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Angel post surgery Angel was an owner relinquish, because she had a broken leg. Now with two pins and a cast she is feeling much better. 08/08/08
Adopt a Pet: Since April 2006, Almost Home Canine Rescue has paid for 159 dogs and cats in the Madison area to be spayed and neutered to assist in controlling the unwanted pet overpopulation! This is in addition to every dog and puppy adopted through our adoption program. Transport Help :
Almost Home is looking for transport help from Rapid City to the Sioux Falls area and Sioux Falls to Omaha on a regular basis. Do you travel that route frequently? Does your job have you traveling to these areas and back? If so and you would like to help save dogs in urgent need of rescue, please contact us! Almost Home Dog Rescue is dedicated
finding the best possible home for all the pets in our care. We
are dedicated to helping each adoptive family find the newest member
of the family that will best meet the family's and the pet's needs
and life style. We do not have a shelter, thus no visiting hours. All dogs are in foster homes in the Madison area . We can tell you about each dog in detail, as they live with us as part of our family. We prefer email as a first contact, phone calls are accepted when an adoption has been approved. Please feel free to email us and ask questions about any of the dogs listed! application is required, in addition to an approved vet reference and personal references and a home visit. The adoption process does take longer than a day or two in order to check references and arrange for a home visit. Some dogs and cats with special needs may have a more involved adoption process due to the pets needs and our dedication to finding the best home for each pet
ALL animals adopted out
by Almost Home are spayed and neutered prior to adoption. Pediatric
spaying and neutering is very safe and effective. When we sterilize
all puppies and kittens before adoption, we completely ensure that not
a single one of our rescue puppies or kittens adopted will ever reproduce.
We often hear from people who want to help our rescue, but cannot provide foster care. There are other ways you can help our rescue! Here are some ways to help our rescue if you cannot do foster care:
URGENT Help Needed!Do
you love animals? Would you like to know that you had made a difference
in an animal's life? If your answers are yes, join our rescue
group!! We need foster homes, volunteers and people who are interested
in animal welfare. We are a very flexible and diverse group. Our
work is very rewarding! Members network at monthly meetings, events,
fundraisers, and many great friendships have been formed based on
our common interest in the animals. If you would like to join our
growing organization, please email us.
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Dear friends, We have been overwhelmed this year with requests to help animals in our area. This summer has been like no other. Puppy mills are dumping breeding dogs due to decreased puppy sales (which is wonderful!) but the poor parents of the puppies are being dumped or worse. More strays are turning up needing a safe place to go. Almost every dog we have taken in this year has needed extraordinary vet care and rehabilitation. We have outgrown our foster care system and need a shelter in addition to our foster homes to continue our work.
We have been raising money for a shelter for about 2 years. Sandy Christians and I have found a place outside of Madison, SD which is perfect for a shelter! We desperately need to raise the rest of the money to purchase this acreage so we can save more dogs! We will have room for 40-50 dogs with room to expand at a later date. Our focus will be a safe, comfortable home setting for the dogs until we can get them vetted and into foster homes or transported to another rescue we have networked with. Sometimes we just need a place for dogs to go for a couple days until they can get transported to another rescue. Other times we need a quarantine area for dogs who are ill. And sometimes we have emergency calls where we need somewhere for an animal to go immediately. A shelter will offer many more opportunities and options to rescue more animals.
We are doing a Fundable fundraiser to raise more funds. Any donations, large and small, are so appreciated and will help us reach our goal!
Please help us help more animals; feel free to forward and crosspost!
Here is the fundable:
On behalf of all the animals, thank you from the bottom of our hearts,
Jayne Solberg (Chairman), Julie Lavin, Sandy Christians, Sue Battista, Craig Welbon, Kay Kieso and JoAnn Casanova; Capital Fund Committee
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Spay and neuter assistance is available. Please contact us for more information.
Do you need a place to recycle your old ink cartridges and cell phones? Almost Home Dog Rescue can turn in old cartridges for cash for the rescue! We collect old ink jet cartridges, laser cartridges and cell phones. Do you use cartridges at work? Home? Please donate them when they run dry! All proceeds will be spent on vet care and added to our Capital Fund for a new shelter in Madison.
Please email us if you have a cartridge to donate, or drop them off at Lake Vet Clinic or Radio Shack in Madison. Drop off sites in Sioux Falls are located at Scatter Joy and Your Pet Stop in Sioux Falls. http://www.scatterjoyscrapbooking.com/
Please help us recycle our way to a new shelter so we can save more animals!Special Request For Help:
Almost Home is looking for transport help from Rapid City to the Sioux Falls area on a regular basis. Do you travel that route frequently? Does your job have you traveling to Rapid City to Sioux Falls and back? If so and you would like to help save dogs in urgent need of rescue, please contact us!
We also look for help with transporting dogs to the Omaha and Minneapolis areas occasionally.
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Occasionally some of our rescues are un-adoptable and essentially become forever fosters. This puts an undue burden on some of our Foster Families., The dogs/cats usually require ongoing medication and vetting. Please, consider donating to a fund to help offset these ongoing costs. Click on the picture above to make a paypal donation. PLEASE DONATE YOUR ALUMINUM CANSDrop off
your cans at Lake Vet Clinic in Madison. A kennel is outside
the clinic, just drop your bags inside the kennel.
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Dog treats & toys Postage Stamps Monetary donations for our shelter fund or medical expenses All other pet related items and office
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News: |
Fabulous
News! ECCO and Almost Home Canine Rescue have teamed up for the dogs! Three afternoons a week,ECCO picks up 2-3 dogs and take them for walks and play with them for socialization! Check out this link to read a story that the Madison Daily Leader did about this great program. Check out our ECCO Dog Walking and Socialization program by clicking here and watching the video! |
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