Hayley

Breed: Lab mix Gender: Female, spayed Age: 12 year old Size: 70 pounds Good with… Dogs? Yes! Cats? Yes! Kids? Yes! Please Welcome Hayley, our newest CDR rescue! Hayley is a ridiculously sweet, friendly, loving 70-pound, 12 year-old lab mix girl who needed rescue when her owner lost his home and had to move downstate to a senior facility. She has been with us for about a month, and she is really blossoming! She arrived with a host of normal, senior-dog medical issues that needed attention—she was overdue on all vaccines, had a very bad UTI, was quite overweight, was limping and achey all over, and had several broken teeth and a mouth full of tartar and inflammation. We’re on it and making good progress! Her UTI is already mostly cleared up, she is less achey all over and is limping less due to helpful pain meds and anti-inflammatories. Her…

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Peanut

Quick Facts: Breed: Yorkie Gender: Female Age: 10-12 years old Size: 3 pounds Good with… Dogs? ? Cats? ? Kids? ? Peanut Only 3 pounds!! Senior (10-12 years) Might have limited or no vision (cataracts) Coming soon! Arrives Jan 2nd, needs full medical and dental work-up before we will consider applications. Stay tuned for updates! If you are interested in adopting me, please fill out an online adoption application and live close to Ithaca , Syracuse, Binghamton, Rochester, or Elmira. We do home visits on every applicant, and can’t do home visits where we don’t have local volunteers.

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Snowball

Quick Facts: Breed: Toy Poodle Gender: Female Age: 11 years old Size: 9 pounds Good with… Dogs? Yes! Cats? Unknown! Kids? Yes! 12+ Snowball, aka “Snowy!” 11 year-old female toy poodle 9 pounds! Teensy! Loves people! Sweet, playful, adorable! Perfectly at ease with other dogs, very respectful, relaxed and kind. No info about how she feels about cats. ***Snowball (aka Snowy) is no longer up for adoption, but she does need donations for her medical care.  Due to her cancer diagnosis and prognosis, she will stay in her loving foster home (where she is ridiculously happy!) until the end of her life.  See story below.*** December 23, 2021 Some months after we took Snowy into our foster program, our vet found more than half a dozen mammary tumors. Since each one had a 50% chance of becoming cancerous, we decided that it wasn’t right to adopt her out, knowing that…

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