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Lily's Page

Forest Lake Veterinary Hospital met a new friends in 2005 when Lily was brought to us at 12 weeks old with a broken pelvis. We provided her with the care she needed, and she provided us with profound companionship until she retired to Rita’s house (one of our Customer Service Representatives) in 2015. After a long life of comfort and love, we said goodbye to our old friend Lily, when she crossed the rainbow bridge on July 20th, 2021.

In memory of Lily we are dedicating her page to helping new friends find their forever homes, and to remember old friends that have left their paw prints on our hearts as they have crossed the rainbow bridge.

The furry friends listed below are adoptable through rescues that Forest Lake Veterinary Hospital partners with. If interested in growing your family by some furry paws please contact the rescue which is listed in each new friend's bio below.

New Friends

Ivy Jane

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Ivy Jane (or Ivy, for short) always wants to be close to her people. She enjoys snuggling on the couch and bed, and she's happiest when she's spending quality time with her family. Whether it's short walks, playing with toys, or doing zoomies in the yard, Ivy embraces life with enthusiasm. Though she loves being a couch potato, she's always ready to accompany you wherever you go. Ivy loves car rides, camping trips, and going for short walks. She's a fan of playing with toys and doing zoomies in the yard, but she's equally content watching TV with her family or snoozing on the couch.

To learn more about Ivy Jane, please visit the Great Dane Rescue website.

Thor

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Thor is chill dude that just goes with the flow. He enjoys going on walks and would prefer a fenced in yard to have more time to run and play. He generally looks when his name is called and knows the commands sit and come. Thor needs time to warm up to men and is not fond of cats. He is food motivated and turns into a bit of a cartoon character trying to race to my bowl on the hard floor.... I'm going sooo fast in my head, but my feet can't always get traction so I'm basically running in place. Ha! You know me, I just love my food! In typical boxer fashion, I would like a fenced yard to run around and enjoy rolling in the grass. If I'm on a tie out, I'll do my business and then turn into a statue. I love to greet new people and would make a great pet for a family with kids or would be content chilling with a retired family.

For more information, please contact Minnesota Boxer Rescue.

Tuck

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Here is Tuck! Tuck loves every human he has ever met. He is SUPER intelligent and treat-motivated. While Tuck would love an active and sporty lifestyle, he is also a snugglebug extraordinaire. Tuck is good with other dogs.

For more information, go to the Safe Hands Rescue website.

Old Friends

AoiMe

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May 1, 2010 I adopted a cat that had been found in the middle of the road recently run over by a car. A caring vet tech scooped him up and nursed him back to health. The life he lived prior to joining my family is something I'm sure he was happy to leave behind; both of his ears and the tip of his tail showed the damage frostbite had caused.

I named him AoiMe which means blue eyes in Japanese because his were the bluest I had ever seen.

I had the pleasure of sharing my heart and home with him for 14 years. He was the sweetest, most gentle and best Velcro kitty you could wish for. He made it difficult to have a bad day because he had a way of snuggling the gloom right out of you.

I will always be thankful for all the years he gave me, but will never stop wishing that we could have had more time together.

Scout

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Scout and Dr. Rudd met at a coworker's house party in 2008 and hit it off, so she took Scout home and then onto Canada for college at McGill University. Scout lived in Texas, Montreal, Pennsylvania, New Mexico, and then California before moving to Minnesota so Dr. Rudd could attend veterinary school.

In her younger years, Scout was an prodigious bug hunter, with her biggest catch being an impressive 5-inch hummingbird moth, caught in Amarillo, Texas in 2009. She loved chasing lights, and shadows, and occasionally her own tail. Other hobbies included a love of eating rubber bands, but she could always be trusted to puke them up and avoided incurring any surgery bills.

When Scout was still she was imperiously beautiful, but she could be rather clumsy in motion - notable accidents include running headlong into a full-length mirror and shattering it, and several years later she broke both of her top canine teeth trying to jump through a closed window. She was famously grumpy and hated all other animals, especially cats, but that did not stop Dr. Rudd from bringing home anyone who needed a place to stay.

Like many cats, Scout battled kidney disease and IBD the last few years of her life. She spent most of her time sleeping on a heating pad but still had the energy to wander the garden and eat grass on occasion. It was an honor to know her and she will be missed.

Jitters
4/10/19 - 9/11/22

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Jitters was a strong indoor/outdoor cat full of unique personality. He was always vocalizing for attention with crazy meows despite how loved and spoiled he was. Jitters was named because he always seemed like he just drank a pot of coffee and was bouncing off the walls, he didn't need catnip to be full of energy. His favorite activities were climbing structures he shouldn't have, and hunting for critters in the fields.

Jitters unfortunately passed at only 3 years old due to a blood clot from a genetic heart condition. He is forever resting in the field he hunted and chasing gophers in the sky.

His family misses the chaos, annoyance, and smiles he used to bring to everyday life.

Ora Jane

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Ora Jane was one in a million cat.

We weren't supposed to get another cat, but my husband's coworker's cat had another litter and I begged him to look at the teeny tiny kittens, just to smoosh them. Two years prior, in 2008, we had gotten a pair of kittens from the same coworker, from the same mom.

My heart was stolen that day by a tiny, feisty, tortie girl who just kept chirping at me. I left the coworkers house in near tears as I really wanted that kitten.

She came home a few weeks later when she was old enough after I wore my husband down. He really didn't want a fourth cat but we had recently lost another cat.

I named this feisty girl Ora Jane, after my great great aunt, to my grandma's horror and she soon acclimated to my crazy home. She was a shy girl, but would always come running when I called her name, chirping at me. She was very much a mama's girl. She started developing some urinary problems, resulting in hundreds of vet trips, loads of medications, and a lot of stressful nights. Turns out she had FIC, so she would have urinary issues when stressed, which means we adjusted our lifestyle for her and finally got it under control.

One day, she was super off, not acting her normal self. I chalked it up to kitty depression as she/us had just lost two of our other cats suddenly. I came into the clinic to get some medications/fluids and suddenly it turned into x-rays, bloodwork, and an ultrasound after a quick exam by a doctor. The C-word was thrown around as we found masses on her kidneys, something I wasn't ready to hear nor was expecting. We ended up doing two days of hospitalization trying to get her stable. My heart was numb, those days were a blur and finally, she told us she was ready to go.

Five days after the C-word was first spoken, we held her close and eased her passing. She was only 12 years old.


We are using this page as a memorial space for furry friends who have crossed the rainbow bridge. If you would like to have your pets memorial posted, please email it to [email protected] along with a photo.