Frisky Business Rescue

20/11/2024

Location: Lexington, SC
Name: Sophie (lighter) & Juniper (Darker)
Age: 3.5 months
Breed: DSH - Tabico
M/F: F
Spayed/Neutered/Shots: Sophie has had first 2 rounds of fvrcp and been dewormed (planning to get last round & rabies friday); Juniper is planned to get 1st round fvrcp & rabies friday along with deworming & flea prevention. Both intact (trying to get appts but haven’t gotten a slot yet)
Good with dogs, cats, and/or kids: good with everything they’ve met
Aggression or medical issues?: Juniper has minor eye infection we are treating (no drainage - just inner lids still up)
Reason for rehoming?: sophie was intake with mom and fam from a TNR colony at 3 weeks; Juniper was rescued out a tree 40’ up (no idea where she came from)
Additional info/story (personality):
As seen in the pics, both are very friendly, sweet, and playful. Neither have any problems being held. Sophie is quite vocal as well.
Message/comment if interested. Make sure if you message me to include the animal’s name since I have a lot of rescues I am trying to help rehome at the moment. Adoption application & contract required to ensure good home and remaining vetting is completed.

19/11/2024

*don’t have to go together but would probably do better together*
Location: Lexington, SC
Name: Beauty (solid black) & Beast (tuxedo)
Age: vet said 4-5 months but they’re only 3 lbs
Breed: Domestic Medium Hair
M/F: Beauty is F; Beast is M
Spayed/Neutered/Shots: has had first round of fvrcp, rabies, and are fixed. Beast is microchipped… have to double check if beauty is because it’s not on the papers. Will deworm this week.
Good with dogs, cats, and/or kids: good with other cats for sure - young enough to warm up to the others
Aggression or medical issues?: none
Reason for rehoming?: these guys were TNRed with a colony that is being relocated to my house as there are major safety issues at their current location. These guys have never been handled before by humans, but when I went to release them this morning I discovered that these 2 are not really feral at all. Don’t get me wrong, they’re still a bit shy and will take time to fully warm up, but I don’t want to fully release them this young when they had no problems being held and all that and could instead be adoptable.
Additional info/story (personality):
Just got them this morning so limited info on personality. Suggest containing to 1 room while they continue to adjust to being around humans. Will be working with them in the meantime (socializing further) along with determining more about behavior and getting more pics and so on, just figured I would go ahead and post in the meantime.
Message/comment if interested. Make sure if you message me to include the animal’s name since I have a lot of rescues I am trying to help rehome at the moment. Adoption application & contract required to ensure good home and remaining vetting is completed (2 more rounds of FVRCP).

19/11/2024

Another GREAT collaborative effort by Lexington County Animal Services Adoptions, The Humane Society of the United States - South Carolina, Animal Mission of the Midlands and Pawmetto Lifeline! These organizations are working together to offer another FREE DOG MICROCHIPPING EVENT for residents of Lexington County! There will only be 100 free microchips available, first come first serve. Limited to 3 dogs per household. All you need is your pet and your personal ID!

This collaboration will not only help lost pets find their way home safely, but will also help ensure dog owners are compliant with the new Lexington County Animal Care Ordinance amendments!

19/11/2024

Thanksgiving cooking is around the corner. Take note to protect your pets.

15/11/2024

Story time for everyone afraid to adopt those senior dogs.

This is Frosty. Our president’s mom was contacted back in 2021 by someone at her church as his owner was in the hospital with no chance of ever returning home. She got our president to go over with her to pick up this dog, but instead opted to immediately foster him herself due to his age and size. He was taken to the vet and determined he had heart problems and had maybe a year or two left along with needing a bunch of teeth removed so she opted to keep him.

At that point, we were told he was 11 and a German Spitz. From us digging through his medical records and after DNA testing him, we learned he was actually 14 and a purebred 18 lb Pomeranian.

This was 3 years ago.
He celebrated his 17th birthday just a couple weeks ago. Earlier this year we were told by the vet he looks healthier than the first time he saw him. He recently needed to add on a different medication for the heart, but overall he is doing great. People that meet him still guess he is a puppy when we ask. He still jumps around and is full of life and happily annoying his human siblings every single day. His owner says that she is his emotional support human as he never wants to be anywhere but by her side (excluding car rides - he will opt to do that with anyone that allows).

He is old, but he is happy. He is thriving, and him and his human have never been happier. Dont discredit those old dogs. They still have lots of love and life left to give you.

PS: his last owner rescued him too from a shelter at 2 years. We assume he was surrendered due to his size as he is 3x larger than the average Pomeranian.

14/11/2024

IN FOSTER-TO-ADOPT HOME

Attention all my people that constantly message me about a small dog 🚨🚨🚨

12 lbs - rest of info we know is in screenshots (main thing we don’t know is specific age or heartworm status)

So foster to adopt anyone?
Preferably, we cover vaccines, heartworm testing, and heartworm prevention. Adoptee covers neuter (cheaper for y’all with voucher than us) AND heartworm treatment if positive as we don’t normally hold/pay for this unless no one is interested in adopting. You can continue fostering while we do treatment, he just won’t be held for the foster to adopt at that point & can be adopted at anytime for anyone else to continue treatment. Best thing about heartworm treatment is expenses are spread out over the course of a couple months for it thankfully.

Comment or PM if interested. Dont want to bounce him around too much unnecessarily since I know some of yall will jump on this. If you have any further specific questions about him, let me know, and I can ask!

13/11/2024

ADOPTED
*Courtesy Post*
Location: Gilbert, SC
Name: Rusty
Age: 1 year - 35 lbs
Breed: “full Boxer but no papers”
M/F: M
Spayed/Neutered/Shots: UTD on vaccines & heartworm and flea prevention; intact
Good with dogs, cats, and/or kids: all of the above & ducks
Aggression or medical issues?: none
Reason for rehoming?: current owner has newborn so he can’t be kept indoors (assuming energy levels) and struggling keeping him in the yard outside - still currently residing with them
House/crate trained?: still working on house training since he was kept outside so much; crate training unknown
Additional info/story (personality):
Very playful and good with anything. Assuming higher energy & not loyal off-leash from what they have indicated.
Message/comment if interested. Make sure if you message me to include the animal’s name since I have a lot of rescues I am trying to help rehome at the moment. Adoption application & contract required to ensure good home and remaining vetting is completed (neuter).

13/11/2024

Please do not buy. Throw them away if your dog gets one as a gift. Giving rawhide to a dog is never a good idea.

Many of these so called treats end up with the dog “enjoying” some time in a veterinary surgery over Christmas. The vast majority of these rawhide products and treats come from China.

The chews are made from cattle or horse hides and their journey starts with the hides being soaked in a toxic sodium sulfide to remove the hair and fat. More chemicals are used in order to split the hide into layers which is then washed with hydrogen peroxide to give the white “pure” look and remove the rancid smell.

Now comes the pretty festive colors and the glue to form cute shapes. On testing, these chews have shown traces of arsenic, mercury, chromium and formaldehyde.

If that wasn’t bad enough, they regularly cause intestinal blockages, poisoning from chemical residue and choking. The chews go slippery when wet and are near impossible to get hold of to save a choking dog.

11/11/2024

And we don’t regret a thing 🖤

11/11/2024

Is your bully a super chewer?

08/11/2024

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08/11/2024

We will be back at Lexington Petsmart (5135U Sunset Blvd) tomorrow (Saturday) from ~12-4. Feel free to come say hi and hang out a bit to get to know about us even if you can't adopt at this time.
Attaching pics below for you to see who we plan to bring, and I will attach a short bio in the picture's info!
All are fully vetted, crate trained, and house trained (although there is always an adjustment period).

08/11/2024

On this week’s episode of unfortunate events…. Somehow our dog food has gotten significantly delayed in the mail and instead of our normal delivery day of every other Thursday, it won’t be arriving until the following Tuesday. Since it is already shipped, all our food funds have still been taken out of our card. We won’t let the dogs starve and will pull the funds from our assigned medical money if needed, but this just messes everything up honestly.

So if anyone has any dog food they could donate (doesn’t have to be this specific brand) or any extra funds to put towards us purchasing new dog food so we don’t have to pull from medical money in the meantime, it would be greatly appreciated.

I can meet anywhere in Lexington county (preferably red bank area) to pick up food from you. We are also planning on being back at Petsmart tomorrow if you would like to drop off there (I’ll post more specifics on that later).

Link to post explaining other more quick donation options since direct fb donations take ~90 days to get to us (Venmo, PayPal, etc.): https://www.facebook.com/share/1KJs9FcGS2/?mibextid=WC7FNe

08/11/2024

07/11/2024

While we realize the Amish have done some notable good things recently that the public noticed, keep in mind who you are supporting as I am seeing several people post about only buying people Amish gifts for Christmas this year. A lot of people do some good, but that doesn't make every person that does good a good person all around that we should necessarily support.

Did y'all know Amish country is the puppy mill capital of the United States? ~20% of all puppy mills in the United States are ran out of Lancaster County (PA) by the Amish. Late last year alone over 500 dogs were rescued from just a couple discovered unlicensed Amish puppy mills there. There is an estimated 600 more unlicensed mills being ran up there (housing up to 1000 dogs each) in addition to the 300 licensed ones (still puppy mills and where most pet store puppies come from). The unlicensed ones go unnoticed as they hide hundreds of animals within buildings with many debarked to help keep attention away and never allow people to come see where the animals are raised. For quick math: this means up to 900,000 dogs in puppy mills within the amish community (with 450,000 being an actual realistic number based on the average amount found during puppy mill raids in the community x the total estimated mills within the community).

Most of the grown ones saved can barely even walk when first rescued since they are kept in cages with wire bottoms their entire life before that point (no muscle and feet aren't used to flat surfaces). When the breeder females can no longer reproduce, they are euthanized (sometimes the correct way, but commonly they pew pew them because that is legal in that state). The puppy mill owners make roughly half a mil (for each puppy mill) each year to show how large these operations are...

There's more info, but that is the quick sum up. I’ll attach some pics & vids below of relevance showing more about this.

News report on rescue late last year: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Je90hitpJpg

Video from one of the licensed puppy mill's after the owner passed: https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=2031000146939983

From a former Amish member: https://www.tiktok.com//video/7202370859296738602

Another former Amish member (this one explains that they all know it happens but per community standards, they aren't allowed to report it to stay within the community):
https://www.tiktok.com//video/7285510042177097003

Dog auctions exposed (skip to 1:25 to seem Amish in Ohio section): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vEt1rkq0Gw4

There’s also an article a vet wrote that has worked at these farms that you can quick search online that fb won’t let me link for some reason explaining the conditions called “Amish Are the Worst Puppy Mill Offenders”.