Dog Squad

Dog Squad Dog Squad is a registered 501(c)3 nonprofit shelter-less foster-based dog rescue organization dedicated to giving dogs a second chance.

We rescue high risk dogs from euthanasia at overcrowded shelters and provide them with a voice when they need it most. Dog Squad is a registered 501(c)3 nonprofit shelter-less animal rescue organization established in 2022. We rescue many of our dogs from euthanasia at overcrowded shelters. We also take in sick, injured, abused, and abandoned stray dogs who may not have been given a second chance

otherwise. We work with dogs of all breeds, all ages, all sizes, and all medical issues. Dog Squad focuses on rehabilitating these dogs by providing them with proper veterinary care, unconditional love, basic training, and socialization as fosters until they are ready to be adopted into their furever home. Each rescue dog is fully vetted prior to adoption, which includes spay/neuter, microchipping, and vaccinations. Dog Squad is a registered 501(c)3 nonprofit, charitable corporation operating in Greenville, South Carolina. It is not funded by any governmental agencies. Dog Squad relies solely on donations from our supporters. Our IRS federal Tax ID is 87-3968693. WE ARE MORE THAN JUST A RESCUE. The majority of the dogs we rescue have significant and/or complex medical needs which are often costly with treatments ranging from $100s to $1,000s. People often avoid fostering homeless pets due to the related costs, and some shelters and rescue organizations do not have the funds necessary to treat the dogs’ complex medical needs. Unfortunately, those dogs miss their opportunity at receiving a second chance. Dog Squad bridges the gap by supporting other local and national rescue organizations, as well as other foster families, by providing them with the funds needed for the medical treatment of their injured and/or sick rescue dogs.

Squad Foster Yeti had a follow-up exam today with Dr. Allen, a critical care specialist at  . We have some great news— h...
02/11/2025

Squad Foster Yeti had a follow-up exam today with Dr. Allen, a critical care specialist at . We have some great news— his bloodwork looks fantastic! We’re still waiting for the final TEG (test that looks at how Yeti’s blood clots) report, but the early results are looking great.👏🏼

An ultrasound showed that the fluid in his abdomen is still gone— another big win! However, the vet did find a couple of small nodules on his spleen. These could just be leftover effects from past blood clot issues, but we’ll need to keep an eye on them. For now, there’s no treatment needed, just monitoring.

🔍The big mystery remains: why was Yeti’s blood clotting too much in the first place? Was it thrombosis? Was it a tiny injury to his blood vessels? Could his spleen have twisted slightly, cutting off blood flow?

Right now, we just don’t have all the answers. But what we do know is that Yeti doesn’t have cancer and is stable enough for us to reduce his anticoagulant injections (blood thinner shots) from 3x per day to 2x! The goal is to eventually get him off this medication altogether, but we’re taking it slow and making sure he stays safe.

Since we don’t know what caused the issue yet, neutering, dental and TPLO surgeries are on hold until we get more answers and Dr. Allen gives the green light. His next check-up is on February 24th.📆

🙏🏼Yeti has become our million-dollar foster dog, and we wouldn’t have it any other way. His visit today cost $519, and we need your help to keep him on this road to recovery. Every dollar makes a difference, and all donations are tax-deductible!

How to help Yeti:
📲 Venmo/PayPal: (no underscores, dashes, or punctuation— watch for scammers!)
🌐 Credit/Debit: www.dogsquadsc.org

Thank you for loving Yeti as much as we do!❤️‍🩹🐾

🦾Introducing Charm’s Paws-Ability Fund: Giving Amputee Dogs the Support They Deserve🐾In 2025, we launched Charm’s Paws-A...
02/10/2025

🦾Introducing Charm’s Paws-Ability Fund: Giving Amputee Dogs the Support They Deserve🐾

In 2025, we launched Charm’s Paws-Ability Fund, an initiative dedicated to providing custom prosthetics for canine amputees in need. These devices do more than restore mobility—they redistribute weight, support proper posture, and protect joints from long-term damage. For dogs who have lost a limb, a prosthetic can be life-changing, ensuring they remain active, comfortable, and pain-free for years to come.

This initiative is inspired by Charm, whose story is a powerful reminder of why this mission matters.

As a puppy, Charm was left chained in a yard, forgotten and neglected. The chain wrapped around her left foreleg and right hind leg, cutting off circulation and causing irreversible damage. While veterinarians were able to save her right leg, her left foreleg had to be amputated.

Charm has adapted remarkably well as a three-legged dog, but amputation puts immense strain on a dog’s remaining limbs. Over time, this leads to joint deterioration, arthritis, and chronic pain—which is exactly what a prosthetic helps prevent.

✨Help Us Fund Prosthetics for Teddy & Bernie✨

Right now, we’re raising funds for two special pups—Bernie and Teddy. You may remember Teddy from our visit to Greenville Humane Society, where we helped with his casting kit. His mold has been sent to 3DPets, but we still need to cover the cost of his prosthetic.

With custom prosthetics starting at $1,500, and costs increasing for larger dogs, we need your help. This fund will not only support Teddy and Bernie, but we also hope to expand assistance to community members who need financial help for their dog’s prosthetics throughout the year.

How You Can Help

💙 Donate via Venmo/PayPal: (no underscores, dashes, or punctuation)
💙 Give on our website: www.dogsquadsc.org
💙 Support our Instagram fundraiser: (Link in bio)

Your tax-deductible donation gives dogs like Charm, Bernie, and Teddy a better future. Together, we can ensure amputee dogs don’t just survive—they thrive.

🦾Introducing Charm’s Paws-Ability Fund: Giving Amputee Dogs the Support They Deserve🐾In 2025, we launched Charm’s Paws-A...
02/10/2025

🦾Introducing Charm’s Paws-Ability Fund: Giving Amputee Dogs the Support They Deserve🐾

In 2025, we launched Charm’s Paws-Ability Fund, an initiative dedicated to providing custom prosthetics for canine amputees in need. These devices do more than restore mobility—they redistribute weight, support proper posture, and protect joints from long-term damage. For dogs who have lost a limb, a prosthetic can be life-changing, ensuring they remain active, comfortable, and pain-free for years to come.

This initiative is inspired by Charm, whose story is a powerful reminder of why this mission matters.

As a puppy, Charm was left chained in a yard, forgotten and neglected. The chain wrapped around her left foreleg and right hind leg, cutting off circulation and causing irreversible damage. While veterinarians were able to save her right leg, her left foreleg had to be amputated.

Charm has adapted remarkably well as a three-legged dog, but amputation puts immense strain on a dog’s remaining limbs. Over time, this leads to joint deterioration, arthritis, and chronic pain—which is exactly what a prosthetic helps prevent.

✨Help Us Fund Prosthetics for Teddy & Bernie✨

Right now, we’re raising funds for two special pups—Bernie and Teddy. You may remember Teddy from our visit to , where we helped with his casting kit. His mold has been sent to .pets , but we still need to cover the cost of his prosthetic.

With custom prosthetics starting at $1,500, and costs increasing for larger dogs, we need your help. This fund will not only support Teddy and Bernie, but we also hope to expand assistance to community members who need financial help for their dog’s prosthetics throughout the year.

How You Can Help

💙 Donate via Venmo/PayPal: (no underscores, dashes, or punctuation)
💙 Give on our website: www.dogsquadsc.org
💙 Support our Instagram fundraiser: (Link in bio)

Your tax-deductible donation gives dogs like Charm, Bernie, and Teddy a better future. Together, we can ensure amputee dogs don’t just survive—they thrive.

Squad Foster Suzy Waffles is living her best life in her foster home, where the resident dogs are showing this young pup...
02/10/2025

Squad Foster Suzy Waffles is living her best life in her foster home, where the resident dogs are showing this young pup how to be the best companion. At just 3 months old, she’s playful, curious, and always ready for a good snuggle!

This little lovebug adores playing with other dogs and is even cat-friendly! She’s still mastering potty training but has figured out the doggy door like a pro. After a long play session, Suzy Waffles is all about cuddling—whether with humans or her furry foster siblings.

She still has a few rounds of puppy vaccines to go, and our plan is to have her spayed around 6 months old. If she’s adopted before then, her future family will sign an agreement to have her spayed within a set timeframe, with Dog Squad covering the cost.

Are you ready to add this sweet, playful pup to your family? Apply to adopt Suzy Waffles today at www.dogsquadsc.org! ❤️🐶🧇

🐾 When the Drugs Hit… 😜Squad Foster Hope FINALLY had her TPLO surgery today! 🎉 It has been a long road of scheduling and...
02/10/2025

🐾 When the Drugs Hit… 😜

Squad Foster Hope FINALLY had her TPLO surgery today! 🎉 It has been a long road of scheduling and rescheduling due to her ongoing skin infections, but thanks to switching her to Albright's Raw Dog Food diet, her skin is flawless, and today’s surgery was a success!

🔹 Hope’s Diagnosis: A fully torn cranial cruciate ligament (CCL)—the dog version of an ACL tear in humans. Unlike human ACL tears, which often happen from sudden injury, dogs usually develop a CCL tear gradually due to genetics, aging, or chronic inflammation.

🔹 What is TPLO Surgery? Instead of replacing the ligament (like in humans), TPLO changes the structure of the knee so the ligament is no longer needed for stability.
✅ Dr. Morrison cut the top of Hope’s shin bone, rotated it, and secured it with a metal plate and screws.
✅ Over time, the bone will heal in this new position, creating a stable, pain-free joint!

🔹 Hope also had her kneecap repaired while under anesthesia. Her kneecap kept slipping out of place (luxating patella) because the soft tissues around it were too tight on one side and too loose on the other—like a rubber band pulling unevenly.
✅ Dr. Morrison tightened the loose side and loosened the tight side to help keep her kneecap centered.
✅ Think of it like cinching the waist of a loose pair of pants while also loosening a shoelace that’s too tight—so everything moves smoothly again!

✨ Can we take a moment to gawk at how tiny Hope’s metal implants are?! We always forget how small she is compared to the rest of the Squad! 😍

💰 The Estimated Cost: $4,458.57
We need your help covering the cost of Hope’s surgery! Every donation is tax-deductible and goes directly toward her care.

❤️ Ways to Donate:
📲 Venmo/PayPal:
💳 Credit Card: www.dogsquadsc.org

Thank you for helping us give Hope the pain-free future she deserves! 💕🐶

Squad Foster Bear is doing GREAT with his leash manners😍🐾👏🏼
02/10/2025

Squad Foster Bear is doing GREAT with his leash manners😍🐾👏🏼

02/09/2025
✨When we say we support our adopters 100%, we mean it. Whether it’s assistance with training or unexpected medical expen...
02/09/2025

✨When we say we support our adopters 100%, we mean it. Whether it’s assistance with training or unexpected medical expenses, we don’t just talk the talk—we walk the walk.

Take Cody, for example. This sweet boy found his forever family in October, but his journey didn’t stop there. Over the summer, a veterinary ophthalmologist diagnosed him with a retinal detachment caused by past trauma, leaving him blind in one eye. While his eye pressure was normal at the time, we were warned that glaucoma could develop down the road.

We never expected it to happen so fast. Now, to spare Cody from the excruciating pain of glaucoma—described by specialists as “like experiencing a constant, severe migraine”—he will undergo eye removal surgery on 2/12/25.

Because we knew about Cody’s condition before his adoption, Dog Squad is covering the cost of his surgery—but we need your help! Every donation, big or small, makes a direct impact in giving dogs like Cody the care they need, and all donations are tax-deductible.

🐾 Donate to Cody’s Surgery Fund:
📲 Venmo/PayPal: (no underscores, dashes, or punctuation—watch out for scammers!)
💳 Credit Card: www.dogsquadsc.org

Thank you for standing with us to ensure every Dog Squad pup gets the happiest, healthiest life possible! 💙🐶

Foster or Mentor, the Squad always knows how to leave an open space for mom😜😂🐾👉🏼Can you spot all 9 dogs in the photo?📸
02/09/2025

Foster or Mentor, the Squad always knows how to leave an open space for mom😜😂🐾

👉🏼Can you spot all 9 dogs in the photo?📸

🥹Y’all, we can’t even begin to express what this moment means to us.Bernie has come so far in the past year, but he stil...
02/09/2025

🥹Y’all, we can’t even begin to express what this moment means to us.

Bernie has come so far in the past year, but he still struggles with reactivity toward certain male dogs. In fact, he was feeling a little extra at today—so much so that I sent him home early with Randy. 😂

But here’s the thing: Bernie is learning. And tonight, he took a step that speaks volumes about his growth.

Obie has looked up to Bernie like a big brother, even though they’re about the same age. And while Bernie still has work to do, he’s embracing his role as a Squad Mentor more and more every day.

Even with in-tact Yeti in the mix—something that set him off just a week ago—Bernie took the risk of using Yeti’s fluffy butt as a cloudy pillow.

Progress isn’t always linear, and healing takes time, but moments like these? They remind us just how much resilience and heart our dogs have.💕🐾

✨Squad Foster Obie Update✨Obie is in the home stretch—only 2-3 more weeks with the muzzle before he can finally live his...
02/07/2025

✨Squad Foster Obie Update✨

Obie is in the home stretch—only 2-3 more weeks with the muzzle before he can finally live his best life without it! This sweet, drooly boy has been such a trooper through his jaw fracture recovery, but the hardest part has been keeping his skin dry under the muzzle, which is nearly impossible.

Unfortunately, moisture buildup has led to a severe yeast infection under his jaw, on his nose, around his eye, and in one ear. Thanks to Dr. Price at , Obie now has the right medications to knock out the yeast, plus we’re giving him short muzzle breaks to help air things out.

On the bright side—Obie tested negative for heartworms! To keep him protected, we got him the ProHeart6 injection, providing six months of heartworm prevention in one dose.

His vet bill totaled $539.74, and we need your help covering the cost. Donations are tax-deductible and can be made via:
💙 Venmo/PayPal: (no punctuation—watch out for scammers!)
💙 Credit card: www.dogsquadsc.org

Every dollar helps Obie stay on track to a happy, healthy, muzzle-free life! Thank you for supporting him! 🐶💙

Hopey is all of us just trying to make it through Humpday😅And thanks to  , Hope is making that journey looking better th...
02/05/2025

Hopey is all of us just trying to make it through Humpday😅

And thanks to , Hope is making that journey looking better than ever! We are absolutely in awe of her incredible transformation—her once-inflamed skin has healed beautifully, and her coat is shining like never before.

Now, this resilient girl is preparing for her next big step. Hope is scheduled for TPLO surgery this coming Monday, 2/10/25, to repair both her luxating patella and CCL tear, and give her the stability she needs to run, play, and live pain-free.

We’ll be cheering her on as she heads into surgery, and we’d love your support in sending her all the good vibes for a smooth procedure and recovery. 💛

Yeti is home.Seeing Squad Foster Yeti back to his perky self is such a relief after a whirlwind of uncertainty. While he...
02/03/2025

Yeti is home.

Seeing Squad Foster Yeti back to his perky self is such a relief after a whirlwind of uncertainty. While he remains a bit of a medical mystery, we’re much closer to answers than we were when this all began on Friday morning.

An ultrasound on Friday afternoon revealed a moderate amount of free fluid in Yeti’s abdomen—but in another unexpected twist, the fluid resolved on its own. While the source remains unknown, the good news is that Yeti is stable.

Here are some possible explanations for what happened:
🔹 Partial/Full Torsion with Spontaneous Resolution – An organ (such as the stomach, spleen, mesentery, or colon) may have twisted on itself, temporarily affecting blood flow. If this was the case, the torsion corrected itself before causing permanent damage, potentially leading to small vessel leakage.
🔹 Cancer – Less likely since the fluid disappeared on its own, but not ruled out yet.
🔹 Anaphylaxis – A severe allergic reaction could have triggered fluid buildup.

To help solve the mystery, Yeti’s abdominal fluid has been sent for pathology, and we are eagerly awaiting results.

Additionally, bloodwork showed that Yeti is hypercoagulable—meaning his blood clots too quickly and too strongly. To prevent potential complications, Dr. Allen has started him on an anti-thrombotic medication, which he’ll receive 3x a day via injection until his follow-up appointment on Tuesday, 2/11/25. At that time, they’ll rerun a TEG test to reassess his clotting strength.

These past few days have been emotionally exhausting, but your support has meant everything. Whether through kind words, calls, texts, DMs, donations, or simply sharing Yeti’s story, we are incredibly grateful. We couldn’t do this without you.🫶🏼

For now, Yeti is resting comfortably at home, and we’ll keep you posted as we learn more!

✨Welcome our newest Squad Foster, Diesel!✨Timing is everything, y’all. Just when we decided to close intake, life had ot...
02/03/2025

✨Welcome our newest Squad Foster, Diesel!✨

Timing is everything, y’all. Just when we decided to close intake, life had other plans—and that plan’s name is Diesel!🐾

Diesel’s family made the heartbreaking decision to rehome him after their new landlord enforced a ridiculous pit bull breed ban. But fate stepped in, and Diesel landed in the best possible place—Crumble’s foster home!🏡

We actually met Diesel by chance today at our event at Traveler’s Taproom, when Crumble and his foster mom stopped by. Turns out, Diesel has been living with them for about two weeks already! He’s around 3 years old, still intact (but don’t worry, we’ll be fixing that soon!), and, most importantly, he is FULL of love.❤️

This boy loves everyone—dogs, humans, you name it! And the best part? He and Crumble have become instant best friends. It’s hard to believe they didn’t even know each other a few weeks ago.

We’re so grateful Diesel is safe and in loving hands, and we can’t wait to find him the perfect forever home. Welcome to the Squad, sweet boy!🐶

Squad Foster Yeti is mid-bark, shouting with joy to announce he’s COMING HOME FROM  TONIGHT!!!🎊🎉🏥Details to come later.
02/02/2025

Squad Foster Yeti is mid-bark, shouting with joy to announce he’s COMING HOME FROM TONIGHT!!!🎊🎉🏥

Details to come later.

Event parking FYI
02/02/2025

Event parking FYI

Yappy Market is today from 2:30-6:00 at Traveler’s!!

Please utilize our parking lot (including the extended lot to the right of our building) and the side street along Dollar General.

Smokin! Joes and Poinsett Liquor are the nicest neighbors to let us overflow into their lots on the weekend

Parking at the Car Wash is at your own risk. Towing is enforced.


TODAY!!!! Come out and see us at Traveler's Taproom 2:30-6pm!
02/02/2025

TODAY!!!! Come out and see us at Traveler's Taproom 2:30-6pm!

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