Christmas with C.A.R.E. Sponsor a CARE doggie for Christmas.
As we head into the Christmas holidays, Clifford’s Army Rescue has more dogs than we have ever had in our small rescue.
We are currently trying to help as many abandoned, sick, injured, feral, frightened, dogs as possible. We also do any and all that is needed for these dogs sparing no expense thanks to wonderful contributors in the community and beyond.
Currently we have 30 dogs/puppies that need to be altered immediately. The number has grown as we are having trouble getting appointments with the spay/neuter clinics and are on a waiting list. We have at least 17 more that will be ready to be altered very soon.
Our normal vetting for all our dogs is running between 700 and 1000 a week. We recently had major surgery on one of our dogs at a cost of over 4K, and we have another one of our dogs going for an ultrasound next week.
Sponsoring a dog for any amount will truly help us to be able to help even more in need.
The CARE doggies are ready to send their special Christmas Card to you and yours for a minimum donation of $20.
Some examples of what your donation can cover are listed. We also have food, supplement, bed, crate, costs.
No amount is too small. It all adds up and helps the dogs in need.
We thank you in advance for sponsoring if you can, for sharing if you will, and for praying that we can continue to help the overwhelming amount of dogs in need.
The on line form link is below and will also be in the posts on the event page. You may also sponsor by snail mail at CARE, Post Office Box 370, Earl, NC 28038
On Line Link To Sponsor
https://form.jotform.com/cliffordsarmy/ChristmaswithCARE

Welcome to the Clifford’s Army Rescue $5000 Challenge. We were contacted by an anonymous donor who asked us to raise funds for two weeks ( starting today till September 5) and said they would match dollar for dollar all money raised up to $5000.00.
We will be sharing asking for donations in the next two weeks, no amount too small as it all adds up. There will be a fundraiser link on this event page. You may also use venmo (CliffordsArmyRescue) PayPal (cliffordsarmy@gmail.com) , here on our webpage (www.cliffordsarmyrescue.com) or snail mail as long as it gets here by the 5th ( CARE Post Office Box 370, Earl NC 28038.

We also have our awesome friends at Bicycles/Re-Cycle Canteen doing all day Mimosas the next two Saturdays, August 28 and September 4th starting at 11 am until close. They are donating $1.00 for each one sold both days!!!! And if you have not had one of their Mimosa’s yet, you need to go give them a try.. they are sooooo good. Great music too. Dale Britain will be playing this Saturday night and we will update regularly.
We are so excited that one donor is willing to donate $5K to us if we can have several donors total up to $5K. We have so very many medical issues at the moment and we are so blessed to have so very much support.
More info to come on this page, please invite all your friends so they can follow all the things we are doing to raise funds. and lets do this!!! ( for those with no voice)

Our sweet girl Cookie was owner surrendered to our local county run shelter very pregnant.  We immediately got her out of there, and to one of our amazing fosters, Annette Pendergraft, who has done a wonderful job helping Cookie through delivery and now Cookie and the nine babies.

We are taking pre-applications on these sweet, adorable puppies.   Potential adopters ( after application and home visit is approved) will be able to meet puppies and we hope to have them a home by the time they are old enough to be away from their mom and have all their vetting done.  ( will be after 8 weeks)

If you are interested in one of Cookie’s beautiful Cookies, please fill out our on line application.   Below is  a copy of our adoption procedures and a link to the app.

1. on line application
2. email contact
3. phone conact
4. home visit
5 meet and greet
6 adoption contract/adoption
We travel up to two hours one way for home visits. We do not do virtual home visits. Please correspond via email until a volunteer reaches out to you. Our Clifford’s number is needed for calls for dogs in need of rescue. Link to our adoption app:

First, we would like to wish all a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. May your holidays be blessed. We are blessed with a total of 57 dogs in our rescue at the moment. While that is a lot of dogs for us, we are blessed we are able to help them recover from their tragic days and find their forever loving homes.

With the Christmas season here, we will not be adopting any dogs during the next week. We do not believe dogs/puppies are Christmas presents and as such will spend time with our CARE babies next week and our families.

That being said, it brings me to a few things I would like to address what we do, how we do it, and why. First and foremost our rescue is about the animals. It is not a social drama club but is for and about the welfare of animals in our area and well beyond.  We will always stand up for them, be the voice of the voiceless, and do our very best to protect all of those in our care.

We will not be quiet when we see wrongdoings toward the animals. We will speak out for them. Everyone should speak for them.  Stand up and be counted. We are the only voice they have.

We try to take in the abused, the neglected, the sick, the injured, the handicapped. We strongly believe all lives matter and will take those in who are considered not to have a chance. We work hard at fundraisers to raise funds to continue to help all those in need. Hence we have strict adoption policies. We require a home visit from us, so we only drive two hours maximum to potential adopters. We don’t need a picture of your house. Michael Vick ran a fighting ring in a mansion. The size, cost, etc. have no bearing on being approved for adoption. We want to meet you, talk to you, and do our best to find the right fit for both the dog and you.

We also require all domesticated animals to be spay/neutered and current on vaccines. If not, we will turn you down. We want our animals to get the best of care and how your current animals are being cared for is the best way we can judge how your new family member would be taken care of. This is the second sentence in our online adoption application and yes we check.

With over 2.7 million animals being euthanized throughout the US a year (cats and dogs), I do think everyone can find their companion animal even if you do not meet our requirements. So please understand we are trying to do what we think is best for them. It is not personal, it is about them, what they have already been through in their short lives and protecting them as much as humanly possible by checking out their new family as much as possible.

We will end our year with 74 adoptions and many more that we sent to rescue partners up north to find their forever homes.   We hope to do even more in 2020 along with work on raising funds for our own facility. We hope you will follow Kubuki who will stay in our rescue and become a therapy dog as he starts to visit different facilities and groups. He does have his own Facebook page, ‘The Adventures of Kubuki‘, so be sure to go like and follow the page. He is the most adorable boy ever. We hope to recruit more fosters, more volunteers, more people to join the army as we could easily have over 100 animals if we took everyone we get tagged, called, messaged on. It is truly neverending and the animals deserve a home. Without more people willing to help, we are limited on how many we can take in.

 

 

cliffords army rescue, animal rescue, donate to animal rescue

Kota is a five-month-old, 25 pound, Carolina Dog who is absolutely stunning.  He is also as sweet as they come, a quick learner and looking for the perfect home. Kota appeared at a Good Samaritan’s home, after having scanned for a chip, posting about him for longer than the required time by law, we were contacted to see if we could take this handsome boy.

Kota still has a bit of vetting before ready for adoption but if he is the boy for you, please go ahead and fill out an online application.

We desperately need all our supporters to go to the link at the end of this article and vote. #mygivingstory could help Clifford’s Army Rescue win some much-needed funds to help us continue with our mission to assist even more of the sick, the abused, the neglected, the injured, the terrified and the abandoned animals in and around our area.

Our goal is to be able to construct our own facility. With our own facility, we could have space for animals when fosters are full,  rotating them to fosters as they become available hence saving more lives. We could have space to help our rescue partners.  We could have space for those in need of emotional help, training, quarantine areas for the sick and the young. We could truly help so many many more.

If you would be so kind to click the link below and it will pull up #mygivingstory which is called ‘Innocent Eyes’.  A voting box will come up for you to click. You may vote daily one time a day. Please help us to help them… your vote could help us win some much-needed funds.

We are the only voice they have.. we are rescue.

https://binkd.co/xyDYV

I am not sure I can put into words this rescue story.   Giles has come so very far and he is still on his journey but it is one truly worth sharing.  We got a message that there was a dog at our local open intake county run facility that was completely feral and literally climbing the walls.  We also heard that he would not make it out alive.  Then came the picture from AC in his kennel. Standing in the corner, with fear in his eyes.  All we saw was fear.    The picture is the type that pulls at your heart, that makes you know you have to help.  It did not matter if we had funds, or how we would do it, we just had to do it.

The next day, I went to visit this boy.  He was literally trying to climb the walls to escape from everyone.  I asked the employees to leave me alone with him to see if I could get him to trust me and get him out.   The first 45 minutes, he would not respond to me at all.  Check the next picture of him curled in the corner, trying to go through the wall, and notice uneaten hot dogs in front of him

Then he began to finally eat the hot dogs.    Dogs seem to go into fight or flight mode, and Giles had been in the flight mode but had no where to go.  When he was not eating the hot dogs, I knew he was still in flight mode and no way I would get through to him.    Working with fearful dogs I have learned that you ignore them, do not make eye contact, and let them come to you.  So sitting on the end of his kuranda bed, back to him, answering messages on my phone, sending emails, I sat.   Once he started eating, he came closer and closer and finally took a piece out of my hand.

You can still see the fear in his eyes in this video, but he finally decided he wanted the hot dogs.  I was so excited, only to hear the remark from the shelter was something to the effect, ” so he ate a hot dog”, and I was constantly reminded his stray hold would be up in 72 hours.  I focused on Giles, on his life, not the side drama, and the fact that some people do not understand that all lives truly do matter.  I visited daily to gain more and more trust.  I  went to Mickey D’s picking up chicken nuggets, sausage and egg biscuits,  making his food choices more appealing to where he would come to me.

We progressed.. he started eating out of my hand and I slowly started touching him under his chin when he would get his food. We began to bond, but if anyone came by the kennel, he would regress back to the corner.  The following two pictures show how his eyes and body changed when someone walked up on his kennel .

I spent five days working with him until we sprung him from the local shelter.  We then had a wonderful sponsor to help with his training and hired an awesome trainer, Dana Van Sickle, who taught me and Giles the wonders of Cream Cheese.   Giles will do anything for Cream Cheese and we have discovered many other dogs will too!  Dana worked with him and then I worked with him.   While he was not trusting of any stranger, with time spent, letting him decide to come to you, he made a couple new friends.    I think again the key is to not treat frightened dogs as if they are normal, everyday dogs.   The straight on, eye to eye contact, the come her boy, etc.  does not work.   Sitting down with back and/or sideways, no eye to eye, pretty much ignoring and letting him decide the food is high value enough to come to you.  Another great thing I learned is to toss a treat back so he could go back and have his space for a few and then bring him back up to me.

We progressed as Dana got his collar and leash on him.

Giles became better and better with us.  He met more friends.  And then the day came when I came by the kennels and did not know Dana was outside with him.   Once he saw me, here he came.  The following video shows how much this boy can love!

Giles still has work.  We are starting to take him outside his comfort zone in small increments.  Walking trails when the trails aren’t super busy.  Meeting new people slowly.  This sweet sweet boy who was frightened to death at the shelter, now only wants to please and love.    Just check out the last video we took.

While this story is already on the way to a happy ending.  Giles escaped death at the shelter, he has escaped much of his fears, and he is a happy  boy who loves us.  Now on to finding his forever home.  Once that is accomplished his story will be complete.

This should teach everyone that truly all lives do matter.  He was scheduled to be killed as soon as his hold was up, but he survived and he will continue to thrive.

He is currently with me at my home and we are working on more and more of his socialization skills.    He is a wonderful happy boy and I am hopeful he will continue to accept more and more people into his life.