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Sometimes no matter how hard we try we just don't get to these poor babies in time. Lisa Hitchcock  from Rescue Pups Inc...
11/03/2025

Sometimes no matter how hard we try we just don't get to these poor babies in time. Lisa Hitchcock from Rescue Pups Inc brought this dog to my attention a couple of days ago so I made connections with the Kelly Roll who posted about him and we went out and posted signs around the neighborhood today in Bolivar New York. A gentleman by the name of Gary called me and said he had been seeing the dog around his house for a few days, I asked him to dump food for it and I would come out in the morning with a trap. He went out to do that and he came upon the dog laying in the leaves lifeless ,he was still alive but barely holding on, Lisa raced over there along with Dennis Peters the dog control officer for that area and she scooped the dog up put him in her car and headed for the emergency hospital but he passed away in the car on the way to the hospital. Between being loaded with ticks and most likely fleas he was probably suffering from anemia as well as Lyme's disease, starvation and dehydration .We are so sorry that we couldn't get to him in time. Lisa has named him Friend. I'm glad that we found him alive and that he had Lisa's warm caring hand on him when he died. Thank you Gary and Dennis for helping us find this dog and a huge thank you to Lisa for her willingness to get this dog to an emergency vet and doing whatever it took to save him . Rest in peace our friend you did not deserve this . We love you. πŸ’”πŸ˜­πŸ™πŸΎ

11/02/2025

I have been so out of the loop lately w fb but it’s time to rev things up again because there are dogs counting on the rescue.
Can you do me a HUGE favor as a crazy hermit animal loving socially awkward person who is just trying to make a difference in the life of some dogs in need? Can you please LIKE our page and share this post?
Our algoryrhm is not what it used to be from my infrequent posting 😒 but if you all can help me it would mean the world because I’m gonna be posting some dogs that are going to be harder to adopt out. They deserve to live. We are gonna need so, so, sooo much help to get them put in front of the right person who could change their life & adopt them, PLEASE, I am literally begging here!
All it takes is ONE share put in view of the right person! πŸ™πŸ™πŸ™ WE CAN DO THIS!

This is the pup thats facing euthanasia on the 5th. Any Rescues / Foster's out there that will give this girl a chance ?
10/30/2025

This is the pup thats facing euthanasia on the 5th. Any Rescues / Foster's out there that will give this girl a chance ?

Any rescues  or fosters out there that can help ??? Please !!!! Please share post πŸ™ Please give this poor girl a chance.
10/30/2025

Any rescues or fosters out there that can help ??? Please !!!! Please share post πŸ™ Please give this poor girl a chance.

Whenever I get several texts in a row and I see that they are from one of the Dames Tracy M Horner , I know that we are ...
10/29/2025

Whenever I get several texts in a row and I see that they are from one of the Dames Tracy M Horner , I know that we are going to work !!! She sent me a post about this tiny little pup that Vicki Norman had just adopted and only had her for less than 20 hours. This little peanut only weighs about 4 lb and it was going to be in the 20's last night !!! So I got the message about 8:00 p.m. I immediately loaded the trap in my car and headed to Jamestown to meet Tracy. There had been a couple of sightings yesterday as far as 1.3 miles away. But I had advised that when a dog goes missing from an area they're not familiar with they tend to circle back around and come back there because that's all they know at that point. So just before we had gotten there Vicki's daughter spotted Viva a few houses up from there ,which made us very happy to know that she made her way back so we immediately got to work setting up the trap and the cameras when we heard a little ti**le of a bell out in the yard where the Normans have a beautiful Halloween display. We couldn't see her because she's black and she was so small so we immediately ran into the house we waited 10 minutes but she didn't show up on camera so Tracy and I went out made sure everything was okay with the
trap and we left and went up the road just to wait .We could also hear her barking a house or two over we weren't sure if it was her but after we caught her then we were positive it was her. So just before 11:00 p.m. the camera went off and there she was, we watched her for more than 8 minutes before she got up enough nerve to venture into the trap . When I tell people that a dog that they've only had for a matter of hours is probably going to come back home, most of the time they think I'm crazy, but it happens over and over again !! We do not give dogs enough credit they are super smart and they know how to get back to where they left from. It even amazes me after witnessing it many many times. This little 4 lb one and a half year old dog was over a mile away and was gone for 9 hours but she found her way back !!! When we took the trap into the house to let her out I scooped her up in one hand and I brought her out and she wanted nothing to do with me she saw Vicki her Mom sitting there and she ran right to her and jumped in her arms and didn't move an inch πŸ₯Ή I was amazed at the bond that they had built in just a matter of hours, it was true love no doubt .This little pup is going to have a wonderful life with Vicki and James and we're so glad that we could save her for them because she was running on busy Foote Avenue in Jamestown New York and she was so small that she could have fallen prey to something as small as a fox ! And as always thank you God for keeping her safe until we could get her trapped πŸ™See pics and videos in comments πŸ™‚

Update: the owner of this dog is going to surrender her , so she will be up for adoption very soon. Dog control officer ...
10/27/2025

Update: the owner of this dog is going to surrender her , so she will be up for adoption very soon. Dog control officer Nicole Welka says that she is a very nice dog and that she has already been spayed

We were tagged about this beauty a few days ago. Ashley Rivera-Ayers had been feeding her and trying to capture her but wasn't able to. I reached out to her and we set up food stations and cameras to see if she was still coming to eat and she showed up on camera last night !!! Today Kim, Tracy M Horner and Vicki went up today and set the missy trap with delicious rotisserie chicken and she was in there in 2 hours πŸ™‚ We transported her to DCO Nicole Welka where she scanned her for a chip and she is chipped !!! So hoping the owner will respond πŸ™ Thank you Ashley for caring and setting food out for her, that is so important in keeping a dog in one area for trapping !!!

UPDATE: Casper was able to get into the Weimaraner Rescue Of The North / New York State Weimaraner Rescue  and will be a...
10/24/2025

UPDATE: Casper was able to get into the Weimaraner Rescue Of The North / New York State Weimaraner Rescue and will be adopted out from there .πŸ‘β€οΈ
🚨🚨🚨 ALERT 🚨🚨🚨
The 5-day stray hold is up on Monday with the Town of Stockton, NY Dog Control . She needs a rescue or a foster to step up and give this dog a chance, he is a very nice boy !!! She was able to get the female into a rescue. Now we need someone to step up for this pup. Please share this post !!!

Look at this face of sadness and despair πŸ˜” This beautiful  boy was dumped near the town of Stockton NY approx 6 days ago...
10/21/2025

Look at this face of sadness and despair πŸ˜” This beautiful boy was dumped near the town of Stockton NY approx 6 days ago. He is so scared and wouldn't allow anyone to capture him. Sage Freedom posted about him just hanging around on the road but he wouldn't let anyone near. Then she lost sight of him. Sherlock Bones Lost 'N Hound Dog Recovery reached out yesterday to us to let us know that a friend of hers Joseph Saraceno had been feeding him for several days and was also in contact with Victoria Yonkers who is the DCO for Stockton who had been looking for this dog. She had also picked up a female pitbull that was dumped in another part of town who is suffering from uterine prolapse. So Kim and I went up yesterday afternoon and set a trap for him. Joe said that he came upon the dog walking along the road and he drove up to it and he rolled down the window and was talking to it and it looked like it wanted to get in the car so he opened the back door and the dog stuck his nose up in the air trying to get a familiar scent to see if that was his person in the car... when he realized it wasn't he sadly just walked away. So heartbreaking !!! For days he's been waiting for his owner to come back for him . At about 11:00 p.m. last night my phone dinged and I checked my live feed camera and there he was at the trap and in just a few minutes he went in the trap. I went and picked up my trusty trapping partner Frankie Notoro Johnson and we drove to Stockton to secure him for the night at Joe's house and then met up with Victoria this morning to transfer him to her holding kennel. Thank you Joe for all of your help and for feeding this poor boy for days until a trap could be set. It was a pleasure to meet both you and Victoria.πŸ™‚ Thank you Sage for posting and bringing awareness to this pup. We can only hope that these two beautiful pups will have better luck finding new owners than they did the first time. If anyone knows anything about these dogs being dumped in Stockton or recognizes the dogs please get in touch with Town of Stockton, NY Dog Control Ty !!

Jack broke loose and took off dragging his 10' chain for 2 days. Matthew, his owner was searching for him continuously b...
10/19/2025

Jack broke loose and took off dragging his 10' chain for 2 days. Matthew, his owner was searching for him continuously but with no luck. People were tagging us on the posts but without sightings not much can be done so , I reached out to him yesterday and told him that we had asked our friend Jeff Johnson who is also a dog control officer if he would fly his thermal drone last night and he graciously agreed. While he was flying the drone a neighbor called who has a camp nearby and said , I have your dog here , he is tangled in the brush near my shed !!! Jeff was just getting ready to fly over that area !! So thank you Jeff for your kindness and we are so happy Jack is home safe !!! ❀️

The Mommy, Daddy Duo has been trapped by Great Dames and both are safe Paws Along the River Humane Society. Their journe...
10/18/2025

The Mommy, Daddy Duo has been trapped by Great Dames and both are safe Paws Along the River Humane Society. Their journey started when they were dumped together on Crull Road in the Russell/ Sugar Grove PA area. The two dogs had gotten separated and we were able to trap the female who was pregnant and it's a good thing we did because just a few days later she gave birth to four beautiful puppies and the night she had them in the shelter it was 35Β° outside, had she had them outside they probably wouldn't have survived. The male had traveled three miles down to very busy Rt 62 , thats when Kim Turner reached out to the Dames for help. We did get eyes on him that day but we lost sight of him . For three days we didn't have any sightings. Frankie and Vicki went out and posted signs around the neighborhood and also in the neighborhood of where they were dumped, thinking that he would try to make it back there which he did . We got a call from Mary Beth who lives on Ludwick Road and she told us where she sees the dog regularly we went up and set up food plots and cameras but he did not find them . This morning an Amish gentleman called me and said the dog just went down his driveway so I threw the trap on the car and went up there we found out where the dog was hanging around he had made friends with the Amish gentleman's dog (I think he missed his girlfriend) and then he would go across the road to a pond where he would drink. So we decided we would set the trap there and it wasn't but 20 minutes later that he wandered down and went in the trap. These poor little pups were just loaded with ticks we took 40 ticks off the female and I'm sure that it will exceed that number on the male. Thank you to everyone who helped us to get these pups to safety !!!

🚨🚨🚨 We need sightings!!! No sightings  since last Sunday night. Please keep your eyes open in Randolph  NY near the hard...
10/15/2025

🚨🚨🚨 We need sightings!!! No sightings since last Sunday night. Please keep your eyes open in Randolph NY near the hardware store and on Rt 86 . Please share post if you live near there ,Ty !!!🚨🚨🚨
Update: Johnson has had his drone up for the last 2 hour's with no luck πŸ˜” Missing, Main Street Randolph NY . Last seen Sunday night. please call with any sightings 716-397-2506. Do not call or chase !! Please Share Post Ty !!

You may remember the beautiful cat with a peanut butter jar on her head that was rescued by Great Dames Trap and Recover...
10/13/2025

You may remember the beautiful cat with a peanut butter jar on her head that was rescued by Great Dames Trap and Recover.We named her Prudence and she is currently at Lakewood Kitten Rescue in Lakewood NY, and is wanting a home of her own. She is fully vetted and microchipped. She is quirky, curious and fun to watch as she plays like a kitten with her toys. She is a bit shy at first but if you have a supply of Churu cat treats she'll be eating out of your hand in no time. I've added a couple videos in the comments of her playing. If you think you would like to give this beauty a furever home just go to Lakewood Kitten Rescues page and fill out an adoption application.

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