Animal Hope Pet Adoptions

11/18/2024

The fine folks at the Panther City Wine Social aren’t just passionate about fine wines, they’ve got a heart for animals too. So when they offered us a 1992 Boone’s Farm Strawberry Hill to help this baby, Stevie, that had been abandoned with one of their members… well how could we say no?

Some of the members of the group expressed a desire to donate towards her care, so here she is guys!

11/15/2024

This little angel has a mammary tumor and needs a good teeth cleaning. She was found as a stray but wasn’t reclaimed, so we will be fixing her up right as rain!

11/14/2024

This little fellow jumped out of a kennel tech’s arms while on stray hold and broke his leg. And before stray hold he was found running loose in a Walmart parking lot, so with a string of bad luck like that we are confident things will turn around soon. Animal control named him Icarus, maybe because he flew too close to the sun on wings made of dog fur and broke his leg :D

11/09/2024

We always ask our adopters to send us update pictures because it helps us to know that they are making the dog happy and the dog is making them happy. In many ways, the animal we adopt out is a gift wrapped package because the dog we send out the door isn’t what the dog becomes months down the road. Our adopters are our partners in the rescue process because of how they shape what the animal turns into.

Seth was a shy pit/schnauzer that came to us from Benbrook Animal Control. You can see how shy from one of the pics below (see him peeking at us from behind the door at Benbrook?). He was at our facility for exactly 100 days waiting for the right family, but that family was worth the wait.

Now called Re*****on, Seth has left that shy teenage puppy he was behind and is the December dog in a 2025 pet calendar. Looking good, buddy!

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10/31/2024

10/31/2024

Ever wondered how “it takes a village” to save a dog? It occurs to me that we frequently post which shelters animals in these medical albums came from, but we have never explained how it happens. So we thought we would use this dog as an example.

His name is currently Surprise Me, because when one of my teammates asked what name to enter in our shelter system I said “Surprise me.” Ha ha, good one, Chelsea.

So a Fort Worth Animal Control officer found this little fellow with severe dog attack wounds “in the field.” That doesn’t mean the dog was laying in a cornfield or meadow or something, it just means an animal control officer found him and brought him to the shelter rather than a concerned citizen.

As the dog is processed into Fort Worth Animal Control, the shelter’s medical staff notifies the shelter’s outbound team that the dog needs more medical help than the shelter can provide. The outbound team consists of four people at each shelter campus whose entire job is to get animals out of the shelter, either through foster, rescue transfer, or rescue transport out of state. The outbound team know the area rescues and know which ones are likely to take which types of animals and which types of medical cases. So we got a call about this baby, we had medical resources available so we went and picked him up.

Our partner hospital got to work, and as you can see from the radiology report Surprise Me has a broken scapula, and soft tissue injuries in addition to his external injuries.

Surprise Me is technically on stray hold, and if an owner comes forward in the next 96 hours Fort Worth Animal Care and Control will contact us so we can facilitate reclaim, but this process ensures that the dog is able to get medical attention.

Now Fort Worth is a pretty big city with a well funded animal control, but even the much smaller cities in DFW follow a similar process… it’s just often the animal control officers doing all the steps in those smaller shelters.

This is why we get frustrated when well meaning members of the public call our municipal colleagues “dog catchers” or say that all animal control does is “murder” animals.

10/29/2024

This little fellow, Olaf, came to us as a stray from Fort Worth Animal Care and Control with bilateral cherry eye and matted down to the skin. I completely forgot to document his condition before his surgery and groom for our medical album, so just pretend he looks a lot worse in these pictures

10/29/2024

This chap, who does not yet have a name, came to Mansfield Animal Comtrol as a stray. He has bilateral cherry eye and some hair loss around his mouth.

He was also underweight, but Mansfield got us off to a running start on that issue by packing 8 pounds in him over the last week :D

10/24/2024

A Good Samaritan brought this kitten to our partner hospital after it was attacked by dogs. It has a broken pelvis, but the hospital will get it fixed right up.

10/24/2024

This baby was brought to Mansfield Animal Control as a stray (and we will skip over the fact that we are skeptical that he was actually a stray… he’s still so young that he can’t cover much distance), and our friends at Mansfield noticed that he had entropion.

Our partner hospital already took a quick look at him and applied surgical staples to his lower eyelids to provide some short term relief until a more permanent treatment can be provided.

10/20/2024

Fort Worth Animal Care and Control transferred these two Dalmatians to us, and we thought “who better to show off these two beauties than the fine folks at the Fort Worth Fire Department?”

Dalmatians can sometimes be difficult dogs, so we wanted to showcase how well these dogs do with strangers in strange situations.

10/06/2024

This little cutie was an owner surrender and has an enormous bladder stone.

10/02/2024

Another heartworm treatment, this one came to us from Fort Worth Animal Care and Control. He’s a little heartbreaker, isn’t he?

09/27/2024

One of our previous adopters found this little chap running loose in Fort Worth. After getting him back from stray hold we discovered he needed heartworm treatment and a dentistry.

09/26/2024

Iggy came to us from Corsicana Animal Control in need of heartworm treatment.

09/25/2024

This little princess came to us from Mansfield after her owner died, and it turned out she was heartworm positive