Safe Harbor Lab Rescue: Senior Pet Adoption Assistance Grant Report

How did this grant help your organization and the pets in your care?

The grant money was used to pay Honey Bee's adoption fee, and to provide for her prescription dog food: Royal Canin Glycobalance food for diabetic dogs.

This grant helped expedite the adoption of Honey Bee, an 8.5-year-old diabetic Labrador retriever whom we received from a shelter that would not have been able to place her.

We are a foster-based rescue. Once she was adopted, her foster home became free to help another rescued dog.

How many pets did this grant help?

1

Please provide a story of one or more specific pets this grant helped.

Shortly after we received the Petfinder Foundation Senior Pet Adoption Grant, 8.5-year-old Miss Honey Bee was adopted! Nine months earlier, she had been taken to a shelter when she unexpectedly became blind, and was diagnosed with diabetes. A senior Lab in this condition had little chance of a happy ending. We were determined that she would have one. First, there was the challenge of managing her diabetes. Next, could anything be done to restore her vision? Working with a veterinary ophthalmologist, we learned that her blindness was due to cataracts caused by her diabetes. Good news followed: With her diabetes now under control, she was a candidate for their surgical removal. Surgery successfully restored her vision, and with her diabetes managed, Honey Bee saw a wonderful increase in the quality of her life. She was adopted as a loving companion by a recently widowed senior familiar with caring for a diabetic dog.