Jill Weissenbach Page

02/27/2024

💊 Need help administering medications? No problem! Our experienced team is here to make sure your cats stay healthy and happy.

01/27/2024

11/28/2023

Transform your event into a canvas of memories with our photobooth experience - where laughter meets captured moments, making every click a timeless celebration! 📸✨ Choose the magic of memories, choose the photobooth experience.
ADEPhotoBooths

11/28/2023

Find the spirit and magic of the holidays!!✨ What better way to put a smile on everyone’s face?
Cookies, Bonfires, Hot Coffee, Hot Chocolate, Baby Goats, Rescue Farm Animals, Fun Outdoors, Holiday Photo Ops and it is all FREE🎄🙌🏻✨
Join Us
December 9th 11am-3pm
Stop by anytime! We want to give back to our community for helping us grow this past year. If you can donate to the farm, great…if you can’t, please still come and enjoy! We know how expensive the holidays can be for all of the events we plan for our families❤️

Mark your calendars and see you soon!! 🐰🐓🐐🐴🦆🐷

Questions/Rsvp’s - Email [email protected]
https://dragonflyacresfarm.com

10/25/2023

10/20/2023

Zoey, 13, was given up because her lifelong owner moved to a residence where cats are not allowed. She has crumpled "cauliflower ears," the result of healed infections, that should be frequently cleaned to prevent any recurring infections. Her previous owner said Zoey is playful, talkative and friendly and did well living with both a dog and a young child. (3282)

10/18/2023

10/17/2023

Look who will be at SHOPTOBERFEST - A Shop Local Festival with a Trick or Treat Twist! Higgins and Friends Pet Sitting, LLC

Don’t miss this fun, FREE, family event! We will have music, shopping, Trick or Treating, kids costume contest, dog costume contest, a photo booth and more! We bring the community together with the local businesses for a lot of family fun!

See you Saturday, October 21st at Severna Park Racquetball and Fitness Club (SPRFC)'s parking lot in Milersville.

10/15/2023

Nov. 16 update: Despite widespread sharing of our Oct. 11 post about Grayson, a ball-loving dog who was going blind, no one ever came for him. Dogs are continuing to pour into the shelter, which now is overcapacity, forcing extremely hard decisions. This afternoon, while a favorite volunteer and a favorite staff member stroked and kissed him and fed him chocolates and peanut butter, Grayson calmly slipped away from this world to a place where we hope he will have perfect eyesight and an endless supply of tennis balls. RIP, dear Grayson.
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“If he didn't have bad luck, he wouldn't have any luck at all."

That phrase keeps running through our head when we think about Grayson, a 3-year-old dog at Anne Arundel County Animal Care & Control who, barring a near miracle, likely has few days left on this earth. His story:

--Grayson first came to the shelter in April 2022 as an emaciated stray found tangled up with another dog, both of them tied to a tree. He was adopted but returned in September 2022 when his owner entered a homeless facility that did not accept dogs.

--He was adopted a second time and spent almost a year with this adopter until he was returned to AACACC on Sept. 16 because the adopter was moving overseas.

--Both his second adopter and shelter volunteers/staff noted that this young fellow was having vision issues. A week ago, we took him to an eye specialist. Grayson has an incurable genetic condition and is going blind. It is not painful and does not require medication or surgery, but blindness will be the inevitable result, the specialist said.

Grayson is affectionate and trusting with people. (“Loves my toddler," his first adopter said.) For example, although panting with anxiety, he was patient and friendly while the eye doctor, a stranger to him, put her face very close to his and also placed paper test tabs in his eyes (see video in the comments).

"A loving and lovable goof," one dog volunteer said. "Loves to be petted and enjoys being with people."

Dogs, however, are another matter if Grayson is on a leash: He barks and pulls toward them — he is a strong 57 pounds — sometimes with his hackles up. (We cannot imagine how traumatic it was for him to be tied to a tree while tangled up with another dog.) Off the leash, he's seemed more curious about other dogs than reactive, but staff has not risked letting him meet another dog without a barrier. He is anxious in new situations and in his shelter cage surrounded by strange dogs, uncomfortable during car rides and scared while on uncarpeted floors. He still loves to fetch, but it's getting more difficult for him as his sight dims.

Also: Grayson is a black pit bull-type mix with white markings. The shelter currently has some 15 other dogs who also meet that exact description -- dogs who are not going blind, who do okay with other dogs, who haven't been in and out of the shelter repeatedly, who aren't so anxious inside a cage.

The shelter is very, very full, with more dogs arriving than leaving. Its foster homes also are filled, as are its rescue partners that take pit bull-type dogs; finding a spot with them for a dog-reactive dog is particularly difficult. A mentally stressful existence without hope in a shelter cage is no life, especially for a dog whose sight is fading. Unless an adopter comes for him very soon, Grayson likely will be humanely euthanized. If so, members of the family he’s known the longest -- the staff and volunteers of the shelter -- will be there to comfort him as he crosses the bridge.

10/02/2023

Calvin is ready to meet all of YOU!!!
A few more friends will be with us too!
Festival on the Greens
Saturday the 30th
10am-4pm
Be there or miss out☺️
Dragonfly Acres Farm does not travel often (or ever) so take advantage!

09/18/2023

08/19/2023

Adopt. Volunteer. Donate. Speak up.
MAKE A DIFFERENCE.

06/28/2023