You can help LBR win $25k!!

Do you want to help Legacy Boxer Rescue win $25,000 so we can keep helping dogs like Painter? There's a very easy way to help! Go to http://albertsonscpchallenge.com/ and enter your email address. It will send a confirmation email to that address, then you can come back to the site and vote. Just enter charity code 0156 to vote for LBR. (Mom signed up last week and hasn't gotten any spam from it, it's just the one confirmation email!) You can vote 5 times a day PER email address.

This is $25,000 CASH!! That's a whole lot of green papers, and a WHOLE lot LBR can do to help the dogs! Voting only runs through October 15th, so it's just a little while to make a huge difference. Please vote every day, and share this with all your furiends!!

Can I ask a favor? All you humans that are out there thinking about bringing a dog into your life, or the ones who already have, I'd just like for you to stop and think for a minute. Because dogs (especially boxers!) are wonderful. Dogs are amazing. Dogs will give you our whole heart. We'll be the wagging tail that greets you when you come home every day, we'll be the warm body to snuggle up to when you're feeling rotten, we'll be the silly antics that make you smile no matter how bad your day has been. No matter what you do, no matter what you look like, no matter how the rest of the world treats you, we'll be there for you.

Do you want to know my favor? The one thing that we ask in return for all that love? When it's our time, when we're old and hurting... please stay with us. We love you. We gave you our whole life and heart and soul. When it's time for us to go on, please don't say "it's too hard" or you "just can't stand it." Don't make the last person we see be the vet. Worse, don't make us wait scared and alone at the shelter, not knowing what we did wrong or why our family abandoned us just when we needed you the most.

This is Painter. He loyally loved his family like a good dog should. And when he was hurt, his family didn't give any of that loyalty back to him. We think he had a stroke, or maybe some kind of brain tumor. He couldn't move his left side at all and his right side only a little. Instead of staying with him and holding him, his family left him at a shelter to make the poor shelter workers do what they couldn't.

Painter did find a family before it was too late. Two LBR volunteers went to look at him in the shelter and knew they couldn't leave him there, barely able to move on the rainbow blanket the shelter workers gave him but still trying to do his boxer wiggle. They did what family should do. They took him to the vet, they found out that nothing else could be done to help him, and they held him while the vet helped him to the Rainbow Bridge. Painter was a member of the Legacy family before he died, so he didn't die alone.

That's all any of us ask from you humans out there. We love you, and we'll do anything for you. Please, please don't make us die alone.

Mums & Roses

This weekend was action-packed! LBR's big annual fundraiser, MUMS & ROSES, was on Saturday. We had about a million volunteers out ready to rock the plant stand! (Literally.)

We had all sorts of just gorgeous plants ready to be sold to new homes to help make money for the boxers.

We had a few boxers out too. :)


This is the first shift of our million volunteers.

One of our awesome Facebook friends came down to visit us all the way from Pennsylvania! She met Huxley, her favorite LBR dog. (Other than me, of course!) Joana calls Hux her internet puppy. We all loved seeing them meet at last.


Mom had fun too. One of the LBR volunteers is also fostering for a Boston terrier rescue, and she got lots of love nibbles from Riley.


Best of all, we raised over $12,000 for LBR!!! That's a whole lot of kibble and vet visits!

Mums & Roses!

It's a paw-ty!

We celebrated my sissy Cinderella's birthday this weekend. My aunt Joni (she was my foster mom back when I was an LBR foster dog!) came over, and Ella and I got to have yummy pupcakes! But first we had to pose for pictures.


Mom says sorry about the quality of the pictures -- she was picking up her camera to take the pictures and dropped it on the floor. Now it's broken and she is very sad. She had to take these with her camera phone, and it's just not the same.

Happy birthday, Cinderella! You're the best sissy ever. Thanks for sharing your pupcakes. :)

More Wags & Waves fun!

I wasn't the only LBR dog having fun at Wags & Waves last weekend! We had lots of alums stop by to play. Mom only got pictures of a few of them, but they sure all looked like they were having fun.

This is Maximus. He was an itty bitty puppy with a hurt paw when LBR first found him, but he's livin' large with his new daddy now!

Cleveland shares my thoughts on the Lazy River. This is a seriously freaky place. Really, WHY would you want to ride in one of those bouncy tube thingies on top of water?

This is my buddy Bevo. We had lots of fun playing in the wave pool together. He wasn't adopted through LBR, but he has an LBR alum sister and is a great foster brother to a bunch of LBR fosters.


Baxter knows he's handsome -- he's got the same awesome life jacket that I wore!

Tyson tried snorkeling, but I don't think he liked it very much!

I have more Wags & Waves pictures, but I wanted to take a moment to wish a very, very, very happy birthday to my favorite dog ever, my sissy Cinderella! She is eight years old today, and Mom and I love her very much. We're having her birthday pawty on Sunday, but I wanted to wish her a happy birthday today.