This Ole Dog Rescue

09/02/2025

On my way back home to the sanctuary I stopped by Lucky and Sadie’s place to meet Kathy and Mark and look at their amazing setup. They have 111 dogs! I wanted to see if I needed to expand how I could do it and so I wanted to look at their set up. They are doing such great work and I am so thankful for her guidance and friendship!

08/29/2025

North Texas Giving Day is officially for donations through September 18th!! If you would like to contribute to the Sanctuary here is the Link below!

Or, you can to to the website www.thisoledog.org and set up a 1-time or Monthly donation!! I thought this year would be a slow one but expenses keep piling up.

You can also go to paypal or Venmo, also

Thank you to everyone for your continued support!!

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We are on a heartfelt mission with two main objectives. Firstly, we are here to provide a final, loving home to end of life senior and hospice dogs who have been abandoned, surrendered by their families, or left after the death of their loved ones. Our commitment includes...

05/07/2024

This is a rescue that I work with here in Texas. I believe they have close to 180 dogs in Foster homes. The most important thing that she says is if you are looking for a dog, adopt one, don’t buy one from a breeder. There are purebred rescues out there looking for good homes for dogs that have been abandoned and surrendered. Just do a little extra work. If we could shut down backyard breeders and limit the other breeders, maybe we could get a handle on the over population of dogs and the amount of dogs that get euthanized every single day in our country. So many rescues and shelters are having to shut down because of lack of funding and lack of donations. It doesn’t take much, a commitment of five or $10 a month can make a difference.

04/01/2024

And we’re back. Benny was up all night, every two hours with diarrhea, a little blood in his stool as well. He got two doses of Keppra last night because he had the seizure at 10:30, a half an hour after he got his medication. And then this morning, another seizure at 9:30, a half an hour after he got his medication. So, running a full panel on him to make sure everything else looks OK, doing a f***l, fluids and potentially adding to his seizure medication to get them under control. So, keep praying for my baby boy. He’ll be here at least through the day

03/31/2024

Back to the emergency vet with Benny. Because I’m sure he threw up his seizure medication yesterday morning and I was unable to get it down him last night he woke up this morning seizing for almost 30 minutes. Although he has stopped seizing, my concern is that he will not be able to keep his medication down and he has not had any fluids for almost 24 hours. So, I think the safest thing to do is to give him an injection of Keppra and give him some fluids throughout the day to stabilize him and then bring him home.

This is one of the reasons I limit how many dogs I can take in. The cost of having older dogs is substantially higher, sometimes averaging thousands in the first year just for medical. This is not for hospice dogs, this is just for older dogs that have not had the medical treatment that they’ve needed because they’ve been abandoned on the streets or their owners are older and sick and can barely take care of themselves, let alone take care of their animals, as much as they love them. Even though my medical costs are outrageous right now, it’s worth it for me to make sure that Benny is stable.