Ardmore Animal Care (Animal Shelter)

So this post will be a little out the norm, but considering it’s an animal page I know it will be more “felt” than on my personal Facebook and it’s nice knowing people understand how you feel. 🩷 I was scrolling through old photos on my phone and came across this one and since it was taken in “live mode” on my iPhone, I was able to turn it into a video, I must have replayed it a hundred times. My heart hurts but at the same time it smiles watching this. 🥹🫶🏼 Seeing my Sapphy girl (Boxer) again in action, wagging her entire back end and even hearing her panting. It was 5 very long years ago that I lost her but I still miss her terribly. She was my BABY! My husband and I tried many, many years to have a baby of our own but we suffered loss after loss, my Sapphy girl helped fill that void and ease the heartache; I swear she was my soul dog. Sapphy had been abandoned in one of our pens as an 8-week old puppy and an old staff member had taken her home, a Great Dane had come in just shortly after and I fell in love with him. Well someone had ended up adopting the Great Dane after losing hers and I was devastated because that dog loved me as I loved him, I just hadn’t made the official decision to take him home; he legitimately tried busting through a glass window to get to me the day he was leaving, tears were shed that day. The staff member that had taken Sapphy (then named Hope) home had to bring her back, her husband told her no more dogs so I took her that same day. The divine plan of how things worked out.. she was the dog I was meant to have all along. 🫶🏼 If you know me, then you knew how devastated I was and how much I grieved when I lost her, and still do. 💔 They occupy such a large part of your heart and it’s like they take it with them when they leave. ❤️‍🩹 Almost one year to the day of losing her, we found out we were pregnant again and finally ended up having our rainbow baby. 💙🌈 My sister-in-law had a one

Welcome to our “animal save yard”! 🫶🏼 These are a few signs we were able to retrieve back to display in our front lawn that were previously sponsored and have since been adopted or sent to rescue! ❤️🐾

We have been BUSY, but the kind of busy we love! 🙌🏼 We completed our THIRD and final transport last night over the last 7 days! 👏🏼🫶🏼😮‍💨 35 dogs went to rescues in Illinois, Iowa, Connecticut and New York! Late nights, early mornings, and even a tag along on your anniversary trip; WHATEVER IT TAKES! 🐶🩷 #shelterdogs #transport #rescue

Our first batch of signs are ready to go out the door and into the community! 🪧🎉 Thank you to everyone that has sponsored a dog so far! 🩷🐾 Interested in becoming a sponsor too? Please send us a PM!

This is what we call an “Oklahoman Husky”. 🤣 He absolutely refused to even touch the snow and couldn’t get back inside fast enough. Needless to say we took a deuce and chunked a deuce. 💩✌🏼 #HuskyCardRevoked

Story time! 🫶🏼🐾 So during the month of October, these two dogs had been spotted running between the clinic and our shelter; many customers would come in asking if we knew they were out there or would even try to catch them but were unsuccessful, as were we. We could tell one was pregnant so we started setting up traps hoping to catch them but all we ever caught was Scraggles. 🙄 They we were so skittish, this little “dance” went on for almost a month and we finally got the idea that was successful! We coaxed them into our puppy yard with food and while we watched and waited, and then someone had to haul it out the front door and around the building to go shut the gate. Step one complete! 👏🏼 Step 2 was to get them into what used to be our cat castle but we now use it for puppies as well. Mission accomplished. 🙌🏼🫡 So now we just had to get them to trust us, even the slightest bit so we could get all their medical done. —Dad ended up being heartworm positive. (Mind you, all this went on for weeks and we could tell mama had gotten noticeably bigger and was scared she was going to drop her pups any day but wanted it to be done in our care.) So we left them set up all comfy and cozy in the castle, it was much more calm and they wouldn’t feel as trapped as they would inside and would be less overwhelmed with the noise and smells; so we would go sit with them for a bit each day, wrapping them up in towels and holding them, working our way up to taking treats out of our hands and then to just being able to pick them up bare handed. 😮‍💨 They were still pretty skittish but had made progress, by this time we had been working on a transport and knew this would be perfect so they could be placed in a foster home to finish “chilling out” and receive treatment for heartworms and BAM 💥 mama dropped 3 teeny pups. 😩 Well one by one they started passing away and by the time transport came, there was one lone survivor. 😔 We got

Do you hear that? Me either! The sound of silence is the sound of success in an animal shelter! 🙌🏼 Every cat in our shelter found a family to love. ❤️ Rosie 🌹was adopted during our special but her adopter sadly never showed to pick her up after surgery and after waiting a few days and multiple attempts to call, we put her back up for adoption. 💔 She’s our little lonesome dove. 🕊️🤍 As quickly as we emptied these cages, they will fill back up with new faces and meows. — if only we could make this happen in our kennels! 🤞🏼 Remember, now through December 17th, all adoptions are 💲2️⃣5️⃣❗️

Our girl Peg-asus! 😍 #TakeHerStrongHand

Boop x4 me please! 😍❤️🐾🦴🐶

After 163 long days, Quill finally got out of here! 🎉🥳 *insert happy dance here* 💃🏼🕺🏼🪩 5 months is a long time to spend with a dog; you get to watch them grow, know them and love them. Quill was apprehensive to go, he didn’t understand what was going on because this was his “home”, it was a bittersweet moment; one of those, “hate to see them go but love to watch them leave” moments. ❤️🐾 We’re ecstatic, but also sad because we tried so hard to find his furever down here; so many days we felt defeated, but today was a win for all of us. 🫶🏼 I hope Quill has the best furever any dog could ask for.