9/25 Heart of the Underdog, Spring, TX, for vet care
Our grant helped with Ramen's vet care and vaccines
We got to meet adoptable Zara and she is the sweetest! She loves everyone, even ducks!
Jerry was rescued from a high-kill shelter, and our funds helped with his basic vet care
Aruba was rescued from an abandoned lot with 18 other dogs. The rescue cared for her and her puppies (our grant covers her vet care and heartworm treatment)
Our grant covered spay surgery for Pebbles, who was saved with her mom and siblings
9/25 Mitten Mutts Dog Rescue, Essexville, MI, for vet care
Our grant helped with Myrtle's urgent surgical bill, she's doing great!
We also helped with Pebbles' need for urgent vet care so that these 2 girls could be saved and adopted!
Sweet Neo was shot in the leg multiple times. MMDR enabled his amputation to live his life in comfort. He's adoptable!
Adoptable Frankie had multiple leg fractures that were never treated. He also needed an amputation.
These awesome adoptable dogs are a great example of the lifesaving work that small rescues do, and the enormous bills that they face. Your support helps sustain them!
9/25 Safe Place Animal Rescue and Sanctuary, Tijeras, NM, for corral space
Our friends at SPARS don't just save at-risk dogs, they rescue farm animals as well!
They reached out for help with making space for pet potbelly piggies that were saved from a severe hoarding/neglect situation
Our grant will provide corral space for the "Brady Bunch" pigs!
Many don't realize that these are highly intelligent animals that share many traits with our pet dogs, including loving tummy rubs and cuddles!
SPARS also continues to make great use of the funds we provided to care for whelping mamas! Barbie is adoptable!
10/25 Pets Stop Here Inc., Spencerport, NY, for vet care
Our grant helped with Billy's cherry eye surgery! He's been adopted!
This rescue focuses on at-risk shelter dogs like Sugar who needed orthopedic surgery (she's recuperating)
Our grant also helps with dogs like Suki and Floyd who need heartworm treatment
Besides dogs with medical needs, this rescue also helps dogs with behavioral issues that might not make it out of the shelter
Ducky and French Toast are examples of adoptable waiting for their furrever homes
10/25 For the Love of Street Dogs, Lexington, SC, for vet care
Loretta the Aussie-Doodle (now Barbie) was rescued off the street, starved, covered in urine, and near death
She weighed less than a third of her current weight when FTLOSD took her in
The rescue volunteers sat with her at the vet, not knowing whether she would make it, and she was nursed back to health in a foster home
Barbie was recently adopted and lives on 27 acres taking care of her new Bestie, Bruce, who is blind
Someone cruel doused Emma with duct glue and tried to shave her...yet another cruelty case taken on by this amazing rescue
Darling Emma today, with care from FTLOSD!
10/25 Floef Society, Santa Monica, CA-for vet care and alter surgeries
This new foster-based rescue rescues and rehabilitates vulnerable kitties
Most of the kitties they save are from the euthanasia list in the shelter
They also take in strays and owner surrenders and provide sanctuary and emergency medical care
They work to educate the public on altering cats to reduce the homeless kitty population
The kitties we met were in an amazing foster home, happy and healthy
10/25 Always Faithful Rescue Ranch, Sandford, NC, for vet care
Sunshine is a deaf special-needs pup waiting for her furever home at Always Faithful Ranch
Our grant helped with heartworm treatment for dogs like Charlie
Ruby and her 10 babies were helped with medical needs and alters by our grant
These are Cricket and Clancy, 2 of Ruby's babies. All have been adopted including Ruby!
10/25 H.A.R.T. Homeless Animals Rescue Team, Mesa, AZ for veterinary surgeries (including Karly!)
Karly and other kitties had big surgical bills that H.A.R.T. requested help with
This all-volunteer rescue fosters abandoned kitties and finds them homes
They also have an onsite sanctuary for medically needy cats
They have a TNR program for feral cats
They feed and water community feral cats every day
H.A.R.T. also provides community education
11/25 Dogwood Acres Senior Dog Rescue, Leesville, SC for vet surgeries and care
This all-volunteer crew rescues seniors and medically needy dogs (and some kitties) from shelters
Their mission is to have seniors spend their remaining days in a loving home
Our grant helped with vet care for the seniors that you see here
"No Senior Dog Should have to die alone in a shelter"...Tammy, founder
They even care for a feral cat colony
We thank you for joining us to support fantastic rescues like Dogwood Acres
11/25 Missoula Advocats, Missoula MT, for alter surgeries and vet care
This small volunteer crew rescues needy homeless and feral kitties
They provide loving foster homes until the babies and tame cats are adopted
Beautiful Sebastian is adoptable!
They also provide TNR for community kitties
This tiny rescue cared for more than 260 kitties last year!
11/25 Life Savers Animal Rescue, Polson, MT, for reservation animal alter surgeries
This all-volunteer rescue saves dogs from euthanasia, and helps reservation animals where there are no city or county resources.
Typical of reservation dogs, Ruby was not altered and had 8 litters in her 4 years. Now waiting for her forever home.
Foster pup Nimbus is waiting for his new home (ears are a bonus)!
Beautiful Betty is waiting for her bestie!
Baby Hershey and his other 10 sibs were rescued from a homeless encampment. He's waiting in foster care!
Chubbs was a backyard breeder victim with a host of medical problems. Rescued the day before he was to be euthanized, he will soon be ready for adoption!
12/25 Helping Our Miniature Equines (HOME), Arlington, WA, for vet care
Sweet Ember needed emergency colic surgery. Our grant helped and she's doing great!
HOME expertly provides the specialized care needed by these tiny equines
The board and caregiving crew is 100% volunteer
This group serves the community with "therapy minis"!
12/25 Rainbow Animal Rescue, Norfolk, VA, for vet care
Our grant helped with vet bills for Charity's abdominal mass
We helped with heart worm treatments for other dogs too (Gomer is adoptable)
This rescue helps pups with medical needs
The all-volunteer crew rescues seniors from rural shelters as well
All are cared for in foster homes
Postop!
12/25 Jackson's Brush Puppy Rescue, Pearsall, TX, for vet care for lots of puppies!
TJ and 21 other puppies were provided with basic vet care from our grant!
This phenomenal new volunteer crew cares for pups in a rural community overrun with strays
In their first year, they saved 336 pups!
Baby Biscuit received testing and antibiotics
This rescue works hard to educate the community and provide low-cost alter surgeries
Holstein received testing and vaccines
12/25 Timber Tails K-9 Rescue, Oakville, WA for alter surgeries and vaccines
Queso is one of many discarded pups rescued by Timber Tails to enter the Stafford Creek Prison Training Program
These pups will get intensive training and then adopted to forever homes!
Pepper, along with the pups you see here and more, received vaccines and alter surgeries from our grant funds
This rescue also does traditional foster and adoption...Nebula is ready for a new home!
Timber Tails also has a community program to get dogs spayed free of charge to owners (this is Tamale)
Burrito has also been altered and will have a life in a loving home instead of the reservation after the prison program!
12/25 The Longears Safehouse, Estancia, NM for equine vet care
This sanctuary/rescue on 40 acres saves mules and donkeys as well as other equines, dogs and cats!
Our grant will help with vet care for Samule and friends
An all-volunteer crew provides specialized care for these deserving animals
They do community outreach as well
All have safe shelter and room to roam with their buddies
The animals are often saved from the streets or slaughter
1/26 Leeroy's Second Chance Cats, Vidor TX, for vaccines and alter surgeries
Founder Leeroy and blind sanctuary buddy Winky
Colony kitties like these will receive alter surgeries and vaccines through our grant
Ruby is a blind kitty who will have eye surgery soon
Sanctuary kitties like Rex, who has short front legs, also receive care through this rescue
This small, all-volunteer group does great work to help feral, sanctuary, and community kitties in their rural area
1/26 Safe Place Animal Rescue and Sanctuary, for senior dog and cat vet care and piggy vet care
This lovely sanctuary takes care of dogs, cats and farm animals
They also provide care for mama dogs with puppies
Smudge and the other seniors here will receive vet care from our grant funds
This volunteer-run group gives amazing care to all types of critters
Pixie will be spayed with our grant funds
All of the animals at SPAR can be sponsored individually to help with care
Ruby has a safe place despite her vision impairment!
2/26 Greener Days Ahead Rescue, Mt. Vernon, AR, for vet care
Heartworm is a huge (and preventable) problem in the South. Our grant will cover treatment for Chula and others
This all-volunteer rescue saves and cares for many at-risk animals until adoption
They also make a huge impact in their rural community by providing spay and neuter services and vaccines
Jack and the others featured here are waiting for furever homes!
This rescue saves animals from kill shelters as well as strays and owner
surrenders
This tiny crew helped more than 750 animals last year!
2/26 One Dog Rescue, Riverside, IA, for maternity and puppy vet care & supplies
Pregnant June was saved from euthanasia--our grant will provide vet care and supplies for her and puppies!
We love how this little all-volunteer crew steps up to save mamas and babies like Lucy from kill shelters
Penny and her tiny puppies were rescued from TX
Little Juanita came from TX as a tiny tot and will be adopted soon!
Pac is waiting for his forever family
Adoptable Biscuit is in foster care. This group also helps adult and ill dogs one at a time!