Cookie and Coco: June 2009 Archives

They're the two L.A. labs that went 'round the world in an e-mail phenomenon earlier his year after their owner, who could not take them with her when she downsized from a house to an apartment, sent out a plea to find the dogs a new home together. (They were adopted.)

Our original post from January 22 continues to draw comments as links to it apparently keep circulating around the nation. The post includes updates letting people know the dogs were adopted.

But the Cookie & Coco allure continues and emails are still circulating (Josh got the latest version from a friend recently, who suggested he might want to put the plea for a new home for these dogs up on the blog). 

We've also received several more comments on our original post in just the past week, although it looks as if people are (finally) getting the word that the dogs have long since found a new home.

So I thought it was a good time for a fresh update here at South Bay Pets.

First of all, I spoke this morning with the former owner, Sarah, who tells me Cookie and Coco are doing well (being "spoiled," actually, she said). They remain in the same home they were placed in some four months ago now and it's worked out beautifully, she said. Both Sarah and the dogs' new owners live fairly close to one another in the San Fernando Valley of Los Angeles so Sarah's children can continue to visit the dogs if they wish.

"My girls (the dogs) are fabulously happy," Sarah told me on the phone. "We did the right thing, the only thing we could at the time."

She has been working with some nonprofit groups on behalf of shelter dog rescue work and also mentioned that Cookie and Coco have been the subject of a couple of children's books, with proceeds going to dog rescue organizations.

She also forwarded to us the email below which she sent out recently to those who have contacted her.

I've posted some of the more recent comments the original post has received on the jump.