Chain of Hope (2024)

08/12/2024

We have taken in 6 new kittens the past 3 days.

3 of which came from a literal house of horrors for cats. They were hoarded with their 60+ other relatives. This is an ongoing investigation but, we had to show our three little survivors. Rocky, orange and white boy, has been touch and go. Covered in 100’s of fleas and malnourished. He has been getting fluids and lots of love at our foster Jillian’s house. We are thankful to her and her family for keeping a very close eye on him!

Thank you to all the rescuers involved. There are many more cats that need pulled and rescued, if you can intake any adult cats please reach out so we can connect you with the right people! Thank you to Renee and Rachel from Heart of America Humane Society for working the logistics and housing the cats being pulled!

If you’d like to donate towards Rocky and his siblings care, please click the link below!

07/12/2024

Happening today at the Liberty location and tomorrow at Lee's Summit! We have kitties at both locations! Don’t want to adopt right now? You can still go spend time with the cats!

07/12/2024

Braden chose us for his Eagle Scout project and it was a HUGE success! His family, friends, & neighbors donated over 70 bags of food, treats, and toys! Thank you, Braden!!

06/12/2024

Just a little bit of clarification regarding KCPP for those that don’t know. There are currently two entities to their organization-the animal shelter side and the animal control side. They each have their own separate contracts with the city. They are both under the oversight of Neighborhood and Community Services. One contract can be cancelled or failed to be renewed without affecting the other’s contract.

We have always been supportive of the shelter side of things. We know who is doing the grunt work there and we understand the burden of caring for so many animals. The employees doing the day-to-day grind of caring for an overload of animals have got to be extremely frustrated at the flow of animals coming in. We get it. We have taken them some difficult medical cases as well over the years. We have always said that their medical team is top-notch.

The animal control side is an entirely different story and we think everyone is aware of this. Their policies, based on the Best Friends model, have not worked in the least in Kansas City. They have failed miserably. KCPP’s policies have left animals in danger-such as the puppy being stomped on (caught on video) and they did not take the puppy. Their policies have left animals in dire situations with no help by the very entity that is supposed to be helping them. It has returned animals to terrible situations because the owner always gets the benefit of the doubt. The animals of Kansas City need help and that will come with enforcement of the ordinances and holding negligent owners accountable by officers who will actually do that. The ordinances are there for a reason, not to be picked and chosen from or completely ignored altogether. We need enforcement and that is why KCPP is losing their contract. There are good ordinances already there on the books and they have not been being enforced.

The shelter side will remain. Animals impounded from animal services will still go to KCPP shelter. The mandatory spaying and neutering of pit bulls will be enforced and although we won’t be able to see the results of that right away, over time we will see it start to happen and the number of puppies being born will begin to slow down (seems like almost every litter out here has some pit bull in it), which means eventually the intake at the shelter will begin to slow. It will all take time. Things are an absolute mess out here right now and we all have our work cut out for us. At least we now have a chance to right KCPP’s wrongs. Thank you again for emailing and calling council!

05/12/2024

The Dog in the Camper

I received a call from someone asking me to go check on a couple of dogs that were being kept in a camper in an auto/tire fenced in "yard". She said they were tied up inside a camper, and the owners didn't even stay there. Some other compassionate people living on the property were having trouble getting food and water to one of the dogs because she was growling at them. She said the owners only came every 6 days or so. They said they had also called Kansas City Pet Project.

We were crazy busy, but we finally got over there. I was familiar with this place and had been here about a white German shepherd that had been hit by a car. It was kind of a salvage yard, tons of tires, different people staying there and several dogs on property. When I was here about the shepherd months back, some people were there that I recognized from a different address. They had had a black Cane Corso and a male, mixed breed dog. When I was at their previous place and offered them free spay/neuter for their dogs, they responded that they had bred her and she was pregnant. Of course, I tried to educate them, but I heard what I always hear: "Oh they already have homes, everyone wants one of them, they are all going to good homes." Yeah right. I told them we could not help them with anything and left.

When I was at this place months back about the shepherd, these same people were there at the "yard". They proudly told me that their dog had had 12 puppies. They told me they were staying in a camper on the yard. I really didn't care. I really didn't want anything to do with them. Yet, here they came, carrying some of the puppies and that is when I got the picture of them. It was all so sad and totally preventable but this was going to be their cash cow, I'm sure was the thinking.

So now we were here about those people's dogs. The caring people took us back to the camper. We had to walk pretty far to get to the distant end of the yard. I stepped inside the camper and I was horrified at what I saw. There was the female Cane Corso that I had seen in the summer.

This was just about one of the saddest things I've seen. The dog was tied up with a leash that was only 2 feet long and another leash that was about 6 feet long. She could not move out of her corner. She was totally shut down. She growled a little but mostly kept her head turned away from us. She was sitting in f***s and urine-it was everywhere. The stench was awful. There were lots of bowls and Styrofoam plates laying there that the caring people had been trying to feed and water her with. This was absolutely terrible and so inhumane.

I got food and water up to her. I asked Al to go get our bolt cutters and cut the short leash. The dog now could walk around and get out of the majority of the mess. We could see where the other dog had been, but everyone said they didn't know what happened to him. The people had taken all of her puppies and were selling them I was told. That left this poor, suffering dog sitting in a f***s filled camper, tied up on a 2 foot leash. How cruel.

It was then that the people told me that KCPP had already been there the day before! What? They saw this and left her here like we found her? How do you walk away and leave a dog, suffering like this? Apparently the owners happened to show up when KCPP was there and told KCPP that they were working with COH. What? We're not working with them. How about a call to verify that and you don't just leave this dog in a literal s**t hole? Does this look like someone we are working with? If we were working with them, things sure as hell wouldn't have been like this. Wow, KCPP came here and left this dog. They have the power and the authority to remove this dog. Chain of Hope does not. Shame on them for leaving her here like this for even one more minute, let alone 2 more days.

We stepped out of the camper to give her some space. She was very shy. We gave her a pig ear and told her help was coming. As we left, we could see her in the doorway which she had not been able to reach before. I had taken a lot of pictures and we left and I emailed KCPP animal control. I told them in the email that we understood they had been here the day before and left this dog and they needed to send someone back over here. They emailed back that they would.

I spoke with the owner of the lot and he told me that he had called KCPP and reported the dogs abandoned and gave them permission to go into the camper. He told them that he wanted the dogs removed, the people rarely even came there anymore and it was inhumane what they were doing to them. KCPP looked at this and left anyway. They so often give the benefit of the doubt to the owner and leave animals in inhumane situations. I waited around but finally had to leave. I asked one of the women living on the property to please let me know if KCPP showed up and gave her my number.

KCPP didn't show up until the next day and this time they impounded this dog-two days after they should have. She had to endure two more days than she should have had to, sitting in that filth, barely able to move.-waiting for help. I also wonder if they ever would've come back. They schedule follow-ups and we know for a fact that they often never go back. Thank God the citizen had called Chain of Hope too.

This girl went to KCPP and we understand that she is currently in a foster home. Shy, but doing well. Good for her!! She deserves all the best and her previous people deserve everything karma throws at them. It will most likely be the only consequences they receive.

KCMO City Officials:
Mayor Quinton Lucas
816-513-3500
[email protected]

City Manager Brian Platt
[email protected]
816-513-1408

Neighborhood and Community Services Director Forest Decker
Aide: Shannon Dooley
816-513-1445
[email protected]

Councilman Kevin O'Neill
[email protected]
Legislative Aide: Diana Radzevich 816-513-6503

Councilwoman Lindsay French
Legislative Aide: Lisa Minardi (816) 513-6507
[email protected]

Councilman Wes Rogers
[email protected]
Legislative Aide: Amy Justis (816) 513- 6509

Councilwoman Melissa Patterson Hazley
Executive Aide: Remy Abrought (816)513-6541
[email protected]
Legislative Aide: DJ Yearwood (816) 513-6511

Councilman Nathan Willet
Legislative Aide: Annie Williamson
[email protected]
(816) 513-6505

Councilman Eric Bunch
[email protected]
Legislative Aide: Marissa Iden 816-513-6517

Councilman Darrell Curls
Legislative Aide: Rita Berry (816) 513-6519
[email protected]

Mayor Pro-Tem Ryana Parks-Shaw
Executive Aide: Keema McCoy (816) 513-6521
[email protected]

Councilwoman Andrea Bough
Legislative Aide: Katrina Foster 816-513-6523
[email protected]

Councilman Johnathan Duncan
Legislative Aide: Madison Hays (816) 513-6525
[email protected]

Councilwoman Melissa Robinson
[email protected]
Legislative Aide: Lisa Ross, (816) 513-6513

Councilman Crispin Rea
Executive Aide: Araceli Magaña, 816-513-6515
[email protected]

04/12/2024

Looks Like KCMO Animal Control is Coming Back to the City!!!

While it is not official yet, we understand from multiple sources that animal control will be coming back to the city of KCMO! There will be an ordinance introduced next week by Councilwoman Melissa Patterson Hazley directing the city to take back animal control operations. It is our understanding that the majority, if not all, of council will be supporting this ordinance.

We don’t know the time frame, but we understand that KCPP animal control is running with only about 6 officers right now, so a timely turn-over is imperative. KCPP animal control is imploding and the city needs to step in asap. Of course, it’s a process to get everything switched over, but we don’t want to see this finally happening 6 months down the line. It needs to happen as soon as humanly possible-animals are in deep trouble out here.

Our deep, deep appreciation for all of you that emailed, made phone calls, shared our posts and kept the pressure on. We will always stand on the side of righteousness and what has been allowed to go on with regards to KCPP animal control has been abhorrent. The city has taken much, much too long to act but it looks like they are finally going to do something about this. It has been a long time coming and a long hard battle to keep exposing the failures of KCPP ac, showing the animals they have left behind in horrible situations and of course, now a fatality from a house with numerous previous complaints about the dogs that weren’t handled. It’s past time. It was a massively failed experiment and many animals have suffered and died unnecessarily, not to mention the countless KCMO citizens being extremely frustrated with the lack of resolution regarding animal issues in their neighborhood.

We look forward to working with the city animal control department again. We had some very good officers those last few years and we understand they are ready to come back. Hang on-help is on the way!

03/12/2024

Still at Least One Dog at the Dog Mauling House!

A month after Chris Culbertson was mauled to death by seven dogs, there still remains at least one dog at this house. We saw it last Friday, tied up in front of the house. I turned this into KCPP, along with the video of this dog. It is our understanding that KCPP did not even go to the address. We talked to the news today and they reiterated that they cannot get any records on this case, but it has apparently been turned over to the Prosecutor's office.

KCPP-Why are there ANY dogs remaining at this house where seven dogs killed a man? Why do these owners get to keep any dogs over here? That would be a great question for city council, as they are in a closed door meeting today regarding animal control. We will update as soon as we get more information.

KCMO City Officials:

Mayor Quinton Lucas
816-513-3500
[email protected]

City Manager Brian Platt
[email protected]
816-513-1408

Neighborhood and Community Services Director Forest Decker
Aide: Shannon Dooley
816-513-1445
[email protected]

Councilman Kevin O'Neill
[email protected]
Legislative Aide: Diana Radzevich 816-513-6503

Councilwoman Lindsay French
Legislative Aide: Lisa Minardi (816) 513-6507
[email protected]

Councilman Wes Rogers
[email protected]
Legislative Aide: Amy Justis (816) 513- 6509

Councilwoman Melissa Patterson Hazley
Executive Aide: Remy Abrought (816)513-6541
[email protected]
Legislative Aide: DJ Yearwood (816) 513-6511

Councilman Nathan Willet
Legislative Aide: Annie Williamson
[email protected]
(816) 513-6505

Councilman Eric Bunch
[email protected]
Legislative Aide: Marissa Iden 816-513-6517

Councilman Darrell Curls
Legislative Aide: Rita Berry (816) 513-6519
[email protected]

Mayor Pro-Tem Ryana Parks-Shaw
Executive Aide: Keema McCoy (816) 513-6521
[email protected]

Councilwoman Andrea Bough
Legislative Aide: Katrina Foster 816-513-6523
[email protected]

Councilman Johnathan Duncan
Legislative Aide: Madison Hays (816) 513-6525
[email protected]

Councilwoman Melissa Robinson
[email protected]
Legislative Aide: Lisa Ross, (816) 513-6513

Councilman Crispin Rea
Executive Aide: Araceli Magaña, 816-513-6515
[email protected]

03/12/2024

This Giving Tuesday, you have the chance to help transform the lives of animals in need.

At Chain of Hope, we are dedicated to rehabilitating and giving a second chance to animals who have suffered abuse, neglect, or injury. But we can't do it without your support. Your generous donation will directly fund essential medical care, food, and rehabilitation services for these deserving animals.

Every dollar you give will make a lasting impact on their journey to recovery and a forever home.

Here’s how you can help:

1. Donate Today – Every contribution counts, no matter how small.

https://www.venmo.com/u/Chainofhopekc

2. Spread the Word – Share our mission with your friends and family to help us reach more animal lovers like you.

Together, we can give these animals a better tomorrow. Your kindness today can change their lives forever.

02/12/2024

About a month ago we got a litter of stray kittens from a local cat rescuer. We got 3 and 2 more from the same house a few days later. Their foster named them Sugar, Cookie, Brownie, Candy, and Ginger.

We battled an upper respiratory infection for a couple weeks with Ginger and Brownie, Sugar came in with a bad limp, and Cookie and Candy were perfect, healthy kittens.

Sugar's limp morphed into her not being able to walk or stand up straight. Then, into a type of paralysis that took out her front legs and into her back, just over 48 hours. We did X-rays and tests but, no answers. We unfortunately had to euthanize her.

During this time, Ginger, was not a normal kitten. Just stared at the wall, didn’t play, didn’t purr. He came in with a wound, that was x-rayed and nothing. We attributed his general discomfort and grumpy mood to his upper respiratory infection..until it was no longer a factor. We gave him more time (and antibiotics) to pull him out of whatever he was in. Then, Brownie developed the same limp, body lameness, then paralysis that Sugar had.

Unfortunately, today we had to euthanize Brownie and Ginger. Brownie's diagnosis is unknown but, Ginger was diagnosed with bone cancer. We could see his bones not growing correctly and the cancer on X-rays of his lower body.

Sometimes it’s easy to feel extremely defeated in these circumstances. When you rescue more animals, you run the risk of losing more. BUT, Cookie and Candy both are healthy and playful babies! They are going to live the best lives with their siblings living through them. They are available at Sugar Kittens Cafe and Cattery. We are thankful to SK and we are thankful to our amazing foster JESSICA for giving these babies the best time earth side they could have. We are also thankful to Independence Animal Hospital for helping us try to save these babies.

All donations this month go towards our HOPE for the holidays campaign. With your donation we are able to try and save more kittens like these guys.

02/12/2024

Change some lives this Cyber Monday by purchasing some discounted items off our wishlists!

Chewy also lets you write a letter to Chewy Claus to request donations to pets in need. So, even if you cannot purchase off of our wish list, please fill that out for free to try and get us donations. Please message us for the address to mail it to as we do not like our address public for safety reasons.

Thank you!

We NEED cat food, dog food, dog kennels, dog treats

Chewy: https://www.chewy.com/g/chain-of-hope_b72777915 -list&wishlistsortby=PRICE_ASC

Chewy Claus: https://www.chewy.com/education/chewy-claus

Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/registry/wishlist/2U048RTHI18YC/ref=cm_sw_r_em_ip_wl_o_JPqpyb8PJPAVA

01/12/2024

Conway was adopted in 2018 by a couple from us. A few weeks ago he was found and brought to KCPP with a collar and leash. We connected with the owner who told us a relationship ended and her partner ended up with Conway. We left multiple messages and he was never reclaimed. Now he is searching for his forever home, again.

Can’t adopt? Thats ok, foster! Can’t foster? That’s ok, share this so Conway doesn’t have to spend Christmas in the shelter.

29/11/2024

Meet Hansel and Gretal!

These two were found yesterday and brought to us today. They are safe, warm, bathed and fed!

Thank you to Michael, for saving them from starving alone outside.

Until the end of December all donations go towards our HOPE for the holidays fundraising campaign! Help us help more dogs like Hansel and Gretal in 2025!

28/11/2024

Happy Thanksgiving from the Chain of Hope team! We are thankful for your continued support and dedication to seeing our mission come to fruition. Have a safe and happy holiday.

27/11/2024

‼️ HOPE for the Holiday’s Donation Campaign launches TODAY ‼️

2024 has brought in more medical, cruelty, and neglect cases than we have seen in previous years. We have spent over $175,000 in medical care for not only our shelter pets, but the animals of Kansas City.

We need your help.

Now through December 31st, ALL DONATIONS are matched up to $8,000 during our Hope for the Holidays fundraising campaign. We believe that with your support, we can meet our goal of raising $20,000 and create a community where every animal is valued and cared for.

DONATE, SHARE, and be the CHANGE this holiday season 🐾

25/11/2024

Chris's Death

Regarding the recent case of Chris Culbertson's death by seven dogs mauling him: According to the KC Star, there have been multiple complaints about the dogs at this house and nothing has been done by KCPP. I’m sure there will be criminal and civil cases stemming from this tragedy. KCPP will most likely be sued, as probably the city as well for contracting with an agency that for four years has had too many complaints to count about lack of enforcement, and the city has failed to act.
Whatever happens, will happen. All of those that are responsible should be held accountable. First and foremost, of course, the owner-but possibly others.

The only reason KCPP needed a warrant was because they allowed the dogs to go back into their yard! The dogs were on a public street, killing a man!! They should have all been impounded that night, right then-not put back into their yard. So sick and tired of hearing about KCPP having to “go get a warrant”, “can’t go on the property”-the dogs were right there mauling a man!! All you did was give the man time to dump these aggressive dogs, which is apparently exactly what he did and they started showing up in people’s backyards. In fact, three of them were in a citizen’s backyard and she had to call KCPP. Talk about a totally botched case. You were called out to assist KCPD because multiple dogs were killing a man and the dogs were not instantly impounded? Why? I’m sure that will be a question asked from an attorney down the line.

As the KC Star recently reported, “The ordinance also states that if a dog bites a person or other domestic animal, they are to be impounded immediately by the supervisor of animal health and public safety, and afterwards put down humanely. An animal that can’t be caught may be killed by the supervisor or police if no other means of capture is successful and if the animal continues to be a threat.”
But despite officials witnessing the pack of dogs attack Chris Culbertson, they did not confiscate the dogs, instead leaving them in their backyard after eventually getting them to back away by shooting one dog with a taser gun. Authorities didn’t return until the next day. According to Angela Culbertson, when police returned the next day with a warrant, only two of the dogs were left on the property and were apprehended. The homeowners, seven pit bulls and 15 puppies were gone."

The family probably already has a good attorney, and all of the facts, prior calls to this address, lack of enforcement will all come out. Ryan Johnson apparently went back to Wyoming. Just saying.

I’ve said since KCPP took over animal control and we saw how they were operating that it was going to take a tragedy for people to realize how horrible they have been. Now we have a fatality. A vibrant, happy man is dead. You guys aren’t the only ones that city council has not responded to. Only one councilperson, Crispin Rea, has replied to us wanting more information regarding KCPP animal control cases. The rest of them, including the mayor, have been totally silent. Well, you can’t ignore this now, Mr. Mayor and city council. What are you going to do about it? We won’t know because you refuse to respond. Shame on you for being representatives of the people of Kansas City and you do not respond to the failure of animal control, all of the numerous complaints coming in, and now a man is mauled to death by seven dogs. What now, Mr. Mayor? What do all of you have to say to Chris’s family? And yes, you need called out on this because you have done nothing about this, despite numerous, numerous complaints to your office regarding KCPP animal control that have gone ignored and unanswered.

Get this department back to the city. Unfortunately, it’s too late for Chris. This stupid experiment of privatizing animal control has been nothing but a joke. It has failed miserably and now a man is dead. Good job city council who voted to contract with KCPP for animal services. You all did not do your research and the review committee voted to reject KCPP’s bid in 2019 and you did it anyway. Some of you are still on the current council and you need to fix what you did. You handed this city a disaster and have had complaints for four years now and guess who has paid the price? The animals of Kansas City-just like they always do. And now Chris.

As of now, the recommendation by the review committee of the bid that came in will go to Council Committee on Tuesday, December 3rd, and then to full Council on Thursday December 5th for a vote. KCPP was the only entity who submitted a bid. We will keep you updated.

Peace will come for Chris’s family when justice is served to everyone responsible for his unnecessary, preventable death.

KCMO City Officials:
Mayor Quinton Lucas
816-513-3500
[email protected]

City Manager Brian Platt
[email protected]
816-513-1408

Neighborhood and Community Services Director Forest Decker
Aide: Shannon Dooley
816-513-1445
[email protected]

Councilman Kevin O'Neill
[email protected]
Legislative Aide: Diana Radzevich 816-513-6503

Councilwoman Lindsay French
Legislative Aide: Lisa Minardi (816) 513-6507
[email protected]

Councilman Wes Rogers
[email protected]
Legislative Aide: Amy Justis (816) 513- 6509

Councilwoman Melissa Patterson Hazley
Executive Aide: Remy Abrought (816)513-6541
[email protected]
Legislative Aide: DJ Yearwood (816) 513-6511

Councilman Nathan Willet
Legislative Aide: Annie Williamson
[email protected]
(816) 513-6505

Councilman Eric Bunch
[email protected]
Legislative Aide: Marissa Iden 816-513-6517

Councilman Darrell Curls
Legislative Aide: Rita Berry (816) 513-6519
[email protected]

Mayor Pro-Tem Ryana Parks-Shaw
Executive Aide: Keema McCoy (816) 513-6521
[email protected]

Councilwoman Andrea Bough
Legislative Aide: Katrina Foster 816-513-6523
[email protected]

Councilman Johnathan Duncan
Legislative Aide: Madison Hays (816) 513-6525
[email protected]

Councilwoman Melissa Robinson
[email protected]
Legislative Aide: Lisa Ross, (816) 513-6513

Councilman Crispin Rea
Executive Aide: Araceli Magaña, 816-513-6515
[email protected]

24/11/2024

Have a very Kevin Christmas!

Help us celebrate Kevin’s first Christmas in a real home by wearing his face this whole holiday season .

Purchase here: https://www.bonfire.com/store/chainofhopekc/?srsltid=AfmBOop50zKqwEFFQJZEMkeVJ3vMLVXLrJit1GR0te63QTys_RD61Wof

22/11/2024

Five for NOT freezing FRIDAY 🏡

Some kennels on amazon are on sale today for early Black Friday! Kennels are essential for bringing in dogs off the chain and indoors for the winter and moving dogs into foster homes.

There are igloos now on Amazon we could use. Any 42” or 48” wire kennel will do. Thank you!

https://www.amazon.com/registry/wishlist/2U048RTHI18YC/ref=cm_sw_r_em_ip_wl_o_JPqpyb8PJPAVA

21/11/2024

Support our local FERAL dogs and cats with this new merch drop!

Carlie approves, she was the inspiration behind this design.

White letters: https://www.bonfire.com/feral-white/?productType=bacf6cd6-b53d-469c-ab96-02afe5b15f71

Black letters: https://www.bonfire.com/feral160-3/

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