Maddie's Dog Rescue

25/04/2025

Melly, Manny and Danny got their freedom ride yesterday from the Cotulla animal control shelter; with the help of our friends at Jackson Brush Puppy Rescue based in Pearsall.  Today we will transport them to San Antonio to their rescue placement💕🙏💕.

24/04/2025

We helped rescue Auster yesterday.

Please donate to Charming Pet Rescue for Auster’s care💕🙏💕.

23/04/2025

Today these 6 precious dogs were rescued & transported to their rescue placements!

We pulled Nibblet, Ada, Sage & Auster from the Cotulla animal control shelter; a very rural high kill shelter. This shelter has little to no resources and unless a handful of us reach out to try to get them out of the shelter, they have little to no chance of survival. Ada appears to have a yeast infection and possibly mange, her little rump is in bad shape. Auster has several open wounds, and his eyes have turned blue from a possible tick borne disease. He would have surely died, had he not been rescued today. Thank you to Charming Pet Rescue for taking all of these dogs; we know they will be well cared for and adopted into safe and loving homes.

Remi and Jack were found a strays in a San Antonio neighborhood and were taken in by a rescue advocate who primarily helps to rescue cats. While in her care, she fully vetted them, including spay and neuter, and today they went to our rescue partners at Hay Dude Critter Rescue.

The never-ending story of dogs in need of help. Help us help them by making a donation to help us continue this very important work called rescue💕🙏💕.

23/04/2025

We get asked to help dogs every day and because we have built a strong network of rescue partners & rescue advocates we are able to help many of these dogs find rescue placement. The cute little Pac Man pack from San Antonio was placed with Texas Chihuahua. Oreo & Bandit were found in Crystal City and needed vet care. With no funds we were unable to help, but we did direct them to another rescue that was able to take them and get them the vet care they desperately needed💕🙏💕.

22/04/2025

We started the week helping to rescue these three tiny Chihuahuas that were picked up as strays in Hondo, Texas. We work closely with this shelter, and when they reached out for help last week, we were able to secure placement for Leanor, Wixen & Zoella with Charming Pet Rescue in Boerne. They are now safe and being cared for until they are adopted.

Our biggest expense in helping to rescue dogs is transport cost. Filling up the gas tank as we travel across the region, helping to rescue dogs from shelters, transporting them to fosters, getting them to the vet, getting them to our rescue partners, or on transport to leave Texas. We have several more dogs we will be transporting this week and ask for you to join our rescue team by donating to help us cover our transport costs. Any amount is appreciated, because it all adds up💕🙏💕.

21/04/2025

Short week prior to Easter, but we were able to help get these 5 precious dogs out of area shelters and into rescue. All possible as we worked with The Buddy Foundation, Tracy’s Paws Rescue & Charming Pet Rescue💕🙏💕.

15/04/2025

This…

Legal Hoarding.That’s what the no-kill movement has created.

Rescues and shelters across America are hoarding dogs — and calling it “saving.”
• When dogs live 24/7 in small wire kennels with maybe an hour of freedom a day — that’s hoarding.
• When foster homes are stacked with 20+ dogs in crates for months on end — that’s hoarding.
• When dogs are pulled from shelters only to sit in boarding for months or years — that’s not rescue. That’s just hoarding.
• Warehousing dogs for months or years in crates, kennels, or runs with no quality of life?

That’s legal hoarding.

Just because a dog is out of the shelter doesn’t mean the dog is safe.
A kennel is still a kennel — whether it’s at the city shelter or behind a rescue’s name.

It might be legal, but it’s not ethical.
And it’s definitely not rescue.

The no-kill movement started with good intentions — but somewhere along the way, it became:

Save them all… at any cost.
And the cost? Is being paid in lives.
• Healthy, adoptable dogs are dying in shelters because foster homes are full of unadoptable dogs.
• Mediocre dogs are being warehoused for years in the hope someone might adopt them one day.
• And in the meantime, countless others die — dogs who could have actually had a chance.

If a dog has been in a shelter or boarding for more than a few months, it’s time to reevaluate. Warehousing Is inhumane.

We have to stop confusing prolonged survival with quality of life.
We have to stop calling this rescue.

14/04/2025

Last week we helped 34 dogs into rescue. It’s heartbreaking that there are so many dogs that need help and we can’t help them all. But we are grateful we could help save these precious dogs💕🙏💕.

NOTE: Nena, Pepe, Pablo need a rescue tag. Holly is available for adoption.

08/04/2025

Sometimes our days get so busy we don’t get a chance to post our rescue dogs, but these are dogs we helped into rescue last week.

GRIFFIN came to us from the Hondo animal control shelter. Griffin was quickly adopted through our rescue partners at Charming Pet Rescue.

RED was  found wandering the streets of Uvalde, TX and held safe over night, until we could get him to the animal control shelter. Red was rescued by Flights to Furever.

WINNIE was owner, surrendered by us elderly woman who could no longer care for her. She came to us from Crystal City. Winnie was quickly adopted through our rescue partners at Charming Pet Rescue.

COOPER ALLEN owner surrendered by a young woman in San Antonio who could no longer care for him. Cooper Allen was quickly adopted through our rescue partners at Charming Pet Rescue.

VAL & SKY I have been at the Castroville animal control shelter for several months and we had been trying to find a placement for them. We were finally able to get them placed with Charming Pet Rescue.

NOVA & GHOST were owner surrender to the Hondo animal control shelter after their elderly owner was diagnosed with a terminal illness and could no longer care for them. Both were placed with Charming Pet Rescue.

we are just chipping away at the problem that exists in the animal rescue world. Please help us do more by volunteering to foster with your local rescue programs💕🙏💕.

08/04/2025

When we got notified of a bitty boy with an injured leg, we knew we had to help; we have a soft heart for the broken ones, the ones many rescues cannot help. We were ready to work through a process to determine the issue with his leg; but Texas Chihuahua agreed to take Aiden and his litter mate Ada and we knew they would do everything possible to help Aiden. Praying for the perfect family to adopt our boy💕🙏💕.

07/04/2025

So proud to be part of the rescue network that helps rescue dogs in the Eagle Pass/Maverick County area. We so appreciate Sandy Tovar, founder of The Buddy Foundation who works tirelessly to be a voice for the animals in her community💕🙏💕.

07/04/2025

🙏🙏DONATIONS NEEDED🙏🙏

CashApp: $maddiesdogrescue

Billy is either a littermate or the son of W***y, the beautiful dog that we lost this weekend. They are part of a group of six dogs that came from the same location and W***y was the only one that did not make it. The four females have all been adopted, and these two were the last ones that we would not give up on, as they were a little nippy, bitey and very scared.

We took Billy to the vet this morning, and even the vet is not sure exactly what happened to W***y, but from what we were able to share with the vet, she believes it might’ve been a stress induced trauma that affected the kidneys and lead to his death. Billy tested negative for Giardia, had a negative f***l and basically appears that his biggest challenge is that he is underweight.

Billy weighs about 5 pounds and is on the road to recovery and will be with us for a minimum of two weeks quarantine while we nurse him back to a better weight and help him to become more trusting. Please become one of Billy’s rescue team and donate whatever amount you can to help us with his vetting and care💕🙏💕.

06/04/2025

Working together we save more dogs! Everybody doing what they can, as they can; making it all come together for great outcomes for the dogs💕🙏💕.

06/04/2025

We help as many large breed dogs as we possibly can, but they are harder to place. So no, we don’t just take smalls & scruffies; but we can’t take a dog we can’t help. We want to save them all, but we are realistic enough to know we can’t💕🙏💕.

06/04/2025

RIP W***y😢.

We brought him home on Thursday, though he was afraid and trying to bite, we couldn’t give up on him. We wanted to work with him and try to give him a chance at a safe & loving home. But this morning he was laying quietly in his crate and we knew he was dying; and there was nothing we could do, but love him. We’re sorry we were to late to save you Willie; fly high sweet boy💕🙏💕.

28/03/2025

Happy days; Jilly has been adopted by the sweetest family & moving to Del Rio💕🎉💕