Puppy Palooza!

In the past couple weeks we have come across and rescued over 13 puppies from 4 different litters. And thanks to Jen and the Humane Society of Greater Kansas City, we have been able to get them into different rescue groups to be adopted out! Our first litter we came across was in KCK where a man has four shepherd mixes chained up in his yard. We had been helping him with hay and fly repellent during the summer months and we knew one of the shepherds wasn't fixed, but he wasn't interested in getting her spayed. Last week we went by to check on everyone and drop off a bunch of straw when we counted 8 little puppies running around in his yard! He wasn't home, so we left supplies for him and left a note for him to call us. He did and told us to please come get the puppies because they were driving him crazy! All 8 of these puppies had wounds on their faces and legs from fighting over food with each other and the other adults in the yard. We went out the next day to get the puppies, which were scared to death of us. We had to scruff most of them and a few we had use our net to catch. We were only able to get 6 at this time, the man said 2 had been stolen. We were heartbroken for those 2, but we were happy we could rescue at least 6. We also signed the momma up for a spay at the Humane Society for the following Tuesday. These 6 puppies went straight the the Humane Society where they received the vetting they really needed and will be transferred to Great Plains SPCA for adoption soon!

We were so upset about the 2 that had supposedly been stolen. During outreach today, we went back by to check today and we were so happy we did! There in the yard were the other two puppies!!! We were able to scruff one and we had to corner and net the other. They were so scared, they just curled up and rode the whole day with us on outreach. They will be joining their brothers and sisters tomorrow at the Humane Society!

It must have been lucky puppy day or something because after picking up these two boys, we rescued three more pups today. We had a call from a KCMO police officer about a homeless woman that was carrying around a very tiny 6 week old puppy with her. We tracked the woman down today, who is also pregnant. We talked to her for along time about the responsibility of having a puppy especially when she needed to focus on taking care of herself right now. She agreed and wanted what was best for the puppy. Us volunteers pooled our money together and gave the woman some money to help her out and we took the little puppy with us. We decided to name this puppy Mandie, after the homeless woman who was doing everything she could for the puppy, but knew it needed a better home. It was a very tearful and sad goodbye, but we told her we would stop by her area and let her know how Mandie was doing.

Then on our way home from outreach we picked up two of the most adorable teddy bears you could ever imagine! A woman that works at our vet clinic found them as strays that showed up at her property and we were happy to take them in! These two girls, who we named Jenny and Josephine, joined Mandie at a volunteer's house for the night. All three of these girls will be available for adoption very soon!

Thank you so much for everyone's support! With out it we couldn't be out there rescuing little babies like these!