‘Tis the season for a month of miracles. December was amazing in all aspects – from incredible fosters/adoptions, to an outpouring of donations and voting support, to an awesome and much-overdue party. It ended a year that we will never forget at rescue.
September greeted us with the discovery that three of our rescues were heartworm positive and needed to be treated. This led to an online heartworm preventative awareness campaign and, of course, more fundraisers … We also said goodbye to one of our special boys whose mother made him a “lucky one” … and provided the soundtrack to a video of lots of other lucky dogs like him.
February was a relatively calm month at rescue. Those are very rare and we are always thankful for them. Donna celebrated her birthday … and we celebrated her and the rescue by putting together our “Home” video as a gift. Haven’t seen it yet?
We debuted several new videos at last night’s holiday party to not only celebrate the year but the years of rescue work. Here is the first one – dedicated to all of the amazing volunteers/supporters who keep this machine running and the costs and efforts everyone goes to, to make sure these dogs get the second chance they deserve.
We are here for them …
We won’t go into details, but there have been some scandals lately in the dog rescue world about where money is going and what rescues around the country are doing. We know that every one of those stories can cause people to lose faith in donating.
And that debauchery saddens us.
We strive hard on our website and our Facebook page to show you through pictures that we receive your donations, how we use them, how they benefit the dogs, etc. We also welcome you to call our vet (whom we are in debt to for thousands) and donate to them directly, if you don’t trust us to do pay them. And we invite you, if you’re in the area or passing through, to come out to the ranch and see how we are putting your donations to use.
You have all been such great supporters and never given us reason to think otherwise. We hope we have done the same for you and we just want you to know that every single penny you spend (via purchases, auctions, fundraisers, donations, time volunteered, etc.) goes directly to our dogs. It does not benefit anyone or anything else. Our volunteers donate all their time in online activities, vet runs, kennel care, scooping poop, etc. There are absolutely no salaries here.
If you’ve met Mama Donna, you know she lives well below her means and, sometimes, the volunteers have to get onto her for that: Take care of yourself before the dogs, Donna. She, of course, does not listen. She works a full-time job 40-50 hours and then spends 40-50 hours taking care of these dogs to give them the best homes possible.
The volunteers will hop off the soapbox now. We just want to assure you that we do everything and anything within our means to take care of these babies. We get nothing but joy seeing each and every one of these dogs arrive down ‘n out and then become down ‘n dirty like any JRT should be. They each mean something to us and always will until the day they are adopted … and we still cry our eyes out when that happens, let us tell you.
Thank you all for your ongoing support, donations and love for the dogs. If you ever want to “call us to the table,” please do. We’ll invite you that table … for a barbecue.
As always, if you need proof, view our video … 😉
Hannah needs help. She arrived in early April with the other five Exodus Six dogs. She was scared senseless of Mama Donna and all of the volunteers. She would allow us to enter her kennel to clean and feed/water her, but she would never allow us to get close and would always make sure she […]
Tomorrow is Donna’s birthday. We tried to keep this video under wraps until then, but just couldn’t …
Here’s the personal home video the volunteers put together for her for her birthday. It’s a short glimpse into the life of the rescue she and Jimmy founded more than 10 years ago and that we, the volunteers, are so proud to be a part of. We are missing so many dogs and will probably create more of these, but … for now … Welcome to our world and thank you for supporting us.
If you would like to wish her a happy birthday or leave her a gift (donations to the dogs only, please), you can do so by signing her page and/or visiting our donations page and mentioning “Happy Birthday” in the special notes.