Hero Labradors

12/06/2024

12/06/2024

Mischief Managed!

Three of our pups delivered to Smoky Mountain Service Dogs in Lenoir City, TN.

(Psssst... if you're in the area, they could use fosters!)

12/03/2024

Hey! It's giving Tuesday.

Which... I failed to make a campaign page for this year.

Doesn't mean we don't need your donations, nor that we aren't grateful for them.

Just that with one litter on the ground, and another in Anela's belly (I think. Pretty sure. Or she's just getting fat...) and keeping up with bus maintenance (like spending $250 on a new battery for the bus yesterday, because it just *had* to crap out on me, or the $1500 vet bill we've got coming up in two days, to get these nine little velocipuppers examined, get a ultrasound/sonogram for Anela, and get Grace her cytopoint shot...

Heck, it's been a zoo around here. So I didn't make a giving Tuesday campaign page. I'm about to fire myself as our outreach coordinator/donation drive dude/web page designer/social media moron.

(Seriously, have you seen the herolabradors.org webpage? It looks like it was made by a colorblind disabled veteran with nine fingers, constant ringing in his ears, a currently torn eardrum, and who is also recovering from major surgery.)

So... yeah.

If you'd like to donate directly, https://www.herolabradors.org/donate
has ways to give. If you'd like to send a check, message me for the address.

If you'd like to support our in-house training program in Virginia where some of our Hero Labradors go to train, they need both financial aid and volunteers. https://theheroacademy.org/donate

11/20/2024

Just puppies

10/21/2024

The darkness and the light

10/14/2024

And then, there were nine. The little girl didn't spend much time with us, but she will be missed.

10/13/2024

Day two. I think Rouge is over it.

Our littlest girl (6.5 oz!) is struggling. We're keeping her in the incubator to keep her warm, keeping the Oxygen on to help her breathe, and trying to feed her on Rouge every 2 hours... if she struggles (because the other 9 are wriggling around) or is too weak/tired, we've been feeding her via syringe.

We're working in shifts to keep her going. I'm hopeful, but just not sure she's going to make it.

10/11/2024

Puppies #189-199

That's nearly HALF A MILLION dollars in puppies raised to be service dogs, donated to training programs for veterans, first responders, and their family members, and

$4,776,000 in trained (graduated) service dogs.

$0 in salaries paid.

With many thanks to our partners and their herculean efforts to make this possible.

Josey Ranch Pet Hospital

09/19/2024

Hey! You!

Yes YOU.

ITS NORTH TEXAS GIVING DAY FROM NOW THROUGH TOMORROW AT MIDNIGHT.

Hero Labradors is a registered charity with NTX GIVING day.

And the best part? You don't even have to live in Texas, be from Texas, or otherwise even like Texas to donate. (I mean, you're weird, but...)

Here's all you have to do:

Go here:
https://www.northtexasgivingday.org/organization/Hero-Labradors

and donate!

Hero Labradors is a combat-wounded, 100% disabled veteran operated Nonprofit that breeds Labrador Retrievers specifically for service dog traits of Aptitude, Intelligence, Demeanor, Empathy, and Size. (AIDES)We raise these puppies to 8-10 weeks, managing their early...

09/13/2024

Someone has a belly full of puppies!

07/30/2024

A long Surgery and dogs update:
(Warning: semi-graphic and gross medical stuff follows)

Back surgery is very unfun. Recovery is painful if you choose pooping over narcotics and laxatives. Since I tried the angry lemonade (lemon magnesium citrate) and it has liquefied everything I've eaten since my last colonoscopy. These pipes are clean, no more narcotics, thank you.

The %$ #&@ dogs....
Polar Bear, Pono, Anela, and Rouge all decided that 9:30 PM was a perfect time to hunt an armadillo.

So, they escaped the back yard (which I 100% fortified last summer in the 100+° by 10 AM weather) by escaping into the FRONT yard via an unlocked gate (I suspect it was left unlocked by cat... it certainly wasn't me, and she's Shady.)

Anyhoo, into the front yard, through the same hole in the fence the bunnies and apparently armadillos use, and into the woods.

Luckily, I was letting Grace out front and I heard a great commotion that can only be four big dogs out screwing around where they ain't supposed to be, snuffling and sniffing and panting and God knows what else.

I called the pack of goobers, and Anela and Pono came running... dirty and panting and happy as clams. Rouge was by the fence, but... no Polar Bear.

Rouge came to me as I stumbled through the yard, back brace on and wound vac dangling. She showed me how they got out, by squeezing through a rabbit sized hole, then refusing to come back. I could hear Polar Bear still screwing around in the woods with whatever, so I had one option: out the front gate, down the hill, to the edge of the woods to get him.

(He's special. He can fit his ginormous head through a 5" hole to chase an armadillo, but there's NO WAY he can do it to come home.)

So, I went on walkabout. In a back brace. For surgery to fuse my spine I had 5 days ago. Oh. I forgot to mention, no moon tonight. We live in a near-zero % light pollution area. It's well-diggers ass dark. I make it down the hill, to the woods, and out trots Polar Bear, happy to see me and he starts ambling home. I follow, calling for Rouge, who'd gone through the fence but not come back.

I get Melon Head home, and there's Rouge, laying on the porch, drinking out of the cat bowl.

All dogs secure. Likely as not a dead (or scarred sh*tless) armadillo in the woods.

My back is now having all sorts of anger issues, and I'm reevaluating the decision to have functional bowels vs the good drugs.

I think God keeps me around solely for entertainment purposes.

07/26/2024

All things are wonderful. Sometimes you have to find the good. Other times it's right in front of you.

07/25/2024

Surgery. Again.

07/16/2024

07/15/2024

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07/11/2024

Lunch break!
(Somewhere just shy of the TX/LA border on I-20)

Another good start to a puppy delivery.

06/21/2024

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