Camp Chaos Big Paw Rescue

11/07/2025

Ft Myers, Florida

The sweet Great Pyrenees is currently in the shelter and not handling shelter life very well.

While she’s a stunning girl, she’s going to need someone willing to give her some time and patience, allow her to decompress and settle in. Once she gets to know you shes a sweet girl, but i true pyrenees fashion, shes initially weary of strangers. If you’ve ever had a pyr you understand this behavior.

She is a working dog and seems like farm life is the better fit for her. Because she’s in the shelter we have not have the opportunity to test her with livestock. She wasn’t initially receptive to other dogs but she’s also incredibly stressed. Pyrs cannot tell you who they are in a cage. They are the hippies of the dog world and carry a free spirit. Locking them up is mental torture.

She’s up to date on vaccines and heartworm negative (yay!)

Rescue will cover the cost of spay. She is young. I’m guessing maybe 2 at the most. We also have a behaviorist that works with our dogs to help give her a better start.

Please don’t let her story end here. Like, comment and share this post so we can get this beauty out of there and on to the next chapter where she’ll be loved, appreciated and protected.ida

11/07/2025

This little girl was found wandering. Owners have not claimed her.

She needs help. She’s not bearing weight on her back leg. This seems like a recent injury.

She’s under a year old and warm to other dogs and cats. We need a foster for her in the Tampa area so we can get her treated.

Please foster. Please help us change this little girls story.

10/10/2025

Central florida - transport possible

We really need a foster for this little man. Simba is about 8-9 months old and super sweet. Great with other dogs and a bit on the timid side.

He needs a hero. Someone that can change his story and give him a happy ending in a life that has so far failed him.

He came into rescue from the shelter. He was picked up as a stray. His owner knew he was there and opted not to save him. But we did. He’s just a baby and was too young to die.

If you can give him a soft place to land please pm me or fill out a foster application on our website at campchaosrescue.org

10/05/2025

These 2 gentlemen need a foster or foster to adopt home in the central Florida region. Their current situation isn’t working out. They are believed to be dad and son and separating them seems like it would be ideal.

Dad is about 3-4 years old. He is heartworm positive but undergoing treatment. Super sweet great with other dogs. Not good with chickens.

Simba is a shy 8 month old male who would do best if he had another dog for companionship.

Both are very respectful of fences and relatively quiet for a Pyr.

If you can give either one a soft place to land, please dm us or fill out the foster application on our website at www.campchaosrescue.org

09/29/2025

09/23/2025

Located on Wichita Kansas

This boy found himself in a high kill shelter and is in a temporary but still dire situation.

Anyone close to Wichita able to foster him? He’s a good boy just afraid of men so he’s going to need some time. Not a biter. He just cowers.

Pm me if you can help!

09/18/2025

Got a car full of sunshine today
George and sturgeon
9 weeks Old boys already 30 pounds
AKC registered Saint Bernards in Tampa, FL

09/10/2025

Rescue breaks you sometimes. It’s one of the hardest jobs to take on, yet those of us who feel this inner calling just keep going. I’ve often been asked why do I do this? The emotional roller coaster is constant and there are days you run through a range of emotions in the span of a few hours. We live for the success stories. Seeing dogs flourish and families happy with the matches we made fuel us to get up and do it again the next day.

But behind the scenes, behind the social media posts are many moments where we wonder how to keep going. We go days without stopping, sleeping just a few hours at a time. We stress about vet bills and how we’re going to meet the needs of the dogs. We panic, we shut down for a few hours, we cry. And somehow we always come back.

I don’t know if this is a disease, an addiction or a calling. Whatever it is, it’s something I’ve done since I was 22 and found a Great Pyrenees wandering a Walmart parking lot in Alabama looking for water. She was disheveled, tired and unkept. And from there I just kept going.

We named her Rose. The sweet little girl we pulled from the shelter yesterday. She has the warmth of an angel, the wisdom of a Sage and the courage of a warrior. I knew there was something special about her the minute I saw her picture. And I knew then we had to save her spirit.

The shelter warned me she couldn’t walk on a leash. She had to be carried outside to relieve herself. That’s not uncommon in shelters. Shelter life is terrifying for an independent breed like a Pyr. They’re used to being free and in control. There’s no control there.

When we got her home we realized she could walk but wouldn’t bear weight on her one back leg.

This morning we got her into Town N Country Animal Hospital where Dr Hillard took X-rays to figure out why.

She does have hip displaysia. Not uncommon for this breed. That wasn’t the part that broke me. It’s the fact that she was riddled with bb’s.

Someone used her for target practice. Someone took a BB gun and shot at this defenseless soul multiple times. One of the bb’s is lodged right at her knee. (Those are the white dots) And because she has a bad hip, she couldn’t even run away quickly.

Monsters are real. They don’t live under your bed or in your closet. They live next door, down the street and across town.

09/09/2025

What are we up to today?

We pulled them! ALL 3 of them from a very crowded high kill shelter. As of today they have been picked up and are SAFE!

Can I just talk you about what it means when we say a ‘high kill shelter?’

I’ve worked in rescue for 31 years now. I like to think I’ve seen it all and done it all. One thing I have gained is an in depth understanding of what the shelter staff is up against. And a lot of people have no understanding of the situation. It’s worse now than it’s ever been. The intakes never stop coming.

It’s a hard job. One of the hardest. They field death threats, slander, violence and are constantly called murderers. It’s hars to keep staff, volunteers a d even vet staff. Emotionally this takes a toll. Imagine crying at your job every day because the mess humans made.

No one who works in any of these facilities enjoys euthanizing dogs. It’s probably the most haunting task that many of the shelter staff take home with them at the end of the day. But when you have 100 kennels, a skeleton crew of shelter volunteers and 150 dogs, what options are they left with? Big dogs occupy a kennel that 2 smaller dogs can use. That limits availability even more. And you cant just add on to the shelter on the fly. They count on rescues and fosters to help get dogs out and volunteers to walk and post dogs to their social media.

What makes it harder are the laws. Shelter intakes are comprised of 3 main categories:

1. Stray holds.
The majority of intakes are strays. The law states that strays need to be held for 3 days if they don’t have a microchip and 5 days if they do. That’s a kennel that’s being occupied for 3-5 days. During that time the dog cannot be adopted and cannot be pulled by rescue.

2. Animal Control seizures.
These are the animals that were removed from their owners because of abuse, neglect and unsafe living conditions. And most of the the time whatever the outcome is is better than where they came from. It takes a lot for animal control to seize an animal. These animals MUST stay in the shelter (or an invest foster) until the court date. That can take weeks to months. We have pulled dogs and housed them for the shelter before just to free up space.

3. Owner surrenders.
These dogs go to the top of the list unfortunately. There’s no legal restrictions and no time limit on them. They can be adopted or euthanized at any time.

Then you have boutique rescues. These are the rescues that are in it for the money. They’ll only pull the perfect dogs. If they need extensive vet care or are sick they’ll leave them there to die.

Of the 3 dogs we pulled today. 2 are heartworm positive. I know they’re going to take some time and money to get them healthy but that doesn’t mean they don’t deserve a chance. All 3 are supwe sweet dogs. All 3 were scared, failes by humans but still managed to be grateful. A lot of rescues would have passed them over. We won’t. We’ll figure it out somehow. We’re here for the dogs. We’re here to save lives.

It just so happens that today is $2 Tuesday. We now have 3 heartworm positive dogs that we’re treating in our rescue. Snowball and 2 of the adult Pyrs. In addition to the heartworm treatment to save their lives. All 3 of the ones we pulled will have to be neutered before placement. That will bring their vet care to at least $1500 each. Our adoption fees are no where near that.

I know many of you aren’t able to foster and that’s ok. Any contribution helps. $2. $5. $10. It all adds up and it all helps offset our expenses so we can keep our adoption fees affordable. It also keeps us going.

The other ways you can help us is to like, comment and share our posts. This increases our visibility, increases our distribution and helps put more dogs in more homes.

Monetary donations can be sent to:

PayPal: [email protected]
Venmo: (please double check spelling. There’s scammer who copied our info. our rescue does NOT have an ‘s’ at the end.)
Cashapp: $campchaosrescue
Zelle: 801-647-3312

our Amazon wishlist is up to date and can be found here:

https://www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/ls/13X42G4B01VTK?ref_=wl_share

We really need a new cargo mat, a ramp, ProViable and tractor supply gift cards as we do provide food for our rescue dogs.

09/08/2025

Anyone in Fort Myers, FL that can help transport a dog to Tampa?

09/08/2025

Lee county, FL

These 2 boys are in a small shelter that is constantly having to make space. No one likes making these hard decisions so we beed to get them out asap!

Boy #1 believes to be about 4 years old.
Boy #2 appears to be 8 months old.

The finder states that they’re both very sweet and social.

We need a place for them to hang out for just a few days while we work on making space at our foster farm.

If there is any way you can accommodate them please send us a pm or fill out an application to foster on our website by clicking ‘get involved’.

Www.campchaosrescue.org

09/07/2025

UPDATE: This dog is safe!

Sumter county, Florida
Anatolian Shepherd, male, 3 years

He’s been there for 3 months. 3 months is a lifetime for a livestock guardian dog. Or any dog for that matter.

This is what you see now when you walk by his cage. He doesn’t get up to greet you. He doesn’t even raise his head. Theres no wag of a tail. No spark on his eye. He just lays there at the back of the kennel drowning in grief trying to assemble the pieces of his broken heart. Trying to understand why he doesn’t matter anymore. He did at one time he was someone’s world. And then suddenly one day they were gone and his heart just can’t understand. He’s no longer looking for a reason to keep going. He has a lot of love to give but no one to give it to.

He keeps his head down knowing his time is limited. He knows the end is near. More grief. More heartbreak. More devastation.

He needs a hero. Someone who can help him put the past behind him and show him a bright future. Someone who can be kind, patient and loving. He needs a place where he can feel safe. He’s not safe right now and he knows it. He needs help. An answer to his prayers. An angel.

Foster him for us. Give him a chance to shine. We’ll help you and guide you along the way and we’ll support you in every way we can.

Fill out a foster application on our website at www.campchaosrescue.orgs