Puppy Love Maternity Rescue

06/28/2025

Poppy and I visited with “Kristina”, the manager of Theresa's Country Feed & Pet Store here in Simi today. We were picking up their donation of food and supplies to our rescue. We were able to send a huge load home to Bakersfield with Jessica Greenberg and her daughter Eden. Jessica’s will get it to the people fostering pups and moms in Bakersfield and saving lives. We are so grateful for Theresas Country Feed & Pet Store ‘s consistent support of rescue and foster dogs in less fortunate areas… Thank you everyone at Theresa's Country Feed & Pet

06/18/2025

Just one little Guardian mix puppy left looking for his home. This guy is going to be big and is super sweet. He even knows how to sit!
He says please excuse his dirty face he was snoozing in the sand. This four and a half month old puppy is up to date on vaccines, loves kids, is a mellow but playful puppy looking for his forever family.
Please share so he gets one.

06/18/2025

Even old dogs some times get lucky 💕

Old man Charlie was rescued from a high kill shelter with two other old men chihuahuas right before their date of being put to sleep. I figured he would never get a home, there aren’t many people looking for an old chihuahua with no teeth.

Yesterday he got his home with long term friends who take care of the puppy hacienda when Angi is away on late night school days.
Charlie will be heading to Canada in three weeks to spend the rest of his life in the arms of a young girl who fell in love with him. ♥️ Linden has a new friend and Charlie will be spoiled with so much love.

06/10/2025

***PLEASE SHARE!****
Poppy is looking for a foster or forever home after she is spayed at the end of June. This 2-3 year old terrier mix was a maternity rescue from euthanasia. She’s raised her pups, and is ready to meet her new person:

We are looking for a special person who would appreciate a bonded dog who loves to snuggle. She’s potty trained, crate trained, leash trained, great in the car. She is incredibly connected to her humans and wants someone to spend time with her. She wants to be your only dog, good with kids 5 and up, and would be a wonderful companion for somebody.
She can climb chain link fence, and dig under barriers so she comes with her own 6x10 dog run, specially fit for her. She only thinks about leaving to go find her people, but we need to keep her safe in her run when her people are busy.
She is adored by all who meet her, but we will be very selective who she goes to. She will be spayed at the end of the month, then she would love to meet you!

06/10/2025

Update on Poppy:
She’s doing great and healing quickly after being attacked by other dogs. She’s a happy girl who would love to find the right home to foster her, or even adopt her!
We are looking for a special person who would appreciate a bonded dog who loves to snuggle. She’s potty trained, crate trained, leash trained, great in the car. She is incredibly connected to her humans and wants someone to spend time with her. She wants to be your only dog, good with kids 5 and up, and would be a wonderful companion for somebody.
She can climb chain link fence, and dig under barriers so she comes with her own 6x10 dog run, specially fit for her. She only thinks about leaving to go find her people, but we need to keep her safe in her run when her people are busy.
She is adored by all who meet her, but we will be very selective who she goes to. She will be spayed at the end of the month, then she would love to meet you!

05/25/2025

10-day old puppy dropped off at shelter alone. Was going to be euthanized. Angi is fostering and bottle feeding every 2 hours around the clock until this little one can be flown up north to another rescue group who have a place for it. Surely this was her first time at a brewery! Hopefully she has many more outings in her future!!

05/25/2025

Thank you, Cayla- our amazing volunteer, friend and adopter-
She created this fundraiser to help us pay Poppy’s vet bills, and to get her a kennel we can place on cement so this never happens to her again!

Help Us Keep Mama Dogs Safe – Donate Today! Puppy Love Maternity Rescue, … Cayla Swift needs your support for Raise the Run, Save a Mom: Help Poppy Today!

05/24/2025

All of us will feel better seeing our Poppy this morning! Her bright, cute self again…

05/24/2025

EDIT: My human ER Trauma doc friend has only seen this type of injury 1 time in a bicyclist- it has a name! “Morel-Lavallee Leison”. Interesting!!

GRAPHIC PICTURES
DONT open if you don’t want to see medical stuff-
As a trauma RN, I have seen a lot of stuff, and emergency medicine is something I truly admire. I posted about Poppy yesterday, and how she got mauled; the outside visible injuries were nothing compared to the internal damage. When a dog/coyote/predator wants to kill an animal it goes for the neck, and then shakes it. Poppy had a laceration on her neck, but when she was under anesthesia they were able to assess that the skin around her neck all the way over her shoulders and down her back is DETACHED from her body!!! OMG! This is unfamiliar to me…
She had surgery to place drains, close multiple lacerations and clean her up. My dearest thanks to the entire staff at Valley Vet who took us in on an emergency basis, and stayed late to take care of Poppy. Dr Catila, a 29 year vet and a former RN herself, put Poppy back together. She is my hero, and works with Dr Novy.
Poppy got into this trouble by doing the unthinkable. No one could have anticipated she would find a way to dig under and into a kennel with 2 big dogs- why would she do that??? All involved feel terrible, but we will-and are- caring for our loving Poppy.
As a rescue, when we take on these dogs they are our responsibility, come what may.
Our vet bill for yesterday was almost $2,000.00. We stay prepared for emergencies, but this hit us hard. We are so grateful for any donations for the vet bill…
Thank you for your support of our mission and our journey helping dogs…

05/23/2025

Not only do we rescue puppies, we rescue moms. POPPY is one of our most special moms- we have waited to promote her until she was spayed, but she is keeping us on our toes! ANOTHER VET VISIT TODAY- POPPY dug out of her kennel and into her neighbor’s, who are a large mom and daughter duo who don’t take kindly to attitude. Although Poppy is only 30lbs, she has the heart and soul of a “big dog”, and she got beaten up pretty badly…Very sad!
Apparently she learned to “submit” before too much injury was inflicted, but she needs help getting multiple wounds closed.
Dr Catila at Dr Novy’s office (he’s out of town) graciously said “yes, bring her in. We will take care of her”. She is already overbooked for the day, could have told us to go to the ER, but she opened the clinic and her heart to Poppy.
Poppy will have to be put under general anesthesia to evaluate and close all her wounds.
We are incurring vet bills and also trying to help big litters (see other post from today), so if anyone wants to support our work, today would be a good day…🥹
VENMO: (Cathryn Doody-me)
Zelle: [email protected]
Thank you!!

05/23/2025

EDIT: we were asked how people can help- we could use donated funds to buy vaccines for these puppies (they need 18) and other puppies like them:
VENMO (Cathryn Doody-me)

This:
9 severely neglected and abandoned puppies were taken in by our friend in Bakersfield, Kritina Jacober. She is just a Good Samaritan who is trying to help. They would be quickly euthanized if taken to shelter due to their condition.
It appears that starvation and worm infestation are what they are suffering- so far none are ill, amazingly.
Although we can’t take into PLMR as we are full, we will absolutely help here.
Kristina has wormed them, is feeding them. We will send vaccines, have sent food, and we will support how we can.
This group of puppies will rebound, we believe. Puppies are resilient if saved in the nick of time!
We have offered to hold an adoption event for this family once their quarantine is up and they are vaccinated.
Keep watching our posts for some miraculous changes, and a puppy debut mid June!!!