Valentine K9 Rescue

01/20/2025

Can anyone help our friends at Mayflower Animal Control and give sweet Calvin the opportunity to heal????? Contact original poster but if you can't reach then, do reach out to us and we'll get to you in touch.!

01/20/2025

Just sitting down for the first time in the last 5 days. It's been a whirlwind of very early mornings and super late nights. Just finished up a 3 day free spay neuter event in Russellville. Once again, the Jason Heigl Foundation has graciously helped another Arkansas community pay for much needed spay and neuter surgeries! We partnered with Community Cat Support Network who let us use their office and warehouse space to offer these services for the Russellville community and their pets.

The Heigls are amazing people and we are extremely appreciative of their continued support. This makes the 3rd time they have paid to offer these much needed services to central Arkansas. The only way to get ahead of this overpopulation and stray issue is to control the pet population. Our residents need an affordable option to have their pets spayed and neutered. It doesn't get any more affordable than free.

Thank you to all of my volunteers who stepped up to help take care of the 32 rescues at my home while I have been away these last several days. I am the sole caregiver for my rescues and being able to have someone help care for them while I've been away allows me to do these events for our residents who truly need these services. THANK YOU VOLUNTEERS!!!! You are all amazing selfless people.and I couldn't do this without you!! Pamela Jean Lunsford Kelly Nutt Jan Dring Sierra Parent Anna Eason Garner Charity Tarr

01/15/2025

UPDATE: FOUND!!!! YAY!!
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Sheridan, AR LOST DOG! Hwy 270 near Hardin/Whitehall. Be on the lookout for this pittie please. Super sweet. Lillie wandered off this morning after a deer. Please reach out to me if found. This is a very loved dog. Last seen in the area of Hwy 270 & Hwy 46 - that's the section of Hwy 270 that heads to White Hall.

01/14/2025

Can anyone foster 2 young puppies for about 2 weeks? Central Arkansas area.

01/14/2025

Help! Help needed at the rescue Wed, Thurs, Fri and Sat this week 1/15-1/18/25 while I am hosting a low cost spay neuter event in Russellville. Please reach out if you are available to help manage dogs, clean kennels and feed. The dogs go out 4 times a day and there are about 30 of them so it takes a few people each time - one to monitor them/poop scoop the yard and one to clean the kennels. I need some morning people especially. Reach out to me if you can help. We are in south Sheridan, AR off hwy 167 bypass headed out of Sheridan towards Fordyce.

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or instant message me.

01/14/2025

Update 1/19/25.... Im just going to ride it out and push through until transport. It didn't work out for the one person who volunteered to foster and no one else stepped up ....so at this point, I might as well just struggle through it. It's almost time for them to get health certificates and that means a vet appointment so it would be more of a hassle than a help at this point. Oh well.
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Central Arkansas- is anyone able to foster (2) 11 week old puppies until February 2nd? They are scheduled to go on transport February 3rd. Crate, playpen, washable potty pads, bowls and food....everything you need.

01/13/2025

Long hauler, Bridgette, is finally getting adopted! I don't want to jinx it or anything but her adopter is perfect for her, just perfect. She will have a fenced back yard and be the sole companion to her new mom who will be at home with her most of the time. I couldn't ask for better. Congratulations my darling Bridgette ❤️ You deserve everything good in life.

01/12/2025

Emma is doing great! She's healed from the ringworm and is happy and healthy now. Yay!

01/12/2025

Sheridan, AR - Yall I need some help. I have an out of town low cost spay neuter event this week and I need some volunteers to take care of my rescues while I'm away at the event. I need a couple of people here on Wednesday 1/15, Thursday 1/16, Friday 1/17 and Saturday 1/18. I need morning and afternoon people. I have about 32 indoor dogs that have to go out to the bathroom 4 times a day and kennels hosed and squeegee. There will be someone here with knowledge of the dogs to help and manage the process. Please reach out to me ASAP if you can help me next week. It's hard doing these events when you are the primary caregiver for all these dogs.

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Thank you!!

01/05/2025

Put a tarp over it after you're done so it won't leak from the rain.

Newsflash! An igloo dog house is NOT INSULATED. It will not protect your dog in these temperatures we are about to have. You can put straw or hay bales on the sides, back and roof for an insulating factor and to block wind. Face the opening to the east or southeast so the wind isn't blowing directly inside. While you can use hay or straw bales to construct the exterior, ONLY USE STRAW TO PUT INSIDE DOG HOUSES. DO NOT PUT GRASS HAY IN DOG HOUSES. Grass hay absorbs water and the animal will essentially be laying on a block of ice. Straw repels moisture.

Please protect your pet's! The National Weather Service has said pets exposed to this weather will likely perish. Help your neighbors and warn them as well. Please don't let these animals freeze! That's a cruel death.

01/05/2025

Central AR - Anyone that can foster for a week or two????....however long this freezing weather lasts. I think there's supposed to be two waves of this stuff coming through. Puppies & adults available for foster. Crate and supplies provided. Just need a warm place inside somewhere. I know the personality of all our dogs and would like to find temporary fosters for some of them immediately. I am helping another rescue by taking their outside dogs into my rescue during this cold spell. While we don't have any open kennels, I am determined to make it work. I'm not going to let all the dogs stay outside in this stuff. I hear it is going to be really bad. If I could get a couple of my dogs into foster, that would ease the burden just a little. I think i might have to split my kennels in two by installing a door panel in the middle on their current 8' kennel and keeping dogs more separated. The name of the game is to keep everyone safe until this passes and get them back to their rescue. I could never do it long term physically. No way. But temporarily....I'll tough it out to keep them safe. They will be ok in a 4'x4' kennel instead of 8'x4' temporarily.

Any temporary fosters that can help?? Please reach out to me. I could really use the help!

Sandy Valentine, [email protected]

01/04/2025

Gurdon, AR Be on the look out for this dog.

01/01/2025

Emma, Rudy's sister, is doing much better. She's healthy and feeling good now. I wish the same could have happened for Rudy or the one that I have not been able to get. :-(

01/01/2025

Missing you and thinking about you today Charlie. 💔

12/30/2024

Today is not going to be easy and will be filled with many tears....tears that started last night with that phone call....It's time to help Charlie over rainbow bridge. The thought of it sends me into a crying fit i can't control. Charlie is THE BEST dog ever! He's been the face of our rescue pretty much ever since he's been here.

Many of you will remember Charlie, the Mountain Feist senior that we saved 2 years ago from dodging and barely being hit by multiple bush hogs and vehicles on Hwy 167 near the Forest Tower Shell station. For a little more than a year now, Charlie has been living with an awesome foster, Frances Hendren Starnes. Charlie has been big brother to two cats and a Sh*tzu. He is the most loving dog and everyone in the neighborhood loves to visit with him during his walks in the community. Charlie unfortunately has had a host of health issues, some of which we only recently found out about....the big C word. His poor body is riddled with arthritis. The vet couldn't believe he was still functional and able to get up. He's had minimal challenges. We diagnosed him with heartworms soon after we saved him. He went through 1 of the 3 injections of Immiticide that are used to kill them. After the 1st injection, we didn't feel like he would survive another and instead have kept him on preventative. In the end, it's not the heartworms getting him, it's the cancer. It has metastasised from the liver to the lungs. He has had terrible diarrhea for a couple of months and his foster hasn't been able to get it under control with meds. I know he's probably miserable with such and upset gut. Not being able to easily get up any more....panting from struggling to get up and simply walk....

This is the part of rescue I absolutely hate. I love this dog so so much. I don't know what his life was like before but, I know what it's been the last 2.5 years.....it's been nothing less than wonderful, especially this last year and a half that he's been with his wonderful foster. She has taken him on regular walks in their neighborhood and he has lived like a king. His best friend is her cat.

Today my heart is broken but I know we will all die. With life comes the certainty of death....

Still....my heart hurts and my eyes are swollen with huge tears. It doesn't hurt any less knowing that I have to be the one to make that decision to end his life. This never gets any easier.

I love you Charlie!

12/21/2024

Thanks everybody. We didnt know if the vet was going to be able to treat him at home but he did a farm call instead of us bringing him in. Seems it is a digestive/food issue and not something serious. I was worried though he was having really watery diarrhea and obviously has for several days now and I didn't catch it early. He's been very sick. Doc floated his teeth which were in pretty bad shape and said that should help. He got tubed and some gastro meds administered. I wiki watch him a few days to make sure he's getting back to himself. He's in the pasture still groggy but coming around from the tranquilizers.
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Anyone in Sheridan, AR area have a horse trailer I can borrow today to take my horse to the vet in Hot Springs? He's sick.

12/20/2024

Update: The vet says she has ringworm and giardia. Parvo negative!! We got some meds and hopefully she will good as new in a couple of weeks. By then she will have gained some weight too. She got a nice warm bath tonight with a topical ringworm shampoo and got her ears cleaned. She's smelling good and looking so much better. She's a screamer like Rudy. I think they must have been locked in a cage with no food and water, probably in their own f***s and urine I would imagine. She is scared to death to be in a crate. She panics and starts biting the wires of the crate. She screams until I pick her up. She's all of about 7 weeks old. What puppy have you ever seen at that age who is literally terrified of a crate? All she wants is me to hold her. Yea....something bad happened to her when it comes to crates. I had to let her cry herself to sleep. 😪😴

Thank you to everyone who has donated to help them. It has helped a lot!!

I think I'm going to name her Remi.
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So I was able to get a littermate sister of Rudy's last night. Apparently Rudy came from a dog fighter breeder that lives a block or so away from a friend. There is one other that is alive that I don't have and they won't give him up. The sister i obtained last night is in similar condition to Rudy less the eye issue. She is pooping bloody stool so I'm getting her to the vet for an exam. I have 2 other pups from a different litter that haven't been in contact with Rudy or his sister and those 2 pups are having bloody diarrhea too. I'm afraid of parvo. Hoping it's just Coccidia or Campylobacter....something curable. Prayers and good vibes needed please. 🙏 My heart can't take another loss. I'm still sitting here crying right now looking at Rudy's videos. My heart is just shattered. I have to get these others well. I need to get that last puppy.