TRAPRS - Trapping, Rescue, and Pet Recovery Service

11/08/2024

📍S 1st / Dittmar | South Austin TX 78748
🚨Help us find Meeko!

Meeko is a male, grey and white terrier mix.

Meeko is a new foster dog and had just arrived at his foster home and escaped the same day.

He is terrified of humans and can not be touched yet. 😭
He will not come to anyone. Please do not attempt to engage with him at all & share that sentiment with everyone you know. 🙏

We need everyone in this area to be hyper-vigilant and alert us if you spot him! 👀

It is VITAL that you do NOT CHASE him and please help us get the word out right away!

🏡Let’s get him home safe!🙏

If you spot him:
🚫 Do NOT call for
🚫 Do NOT chase
🚫Do NOT pursue in any manner

✅ Call (or text!) the hotline immediately with sighting details!

☎️ 844-287-2777

10/21/2024

🚨SOS🚨

FOSTER NEEDED - Austin, TX📍

These poor babies have been living under cars at an abandoned home. 😩 They are emaciated and have swollen bellies, likely full of parasites but it could be worse. We won’t know anything else until we can get them medical attention. 😭

These two are terrified and stuck together like glue.

We need a safe, loving foster home in order to rescue them.🙏

🙏 Can you help?!
Email: [email protected]

💙If you can’t foster, how else can you support?

🔁 SHARE THIS POST!
Donate to their care:
✅ Venmo
✅ PayPal.me/theTRAPRS

10/07/2024

To our amazing community, we aim to always be open, transparent and vulnerable with you… whether it is during our good news cases or our gutwrenching ones.

We have been “throttling” our intake for months now, taking in the most critical when we have the placement to do so and have a laundry list of strays waiting. Trying to hang on tightly.

These are just a few of the many faces we’ve saved recently, including Smokey, the last photo and the last one who’s critical that we’ve committed to saving right now. 💔

But we are at a juncture where we are dangerously close to having to completely close intake for awhile.😢

For “space”? No.

For funding.

If we have a foster home for a pup to go, saying no feels incredibly cruel and against our mission but we also aren’t funded by the city’s $18M budget.

We are a small group of incredibly hardworking individuals dedicating every ounce of free time (and often forgoing time for family, work, friends) for the dogs of Austin while not one of us takes a salary from TRAPRS.

We will always need 3 things to stay afloat:

Funding. Fosters. ADOPTERS.

🙏 How can you help?

💙 Donate
💙 Ask your company if they do matching or donations to employee’s preferred non profits
💙 Are you a local business? Sponsor a dog and we’ll happily collaborate with you on social media, your logo at events etc! Send us an email.
💙 Host your own fundraiser - bake sale, lemonade stand, whatever draws you in!
💙 Sign up to foster! 🏡
💙 Share about us with your family, friends and neighbors🤝

We want to keep saving the dogs of Austin and the requests aren’t slowing down. But we need your help now more than ever.

We can do this, but only together.

• Venmo
• PayPal.me/theTRAPRS
• Main Donation page (accepts all forms of payment) https://givebutter.com/gSoXcJ
• PO BOX 823 Manor, TX 78653

• Amazon Wishlists:
https://www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/ls/34CSXRYGVL8Y8?ref_=wl_share

https://www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/ls/1X2R7V2CNUB1G?ref_=wl_share

We are a 501c3 nonprofit and your donations are tax-deductible.

10/05/2024

Could you even find anything cuter?! 😍

The Golden Girls are ready for their forever homes! Our sweet trio has been doing amazing in foster, getting vetted and socializing. 💙

Rose (black) and Blanche (tan) have their bags packed and ready to move to a foster to adopt home! (Pending their spay surgery!) 🏡

One of the girls is already spoken for and has moved to her forever. 🥰 (Dorothy, the beige colored, longer haired pup you see in the background of two images).

Rose and Blanche can be adopted separately or as a duo!
✅ 10 weeks old
✅ female
✅ cat friendly
✅ love people!
✅ very social, joyful pups💙

📩 Interested? Send us an email [email protected] for an application.
📍Austin, TX - We do not transport/do out of area adoptions

How else you can help? SHARE this post! 🔄

Support our mission to save more dogs like the Golden Girls:
• Venmo
• PayPal.me/theTRAPRS
• links in our bio to our wishlists

10/02/2024

🥹 Today is a big day for Jude.

(Swipe to see the many faces and incredible transformation!)

When we first rescued Jude, he could not be touched, let alone put a collar on him, or even go outside!

He’s made so much progress, and today is his huge vet appt.🥹

Getting Jude to and from the vet is a methodically planned, multi-person extravaganza.

We’ve been up before dawn, he got his pre appt calm down meds, crated and then the crate carried into our vehicle.

Once at the vet, we carried him inside IN his crate and then he got a sedative injected to keep this as minimally stressful as possible.

What’s on the docket?
🩸bloodwork
💉shots
✂️ neuter
💅nail trim (do you see those talons?!)
🩺 sedated exam and skin check (poor buddy is gnawing himself raw with a cause unknown right now 🫠)
🫧 clean up (since we can wipe him down while he’s snoozing)

🙏Can you help us cover Jude’s big day at the vet?!

✅ https://givebutter.com/S0QVM6
✅ Venmo:
✅ PayPal.me/theTRAPRS

09/13/2024

We had a very different post planned for today…

Today we had a video of sweet Manny walking, with the title “today will be the last day you’ll see Manny with 4 legs.”

And while this may seem like sad news, we were very happy to share this with you in bittersweet way. 

As many of you know, Manny was recently diagnosed with cancer, and we have been seeing specialists to check if it had metastasized (spread) based on ultrasound results. 

After meeting with oncology, running cell samples of any suspicious things on the ultrasound, we got the clear that it had not metastasized, and the best course of action would be to remove his leg where the cancer was taking over his foot. This would remove the cancer from his body and allow him to begin to heal.

But today before the amputation surgery, our surgeon wanted to run a quick chest x-ray because he is heartworm positive, to make sure that the heartworms were not at a level that would be dangerous to put him under anesthesia. 

Once he got those results, everything paused. 

Instead of finding advanced heartworm, the x-ray showed nodules in the lungs. 

The most likely answer here? The cancer, while it had not spread to other parts of the body, has very likely spread into Manny’s lungs. 

Now there are more questions, more doctors needing to collaborate, and more plans to be made.

We don’t have any other answers aside from the fact that we paused the amputation surgery for today until we have the answers that we need because if it has spread to the lungs, removing his leg will do nothing for his longevity. 

We haven’t hit our fundraising goal yet for Manny and until Manny quits, we won’t. As of today, he is happy, energetic and otherwise healthy. Any plan that we ultimately choose for him will always focus on his quality of life first. 💙

Help us help Manny keep fighting.

✅ Manny’s fundraiser link in bio
✅ Venmo
✅ PayPal.me/theTRAPRS
✅ PO BOX 823 Manor, TX 78653
✅ order items via our wishlists at the link in our bio

Other ways to help?
🔄SHARE THIS POST!

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09/09/2024

Zip's great adventure + rescue story made it to Texas Monthly!

69 days later, and we finally have a happy ending that our whole team is still celebrating. 🥳

Trail runners, pet lovers, and strangers came together to find the two-year-old chihuahua-terrier mix.

09/07/2024

📣👏👏UPDATE: 9/8/24: AVA IS HOME SAFE!!👏👏📣

The power of scent stations and scent trails are amazing! Ava’s mom was incredibly diligent at following our tips and sweet girl showed up at the back door at 4am. 👏😭

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📍Tarrytown | Austin TX 78703
🚨Help us find Ava!

Ava is a female, brown and white border collie mix. She’s small, just about 30lbs.

Ava was just adopted 3 days ago and has a rough past. She is SUPER shutdown and skittish and had just started taking treats from her new family the day before. 😭

A tree fell on their metal roof the night before she went missing and in the morning, she was still freaked out and backed out of her harness and bolted.

She will not come to anyone. Please do not attempt to engage with her at all & share that sentiment with everyone you know. 🙏

We need everyone in this area to be hyper-vigilant and alert us if you spot her! 👀

It is VITAL that you do NOT CHASE her and please help us get the word out right away!

🏡Let’s get her home safe!🙏

If you spot her:
🚫 Do NOT call for
🚫 Do NOT chase
🚫Do NOT pursue in any manner

✅ Call (or text!) the hotline immediately with sighting details!

🚫 Do NOT POST SIGHTING DETAILS PUBLICLY

☎️ 844-287-2777

08/30/2024

📍North Austin | Quail Creek - Austin TX 78758
🚨Help us find Laredo!

Laredo is a female, beagle/chi mix wearing a collar.

Laredo went missing from a backyard that she is unfamiliar with. She’s a foster pup and a super skittish rescue dog with a rough past.

She’s in completely flight mode and we need to find her.

We need everyone in this area to be hyper-vigilant and alert us if you spot her! 👀

It is VITAL that you do NOT CHASE her and please help us get the word out right away!

🏡Let’s get her home safe!🙏

If you spot her:
🚫 Do NOT call for
🚫 Do NOT chase
🚫Do NOT pursue in any manner

✅ Call (or text!) the hotline immediately with sighting details!

☎️ 844-287-2777

08/29/2024

🚨🚨SOS!!!! Help us fund Chloe’s emergency procedure to remove a safety pin from her stomach! 🧷😫

Chloe is a recent capture; we just rescued her a few days ago after learning her family had moved out a year ago and left her roaming the streets. 😢 She had been limping and neighbors feeding her.

It took the team every trick in the book to catch her - she wasn’t interested in being approached, the regular trap was much too scary and even after setting up our big missy trap, she sat and stared at even though she was so hungry. 😭 Finally, we caught her!

She was safely in her crate in foster starting to feel a little more relaxed after cowering in the corner the last couple of days. She was gnawing on her bed and when she tore a bit of it, there was a SAFETY PIN inside of it. We don’t know why or how. Her foster saw it in her mouth right away and ran to her to grab it, but before she could Chloe started gagging and swallowed.

We rushed her to our vet and an xray shows an OPEN safety pin in her stomach. They need to attempt to remove it by scope immediately and if they can’t, they will need to do a full foreign body surgery.

The estimate range is $1700-$3300.

Please help us save Chloe!😭🙏 A safety pin can’t be what takes this girl out. 🧷

Ways to donate:
✅ Chloe’s fundraiser page: https://givebutter.com/CxZSQa
✅ Venmo
✅ PayPal.me/theTRAPRS
✅ PO BOX 823 Manor, TX 7865

08/23/2024

🍧 Snowcones + saving dogs?! How can you say no?

📆 SATURDAY Aug 24th
📍 Vendor’s Market
7701 Colton-Bluff Springs Rd
Austin, TX 78744
10am-2pm
(Note: the market will be going until 5pm, but our team/snowcones will be until 2pm💙)

Our team will be selling snow cones to fundraise for TRAPRS & keep saving all of the dogs!

We hope to see some of your smiling faces! It’s been over 100° all week and we can all use some serious cooling off.

Will you be there?!👇

If not, SHARE this post!🔄

08/13/2024

Manny has cancer. 🥺

He was found abandoned in northeast Austin and unable to be approached by neighbors. They let us know he was hiding in some bushes and our team went out to rescue him.

Once he was caught, we noticed a limp and a big mass on his back paw.

Manny had his intake exam, vaccines and a biopsy done and it’s a mass cell tumor (cancer).

In the best of worlds, we will find out that it hasn’t spread, can be surgically removed and Manny lives a long, wonderful, happy life.

However, due to some swollen lymph nodes and some panting with low exertion, we need to run an ultrasound to ensure that the cancer has not metastasized to anywhere else in his body.

In addition to what we’ve already done and the further testing and possible surgery to remove the tumor, Manny will (once green lit) also need neuter surgery and more medical.

Manny is also heartworm positive and has hookworms. 😫

This boy deserves the world and we are so grateful we found him when we did. As with all of our dogs, Manny’s quality of life will always take highest priority on this journey. We hope you’ll be along with us for the ride.

Can you help us get Manny the care he needs?

DONATE:
✅ via his fundraiser page: https://givebutter.com/x37KWP
✅ via Venmo
✅ via PayPal
✅ PO BOX 823 Manor, TX 78653
✅ order items via our wishlists at the link in our bio

Other ways to help?
🔄SHARE THIS POST!

08/01/2024

The most valid reason that any dog sitter has ever “lost” a dog. 😳

Real talk: dog sitters call us often for lost pets, and to be honest they are often lost haphazardly. 😔

But last night, we received a phone call to the hotline that had us in tears for poor Hazel in the moment, but also in tears of how proud we were of her pet sitter – and how we hoped that if she was ever watching one of our own dogs, she would’ve done the same.

Hazel was “lost” but Hazel’s dog sitter had saved her life.

Last evening, Hazel was headed out for a leashed walk as she does with her regular dog sitter while her dad was out of town.

They did not get too far when her sitter noted that there was another dog across the street, also on leash.

She glanced away for a moment and by the time she looked back towards the dog in front of her, she saw that at this point the owner was facedown on the street being drug across the road (by her leashed dog) towards Hazel.😲

This particular dog had locked eyes on Hazel and was clearly intending on attacking.

Within a split second, the approaching dog was hit by a car!, they then stood up from the impact and continued to charge Hazel.🤯

Once they got to Hazel, they started attacking her. Hazel’s dog sitter immediately went to the other dog to attempt to break up the dogfight in whatever way she possibly could. She was able to essentially tackle the offending dog and pin her while breaking her free of Hazel and just scream: “Hazel, GO! GET OUT OF HERE! Save yourself, run girl, RUN!!” 😭

Hazel took off in terror and eventually bystanders came to take over and she ran to find Hazel.

She learned about TRAPRS 3 hours later & the team rushed to the area to begin to assist in the search. We stayed out all night searching, but we also set up a scent station at the front door to give Hazel the best chance of finding her way home.

And sure enough, at sunrise Hazel was at the front door!😭👏

Welcome home sweet girl! You are so lucky and even more lucky to have a sitter who saved you. 💙

Note: we won’t be answering any questions about the attacking dog or its owner. That is being privately handled.