Webster County Animal Protection & Lucky Dog Training

03/07/2025

03/06/2025

As some of you know, we offer private/mass cremations and this is something we don't take lightly. Dogs and cats provide us a lifetime of their unconditional love for a portion of ours, but we are their entire lives. They are our family. They are a big part of our hearts.

Today, our ACO Renee suddenly lost her dog Mugsy. Though he had a very amazing and very long life - suddenly losing an animal we love so much is gut wrenching. Renee and I have been friends for damn near 20 years and I clearly remember when he was adopted, I remember when she brought him home, I remember when he came to visit me at my apartment, wrapped in a belly band as young pup.

It isn't just our job to cremate and return him back. It is our job to honor a life lived in devotion to their people. As always, it's our privilege to get them back home.

Please send Renee and her son all the loving vibes today.

03/03/2025

This girl is absolutely wonderful!! She's been on lots of outings lately and has done an exceptional job!! If you're looking for a pup, please consider this sweet girl!

03/03/2025

March sign up is open!! This class has evolved into being able to work with each dog and giving them each their own goals! Sign up today to learn how to get the most out of your relationship between you and your pup!

02/28/2025

🆘 SOS - some folks came to us today because they’re unable to care for their lab/bernard - 9 years old. They are euthanizing if we cannot come placement or foster. Is anyone able to step up and help us help him? 🆘

02/27/2025

Check out Archie and his no leash heel! I’ve been working with Archie since last July and he is the most wonderful dog. I stopped by Archie’s house today and we did some heel work, button work (yes, the ones where they learn to communicate!), stays, and recall! Good boy, Archie!!!

02/20/2025

There is a misconception about animal control that our main job is to just taxi animals - but in all honesty, that is a very small portion of what we do.

We have to be well versed on laws, investigating, what is within our legal right to do, large/small animal body language, standards of care, and more.

Not only do we need to know city laws, but county laws and state laws. We partner with both police and the fire department and we do our own investigations (and have gotten several animal abuse/neglect convictions in the last several years.

Today I passed my ACO Level II in addition to the ASPCA Leadership Course that I successfully completed last year. This is just another step towards providing the animals of Webster County more improved animal control services.

02/17/2025

Lucky dog is canceled this evening due to weather! Everyone stay in and stay safe!

02/13/2025

Our breeding permit upset quite a few people and if you’ve never seen the shadow side of backyard breeding, I can understand why. But if you walked a mile in our shoes, you’d see things a whole lot differently.

Mika isn’t a stranger on this page. She went into the vet today for a spay and X-rays because we noticed she falls a lot, has a hitch in her step, and her knees bow in when she sits.

Attached to this post is an example of healthy hips and the X-ray from Mika’s appointment today. Our vet guessed she had either been hit by a car or was crammed into a kennel for an extended amount of time.

Mariah (from a paw in need) saw my personal post and confirmed Mika’s past - she spent the first 8-9 months living in a kennel that was so tiny, she couldn’t turn around. As her little puppy body grew, it molded itself to fit into space far too small.

This explains her tendency to hide behind a toilet but more importantly, is an excellent example of why Iowa needs better breeding laws and the lifelong effects that poor care has on an animal.

There likely isn’t a fix to this - that breeder took away her opportunity at a healthy, well built body and that’s a price she’ll pay for her entire life.

As long as WCAP is operational, we will be giving a voice to those who cant speak for themselves.

02/11/2025

Who wants to come hang out with us and make a cool door hanger?!

Join us for a Paint Pawty 🐾. Soldier Creek Winery is gracious enough to host us for this awesome fundraiser for Moffitt Animal Shelter Pups & Paws Pound and Webster County Animal Protection & Lucky Dog Training. You know how much I love my rescue friends 💜🐾. Come join us for a fun night of painting and 🍷. Edit - I forgot to add the start time 🤦🏼‍♀️. It starts at 6:30 pm.

02/03/2025

We only have two spots left open for this class! Starts next Monday!

02/02/2025

Please get your orders in if you haven’t yet (and would like to)! Orders like these make it possible for us to put the love into our community animals that they deserve!

02/02/2025

These jobs are hard. The public is our biggest critic and boy, we’ll never make everyone happy. We see the worst in people by how they treat their animals and we’re the ones left at the end of the day to help piece everything back together for them when they’re hurt, left, or abandoned by the families they loved.

But these people! These people make a hard job a bit easier. We all have our place, we all have our niche, and we all make it work. This job gets lighter when there’s many hands there to do their part, and each of these people do it well!

There will never be the right words to fully express the work Moffitt Animal Shelter puts into rescue. We are so frequently flying by the seats of our pants and I’ve lost count of how many times we’ve exchanged the “wow. Today was a lot” texts at the end of a day.

Today, everything that will be fundraised will go to a very worthy cause, near and dear to the ole ticker.

Thank you to everyone that came out to have the backs of a rescue that always has ours. 💙

01/31/2025

When you’re learning “place” and both your parents are on opposite sides of the room! 😂😂

Look at these two brothers, Cash and Mav, who are being the best boys!

01/30/2025

We talk a lot about teamwork here. We lovingly call our little group the hiveminds and we all only have the best intention of helping other rescues in (and out) of our area succeed.

This week we had the perfect example of why this teamwork is so important. Yesterday morning, Mariah from Lending A Paw In Need reached out to see if we could assist in a pup from Wright County that had gotten hit on the road. The person that hit him did not stop, but someone else saw it and picked up the dog.

In the vet's professional opinion, if he didn't get care within 24 hours, it would cost $5k or higher for surgery or he would need euthanized. He suffered from a broken pelvis, a dislocated, fractured femur, lacerations, and bruising around his heart.

We came up with a tentative plan for fundraising and I reached out to my friend Amy, who works with a husky Minnesota. They spent their day also brainstorming and have decided they're able to take on his case.

Sade is now on his way to MN where he will be hospitalized for his injury and sent into foster when he's ready.

We are all so thankful to have each other. We don't care about county lines, state lines, what rescues these dogs come from or what rescues they go to. We all have a common goal and vision of changing the lives of animals, one animal at a time. ❤

We will keep you all updated on Sade's progress and are sending all of our love to Adopt a Husky Minnesota!