Flying Dogs Canada

11/01/2025

These pups have so much love to give you.
Time is running out at the transitional foster home in Victoria, BC and they might need to go to kennels.
We think the good folk of Vancouver Island will step up once again.
We believe Shirley and Laverne to be the daughters of pregnant stray, Mama,Carmen, who was abandoned tied to our gate last Monday.
They have been in Canada a few weeks after being brought up to a foster situation from which they had to be removed. Some wonderful adopters/fosters from Victoria stepped up, on the understanding that the Girls would leave beforw 15th January.
They are 1 year old spayed, vaccinated females who are adjusting to a new diet. They had some frequent urination issues which are now clearing up.
We need foster applications THIS weekend so we can set up meet and greets. Vancouver Island or the Lower mainland of BC are preferable and the Girls CAN be split up if you can acommodate just one.
Put in the form today. Go to
www.flyingdogscanada.com

If you have, over the last 8 years, already adopted from us or fostered with us or gone through our vetting process then please email [email protected] or just send a Facebook message to our page or to one of our board members.
Shirley is the social one and Laverne is quiet, timid and reserved.

11/01/2025

$ 135 still to raise and $255 already so kindly donated🙏🙏🙏 towards helping us reach our $390 goal

( ThankYOU so so much)

Things have been a bit harder lately as some supporters lost their jobs or had babies and they still very kindly support us by cheering us on or sharing posts but have had to drop their monthly recurring donations because of the struggle to make ends meet at home. We totally understand their struggle.
We are so reliant on the amazing monthly donations as our most reliable income for covering the day today boring types of expenses.....like water bills, dishcloths, lights etc...mundane essential things.

We have some basic but important things to pay this weekend and we are trying to get about $390 together to cover some immediate running expenses for our shelter... it may not seem like a lot of money to everyone but to us it is a lot for covering shelter running expenses. If 25 page followers could donate $15.60 each then our weekend would be less stressful and we could focus on giving preggo Mamma coconut oil tummy massages instead of trying to think up ways to come up with covering our costs.

Our website has a donate button at
www.flyingdogscanada.com

Please consider pressing it! It would mean the world to a lot of pups and would keep the volunteers sane!

10/01/2025

Things have been a bit harder lately as some supporters lost their jobs or had babies and they still very kindly support us by cheering us on or sharing posts but have had to drop their monthly recurring donations because of the struggle to make ends meet at home. We totally understand their struggle.
We are so reliant on the amazing monthly donations as our most reliable income for covering the day today boring types of expenses.....like water bills, dishcloths, lights etc...mundane essential things.

We have some basic but important things to pay this weekend and we are trying to get about $390 together to cover some immediate running expenses for our shelter... it may not seem like a lot of money to everyone but to us it is a lot for covering shelter running expenses. If 25 page followers could donate $15.60 each then our weekend would be less stressful and we could focus on giving preggo Mamma coconut oil tummy massages instead of trying to think up ways to come up with covering our costs.

Our website has a donate button at
www.flyingdogscanada.com

Please consider pressing it! It would mean the world to a lot of pups and would keep the volunteers sane!

10/01/2025

Happy Update = ☆ COVERED MOST GENEROUSLY BY THE VERY KIND RENATE COYLE OF BC WHO ADOPTED LEVI OREJAS( Laika the Chicken Stealer's son)☆
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Earlier:

Carnivorous Cutie in Kimberley♡

This foster dog in Kimberley,BC is Laika ( Come Pollo) and her raw food diet costs $70.89 a month. She is doing really well. Would anyone consider partially sponsoring it for January?

You could send $70.89 or a few pennies towards it via etransfer to [email protected] or [email protected] or via online payment on our websites donation button at www.flyingdogscanada.com

10/01/2025

Today we bought a fluffy rug for Mama Carmen. The paddle pool for the whelping pen arrives Sunday and puppy milk supplement has been ordered in case there are more puppies than functional boobs♡ We are not used to preparing for maternity since we tend to spay or neuter everything that moves. It has been a few years since we rescued a heavily pregnant dog. She is like a basking seal....very content...always ready for a snacko.
Keeping her company is her daughter,Liliana, freshly spayed and about 11-12 months old.

09/01/2025

WhoDunnit Mystery Still Unsolved but what remains clear is that we need your support now more than ever...

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On Monday we woke up to two dogs🐕🐕 abandoned on the doorstep of our volunteer house shelter 🏡in Catemaco. We made a post about one dog, in the hope that the culprit ( a miguided well intentioned serial abandoner)💩 would come forward and ask about the second dog, if we mentioned only one.
On Tuesday we took the dogs to get a spay( Liliana) and an abortion👩‍⚕️. However the vet, who was willing to perform the abortion, saw it as very high risk for Mama Carmen🤰. So we aborted the abortion mission⏳️.
Many of you asked how you could help and we were too flat out exhausted to reply for a day so probably missed out on getting some of the help being offered😭, although we did get some kind donations🥹.
What we need right now are funds, boxes of 100 p*e 💦pads from Costco for $35 and several flats of 24 cans of pedigree wet food 🍽to help Carmen🐶 stay hydrated. We will need Liliana🐕 to have a work up for bloods👩‍⚕️ and vaccines. We may need powfered puppy milk 🥛on standby and we are going to need lots of blankets and dewormer🪱🪱🪱🦠🦠🦟.

Our treasurer,👩‍🦳Jane, can order flats of cans from Amazon Mexico (like $75 a flat) and p*e pads ( $35) and you can connect with her at [email protected]

Or you can send a kind donation via etransfer to [email protected] or pop over to our website donate button at www.flyingdogscanada.com

Having two more dogs in our care ( four if you count the recent torture victims) is really pushing us to the point of bursting. Plus we have had a couple of monthly recurring sponsorships get dropped though redundancies, job losses, things which have affected the personal lives of our kind donors and loyal supporters.

We have been so lucky that many of you supported Lucia,Maggie, Grey, Shirley, Laverne and other abandoned or stray animals in need. One lady from Bethlehem,Pennsylvania in the US has been absolutely incredible.
We have paid a few vet bills in Canada and in Mexico thanks to some generous women but wow we still have a lot to do.

{ Photos: See how Liliana was tied up to our gate so close to the neighbours by the abandoner that she got stuck in their yard...lucky she did not strangle on the chain and that the son let us in to get her out after about an hour. They almost let her out in the street. If we hadn't been there then God knows where she would have ended up, dragging her chain }

09/01/2025

The dog abandoned with her pregnant mother on the doorstep of the shelter is Liliana and she is enjoying what is probably the first toy of her life.

It costs $50 a month to cover the basic needs of each shelter dog. Usually a dog has two sponsors who split it.
It would help Liliana (and take some stress off our volunteers) to get Liliana sponsored.

You can go to the donate button at www.flyingdogscanada.com and opt for a monthly donation.

We may not be able to change the world but we can change this dogs world.

www.flyingdogscanada.com

09/01/2025

Maggie is back from the clinic after her second chemo. She looks so much better already. Back again on Tuesday and each week in January. We are going to need about $180 still to pay her second bill but we paid the $300 one today and we will need $100 a week for the next 4 visits to cover chemo and taxi.
We are so lucky to have a trusted taxi driver, Don Martin, to help us. It keeps the stress low dnd the cameraderie is good.We keep wet wipes in his vehicle even. Very grateful to the teenagers, Axel and Zuri, who came to the vet clinic today to help with Maggie, who is very fearful.

08/01/2025

Hooded HooHa's R us🐕🐕🐾

Shirley and Laverne have hooded/recessed vulvas which may cause a dog to have urinary tract infections. This morphology can be genetic or can occur when a dog is spayed prior to their first heat cycle. The vet bill for both is $250+ and we had to use our kibble money to make up the difference. Their foster family has urine collection cups. These doggos need to be kept very clean to keep them healthy by preventing the accumulation of bacteria.
We hope this won't put off prospective adopters.

08/01/2025

The bad news:

In Mexico Maggie needs $300 cad to pay her bill😭

The good news:

After two vincristine treatments her tumours are shrinking

Maggie has four more weekly vincristine treatments to go.

To Donate

By etransfer via

[email protected]
OR
[email protected]

OR

Press the " Donate" button on our website at

www.flyingdogscanada.com

07/01/2025

As you know, we focus on population control. We are not one of those rescues which picks up pregnant dogs and lets them have cute pups, dog after dog, flight after flight. We abort litters at our spay events. Today we have taken the dog which was yesterday abandoned at our gate( " Carmen") for an abortion( with her daughter Liliana #2 who needs to be spayed). We have left her in San Andres at the clinic.
There is a high risk of Mama Carmen bleeding out and dying apparently. The vet was willing to try.
I had to make an executive decision on the spot. Believe me I am the first to grumble when I see rescues doing 3 week countdowns. To me it's like breeding to meet the market for puppies. I chose Carmen's life over ' getting rid of a problem'. That dog has suffered enough. I don't want to kill her even though risking her life will stop maybe even 5-6 pups from entering this world. So, I'm sorry to tell you that I have gone soft. This decision is patient centred not population control centred. I may live to regret it but she is about to pop. If she had been abandoned at our gate or someone had contacted us a couple of weeks ago then we could have more safely aborted.
This is very frustrating.
Mama needs a couple of decent blankets and a whelping pool. Hopefully she won't give birth in the taxi on the way back from San Andres.

~ Sara@FDC Rescue

07/01/2025

*In reply to the question from a page follower in response to yesterdays post in Spanish directed at a serial abandoner who has been targeting our shelter repeatedly*

Question:

" Do you want the dog cared for or set loose? Sometimes it’s hard for the humans too and perhaps they were doing what they thought was best for the dog. I don’t understand why you’d threaten them on a public forum."

Answer:

" For safety reasons we are not a dumping ground for dogs.Dumping comes with risks....strangulation, dehydration, random attacks by passing dogs, someone coming along and taking a dog to harm it (there have been torture cases in the area). We encourage people to reach out to us for help in their communities not to dump dogs. We have to struggle hard every day to try to afford to cover the costs of our shelter dogs. We don't have enough space. The locals know they can message us on facebook over their dog problems, including free spays. We have the same MO now repeatedly, the same knots, same time of day...four dogs. We think the same perpetrators. It is perfectly reasonable, if we have the same people over and over abandoning dogs like this for us to want to talk to them, get a history, stop this from happening again.
We suspect it's someone we know.
I have given 8 years of my life and most of my savings to the dogs here. Our board has worked hard to get down to one shelter. Once we have our dogs adopted then we can focus our resources primarily on spayneuter. We have dogs in Canada relying on us too.

These humans probably have 20 reproducing dogs that they are slowing dumping on our step, two by two. It is better that they reach out to us directly so we can go to their house and spayneuter all these animals, tackle root causes.

Furthermore we care about our shelter biosecurity and it's best for us to treat tick ridden dogs off property and to cycle them through the vet clinic for tests prior to intake. Tying dogs up outside for us is a biosecurity risk to our own shelter dogs. We usually cycle dogs through a vet clinic and do the 4DX and chagas and vaccines and dewormimg prior to a period of quarantine.
Half of Catemaco would love to send us about 1000 dogs, some because they want the dog to go to Canada and sleep on a sofa.
We have nowhere to put them. We still have dogs from 2017 and 2018 because we don't euthanize for space.

We HAVE to find ways to help them in their communities. A repeat abandoner, risking our biosecurity, is a problem. They're going to do it again. We have dogs from 2 years ago, pups from 4 years ago abandoned and still not adopted.
We can help the local rescuers with dogs but we don't have a large facility or enough money to house them all. These were not sick or injured dogs. These dogs could have been managed in their community with healthcare outreach and a spayneuter campaign, assistance with food donations.
If abandonement is made too easy then what happens to the next stray dog hit by a car? Fragile senior? Do we have to put them down because this anonymous serial abandoner made our choices for us ?
Do we suddenly need to buy 40 x $50 cad of bravecto to deal with a tick outbreak because of a dog tied to our gate, when we have a clean biosecure population?
We need to talk to these repeat abandoners, help them where THEY live, stop a repeat...stop them dropping off a 5th tick and flee ridden dog, get a history on the four they've already dumped on our step over the last three months.

We help several local advocates in their communities. I don't think we are dealing with 'owners'. I think we are dealing with animal advocates, people who are 'rescuing' dogs and dropping them off, thinking they are doing a good thing when they need to go about things differently in a way which does not threaten the health of our current existing shelter dogs.
I hope this answers your question somewhat and you now understand why we need to talk to these people, to find a better way forward. They need help too."

~Sara@FDC Rescue

{Video is from Monday morning before we knew if the two abandoned dogs were safe/ friendly and still had not removed their neck chains or filthy collars} Initially we mentioned one dog only in the hope that someone would come forward to ask us about the second dog they abandoned.

07/01/2025

R.I.P Rocky of Catemaco🌈 who has passed away in BC, Canada in the loving arms of his adopters some years after adoption.
Thankyou Ayala for initially seeing mangy Rocky in the streets of San Andres Tuxtla and bringing our attention to him 4-5 years ago.

06/01/2025

*Turns out it's Tuesday( tomorrow)*
These girls really do need some funds today for their visit to Oaklands Clinic in Victoria, BC can you give them a paw? 🐾

06/01/2025

Al hombre y a la mujer que ataron una perrita a la puerta de nuestra casa de voluntarios durante la noche:
Estaba atados al sol sin agua, aterrorizados y el vecino está revisando su cámara de video para que podamos identificarlo A MENOS que nos envíe un mensaje explicando la situación de estos perrita y su historia. Entonces no publicaremos sus rostros en línea ni haremos un informe policial.
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To the man and woman who tied up a dog to our volunteer house gate in the night:
She was tied up in the sun with no water, terrified and the neighbour is checking their video camera so we can video identify you UNLESS you send us a message, explaining the situation of this dog and her history. Then we will not publish your faces online or make a police report.

06/01/2025

Laika ( Come Pollo) is being taught manners by her wonderful foster parents, Kaitlynn and Bradley.
They are investing a lot of love, time and energy into this sweet girl. Almost 4 years ago this girl was a wild street dog, killing chickens for her puppies to survive. She was fearful and semi feral.
Look at how nicely she can behave now.
We hope someone will look past her being middle aged and beige and realize that this is the most loyal, special soul🐕

Meet and greets would be in Kimberley,BC and CRANBROOK, BC

Put in a no obligation pre approval application to be generally approved to adopt so you can be matched by going to Adoptions at

www.flyingdogscanada.com

06/01/2025

Puppy Golden Showers Super-Powers ☔️🐾💪🦴
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Victoria, BC foster pups Shirley and Laverne are our January " Dogs of the Month" and today they have a vet appointment since they've been urinating a LOT. A kind lady sent $60 towards this appointment to get them started. We are thinking the visit may be $200 ish since there are two of them. So it's a bit stressful.

If you'd like to lend a paw🐾 by spending a penny on the pups then these p*efull pooches would be pretty pleased.

To Donate:

By Etransfer to

[email protected]
OR
[email protected]

OR go to our website online Donate button and click it at

www.flyingdogscanada.com

06/01/2025

Cinderella Story?

Letitia is now living in Duncan,BC.
Three months ago she was on the streets of Mexico suffering. Oh how her life has been transformed.....

We have other dogs in Canada and in Catemaco,Mexico who need to find their happily ever afters🏡🐕