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20/08/2024

29/06/2024

July 4th is almost here, but before the BBQs and fireworks begin, let's prepare our furry companions!

Here are some tips to keep your pet calm and safe:

Preparation is Key!

✅ Update ID Tags & Microchips: Ensure your pet's info is current in case they escape during fireworks.

Calming Solutions!

✅ Anxiety Meds? Talk to Your Vet NOW! Don't wait until the last minute.

✅ Consider Calming Treats or Thundershirts to help manage anxiety.

Be Their Calm During the Storm!

✅ Pre-Firework Playtime: Tire them out with a walk or playtime before fireworks start.

Bring Your Pet Inside!

✅ Fireworks can be terrifying for pets. Keep them indoors during festivities.

Create a Safe Space!

❤️ Music Helps! Play calming music to drown out firework noise.

❤️ Frozen Treats Keep Them Busy: Offer frozen Kong toys stuffed with treats for distraction.

❤️ Cozy Cave for Comfort: Provide a safe space like a kennel or crate with a blanket for hiding.

Extra Safety Measures!

🚨 Double Check Doors: Scared pets can be escape artists. Secure your pet before opening doors.

Remember, a little planning goes a long way! By following these tips, you can help your pet feel safe and comfortable during July 4th festivities.

19/06/2024

🔥🔥URGENT NEED OF FOSTERING, ADOPTING OR SHARING!🔥🔥

07/12/2023

🚨URGENT: Chestnut’s foster cannot keep him, they are highly allergic to him! He needs a new foster ASAP!🚨

Chestnut, the canine version of a weighted blanket.
Chestnut arrived as a stray and suffered from extreme confinement anxiety. We could not safely keep him confined to a kennel, often finding him loose in a room after he scaled the kennel walls. Chestnut was lucky enough to find a foster home where we learned:
🐶He has no concept of personal space, he acts like a puppy in a grown dog's body.
🐶He has demonstrated good housetraining habits
🐶Although he can't be crated, he is not destructive when left home alone.
🐶He is sweet, snuggly, and clings like a wet blanket.
🐶He is dog friendly and playful!
Chestnut is ready to transition to a permanent home, making it his personal mission to keep you properly snuggled through any cold night!
Foster: bit.ly/DCASFosterPlea
Adopt: bit.ly/DCASadoptions
Rescue: http://bit.ly/ApprovedRescuePartnerList
FAQ: http://bit.ly/DCASRescueTeamFAQs
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Chestnut • pit mix • neutered male • 1yrs • 64lbs
Date received: 11/21/23
Kids: unknown
Dogs: Appears friendly with other dogs
https://youtu.be/cdag3dVD1r0
Cats: Unknown
Behavior profile: https://drive.google.com/.../1Z0lRMrf0if4p.../view...
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22/11/2023

I don’t think my guy is the super calm type she’s looking for, but I hope someone can help her! 🩷🤎

19/11/2023

21/09/2023

31/08/2023

Just sharing this again. Such a great idea for hurricanes and blizzards.

12/08/2023

Our little buddy Clark has it all. 🏆 Yet, he's still waiting for his forever family. When volunteers talk about about Clark, they say:

🔹️Likes being with people
🔹️Easy on leash and checks in often
🔹️Total wigglebutt
🔹️How can you not love this boy
🔹️Head tilt level - expert
🔹️Such a joy to spend time with

Clark is barking himself hoarse being here. He's struggling so much with shelter life and it breaks our hearts. He's the perfect companion but we need help finding his people! Please help us get this boy our of the shelter and into a loving home that will appreciate his truly special soul.

💙 Adopt: bit.ly/DCASadoptions
💙 Foster/foster-to-adopt: bit.ly/DCASFosterPlea

30/01/2023

Let's talk about brindle babe, Shenzi.

Shortly after arriving at our shelter, Shenzi struggled to settle in. He quickly became 🚨URGENT🚨.

While 583 of you (gosh you peeps are amazing) were sharing Shenzi's original post, staff and volunteers worked on creating ways to alleviate Shenzi's stress.

When we all celebrated getting Shenzi to a place we could remove his urgent status, unfortunately interest in him went away too.

Now while our boy sits waiting, the shelter is filling up. And the measures taken to help him, soon may not be possible to continue.

🚨Shenzi. Needs. You.🚨

He is working so hard to try to be the bestest boy. Staff and volunteers have been working on "calm" and "place" and he has developed a reliable "sit" cue. But being in a shelter environment is challenging.

He needs to find a rescue, foster, or adopter (we'll help the adopter with a training package!) that will give this sweet, sensitive boy the time, patience, and understanding he needs. We want you to see the smart, playful boy we all see! Shenzi is dog friendly!

Please help us, help Shenzi!



Foster: bit.ly/DCASFosterPlea
Adopt: bit.ly/OurAdoptables
Rescue: http://bit.ly/ApprovedRescuePartnerList
FAQ: http://bit.ly/DCASRescueTeamFAQs
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Shenzi • pit mix • neutered male • 1yrs • 57lbs
Date received: 12/12/22
Kids: lived with kids, young and old
Dogs: lived with a small dog, has been friendly towards other shelter dogs
https://youtu.be/E0HArLHPxzQ
Cats: Unknown
Behavior profile: https://youtu.be/E0HArLHPxzQ
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20/01/2023

One of a Pet Parent's worse nightmare is having a pet in a medical emergency. Replace Anxiety with Ability by learning what to do when your pet is in crisis! 🩹

DCAS is currently offering Pet First Aid and CPR workshops. $100 per participant, this workshop teaches techniques to address common emergencies pet owners may experience with dogs and cats. Learn to detect abnormalities and early warning signs, and life-saving skills for when immediate action can make all the difference.

See available classes and sign up today: https://bit.ly/DCASFirstAid

20/01/2023

Chandler and his buddies are wondering if you have any extra cream cheese around? Maybe some liver sausage too? 😋

We're running low and these yummy goodies help our caretakers out in making sure the animals are taking their meds and getting healthy! If you have some extra time, feel free to stop by to drop some off. Chandler and friends will be very thankful! 🫶

20/12/2022

A lot of folks have been asking what they can do to help the shelter pets right now, so we've got our wish lists up to date with the most needed supplies. 💝 Most should arrive before Christmas!

bit.ly/WishListDCAS
bit.ly/DCASChewy

Or shop in person, and stop by with your gift during our business hours.

You can also help with a monetary gift through our charitable partner, DuPage Animal Friends. Your gift is tax-deductible and helps to provide lifesaving supplies, medical care, and programs that fall beyond the scope of the limited DCAS operating budget.

dupageanimalfriends.org/givehope

Your gifts makes more positive outcomes for pets in need possible.

03/12/2022

It's Foster Friday, and we are reaching out to all of you for help. James needs a foster! While we do the best we can to enrich and entertain every animal, some dogs start to go stir-crazy in the shelter environment. Unfortunately, James is one of those dogs, and he would greatly benefit from a little time outside of the shelter, even just for a week. He is a staff favorite who is 7 years old, super smart, and extremely affectionate.

James is looking for a foster home that has no other dogs or cats but can have kids. He is on his way to being housebroken, but we need to get him out of the shelter, even for just a little while, to help him decompress and destress, in time to find a home for the holidays! If you are interested in fostering James, please email our Foster Program Manager at [email protected]. If you can't foster him, please share this post to help us find a foster home for sweet James!

17/11/2022

I do not know anything about this dog, other than what is written here...but from the description, he sounds like one of mine. There were some challenges at first and we worked hard to get him to a place of feeling comfortable...often times, reactionary dogs are scared dogs. They need to learn to trust and feel comfortable....you do that and you will have the best, most loyal companion forever. And while they might be reactive to other stranger dogs, my guy has lived just fine with 2 other familiar dogs. Just sayin’....these “difficult” dogs, are usually well worth it!

16/11/2022

As much as we love getting to know all the pups that come through our doors, as an open-admission shelter, we must get them into adoptive homes quickly, so there is always room for the next one who needs our help.

Some take a little longer than others, depending on their needs, but as long as our community continues to show up ready to adopt a new best friend, we can keep helping those extra needs dogs meet their ideal families too.

The dogs on this list are easygoing about new adventures, meeting people, and living with other pets. If your family cannot adopt an extra needs dog, please know that adopting these dogs helps us focus our resources on them. Adopting these dogs helps to save lives.

Adopt with us: bit.ly/DCASAdoptables

29/09/2022

My 2 favorite rescue organizations - It's a Pittie Rescue and Safe Humane Chicago! Wish I could have made it.

27/08/2022

**UPDATE: In foster, still available for adoption!**

Bubba needs someone to break him out of here, wrap him in a blankey and tell him he will be ok. 🥺

At 4+ years old, this unclaimed boy's eyes tell us he's not had a happy life. And being kenneled has pushed him over the edge. Each time we open the door, he pushes through so hard and fast that we can only imagine the terror he feels being locked in. Every time we have to put him back, he drops to the ground and cries.

Please don't make us put him back anymore.

Once outside, he is so relieved and relaxes enough to be a normal dog. He goes for quiet, sniffy walks and does well meeting other relaxed dogs, preferably gentle ladies.

Foster, Foster-to-Adopt, or just make him your forever bub—we're open to anything that will help him ASAP.

Foster: bit.ly/DCASFosterPlea
Adopt: bit.ly/OurAdoptables

23/08/2022

We are full.
Our dog population is at capacity.
We only have so many cages and kennels to house the dogs. Period.
There is no magic wand or easy solutions.
Animals keep pouring into the shelter. For whatever reason, surrender, stray, confiscate.
The daily intake at CACC is never-ending.

There are ways in which you, our dedicated supporters, can help.
Most importantly, adopt! Holy moly do we have some amazingly beautiful and precious dogs and cats and critters who need homes. Please come by to meet them.
If you can’t adopt, how about fostering?? It’s a catch phrase for a reason. Fostering saves lives. Literally. You can help save a life.
If you can’t foster, share, comment, tag. Let’s team up against the Facebook algorithm and get these furry faces flooding peoples’ newsfeeds!
If you are able to financially help, make pledges for the animals (a commitment to make a donation for the animal to whichever rescue pulls them).
ANYTHING you do, is appreciated more than words can say. Your support and encouragement means the world to us. Thank you.

And to our incredible volunteers. You guys are EVERYTHING. You bring joy and happiness and fun and comfort to the animals at CACC. YOU guys are the backbone of the shelter. You continue to amaze us, by your dedication and passion. It isn’t easy. Oh man, it isn’t easy, we know. You are some of the most awesome people on the planet. We are genuinely grateful to have you on our team. And we can never thank you enough.

**I was adopted on Aug 27, 2022!
This is Elona. Our longest term dog. She’s been here since the beginning of February. No dog should be here that long.**

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19/07/2022