Gentle six-year-old Lily, a shelter stray and mom to many puppies, came to us dirty, greatly underweight, and with eye, ear, and skin infections as well as advanced dental disease. And to top it off, this poor pup had kennel cough too. When she was [...]
Tigger, only two months old, was left at a shelter and arrived from Utah via a private jet flown by a volunteer pilot. Upon arriving with us this little guy clearly wasn’t feeling so well. It wasn’t air sickness. He tested positive for parvovirus, a [...]
A badly neglected seven-year-old Lab from a shelter that stopped adoptions when the COVID-19 crisis hit, Elsie with her heart of gold was instantly an easy Lab to love. She was weak, overweight and clearly been the mom to many puppies; she was missing large [...]
Handsome three-year-old Hunter joined us after he was taken from an abusive situation. Routine vetting revealed he was heartworm positive. Further diagnostics showed the disease was fortunately not yet acute, however he still needed to follow a lengthy treatment protocol involving medications, special injections, hospitalization, [...]
I’m a super friendly nine-month-old puppy with a new twist on being called a “Bird Dog”! One day while exploring and being a typical puppy putting stuff in my mouth, I accidentally swallowed something. After a while I didn’t feel so good and was taken [...]
Clancy is a laid-back Lab whose motto is “No Worries”. About eight years old and full of ticks, he wandered onto a KS farm and was soon thereafter deposited at small shelter. Next stop: Safe Harbor Lab Rescue. Clancy needed a dental, to be neutered [...]
Miss Hershey spent seven months, almost half her life, in a small Arkansas shelter. Arkansas has one of the highest incidences of heartworm disease in the US and our Hershey was bitten by an infected mosquito. Her treatment following the American Heartworm Society protocol will [...]
When a Lab joins the Safe Harbor family, we are always there for them if the adopting family’s circumstances change. A gentle soul, nine-year-old Buddy re-joined us when his owner became too ill to care for him. He arrived with untreated diabetes that we brought [...]
