Black Dogs need homes, too!

Black dogs have the hardest time finding new homes.

Pawsibilities.Petfinder.Org

This month Pawsibilities Are Endless on Facebook is highlighting black dogs in Missouri who need new homes.

Is the Blog Tour the Next New Thing?

On Jan 22, 2012 Small Town Rescue announced it's invitation to a Blog Tour. 
It'll be running for 8 weeks but bloggers can choose how many weeks they post. There will be giveaways and each week has it's own theme. It sounds like a great way to meet new blogging buds and help animals at the same time.

You do not have to write an animal related blog to join the party!

http://smalltownrescue.wordpress.com/

Nostalgia: Pawsibilities' First Month

 We've been a rescue over a year now, but this is our "stat sheet" from our first month:

 Pawsibilities 1 month anniversary!!

 

We pulled 8 dogs from the city pound!

 

We kept a momma dog from going into the pound and prevented her 9 pups being born there!!

 

We have transported 5 dogs and 9 puppies to other rescues, some as far away as Colorado and Minnesota.

 

We adopted two baby girls out. Yeah Lindsey and Carley!

 

We have vaccinated every dog we have worked with. 

 

We have started de-worming dogs while they are still in the pound.

 

We have done over $1000 worth of vetting for these animals and purchased roughly $100 in food! We have donated over a hundred pounds of food to the Windsor Shelter.

 

Our Youtube channel http://www.youtube.com/user/Pawsibilities1 has had 128 views!

 

We have assisted with the Windsor Pound petfinder page by supplying all of the photos and entering all the information. (WACO) (this is how Halie got adopted through the city pound, a gentleman from Clinton saw her on the WACO petfinder page)

 

We are submitting a “Pound Pet of the Week” in the local newspaper! (Thanks to the Windsor Review for donating the section!)

 

We’ve set up our Paypal account and email address: Pawsibilities@ymail.com to accept donations.

 

 

We found a great boarding facility that is donating a kennel to us as needed: http://www.stacyspetboarding.2freedom.com/   (Thanks, Stacy!)

 

We have traveled roughly 2000 miles between vetting and transporting dogs!

 

10 Things 2B Thankful For!

Pawsibilities Are Endless recently celebrated our one year anniversary. In doing so, we reflected on the first 12 months as a rescue and everything we had to be thankful for.

 

Top 10 list:

 

 

1) Our Families: Rescue is very difficult and time consuming work and often times the dogs see us more than our families' do. We appreciate our families' unwavering support. 

 

2) Our foster family: Yes, I said our foster family. Pawsibilities Are Endless is a very very tiny rescue in Rural Missouri. Pegge and I met by complete chance at a pet fair event; from there we communicated a bit online and not long after Pegge, Paul and Tim were fostering for us. Since that time this amazing group of individuals not only foster dogs for us but also host Pawsibilities' Pet Fairs, donate items, dog food and funds and even gave Sheba a loving home!

 

Fostering a homeless animal can be a very trying but very rewarding experience and through all the fosters we've seen come and go, this foster family has stuck by Pawsibilities' side and saved many animal's lives in the process. Thank you, Pegge, Paul and Tim!

 

3) Colorado Animal Rescue Express at Caretransport.org. With the help of Jake's Fund, we have been able to save more animals this year than we could have ever dreamed of. They have assisted us with funds for medical expenses, medical supplies and additional supplies needed for our foster dogs. They also help us by spreading the word when we have a dog in need, transporting our dogs out of Missouri when needed and spending time with us over the phone answering questions and giving us much needed advice when we come up against tough decisions. Thank you Lisa and Linda!

 

4)  Stacy's Pet Boarding at: http://www.stacyspetboarding.2freedom.com/ Stacy graciously donates a minimum of 1 kennel to us at a time; with out her 13 less lives would've been saved this year alone! Stacy also helps when I have medical questions and her wonderful family plays fetch with our foster dogs and keeps them socialized, giving us updates on our dog's personalities. Most of the dogs that Pawsibilities brings in to our rescue are in poor physical shape from ear infections, skin conditions, malnutrition and the list goes on. Stacy is absolutely wonderful about offering to take these dogs in to her care and throughout their healing process. Thank you, Stacy!

 

5) Jennifer C and her family!  Jennifer is gracious enough to keep up with Petfinder, list our dogs online, creating Chip In pages and still makes the time for her and the kids to host pet fairs with Pawsibilities! Oh, and did I mention, they also gave Big Jake a home? We had an 80 pound chocolate lab come into the rescue with an ear infection, skin allergies and more. Jennifer met him at his first pet fair and adopted him at his second! What can I say? He was a charmer! Thank you Jen and family!

 

 

6) Our Furry Foster Dogs: Most of the dogs we rescue have been through hell and back, yet at the end of the day once they get in to our foster homes, warm, safe, loved and (their favorite) well fed, most of these dogs tend to "let it go" and become the most loveable, appreciative and well behaved dogs you could dream of. Thank you to our wonderful, warm-hearted pups!

 

7) Pawsibilities directors Kim and Monica. Thank you for everything you do from fielding phone calls, texts and emails to keeping up with our Pawsrendless.org website! I could never do this with out you!

 

8) Jennifer M and Joy M: Thank you SO much for the fundraisers you have done for us!! With your support we will be able to continue saving lives into 2012!

 

9) Petco in Blue Springs, Mo: This Petco has allows us to do Pet Fairs at their location long before Pawsibilities Are Endless was even formed. Even though we only take sometimes 1 or 2 dogs to an event; this Petco welcomes us with open arms any time we feel like showing up! Thank you to the managers and staff of Petco off of Adams Dairy Parkway in Blue Springs!

 

10) The rescue community at large! When I first started fostering in rescue I had no idea the scope and reach rescues had. I thought we were just a little rural area and wondered how the dogs I would be fostering were ever going to find homes in such a small and over populated area. I soon learned that rescue is a massive, international web consisting of directors, fosters, transporters, crossposters, fundraisers, donors and the list goes on and on including volunteers to walk dogs, to rescue Tweet buds on twitter and even Facebook Friends! I was soon seeing my foster dogs from rural Missouri being saved by fabulous rescues in Colorado, Nebraska and Minnesota! There are groups fighting to stop Breed Specific Legislation to stop Bully Bans and even groups focused on education.The rescue community is a very devoted and passionate group of animal lovers and I thank the entire rescue community at large for their love and dedication for every animal saved every day of every year.

Thirty Things I'm Thankful For

I know it's very cliché (and early) to do this at this time of year; however, I have been so blessed lately, yes, I said blessed; I just had to do this. For those of you who know me, you know I am a self-pronounced pessimist. I very rarely think positive and if something good happens; I am always thinking, “How can this go wrong,” because I’m actually expecting it to go wrong.

So, when things started looking up for me lately, I was tentative to believe it, and still am. However, I have realized I am not as stressed out as I usually am and have even caught myself smiling a few times. So, I have decided I must thank everyone around me who has helped me smile lately.

I don’t know if I can come up with thirty, but I sure will try. I may surprise myself.

#1  (Again, Cliché again, but so true)
My family. Between mom and daughter nights, my husband making special chip dips and my son backing me up every which way he can with the animal rescue; they have given me much to be thankful for. Sometimes we can take these things for granted, and of course we do much of the time; but these small things make a world of difference in our lives whether we realize it or not. I’m realizing it.

Thank you to my family!!!

Help Save One Life

Did you know? At this time Pawsibilities can not accept pregnant mothers into our rescue. Due to Depart-ment of Ag rules: the moment puppies turn 8 weeks they are considered their own dog & our group does not have enough foster homes to comply. We need help.
We need fosters in the Blue Springs, Warrensburg, Higginsville, Sedalia, Windsor, Whiteman AFB and surround-ing areas for cats and dogs. For every foster home we have, that is one or two more lives we can save. Those willing to take on momma dogs/cats, that is one more momma who doesn’t deliver in a shelter where many times puppies, if they survive the whelping process, contract parvo and don’t make it.

If you are interested in fostering for Pawsibilities Are Endless or adopting one of the adorable girls shown above, please contact Lora at Pawsibilities@ymail.com

About us:

pawsibilities@ymail.com or pawsrendless.org to start the application process. Our tiny rescue is located in Central-West Missouri not far from Warrensburg, Sedalia and Whiteman AFB. We specialize in helping animals in need find their forever homes. To assist in these efforts not only do we provide local adoptions but we work with other rescues to find homes for our furry packages across the United States. In Pawsibilities’ mind nothing compares to helping an animal find their happily ever after.

Linda Needs Training

-We would like to thank Colorado Animal Rescue Express at www.caretransport.org for their generous donations towards medical supplies for Pawsibilities dogs in the month of May!

-Linda, our German Shepherd/Lab mix is in desperate need of obedience training. If you would like to assist us in this cause we are accepting donations. Donations can be made by Paypal to Pawsibilities@ymail.com or checks can be mailed directly to Post Oak K-9 Training Center 341 SW County Road BB, Warrensburg, MO 64093.
Please note "Dog: Linda Rescue: Pawsibilities"on  your donation.

Classes are $30 each.