Silver Rescue

25/01/2025

Some very interesting information

Woodpeckers have a tongue that wraps around their entire skull to stabilize their brain and prevent it from shaking when they peck trees.

The force of a woodpecker's blow is equivalent to hitting your head against a wall at 25 km/h!

It repeats this action about 20 to 25 times per second, which is equivalent to 12,000 times per day.

22/01/2025

18/01/2025

This little girl around 2months is looking for a loving home ❤ 🏡️ 🐕 with no cages or chains. Vaccinated for rabies and parvo. Please call 0722248944 to take her home

17/01/2025

Happy Friday Y’all🥳

If you’d like to adopt me contact my Momsie at [email protected]

Check out my profile on www.SilverRescue.org/adopt

Or

Check this direct link - https://www.petfinder.com/dog/rosie-56790882/tn/nashville/silver-rescue-tn303/

11/01/2025

We don’t get snow in TN very often but when we do it’s an occasion. Some of our dogs love it and others hate it. And so it is with these two.
-Julien loves snow and cold weather.
-Gracie hates it. She ran around the whole back yard and woodsy hinterlands and came back so quickly that I think she peed and pood on the run. Can’t ’splain it any other way. 🤣🤣🤣

Can you tell who’s who? 😎

😆❤️😆❤️😆❤️😆❤️😆❤️😆😆❤️😆

09/01/2025

Please share this precious boy.
Sharing saves lives

09/01/2025

Please share these beautiful pups.
Consider adopting or fostering.

08/01/2025

Please share this sweet girl.
Sharing saves lives.

Hi there! My name is Sister, and I’m a sweet, fluffy Great Pyrenees turning 6 years old on May 1, 2025. My journey hasn’t been the easiest, but I’m hopeful for a brighter future with someone who will love and care for me.
I was surrendered to the animal shelter because my previous owner couldn’t keep up with my needs or give me the medical attention I deserved. When I arrived here, the kind people whisked me off to the vet for a lot of care. I’m heartworm negative, but the shelter’s adoption fee covers my treatment once I find an approved adopter.
When I was younger, I lived inside the house with my brother, but for the past couple of years, I’ve been a backyard dog. Sometimes I was chained up because I’m a bit of an escape artist—I could scale the old, broken fence, which wasn’t much of a challenge for me. I’m housebroken, and I get along well with other dogs. Though I haven’t met any cats to know how I’d feel about them. I used to play with children when I was younger, and while it’s been a while, I think I’d enjoy hanging out with school-aged kids again.
At my age, I’d really love to live inside a cozy home again. My bones aren’t a fan of extreme weather anymore, and I’d much rather be lounging in comfort with my forever family. If you’re looking for a loyal, loving Great Pyrenees with plenty of good years ahead, please come by and visit me. I’d love to meet you—and who knows, maybe we’ll be the perfect match! 🐾❤️

07/01/2025

This is a panorama made with an old iPhone that didn’t yet have such good photography capabilities so please excuse the grain.

I designed the ‘cat room’ 11 years ago. With the help of my friends Susan Heard and Aubrey Watson the room was newly painted and shelves and structures were built the give the room a paradise for cats to live in either permanently or while they awaited their forever homes. At the time of construction Cali was alive and young. She never found her own home and lived with us until cancer took her life. The structure straight ahead is made of two double decker cat kennels which we connected with a tunnel in case we needed a hospital area, or a space for a mamma cat with kittens, or as in this case for two bonded cat friends that needed decompression time. They were eventually introduced to other cats at the rescue and after a time were adopted.

Many people wonder how to house several cats and have them get along. I did this because it helped my rescued cats. But also, as the rescue is in my home, it also made my home look better. You can design your whole house or just your living room. It can be as simple or as fancy as you like. The choices are endless.
Building shelves near the ceiling and over windows is easy to do. I got artsy fartsy but there are many very simple ways of putting up shelves aka walkways where cats can enjoy the hights they like. Over the crate condo we got 1/4” sheets of wood cut to size at Lowes, painted them to match the rest of the decor and attached them with zip ties to the top of the crates so they couldn’t slip off and kill a human or cat. The attachment was simple. Two holes were drilled along where a metal rung or bar was underneath the wood. The drilled holes were large enough to accommodate the ziptie. Thusly marrying the crates and wood we had a secure sitting area to accommodate several cats. Eventually we added small shelves to the walls in a step like fashion. Steps for such designs can be professionally made and bought. As a rescue always short of money we used scraps of discarded wood. Held up by regular metal brackets or pretty ornate ones, also found at Lowes, they worked perfectly.

You can design your whole house with cats in mind. And if you ever sell your house you can take everything down, caulk the screw/nail holes and paint the walls anew. You’ll have to make the house presentable for sale anyway, with repairs and paint, so it’s not really a lot of extra work.

Make your life with your cats an enjoyable one. 😻
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04/01/2025

Please remember.
Maybe don’t cut all your dead trees down?

Keep in mind that dead wood and fallen leaves are important habitats!