Rocky Mountain Cocker Rescue KS/MO Branch

28/10/2024

Meet Riley: A Senior in Need of a Final Forever Home and a Helping Hand

Our sweet and distinguished boy Riley has faced more upheaval than most could bear. At 12 years old, Riley’s journey has been long and full of heartache, yet his spirit remains as warm as ever. After being adopted once, his owner moved to Kansas, only to face life challenges that made keeping Riley impossible. Thankfully, Riley found his way to his foster mom, Regina, who has given him a loving home and companionship with her gentle Cavalier King Charles Spaniels. However, Riley’s story isn’t over yet—he’s in need of a quiet forever home and help with essential veterinary care.

Riley needs a peaceful, stable environment with low-key fur friends or as an only pet, where he can finally settle in for his golden years. He's a snuggler and has a loving, loyal heart—truly a one-person kind of pup who deserves all the affection he gives so freely.

WE NEED YOUR HELP! Riley’s adoption fee is reduced, but the medical expenses required to ensure his quality of life have already exceeded $400. Your contribution can make a world of difference for Riley, covering costs and helping him find a home where he can finally live the life he deserves.

Please consider sponsoring Riley’s care or, even better, opening your heart and home to this loving senior pup. Every bit helps, and together, we can give Riley the peace and happiness he’s been waiting for.

To donate or learn more about adopting Riley, please click here: https://rockymountaincockerrescue.org/dog/riley-3/

Let’s make sure Riley’s journey ends in the loving home he’s waited for!

18/09/2024

Perfect family reunion over Labor Day weekend 2024 with the Newberry fur children! Aren't they A.D.O.R.A.B.L.E. ?!?!?!

This is Mama Lady (aka formerly mama Tinker) posing with her here are Josie (aka formerly Gypsy) and Mr Darcy (aka formerly Fenian). We had a litter of four that all had Irish Gypsy names.

This gorgeous bunch or red heads were fostered by the Newberry family and several of the adoptions of this litter remained in the same family!

I just love these post adoption life photos, don't you?

Share some of your adopted/rescued RMCR puppers photos here in the comments

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Rocky Mountain Cocker Rescue KS/MO Branch

Closing thoughts? The best way to adopt the love of your life is to become a foster home for RMCR!

31/08/2024

~ Please share ~

Check out this precious soul Miss TINSEL (a.k.a. Miss Tenpenny)! She is a gorgeous chocolate and tan Cocker girl with white chest markings who is only 9 months old! Tinsel was surrendered from a breeder closure in western Kansas to RMCR CO. She is a spitfire with a sassy and funny personality who has a significant head start on her house manners and training. Tinsel is extremely smart and learns so fast!

Tinsel was recently in to see the vet and she was sick with a virus and had to rest and recuperate before we could move forward with her spay surgery and updating her basic vetting. Tinsel's expenses approached $400 for her care. This included her spay surgery, medications needed, bloodwork, testing and microchip.


If you can help sponsor some of Tinsel's veterinary care expenses please tag her web link below & share a little love for her care:
https://rockymountaincockerrescue.org/dog/tinsel/

Rocky Mountain Cocker Rescue KS/MO Branch
Rocky Mountain Cocker Rescue

Tinsel will remain in Recovery Room until cleared for adoption. ***Foster home plans to adopt. Woof! My name is

04/08/2024

*** UPDATE ***
We have cleared expenses for the ! Now if we can keep up sharing and a couple more weeks of donations and we should get close to clearing the expenses for the other 8 that came in last weekend too!!
THANK YOU SO MUCH those of you who immediately tagged on to this post and shared and donated! You are
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More than 13 dogs came into care this weekend alone! These surrenders came in from Kansas, Missouri, Colorado, Utah, and New Mexico! FIVE STATES!!!

Our team works diligently to say "yes we can help" as much as possible but it takes dedicated foster homes and it takes M.O.N.E.Y. We are riding the line on vetting expenses and need to issue a plea for help from rescue supporters, dog lovers, and anyone who can spare a little to help these kiddos get to their forever homes successfully.

That means we have a LOT of vetting to get squared away before that can happen. They all need spayed or neutered, baseline bloodwork to confirm health status, a couple of the boys need cherry eye corrective surgery, f***l and heartworm checks and we got them all microchipped. You would be amazed at the cost per dog!

The cost on the high end is upwards of $900 for the boys who need the additional cherry eye surgery, and on the low end $600 per dog that does not need anything outside the standard care expectation pending lab work results.

We recently had no choice but to raise adoption fees to $450 for dogs 2 years old and under, and seniors raised to $200 in an attempt to recuperate some expenses. But as you can see the adoption fees only cover barely half on the medical case needs and still don't cover the healthy dog intake standard vetting costs.
We've set a goal to raise $3,000 for this intake group of 5 puppers that originated in Kansas (listed below). Any overage will be applied to the other 8 dogs that came in this weekend as well.

Times are hard and things are tough for everyone, but if you can open your heart to these sweet faces and share a little it goes a very long way to helping the next intake request we receive.

Thank you all for following Rocky Mountain Cocker Rescue and Rocky Mountain Cocker Rescue KS/MO Branch
We will always go the extra mile and we appreciate your support because we know you have your heart in this too! Thank you for supporting this cause!

Sponsor/Donate for ARCHIE:
https://rockymountaincockerrescue.org/dog/archie-3/
Sponsor/Donate for CONFETTI:
https://rockymountaincockerrescue.org/dog/confetti/
Sponsor/Donate for BO:
https://rockymountaincockerrescue.org/dog/bo-2/
Sponsor/Donate for DEXTER:
https://rockymountaincockerrescue.org/dog/dexter/
Sponsor/Donate for RAGNAR "RAGS:
https://rockymountaincockerrescue.org/dog/rags/

Transportation/fuel costs (Near $300) were donated for this group of five dogs by our volunteer drivers. A huge shout out of my BFF Sara from Colorado who met me halfway!

11/04/2024

Early last month, I flew to southeast MO to get two dogs from a woman beginning the first steps of leaving an abusive relationship. The owner had much sadness, “this hurts, but I know I’m doing the right them for them.” My mom decided to travel with me and it was a great road trip home - another memory! Although we spent quite a bit of our own money (flying with just two days notice), getting the dogs quickly was necessary. One of the pooches has already found her forever home. “Sandy” is a beautiful buff prominent identifying freckles on her nose.

THIS is a reminder of why I (and a dedicated team of other volunteers) ❤️ what we do!

26/02/2024

Hi KANSAS and MISSOURI COCKER FRIENDS:
We did not renew our KS and MO animal rescue licenses in Sept 2023 due to the lack of volunteers, but we hear you now. Informational meetings will begin in the Spring, so please don't let us down. Please go to our website and fill out an application to be a FOSTER or a VOLUNTEER today!

HOW DOES FOSTERING WORK?
ALL the details can be found on our website, but what's important is WE ASK approved fosters to choose the dog THEY WANT to foster; we don't just show up on your doorstep at midnight... or 5am.

After your phone interview and home passes our safety check, your email address is added to the FOSTER TEAM group. When a cocker-like dog knocks on our door asking for help, we email a picture, if provided, and the type of environment the dog needs, e.g., must be the only dog, no children, dog is not potty-trained, and whoever replies the fastest and has the right environment is the winner. THEN we show up on your doorstep (not really).

Rocky Mountain Cocker Rescue

21/02/2024

Former foster boy Dingo geared up and ready to go on a hike!


Thank you Tracy and Heidi for loving this senior boy!

07/02/2024

Thank you this morning to Josh & Meg Reilly, and Kaylene Bird KS/MO volunteers and Brody from Winding River Kennel Staff in KCMO! A special thanks to Jane Hart who helped Kaylene all day Monday with the vet appts!
You all made this transfer for these lovely souls to get aboard Hope for Paws Colorado and headed to their new lives this morning!

It takes a village!


Rocky Mountain Cocker Rescue

06/02/2024

More than $3,400 in the red right now for these poor Missouri rescue Cockers and a couple of Poodles.

Kansas and Missouri volunteers and supporters please share this link to help us raise the needed funds to get these previous souls on their way to rehab, recovery, and finding their forever loves for Valentine's 2024!

Donate to help fund the costs of rescuing 7 cockers (3-8 yrs) and 2 seniors plus 2 poodles (3 yrs).

03/02/2024

~ VOLUNTEER(s) NEEDED ~

We have 11 scared puppy mill rescues that are traveling through that we need pit stop and reload volunteer help.

We need 2 volunteers if possible. Requirements are:

1. Dog savvy and knowledge of dog handling scared mill dogs! Not afraid to get dirty! Experience transporting for other shelters is a plus.

2. Available Wednesday, February 7th from 700am to 900am window.

3. Location (KCMO) will be disclosed once volunteers are confirmed. They will be at a local KCMO kennel.

More details once you visit with MiChielle Cooper
Please call her at 620.340.2749 to discuss.

We will need to load these fur kids up that Wednesday morning 2/7/24 to catch their ride on the Hope For Paws Colorado transport to Denver to get settled with some of our experienced rescue foster moms and dads.

If you are knowledgeable with this type of mill dog and rescue transport please let us know if you can help.

*(Photo shot is just a past picture of mill dogs we've moved to rescue)*

13/01/2024

Dingo #23121 happily adopted on January 6th by Tracy & Heidi K! Thank you both for opening your heart and home to our superstar senior he has been a pupper.
Now he's a in Nebraska !!
Happiest New Year yet!

02/01/2024

Thank you to the Studer family, the Otero family and the Aschi families for helping to stock up our foster dog food supplies for Christmas! We so appreciate you, and the loving support you lend to our foster dogs!

Please PM us here on this page or to MiChielle Cooper if we can provide you with an in kind gift receipt for your records.

Thank you again for your support ~ Your love for these beautiful foster furkids is PRICELESS!

25/12/2023

Lucy Lu #23096~ still ALL energetic, ornery puppy! About 1 year old and seeking her love match.

Lucy Lu really enjoys the company of her Cocker Spaniel friends, and loves to run! She is wicked fast and with proper training could possibly learn agility competition events!

She is house trained, and crate trained. Lucy has only had boo-boo's in the house when the weather is rainy and muddy or when her world gets off-kilter in a new situation where she is learning the new routine.

Lucy is a snuggler who loves both dudes and dudettes! Lol

Please visit the website Www.RockyMountainCockerRescue.org and complete an application today. If you are already pre-approved or an alumni adopter please email [email protected] for more details.

25/12/2023

Merry Christmas Greetings to All!

11/10/2023

https://mailchi.mp/rockymountaincockerrescue/cocker-news-september-15-1911230?fbclid=IwAR0to-HcuHt0zSFQRuHXEAWthPH1pwKS0Q7hFPNSe66QvdNbSJt3WntzIfQ

06/10/2023

30/08/2023

Happy Adoption to the Darcy Dailey family!
Our little Miss Pixie K has found her love match with her new dog mama Darcy and her dog daddio Doug Dailey!

You can see from some of the "before" photos the lil' Pixie was in pretty horrible shape with her skin and coat. So matted and overgrown with hardened p**p that her skin could not breathe and she had a terrible skin infection. She got bathed, groomed and medicated with her foster mama MiChielle Cooper in KS. That rest and recuperation time formed a true bond, and Pixie learned how wonderful it is to be a real member of a family.

The Dailey's are continuing their family tradition of as this is their 3rd Adoption of a Cocker Spaniel girl! Recently, their lovely Maggie Moo passed away so we know Miss Pix will be a healing balm to that hole in their hearts and she will be an uplifting friend to her new dog sissy Minnie Moo who is now 15 years old.

Thanks to the Dailey Family ~ We know Pixie and Minnie Moo are greatly loved.

Rocky Mountain Cocker Rescue KS/MO Branch
Rocky Mountain Cocker Rescue