Furry Friends Rescue

09/10/2025

Amazing! 🤩 This city shelter has to handle and care for very high numbers of abandoned pets. It takes a large village of heros to never give up. 💜😍Emotionally it’s a huge struggle. 😢

Most other shelters have 30 to 100 dogs and cats. They adverage 300 pets daily. San Jose shelter deals with 200 and highest 300. These counties need more free or low cost spay and neuter clinics and tougher animal welfare laws.

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Together, we changed the lives of 833 dogs in July and August! 💓

That’s 833 dogs in Stanislaus County who found loving homes, foster families, or a fresh start with one of our amazing rescue partners.

This milestone would not have been possible without all of you:

🐾 The community who shares our posts, spreads awareness, and chooses adoption.
🐾 Our fosters who open their hearts and homes to give dogs the second chance they deserve.
🐾 Our volunteers, who show up every day to walk, care for, and love our shelter dogs. They capture their best moments in photos, run playgroups, evaluate and network dogs, and assist with events. Their compassion changes lives.
🐾 Our rescue partners who step up, even in the face of challenges, to give our dogs a path to forever. We can't thank you enough!
🐾 And to our incredible staff, who show up every day and keep this work going, because we all know there’s nothing more fulfilling than seeing a dog finally go home or leave the shelter for a brighter future.

Every single role matters, and every act of kindness adds up to life-saving impact. From the bottom of our hearts, thank you for being part of this journey.

Together, we’re making happy endings possible, one dog at a time. 🐶❤️

09/10/2025

Study of 175 dogs shows eating dark, leafy greens reduces cancer risk by 90% 🥬

In this 2005 study, 92 Scottish Terriers with urinary tract cancer were compared with 83 without cancer. Their pet parents were asked to fill out a detailed questionnaire about their dog's diet in the year prior (before their diagnosis).

The results were striking.

In dogs who were eating dark green, leafy vegetables more than 3 times a week, the risk of cancer fell by 90%. That's veggies like kale, spinach, and broccoli. They also found that dogs eating yellow-orange vegetables, such as carrots & pumpkins, more than 3 times a week, reduced their cancer risk by 70% 🤯

Of course, there are limitations to this study - not least that pet parents were being asked to remember what their dog had eaten up to a year previously.

Can you remember what you were feeding your dog a year ago? Genuine question - maybe you can. So too, 175 dogs is not the smallest sample size we've seen in animal studies of this nature, but it's not huge either, increasing the chance that this could be luck (or bad luck in the cases of the poor dogs with cancer). Again, can we extrapolate from Scottish terriers to all dogs?

Nonetheless, we find this an interesting study - what do you think? 🧐

Source: Raghavan et al, "Evaluation of the effect of dietary vegetable consumption on reducing risk of transitional cell carcinoma of the urinary bladder in Scottish Terriers," J Am Vet Med Assoc (2005) https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/16013542/

09/09/2025

Was just ADOPTED! Hooray! 😍

09/09/2025

Need rescue or adoption. Female, BC, 25 lbs, 7-8 yrs.
She is super dog friendly and loves to run/play with other dogs.
Friendly with people and being petted.
Has some dental tartar and may need cleaning.

09/08/2025

New rescue sweetie! ❤️😍 Bowzer, Havanese & Schnoodle mix, 6 1/2 yrs, 17 lbs., needs dental cleaning, extraction and neuter. Did great with vet. He was smelly dirty. 💜🥰 Huge Thanks to his hero foster home, Kim, for bathing and blow drying him at Pet Food Express after his vet care. He was a good boy during his bath. Bowzer is quiet, friendly, and charming. Already happy and good with her dog. After his bath, his coat is soft and fluffy.

Huge thanks to Evon, long distance transporter. Perfect sweetie. He loved playing and running with other dogs at the shelter. Thanks to Tama Veterinary Hospital for squeezing him for exam and needs.

More info to come as he relaxes and learns at his foster home. He will eat healthy foods and will get his dental and neuter in about a week. New dogs get vaccines, toxin from the shelter and deal with the stress of all the changes. They need time to adjust and rest first. We will post on our website soon. 😍

https://www.furryfriendsrescue.org/find_a_pet/view/39124
💜😍 Please sponsor Bowzer. His donation link is on his posting. Thanks!
Donations are greatly needed and appreciated to help us cover his Dental Cleaning, Extraction and Neuter. Will cost us about $1200 - $1400. Shelters never cover the cost of additional vet needs. We have to for his health.

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09/07/2025

09/07/2025

Sweetie Oliver, Maltipoo, is doing great at his hero foster home. 💜 He is now healthier, loves eating fresh foods, lovable, and loves playing with their small dog. He looks so much better now. OMG! So cute. 😍❤️

He will be neutered soon and will need time to heal.
https://furryfriendsrescue.org/find_a_pet/view/39118

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09/06/2025

💜 🥰 Need rescue and foster home.
We are seeking rescue for this adorable family! LITTER ID: A602624 At Stanislaus Animal Services Agency
Rescues please contact SASA.

Mama is listed as a 2-year-old female Border Collie mix; she was brought in by Modesto Animal Control on 9/3/25 weighing 54lbs. Along with this beautiful girl are her NINE amazing puppies (8 males and 1 female) that are Border Collie / German Shepherd mix listed as 3-weeks-old!

Mama is oh-so-very sweet! She has a friendly, social disposition; she is attention seeking, affectionate, not interested in toys but VERY treat motivated. Mama allows all over touch, she walks great on leash and tested well with another female and returned to the kennel easily. Mama has been stuck in her itty-bitty kennel with nine puppies that are chunky, happy, healthy and growing.

We added mom's video below in comments since we could not post video on this FB post.

09/06/2025

Please share. 🥰💜 Need rescue and foster home for mom and 5 puppies (3 wks). Rescues please contact SASA and tag if you can take in. Mom and pups have been at SASA for a week with no help yet.
At Stanislaus Animal Services Agency

Mom is caring for her pups. They need a safe and quiet foster home. 4 male pups and 1 female.
Per SASA: We have the most beautiful family looking for a safety net out of the shelter! Litter ID: A602045

Daria is a young girl herself, listed as a 1-year 8-month German Shepherd; she is nursing five of the most adorable puppies that are estimated to be nearing 2-weeks-old now. We have 4 males and 1 female, they are chunky and healthy and mama is doing a great job of caring for them.

Daria is a sweet girl, first thing she does coming out into the yard is stand for hugs. I call her my slow Dancing Queen! Daria had a rough start with this litter, born on the streets and having to defend her puppies, Now friendly with staff at the shelter.

💜🥰 We need a hero experienced and dedicated foster home to rescue. No back up if person changes their mind due to high vacations. 😢
https://www.furryfriendsrescue.org/about_us/foster_home_network

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09/05/2025

Tis the season for itchy dogs, and we have the home remedy for you!

Avoid all toxic neurotoxins pesticides. FDA has written warning on the dangers and how toxic the chemicals are but have not banned it like other countries have. Greedy corporation profit with fancy million dollar marketing vs health and safety for your dog and cats. It's a vicious cycle of sick pets that need to see their vet more and get more pills. Get it? Same for humans. There are tons of articles about natural repellent. Do your research. On our Holistic Care page on our website. Read The Forever Dog