K9 Recovery Service

23/12/2024

Helping families to recover lost canine friends in a safe, friendly manner and reuniting them with t

20/12/2024

Technically Day 1
Part 2

Welc💓me in from the cold little one

What else would we do at 02:00? It’s nap time 😴

Catch up later

20/12/2024

Day 1.

Sadly, it was almost 3:30PM before I arrived (it’s a looong story 🤦🏼‍♀️)
As Alyss (as I was corrected 😬 pronounced Alice) was taking me to the location she felt this little one was hunkering, our timing was bad as s/he was venturing out, saw us a beelined back to their hiding spot.

Having been pursued by others, I will take a different approach 💚

Puppy was fed twice today so this could take a bit of time.

Daylight will give me a better perspective.

Trap set, cameras set! We wait…

THANK YOU TO EACH AND EVERYONE OF YOU WHO STEPPED UP TO HELP ME, HELP Alyss and Doug, help this young pup

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19/12/2024

Here we go again!

Two innocent pups, dumped on a rural property 🤬 This is the SECOND TIME, second litter this family has had DUMPED on their land. A month ago, it was a litter of FIVE!! Much younger, much easier to catch and LUCKILY placement was found in a SATURATED RESCUE world!

‘Alice and her hubby D. were able to contain one puppy. They help him in a dog run, hoping to lure the second one. That did not happen. Bylaw attended to try catching the second pup, estimated to be approximately 4 months young, but were not successful. They removed the first and placed with rescue. This last one NEEDS OUR HELP! And I need yours 😞

Having put out for truck repairs and vet cost for two of my own pups in the past two weeks, I am NOT in a position to take on this expense at this time!!

Lorraine spent days trying to find help! Tonight she contacted again, asking if I would attend. Getting off the phone with a very tearful Alice, I assured her we would get this figured out 💔

If you are willing to assist with any contribution to gas, it would be greatly appreciated

[email protected]

PLEASE add “dumped stray Willow Creek” in subject field

If help can be provided, I will leave in the morning to help this young pup and a very stress land owner, bring this poor pup in from the cold. TIA

05/12/2024

Welc💓me back in from the cold and to your new start Lucy

7:45 on a Saturday evening. Phone rings but I missed the call. It’s Sam. I should call him back! He received a frantic call from Samantha, she’s out the door and across the field.
“We need some advice…”
After hearing this girl JUST arrived, a 7/8 hour roadtrip, surrendered to one rescue, finding a place to land with another…. The only advice I could give… “leave her alone””, she needs to decompress” before ANYONE is going to catch her!

After previous experiences in recent days/weeks, I will admit, they were cautioned about posting her widespread on social media. Samantha posted to social media on her community group and left it at that! Even there, it’s became a chore to do ‘crowd control’ People had all kinds of suggestions 😱 “your going to need lots of people of 20 or more and we can surround her” probably being the most horrifying of them all!

This timid little girl made her great escape just minutes after arriving to her new beginning. 😭

Connecting with Sam and team the next morning, they shared that she was still running the field across the road from Samantha’s house. My gut says let’s get a trap on the ground sooner than later for this girl! If there a ‘sooner’ opportunity, we need to take it!

After arriving on location, all that planning (about utilizing Samantha’s yard) seeing the landscape, 😞,
plan ‘b’!!

Sam and I drove through the construction area, hoping to spot her. Nothing. But we have to get this trap on the ground! It’s already 4:00PM and we are going to be out of daylight soon 😢

Trap on the ground, connecting with Samantha to make sure she has a view from her window, camera set, Samantha delivers the prime ‘roast chicken’. It’s minus 17! We have to get out of here asap! We can only keep that smell fresh for so long before everything freezes.

As we drove out through the field/construction area, we decided we would park on the street and watch. My gut ached as I mentioned to him, “my experience says this is going to take some time Sam”, days, a week 😭 Given the little we knew about her, been here before. This girl is going to make us work to get her back 💔 She’s an experienced girl from her background, she’s not food motivated, she’s in a strange place… Females are much harder to manipulate and trap then males, e-v-e-r-y t-i-m-e

As we settled in to watch with what little light we had left, 😳 there she was! Even tho we never spotted her once while out there, she must have been watching us! Within 10 minutes, she came running from nowhere, straight towards the trap, 🤞🏼then right past it 😬 We watched as she observed EVERYTHING around her then made her way back the 30-40-50 feet to the trap. She quickly consumed the chicken Samantha brought for her. She circled once, coming back to check that bowl one last time before she went to finish the chicken bait in the trap.
Gotchya baby!

There is no way I could help you understand how shocked I was, this was over! This quickly! I have not been so happy to have been WRONG!! Within one hour of arriving, Lucy was safe and back in the warmth of her rescue.

Thank you Sam, Samantha & Katie for trusting in me to lead this to the successful outcome it was. And thank you for stepping up for Lucy and giving her the opportunity she deserves ❤️

04/12/2024

HEEEEEEELLLP!!! We are looking for more volunteers to help administer YYC Pet Recovery!!!

We have a great team but we need more help! Some of us are working many shifts a week so we need committed volunteers to help spread out the work! It is a volunteer opportunity that you can do from the comfort of your home.

If you have access to a computer and can commit to taking at least one 3-hour shift every week, please email [email protected]. A computer is required. Shifts are 9-12, 12:30-330, 4-7, & 7:30-10:30 daily.

We will provide learning materials on how to use pages and how to address different situations to prepare you for your first shift. You will first shadow an experienced team member and then be shadowed on your first first few shifts. The entire team also will be standing by to support you as you help reunite families with clear and complete posts and “tips” from our files.

It is a commitment but one that brings so much satisfaction. If you love helping people and animals please consider volunteering.

If you are unable to volunteer, thanks as always to all of you for continuing to help share, match, and watch out for the lost furkids out there

03/12/2024

💔😭 Run forever free beautiful girl 🕊️

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We WILL NEVER forget you! We are your voice
(Photo credit to Tsintah Siberian Husky Rescue and Pet Food Bank Society)

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