Fort Leavenworth Stray Facility

02/16/2025

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02/16/2025

Good evening followers! While Ms Sky has been doing fairly well with her foster family, there was a small incident this evening that caused them to feel not quite comfortable for the safety of their kitties. None were named, but we would never want to risk anyone's personal pets.
Sky has a bit of resource guarding tendencies that don't show up often, but when they do, she tends to react by snapping at the other pets. No contact has ever been made, but with cats being significantly smaller, we can understand the concern.
Here's what we also know, when Sky first arrived at the Foster's home, she was much more likely to resource guard food and toys with the other dog, but has since grown in confidence that other dogs are not out to take her things. We know that she is amazing with her doggy foster brother, and that she would best be placed in a home with another dog to bond with. We know this was an isolated incident and has been doing exceptionally well since they've had her. We know that she'd also do best with a family that has the confidence and consistency to help her continue growing towards her successful entry into a forever family.
We are currently looking for another foster family, or if you feel your family would be an amazing for for this exceptional and smart, eager to learn girl, please reach out to us so that we can get a meet and greet set up. Everyone involved just wants her to be happy forever! Message us for more information!

https://www.petfinder.com/dog/sky-in-training-75048574/ks/fort-leavenworth/fort-leavenworth-stray-facility-ks174/

02/13/2025

Foster spotlight today is Gracie's family! While they can't adopt her, they are helping her out with so many things for her to be successful in her next forever home! She's learning how to walk politely on a harness or martingale collar. She's learning patience with the kiddos in the house, and to listen to mom's instructions, but most of all, she's learning what it's like to just be spoiled and loved like she should be! While we found out first hand that cats are definitely a NO GO for her, she just focuses too intently on them, and it would not end well. I'd feel the same way about other small animals, but she's great with children, and most other dogs. As with all multiple pet homes, an assessment would have to be made regarding her and other dogs before placement. If you think Gracie would be a good fit in your home, please reach out to us, and we'll get you in for a meet and greet with her. She really is an amazing dog, she just had the wrong circumstances with her initial home.
Gracie is a young, around 1-2 yr old Belgian Shepherd, potentially Rhodesian or possibly even Thai Ridgeback according to Google Lens. While we never know exactly what breeds they are, there are two sure things about her. She's adorable and sweet, and she has a high prey drive. So that's actually 3, but it's the first two that matter most!







https://www.petfinder.com/dog/gracie-73846449/ks/fort-leavenworth/fort-leavenworth-stray-facility-ks174/

02/12/2025

**** Kitties found and back home! They'd located a back entrance ro an extension area of the home to hide our. They're very happily eating and warm inside! Thank you all!!****

Have you seen that two bratty babies? Fiona and Grady took advantage of their foster bringing groceries in to use a not quite shut door to try to experience winter. They've not come back, so we're thinking someone might have brought them in to keep them warm. If you've seen them or have them, please let me know so we can get them back into their Foster's home. She was planning to adopt this week before the snow hit. Please message me if you've seen them. Thank you!!

02/11/2025

So with all of our pets either in foster or adoption, it's hard to showcase them! So we've decided to create a series of foster showcases! These will show off how well our pets are doing in foster care, and those that started in foster, and the families fell in love, and adopted them, or are planning on adoption soon! We hope you enjoy seeing these pets being happy in their temp or forever homes!

Today we're going to showcase Foster Fail Asher. The family came in to meet Marigold, but she'd just been picked up for foster herself. I introduced them to Asher, and they fell in love, but wanted to make sure he was comfortable in their home with their family. It took a day for him to settle in, but once he did, he REALLY did. They've found that he truly adores his new dad, and the youngest munchkin. He likes his kibble and wet food, but has an affinity for cheerios with the toddler. Finds all the best nap spots in the home, and he's essentially decided that home life is where it's at! We are so happy that he was adopted by his family, and that he's doing so well! Congrats Asher and family!!

02/10/2025

The shelter will be closed today due to family illness. We hope to be back to normal operations on Wednesday weather permitting! We appreciate your patience and understanding.

*Pippy says spring needs to come so we can plant our garden. *

02/07/2025

While we use Petlink.net here at the shelter, we wanted to share with everyone the company that is discontinuing their registry for microchips implanted in pets. Should you need to find out what chip company your pet is registered with. You are welcome to stop by and ask us to scan, and then we can look it up from there, or if you have your pet's number available, you can also look it up on AAHA.org, and it should help you find out which company you're registered with.
This might be a good time to check your info to make sure everything is up to date in case your pet does manage to sneak out!
Should your pet's microchip information be registered with the company closing down, there are other companies that will let you register with them, and you can also try freepetchipregistry.com.

02/03/2025

It's been a great couple of weeks up here, and January flew by with a lot of happy endings! Forever homes for several of our furry friends is the best way to begin the new year!
February is already shaping up to be very similar!

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02/02/2025

*** Happy to say this sweet girl is in foster! Possibly Foster to adopt!! We'll keep everyone posted! Thank you all!***

Well, I was hoping to get a little more time to get to know Sweet Sky, but shelter life is making her more anxious than she deserves. She's a very loving girl, with lots of energy, has lived with cats and kids and did well with both. She tends to be vocal with unknown dogs, but not reactive. She's just over a year old, so still has some puppy tendencies, but nothing time and a little training can't fix. She's a great Pyrenees mix with what we think might be golden retriever, but 100% pretty girl.
She does have significant separation anxiety, and has only ever been by herself in very short spurts of time. She has some other quirks that are again, fixable with time and training, but will need a consistent person to help her learn to overcome those quirks.
While the goal is inevitably to find her forever home, right now our bigger goal is to find her the right foster home until we get her where she needs to be, but out of the shelter. If you think you'd be interested in meeting and potentially fostering Sky, please reach out to me here, and I will work to arrange a meet and greet with you!

01/29/2025

On Monday I promised a feel good story, and today I'm here to present it.
On January 4th, we put a call out for emergency fosters due to the snow storm, and worries that volunteers who care for the pets up here wouldn't be able to get here to meet the needs of them. We had an amazing response from the community and were able to get our pups into foster and one of the cats quickly!
Nina went into foster for a short term with no plans of adoption, just helping out until the roads were clear enough for people to drive safely enough. The following week Nina came back for about 24 hours before she was in another foster home. Now both the family and we thought this was going to be it for Nina, the perfect home, the perfect family, and it almost was! Nina liked to play a bit too rough with their kitten, who was scared of her, so we all agreed it wasn't going to be the best fit for her. Friday the 25th of January I received a message from Nina's original foster. When they'd initially taken her in, they weren't ready to take on adoption just yet, but after not having her for a couple of weeks, the family realized that home was just not home without their Nina there, and they wanted to make her a forever part of their family. Monday both foster families met me up here, and Nina had the best of both worlds cuddles and loves from both fosters, and then a quick drive home where she's going to be loved forever! Congratulations Nina and family!!

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01/29/2025

Meet little Clover Honey.
The last of Marigold's litter that still needs a home.
This 3-month-old orange tabby is a playful bundle of energy who takes cuddle breaks too! He's happy with children and other cats. He will be ready for a new home very soon! He doesn't yet have his own petfinder profile, and his living with his foster family currently, but you can ask us about him and we can arrange a meet and greet appt for you to meet him! We personally think he'd be great for Marigold to go home with so that he has company, and she has her hidden surprise boy, but not necessary of course!

01/27/2025

No set post today to share, but wanted to let you all know we do have a feel good story in the making!! But that will be for tomorrow!
What I can give you today is the stats from last year! Of our 88 pet intakes, ranging from lost pets, found pets, and strays, the ones that weren't returned to their owners, found either forever homes or a good life in a sanctuary or other facility as a representative of FMWR if they couldn't be placed in a typical home.
We had 57 adoptions last year! 21 dogs and 36 cats! Without you followers, the volunteers that help keep them healthy and happy, and the tremendous amount of support you all have shown our little shelter over the past several years, these pets may not have had the happy endings they very much deserved!! So we send out a very big Thank You to everyone who has ever liked a post, commented or tagged a friend on one, shared a post with your neighborhood page or in general had a conversation about a pet you've seen, b/c that one person you talked with, might have been that pet's perfect fit!!
Thanks to you all!!

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01/27/2025

Hard to believe Gracie is still waiting for her forever people. There has to be a perfect person just waiting for her out there!

Gracie is an adoptable Dog - Belgian Shepherd / Malinois & Coonhound Mix searching for a forever family near Fort Leavenworth, KS. Use Petfinder to find adoptable pets in your area.

01/25/2025

While this sweet boy has a few more weeks with us to make sure he's 100% up to date on vaccines, chipped, and neutered, we'd like to introduce our handsome man Asher.

https://www.petfinder.com/cat/asher-74900051/ks/fort-leavenworth/fort-leavenworth-stray-facility-ks174/