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Groomers give rescue dogs free holiday makeovers
Adore Dog Salon is giving Underdog Rescue dogs a festive fresh look in hopes they’ll be adopted this season.
ST. LOUIS PARK, Minn — When Anne Hendrickson and her kids took in a dog from a puppy mill in Missouri, the roughly 2-year-old cockapoo was sick with an ear infection and Giardia, a parasite.
“She was matted to the skin and like biting at it because it hurt her so bad,” Hendrickson said.
Foster-based nonprofit Underdog Rescue MN facilitated the match.
“We call her Princess Peach although her name on the website is Felicity,” Hendrickson explained.
It’s been about a month not only since the princess moved in, but also her 2 puppies.
While all 3 have been getting cozy at home, Princess Peach stepped out solo on Sunday for some free professional care at Adore Dog Salon.
“Despite all that neglect, she still took such good care of her babies,” Hendrickson said. “I’m glad today at Adore Salon she got to be the one taken care of for once.”
Adore Dog Salon is just a few miles from the rescue organization’s headquarters in St. Louis Park. Salon owner Isadora Foley says all groomers volunteered for the day, giving holiday-themed makeovers to almost a dozen dogs temporarily living in foster homes.
Holiday themed – because after baths, blowouts, fur-cuts and nail trims, the dogs also left with festive bandanas and red and green ribbon curls above their ears.
“This is our second time this year doing the donation grooming,” Foley said, adding that they also did one last year.
She described the day as a team effort to try to get the dogs adopted more quickly.
“We thought now would be a perfect time, pre-holiday, to see if any of these pups could find their forever homes,” she said. “It also helps to get them adopted because they’re fresh and clean. You can see their beautiful faces.”
Pet photographer Kirsten Eitreim has adopted 2 “Underdogs.” She too volunteered her skills and time on Sunday, taking before and after photos to help update each dog’s online profile.
“They come out of just a bath and a blow dry and they already look 10 times better and it’s amazing,” Eitreim said.
As for Peach, she left looking much more like a princess.
“And whoever gets her is going to get a really special, amazing dog,” her foster said.
Foley says some of the dogs who came to the salon are on Underdog Rescue’s website while others aren’t yet. Currently, more than 80 adoptable dogs and puppies are listed online, as well as information on the adoption process.
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The crash happened when a Suburban pulling a trailer failed to stop at a stop sign, Minnesota State Patrol said.
WAUKENABO, Minn. — Two people from Minnetonka died in a crash Friday in Aitkin County while others, including children, were hurt.
According to Minnesota State Patrol, it happened at the intersection of Highway 169 and Grove Street/County Road 3 in Waukenabo Township at approximately 5:15 p.m.
A Suburban pulling a trailer was driving east on County Road 3 but did not stop at the stop sign at Highway 169, authorities said. The vehicle was struck by a northbound GMC Yukon. Two other vehicles were struck in the crash, but the people in those two cars were not injured.
In the Suburban, the driver sustained life-threatening injuries, according to State Patrol. Elizabeth Jane Baldwin, 61, of Minnetonka, and Marlo Dean Baldwin, 92, of Minnetonka, both died. Officials said the driver of the vehicle, a 61-year-old from Minnetonka, has life-threatening injuries.
There were six people in the Yukon when the crash occurred. The 44-year-old driver, as well as passengers ages 18, 14, and 11, sustained what officials described as life-threatening injuries. The other two passengers have non-life-threatening injuries.
Alcohol is not believed to be a factor in the crash, but officials said Elizabeth Jane Baldwin had not been wearing a seatbelt.
Among those at the start line this year will be Alex Vigil.
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Pixar’s second installment of the movie features characters we’ve already met — Joy, Sadness and Anger — and gives them a new roommate named Anxiety.
MINNEAPOLIS — Pixar’s “Inside Out 2” universe plays out inside the mind of the movie’s adolescent protagonist, Riley.
She plays a kid from Minnesota whose family uproots her life by moving to San Francisco. But did you know that what plays out in Riley’s mind actually comes from the mind of a real-life Minnesotan?
“You are one of us!” said Breaking the News anchor Jana Shortal.
“Yes, I am!” said Burnsville native and the movie’s creator and director, Kelsey Mann.
Mann was chosen for the role by ANOTHER Minnesotan — Pete Docter, the man behind the original movie, “Inside Out.”
“I don’t know if Pete asked me to do this movie because I was from Minnesota and he was from Minnesota … I just think it worked out that way,” Mann said.
How two guys from the south metro made a pair of Pixar movies that would change the game is a hell of a story that began with Docter in 2015.
“He [Docter] was just trying to tell a fun story — an emotional, fun story — and didn’t realize how much it would help give kids a vocabulary to talk about things they were feeling because they are feeling those emotions, but they’re really hard to talk about,” Mann said.
Some parents, counselors and teachers might even tell you it did more good for kids than just entertain them. It unlocked their emotions and begged for what Mann set out to create at the beginning of 2020.
“That part was fun, particularly fun,” he said. “I think the daunting part was following up a film that everyone really loved.”
But Mann knew what he wanted to do with the movie’s follow-up, “Inside Out 2.”
“Diving into Riley’s adolescence … that was just fun,” he said.
This time around, Riley is 13, hitting puberty and facing all of what, and who, comes with it. The franchise’s second installment features characters we’ve already met — Joy, Sadness and Anger — and gives them a new roommate named Anxiety.
“I think that’s what’s fun about the ‘Inside Out’ world: You can take something we all know and give it a face,” Mann said. “We can give anxiety a name and a face.”
The film follows Riley’s emotions fighting it out for control of her life. Joy wants Riley to stay young and hold on only to joy, while anxiety is hell-bent on taking over Riley over at the age of 13 because as a lot of us know, that’s when anxiety often moves in.
“I always pitched it as a takeover movie, like an emotional takeover,” Mann said. “Anxiety can kind of feel like that; it can take over and kind of shove your other emotions to the side and repress them.”
For a kids’ movie, it’s hard to watch this animation play out, even when an adult has the keys to decide.
“I’m making a movie about anxiety and I still have to remind myself to have my anxiety take a seat,” Mann said.
All of our individual anxieties have a place in this world.
“The whole movie honestly is about acceptance. Both acceptance of anxiety being there and also of your own flaws,” said Mann.
Even for our kids, we have to remember that this is life.
Anxiety will come for them; it does for us all.
The “Inside Out” world just shows them it’s so.
