Meet Pokey! She is a 3-year-old, 45-lb, shorthaired mutt who was found as a stray on the cold, snowy streets. She's a total love-bug little piglet, and she smiles when you rub her neck or her tummy. She makes little piggy grunts and sighs when she practices her downward dog pose or climbs up on things. Pokey loves people and she just follows you around quietly and wags her tail until you let her up on your lap. She's fairly low-energy, pretty mellow and laid back. She is housetrained and loves to snuggle. She also knows basic commands like "sit" and "outside," so she wasn't always a stray. Someone loved her and taught her lots of great stuff. Pokey needs a quiet foster care home right now. She tested positive for heartworm, which is NOT contagious to people or other animals. She will need a quiet place to recover from treatment. Can anyone help sweet Pokey or give her the lifelong, loving home she's dreaming of? She's a great dog, and she deserves a loving home. Adoption fee: $75.
Apply online:
www.pawsforliferescue.org
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UPCOMING EVENTS:
- Third Sunday of Every Month: Adoption Event at Petco, 4820 S. Baldwin Rd, Lake Orion/Auburn Hills. From noon to 4 p.m., come meet adoptable dogs, cats, puppies and kittens (as available). A selection of adoptable cats and kittens live at the store full-time and you can see them any time the store is open: Monday-Saturday 9 a.m. - 9 p.m.; Sundays 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. Adoption event dates: March 16, Saturday, March 29, April 20, May 18, June 15, July 20, August 17, September 21, October 19, November 16 and December 21.
Adoption and Foster Care Application
NOTE ABOUT BREED LABELING: Visual breed identification of dogs is unreliable and usually inaccurate. So, for most of our adoptable dogs, we are only guessing at predominant breed or breed mix. We get to know each dog
as an individual and will do our best to describe each of our dogs based on personality, not by breed label.
Why is labeling a dog such a big deal? A label will stick with a dog for the rest of its life. A label can mean discrimination, losing its home or even death. Labels are a problem for the dogs when we, as the local experts on animals, allow adopters, politicians and community members to think that the label we assign can predict who that dog is or will be.
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Adoption Process: Complete the application at
www.pawsforliferescue.org. We then arrange a location, date and time for you to meet some pets. If the meeting goes well and everyone is happy, you begin the mandatory, minimum two-week adjustment period with the pet as part of your family. You will pay the non-refundable adoption fee at the start of the two-week adjustment period. This pending period allows your new dog or cat time to adjust to their new home, new people, new routine, etc., and for you to decide if it's a match and the right pet for you. At the end of two weeks (some people extend the adjustment time as needed and that's fine too), if everyone is happy, then we finalize the adoption. Feel free to email if you have any questions.
