10/28/2024
THE GOOD, THE BAD, & THE UGLY OF RESCUE
I would like to start off by saying Dylan is truly that once in a lifetime dog! He is literally an angel on earth. He is terrified of everything which is his given right, humans have not been good to him and neither have dogs. We all know what ultimate betrayal feels like… it’s devastating, heartbreaking and even changes you a bit. You become more alert with your surroundings and become leery of others. It just plain out sucks! Everyone is handed a different path in life! My path is no where I ever imagined!!
I always wanted to move somewhere warm I hated the snow and felt like I was missing out on life being tucked away in cold Buffalo every winter. I grew fond of Dallas/Fort Worth 6 years ago when I rescued my beautiful Lucy Lou aka Monkey here. Everyone who has been following me for years got know Monkey she became a part of everyone’s feed and her story was absolutely heartbreaking like Dylan’s. Monkey was unrecognizable after 6 months of having her the people from Fort Worth (the shelter she came from) couldn’t believe it was the same dog. Love, proper vetting, and care is what changed her life. That’s truly what rescue is about! It doesn’t matter if you own a 501c3 and have a rescue, if you are out here in these battlegrounds of rescue, you are just as valuable and needed as a rescue. One thing about rescue the public really needs to understand is that we are emotionally drained constantly, we isolate ourselves, we overthink, we are workaholics, and we get very depressed from the overwhelming amount of sadness and betrayal we see daily in rescue.
I decided to take the plunge when I closed my business in Buffalo and move to Dallas to rescue and continue training dogs. Everything moved so fast because TEXAS is a world of its own! I dedicated my entire life to save dogs! I gave up everything I had for them! I’m here in Dallas which is beautiful by the way and I’m still so happy I moved! It’s just a sad field in rescue! I NEED LOVE, SUPPORT, SHARES, DONATIONS, AND KIND WORDS. You will never see the things that happen here happen in New York I promise you that. I jumped right in because the dogs needed me, the shelters, BUT MORE SO… THE PEOPLE! let’s talk about that.
There is a huge lack of education going on here and that is the culture shock to me not the abuse! The way things are done here is scary and alarming. No one spends time with their Foster’s or volunteers explaining decompression, slow intros, transitions, enrichment, exercise, and crate training. I’ve never seen so many people just throw dogs together and hope it works out. My mouth is to the floor some days. The amount of people that keep their dogs in back yards 24/7 is astonishing to me! The lower class neighborhoods are completely treated differently and segregated here. It’s like day and night if you go to one neighborhood verses the other. Let me assure stray and neglected dogs aren’t living in the upper class communities! Which tells me there is a lack of education, resources, and compassion in these neighborhoods. It’s start with our kids! What we teach! What kind of example are we? What they witness! People don’t just become adults and throw a dog in the backyard! They learned that! ITS A HUGE CULTURE PROBLEM! We need to start teaching our children about pet care and compassion/empathy. We need to be better examples. We need to take the time to explain to those owning pets how to properly take care of an animal. Is that going to stop abuse? Absolutely not! However it could minimize it and it could change that backyard dogs life! I know because my neighbor had their dog outside 24/7 and I was feeding him for months, giving him beds, blankets, toys, treats. Although I don’t agree with them I decided to educate them, guess what? Their dog is an inside dog now, he got neutered, had a bath, and vaccines. They take him to soccer games. You know how happy I was to see that? They just didn’t know the importance of vaccines, proper care, pets are family. Please take the time as a rescuer to educate and be a good example to the community not someone who complains all the time and doesn’t have patience for others. LEAD BY EXAMPLE!
On that note I’m starting a program called “Pets Are Family” with elementary schools in lower class neighborhoods and if you’d like to volunteer with me and learn the program, I’d love to have some help. It’s starts next year and we believe it’s going to blow up and become a nationwide program at all elementary and middle schools. The program teaches kids proper pet care I.e., vaccines, spay and neuter, how to report a lost or stolen dog, how to bathe a dog, how to care for a dog, and safety protocol. If you’d like to be a part of this program please apply as a volunteer at: btvrescue.org
Lastly let’s catch up on SWEET DYLAN! Dylan is lovely, quiet, calm, leery, wags his tail, wants to trust and love so bad kind of a dog. Everyone is wondering what happened to Dylan and how could the shelter (Dallas) let him sit like that for 5 days? Well I’m wondering the same thing and his conditions seem to of changed while there. Here is what I do know because I don’t put false information out there if I post it trust me it’s been investigated or I have proof and facts. So upon picking him up you can imagine how sick to my stomach I was he was SHOCKING to look at! I see his before video and don’t see these wounds, however they claim they shaved him and you could see them more graphically. I don’t know how this could have been so overlooked but here’s what I do know; City shelters are municipal buildings owned by that city…ITS A JOB AND RESPONSIBILITY of the city! They are overwhelmed and overworked. They don’t always have the best candidates working there either. You get what you get! But it’s our duty as a 501c3 to be the animals voice. I’m not sure if Dylan came to them in this horrific shape or if something occurred in their care, I do know he should not of sat there in pain and untreated for 5 days! It’s unimaginable how lonely and painful he felt. I work closely with Dallas Animal Services and we pull ALOT of urgency dogs. This is my home now. If I don’t like something I need POLICY AND PROCEDURE CHANGE NOT COMPLAINING! I have addressed this situation privately and moving forward we will have better communication on their end. They do take care of their dogs, I do love this shelter a lot, and we are all trying to do our very best. This is not a competition, a race, a war, this is a TEAM and without each other we cannot SAVE DOGS!
Dylan is healing, he is very loved, and he too will be another Monkey… unrecognizable 6 months from now. Dylan is very loved and I have a feeling he will be a dog that stays in our feeds for the remaining of his life too! If you’d like to donate towards his care or the care of our other urgent dogs we would absolutely apprecyoir support and keep you updated on the dogs you donate towards. Be Their Voice Rescue is very transparent and communicates/updates our following as much as possible. THAN YOU FOR LOVING ALL THE DYLANS OF THE WORLD!
LOVE,
JANUARY
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