Mutt Rescue of Massachusetts

08/22/2024

🐾OPEN LABOR DAY!🐾
🦮HOMELESS DOGS NEED YOU🦮
😊 PLEASE SHARE!!! 😊
Mutt Rescue @ 102 Grove St., Chicopee
❤️I THANK SO MUCH FOR SHARING❤️

08/14/2024

Please nominate! This is who I rescue from and Roscoe P Coal Train's Community Outreach takes every dog in that is shot at, dumped in the river in bags, thrown out on highways and more! She pays for everything out of her pocket, no grant money ever awarded. They live outdoors under tarps until she can get them to me. Please help!

Nominate your local animal shelter for our contest by August 31st for a chance to win a $10,000 grand prize donated on behalf of Invisible Fence® Brand.

08/10/2024

Lost by Wilbraham Road in Massachusetts Road

07/18/2024

Thank you, Mutt Rescue, for our new furry family member, Frankie. This is our first rescue, and he has captured our hearts with his affectionate nature and love for cuddling and being by my side.

07/15/2024

Lost in Willimansett section of Chicopee

Fergus is a lost DOG missing in Holyoke, Massachusetts 01040. Please help Fergus reunite with its owners.

06/22/2024

05/31/2024

Good reading!!

Imagine you didn't keep ANY food in your house, and the grocery stores were hit or miss. Sometimes they'd be fully stocked and sometimes there'd be just enough on the shelves to get you a snack, never mind a full meal. You have little ones to feed and yesterday each of you only had a few bites of food each. At first you might just deal with it, but it wouldn't take long before you started going to stores at all hours or even looking in trash cans and other people's gardens for nourishment for you and your family.

This is the reality for wildlife. For many species, food is hit or miss, specifically for omnivores and carnivores. Just because they look plump and healthy doesn't mean they're not hungry. Right now is the most plentiful time of year as far as food goes, but many species rely on protein as part of their diet, especially when nursing their young and for younger animals that need higher amounts to grow and develop properly. Constantly having to hunt for food is very energy and time consuming, and it's a must for many species.

Seeing a "nocturnal" animal out during the day does NOT automatically mean that they're sick. We get a lot of calls about "rabid" foxes, skunks, and racoons and after seeing video and observing their behavior it's very clear that they're just out doing their thing. They're acting completely normal, their only wrong doing is being out and about at a time of day that humans deem inappropriate.

If you don't want these wild guests to frequent your yard, feed pets indoors, don't put out bird feeders (or if you do take them in in the evening and clean up under them), keep trash secure, and avoid clutter so mice and rats don't take up residence and attract predators.

And I know many people won't like to hear this, but PLEASE don't leave food out for wildlife. All it takes is one sick animal to visit the food pile and you may end up with a bunch of sick critters, be it mange, distemper, or rabies. Wild animals have to forage and hunt for food, it's their way and they've survived a LONG time without humans leaving them easy meals. While your intentions may be good, putting food out for them may cause problems that no amount of vet care or rehab can fix.

03/07/2024

Everyone who is thinking of getting dogs should read this because you need to understand this reality:

***I am a 21st century dog.***
-I'm a Malinois.
Overskilled among dogs, I excel in all disciplines and I'm always ready to work: I NEED to work.
But nowadays I get asked to chill on the couch all day everyday.

-I am an Akita Inu.
My ancestors were selected for dog fighting.
Today I get asked to be tolerant and I get scolded for my reactivity when another approaches me.

-I am a Beagle.
When I chase my prey, I raise my voice so the hunters could follow.
Today they put an electric collar on me to shut up, and you make me come back to you - no running - with a snap of your fingers.

-I am a Yorkshire Terrier.
I was a terrifying rat hunter in English mines.
Today they think I can't use my legs and they always hold me in their arms.

-I'm a Labrador Retriever.
My vision of happiness is a dive into a pond to bring back the duck he shot to my master.
Today you forget I'm a walking, running, swimming dog; as a result I'm fat, made to stay indoors, and to babysit.

-I am a Jack Russell.
I can take on a fox, a mean badger, and a rat bigger than me in his den.
Today I get scolded for my character and high energy, and forced to turn into a quiet living room dog.

-I am a Siberian Husky.
Experienced the great, wide open spaces of Northern Europe, where I could drag sleds for long distances at impressive speeds.
Today I only have the walls of the house or small garden as a horizon, and the holes I dig in the ground just to release energy and frustration, trying to stay sane.

-I am a border collie
I was made to work hours a day in partnershipwith my master, and I am an unmistakable artist of working with the herd.
Today they are mad at me because, for lack of sheep, I try to check bikes, cars, children in the house and everything in motion.

I am ...
I am a 21st century dog.
I'm pretty, I'm alert, I'm obedient, I stay in a bag...but I'm also an individual who, from centuries of training, needs to express my instincts, and I am *not* suited for the sedentary life you'd want me to lead.
Spending eight hours a day alone in the house or in the garden - with no work and no one to play or run with, seeing you for a short time in the evening when you get home, and only getting a small toilet walk will make me deeply unhappy.
I'll express it by barking all day, turning your yard into a minefield, doing my needs indoors, being unmanageable the rare times I'll find myself outside, and sometimes spending my days sunk, sad, lonely, and depressed, on my pillow.
You may think that I should be happy to be able to enjoy all this comfort while you go to work, but actually I’ll be exhausted and frustrated, because this is absolutely NOT what I'm meant to do, or what I need to be doing.
If you love me, if you've always dreamed of me, if my beautiful blue eyes or my athletic look make you want me, but you can't give me a real dog's life, a life that's really worth living according to my breed, and if you can't offer me the job that my genes are asking, DO NOT buy or adopt me!
If you like the way I look but aren't willing to accept my temperament, gifts, and traits derived from long genetic selection, and you think you can change them with only your good will, then DO NOT BUY OR ADOPT ME.
I’m a dog from the 21st century, yes, but deep inside me, the one who fought, the one who hunted, the one who pulled sleds, the one who guided and protected a herd still lives within.
So think **very** carefully before you choose your dog. And think about getting two, rather than one, so I won't be so very lonely waiting for you all day. Eight or ten hours is just a workday to you, but it's an eternity for me to be alone.

01/04/2024

I want to thank everyone for the wonderful birthday wishes. ❤️ In seven years I have rescued and adopted out 4000 dogs! My birthday wish is to save even more! 🐾❤️🐾. This doesn't happen with only one person… It takes a team and this team becomes my family. 🐾❤️🐾

06/02/2023

A wonderful woman, Kate Sotolotto, has a beautiful, wonderful, huge heart and adopted Murphy knowing he had a heart condition. He needed to be saved because he didn’t deserve to die without having the best possible one year of life that he could ever have. I took him into my rescue. Kate opened her heart and her home to Murphy and Murphy lived an additional three years, unheard of! Kate  went above and beyond and let him be a dog and took extra, extra special care which brought him so beyond his heart’s expected life. He was born with a stage 5.5 out of 6 heart disease. I am forever grateful to Kate. Murphy stole my heart and will always have a piece of my heart, and I hope to see him in heaven, because I believe that dogs do go to heaven.🙏🏻 Rest in peace my furry love❤️

01/21/2023

Good to know!
The No Dig Garden
Read more: https://amzn.to/3V1RUaX
Read more: https://amzn.to/3EkH4a2
Charles Dowding No Dig Gardening

Join our growing community of gardeners
Edible Gardening Enthusiasts
https://www.facebook.com/groups/ediblegardeningenthusiasts

Ornamental Gardening and Houseplant Care
https://www.facebook.com/groups/indoorhouseplants

Livestock Farming Enthusiasts
https://www.facebook.com/groups/livestockenthusiasts
Join the edible gardening community
https://www.facebook.com/groups/ediblegardeningenthusiasts

Join the ornamental gardening community
https://www.facebook.com/groups/indoorhouseplants

Join the livestock farming community
https://www.facebook.com/groups/livestockenthusiasts

11/14/2022

Always Take a Poppy!