Border Paws Dog Rescue

11/07/2025

Three cheers for three adoptions!🎉 One in September and two in November.🥰

Congrats to these adorable pups and their wonderful new families! 🤍🐶

11/06/2025

11/04/2025

It’s Jax’s 3rd birthday today and he’s hoping he can start spending his amazing 3rd year of life with his furever family very soon!🥹🐶

10/26/2025

The Border Paws calendar is live and it features so many past adopted dogs!! Thank you so much to Prairie Thunder Photography LLC for putting this on for us, and volunteering so much time to make this happen 🥰

Custom Photo Calendars for Sale Border Paws Dog Rescue Fundraiser 2026 Calendar

10/22/2025

Come see us this Saturday at Fleet Farm from 10am-1pm!🥰
We will have a couple of our adorable adoptable dogs to meet 🐶 and we will be passing out candy for the trick-or-treat tour🎃🍬

10/18/2025

Meet our 6 newest additions to Border Paws!🥰🐶

They all have different personalities but are ALL very sweet babies.🐶🤍

The link to foster/adopt will be in the comments.😊

10/17/2025

Meet Jax🩵

Jax is a 3-year-old Boxer mix with a big heart and an even bigger personality!🐶 He’s the perfect medium size and has so much love to give. Jax is loyal, affectionate, and always eager to be by your side. Whether it’s playing fetch, running around with sticks😅, going for walks, or simply relaxing together, he enjoys every moment spent with his people.🥰

Jax would do best as the only pet in the home, where he can have your full attention. He has done well playing with submissive female dogs, but introductions should be handled carefully and with patience.🙂 Jax’s need to be the only dog doesn’t make him any less deserving, he’s an incredible companion who will give his whole heart to the right family!🥹

He is kennel trained, potty trained, and walks well on a leash with proper handling. Jax listens well and thrives on structure, consistency, and love. He’s an active dog who enjoys adventures but also appreciates snuggle time at home.😆

Jax will be waiting for someone who will see how special he truly is — someone who will give him the chance to live the happy, secure life he deserves.💙

⭐️The link to foster/adopt will be in the comments!😊

10/09/2025

Meet Roxi!💖 she has been recently returned to our care.

Roxi was previously saved from a scary shelter in Texas. She is such a cute long legged girl, who is so sweet. Despite being scared of all the noise and uncertainty, she is still a sweet and happy girl. She would do best in a home with no children, and she would do best in a home with low traffic, she really tends to attach to one person and feels safe with 1-2 people 🥰 she does amazing with other dogs and cats 🐶Roxi is almost 2 years old💞

⭐️Link to the adoption application will be in the comments!

09/25/2025

🥺❤️‍🩹

09/21/2025

💌To our Border Paws family💌

This update is long overdue! We’ve gone back and forth for months because Border Paws means so much to us, and stepping back in any way has been an incredibly difficult decision.

After a lot of reflection, we’ve made the difficult decision to step back from operating as a full scale rescue with a facility, we realized we were running on empty. Burnout hit us hard, and we realized we couldn’t give the dogs the level of care they truly deserve while trying to manage everything. Even with our amazing volunteers, it just wasn’t maintainable.

✨ What’s changing:
• We are now foster based only, no more physical facility.
• We can still board dogs when needed, but the number of transports will be much smaller.
• This means we need committed fosters! The more fosters we have, the more dogs we can save.
• Volunteer opportunities will be limited, but we’ll still need help with fostering and the occasional events.
• We’ll still hold events - including 2 coming up in October, so stay tuned!

✨ Where our focus will be:
We want to return to the heart of why we started, saving street dogs, puppies, and medical/special-needs dogs. Somewhere along the way, it began to feel like we were running a shelter instead of following our original mission, and we don’t want to lose sight of what inspired us in the first place.

✨ To our transport partners:
Please know that while we’re still committed to saving dogs, we’ll only be able to take 3–5 dogs at a time. We’ll do our best to work with everyone, but our capacity is much much smaller now.

We’re still working on finalizing adoptions for the last few dogs in our care, and once they’re adopted, we’ll fully transition into this next chapter and save some more lives! This change is bittersweet, and while we’re heartbroken to take a step back, we know it’s what’s best for us and for the dogs❤️‍🩹

Thank you to everyone who has supported us including fosters, volunteers, adopters, and donors. We couldn’t have made it this far without you, and we’re excited to continue saving lives, just in a way that’s more sustainable for the long term.

❤️ Shaila & Angela

09/10/2025

09/02/2025

🎉July brought us 1 lucky pup finding their furever home, and August turned it up with 4 more adoptions!🐾💖

Congratulations to these amazing pups & their new furever families!🥰