B.A.R.C Boone Animal Rescue Coalition

08/16/2024

One of Volunteers lost her HOME, her pets and several foster animals yesterday evening in a fire. So in leui or Five Dollar Friday, we are sharing her Go-Fund Me page to help her rebuild and get back on her feet. She has been a tireless Animal rescuer in both Boone and Lincoln Counties. Please show her some support as well in her time of need.
https://www.gofundme.com/f/support-becky-lucas-animal-rescuer-in-need?lang=en_US&utm_campaign=fp_sharesheet&utm_medium=customer&utm_source=facebook&fbclid=IwY2xjawEsVDFleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHdZMvpPs9XLpcM5Fzb5Gb4rgAeQxxgZCuFuyHZADR2xRqNhHS26-_8W2-A_aem_DrnXO-apL6f3aIsxOAMqGA

Hi all, my name is Jennifer Browning and I am creating this Go Fund Me for my sweet swe… Jennifer Browning needs your support for Rebuild Hope for Becky Lucas

08/14/2024

What were you doing Sunday morning?
We were helping 14 more dogs/pups on their journey to find a forever home!
Twelve pups & adults from the county pound, Bruno, one of our long-term fosters, and a pup in a foster home named Karen all left Sunday morning going to 3 different rescues.
Huge “Thank you” to county H.O. Bowles for helping transfer the 12 from the pound.
We had 2 new volunteer transport drivers!! Yay!!
We want to give a shout out to all of our volunteers, fosters, and the H.O. that made this happen!
The pound is still full, so if you’re looking to add a friend to your family, please head to the pound.
As always, we can’t help them without your support!
We are still on intake hold until we get some more moved out of foster homes.

08/09/2024

Its Friday, Friday, Friday and we need some Money, Money, Money!! Please help us continue to pay down vet bills, order supplies and food and spay/neuter animals. Every little bit helps so here's to another $5 FRIDAY post. Just click on the photo below to be directed to our paypal link. Thank you so VERY much.

https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=UPNUDWXYKYLZU&fbclid=IwY2xjawEi4AdleHRuA2FlbQIxMAABHbd-xuVrIgk8KpPJ8HBC_OXHDNfU4g8afLpDQlhZbepEyQAVk9d595UaoQ_aem_7xZWgydNbDlLEXE6yGXFYQ

Help support B.A.R.C Boone Animal Rescue Coalition Inc by donating or sharing with your friends.

08/04/2024

We’re still trying to pay down our extremely high boarding/vet bill at the hospital in Madison, WV.
If you can spare some dollars, please call Madison Animal Hospital at 304-369-5100 and ask to make a payment on the BARC account. Or,
PayPal: [email protected]
Any amount will help.

08/04/2024

Only 1 dog (better than none) left yesterday on their journey to find their forever home. Sweet, senior Zelma. She was pulled from the pound and received a grooming and initial vet care, which will continue with our partner rescue.
We still have around 18 dogs/puppies in a ten-run pound. Please adopt!
(Pic of Zelma the day she was pulled from the pound)
Thank you to the volunteers that go to the pound every “Pound Day” and take the dogs/puppies out of their kennels for a little while. Thank you to the volunteers that foster them. Thank you to the volunteers that transport. Each and EVERY volunteer is more valuable than gold, in the rescue world. ❤️

08/02/2024

HAPPY FRI-YAY. Which means its time for our $5 Friday post. We continue to post for funds because they are ABSOLUTELY needed. Rescue math- if 100 followers give just $5 the covers the cost for 2-3 spay/neuters with vaccines. We have 4 much needed dogs going today for this. No more puppies for 3 female dogs and one male. ONE OF THE MOST RESPONSIBLE THING YOU CAN DO IS SPAY/NEUTER YOUR PET. HELP US CONTINUE TO HELP THE COMMUNITY.

https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=UPNUDWXYKYLZU&fbclid=IwY2xjawEZoFdleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHRuJEGo6AQSjIthQUf5DUPyOdC3dVvcu1Ffoj4dOGErU698IKqv_L93kdg_aem_CjENulNKbpkZPsMfvGefGg

Help support B.A.R.C Boone Animal Rescue Coalition Inc by donating or sharing with your friends.

07/31/2024

Hello, supporters and friends! A lot of people have asked… what would it take to get BARC up and thriving again? Don’t think we have completely stopped because Lord knows we haven’t. We have remained CLOSED. We have stopped accepting intakes (animals) and we can’t assist in any medical issues financially.

“How can we help? What will it take?”

We need to relieve space in foster homes and we need financial help. Boone County Pound is a revolving door and never stops. We have gave and gave to help where help was needed… Boone County Dog Pound, Boone Co. and Lincoln Co. communities, emergencies, fuel for transports… list goes on. We never turned our back and let any animal suffer.

We are taking the time to focus on finding rescue partners to help in our crisis with a lot of animals and we HAVE to pay our vet offices. We are coming up with some fundraising events to do so.

We can’t turn our back- there’s just too many that need us! For instance, this cat (pictured) needs us, NOW. Abandoned, alone, scared and very sick. Poor thing can’t keep her head up. How do we say no? It’s an emergency situation!

Please if you can, call in $5 anything will lower our extravagant vet bill. It’s at Madison Animal Hospital and the payment will go straight to our account. The staff said it was fine for anyone to call in payments directly to them. You just have to say it’s for BARC.

📞You can call in payments to:
Madison Animal Hospital
(304) 369-5100

Other options to donate to BARC: (PayPal or Credit Card)

https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=TRANGB8A8PBRJ

Mailing address:
BARC
PO Box 126
Sod WV 25564

We will try to pull ourselves out of this, but we might need some help. Thank you from the bottom of our hearts for your support that doesn’t go unnoticed. ❤️🐾

07/31/2024

We are continuing to reach out to rescue partners to pull our pound dogs and foster dogs. We only succeed with the help of our supporters.

07/27/2024

Thirty-two fur babies on board the transport van this morning safely delivered to a partner rescue. Twenty dogs/puppies and 12 cats/kittens. The 20 dogs/puppies included several from the Lincoln County seizure case and 7 from the county pound. (Our pound is still critically over capacity with dogs/puppies placed in every single inch of space and doubling/tripling up in each run). We want to thank the Boone County Humane Officer for bringing five of the pound dogs to meet a volunteer this morning, since we have no open foster homes.
PLEASE spay/neuter your pets. We are still temporarily closed until we can open up foster space and move at least 10 more out of the pound. 😞💔

07/24/2024

COURTESY POST

Is this your dog?
Just found in Madison
Contact Joshua Ballomy to reclaim at 304-992-8021
He has the dog.

We are closed and cannot accept any animals at this time. This is only a courtesy post. We do not have this dog.

07/24/2024

Friends, supporters, rescue partners:
Our pound is full and foster homes are full. The last two years have been very difficult in the animal rescue field. All pounds, shelters, rescues are full and have been for over a year. More and more dogs/cats are having babies, owners can no longer feed or care for their pets and either drop them at a pound/shelter, or on the side of the road. Without more adoptions, the rescue world will collapse and/or start euthanizing even the tiniest of babies because there is NO MORE ROOM. Please do not vilify the shelters/rescues for telling you they have no room. We are all doing the best we can. We have no where to send our babies and no one is adopting locally. 😞 Our only option is to close our rescue for intakes until this pandemic of unwanted dogs/cats reverses course. We are still vigilantly trying to find new rescue partners that might have even one open kennel or house for a dog/cat that didn’t ask to be homeless. And we are working daily with the county pound to showcase all the dogs/puppies that are there waiting for a rescue commitment or a forever home. Please continue to watch our page for updates on events we may try to hold for adoptions and/or fundraising.
**We will continue to post found/lost pets and other necessary posts.**

07/22/2024

Check out some of our adoptable animals on our newly updated Pet Finder page.

Search for pets for adoption at shelters. Find and adopt a pet on Petfinder today.

07/22/2024

In addition to our Amazon wishlist we have also set up a Chewy wishlist and rescue page. You now have shopping options to help ALL our animals, whether cat/dog and foster care or pound. When shopping its helpful to add notes if wish who its for. Thank you to all of our supporters and followers. We couldn't do it without you. Even just liking and sharing this post helps keep us FB visible and more people aware.

B.A.R.C. is a 501(c)3 non-profit rescue organization made up of a small group of volunteers in Boone County, WV (south of Charleston) We do not

07/21/2024

It’s that time again ⚾️

Baseball and dogs!!! Sounds like a great evening to us! 🙌🏻🐾

Charleston Dirty Birds has invited us to spend the evening with them and spread the word about our efforts!

When: Thursday, August
8 @ 6:35

We have four free tickets to give away to a lucky winner! 🎟️ 🧢🏟️

We want to know are you TEAM DOG or TEAM CAT? 🐶 🐱

Post your answer in the comment!

✨Please share!! ✨

🚨 Winner will be selected on July 28th 🚨

07/20/2024

We posted about a cat situation a couple of weeks ago. Sadly, it is still ongoing. So many supplies and food are needed for 35-50 cats/kittens.

Cat population explosion!! DONATIONS needed! We have been working on a situation in West Madison, WV for a few weeks. An elderly lady became incapacitated and went to a nursing home. Unfortunately there is no family to help. There are 35-50 cats/kittens left behind. Thankfully, a kind neighbor has been feeding them and taking in the most vulnerable kittens. That being said, we are exhausting our financial resources trying to keep up with cat and kitten food, litter, flea and tick meds, and veterinary care. Sadly, all rescues are full and we have not been able to transport and to rescue partners yet. A few pictures will be in comments.

We are reaching out to our followers for your help!
Donations can be made by PayPal and credit/debit card with the link or QR code below.
Donations can also be made by mail to PO Box 536, Danville, WV 25053.

Help support B.A.R.C Boone Animal Rescue Coalition Inc by donating or sharing with your friends.

07/19/2024

TGIF everyone. It's also $5 dollar Friday for our Rescue. Funds for this week and next will be going toward our Spay/Neuter account for several dogs in Boone County. Just click the link to make a donation. We appreciate all our supporters and followers.

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Help support B.A.R.C Boone Animal Rescue Coalition Inc by donating or sharing with your friends.

07/13/2024

Transport Saturday!!
Eight 4-legged passengers safely transported to their rescues today. Seven from the pound and one in foster care.
**Plus one hitchhiker from another rescue joined our group**

We still have 16 dogs in 10 runs, plus our foster homes.
Nova, Eddie, Elvis and 4 puppies from the pound. Hendrix was in foster for 3 months.
Huge THANKS to our foster, short-term fosters, and drivers! As always, we appreciate all our supporters!

07/13/2024

Thank you, Eclectic Goods Market, for inviting us to set up a booth today!

Come out and see us at Eclectic Goods Market today until 6:00 p.m.!!

07/11/2024

Small transport Tuesday.
We safely delivered 4 dogs to a partner on Tuesday.
We still have an overcapacity dog pound and fosters homes are full. Please spay/neuter your pets.
Many, many messages for help with abandoned and/or stray dogs/cats.
We are trying our best, but everyone is full.

07/11/2024

We now have adoptable dogs and cats on Petfinder!! Please check them out!
We need more adopters. 😞

Search for pets for adoption at shelters. Find and adopt a pet on Petfinder today.

07/08/2024

Bruno is in a BARC foster home!! Looking for his freedom ride as well!! Bruno was in the pound for many months. He finally found placement weeks ago inside a home and he is doing great!! His foster mom is leaving for vacation and she doesn’t want to have to take him back to the pound because all BARC foster homes are full!!

A little about Bruno…

✅dog friendly for the most part, but does not like another dog in his face.
He thrives with the more calm dogs.
✅cat curious but doesn’t appear to be a threat to them (video shown)
✅ 2.5/3 years old (best guess)
✅around 55-60 lbs
✅rides well in a car
✅likes people
✅mild mannered
✅keeps a clean kennel
✅walks well on a leash
✅eager to learn commands (video shown)
✅not very high energy- he is content as can be lounging in your yard bird watching, or right beside you!

Videos will be posted in comments!!

Bruno is ready!!! 🐾🐾

07/08/2024

Bandit is also currently in a BARC foster home!

Little about Bandit…
He was picked up as a stray on 3/6/24 with his “running mate” Zoey. Zoey was adopted. Bandit received DHPP vaccines. He’s 37 lbs.

He has been in a wonderful foster home since 4/19/24. Here’s what his foster dad has learned:
* Bandit gets along well with larger dogs and smaller dogs
* He tries to chase the neighborhood cats, so probably needs a home with no cats or at least dog savvy cats
* He loves snuggling and playing with their 7-year-old daughter
* He is completely crate trained, but is still guilty of an occasional accident in the house.
* He sleeps in the bed with his foster dad and foster “brother” at night.
* He loves to cuddle!!

He’s such a sweet, kind soul!! He is so deserving!!

He’s ready for his freedom ride or approved adopter! 🐾

07/08/2024

We are trying to open up some foster homes! We are desperate for help! Our pound is full and we have to empty some homes!! We are going to post periodically BARC foster dogs/cats that are ready for their freedom ride or approved adopter!

Look at this beauty! 😍

Meet Esmeraye (Essie).
Essie is such an amazing dog! Once you meet her you will fall in love! After everything this baby has been through, she still wants to trust you. She never fails to brighten your day with those massive ears and doggy kisses. She is so deserving of her very own family. Here’s what her foster mom has learned:

* Fully Vaccinated and dewormed
* 60ish lbs
* Great on a leash and loves walks
* Very well mannered
*LOVES other dogs
*Good with the kiddos (ours range in age from 1 yr to 10 yrs)
*She is skittish upon first meeting, but once she warms up she wants all your love and attention
*She has been through basic training and can sit, stay, heal
*Doesn’t jump up (on people or countertops!😉)
*NO CHICKENS! She is a little too fond of chicken 😊

Essie will steal your heart!! Look at her little head tilts.❤️
Videos will be posted in comments!

She’s ready!!! 🐾

07/08/2024

This dog was just at Dollar Tree in Madison. I was just told it’s now walking across the bridge from the Madison Park. If this is your dog, please go get him/her before he/she gets hit.

07/07/2024

Sixteen transported yesterday to a partner rescue. All were owner surrenders, so we did not have time to take pics yesterday morning while loading them in to the van. (No dogs in foster homes or the pound left yesterday.) We also had 4 hitchhikers from another local rescue on the van.
Please spay/neuter your pets.
Thank you to our supporters. Without your help, we could not continue to move dogs/cats into other areas of the U.S. to find homes.
Everyone is full. Adoptions are almost at a standstill. We continue to get multiple messages for help every day. 😞
Please stop by the county pound, if you are thinking about adopting. It is over capacity with unwanted dogs/puppies. 😢💔🙏