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.