The Home Safety Team makes sure that the homes in which our dogs are fostered and adopted are safe and secure; especially since cairns are so smart and active. Bringing a new dog into your home is like adding a new member to the family, so the Home Safety Team also make sure that everyone in the home is willing to take on this new responsibility.

At Colonel Potter’s Cairn Rescue Network, we are committed to placing our dogs in great homes. In the first quarter of this year alone, 94 home safety inspections were performed. That’s more than one a day!

In March we shared with you the story of CeCe, one of Colonel Potter's courageous cairns who was able to overcome serious emotional problems and obsessive behaviors with the help of a loving foster mom.

Since that time, CeCe has found her forever home and we'd like to tell the happily ever after part of her story.

Soon after CeCe's story was published on the March celebrations page, she was adopted by a woman named Ellie. CeCe was only with Ellie one week when Ellie fell and broke her kneecap. Ellie had to be hospitalized for knee surgery and CeCe went to live with Ellie's niece.

That meant that within about 3 weeks time, CeCe went from a busy foster home, to a quiet home with Ellie, and then to a home with children, a dog, and two cats. There was a danger that CeCe would return to her obsessive paw sucking because of all of the disruptions in her life, but CeCe is a survivor. Ellie's niece worked with CeCe's former foster mom to find strategies to help CeCe not revert to her old behaviors. Also, while Ellie was in six weeks of rehabilitation, Ellie's niece took CeCe to visit her. Now Ellie is home, and she and CeCe are reunited.

Maureen performed the Home Safety Visit and she reports that CeCe is doing well. She had her vet checkup and is a healthy little gal. CeCe's paw sucking is now very minimal and when she starts to suck, Ellie says "CeCe NO" and CeCe stops. Maureen said Ellie just LOVES this little gal.

This is a cairn deemed 'unadoptable' when rescued by Colonel Potter's. Thanks to the love and persistence of CeCe's foster mom, and all of the people at Colonel Potter's that supported her effort, CeCe was able to find healing for her little cairn soul and gather the courage to reach up and grasp the brass ring of her own special, happily ever after story.

Join with us to create a series of CPCRN Celebration Cairn Quilts this year to help in fundraising for our rescue efforts. These quilts will be in groups of 4, 6, and 12 blocks created by those who want to help, and will be assembled and quilted by crafting members of CPCRN. Of course, anyone who wants to create an entire quilt is more than welcome, but even a single block will move us toward our goal.

Celebrate some more !!!

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