Final Chance Animal Rescue

12/05/2025

Happy Friday! If you support our cause, have ever referred someone to us for help or just can relate to having a very caring dog that is just misunderstood as being actually pretty common… please consider sharing our fundraising post.

We are unfortunately unable to continue to help dogs without financial support / we are almost $20,000 in the red & continue to struggle with fundraising.

We share this today with the hope that you will understand when we have to say “No”. 😭 It kills us, but the dogs we have already committed to depend on our organization existing.

Thank you all for your help & support - we appreciate you! 🫶

URGENT: Falling Behind, Coming Together - Help Us Continue to Save Lives

Right now, twenty eight incredible dogs are counting on us—and you. Their futures depend on the kindness of animal lovers like you. We urgently need to raise funds for training, medical care, and food for nine of these dogs. Without your help, we cannot continue providing the second chances they deserve.

Meet the Dogs Who Need You:
- Cody: Needs $2,100 for board & train—he’s making amazing progress!

- Spud: Needs $2,200 for board & train, plus $120 for two months of food—he’s learning to trust again.

- Phoenix:Needs $2,280 for board & train—she’s ready for a fresh start.

- Charlie: Needs $4,400 for board & train—the longest journey, but worth every step.

- Ranger: Needs $1,877 for board & train—full of potential!

- Velveeta: Needs $3,812 for board & train—her smile says it all.

- Beans: Needs $512 for a vet visit—let’s keep him healthy.

- Honey: Needs $380 for an emergency vet visit—she’s a survivor!

- Kibble for November: $1,400

Every dollar goes directly to these dogs’ care.

No donation is too small—every bit helps!

How You Can Help:
- Donate now at: https://www.paypal.com/donate?campaign_id=5TLSTGMYVU6F6
—- on this post
—- or message us for other options so we can keep the amount raised up-to-date
- Share this message with friends and family
- All gifts are tax-deductible!

Together, we can give Cody, Spud, Phoenix, Charlie, Ranger, Velveeta, Beans, and Honey the futures they deserve (some pictured here 🥰)

Thank you for believing in final chances!

12/03/2025

Zeus & Hera are looking for someone to donate a bag of food 🙏

The puppies need food! Their food is on sale thru the end of day Saturday at Fleet Farm if anyone is going there. We are looking for 2 bags a puppy as a goal (they are growing fast!!)

You can help by sponsoring a bag by donating, purchasing a bag & shipping it or dropping it off at

👉 Paypal.me/FCAR
👉 venmo.com/u/finalchanceanimalrescue

Dogs needing sponsorship:
✅Ares: covered / thank you
✅Artemis: covered : thank you!
🚨Hera: 2 needed!
✅Oden: covered / Thank you!
🚨Zeus: 2 needed!

Bags are $60 at our cost - $51.99 on sale today at FleetFarm

NutriSource Small & Large Breed Puppy is the food

10 bags needed (2 per puppy)
** update ** 4 bags needed! Thank you!🙏

12/01/2025

We can’t save any dogs until we catch up 😭

We’re behind on fundraising, but when our community comes together—even with just $5 gifts—we can catch up and save more dogs. No big donors, just big hearts. Will you join us?

URGENT: Falling Behind, Coming Together - Help Us Continue to Save Lives

Right now, twenty eight incredible dogs are counting on us—and you. Their futures depend on the kindness of animal lovers like you. We urgently need to raise funds for training, medical care, and food for nine of these dogs. Without your help, we cannot continue providing the second chances they deserve.

Meet the Dogs Who Need You:
- Cody: Needs $2,100 for board & train—he’s making amazing progress!

- Spud: Needs $2,200 for board & train, plus $120 for two months of food—he’s learning to trust again.

- Phoenix:Needs $2,280 for board & train—she’s ready for a fresh start.

- Charlie: Needs $4,400 for board & train—the longest journey, but worth every step.

- Ranger: Needs $1,877 for board & train—full of potential!

- Velveeta: Needs $3,812 for board & train—her smile says it all.

- Beans: Needs $512 for a vet visit—let’s keep him healthy.

- Honey: Needs $380 for an emergency vet visit—she’s a survivor!

- Kibble for November: $1,400

Every dollar goes directly to these dogs’ care.

No donation is too small—every bit helps!

How You Can Help:
- Donate now at: https://www.paypal.com/donate?campaign_id=5TLSTGMYVU6F6
—- on this post
—- or message us for other options so we can keep the amount raised up-to-date
- Share this message with friends and family
- All gifts are tax-deductible!

Together, we can give Cody, Spud, Phoenix, Charlie, Ranger, Velveeta, Beans, and Honey the futures they deserve (some pictured here 🥰)

Thank you for believing in final chances!

11/30/2025

We’re behind on fundraising, but when our community comes together—even with just $5 gifts—we can catch up and save more dogs. No big donors, just big hearts. Will you join us?

We can’t save any more dogs until we catch up.

URGENT: Falling Behind, Coming Together - Help Us Continue to Save Lives

Right now, twenty eight incredible dogs are counting on us—and you. Their futures depend on the kindness of animal lovers like you. We urgently need to raise funds for training, medical care, and food for nine of these dogs. Without your help, we cannot continue providing the second chances they deserve.

Meet the Dogs Who Need You:
- Cody: Needs $2,100 for board & train—he’s making amazing progress!

- Spud: Needs $2,200 for board & train, plus $120 for two months of food—he’s learning to trust again.

- Phoenix:Needs $2,280 for board & train—she’s ready for a fresh start.

- Charlie: Needs $4,400 for board & train—the longest journey, but worth every step.

- Ranger: Needs $1,877 for board & train—full of potential!

- Velveeta: Needs $3,812 for board & train—her smile says it all.

- Beans: Needs $512 for a vet visit—let’s keep him healthy.

- Honey: Needs $380 for an emergency vet visit—she’s a survivor!

- Kibble for November: $1,400

Every dollar goes directly to these dogs’ care.

No donation is too small—every bit helps!

How You Can Help:
- Donate now at: https://www.paypal.com/donate?campaign_id=5TLSTGMYVU6F6
—- on this post
—- or message us for other options so we can keep the amount raised up-to-date
- Share this message with friends and family
- All gifts are tax-deductible!

Together, we can give Cody, Spud, Phoenix, Charlie, Ranger, Velveeta, Beans, and Honey the futures they deserve (some pictured here 🥰)

Thank you for believing in final chances!

11/29/2025

URGENT: Falling Behind, Coming Together - Help Us Continue to Save Lives

Right now, twenty eight incredible dogs are counting on us—and you. Their futures depend on the kindness of animal lovers like you. We urgently need to raise funds for training, medical care, and food for nine of these dogs. Without your help, we cannot continue providing the second chances they deserve.

Meet the Dogs Who Need You:
- Cody: Needs $2,100 for board & train—he’s making amazing progress!

- Spud: Needs $2,200 for board & train, plus $120 for two months of food—he’s learning to trust again.

- Phoenix:Needs $2,280 for board & train—she’s ready for a fresh start.

- Charlie: Needs $4,400 for board & train—the longest journey, but worth every step.

- Ranger: Needs $1,877 for board & train—full of potential!

- Velveeta: Needs $3,812 for board & train—her smile says it all.

- Beans: Needs $512 for a vet visit—let’s keep him healthy.

- Honey: Needs $380 for an emergency vet visit—she’s a survivor!

- Kibble for November: $1,400

Every dollar goes directly to these dogs’ care.

No donation is too small—every bit helps!

How You Can Help:
- Donate now at: https://www.paypal.com/donate?campaign_id=5TLSTGMYVU6F6
—- on this post
—- or message us for other options so we can keep the amount raised up-to-date
- Share this message with friends and family
- All gifts are tax-deductible!

Together, we can give Cody, Spud, Phoenix, Charlie, Ranger, Velveeta, Beans, and Honey the futures they deserve (some pictured here 🥰)

Thank you for believing in final chances!

11/29/2025

We still have 3 puppies needing bags of food 🙏

The puppies need food! Their food is on sale thru the end of day Saturday at Fleet Farm if anyone is going there. We are looking for 2 bags a puppy as a goal (they are growing fast!!)

You can help by sponsoring a bag by donating, purchasing a bag & shipping it or dropping it off at

👉 Paypal.me/FCAR
👉 venmo.com/u/finalchanceanimalrescue

Dogs needing sponsorship:
✅Ares: covered / thank you
✅Artemis: covered : thank you!
🚨Hera: 2 needed!
✅Oden: covered / Thank you!
🚨Zeus: 2 needed!

Bags are $60 at our cost - $51.99 on sale today at FleetFarm

NutriSource Small & Large Breed Puppy is the food

10 bags needed (2 per puppy)
** update ** 4 bags needed! Thank you!🙏

11/28/2025

The puppies need food! Their food is on sale thru the end of day Saturday at Fleet Farm if anyone is going there. We are looking for 2 bags a puppy as a goal (they are growing fast!!)

You can help by sponsoring a bag by donating, purchasing a bag & shipping it or dropping it off at

👉 Paypal.me/FCAR
👉 venmo.com/u/finalchanceanimalrescue

Dogs needing sponsorship:
✅Ares: covered / thank you
✅Artemis: covered : thank you!
🚨Hera: 2 needed!
✅Oden: covered / Thank you!
🚨Zeus: 2 needed!

Bags are $60 at our cost - $51.99 on sale today at FleetFarm

NutriSource Small & Large Breed Puppy is the food

10 bags needed (2 per puppy)
** update ** 4 bags needed! Thank you!🙏

11/26/2025

I think it’s safe to say that Spud is enjoying his rehabilitation program 😎

11/24/2025

To the person who said Cody was dangerous because he was on the euth list —- I’m sorry you haven’t been exposed to learning dog behavior before owning a dog. Once you learn it, you can’t unsee it. Once you truly understand dogs, you can’t meet a dog like Cody & decide he isn’t worth the cost of a rehabilitation program to undo what uneducated humans did to him. He was with his owner when he died & for at least 5 days until someone found them. He then landed at a shelter. One can only imagine the confusion he felt.

He definitely had some unhealthy behaviors rewarded (or ignored) that we will work on — but why is that his fault? Dogs do what works for them - which involves the humans response to their behavior. Cody does not know/understand anything different.

Here he is learning from one of his mentor dogs during his rehab program.

I’ll never stop advocating for misunderstood dogs.

— if anyone reading this would like to help us continue to take on local behavioral cases that no one else is able to help, dogs looking for a final chance, we have $2,200 left to raise for Cody’s program. 🙏

[Cody was known as Chopper at Minneapolis Animal Care & Control]

11/21/2025

Why donate to ? So we can continue to save dogs like this guy pictured here - Ranger - who bit his owner during a dog fight.

Last week Ranger’s vet clinic reached out to us to see if we could accept him into rescue to avoid having his family euthanize him. This clinic has seen him his entire life & just couldn’t accept him getting euthanized.

Our first instinct was to offer training support but that wasn’t an option in this case unfortunately.

We welcomed Ranger into our program on Friday. He is decompressing (friendly reminder that a bite incident is stressful for the dog involved too) & is in the queue for a rehabilitation program.

We don’t believe dogs should be euthanized for situations like this. We will continue to save dogs like Ranger as long as we have your support to do so.

Please consider donating today so we can help the next dog avoid euthanasia over a mistake. We can’t say yes without you.

We have $20,000 left to raise today & that may seem like a lot but when each of our supporters chips in, even $5, magic happens. When we come together, amazing things happen - when that happens, your $5 adds up with everyone else’s to help save dogs like Ranger.

Donate online at: https://give.mn/q0v4ag

Or text SPICY to 844-844-6844

11/20/2025

Cody ended up at a local shelter back in May when his owner had to be hospitalized. He only had to stay one night & was able to go back home. Unfortunately, he ended up back at the shelter in July after he was found with his deceased owner 😭💔- he was alone with him for at least 5 days before being discovered.

Cody was stressed at the shelter & began displaying some concerning behaviors that made handling him difficult. He was placed on the list to be euthanized on July 29th.

On July 28th he was still in need of a rescue & we just couldn’t imagine this being his last time on earth — after all he just went through — so we picked him up.

Cody will be with us for a while (dogs are typically with us for at least 6 months before they are ready for adoption) - longer than most - as we work through his hurdles & open up his world. His rehabilitation program set us back $6,600. We will never recoup that in an adoption fee.

Cody needed a final chance & we were honored to provide that for him. Unfortunately, the reality is we can only take on dogs like Cody if we have supporters to help us bridge that gap between the cost of care and an adoption fee. We were able to save Cody because of last year’s Give to the Max donations.

We have $20,000 left to raise today & that may seem like a lot but when each of our supporters chips in, even $5, magic happens. When we come together, amazing things happen - when that happens, your $5 adds up with everyone else’s to help save dogs like Cody.

Donate online at: https://give.mn/q0v4ag

Or text SPICY to 844-844-6844