Helping Hearts & Healing Tails Animal Rescue

11/11/2025

This girl’s eyes say everything. 💔
A week ago, Piper didn’t look like a dog who would make it. Her body was shutting down from starvation and dehydration. She weighed just 28 pounds. You could see every bone. Her gums were nearly white — a frightening sign of severe anemia, likely from a massive parasite load. She was weak, terrified, and barely hanging on.

We didn’t share her right away because we honestly didn’t know if she would survive. We just focused on giving her every chance.

And Piper chose to fight. 🐾

With fluids, medications, quiet rest, gentle reassurance, and small frequent meals, she is slowly coming back to life. She has a long, careful road ahead — we are increasing food safely to avoid refeeding syndrome, monitoring her bloodwork, and giving her body the time and care it needs to heal.

But here’s what matters most:
She is safe.
She is loved.
And she is still here. 💛

Piper will not be available for adoption for quite some time — she needs to heal, physically and emotionally. Right now, she just needs the world to root for her.

✨ Please send Piper all the strength, love, and well-wishes you can.
Every kind thought helps her keep fighting.

Welcome to safety, sweet girl. Your worst days are behind you. 💕🐾

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If you’d like to help with Piper’s recovery and the many others like her, donations are always appreciated. Your support truly saves lives. 🙏
🫶 helpingheartshealingtails.org/donate
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USPS ~ HHHT PO Box 42 Stahlstown, PA 15687

11/09/2025

We have less than a month to go and about 80 tickets left to sell. If anyone needs a last minute gift or would just like to help support a good cause, please go to our store site and grab a ticket. The tickets run for the entire month of December and have two numbers per ticket. That’s 62 chances to win! The link to the site is below. Thank you!

Welcome to our online shop 🛍️Every purchase you make directly supports our mission. Since 2015, we’ve been a no-kill rescue and compassionate haven for animals in need, serving Western Pennsylvania and beyond. At HHHT, we believe every animal deserves a second chance—especially those with m...

11/09/2025

🚨 RUBY: THE CHAOTIC ATHLETE PRINCESS 🚨

(Day ??? of Ruby waiting for her forever family — time is fake, frisbees are real)

Ladies, gentlemen, and everyone who has ever been personally victimized by a squeaky toy —
it is with great concern and dramatic flair that we inform you:

Ruby is STILL here.
Yes. Still.
We have checked. We have asked the universe. We have shaken the magic 8-ball.
It keeps saying “adopt Ruby you cowards.”

Ruby is a 9–10 month old energy burrito wrapped in sunshine and zoomies.
If enthusiasm could be harnessed as a renewable resource, we’d be solving climate change with this dog alone. 🌎🔋⚡️

🐕 Ruby’s Skill Set:
• Professional athlete (fetch, parkour, wiggle sprints)
• Frisbee champion, future Olympic hopeful 🥏🏅
• Social butterfly — loves other dogs who also like chaos and play
• Crate trained ✅
• Potty trained ✅
• Current on training & “I’m a genius actually” lessons ✅
• Can sit, stay, and judge you silently ✅

🍽️ Important note

Ruby likes to eat solo — it’s called fine dining, peasants 🍷😌
Please respect the queen and her private dinner table.

🌟 Personality Vibes:
• “I woke up excited, why aren’t you?”
• Brain cell sometimes clocks out early but the vibes remain immaculate
• Will love you so intensely you’ll question whether your ex EVER cared about you at all
• Zoomies that defy physics
• Cuddles like she’s trying to fuse her molecules with yours

🎭 Dramatic Ruby Lore:
• Believes everything is a game
• Thinks toys are life
• Chases happiness like it’s a tennis ball (and then brings it back to you)
• Has the emotional range of a Disney main character (the lovable chaotic one)

🧠 If You Adopt Ruby, You Gain:
• Personal comedic relief
• Daily serotonin blasts
• A workout partner who shames you if you sit too long
• A best friend who thinks you’re a celebrity
• The right to brag: “Yes, she IS THAT cute.”

❗ If You DON’T Adopt Ruby:

We continue her Ruby Posting Saga
Forever.
Every day.
More unhinged.
More dramatic.
We will absolutely outlast you. 🕯️🔥

⸻

Give the girl her kingdom.
She has trained, she has zoomied, she has waited.
Now she demands her throne (aka your couch and all your snacks). 👑✨

✅ Vetting done
✅ Training superstar
✅ Great with playful dogs
💌 Apply: helpingheartshealingtails.org

Let’s get Ruby home before she becomes a cryptid folklore tale like Bigfoot.

KL #16994

11/09/2025

🚨 GERTIE: THE SOGGY NOODLE LEGEND 🚨

Hello everyone, welcome back to “Why Is Gertie Still Homeless?” — the award-winning emotional rollercoaster where we cry, laugh, and question humanity daily. 🎪🐾

Let’s talk about Gertie:
She is joy. She is chaos. She is a living, breathing serotonin burrito wrapped in patchy fur and enthusiasm. 🫶

Imagine if a baby seal, a potato, and a Muppet got tossed into a blender set to “vibes only” — that’s Gertie.

🧬 Gertie’s Genetic Composition:
• 30% wiggles
• 25% tippy-tap propulsion system
• 20% squeaky-toy demolition unit
• 15% cuddle-marshmallow fluff
• 7% confused but eager
• 3% goose energy (no explanation needed)

Yes, her hair is still growing back.
No, we do not know if she will eventually be a fluffy cloud or stay a sleek little greased-otter-princess. Life is mystery. She embraces it.

🏆 Life Skills:
• Crate trained ✅
• Housebroken ✅
• Fully vetted ✅
• Gets along with dogs ✅
• Tolerated cats like a benevolent potato queen ✅
• Wakes up every morning like “GOOD MORNING BESTIE I LOVE YOU” ☀️✨

She has never once been mean. Even when she had every reason to.
Her villain origin story? Refusing to stop loving people.

🎭 Dramatic Highlights:
• Performs tap-dances powered by pure hope
• Looks like she’s wearing a fur coat someone took a weed-whacker to (she’s trend-setting)
• Collapses into your lap like a fainting Victorian lady whenever she wants attention
• Gives you those big googly eyeballs like
“Mother, why do you pet other dogs when I am right here?”

🧠 Brain Cell Status:

One single, hardworking brain cell who sometimes takes breaks.
But it’s okay — her vibes are immaculate and good vibes > physics.

🥇 If You Adopt Gertie, You Get:
• Emotional support potato
• Free unlimited serotonin refills
• A dog who thinks you’re Beyoncé
• Front row seats to “The Gertie Wiggle Hour™” (daily show)
• A personal hype creature who believes you can do anything, even laundry

❗️If You Do NOT Adopt Gertie:

We will simply keep posting her until the end of time.
Facebook will crumble. Civilization may fall. But Gertie posts will remain.

This is not a threat.
This is a prophecy. 🕯️👁️✨

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Adopt the gremlin.
Let her be your weird little soulmate.

💌 Apply at: helpingheartshealingtails.org
⚠️ Gertie comes with compulsory cuddle tax

KL #16994

11/08/2025

Mack had a little hiccup with his right eye yesterday. We think he somehow bumped it and it started to bleed, so he had to go back to the vet. He was released today and is in an amazing foster home. He has to be kept on cage rest with short potty breaks for the next 10 days. We would love to find Mack a home as soon as he’s healed up. If you are interested in a 130 pound lap dog, Mack is your boy!

Apply for Mack on our website helpingheartshealingtails.org

KL #16994

11/08/2025

The first week in November from Nov. 2 to 8 is designated as National Shelter and Rescue Week to honor organizations that provide a safe haven for animals in need.

11/07/2025

Okay listen… we thought we were on Day 10… or Day 15… or Day 372? Honestly at this point we’ve lost all sense of time, space, and reality. We’re living in a Ruby-posting twilight zone. 🌀

Whatever Day-It-Is, here’s the only thing that matters:

Ruby is still waiting.

Look at her. Sitting so politely on her “place” cot like a tiny velvet potato who did everything right and yet somehow still doesn’t have a family. 🥔❤️

She is starting to spiral, okay?
She thinks she’s not adoptable.
She thinks no one wants her.
She thinks she’s going to be living on this cot permanently like it’s her starter apartment and she’s waiting to get approved for a mortgage.

We keep telling her she’s perfect — smart, silly, trained, snuggly, and the goodest shade of peanut-butter perfection — but she’s giving us that, “are you sure?” look now. 😩

Someone please apply for this girl before she starts Googling “self-help books for overlooked dogs.”
Or worse — starts a podcast. 🎤🐶

If you’ve been thinking about fostering or adopting, this is your sign.
✨Ruby is ready.✨
She’s been ready.

Let’s get this sweet gremlin off her emotional support cot and into a home. 🏠💕

✅ Fully vetted
✅ Crate & house trained
✅ Smart, social, and hilarious
🚨 Needs to eat separately — food manners are still loading…

📝 Apply: helpingheartshealingtails.org



KL #16994

11/07/2025

Ireland and Moby both went to their furever homes this week! Thank you to their families for choosing to adopt!!!