***Update: Labs needing new home
******* Final, FINAL update.
A special thanks to Kristin Coronado of the Washington Post.
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Final update: Happy ending for this one. Cookie and Coco have found a new home -- together.
posted earlier today about two 3-year-old Labrador retrievers, Cookie and Coco, whose family must move and cannot take them along. The owner, Sarah, needs to find a home where they will be kept together.
I've been so overwhelmed with the enormous response from my plea, that it has been hard to get back to everyone.
In the last 36 hours alone, I have received over 200 emails with offers to help find Cookie and Coco a great home together.
I received a call from someone who volunteers for the SCLRR (Southern Californian Lab retriever Rescue). She has offered to help me with the screening and adopting process. You can contact Julie @ Juliehaunani@gmail.com
I will do my best to answer any and all questions about my dogs. Just please forgive me if it takes a few days. Thank you all so much. God bless you for being so wonderful and thoughtful.
Regards. Sarah.
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Sounds like they wound up in a home realtively close to the former owner (in the L.A. area) who reported to the Washington Post that she receives photos of the dogs and that her kids have been invited to go hiking with them by the new owners.
check out: http://www.expressnightout.com/content/2009/02/paws_effect_finding_cookie_and_coco_a_ho.php
Hi glad to hear all has worked out well. I must say i am a bit confused as i have recieved the email and was led to believe the owners are from michigan . I would hate to have sent bogus info to all the really caring folks in my life. Please lf anyone knows where Coco and Cookie ended up. Thanks , M
I can't beleive this! I spoke with the woman who adopted these two guys on the pone about getting their vaccination records...then, Amazingly, found a LONG lost freind from my highschool days online...and he had a posted somethign about two labs that needed a home named cookie and coco..I was like "hmmm...could this be them?" can you beleive it? the Universe really does aline sometimes. What are the odds...
I'm so happy your furry family members found a loving new home and i can't wait to meet them in person and know they travelled so far!!!
-Hannah
I posted this and was led to believe from the person who forwarded it that you lived near us in the NC mountains. We even thought the co-worker's sister knew you. I'm not sure if that part's true or not. However, a response I got from a friend in Los Angeles said she works at "D Pet Hotels" and had just got a call from someone who had rescued two labs by the names of Cookie and Coco, wanting to pamper them a little. Crazy how this has made it around full circle again and again, huh? Celebrity dogs now. Hope you and your family are well and blessed.
-Cody
Sarah,
This has made it around the world! I am in Newport, RI, and I immediately sent this email out to my HUGE list, and the response was overwhelming...my husband and I really wanted to adopt them, too! I have focused on this for many days, and am still fielding emails and calls!!! I can only imagine the ones YOU have been getting! God Bless you and your family and those 2 wonderful doggies!
Warm Regards,
Sally King
Oh Sarah, I am so sorry you are going through this. I lost my home a year ago last August, and we at the time had 3 labs. Chocolate, Black and Yellow. Luke, Jake and Brady. I knew we had to leave, as we did not want to have the kids answer the door when the Sherrif came with the get out order. However it took me months to find a wonderful landlady who rented me a house she owns and allowed me to take my boys. I just wanted you to know that you are not alone, it has happened to many of us. Keep looking for a place that will take them while you are waiting. Exhaust all your possibilities if you have not already, and know that Coco and Cookie know how much you love them. If there is anything I can do please let me know. Again I am so sorry.