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Bailey the puppy asks "would you please help me?"

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PDD villagers ...
Many folks here who blog and read on PDD are involved in very important community organizations. It's the involvement of fellow Duluthians that make this town such a wonderful place to live. I want to take a moment to post about an organization I volunteer with that is little known in the northland Retrieve a Golden of Minnesota. As of last night RAGOM and Animal Ark took on the heroic and daunting task of rescuing 83 golden retrievers from a puppy mill in North Dakota that the USDA has shut down. It was covered on all local news casts ... the one on KSTP particularly tear jerking.

If you are interested in helping RAGOM with this effort, please click here for more information. Also, here is an address to send donations. They need food, toys, volunteers, foster homes, cash and of course forever homes for each golden!
I have rescued two since I became involved and they have been a joy in my heart!
RAGOM
Attention: Puppy Mill Rescue Fund
P.O. Box 5567
Hopkins, MN 55343-0492

ALL ANIMALS NEED LOVE AND ATTENTION :

This is just one example of a need to help an organization who's been helping animals for over 25 years. If we could be a voice for all animals in need that would be wonderful. I could put up a picture of the Goldens that were treated so inhumanely you would cry, but that's just not as grand as seeing the longing eyes of Bailey the puppy.

Charlie, one of my golden's I rescued from RAGOM, was surrendered because he had such bad allergies he was constantly bleeding and had lost a lot of his hair on his chest on stomach. Don't tell him this but he wasn't very cutesy. Turns out he was allergic to the food they were feeding him. Within 8 weeks of having Charlie, his hair grew back and he is a handsome boy. My other golden suffered from a common problem with animals breed poorly. She had an invasive cancer called oral fibrosarcoma. A tumor grew on her nose forcing teeth to fall out and blood clots to randomly fall out as well. Before she passed the tumor was as large as a grapefruit causeing people to stop point and stare. Not all animals are cutesy but we love them just the same.

That's just my story. RAGOM has brought joy in to many people's lives .. and has helped many animals in the process rehoming more than 300 abandoned, stray or surrendered goldens a year.

The greatness of a nation and its progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated. -Gandhi

Comments

I will take a puppy. I will take Bailey if still available. I already have a 5 yr old golden that I love and a 6 yr old Newfie thay I love. I have room in my heart & home for another
Please call 732-961-3852


Good lord, what a cutie! Gotta wait until my old pal passes on which I hope isn't too soon (a 15 year old Siamese Persian cat). After that, I'm puppy bound! Thanks! I'll bookmark the links and keep the phone number!


There are lots of dogs that aren't cutesy purebreds at the pound. Doesn't anyone ever think about them?


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