Cookie #5 Black Labrador Retriever Female 13 Years Old ID #3546

December 8, 2025

Meet Cookie.🍪 True to her name she is sweet and snack sized. Cookie is a 13-year-old lab mix who weighs in at 45 pounds of goodness.

Recently Cookie has fallen on hard times. Since she was a puppy, she lived with one person who loved her. He was her person in every way. He became seriously ill and is in hospice. 😞 Cookie lost her one and only. 😓 As if that wasn’t devastating enough, she also spent the last month in a kennel, a place entirely unfamiliar to her. 😞

This weekend Cookie came into foster care.  With so many changes and so much loss, poor Cookie is confused, scared, and in grief. ☹️ She needs time to adjust to calmer, more loving surroundings, to catch up on sleep after being in a noisy kennel, and to get used to her foster mother and foster sister. She is reportedly very friendly and a lover of people. 😁 Having already made baby steps in the right direction, I have no doubt that with time and nurturing, she will be showing those traits in abundance.😊

Cookie went to the vet this week for the first time in a long time.  She was a good girl in the car and during the visit. She is currently being treated for a urinary tract infection and has started on medication for arthritis. She is otherwise healthy.

While Cookie will reveal herself more in due course, there are a few things that are immediately very clear. She is sweet, compliant, gentle and housetrained. She will make an excellent and unbeatable addition to everyone’s holiday cookie selections. 🍪🍪🍪🍪🍪🍪

Cookie will check in once she gets some well-needed beauty sleep. 💤