huge effect on the Rochester community. The building will be expanded to include additional training space for dogs, a much needed enlarged veterinary clinic, horse training facility, upgrades to the farm walk to make it more accessible for strollers & wheelchairs, and additional cattaries.

I am excited to see the changes to come at Lollypop and the positive effects they will have on our community.

$4.5 Million is needed for this expansion, $3.2 Million has been raised so far! Donate Here!

Lollypop Farm YP Meeting Monday 5-14-12

Are you interested in learning more about Lollypop Farm and how you can help the animals? Join us on Monday May 14th, at 6:30pm for a Young Professionals meeting. This meeting will have a behind the sceens tour of the shelter. Get to see places that the public can't normally view.

We will also be planning our pub crawl fundraiser to be held this summer!

Pictures from her 1st Tournament!

My favorite picture

So determined

Wearing her pink bandana so everyone knows shes a rescue!

Great swimmers turn!

These photos are courtesy of Chris Tipton Photography. Excellent photographer!

Spectra Sure w/IGR Flea Meds

I work on the website http://www.duboisdistributors.com/ they added new flea control products and I just bought some for Peanut & Bailey. Spectra Sure w/IGR has the same ingredients as Frontline Plus but is only about 1/2 the price! I looked online and a three pack for the same size of Fronline Plus sells for $40 - $46. I bought this at Dubois for $21.47 with free shipping. I'm so glad there is now a resonable flea control medicine that actually works. This protects against ticks as well which is a growing concern in our area. We do sometimes go for walks in the woods. 
They also have a cat version. I will be buying that soon since all 3 of my cats go outside.

Peanut wins!

Peanut won 3 ribbons today at the Flyball tournament! The first ribbon was for Flyball dog 20 points. The second was for receiving 100 points for the title of Flyball dog excellent! The dogs earn points by how fast the team runs in each heat. If the team runs under 25 seconds each dog earns 25 points, 28 seconds each dog earns 5 points, 32 seconds each dog earns 1. Peanuts 3rd ribbon was for being a rescue dog, the judges picked a few of their favorite rescue dogs that ran. I was disappointed there weren't more rescue dogs there.

Fetch n Fly Flyball Tournament

Peanut and Big Peanut~ Both rescues they look so much alike!

Peanut was in her first official Flyball tournament this weekend in Henrietta. It was a small tournament but it was still loud enough for me! All those dogs in one place can get pretty crazy.

Finally off of Pred!

Peanut is finally off of Prednisone!! She has fully recovered from the steroid responsive small white dog shaking syndrome. She does still however have some of the side effects lingering from the steroids. We have three dogs total and Peanut has always been top dog. With the steroids she started resource guarding. Specifically guarding me and food. I had a trainer come to the house that I've worked with before and trust. One of the big changes we have to make is keeping Peanut off of the furniture and off of my lap. She also suggested a few exercises to practice with all of the dogs, only giving her bones in her crate, and increasing Peanut's exercise. Since summer has come early in Rochester I've been walking Peanut every single night. She is slowly improving but it is taking time.