Puppy Mill Rescue Team

04/01/2025

Today was our first Freedom Friday of 2025 as we welcome 4 deserving puppy mill survivors to loving foster homes ❤️ These girls are settling in to comfy beds and snuggles for the first time in their lives tonight. For the tan Bulldog x Pug mix it took 9 long years to gain her freedom from breeding 😢 Her 4 year old daughter is the brindle girl, and the other friends are a 5 year old Golden and 5 year old Yorkie. Want to help us get off to a solid start this year? We humbly ask for your support. In 2024 we were able to save nearly 700 dogs with your help….we couldn’t do it without you! 🫶🏻

Welcome to Puppy Mill Rescue Team, girls 🐾

Your donations will be gratefully accepted via:
Paypal
[email protected]
Venmo

or through the donate button on this post.

31/12/2024

2024 brought many lives saved by Puppy Mill Rescue Team thanks to our rescue partners, foster homes, transport volunteers, and supporters. Thank you for your continued support ❤️

With your help we were able to:
🏠 Adopt out nearly 700 dogs to loving homes
🚙 Transport over 500 dogs saved from puppy mills
🚫 Advocate to successfully end the sale of puppies in pet stores in New York
🐾Support the local community to keep their pets through donations, vaccine clinics, and financial support

We hope you will continue to support PMRT as we await what the future holds for us in 2025!

08/12/2024

Come out today from 1-4pm to pre-game for the Bills 🦬 with us at Brindle Haus Brewing Co.

06/12/2024

Come out on Sunday and meet some of our adoptable dogs! 🐾

Join us this weekend for a foster social and adoption event at Brindle Haus Brewing Co.! We have many dogs and puppies coming in hopes of meeting their new family, Brindle Haus has an incredible selection of beverages on tap, and our fosters will be there to answer questions if you’re interested in helping Puppy Mill Rescue Team 🐾 Stay tuned for more information on which dogs will be in attendance! Come out between 1-4pm on Sunday to say hi 👋

Brindle Haus is located at:
377 S. Union St.
Spencerport, NY 14559

04/12/2024

THANK YOU ❤️ Our supporters always come through and help us to continue our mission of saving dogs from puppy mills and other unfortunate situations in which they have no control. We say this again, but every single dollar raised goes directly to helping dogs!

Pipsqueak was able to be saved from a puppy mill and have a painful eye removed because of your support. He now is very loved in a forever home.

🐾 Want to help dogs like him, but didn’t get a chance to yet today? We would be humbled to have your financial support if you’re able.

👉PayPal: Puppy Mill Rescue Team
👉Venmo:
👉Our website: https://puppymillrescueteam.org/how-to-help/
👉Or through the donate button on this post.

Can’t donate yourself? We would appreciate a like and a share, too ❤️ We couldn’t do it without you!

04/12/2024

A fearful dog…..This pictures tells the story of a life mistreated. A young dog, so afraid of humans, she wants to be invisible. If she can make herself not seen, no one can hurt her.

A dog with hope…..The second picture shows the same dog, after being cared for in one of our foster homes. This is a reflection of the work being done within Puppy Mill Rescue Team every day. Saving dogs, teaching them that life is worth living and helping them flourish with humans that love them as much as we do.

Thank you for your support, and for loving them right along with us. This is us ❤️

03/12/2024

When rescuing dogs we are often put in delicate situations where we have to keep our head down, and our mouths shut, to get an animal out of a horrendous situation. Such was the case with Jerry. Jerry joined our rescue because he became to big for the "breeder" to sell. He was of no use to the breeder, he could not make money off him, and he was not treated like the sensitive, living creature he was. We knew he was big, and his temperament was questionable. Other rescue groups were not able to assist, and Jerry's fate became tenuous. Fortunately we had a foster that had successfully rehabilitated dogs like Jerry in the past and she said, "Yes" to opening her home to Jerry. When the transporter went to pick Jerry up, she found him tied inside a barn with a 2 foot chain and a piece of twine. The twine was deeply imbedded in his neck. Fortunately he came into our rescue just in time. He received the vet care he needed, and after unpacking his trauma baggage in his foster home, also found the perfect family. Jerry now lives on a farm and has multiple jobs. First he is a livestock guardian, protecting his flock like his breed was always meant to do. At night he also moonlights with his Dad, a dog trainer as a helper dog. Jerry's dad says he is the most dog-neutral dog he has ever met. And that friends, is what rescue is. It is who we are, and what we are able to do it because of your generosity. Thank you for your continued support and belief in PMRT! All of your donations go directly to helping dogs like Jerry 🐾

03/12/2024

Puppy Mill Rescue Team functions both as a network of rescues to save dogs from puppy mills, and a foster-based rescue. Our partnership with other rescues and transport volunteers allows us to help many dogs being saved from mills.

Our team of volunteers is small, but mighty. We have less than 200 foster homes across two states. This is a total number, and we never have everyone active at once, volunteers need breaks for their own lives too. Despite our small size, we do everything we can to make a big impact on the lives of as many dogs as we can. We have at least 1 large mill transport per month. This year the record numbers of dogs being released from puppy mills often turned into multiple mill transports per month. We haven’t even kept track of the gas money we’ve spent, but our supporters are always willing to help with gas money for our Freedom Fridays! In the mill runs to date we have helped nearly 500 dogs out of the horrible living situations that are puppy mills!

Although our main mission is to rescue dogs and puppies from puppy mills, we don’t limit our rescuing and fostering to mill survivors only. We have fostered 675 puppies and dogs so far this year, from 1 day old to seniors. As you all know, rescuing doesn’t come without a cost. We often take in the dogs that would otherwise be left for dead, and because of that our vet bills are high. From the common digestive parasites that seems to come with every rescue dog, to life threatening illnesses like parvo, and life-saving surgery, we have and will continue to treat it all. In the first 11 months of this year, we have already spent $312,000 on vetting alone. We are a volunteer run rescue without a facility eating costs, a true non-profit and all of the money raised goes directly to the dogs! We can honestly say that we would not be able to do the volunteer work that we do without supporters and donors like you.

03/12/2024

At PMRT we are in the business of dog rescue. As a business we operate incorporating our fundamental beliefs that guide our decision making.

Some of those practices include:
❤️We are 100% volunteer run.
😊We have no paid staff.
🐾We are dog first.

Our decisions are impacted by what is in the best interest of the dog, while also taking in consideration community safety.
Some dogs come to us needing thousands of dollars worth of medical care. Our adoption fees are on average are 475.00, obviously they do not help cover extensive medical costs.
Geoffrey and Natasha's vet care combined cost about $16,000.00. Two dogs, sixteen thousand dollars. Natasha needed heart surgery at Cornell, and Geoffrey required a surgery at Guelph to correct nasopharyngeal stenosis.

Some people wonder why we do it. We do it because supporters like you allow us to provide high level care for dogs in need. You believe they are worth it. We are willing to put in thousands of hours of volunteer work, as long as there are people like you to back us up. That is our plan.

Thank you for your support of PMRT, because of you, dogs like Natasha and Geoffrey are living their best lives.

03/12/2024

To see Mac, a gorgeous free-spirited senior Siberian Husky, playing with abandon at the dog park, you would never know he spent his first 9 years living in fear, confined in a puppy mill. It took a village to get Mac from fear to forever. Mac was rescued by Puppy Mill Rescue Team in January 2024. He found security and safety among various members of the team over an 8 month period in temporary foster, long- term boarding, and a long-term foster home. While he was wary of humans, he was gifted when it came to socializing with other dogs. With time, patience and training, Mac began to trust humans and proved to be the most gentlemanly housemate. He had a quiet, relaxed nature much like his namesake, actor Matthew McConaughey.

Despite all of his desirable qualities, Mac was a tough sell to adopters. He was an old dog and not the least bit snuggly. He favored his alone time and spent most of the day sleeping upside down in various corners of the house. Mac lived with his foster family for 3 months, welcoming newly rescued puppy mill dogs and watching as they each moved on to their forever homes. Just when it seemed like Mac’s turn would never come, the perfect adopter reached out specifically seeking a dog-friendly, senior husky, and they preferred if he was aloof! Mac has flourished in his new family. He enjoys running on their land and he still sleeps upside down. The family adores Mac’s quirkiness and independent spirit.

Mac’s journey was long but stories like Mac’s are why we keep saying yes to the tough cases and why we always hold onto hope that there is a forever home for every dog we welcome into the rescue. Your donations help us to continue to support dogs like Mac, who deserve a happy ending to their story. This is why we rescue 🫶🏻

03/12/2024

is here! ❤️

Giving Tuesday is celebrated each year and is a global movement to inspire generosity. It is a day that hopes to inspire you to give back to a cause that means something to you through donations, volunteering time, or support and activism.

We hope you will follow along with our posts throughout the day, share, donate if you can, and feel inspired to help.

If you choose to donate, we will have donate buttons on our posts to try to make it easy. You can also use our other platsforms like Venmo, PayPay and our website. Every dollar raised goes right to helping the dogs! 🐾

https://puppymillrescueteam.org/how-to-help/

03/12/2024

Tomorrow is 🫶🏻
We plan on sharing many stories of the impact your support has enabled us to have on dogs in need (so far) in 2024. We wanted to introduce ourselves as some of the faces behind the work this rescue is able to do…

Please meet Puppy Mill Rescue Team’s Board Members: Meghan, Lisa, Tara, Taylor and Kerry.
Of course, we couldn’t do anything without our amazing network of fosters, support from friends and family, and fur kids of our own that help along the way. We hope you follow our posts tomorrow to share in our success, and donate if you can. ❤️

Every dollar raised goes directly to the dogs 🐾
https://puppymillrescueteam.org/home/

26/11/2024

At PMRT our rescue work takes action in many ways. We foster, we transport, we advocate and we assist the community.
We are grateful for our Lisa Marcera Miracle Fund that allows us to say "yes" when animals are in need. The animals pictured are both recent recipients of the fund, each receiving 250.00 towards their medical needs. What the fund does not cover, PMRT does.
Yesterday we received a call from one of our veterinarians who was advocating for a client. An owner with financial constraints, living on disability wages, cat needed emergency surgery for a life threatening condition- pyometra. Without surgery, the cat would die. We were asked if we could fund the surgery, we couldn't say no. Her surgery is scheduled for this morning and the estimate is 1200.00.
The beagle, now known as Reeves was in a puppy mill. He needed a rescue commitment to secure his freedom, rescues were full, and resources were slim. We offered grant money from the Miracle Fund to help obtain a commitment. The fund would pay for his vetting if a rescue could find a foster. Pets Alive WNY stepped up and Reeves now sleeps on a bed not in a cage.
Lisa loved all animals, and her commitment to help lives on. We are asking for donations to keep the hope alive. Donations from this post will assure the Miracle Fund is there when needed, helping animals the way Lisa always did.
https://puppymillrescueteam.org/lisa-marcera-miracle-fund/

12/11/2024

We had a small Freedom Friday last week, leading us to a Medical Monday call for help for one of the passengers 🐾 Introducing Pebbles! He is an 8 week old, 3 pound, adorable, Mini Poodle puppy who recently found his ticket out of a puppy mill through unfortunate circumstances. Pebbles rear right leg has a broken Tibia & Fibula that has already started to calcify and heal. This means it has been broken for over a week already without any medical intervention. The puppy mill likely didn’t notice when it broke because he wasn’t of an age old enough to be sold yet, so he didn’t quite matter 😢 Pebbles went to the vet today for an assessment and to make a plan for the future of his leg. He’s had one set of x-rays, and will be on strict rest for the next month before a follow up set of x-rays to see how things are going. Despite his physical struggles, Pebbles is happy, sweet, and loves attention. Having multiple radiographs for one dog adds up in veterinary costs. Would you help us to help Pebbles?

Donations graciously accepted through:
PayPal
Venmo
Or through the donate button on this post

Every little bit helps 🖤 Thank you!!
Pebbles is being fostered through Puppy Mill Rescue Team: Adoptions

24/10/2024

We have seen thousands of broken Mothers. Their faces keep us going everyday.💔

19/10/2024

Have you followed our partner page yet?
Puppy Mill Rescue Team: Adoptions showcases all of our adoptable dogs!
Check out Birdie who is ready for a forever home 😍 Good-bye puppy mill, Hello new life of freedom ❤️

ADOPTED

Meet Birdie! She is a 4 year old English Bulldog x Beagle mix (Beabull). She was rescued from a puppy mill recently, and has quickly adjusted to being a silly spoiled bully girl. Birdie is being fostered in the Buffalo, Ny area. You can read more about her here: https://www.petfinder.com/dog/birdie-73589644/ny/buffalo/puppy-mill-rescue-team-ny1447/

🐾Apply to adopt here: https://www.cognitoforms.com/PuppyMillRescueTeam/PuppyMillRescueTeamDogApplication