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Miko's Rescue Mission Inc. We rescue pitbulls with ‘behavioral issues’ from high-kill shelters across LA and San Bernardino Counties. Miko’s Rescue Mission: Save More Pitbulls!

We save the ones no one else is coming for, the dogs that just need to be given a chance.

02/23/2025

We typically post updates in our stories just FYI….

The current foster has agreed to stick with her commitment of fostering JB (which is why he is still with her and she posts regular updates that we share to our stories…)

02/19/2025

Kane & Athena! As you know m, they have ongoing skin issues and their previous owners neglected their care for a long time. I’m fostering them on behalf of another rescue who will then transfer them up to them or to another rescue, depending on what the best and most realistic option is for them.❤️❤️

02/06/2025

Little Miss Riley Rue is loving life in her forever home! It was such an easy transition for her, she did so well on transport and is loving her new Mama (and the snow!). Here she’s wearing her dog brother’s sweater, such a cutie! Happy life sweet girl 🥰🥳🐾

02/06/2025

I’m sharing conversation in question with …. I would appreciate it if you would please speak to me directly for clarification before just assuming the worst, thank you.

Jan, let me know if you have any solid foster offers and send them my way, the foster application is in our bio

If you prefer to find a new rescue for him since you clearly don’t trust me and think I am a bad person, then I am happy to do a rescue-to-rescue transfer as long as I screen the rescue myself as well, thanks.

Like I said, I am always transparent, even when that brings a s**tstorm of hate and accusations my way. At the end of the day, Jingle Bells is the priority. So if the drama and hate towards me helps to bring the right person forward who will actually commit to him and adapt to meet his needs, that’s all that matters. He deserves his furever home as soon as possible, just like every dog who survives euthanasia. 🙏🏽

02/06/2025

APPLY TO FOSTER ONE OF OUR PITTIES!!! So far we STILL have not received a single new foster application for JB today?!! WTF EVERYONE!

Please keep sharing, Jingle Bells needs a foster home ASAP and if ZERO people are stepping up to apply, what should be our next step?!

Is there another rescue who would like to take JB on instead? I’m sure all the other reputable rescues out there are brimming to the top with foster offers, so please just reach out if you are a rescue who has a foster home for JB!!!

Like I’ve said, talk s**t about me that’s fine, I can handle it. BUT FOCUS ON THE DOGS AND HELPING TO FIND A SAVVY FOSTER HOME for each dog!!!

02/05/2025

Jingle Bells was with his temporary foster through Sunday and then I picked him up. That night he slept in the bathroom so he didn’t need to be in a crate, as per the temporary foster, he didn’t want to be in it.

The next day I transported the other half of the dogs to our temporary spot, and had to put a crate in the bathroom, so I moved JB into my car to sleep so he didn’t have to be crated. At night he sleeps inside the crate (albeit takes a bit for him to calm down and fall asleep).

Instead of having to keep him crated, during the last few days I have let him sleep in my (car which is parked in front of our Airbnb door). Someone DMed asking how is is doing and I told them this and now all hell has broken loose.

YES HE NEEDS A LONGTERM FOSTER OR ADOPTER! Please help by encouraging people to put in an application and help me network him! The 4 foster offers he’s had are not a good fit (including someone who was willing but is also terrified of pitbulls…) so help us!!

02/04/2025

Riley’s new Mama travelled to pick her up from transport today and they made their way to Miss Riley Rue’s new home!! 🥳🥳🥳🥳

Thank you to everyone who was involved with saving Riley from Devore after she was confiscated from a hoarding case from fake rescue woofy acres who had originally pulled her from Harbor Shelter!

Thank you to for providing an Angel Grant to assist with Riley’s immediate vetting and necessities!

When we place a dog into their furever home, we go through a multiple application process, virtual home check, background check, as well as establishing an open and honest line of communication with me directly to ensure a successful placement.

Will post more pics and updates, as I’m sure her mama will too! Will share once she does!❤️

(I always respect the adopter’s right to privacy and wont share their page unless they choose to share their own IG personally!)

01/31/2025

Just FYI that yesterday and again today I am driving back and forth from Lancaster to Joshua Tree (3 hours each way in the desert with spotty cell service) because we are moving.
I will post and share more videos and updates of Jingle Bells once I am done moving. This is a lot to do by myself so please understand I need to focus on this because I was supposed to be out of our current spot on Tuesday but it's taken a lot longer than planned to pack up and transport everyone and everything
I am the only one who manages and posts on our IG page, and so please just be patient, thanks. HE STILL NEEDS A FOSTER HOME!! See latest post on his requirements (only animal home needed)

01/31/2025

🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳WELCOME JINGLE BELLS AKA JB TO MIKO'S RESCUE MISSION!!!

‼️🚨Our guy needs a LONGTERM FOSTER HOME ASAP!!!‼️🚨 He only has a 1-night foster for tonight only!!! 🚨🚨 Foster Application is in our bio! Please SHARE!!!

Donations--Here's How to Honor Your Pledges:

PayPal/Venmo:

Zelle: 805-209-7820

MikosRescueMission.org/Donate

Videos to come soon! Thank you so much to this community!!🥳

01/27/2025

Did someone say SNOW DAY?!?!! ☃️❄️🌨️

01/19/2025

Thank you for our travel crates to have prepped in the event of an evacuation!! Plus several large bags of dog food & cans of wet food!! 👏❤️ THANK YOU SO MUCH!!

01/16/2025

We are safe from the fires, and I want to make sure I am fully prepared in the case of any type of evacuation or emergency (especially something that’s short-notice).

We are getting hardshell plastic travel crates sponsored by which I am so so grateful for!! 🙌

Now we need to get the rest of our Amazon Wishlist “Emergency Preparedness” items ordered or gifted to us— Shop Now link in bio & stories!!

Thank you so much for helping ensure we are prepared for an emergency so all the dogs can be transported safely! I’m the event of needing to evacuate, I’d have to go rent a U-Haul truck, so having everything else on-hand and ready to go is crucial in these situations. Thanks again❤️❤️❤️

Even if you can’t purchase an item, you can send an Amazon Gift Card in any amount, even $5 helps us reach our goal of getting these items purchased ASAP!

Amazon Wishlist Link in Bio! “Emergency Preparedness”

You can also donate directly via Venmo, PayPal, Zelle, or on our website!

PayPal/Venmo:
Zelle: 805-209-7820 or [email protected]
Website: MikosRescueMission.org

01/16/2025

Here are our ADOPTED DOGS who all found furever homes in 2024: Reno, Kai (fka John), Phoenix, and Cháto!🥳🤩

Also featured in this post is our sweet Guardian Angel boy Ant who passed away too soon. He is my furever baby and I have his ashes here at home with me🙏🏽

01/14/2025

Last but not least, these two!! Miss Riley Rue has a foster-to-adopt home lined up in Colorado, the timing for transport and funds and weather and life events has just not worked together lately, so she is staying with me until all things align and we can safely get her transported!

Muneca, oh Muni Muni… this girl is wonderful and a handful lol. She needs a very savvy handler with experience using humane training methods before I would ever consider allowing her to be fostered or adopted. Unfortunately, this is sometimes the reality with dogs who need more care, training, and someone who will stay on top of supervising their dog. She’s a great dog, and also very high energy, and has a tendency to bite when she is overstimulated. For the foreseeable future, Muneca is listed as “Unadoptable” and will be living with me longterm. I guess in a sense she will be my 5th dog lol. 😁

01/14/2025

These two babies I’m fostering on behalf of ! Athena and Kane are siblings from different litters and were neglected and have severe skin issues. They’ve been on meds and getting all the food and water they need to heal and recover! Soon they will be ready to head up to Canada where their rescue will help them begin a new life! ❤️

These dogs were saved through the efforts of , , and 🙏🏽

01/13/2025

Meet our Foster Dogs who are Available for Adoption!!!! (Will update caption shortly)

01/13/2025

Meet Baya, Sancho, and Abby aka Abigail! These 3 babies are my personal dogs as well as Miko!! All three were saved from Harbor Shelter in San Pedro.

Baya was fka Belle was in and out of the shelter a couple of times in her short 1 year of life when she was red-listed and set to die at the end of March 2024. I had been looking to adopt a 2nd dog because Miko was ready to regularly interact with a dog, and I wanted to be able to grow my skillset as a dog guardian and handler.

I knew since May 2023 that I planned to start “Miko’s Rescue Mission”, so fast forward to a year later and baby Baya was the first official dog we saved with help from and ! Baya got her freedom ride from and that’s how I met Marina too!

Sancho was completely unexpected as someone else ‘adopted’ him from the shelter with no plan and no intention of keeping him, he had been surrendered the month before for getting into a dog fight with other dogs in his old home, so he was going to be euthanized.

I decided to take him in under our rescue. He is somewhat mute (doesn’t really bark but is not deaf), and it was a perfect match for Miko who is sensitive to hearing dogs bark… that’s how the Brother Bears came to be!!! 🥰🥰

Then little miss Abby….I was made aware of her at the end of April 2024 but did not have the capacity to back her under our rescue. Then in May she was adopted for 4 days and then returned for not being cat-friendly and that fast-tracked her to the euthanasia list; myself & kept a close eye on her because we were desperate to save her sweet life. When her euth date arrived, I drove out there to save her, and of course I fell in love with her immediately. I waited for a month to ensure a good fit before making her my personal dog🙏🏽

My 4 babies are very wild in their own ways, which is partly why I knew it would be hard to place them into a home, but also they all fit in so well together—the two sissies are best friends to each other—Miko adores his sisters & bro—Sancho is scared of everything & everyone but is brave when Mama is around🥰

Next is the foster dogs! ➡️➡️➡️

01/13/2025

Next up, my babies, my Miko!! ❤️❤️❤️❤️

When I adopted Miko in November 2022 from East Valley Shelter in Van Nuys, it was one month after I left an emotionally abusive relationship and had to leave my 2 American Bully dogs behind with my ex (my Royal and King). So I needed my own companion and the second I saw Miko’s face posted on IG from a volunteer’s page, I just knew he was my soul dog. I didn’t plan to adopt a dog that weekend, but I knew I wanted my own dog in the near future, so I adjusted and pivoted when I saw Miko’s pic and just knew he was my baby.

Adopting him led me on a wild journey of raising the most loving boy who has a lot of special needs. Miko had severe separation anxiety, sound sensitivity, and animal reactivity/dog selectiveness and those were all things I didn’t even know existed at the time—my previous dogs had no special behavioral needs so I was definitely in over my head when I adopted Miko.

I had to learn so many new skills and chose to utilize the training rationale and methodologies rooted in acknowledging Miko as a sentient being who deserves autonomy and compassion in his life. I quickly opted out of harsher training methods and began working with first on separation anxiety desensitization and then on reactivity. We have both come such a long way, and we of course have further to go! For now I am ‘okay’ where we’re at in managing everything, Miko is so resilient!! And he loves to be around his siblings (in a safe, structured, and closely-supervised manner)🙏🏽

Now head over to the next post to meet Miko’s 3 siblings, Baya, Sancho, and Abby aka Abigail! 🥰🥰🥰

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I’M BEGGING FOR YOUR HELP PLEASE 😭😭😭😭 ‼️🚨FULL TRANSPARENCY: We’re really struggling financially guys. These dogs need things that we cannot currently pay for 😭 Flea/Tick/Heartworm meds, transport costs, paid home boarding, our monthly rent and electricity bill, food/treats, toys, and more. I’m not working much right now and I also cannot afford to buy food for myself currently 😭💔 it’s not about me though, I’m doing okay and figuring it out day by day. But that is just an example of what kind of financial limit I am facing right now. PLEASE, I’M BEGGING YOU to set up a monthly recurring donation to help the pitties of Miko’s Rescue Mission Inc. on an ongoing basis! We are a 501c3 so your donations are tax-deductible! Even $5 a month makes a difference! Also, if you know of any businesses or corporations who may be interested in making a large financial contribution, please let me know or ask them to sponsor us! Thank you for your ongoing support of these beautiful pitbulls, I know you all love them as much as I do, and I’m just so grateful for your support to help keep a roof over their head and food in their bellies and help get them all the things they need to continue to thrive! To make a one-time donation, go to MikosRescueMission.org/donate To set up a monthly donation, please go to MikosRescueMission.org/become-a-monthly-donor You can also donate on Venmo or PayPal, our username is mikosrescuemission Another way to donate is on GoFundMe! We have a couple of fundraisers on there so far, one for Chato’s home boarding bill and one to help us replenish costs from Muni & Rocky’s ER visits from August (link in bio) THANK YOU FROM THE BOTTOM OF MY HEART. Your financial support is what allows us to keep going! 🙏🏽🥹🥰

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