Angel Tree Donations Make the New Year a Sweet Treat for Rescue Pups

Throughout the holiday season, Best Friends Pet Care has been collecting donations made by our very generous clients for our Angel Tree Program.  Clients were asked to donate toys and treats,or a dollar amount to local underpriviledged pets.  All proceeds collected were used to purchase merchandise from Best Friends which would be donated to three rescue organizations: Faith's Hope, Cascade Beagle Rescue, and Kitty Cottage Adoption Center.  This year's proceeds exceeded $700!

Take a look at what happened when the pups stopped by to raid underneath the tree!

These two mischevious puppies are Carmen and Paco from Faith's Hope.

Carmen is a 3-month-old American Pit Bull Terrier puppy that was taken to a shelter in the Reading, PA area along with her 2 littermates when she was only 6 weeks old.  Carmen came to Faith's Hope Rescue about a month ago and has been in foster homes, getting lots of love and learning to be a good puppy while she waits for just the right permanent home.

Paco is a 4-month-old Pit Bull mix.  He was surrendered to a shelter in Maryland when he was only 7 weeks old and has been with Faith's Hope rescue since the end of November, 2009.  Paco was born with some very severe skeletal and muscular deformities.  His hips are malformed, some of the bones in his legs are malformed or misaligned and his ligaments and muscles are also abnormal. Because of all these abnormalities, he is not able to use his back legs, he just drags them. He is, however, quite mobile and otherwise a perfectly normal and healthy puppy.