Expert Pet Rescue Services

20/10/2024

Was cleaning out my car and found an iPhone under my passenger seat. Unknown how long it has been there but this is the screen saver. Does anyone recognize??

19/10/2024

Got tagged in this dog today. Drove to port Charlotte and set up trap with beam on it. Left there at 540pm and at 8 pm dog was safe. Thank god.

13/10/2024

So I caught Truman last night and did a happy post, but now the whole truth comes out. A post was made the morning of the hurricane stating that the adopter and I abandoned him for the hurricane. Well that was not true but we did have to evacuate from the area. So we got him staying in the high spot of the neighborhood , we left a camera to watch him and the neighbor stayed so we had food being put out for him.
The amount of hate messages I got from that post was awful. Telling me I’m a sh*tty trapper because I abandoned the dog and telling me I’m a heartless piece of sh** and how could I do that. This is all for about four hours before the hurricane , so instead of worrying about my own dogs and getting my house prepared I’m in tears reading these messages People are so cruel.
Then we go to the amount of people that kept wanting to come and catch him by hand and saying just take cookies and he’ll walk right up to you and all this stuff. If it was that easy, do you not think I would not have done that? People that are not trappers have no idea what all goes into trapping. If all dogs could be caught by hand and would just come up to you, there would be no need for trappers. And there must be a need because I get about 10 calls a day to trap. In this case, volunteers kept wanting to come and try to catch him. I had to fight to the very end to not get people to come. They don’t understand that I was so close and building my own bond with him that people come and chase him and it sets it right back to square one. I always use the analogy, if you hire a plumber, do you go under the sink with him and you don’t have other plumbers come and try to do the plumbing with him. Well, it’s the same with a trapper. Let them do what they do if they need help they will reach out.  i had to literally repeat myself nine times with people to not come, to the point I got kind of nasty and then they tell me oh my God you’re so nasty. Well, I wasn’t being nasty and I was trying to be nice, but that didn’t work so I thought maybe being nasty would make you not want to send people or not come. Lol. 
Again, I know I have mentioned not doing this anymore and I’m telling you every time something like this happens, it just keeps pushing me that way more and more. But I must say I am pretty good with the snappy snare because most people would’ve not been able to do what I did last night with Truman. I just had to get that off my chest because it was so awful.

13/10/2024

Truman was adopted and on 10-6 he escaped. He didn’t leave the neighborhood and kept coming back to the house like he knew he lived there. He would sleep in the yard, he would sleep in the driveway and he would actually bark at the owner to be fed. So I started helping them on Monday and the poor dog had to be out there for the hurricane. It was awful and it was so hard to not catch him before the hurricane, but we made sure he was as safe as we could.  I went back up the day after the hurricane and set up the enclosure and tonight I caught him. Not in the enclosure though, but I led him into the backyard of the neighbors with the adopters other dog, and I actually snappy snared him. Thank God he’s safe and thank God he survived the hurricane. Have a happy life Truman

28/09/2024

Lori Briggs

19/09/2024

Please remember to order your dog some awesome cookies this month from Rescue Dogs Love Treats. During this month I get a portion of the proceeds which will help me keep rescuing these poor animals.

14/09/2024

I got some dog treats yesterday from Rescue Dogs Love Treats. My dogs loved them and couldn’t get enough. Please order your treats this month to help support us to continue rescue these lost pups. Homemade treats made with love.

08/09/2024

Don’t forget to get your dogs some good home made treats and support a local business and also help support your local trapper in bringing more fur babies home

Rescue Dogs Love Treats

01/09/2024

So I have been asked more than once how I got started trapping animals. Well here you go.

It all started 19 years ago. I was a Detroit police officer working at the Crime Scene Unit. When I was driving around the city, I would see the enormous amount of stray dogs that the city of Detroit had. I would start feeding some of these stray dogs and work on getting them into rescue. I would go to Detroit on my days off and catch the dogs and drive them to the rescues. in 2017 I retired from the police department and went to work for animal control. In 2019 I moved to Cape Coral Florida. It was hard getting started in dog trapping because no one knew who I was and they didn’t trust me. It took about a year for me to start having people trust me to trap animals and now I get calls from all over the state of Florida. I get called by dog owners, police, rescues and also animal shelters to trap animals. I have traveled to Daytona Beach, Ocala, Miami and pretty much every side of the state. Sometimes I work some easy cases, but it seems like I mostly get super challenging ones. Dogs that have been out for a long time or dogs that other people have tried to catch and have messed it up or dogs that just will not go in a trap. But I do my best to succeed. As of today’s date, I have caught 1233 lost animals and strays. I do not charge a fee for doing this, but I do ask for donations. Most of the time if I get anything, it is not much. It is not even close to covering my expenses, which are gas, food for the animals, equipment, vehicle, and vehicle maintenance. There are times I feel I can’t afford to do this anymore but then I see the face of the animal that is lost and I feel I have to help.

So that sums up how it all got started.

31/08/2024

Thank you my friend

28/08/2024

26/08/2024

Happy national doggy day

16/08/2024

I don’t believe in signs all the time but sometimes I do. I was just talking about stopping doing rescue and yesterday I drove a puppy to Rescue Garage and after I dropped the puppy off my serpentine belt broke on the side of the road. I had to get a ride home and go back this morning to get the car to a shop. $600 and some dollars later for two belts on a car I bought just for rescue. So this week alone I got four new tires and two belts so looking at around $1200 spent on the rescue vehicle. I drive way too much and can’t keep doing this with only some donations. Maybe it is a sign.