Hodgepodge Pets, Inc

09/05/2025

After nearly two months of hospitalizations, rehab, and hard work, Mr. James has been reunited with his best girl, Icy Marie!! She is such a sweetie and it was our pleasure to foster her until they could be together again!

Donations and fosters are always needed to keep our Hardship Program going. There are so many more people and pets that need our help!

These two epitomize why we have that program in place. A minimal amount of effort on our part and they were both spared great heartache.

09/03/2025

Rescue Friends and Supporters: We routinely hand out Low Cost Spay and Neuter Info for Maryland and Southern Pa. areas. Our list is really out-of-date and we don't want to waste people's time.
Can you comment with resources to update our file and share?

Thanks!

08/24/2025

Our boy, Duke, isn't doing so well. His mast cell tumors are in his spine and they have affected his ability to use his rear legs. It's heartbreaking, because he has so much heart - he REALLY wants to go, go, go!
Since the weather is cooling down, he's been spending time on our big covered porch for a few hours during the day, on his comfy dog bed. He loves being out there, but we have to keep him in a leash. He gets tangled, so it's not ideal.
We need two of these expandable safety gates (bar on top) to put up to keep him safe while he's out there. Can any of our supporters order them?

Duke LOVES car rides! He is a perfect co-pilot and very well mannered. Hodgepodge friend, Heather, came by and took Duke out for a day of fun a couple of weeks ago. They had Pup Cups, cheeseburgers, and snuggles on the sofa! He had the best day! (Thank you, Heather!) If anyone would like to make his day again, let us know!

Also, as long as we are asking, Duke wanted you to know that we are in need of Purina One dry AND canned food, plus Pill Pockets. (And, canned cat food.) Please help if you can.

Amazon:
https://www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/ls/1RQYSNEE5SMC3?ref_=wl_share

08/21/2025

https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1ErVZ4XCP1/

We've sure been busy this summer! As the pace slows for most folks and that means vacations, relaxing, and more family time, for us it means more work: more surrenders, more time, more kittens and puppies born, more fundraising efforts. And, less adoptions, less volunteers, less fosters available, and less donations.

Unfortunately, we can't put these kids on a shelf or in a closet until things turn around. They still need to be fed, medicated, vetted, cleaned, and cared for 24/7. It's a huge responsibility, and again, we are willing to put in the work. We're still giving it all we've got! But, we need your help!

We really need financial donations! A nearby store in Pa. has had great sales on pet food. Another store has a great sale on paper towels and laundry detergent.
Both store's sale prices were far cheaper than our friends at Am*zon. But, neither offer online shopping.

We really need canned cat food, canned dog food, dry cat food, and pill pockets.

Please donate and please share!

Folks can donate the following ways:

Venmo:


PayPal:
[email protected]

https://www.paypal.me/hodgepodgepets

Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/hodgepodgepets

Mail:
Hodgepodge Pets
P.O. Box 42
Monkton, Md. 21111

Amazon:
https://www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/ls/1RQYSNEE5SMC3?ref_=wl_share

08/10/2025

We've sure been busy this summer! As the pace slows for most folks and that means vacations, relaxing, and more family time, for us it means more work: more surrenders, more time, more kittens and puppies born, more fundraising efforts. And, less adoptions, less volunteers, less fosters available, and less donations.

Unfortunately, we can't put these kids on a shelf or in a closet until things turn around. They still need to be fed, medicated, vetted, cleaned, and cared for 24/7. It's a huge responsibility, and again, we are willing to put in the work. We're still giving it all we've got! But, we need your help!

We really need financial donations! A nearby store in Pa. has had great sales on pet food. Another store has a great sale on paper towels and laundry detergent.
Both store's sale prices were far cheaper than our friends at Am*zon. But, neither offer online shopping.

We really need canned cat food, canned dog food, dry cat food, and pill pockets.

Please donate and please share!

Folks can donate the following ways:

Venmo:


PayPal:
[email protected]

https://www.paypal.me/hodgepodgepets

Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/hodgepodgepets

Mail:
Hodgepodge Pets
P.O. Box 42
Monkton, Md. 21111

Amazon:
https://www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/ls/1RQYSNEE5SMC3?ref_=wl_share

08/05/2025

These are some of our recent Hardship Fosters. Our Hardship Program is in place to help struggling owner's keep their pets. We foster, for free, for military families and first responders, and for those facing various trials: homelessness, hospitalizations, rehab, divorce, domestic violence, illness, etc.
Most pets that come into our program are in need of vaccines, spaying or neutering, flea preventative, wormer, microchips, etc. Their owner's are in a bad place and can rarely pitch in for their care.
We are always in need of financial contributions and food donations for them, as well as more families to foster!
Please consider helping us to keep these families together. It makes a world of difference to them!

08/05/2025

Thank you to our wonderful foster families for taking great care of our kids until they can be adopted!
Financial donations are needed for spaying/neutering, vaccines, wormer, flea meds, testing, etc, prior to adoptions! Please help if you can!

08/05/2025

Catching up on adoptions! Thanks for choosing our kids!

07/08/2025

Hardship cases:

Case 1: Are any of our followers able to foster a senior bulldog for a week or two? Her family is homeless and living in their car in Lutherville. Her dad needs to be admitted to the hospital, but won't go until he knows she is safe. I've been told that she's good with dogs and kids, but not with cats. She's spayed and UTD on vaccines. This situation is urgent!

Case 2: Little Marie is 16 y.o. and is currently in our Hardship Foster program. Her dad held out for as long as he could, hoping for foster placement somewhere. We were working with his social worker over the weekend, with plans to help him today. But, his health declined rapidly and was taken to Harbor Hospital's ER early this morning, with his girl at his side. We are shocked, and incredibly thankful, that they allowed her to go with him to the hospital until our rescue could pick her up! The hospital staff was wonderful and supportive! Please keep Mr.Jones in your prayers for a complete recovery. He is in bad shape, but refused to abandon his girl. He said that after losing his parents recently, she's all that he has left. Can you imagine being so alone, that you don't have a single person to care for your most treasured friend? It's heartbreaking, and we are so glad that we could help relieve that burden for him! Rescuer's see so many pets discarded every day - it is nice and needed to see the other side as well. We hope that these two are reunited very soon! Until then, the old gal is settling in, getting extra love, and will be well cared for! She's a sweetie!

Reminder that we really need fosters, especially for our Hardship Program! We get dozens of calls every week from folks needing temporary help to prevent them from the heartache of surrendering their pets. Help us keep them together. Please consider fostering and please share!

07/08/2025

Many thanks to Graul's Market of Hereford, again, for their continued support! Last weekend, we raised much needed funds for pet food and expenses, and because of the hands on exposure, we had 4 pet adoptions this week, with 2 more pending! That's an event record for us!
Jade, our pittie ambassador, enjoyed greeting everyone, especially all of the kiddos!

Thanks, too, to the Hereford Community for all of your generous monetary donations! Volunteers Lynne, Jay, Kya, and Jonah, your help was appreciated!!

06/22/2025

Putting out another plea for food and monetary donations. It's been nearly a month since the original post, and we even paid to boost it during that time. Only 6 people have donated so far. It's incredibly discouraging! Adoptions are at an all time low, as are donations. We realize that everyone is excited and making plans for summer, vacationing, having fun, and probably not giving a whole lot of thought to rescue's right now. But, we are still here, still struggling, and still in need. In order to care for the animals already here and continue our mission, we need your support. We'll keep putting in the hard work, we just need financial support. Please donate and please share.

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May 24, 2025

Can anyone donate pet food? Our Amazon Wish List is below. Or, if anyone donates money, we can look for clearance sales at local pet stores, TSC, etc., and really stock up.

If we could get support with regular weekly or monthly sponsors/deliveries, that would take a huge load off! So much of our income (both rescue and personal) goes towards pet food, and it would free that up to go towards other expenses like spays, neuters, vet bills, flea
/tick meds, repairs, grooming, etc.

Folks can donate the following ways:

Venmo:


PayPal:
[email protected]

https://www.paypal.me/hodgepodgepets

Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/hodgepodgepets

Mail:
Hodgepodge Pets
P.O. Box 42
Monkton, Md. 21111

Amazon:
https://www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/ls/1RQYSNEE5SMC3?ref_=wl_share

Thanks for your support!

05/24/2025

Can anyone donate pet food? Our Amazon Wish List is below. Or, if anyone donates money, we can look for clearance sales at local pet stores, TSC, etc., and really stock up.

If we could get support with regular weekly or monthly sponsors/deliveries, that would take a huge load off! So much of our income (both rescue and personal) goes towards pet food, and it would free that up to go towards other expenses like spays, neuters, vet bills, flea
/tick meds, repairs, grooming, etc.

Folks can donate the following ways:

Venmo:


PayPal:
[email protected]

https://www.paypal.me/hodgepodgepets

Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/hodgepodgepets

Mail:
Hodgepodge Pets
P.O. Box 42
Monkton, Md. 21111

Amazon:
https://www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/ls/1RQYSNEE5SMC3?ref_=wl_share

Thanks for your support!

We are a small, dedicated, family run animal rescue, in operation for over 30 years. We're committed to helping animals and people in need, thru our military, senior, therapy, foster, owner hardship, and volunteer programs.