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It's been 2 years this month since Tender Heart was founded. To celebrate we are doing a*R**A**F**F**L**E* For a YETI 45...
12/07/2025

It's been 2 years this month since Tender Heart was founded. To celebrate we are doing a

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For a YETI 45 COOLER with accessories!!!!

More details in the c0mm3nts.

💥 NOW HIRING 💥 ROTISSERIE CHIMKEN PICKERExperience and education requirements:💥 Minimum 10 years experience and bachelor...
02/07/2025

💥 NOW HIRING 💥

ROTISSERIE CHIMKEN PICKER

Experience and education requirements:

💥 Minimum 10 years experience and bachelor's degree in fine arts, philosophy, anthropology, communications or some other degree you don't use. 💥

Applicant must possess the following attributes:

💥 Pays close attention to detail
(No bones missed in the final product - see photo #5)

💥 Picks the bones totally clean
(See photo # 4 - If you have ever heard "there's so much meat left," when you were eating wings with friends/family.....NEED NOT APPLY)

💥 Must not cave to peer pressure
(See photo #2)

💥 Is reliable
(The dogs depend on you for their chimken - see photo #2 again)

💥 Doesn't eat the chicken while 'pickin' the chicken. (See photo #1)

💰 COMPENSATION - having the dog who was growling and lunging at you eat out of your hand. (See middle photo/photo #3) 💰

Making great progress with this girl.

"Did we just become BEST FRIENDS?"

-step brothers

Wow!!! The last week+ at the rescue was a whirlwind!! By far the busiest yet!  I welcomed all 5 of these babes in just a...
01/07/2025

Wow!!! The last week+ at the rescue was a whirlwind!! By far the busiest yet! I welcomed all 5 of these babes in just a few days with no idea how I would do it. I just did it. (one of which was found as stray by an individual who wasn't reclaimed).

When a normal conversation takes a wild turn and becomes an emergency to get one of the dogs out before she doesn't get the chance to leave….. you just figure it out then hope for the best once you know they are all safe with you.

While everyone was preparing for the mega adoption, I was building kennels and rallying for some help for labor to get them done quickly.

Decompressing and learning how to dog for 3 of these guys will take lots of patience, love and money. Training, special dietary needs, neuter & (4) gastropexy surgeries, HW treatments for 3 of them, prevention, food, bowls, beds, meds, enrichment toys, outdoor fans to keep them cool when they're in their runs while getting fresh air to help heal from kennel cough and to stretch when they can't be out in the play yard.

Taking in this many dogs at once will not be easy. Cowboy and Moomoo are severely malnourished and require multiple feedings per day and supplements/puppy formula.

(Future FHO surgeries for the girls to be fundraised at a later date after ortho consults).

I am BEGGING for some help with wishlist items and monetary donations to help cover their needs.

I can only do this with the support of the shelter, its volunteers and supporters of the refuge. It certainly takes a village and I'm having to learn how to ask for help.

The hard dogs come here.

They deserved a chance.

Please help give them the best quality of life together with me after leaving the loud shelter behind.

Thank you to Allison Abbott for meeting me with Gramps to get him to his new family.

Thankful for Rachelle Stiffler for transporting all 3 large breed dogs to the refuge and for helping to get them acclimated and familiar with their new surroundings and me as their handler. You're nothing short of amazing to these misunderstood wild child doggos. I appreciate your help more than you know.

🎶 one of these things are not like the other 🎶 🤣🤣🤣 Gramps is the odd man out!

27/06/2025

Exactly, 1 year ago today, I pulled my first dog from Jax ACPS, Cruz. Cruz' story is one that I can't make a lot of sense of as it seems he came into the shelter at least THREE different times.

Once, when he was a puppy back in 2016 only weighing 17 lbs, and another time in 2021 for several months at around 42 lbs, and his last and final time as a senior dog at 8 years old in, 2023, where he stayed nearly a year until he was 9 years old weighing approximately 50lbs, before being deemed "rescue only," and wasn't going to make it out alive without a rescue stepping up to save him.

Tender Heart enters the chat.

I was contacted by a dear friend, Steve Smedley, who someone had asked if he knew of a rescue that could help. After speaking with multiple volunteers who were desperate to save Cruz without any hope of another rescue stepping up, I contacted the shelter to find out how I could place a hold to save him.

Cruz' story is one for the books. It wasn't easy. The coordination of the rescue pull itself was messy. There were too many people involved. There was at least 9 hours of conversation and coordinating just the first day. This taught me so much. This pull prepared me for what to expect moving forward. It was exhausting and all-consuming. In hindsight this was nothing close to being the hardest one. Matter of fact, it turned out to be the least complicated despite all of the challenges it presented.

Volunteers with good intentions whose hearts were in it, weren't thinking clearly through their emotions. The “do whatever it takes to get him out,” came with deceit, frustration and much stress. Nevertheless, they meant well, and saving Cruz was all that mattered to them, and they made that happen. There were lots of hiccups over the next several weeks, but it all worked out.

Cruz had been deemed to be dog aggressive, and needed to be in an "only dog" home. His foster listened to instructions on proper decompressing, keeping him separated from other dogs at home and in public (muzzle training), and I am happy to report he is thriving in a home with 4 other dogs without incident. Once fully decompressed and while keeping everyone separated, but within sight and smell of each other, the adopter contacted a trainer to work with her to integrate him into her pack.

Cruz was failed over and over again by humans and almost lost his life because of their mistakes and irresponsibility, until reaching rescue. Shelters and rescues have very different abilities. When the 2 of us can work together knowing those differences and playing on each other's positive attributes, more animals WILL be saved and leave the shelter life behind, forever, to become the healthiest and happiest versions of themselves and be placed into loving forever homes. You see, once a shelter transfers ownership over to a rescue, the rescue takes that dog back if ever they find themselves stray or surrendered again. This ensures that the shelter never has to house this dog again, like in so many cases like Cruz’, 3 times for long extended stays adding to the overcrowding and the expenses of their medical and care, not to mention the added stress on the dogs creating negative behavior and at times, additional medical issues.

1 year and 13 dogs later, I am proud to say how impressive the dedication of so many of the ACPS volunteers and many of the shelter employees is. You all are doing some amazing work. Dogs that deserve a chance at a wonderful life after being abandoned or abused are rallied behind and pulled to safety because of you all! You know who all of you are that have been an integral part of getting these 13 dogs out over the last 12 months. I look forward to continuing to work with such a great group to save more of the ones no one else wants or knows how to handle in the future.

Happy 1 year Pet Placement Partnership between Tender Heart Animal Retreat & Refuge, Inc., and Jax ACPS.

Meet PRINCESS JAX!!!Do you love the comforts of home?So does Princess Jax!Do you love to snuggle? What a co-ink-ie d**k,...
24/06/2025

Meet PRINCESS JAX!!!

Do you love the comforts of home?

So does Princess Jax!

Do you love to snuggle?

What a co-ink-ie d**k, so does Princess Jax!

Do you long for companionship that doesn't think you need to put some makeup on or get out of your pajamas before lunchtime?

Have I got just the companion for you, PRINCESS JAX!

This 8 year 65lb luvbug is SO ready for her forever HOME!!!

She deserves that.

Qualities she exudes:

🐾 Laid back lady

🐾 Lazy days

🐾 Loves walks OR just being in the backyard

🐾 Very friendly

🐾 Loves stuffies

🐾 Sleeps all night

🐾 Crate trained

🐾 House broken

🐾 Dogs & Cats okay after slow introduction

A mature senior girl so deserving of all that life has to give. After being in the shelter for so long, she is looking for the perfect place to land!

Does your home sound like it needs Princess Jax to complete it?

If you're interested in meeting her, please contact Tender Heart Animal Retreat & Refuge, Inc.

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Please help keep these 2 sweet kitter-cats out of the shelter. The owners daughter is desperately looking to find them a...
21/06/2025

Please help keep these 2 sweet kitter-cats out of the shelter. The owners daughter is desperately looking to find them a home together. We all know it's a terrible time with it being kitten season and so many fosters fostering kittens but becoming unable to care for yourself and having to move in with someone else isn't always able to be planned with a ton of notice.

If you have other cats or dogs and can't or don't want to integrate them with your pets but you have a spare bedroom, larger size bathroom, laundry room, air conditioned she/he shed, air conditioned garage, litetally any room that has a door, you can make it work! Any space that's capable of housing these babies while a home is found would be a great help!

Please message me if you're interested in fostering or adopting these babes.

Adoption fee waived for approved applicants.

These 2 sweet babies need a forever home together. The black cat is a male, the siamese cat is a female. Both have been ...
16/06/2025

These 2 sweet babies need a forever home together.

The black cat is a male, the siamese cat is a female. Both have been fixed and if they need updated vaccines that will be done before adoption is finalized.

Indoor only households.

They are chill lounge around kind of cats. Unsure of their age at this time.

Please message me if you're interested in making these babies a part of your family.

*Their owner is elderly and unable to care for herself any longer and moving to be assisted with her care and the cats can't go with her.

Looking for fosters or foster to adopters for these hound babies! They are such loves and will be ready for their foreve...
15/06/2025

Looking for fosters or foster to adopters for these hound babies! They are such loves and will be ready for their forever homes by 7/11.

THANK YOU TO GENEROUS SPONSORS BOTH PUPS HAVE SPONSORSHIPS!!!!

Is anyone looking for ways they help with rescue animals without having to do the dirty work?

Not in the position to pickup p**p? Inspect it for worms? Get jumped on? Teach a dog how to dog? Make room in your crazy life for a puppy? Transport them to vet appointments?

Neither am I, but I'll do it if you can help cover their costs!

I really need sponsors for these 2 stooges who currently are called "GET DOWN!" AND "STOP THAT!"
(Stay tuned for the upcoming naming raffle for them.)

The only way I can keep bringing dogs in is with sponsorships from people who are like you, who love animals, and want to make a difference by helping cover the bulk of their expenses.

To cover the costs for their upcoming surgeries that will include: spay/neuter, vaccines (DA2PP/Bordatella/Rabies), microchip, exam, f***l, hw test, and one month of flea/tick/hw prevention, they each need $215 (or $212.80 to be exact).

*This doesn't include special food, probiotics, vet visit, f***l, wormer meds and antibiotics they have had/will have for gastrointestinal upset due to parasites they've been being treated for prior to their surgeries. This also doesn't include their food and prevention after the sponsorship costs are covered.

Please help me help them!! Sponsors will be updated via email with photos of their sponsored pup from the time of sponsorship all the way through adoption watching them grow and seeing exactly who they helped get ready to go to their best life because of their support.

My shotgun rider. My passenger princess. Taking the days that I'm given and making the best of them.
14/06/2025

My shotgun rider. My passenger princess.

Taking the days that I'm given and making the best of them.

Be entered to win 4 dozen farm fresh eggs!!
10/06/2025

Be entered to win 4 dozen farm fresh eggs!!

4 dozen farm fresh eggs for this months June's dog food donation calendar! Please please help me feed the dogs this month.

If you're able to make an additional donation for any amount, we could really use it towards vet care for some new intakes, as well.

We have some special feeding needs going on right now and the costs are more than usual.

You can also go to our Amazon wishlist and send canned & dry food to the pups for some of the special feeding needs through there if you'd like.

*****I just remembered when I went to make this post that I hadn't drawn the names for March's calendar for the $25 gift card to "What's the Catch," food truck!!!

The winner for the gift card is Kristin Lynn Beard.

And because of the delay, I've decided to do draw a second name for a dozen farm fresh eggs straight from my hens!!!

The name drawn for the eggs is Mona Lee.

See video(s) in comments.

Thank you everyone for your support. I appreciate you all so very much!

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