Rescue4All

08/21/2026

All of this

08/10/2026

This is Dude aka Dude the Pood aka Dude the megaesophagus Doodle 🫶

This month marks 4 years that Dude has been with R4A, he is thriving and doing amazing! He is happy, smart, super silly, super funny, and he submissive grins and fake sneezes when he was attention from me. He is a very easily managed ME case and I’m super grateful that Amie was working the day he was brought in and sent me a text to see if I would pull him.

In August of 2022 he was 8 months old, matted, and emaciated and brought into a local shelter to be euthanized by the same unethical POS backyard breeder who bred him.

The people who originally purchased him at just a couple months old, returned to him because they were unwilling to learn how to manage his megaesophagus condition that the breeder did not disclose. The breeder that same afternoon brought him directly to the shelter to be euthanized because they didn’t want him and he wasn’t worth any money 😡

We have taken in 4️⃣4️⃣ megaesophagus dogs and what I will say is that they are no different than any other dog they just have to eat differently.

Megaesophagus is not a death sentence and for most dogs it is manageable. Every mega dog is different and needs a different consistency of food and duration of time being vertical.

We’ve had dogs that were so severe they needed an external feeding tube called a PEG tube and we’ve also had easy to manage cases like Dude.

What I will say is that every mega dog deserves the chance of a full life, despite being brought into this world by people who deemed them worthless because they couldn’t sell them.

Stop buying puppies from unethical breeders.

Any breeder who has bred dogs who produced one megaesophagus puppy and didn’t immediately sterilize both parents, and ensure that every puppy that they have ever produced with either parent is also sterilized is a piece of s**t, unethical, breeder. PERIOD.

Any breeder who continues to breed under any of those circumstances is a piece of s**t, unethical breeder. PERIOD.

FULL STOP.

08/08/2026

Start the day with p**p scooping after a herd of foster dogs and you end up saving a little juvenile baby bird. 🫶

This little youngin is so lucky that he was loud and he screamed when someone was trying to attack him (like we all should) because I turned around, ran, and was able to grab him before anything bad happened. 🙌

He has some flight feathers, but he doesn’t have all of them so he’s young likely just got booted out of the nest because he can “fly”, but when they are this young, they can’t get much height and can’t go very far 😔

I took him outside the fence where I know that there are other birds like him. I made sure he wasn’t hurt and he perched on my finger for a minute then flew all of 3 feet at just a few inches off the ground over to where the other birds were.

Just another day in the life 🫶

08/06/2026

60+ Lost, Injured, Displaced Animals. 100+ Hours of Overtime. SpokAnimal Was The One Local Shelter That Didn't Wait to Be Asked.

Here is the best way you can help them:

I spent time at today and what I witnessed was our community at its best. People showing up with donations, people who have lost everything coming in for help, everyone just wanting to do whatever they can for the animals and for each other.

Since Saturday, SpokAnimal has taken in 60+ dogs and cats on top of the animals already in their care, animals that ran from the fire, got separated from their families in the chaos, and showed up injured and scared with no way to tell anyone where they belonged. SpokAnimal is the bridge between right now and the moment those families find their animals again, and they stepped into that role without hesitation because that is exactly who they are.

Every animal coming through their doors is being cared for. Their in-house vet clinic and veterinary staff are working around the clock, and for the animals with injuries beyond what they can handle internally, SpokAnimal is sending them to Pet Emergency Clinic and Hunter's and absorbing every one of those costs themselves. Their entire staff has been all hands on deck since the fires started because they know that is what this moment requires, and collectively they have logged over 100 hours of overtime. The in-house vet care, the outside emergency vet bills, the overtime, the cost of housing and caring for 60+ additional animals, none of this was in their budget, and all of it landed on them at once.

The food and supply donations have been incredible and SpokAnimal is so grateful for every single one of them, but they have more than enough and will be distributing the surplus to other organizations and people impacted by the fire.

What they need most right now is money, plain and simple, because when the fires are out and the donation drives wind down, the monumental financial impact of everything they took on to help could leave a lasting effect on what they are able to do in the future. I have known their Executive Director Dori since 2009 when I first started volunteering in animal welfare, and I can tell you that the reason SpokAnimal responded the way they did is because helping is not something they do, it is something they are. Please, let's raise as much as we can for the one local shelter that never hesitated for a moment to open their doors when our community needed someone the most.

Every single dollar adds up. Even if you can't donate please share and maybe someone who can will 🤞

👉 Donate to the fundraiser here or on Instagram 🤘
👉 Donate at www.spokanimal.org
👉 I am helping to get Venmo and PayPal set up so that's coming soon!!

On Sunday my good friend is coming here from Tri-Cities and we are going to introduce you to some of their adoptable animals 🎉

08/05/2026

Please share

Our state is burning. These organizations are helping the animals and their families in the Eastern Washington wildfires, or are on call for tactical animal rescue during disasters like these. Right now, what they need most is cash support so they can step in where it's needed most. Please consider donating to:

💙 SpokAnimal || https://checkout.shelterluv.com/donate/spok

💚 Team Okanogan Animal Rescue || https://givebutter.com/TOAR

💙 Washington State Animal Response Team (WASART) || https://wasart.org/donate/

💚 Wenatchee Valley Humane Society || https://www.wenatcheehumane.org/helptoday

💙 HEART Spokane || https://www.heartofspokane.org/donate

Our deepest condolences go out to all of the families, communities, and animals impacted by the wildfires. You are our neighbors, and we are grieving with you. Thank you to everyone who has stepped in to help, all the first responders, and the firefighters battling this enormous blaze.

Community takes care of one another. If you know other rescues and organizations impacted by the wildfires, please tag them below so we can help connect them to the support they need.

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📸 Pictured: TOAR volunteer, Jason Buchanan, delivering pet food and supplies to help support pets and families during the fires. Shared with permission.

07/31/2026

This is A Hill I Will Die On:

Any person who has ever intentionally chosen to bring a dog into their home and then allowed that dog to become their lowest priority, the very last thing on their list and the first thing they stop making time for, that is the person I'm talking about.

Remember quarantine during the pandemic? Remember that feeling of becoming stir crazy?
That is their dog's entire life.

No walks, no activity, no mental stimulation, no real engagement with anything in the world, just the same home and yard within the prison property lines, everything they've already memorized, living in boredom, their own version of the movie Groundhog Day, all while having physical and mental energy that needs to be burned off. But they are just expected to sit down, lay down, be calm, be quiet, and not be a problem, and then the second a behavior shows up, somehow the dog is the problem.

The reactivity, the aggression, the anxiety, the destruction, none of that came out of nowhere, and anyone who says it did isn't being honest with themselves, because dogs are wired to move, to work, to use their bodies and their minds, and that's not a personality type or a preference, it's biology, and when someone spends years ignoring that, the dog pays for it in ways those people would rather not look at too closely.

I can't tell you how many of the dogs you see here were blamed for behaviors that were solely because of people, behaviors directly caused by a lack of exercise and a lack of mental stimulation and all well within the ability of their prior people to address, and those people chose to ignore what their dog needed because they "didn't want to," they "didn't have time," they "were going to dinner with friends," and what it comes down to is they just didn't want to and they didn't care.

Because ultimately they didn't get their dog thinking, how am I going to make my dog's life the best it can be, or how am I going to improve their life?

They got their dog for their own selfish reasons, and when their dog needed what dogs need it was easier to get rid of the dog than to hold themselves accountable, step up, and do what they should've done from day one and do it every single day, not because they're obligated to, but because it's what their dogs need and it's what they should want to do.

Instead, on the rare occasion they feel like it or the guilt piles up, they pull their dog out of the yard like a backpack for a weekend activity, put a leash on them expecting them to act perfectly for the once a month adventure walk they decided counted as being a “good dog owner.”

Meanwhile the dog is taking in as much freedom as they can because who knows when they will get a taste of it again, acting like they have never been anywhere before, and their person acts genuinely shocked and is frustrated when the dog couldn’t be perfect, and those people should not have a dog.

That is a hill I will die on, every day and twice on Sundays.

Dogs Deserve Better!

07/27/2026

Just your typical Sunday evening with a herd of foster dogs living their best life 🫶

I personally HATE the word “owner” when it comes to our animals. I rarely, if ever, use it and when I do it’s not by choice it’s because it’s standard practice in the world.

Referring to us as their “owners” reduces them to being property, something you possess, an inanimate object that does not have an internal life, feelings, or a way to communicate, no different than a couch.

And there are a lot of people out there who put in the same amount of effort and thought as if they were only a couch.

Pick them out solely based on how they look, keep them in their house, use them when they feel like it and when they don’t like something about them or they have to move they get rid of them and get a new one.

Instead, I wholeheartedly believe the closest word that embodies what our role is and should be with them is “parent.”

Not the BS “pet parent” and “fur baby” that minimizes dogs into the equivalent of helpless toys.

The real version, the way good parents raise good kids: making sure they are eating well, getting enough sleep, teaching what they don’t know, advocating for them, preparing them for a big world that isn’t always gentle, leading and guiding them, setting fair expectations, knowing that one poor choice doesn’t define them, giving them clear and consistent boundaries, teaching and giving respect, telling them no, catching them doing something right and saying great job, valuing and accepting them for who they are at their core, investing in our relationship with them to help them become the best version of who they are capable of becoming, and making sure they are safe, loved, and cared for until they take their last breath.

That’s what our dogs, really all all animals, deserve.