Donations Needed! See Your Donations At Work!

Donations are sorely needed to continue our rescue work.

There are always more dogs in need of rescuing from high-kill shelters, dogs that need vet care, kenneling ... the list goes on.

Here are some examples of dogs that came to us in great need:

The first dog, Beau, had demodex mange so severe that his gums and paws were swollen ... and his feet bled when he walked. Now look at gorgeous he looks!

The second dog shown here, Canelo (the little chi), had been dumped by his owners at a high-kill shelter. He almost didn't survive the experience. He ended up with pneumonia and a staph infection. He became skin and bones.

Little Canelo had to go to a specialist because our vet couldn't get him well. Again, thanks to your generous donations, Canelo was saved and now has a happy life in his forever home.

The last dog shown here is Gideon. When his owner asked us to take him, we saw that he was in horrible shape. He had been left outside in the searing heat, was covered in sores and flies, couldn't walk--he could barely lift his head.

The vet suggested that we put him down as the dog had a heart condition on top of everything else, but we couldn't do that--not without at least trying to save his life.

Amazingly, the dog surprised all of us, including our vet, and he responded well to treatment. He was standing in a week! He has been adopted out with his "sister."

But we couldn't have done it without your donations. Please donate to help us continue our work.

To Donate to Critters in Need Pet Rescue, and to ensure that 100% of your donation goes to Critters in Need Pet Rescue when using Paypal,

Go to https://www.paypal.com/

Click on Personal or Home.

Then click on Send Money Online.

Click on the PERSONAL tab and choose GIFT.

Send donations to this email address: Donations@CrittersInNeed.org

It's that easy! And thank you for your support!

Questions? Please email Dogs@CrittersInNeed.org

Yippee!! All Four Puppies Are Out Of Cages!

The good news is that all the Devore Four puppies are in foster homes! YEAH!! And we couldn't have done it without all of your help. The power of networking is not to be underestimated!

Here's a picture of Bean at his new foster home ... isn't he a cutie?
Bean's new best friend is a kitten, Oreo is getting to know the foster's other dogs (Oreo never got sick, so it's OK for him to be around other dogs) and today, Mandy and Candy are back together again at the home of one of our Critters' volunteers.

I picked Mandy up first at the vet. She was a little hesitant but so glad to be out of ISO! Then I drove to the other vet to pick up Candy. Well, you should have seen Mandy perk up with she saw Candy! She became her old self almost immediately, which was my goal in putting them back together. She wanted out of her crate NOW, but the poor kid had to wait until we got to the foster home.

This first video was shot immediately after they were let loose--and boy, did they have a blast. Soon afterwards, Mandy and Candy discovered the bags of dog food I had brought, and they were digging at them, trying to open them. Mandy chowed down as if she hadn't eaten in days! I think she didn't eat much while at the vet, so it'll be gratifying to see her put on much needed weight!

Mandy & Candy, free at last!

Mandy & Candy at their foster home.

Compare these videos to this one of a very sad Mandy taken a few days ago.

And here's a photo and video of little Oreo at his foster home. Is he cute, or what?
Again, thank you all for networking for fosters for these four puppies. Without your help, we couldn't have done gotten these sweethearts out of their cages at the vet and into loving foster homes.

But the battle isn't over yet. The not-so-good news concerns the vet bills. We've gotten in some donations (and again, thank you to all of you who donated), but we still owe the two vets approximately $2,700 (down from $3,700). We need to pay them off quickly; the vets have been so kind to us and the little puppies.

Please donate via Paypal.

We're so grateful that all three puppies survived--and that little Oreo never got sick! Again, we couldn't have done it without all of you!

The Devore Four Have Names!

Here are the two boys: Bean and Oreo. The two girls are Candy and Mandy. So far, so good.

But we're still in dire need of fosters for Bean and Oreo! We're racking up vet bills at $43/day and the puppies have to be quarantineed until August. 1.

Please contact us right away! Debra@CrittersRescue.com

Rescued 5 Dogs--Need Fosters to Rescue 2 More!

Ran out to Baldwin Park shelter twice last week to meet and rescue dogs. All dogs are sweet and in great danger.

We pulled five dogs but need fosters to save the other two.

This is Jessie. She's a real sweetie and has already given me kisses. I promised her I'd get her out of there somehow ... to have her die would just be too awful.

This is Nanook, another sweetheart. If we just had a foster for him, we could save his life.

There are two other dogs in great danger. Again, we can't save them without fosters.

Here are the dogs we saved last week:

TASHA. Very pretty girl. Submissive, sweet.

LION KING. Gorgeous dog. Just a doll.

OLIVE. Pretty, calm little girl. Very good with her new gal pal, Lucy. NEEDS FOSTER.

LUCY. What a little cutie with those big ears. NEEDS FOSTER.LUCY. What a little cutie with those big ears. NEEDS FOSTER.

ROCKY. Lovely older gentleman. NEEDS FOSTER!ROCKY. Lovely older gentleman. NEEDS FOSTER!

PLEASE contact us at Dogs@CrittersRescue.com if you can foster.

Canelo Back At the Vet--Again! Need Foster!

Canelo was coughing up a storm, so we took him back to the vet on Saturday.

We took another x-ray. The lungs looked OK. There was some consolidation and some bronchial changes but nothing to indicate why he's having problems exhaling. His cough is dry and hacking, and my vet said he could hear him wheezing across the room. So sad to see him cough his little lungs out like that!

My vet wanted to check if there was some kind of blockage around the trachea, which could be an easy repair. So poor Canelo had to spend the night--again--at the vet. This morning, Canelo was put under to examine the trachea. Unfortunately, it was wide open--no blockage here. So no easy fix.

The vet then added a bronchial dilator pill to the mix. He started Canelo on a lower dosage to build up tolerance and then we'll be upping the dosage in a few days. Let's hope this works. Keep your fingers crossed!

Canelo was released today. This bill was approximately $105. So far, the vet bills have totaled about $1,500--and still he's not well.

We need to do the BAL immediately, but we can't because we don't have the funds. We need to raise $1,200 to $1,800.

Canelo has to go to a specialist for this procedure. They'll put him under, take a sample from the lungs using brush cytology and then do a culture from the sample.

It's the only way we can find out why he's still coughing and wheezing up a storm.

Please go to http://crittersrescueonline.org/index.html to donate via PayPal.

And we still have no foster for him! He's now at our group's founder house, but she's having surgery in a few days and will not be able to look after him.

Canelo really is an easy dog to foster. He just needs to have his meds and that's about it.

Please email us at Dogs@CrittersRescue.com if you can foster.

Thank you all for caring about this special little boy.

Rescue has sure been busy!

Critters in Need has been so busy rescuing dogs. A couple of weeks ago, we took in nine dogs in one day. Nine!

Eight of them were chi's from the Camarillo shelter and one was an owner turn-in to us of her min pin. Delane transported these nine dogs down to us and met us in Long Beach. Then Jane and I had take the dogs to my vet, Garden Grove Dog & Cat Hospital, so they could get the necessary shots.

Can you imagine showing up at my vet with nine little dogs? We had to name them and keep them all straight. Not an easy task, I can tell you! Then we had to get them back in the car and take them over to the kennel we use for boarding.

Some of the chi's have now been adopted or are in foster homes. But several pups still need fosters. Our dogs that need fosters are:

Gunner & Roxy, Marley, Tucker, Gidget, Charlie, Cosmo, Star and Bobby all need foster homes. So please contact us if you can help!

Here's our website:
http://crittersrescueonline.org/

And our email is:
dogs@crittersrescue.com