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🐾 Calling all PUG LOVERS! 🐾We’ve got two irresistible squish-faced sweethearts at the shelter who would love to spend th...
07/03/2025

🐾 Calling all PUG LOVERS! 🐾

We’ve got two irresistible squish-faced sweethearts at the shelter who would love to spend the holiday snuggled up on your couch instead of a kennel floor.

✨ Meet Flare – a 5-year-old male fawn Pug with a heart of gold and the most adorable little snort you’ve ever heard.
✨ And Lily – an 8-month-old Pug/Boston Terrier mix with puppy energy, goofy charm, and kisses for days!

Let’s get these cuties out of the shelter and into a soft, loving home tonight. šŸ’›

If you're a Missouri foster or interested in becoming one, stop by the shelter today before 4PM – we’d love to get them into foster care before the fireworks start. Shelter hours July 3rd noon-4PM. If you have questions please text the shelter at 816-509-5911

šŸ“ Every dog deserves a safe place to rest their head. Let’s make that happen for Flare and Lily today.

Both are available for adoption by completing an adoption application on our website.

To allow our staff and volunteers to enjoy the Independence Day holiday we have modified hours.
07/03/2025

To allow our staff and volunteers to enjoy the Independence Day holiday we have modified hours.

All of these babies are at a high kill shelter, and are already living on borrowed time.  The first one has until 10 am ...
07/02/2025

All of these babies are at a high kill shelter, and are already living on borrowed time. The first one has until 10 am today to find a hero. We cannot tag, unless we have either a foster or adopter offer (place for them to go when they get here). I know it’s right here at the Fourth of July, and everyone is busy. But if you’re not traveling, please consider celebrating your freedom by giving one of these innocent souls theirs.šŸ™šŸ¼

🚨They will not arrive until either the 12th, or 23rd if they get a tag!!!

Please private messagege us if you can open up your heart and home for one of these dogs. Please help find these babies a foster or adoptive home by liking, following, commenting, and sharing this post.

🐾  Adoption Update  🐾  During the month of June, all these amazing animals found their furever homes! Here are most of t...
07/01/2025

🐾 Adoption Update 🐾

During the month of June, all these amazing animals found their furever homes! Here are most of their pictures!

We are so happy for all of them ā¤ļø

We still have plenty of amazing animals waiting for you! Please check out our website if you're looking to foster or adopt.

We were contacted by a sheriff department about three dogs that were left behind when renters moved out.  They are aband...
07/01/2025

We were contacted by a sheriff department about three dogs that were left behind when renters moved out. They are abandoned, scared, and just trying to survive. Two of them, Batman and Kratos, are living under a porch. It helps to keep them cool, and offers protection. Batman and Kratos are estimated to be between 6 months to a year old, and look to be Heeler/border collie mixes. Batman is the one with some tan coloring. Humans have failed these dogs, and they are reluctant to trust. The third dog, Jax, we are told was abused a while back and suffers from PTSD. Jax is 3 years old, and definitely skittish. All of these babies seem to warm up quickly.

They really need a foster to home to help them gain confidence, and learn what love is. Can you help us find each of these babies a foster (or foster to adopt) home by liking, following, commenting, and sharing this post? Fostering is free- we provide food, kennel, and medical care. Please find it in your heart to open up your home to an animal in need. We cannot bring these babies into rescue until a foster home is found. Please private message us if you are interested in saving one of these dogs.

These babies are left needing fosters!!!  If you live in the Greater Kansas City Metro Area on the Missouri side and are...
07/01/2025

These babies are left needing fosters!!! If you live in the Greater Kansas City Metro Area on the Missouri side and are interested in helping one of these precious souls begin the next chapter of their life, please come to the shelter tomorrow anytime between 12 pm-7 pm. Fostering is free! We provide kennel, food, and medical care.

1113 NW Knox Street
Blue Springs, MO 64015

06/30/2025

Meet our 15 newest breeder release intakes- 5 puppies, and 8 adults. We need fosters, and are hoping to get them out of the shelter today before 7 pm!!! If you live on the Missouri side of state line, and are interested in fostering, please come to our shelter starting at 3:30 pm. First come first served. No holds.

Ever have those days where it feels like there’s a full moon, but there’s not?  For those of you who are not in animal w...
06/30/2025

Ever have those days where it feels like there’s a full moon, but there’s not? For those of you who are not in animal welfare (and maybe more importantly for those of you who are and making comments like this), please take note. Burnout and compassion fatigue are absolutely real things! A post I made earlier in an attempt to help an animal that isn’t even one of ours- received multiple hateful comments. If I have learned nothing else from rescue, it’s that you will never be good enough for everyone. People always expect you to do more. Everyone has an opinion, but never a legit solution. If you think you can do better, please start your own rescue- we don’t have enough. Please remember we are all on the same team with the same goals. Just because opinions differ, doesn’t mean people are enemies, so let’s not treat them as such. Everyone making comments is well intending. But perhaps we don’t hear how we come across? Or maybe we don’t know a better way? Below are several comments, along with answers as to why those comments are not helpful. Below that is a list of things that are truly helpful. Yes, we understand these people are the few, and not the majority- but it doesn’t make it any less tiresome.

āŒā€œ....Whichever organization was responsible for letting her be adopted should be hung by their thumbs....you are responsible for her being euthanizedā€

šŸ‘‰šŸ¼Municipally operated shelters do not always have the luxury of denying an adoption. This is not the staffs fault. This is likely a process and procedure they are required to follow. Secondly, some animals that are harder to adopt out- you have to truly weigh options. Sometimes all you can do is provide all the information to the adopters, but some people are determined to try against all the best advice. And sometimes, that could be that animal’s absolute best opportunity. In a nation in crisis where there’s more animals needing homes, than homes open to taking animals in- we don’t live in an ideal world. We live in a world where we make the best choices with the knowledge we have in that moment.

āŒā€œMaybe shelters should be like human adoption agencies they go look at the home look at everything to make sure everything will be o.k. and also if your going to be a shelter you should not be killing dogs if you can't take care of the animals properly you shouldn't be a shelterā€

šŸ‘‰šŸ¼In an ideal world this would be great! We don’t currently live in that world. There are currently more animals needing homes, than homes available. We need to make adopting animals easier for people to choose, not harder. It would be time prohibitive keeping animals in shelters longer, and animal welfare agencies are already operating on fines for budgets- where would the money come from? You can also say to use volunteers, but you’d have to have reliable, consistent volunteers to be able to do this, and this can slow it down even further keeping animals out of a home for even longer periods of time. And if it isn’t mandated for every animal welfare agency, adopters will just go to the organizations that don’t require it, because people are inpatient.

āŒā€œQuit murdering these animals for human stupidity.ā€

šŸ‘‰šŸ¼While human stupidity may be to blame, it isn’t in the same context in which this comment is referring. Blame the people who failed these animals and they ended up in a shelter in the first place. Blame people for not spaying/neutering or microchipping their animals. Blame law makers who don’t understand the state of animal welfare right now, and not implementing mandatory spay and neuter laws.

āŒā€œCan't she be taken out of the shelter into yours and assigned to a foster? For the time being. (To save her life)ā€¦ā€

šŸ‘‰šŸ¼This is not this simple for a multitude of reasons. We, as well as every other shelter and rescue in America right now, are full. We don’t assign fosters. We solicit fosters through urgent pleas- fosters are volunteers, who do this out of the kindness of their hearts. Most fosters are animal lovers, and already have a dog of their own. Finding a foster for a dog that needs to be the only dog is incredibly difficult to do. If we had space at the shelter, a dog like Bendi would occupy a spot for an undetermined length of time. We have dog friendly dogs we’ve had in our shelter for over 6 months we can’t get adopted out. We can help find 20+ ā€œeasyā€ dogs in the same time it would take us to find an adopter for a more challenging dog like Bendi. Same goes for resources- they can go further when trying to help the less challenging dogs.

āŒā€œJuly 1st doesn't give much time for people to go through… or she could be sent to another shelter where she has more timeā€¦ā€

šŸ‘‰šŸ¼This is not our dog, this is a curtesy post. Also, we did post on her 4 days ago in the form of a video. Can she be sent to another shelter? If you can find one that has room right now, please let me know! Every rescue and shelter I know of has waiting lists of surrenders.

āŒā€œCan Pawportunities just take her inā€¦ā€

šŸ‘‰šŸ¼See above. Also- taking animals in isn’t always just about space. It’s also about only having a finite amount of time. Each animal in our rescue- we need to be able to accommodate both the foster and potential adopters. So if we have 100 available animals right now, we are very likely trying to accommodate 200+ people associated with those animals. Some have medical needs, appointments that need to be scheduled, results of tests that need to be gone over, grooming needs, medicated baths, transport needs…. They each need to have pictures taken, stories written, questions answered, promoted in different ways. The list goes on and on, and there’s only so many staff members, and only so many hours in a day.

āŒā€œThe adoption coordinator should be held responsibleā€¦ā€

šŸ‘‰šŸ¼This is not the adoption coordinators fault. Most people don’t listen to what other people are trying to tell them. Most people listen to react, not to take the information in. Additionally, municipal shelters have policies and procedures they are forced to follow. This is a hard job as is, we don’t need to make it harder on them. This is why good people leave rescue.

āŒā€œthe laws then need to be changed. it's so hard to see a good dog put to sleep for a system that can not protect an animalā€¦ā€

šŸ‘‰šŸ¼Yes, the laws do need to be changed. They need to be changed mandating spays, neuters, and microchips. As for a system that cannot protect the animal- do not blame the shelters and rescues. Every person that works in shelters or rescues is doing it because on a passion for animals, not for the crappy paycheck they get. This is a community problem, and requires a community solution. This is not the sole responsibility of shelters or rescues- we are here trying to clean up after the mess other people create.

āŒā€œPlease don't kill this beautiful baby. Find her a loving home. She deserves to live.ā€

šŸ‘‰šŸ¼This animal is not in our shelter. Every animal in every shelter deserves a chance to live. Unfortunately the reality is there are more animals needing homes, than homes available. There is a lack of space, lack of funds, lack of accountability for people who fail their animals. Millions of animals are euthanized every year. This is why people in animal welfare cry adopt don’t shop incessantly.

āŒā€œWhy didn't the adoption coordinator just say no?ā€

šŸ‘‰šŸ¼See a couple different answers above that address this.

āŒā€œWouldn't it be better to just fire the worker who caused this problem. What organization would do the euthanizing? Hopefully they lose their funding.ā€

šŸ‘‰šŸ¼Same thing with seeing above answers in regards to the worker. But how is loosing a shelters funding going to help animals? Every shelter and rescue around works their asses off every single day to help as many animals as possible. So one animal may be beyond what they can help, so let’s defund the program entirely? Please make this make sense. Want more people to start rescues to help more animals- smart people see posts like this with comments like these, and realize animal welfare advocates are set up to fail- they will either burn out or fade out.

Things that are helpful:
āž”ļøAdopt Bendi.
āž”ļøShare this post.
āž”ļøRead the post to take in the information, instead of to react.
āž”ļøRead through comments to find information that’s already been provided answering questions.
āž”ļøTag people you think may be interested in adopting Bendi, or may know people who might be interested.
āž”ļøPray.
āž”ļøBe kind.
āž”ļøBe compassionate.
āž”ļøBe understanding.
āž”ļøBe patient.
āž”ļøBe a part of the solution, instead of creating even more problems.
āž”ļøDon’t allow your emotions to override your logic.
āž”ļøDonate time or funds.
āž”ļøKeep a positive attitude.
āž”ļøDon’t be quick to judge.
āž”ļøUnderstand there’s always more to a story.

All of these things are absolutely free!!!

Join us around 2 pm today as we meet our 15 newest breeder release intakes- 5 puppies, and 8 adults.  We need fosters, a...
06/30/2025

Join us around 2 pm today as we meet our 15 newest breeder release intakes- 5 puppies, and 8 adults. We need fosters, and are hoping to get them out of the shelter today before 7 pm!!! If you live on the Missouri side of state line, and are interested in fostering, please come to our shelter starting at 3:30 pm. First come first served. No holds. Pictured below is a pug/Boston mix that was an owner surrender that came in today who also needs a foster!

🚨🚨🚨UPDATE: we’ve been granted an extension for Bendi until 10 am Tuesday July 8th.  This will allow more time to share, ...
06/30/2025

🚨🚨🚨UPDATE: we’ve been granted an extension for Bendi until 10 am Tuesday July 8th. This will allow more time to share, the ability to navigate interest, and a better ability to see how she is around cats. It also buys time around the pending holiday.

There have been some people interested with no other dogs, but have cats. Because of what happened in her first adoptive home, we want to use an abundance of caution to make sure we set her up for as much success as possible, for the safety of ALL involved. Including Bendi- if she goes to another failed adoptive home, that will most certainly determine her fate. In an ideal world, we’d love to see her in a home with no other animals.

Many people have questioned why we don’t just give out the shelter info. A couple reasons- 1. Why would we want the hateful comments to be blasted at another entity that is simply doing their job, and following protocols set by powers higher than them? Two organizations don’t need to endure this. While misery may love company, it’s certainly not an efficient use of animal welfare workers time and energy. 2. This organization is not allowed to adopt out dogs with a bite history- regardless of whether the bite was a redirect from a situation she was placed in to fail. They will allow us to pull to adopt out. No, we don’t have room in our shelter. No, we don’t have fosters that don’t have other dogs in their home. Yes, we are scrambling to figure out ways to help Bendi. Please be patient and kind while we navigate this. Please keep in mind it is a huge responsibility to find a home for a dog that doesn’t like other dogs. It weighs heavy on making the decision to place an animal in a home, while wanting to make sure any other animals and humans in the home remain safe. At the end of the day it has to be a decision we’re comfortable with. I do not want to place her in a crate and rotate situation- I have lived that for the last 5 years. It sucks, and it can fail- even with experienced and knowledgeable people. Humans aren’t perfect, and it’s unreasonable to expect them to be. Ask me about how I tragically lost one of my dogs recently.

Seriously interested in Bendi? Submit an adoption application through us, send us a private message through Facebook, or text me at 816-935-2111.

Please continue to share this with the hopes of finding a home that has no other animals.
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Bendi is at another shelter where she will be euthanized July 1, 2025 if she does not find an adopter. Bendi was adopted into a home that had another dog, against the recommendations of the adoption coordinator. Bendi is pretty dog selective, and really needs to be the only dog in the home, so she can be the queen of the house that she is. Bendi and the other dog ended up getting into a fight, and when the owner tried to break up the fight he ended up getting bit. If Bendi was the only dog in the home, this wouldn’t have happened. Bendi was set up to fail by being adopted against the recomendation of the adoption coordinator.

Bendi is good on a leash, generally easy to redirect, happy, loving, and eager to please. You will be this girls whole world! She looks at her people with such love and devotion in her eyes. This girl really needs a hero to step forward. Can you help us find her an adopter by liking, following, commenting, and sharing this post? She just needs to find one person willing to open up their heart and home.

Come meet Loki, Cara, and Muddy Mut (along with our shelter residents) that are at our shelter with their fosters lookin...
06/28/2025

Come meet Loki, Cara, and Muddy Mut (along with our shelter residents) that are at our shelter with their fosters looking for their forever homes today! We’re open tol 5 pm, located at 1113 NW Knox Street, Blue Springs, MO 64015

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1113 NW Knox Street
Blue Springs, MO
64015

Opening Hours

Monday 12pm - 7pm
Tuesday 12pm - 7pm
Wednesday 12pm - 7pm
Thursday 12pm - 7pm
Friday 12pm - 7pm
Saturday 12pm - 5pm

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+18165095911

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