DoRe Ranch and Rescue

06/27/2025

For everyone that has and continues to donate to us, especially those who donated in Tom's father's memory...thank you!

We used some of the donations to purchase enough flea and tick prevention to get us through the next 3-6 months and enough de-worming meds to last about that long!

We were also able to purchase 64 lbs of IAMS Kitten kibble from chewy.

If you haven't heard of puppy butt supply before, please go visit them. http://puppybuttspetsupply.net Their products, thus far, all come in a capsule that is easily pulled apart and the medication can be mixed in food...no fighting animals to take their meds!

06/22/2025

The Monday before last Tom flew back to Pennsylvania to be with his family. His father, Tom Sr, was placed in, in home hospice. Tom went home to support his mom, two sisters, niece and brother in law.

Friday of the same week, Tom's dad passed away.

I drove up Tuesday of this week to be with my in laws and Tom for the services for his dad.

We didn't want to post anything while we were both away for security reasons.

I want to give a very large thank you to our volunteer Amber. Amber cleared her schedule and stayed at the house while we were both away. We will be eternally thankful for her for doing that for us and especially for the animals. Amber has been a volunteer with us for going on a year.

We also want to give a giant thank you to Courtney and her wife, Katrina, for helping me out while Tom was away, and for helping Amber out while we were both away.

Both of my parents were on stand by, if Amber needed help, as were several other rescue friends.

I also want to thank our vet, Dr Audrey Turbeville, for reaching out and keeping us both in her thoughts while we navigated this.

Special shout out to Cindy Byrd and her husband, Jesse, and their two children, Jeb and Liam. They delivered hay for our cows and donkeys. They didn't just deliver it though, they helped place it, set it, un net it, and were generally great helpers while they were here.

Tom's dad was a giant animal lover. I know he would be smiling and probably laughing at me trying to get everything managed and taken care of for my trip back to Pennsylvania. Thank you for my PA family that came to the viewing and for reaching out to us both.

Please, if you are able to, check on your friends and family and give them a hug.

To everyone that helped us and especially the animals, thank you, thank you, and thank you!

https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/timesleader/name/thomas-regna-obituary?id=58651008&utm_source=webshareapi&utm_medium=share_button&utm_campaign=wsapimobile_beta&fbclid=IwY2xjawLER5lleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBicmlkETEzMUZCQVllYVRFZ2xOQ3JoAR4Qpquy9cuL-NeQolB5YCPAVBdeigvYq-TkIR2OFvMB77wDAM03eugyE6GZqw_aem_R9I6kOF7Jmxkguzcv9xooQ

View Thomas Regna Sr.'s obituary, send flowers and sign the guestbook.

06/06/2025

06/03/2025

S'mores and Pumpkin love their greens!

Every morning/mid afternoon they get some type of leafy green to mow down. In the evening they get a chopped up veggie and fruit salad, along with topping off their Timothy had and pellets (if they need pellets).

The family that we got the piggies from requested we post updates of the girls :-).

06/03/2025

Short and succinct, short and succinct...

We brought the kitties from the hoarding case to be spayed and neutered at Kershaw County Humane Society yesterday. We had them combo tested, surprisingly and super happy, they were all combo negative!!! 3 of the boys were previously neutered, so we had 5 boys neutered and 3 girls spayed. Momma cat is 100% a "hands off" cat, so we will get her in a trap and have her TNR at a different appointment.

The orange tabby that you may have seen the video of, he passed away a few days ago. Personally, this case in particular has taken a lot out of me. A lot. We are used to people surrendering animals to us, pulling animals off of the dreaded euthanasia list, pulling momma cats and kittens, pulling senior cats, etc. I helped our rescue buddy Shanin, Violet's House Cat Rescue, with the hoarding case she did last year, this is different. The person who Shanin helped at least cared for, to the best of his ability, the cats...did things get 100% out of control, hell to the yes it did. The case I'm helping Kershaw County AC with, this was just different. These cats were super emaciated, disgusting water, living in their own filth, the cats were filthy, loaded with worms, just in awful and horrible shape. It's been weighing on me. The cat that passed away, he was probably the worst looking of the group. Did we give him fresh water several times a day, yes, did he get electrolytes, yes, was he being fed kitten food (both kibble and pate), yes...the damage was already done to his poor riddled body. We tried.

After these guys have fully healed from their respective surgeries, we will be putting them up for adoption. I'll be leaning heavily on my rescue friends to get them adopted. We will be adopting them from our home and not the store. All of the kitties, except Momma, have been fully vaccinated, de-wormed, combo tested and clear x2, micro chipped and are being spoiled here.

We will be posting pics of them later on tonight :-).

05/25/2025

A quick update on the kitties from the hoarding case.

We spoke with our vet buddy, Dr T, Topgun Veterinarian Service, LLC and were bouncing ideas off of her for when to do certain things. All of the cats are/were super emaciated. I think we are over the Refeeding Syndrome hump...I hope! I asked about de-worming and was given the thumbs up. These poor cats, after their initial dose of praz/pyr, I'll spare you all the pictures...let's just say...the dual de-wormer is working. We will revisit this again in 2 weeks.

These cats can eat. We've blown through, going on 25 lbs of cat kibble, and several cases of kitten pate on them. We will be switching them back to adult pate/wet food in a little bit. They all seem to be doing well, I am keeping a very watchful eye on 2 of them. I don't know if these two cats are going to make it, fingers are crossed that they will pull through!

I really want to thank Kershaw County Humane Society, especially Clarissa, for any and all help with these poor souls. Thank you x10...you don't get thanked nearly enough :-)

Thank you also to Kershaw County Animal Control for not only helping me with getting the kitties loaded up, but realizing there is a human side to this element and helping a member of the community out...I know y'all don't get thanked enough either!

If any of you fine people of my page are so inclined, please donate by purchasing anything off of our chewy or Amazon wish list, heck, even purchasing cat kibble from Sam's and having it delivered here would be a great help :-). And, as always, if you aren't in a position to purchase or otherwise donate, sharing is caring!

Amazon wishlist: https://www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/ls/1H356T9I9H0TE?ref_=wl_share

Walmart wishlist: https://www.walmart.com/lists/shared/WL/d1eaa67e-be51-490a-9770-a66d3c41a69a

Chewy wishlist: https://www.chewy.com/g/dore-ranch-and-rescue_b115021437 -list

05/21/2025

We were contacted by Kershaw County Animal Control yesterday after they completed a welfare check on a property.

The person who owns the property is no longer able to physically care for the animals there, some utilities have been shut off, and it was an overall awful situation.

I met with 2 AC officers prior to arriving at the property and they assisted the person by bringing her some essentials.

I can't begin to describe the odor, prior to us getting there, there were a few deceased animals in different states of comp.

All of the enclosures had stagnant water, filled with mosquito larvae, and the cats had no access to litter boxes. So, their mess was everywhere.

Most of the cats are super emaciated, like in the video. The 3 AC officers and I loaded up 13 cats. We brought them back to our property and will be getting them vetted going from worst case to best case, kitty triage if you will.

We have Kitty Lyte on hand and will be putting it in the cat's water, diluted of course, for at least 72 hours. We will be feeding them kitten kibble and kitten wet food, trying to stave off Refeeding Syndrome.

We can use any donations you are willing and able to send to us :-). We will be getting all of the cats spayed, neutered, combo tested, and UTD on vaccinations after they have put weight on and look a little better.

https://linktr.ee/doreranchandrescue

05/20/2025

Both Jack and Rose are doing great. As you may recall, Jack required a standard castration after his former owners took him to their vet who attempted to castrate him by crushing his testicles. This method was not effective, caused Jack to be in a lot of pain, and caused a severe infection. In addition, Rose required a double mastectomy due to severely enlarged and misshapen udders. Rose then spent a few days at our vet for her post-surgery care.

Now that Jack and Rose are on the mend, we need your help! The vet bill for Jack and Rose came to $673.75, so please consider a donation to contribute toward their care.

Ways to donate:
PayPal: https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=5HEA4PTN6QDFJ
Venmo: https://venmo.com/doreranchandrescue
Cash App: https://cash.app/doreranchandrescue

All donations are tax deductible.

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We cannot do what we do without your support. Thank you!

05/18/2025

This is our second goat update!

Jack (he's got solid white back legs), Cotton (she looks almost white) and Sassy (she's off being her namesake self), along with Rose, all came to us via our partnership with Tiffany Wild Pines Sanctuary. Please go follow her and her family's page, you can get updates on Strawberry there (she's the turkey from the same property as the goats, that had the terrible case of bumble foot).

Jack is the goat that had the botched castration, had an infected testicle, and if Dr T Topgun Veterinarian Service, LLC hadn't done a surgical castration on him, he surely would not be here today!

Jack and Rose had their surgeries the Friday before last. Jack bounced back and is slowly integrating with the rest of the goat herd :-).

05/18/2025

This is Rose's update :-)

Thanks to Tiffany Wild Pines Sanctuary, Rose will be kid free and udder free.

Dr T Topgun Veterinarian Service, LLC and her awesome team performed a radical double mastectomy on Rose a little over a week ago. She's doing great. She wants out of her confinement ASAP. We will be keeping her in this area for another week or so, just so we don't have any "oopses" post op!