This handsome young Kuvasz is about a year old. He ended up in a kill shelter in South Georgia. How hopeful he looks despite the sterile, small cage he is in!
Unfortunately, his chances were slim - not only is he a very big dog (hard to place), a very rare breed (i.e., no breed rescues were going to come help him), and stuck in a rural shelter (not many adopters), he is also has heartworms (an expensive condition to treat).
We heard about him from a Great Pyr rescue that could not take him (Pyrs and Kuvasz are very close relatives). They forwarded an email from the shelter saying he little time left - if no one could take him, he would be killed.
We started emailing our friends to find someone to save his life.
Lucky for us and lucky for Johnny, the wonderful people at National Great Pyrenees Rescue have stepped up and agreed to save him! We agreed to sponsor him to help make his rescue possible. Please help make this possible by making a $5 contribution.
All donations go directly from Paypal to National Great Pyrenees Rescue, a 501(c)(3) charity, and are tax-deductible.
We have seen many sad pictures of beautiful Great Pyrs reduced to starving strays. What makes this one different is that she wasn't a stray. Her owners starved her to the awful condition you see in her picture.
Beautiful young Ella was found nearly dead of starvation. She was reported to the SPCA and seized from her owners as a victim of abuse. Ella is so far gone that the vet is not sure she will survive.
Our friends at GP Rescue Oklahoma have agreed to take her and hopefully nurse her back to health. They need our help to pay for vet bills and food for this poor girl.
Please help us if you can – we are trying to raise $160 for her.
All donations go directly from Paypal to Great Pyrenees Rescue Oklahomoa, a 501(c)(3) charity, and are tax-deductible.
Please chip in - together we can help save her and many more!
Interested in adopting? Please contact GPRO rescue at http://www.wix.com/gprofok/gpr#!
Puppy lovers! Could you help save the lives of 67 (or so) puppies and their moms?
This picture is the best ad for spay/neutering you could imagine! Anyway, these babies have been born into this world and our Club's purpose is to help them...
See the message below from our rescue heroes, Connie and Dave:
Hi Michael and Friends,
First, Dave and I want to thank you. With the help of the chip in donations we have made 2 trips to Chicago. The little yorkie, Baby Girl, was adopted as soon as she hit the adoption floor. What wonderful news. We did transport Lucky Boy and Skipper (the dog caught in the bear trap). The next day after transport he had major surgery, but is doing fine now. He will be featured in the Chicago newspaper about his ordeal, the transport and his new life in Chicago.
Wanted to show you some of the puppies that will be transported this weekend.
Friday last week I was on my way to the vet, just right down the road from me, a mom lab on chain with 7 puppies was in the middle of the road. I stopped and got out to get them off the road before a car came. They ran to the house off the road. I left one of my flyers on their mailbox to call me I would help.
The people did call. They said they did not know what to do. They have 3 moms and 21 puppies. I just about fell off my chair.
I contacted Chicago and told them what was going on. She told me that she would send out an S.O.S. about the situation.
I went over to the people's house today and took dog food, vaccinated the puppies, frontlined them, and dewormed them. With the help of my friends Lou and Susan with the Cherokee Humane Society.
I am going there in the morning and get the 4 momas (another one had puppies too) and take them to the vet for spays and neuters.
Dave is leaving tomorrow night for Chicago with 20 moms and puppies.
We will go again next Saturday to Chicago with all of these puppies, plus 26 other puppies.
Just wanted to share, this is going to be a bad year in OK for puppies.
Little by little though we will help all we can. Without all of your support, transports would be limited to only one a month. Then many lives would die in Oklahoma.
Connie and Dave
Connie and Dave regularly drive around and pick up doomed dogs from shelters in Oklahoma, Arkansas and Missouri. These dogs would likely be put to sleep if not for them. Your donations literally make the difference as to whether there is enough gas money for these trips to happen or not and whether these dogs live or die- thanks for your support!
All donations go directly from Paypal to Save Our Strays, a 501(c)(3) charity, and are tax-deductible.
What’s a handsome young boy like this doing in an ugly kill shelter?
Kota is a sweet young Great Pyrenees who ended up in a kill shelter. Big dogs in kill shelters have a very short life expectancy because most people prefer to adopt smaller, more manageable pets. Lucky for Kota, our friends at Great Pyrenees Rescue of Atlanta agreed to save him from the shelter. GPRA needs our help to be able to save him.
Our sponsorship will help GPRA to afford to vet, feed and foster him, while they find him a permanent family.
Please help save him by chipping in – even $5 is a big help. Thanks!
All donations go directly from Paypal to Great Pyrenees Rescue of Atlanta, a 501(c)(3) charity, and are tax-deductible. This rescue has done a wonderful job in saving the lives of hundreds of Great Pyrenees and GP mixes. Your support of many of those dogs has been a huge help to them – your money helps keep them operating and saving doomed dogs. Please chip in - together we can help save this one and many more!
If you are interested in adopting, please contact GPRA at http://www.greatpyratlanta.com/
Our rescue partner, Great Pyrenees Rescue Society of Houston, is one of the most effective rescues in the country. Every year, they save hundreds of Great Pyrenees, Akbashes and their mixes.
They have asked for some help this month - they have 17 new dogs coming in the next week or so and they do not have enough foster homes for them all. They can either turn down some of the new dogs (probably dooming the dogs), or put them into boarding. Boarding is expensive...
We have pledged to raise $300 to help with boarding costs - this will help a lot to ensure that they will be able to save all 17 of these big white furballs.
Please help if you can!
If you live near Houston and would like to foster, they would love to hear from you - contact them at http://www.gprescuesociety.org/
This big girl in a small box we’ll call Dakota. Dakota is the mate of Bill – she and Bill and their baby girl ended up in a very bad situation in a kill shelter in Georgia where they have barely enough time to move. They were scheduled to die until our rescue partners, Rosie and Gisela at St. Cloud’s, stepped up to save them with our sponsorship. Rosie and Gisela need our help to pay for the rental van and gas money to get there and back from Texas.
Please chip in and help raise $100 for her using the ChipIn.
All donations go directly from Paypal to St. Cloud's Rescue, a 501(c)(3) charity, and are tax-deductible. Please chip in - together we can save this one and many more!
This big boy in a small box name is named "0353", but I think we should call him Bill. Bill is in a very bad situation in kill shelter in Georgia where he has barely enough room to move. He and his mate and baby girl were scheduled to die until our rescue partners, Rosie and Gisela at St. Cloud’s, stepped up at the last minute to rescue them. Rosie and Gisela are on their way now to pick them up – but they need our help to pay for the rental van and gas money to get there and back from Texas.
Please chip in and help raise $100 for him using the ChipIn.
All donations go directly from Paypal to St. Cloud's Rescue, a 501(c)(3) charity, and are tax-deductible. Please chip in - together we can save this one and many more!
Do you like gyrls with big feet? Could you please chip in to help this one?
This sweetie is Sylvie. They say she is a mix, but she sure looks like a Great Pyr or Akbash to me. But look at the size of those paws!
Sylvie spent some time as a starving stray in Nevada and then was captured and sent to die at a kill shelter.
We are sponsoring her rescue by our friends at National Akbash Rescue and National Anatolian Shepherd Rescue. Please chip in and help raise $180 for her using the ChipIn.
Our donations will go toward her vet and food costs.
All donations go directly from Paypal to National Anatolian Shepherd Rescue, a 501(c)(3) charity, and are tax-deductible. Please chip in - together we can help save this one and many more!
If you are interested in adopting, please contact NASRN at
Have you ever seen such a sad sight? This beautiful Great Pyr was someone’s faithful pet – and that person dumped her off at a kill shelter to be disposed of.
We are helping GP Rescue Houston save her.
Could you please chip in $5 for poor Blossom?
Dogs that are surrendered by their owners have no protection in state law against being immediately put to death. To make matters worse, big, grown-up dogs like her are not very adoptable, so crowded shelters do not hold them for long. The situation was very grim for her. However, someone saw her and was kind enough to call our friends at the Great Pyrenees Rescue Society of Houston. GPRS will get her vetted and put her in a foster home while they look for a good permanent home for her.
Our sponsorship money will go toward vet bills and other costs of fostering her until a permanent home can be found.
All donations go directly from Paypal to Great Pyrenees Rescue Society of Houston, a 501(c)(3) charity, and are tax-deductible. Please chip in - together we can save this one and many more!
If you are interested in adopting, please contact GPRS athttp://www.gprescuesociety.org/
Do you love Yorkies? This little girl and 70 others need a ride to safety. With the help of Connie and Dave Guthrie and a little help with gas money from our Club, they will get on the rescue express and end up in good homes in Chicago. Could you please help?
Here’s a message from Connie:
Hi Michael and Friends,
Wanted all to know that Dave and Ryan finally got home late Friday night. They left Wednesday night, thinking they would beat the snow. NOT so! Snowed here in Oklahoma, that should have been a warning. After going around picking up all the dogs and puppies, Shana's at 5:00 p.m. 12 puppies 20 little dogs, my 8 little puppies that was found in a trash can, 1 moma and 2 puppies and another puppy from a lady that was evicted last Monday night, and 5 other dogs, going to Muskogee picking up 11 puppies, 5 older puppies, then to Grove OK to pick up mom, 5 puppies and 2 other dogs finally on the road to Chicago at 10:00 p.m. The guys hit snow all through Missouri. Around St. Louis with Dave driving he hit black ice, spun the van around and hit a retainer wall (thankful did little damage to the van), drove through Illinois at 20 miles an hour. Reached Chicago at noon instead of the scheduled 8:00 a.m. All the babies were good. So very thankful all was safe. God does watch over. First thing the guys told me Friday night, NO MORE transports in snow. Don't blame them. We never would have done this, but we thought that they would beat the snow and the guys were only supposed to drive to St. Louis, but with the roads so bad they told Tails Humane Society not to try it. They would drive all the way. Turns out Chicago was hit with the worst snow storm this year. We have another trip planned (watching for the weather) next Sunday to Paws Chicago. Baby Girl, a 2 year Yorkie, was brought to my house Saturday night. The couple said they could keep her no longer. I currently have to go this trip: Grove OK 5 dogs, 7 puppies, Shana 20 dogs, 12 puppies, my 5 dogs, Cheotah 16 dogs 8 puppies. We are hopeful that all can make the trip. Thank you all for helping to make these transport trips possible. Truly you all are a God sent blessing to our homeless dogs and puppies. God Bless all of you. Connie and Dave Guthrie
Connie and Dave regularly drive around and pick up doomed dogs from shelters in Oklahoma, Arkansas and Missouri. These dogs would likely be put to sleep if not for them. Your donations literally make the difference as to whether there is enough gas money for these trips to happen or not and whether these dogs live or die- thanks for your support!
All donations go directly from Paypal to Save Our Strays, a 501(c)(3) charity, and are tax-deductible.
Could you please chip in $5 to help Johnny?
