🙏🏻 Can you help give this amazing senior who has been failed by so many and abandoned the best Christmas of his life-time? 🙏🏻
💔🐾Meet "Riddick" 🐾💔
When our rescue partners reached out asking if we could take in a very sight/hearing impaired, covered in masses senior Bull Terrier that landed at a shelter in northern FL who was not eating/drinking or walking - all he was doing was shaking. There was no hesitation, of course YES!
So this week came planning, scheduling and working on getting Riddick down to us. When they sent in this video, all our hearts broke and it was never a question if he could come and rest in the Hospice house it was just how do we make it happen and how quick.
⚕️ Sweet Riddick has a road ahead of him and hopefully over the next week we will have some more answers but for now we know he suffers from severe KCS (Dry-Eye), Hyperkeratosis in his ears causing narrowing canals and infection, multiple large masses of unknown origin (currently), arthritis and only has approx 10% of Vision and Hearing.
Riddick's past will not define his future and we promise to give him the best Christmas of his life.
🎄📃🎄Can you help us fulfill this promise by sponsoring even 1 item on his Christmas Wishlist? 🎄📃: https://a.co/hpdfce4
If you would like to help towards Riddick's medical bills, donations can be made in the following ways:
Our attending Veterinarian office: Animal Hospital of Regency Park in New Port Richey, FL ***(727)848-6247***
Venmo: @RugazRescue
Paypal: paypal.me/rugazrescue
Zelle: [email protected]
CashApp: $RugazRescue
Meet "Tony"...
This very sweet bulldog boy should be no more then 40lbs... He is currently 83lbs!!!! He is quite literally dying from being obese...
The shelter reached out to Rugaz Rescue Inc. to help get this boy out of a bad situation and when we got him... All our jaws dropped and we just wept for this boy who wants nothing more then to walk to you for some love... However he can't walk more then a few steps without having to stop and catch his breathe...
This IS NOT okay... Being this obese is JUST as bad for their bodies as having malnutrition. It is killing his organs, on top of Big Tony is Heartworm Positive!
Our hearts ACHE for this boy... He has been through SO much! He is absolutely filthy, his skin is stretched so thin his hair has stopped growing in areas. He has SO much weight on and around his chest it is difficult to breathe ontop of the heart damage from the heartworms...
Tony deserves to be loved. He deserves to be healthy! He is being put on a VERY strict weight loss plan that is Veterinarian monitored and managed so he can lose the weight steadily along with a small exercise plan to build his muscle mass back up. Tony cannot even start Heartworm Treatment until we get his weight down to take the pressure off his heart...
Tony just wants to love everyone and everything. Canines, Felines, humans - you got it. He deserves our love in return - The love of health.
We do need your help now if you are able to spare just $1.00 towards all his Veterinarian care (Surgeries/Weight loss management urine/bloodwork and heartworm treatment) or are able able to be a sponsor hero for even one bag of his weight management food?
We've complied a quick little Amazon Wishlist for bags of his weight management food, a XL crate (Sadly he will not fit into any of our larges at his current weight/size) and supplements he needs to continue his health plan. Can you be a hero and sponsor even 1 of Tony's much needed items?
https://a.co/8yyHimf
Donations can al
🐾🙏🏻 Hospice pup "Meyers" needs our help now 🙏🏻🐾
Our sweet Hospice-Therapy program pup Mr "Meyers" is under-going heart testing along with much, much more today.
Yesterday afternoon during pup-play time Meyer's had a syncopal episode and now we're scrambling to find out why...
Many of you have met Meyer's at public events or through the Pause 4 Paws therapy pup visits and know that his tail never stops. What makes this boy's day is meeting new people, getting good boy pats, playing with his fur siblings or helping children read at the local library...
Meyer's is such an amazing soul and we need your help getting to the bottom cause and how to properly treat/manage him for the future... Heart testing (ECG, Chest Films, Echo Etc) are extremely costly but, Meyers is worth EVERY penny! We just need your help if you can!
Meyer's gives so much to our community between local programs, therapy and wellness visits... Can the community give just a little back to him so he can get right back out there tail wagging to be with you 🙏🏻🐾🙏🏻💓
Meyer's current attending Veterinarian: Animal Hospital of Regency Park in New Port Richey, FL and is scheduled for a consult with Merrick Fultz MA, DVM, DACVIM (Cardiology).
One time donations can be made in the following ways:
Animal Hospital of Regency Park in New Port Richey, FL
***(727)848-6247*** Donations can be made right over the phone!
Venmo: @RugazRescue
Paypal: paypal.me/rugazrescue
Zelle: [email protected]
CashApp: $RugazRescue
Want to become a Virtual Foster Parent for "Meyers" - Learn more about him and how here: https://www.rugazrescue.org/virtual-fosters
Rugaz Rescue Inc is "What's Right With Tampabay"
Rugaz Rescue Inc. is "What's Right With Tampa Bay"
For those of you who may have recently followed one of our dog's stories here's a little information about who Rugaz Rescue Inc. is...
We not only rescue our adoptable dogs from our local shelters time-limited at-risk lists, we also have our Fospice sanctuary home.
Our Hospice and Sanctuary house has a dream for 2024! That our Memorial Garden will be open to the public as a Sniffspot to help our local community have a safe place to bring their pups, but also have a place for the community to come volunteer/see and spend time with one of our Virtual Foster/Hospice pups.
Our team pour's our heart and soul's into each and every single pup, whether it's our Rugaz Rescue Inc. pups or pups in the community we assist through our "Keeping Pets At Home" program.
We cannot thank FOX 13 News - Tampa Bay and James Tully for spotlighting our Hospice program and dawning us with their esteemed "What's Right With Tampabay" Title.
Way's to get involved with Rugaz Rescue Inc.'s pups.
⭐ Become a Virtual Foster Parent if you can't bring a pup home!
https://www.rugazrescue.org/virtual-fosters
⭐ Become a healthy pup foster or Hospice pup foster!
https://www.rugazrescue.org/applications-main
⭐Become a sponsor in the Rugaz's In Living Memory Garden
Coming Soon.
⭐You can sponsor a general donation or sponsor a specific pup of your choice by donating directly to their attending Veterinarian:
Animal Hospital of Regency Park in New Port Richey, FL
***(727)848-6247***
Or other ways to donate:
Paypal: paypal.me/rugazrescue
Zelle: [email protected]
CashApp: $RugazRescue
🚨 "Vader" Pup Date... 🚨
Please keep Vader in your thoughts during this difficult time...
Vader came to Rugaz Rescue Inc. with the typical shelter kennel cough but due to how severely elongated his palate is and how closed the nares are he is having an exceptionally difficult time over coming this...
He's had a severe cough that we've been battling trying to get him to respond to different treatments but it turned dire quickly...
Our amazing VetMed team at Animal Hospital of Regency Park in New Port Richey, FL have been working with us around the clock trying everything to get Vader to respond and he was doing well for about a week... but he has turned south and we need him to respond to something quickly before it's too late...💔💓
Vader has been moved to supportive care with fluids, liquid nutrition, addition of more medications and we've reached out to an amazing resource to borrow an oxygen concentrator with oxygen chamber box to assist Vader with breathing.
Vader is a fighter and as long as he continues to wag his tail, give kisses and fights to stay here with us we will not stop fighting for him...
However, we need your help to not only financially continue this fight for Vader but with resources as well...
One of the medications Vader is on for his severe non-stop coughing is $85.99 for a week supply... We are going on week 3 with him... This does not include his hospital bills that continue to mount at Animal Hospital of Regency Park in New Port Richey, FL, other medications, supplements and care. We just went over the $1000 mark on his medical account alone...
This doesn't even touch his surgeries that he will need when he's beaten this crud and is healthy enough to start them...
...Rugaz Rescue Inc. need's your help to keep fighting for Vader's life...
Vader was thrown away by his previous owner and it is clear he has not had an easy or nice life. He is fighting right now to live the life he has only just begun to be shown being a spo
We wanted to share a cute moment from dog-Christmas yesterday getting everyone together.
The little amazing hospice boy "Creature" made a little fort all his own with every color of toy he could get and made a squeak soundtrack all night 😂😂
To say his Christmas was a hit, is an understatement...
This is what it's ALL about! <3
Okay, everyone Awwwwwwwww in 3...2...1.... Go!
Adoptable Babies "Coal" and "Regin" enjoy playing with their duckie while they wait for their forever homes.
I mean... Who can't not "D'awwwwww" at this adorableness!
For more information on these itty-bitties or others from this litter please submit an application on our website www.RugazRescue.org or send us a DM!
