This Ole Dog Rescue

03/29/2025

This is exactly how I have felt about every dog who is has come into my life. If everyone felt this way maybe our shelters and streets would not be so overrun.

03/27/2025

Scooter loves to be tucked under a blanket when he sleeps!

02/10/2025

Samson sleeps so soundly, during the day that is. TV is on, things are going on in the kitchen, dogs are barking and because he’s deaf he sleeps through everything! I have to wake him up to go outside. But not at night. At night he’s up, he’s down, he needs to go out, he changes positions, he walks up to my head, he’s everywhere!

11/09/2024

I was so looking forward to taking a shower and getting into nice clean sheets. Before getting into the shower I put pillows underneath the sheet and blanket so that I could reserve my space in the bed. I get out of the shower to this, I guess that’s what they thought of my pillows! Scooter and Peanut are under the blanket because they were not willing to move so in the middle of the night I’m sure we will have to deal with them trying to get out! This is why we can’t have nice things, lol!

11/01/2024

I don’t know what was going on this morning but everyone needed extra cuddles! Especially Grace who just climbed right on top of me this morning. During the night I had to move Peanut off because he was snoring right in my ear!

09/26/2024

These two! Timmy and Scooter seem to have a special bond. They snuggle close to each other at night, they can sleep together on the Ottoman in the living room, they lay together in the yard. Both can be crabby towards other dogs but you can tell they have a special bond ❤️

09/06/2024

09/01/2024

I knew it would just be a matter of time before one of the dogs tried to get up on the swing with me and Sampson was it! Dogs are doing their morning after breakfast yard time and I am doing my morning swing time!

08/31/2024

Roscoe says that he's comfortable in his masculinity, even after his neuter, to wear the hand me down surgery suit from Holly with cute peaches on it, lol!

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.