New York Times bestselling author Gwen Cooper will be signing copies of her newest book, Love Saves the Day, tomorrow night, May 15, 2013, at the TMHPR Adoption Center! Cooper, a cat expert whose last book was the bestselling Homer’s Odyssey, is on a unique, 16-city national book tour of NO KILL Animal Shelters and has chosen TMHPR to be among the lucky organizations to host a book signing as part of the tour. The event will be held from 7:00 to 9:00 pm.

Cooper will read from Love Saves the Day, the heartwarming story of an estranged mother and daughter and the rescue cat who becomes the bridge between them. In addition to meeting fans, fellow ailurophiles and shelter volunteers, she will also make supply donations to TMHPR as part of this first-of-its-kind tour of shelters with innovative programs for humans as well as animals. There will also be a giveaway of Free Litter Genie Plus® (made by the manufacturers of the wildly popular Diaper Genie®) to each attendee while supplies last. Gwen’s books will be available for purchase at the event.

If you’ve sent in your RSVP and need directions, here’s our location. See you there!

TAKE ME HOME PET RESCUE ADOPTION CENTER
561 W. Campbell Rd.
Suite 303
Richardson, TX 75080
Tel: 214-699-7864

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Join us this Saturday when we double the fun and host TWO adoption events!

We’ll be hosting our usual weekly Meet ‘n’ Greet at our Adoption Center from 10:00 am until 2:00 pm. (Click here for a map.) You’ll get a chance to meet and play with Blue, Maggie Mae, Tyson, and many of our other adoptable dogs and cats.

If you’re going to be in the Dallas area, though, why not stop by the Plaza Days Sidewalk Sale at the Plaza at Preston Center? In addition to face painting, balloons, popcorn, and lots of fun, family-friendly activities, the annual event will also be featuring dog adoptions, and we’ve been invited to bring some of our pups!

Meet Dixie, Rango, Aster, Bronco, Snuffy, and others, all waiting for their forever homes. We’ll be there from 10:00 am until about 3:00 pm (the event itself will end at 6:00 pm), so check out the great shopping and then swing by our adoption event for some cuddle time with our dogs. Click here for a map to Preston Center.

Hope to see you there!

Here at TMHPR, we are approached on a daily or near-daily basis by concerned residents, animal lovers, and fellow rescuers about taking in dogs and cats they would like rescued from local shelters, abusive situations, or off the streets. While we would love to rescue them all, our resources limit the intake we can support.

However, sometimes, a story particularly tugs our heartstrings, and we decide to take in a dog or cat in desperate need because we know that the chances of their being euthanized in a shelter are very high.

Sunshine is one such special dog. She’s a sweet, one-year-old little Chihuahua mix that one of our fosters and volunteers discovered huddled in a ball on the side of the road. Kate, Sunshine’s rescuer, immediately took her to the vet, where it was discovered that she had been hit by a car and was suffering from a fractured pelvis. Her injuries were so severe that she couldn’t’ stand or even go potty. Kate spoke with us, and after we determined that Kate and her family would foster and care for Sunshine, we agreed to let her into our program. Sunshine immediately went into surgery, which required a specialist, and after boarding for a week at the vet for further postoperative care, she is now resting peacefully and happily in Kate’s loving foster home.

As they say on infomercials, though… But wait! There’s more!

We also just found out that Sunshine is pregnant and will soon give birth. Her babies will be okay, and we look forward to seeing new, healthy puppies brought into the world, but our resources are strained and need your help!

The total cost for Sunshine’s surgery, boarding, postoperative care, medications, heartworm and fecal testing, vaccinations, spay, and microchip, now exceed $2,100. This does not include the cost of puppy food, puppy formula (if needed) vaccinations, deworming, heartworm preventatives, and spaying and neutering her puppies once they’re weaned. As many of you know, our adoption fees rarely cover all of the expenses we incur when taking in a dog or cat, and we often bring in animals with very special needs that far exceed our resources. How do we do it? Through the generous donations of animal-loving, compassionate folks like you!

Please consider making a donation towards Sunshine’s care and the needs of her future puppies. You can make a donation on her Razoo fundraising page, which does accept credit cards. And remember that we are a 501(c)(3), so your donations are tax-deductible to the fullest extent of the law.

Thank you for your support! We will keep you posted on Sunshine’s condition and her puppies once they make their debut into the world!

Join us on Saturday, April 20th, from about 10:00 am until 12:00 pm at the Studio Movie Grill in Dallas for a very special adoption event. The theater has graciously offered to host an adoption event for several local rescue groups and has invited us to participate. The event is part of a promotional campaign for the premiere of a new cartoon, Pound Puppies: Mission Adoption, being held that same day. 

We will be at the North Dallas location at 13933 N. Central Expressway with many of our adoptable dogs. Note that we will not have our usual Saturday morning Meet ‘n’ Greets that day so that we can focus our energies on attending this event.

We hope you can come and join us! If you adopt a puppy, you’ll get two free passes to SMG, and if you donate puppy chow or pet supplies you’ll get a chance to win a Pound Puppies DVD or free movie passes.

Hope to see you there!

Now you have even more reasons to find your forever feline friend(s?) this February! Effective February 1st, you can adopt an adult cat for $75 (reduced from $1150) and a kitten for $100 (reduced from $145). This is a special offer for a limited time only, so if you’ve been thinking about adopting a cat, now’s your chance.

Email us at info@takemehomepetrescue.com if you’d like to know more, or visit our Adoptable Cats page to find out more about our currently available cats. You can also stop by during our weekly Meet ‘n’ Greet adoption events to meet some of the cats living in our adoption center.

Annie and her puppies came to us after her owner abandoned her in Royce City, a rural area outside of Dallas. Two good Samaritans took her in and helped her deliver 9 puppies! They even found homes for four of the puppies, but needed help finding homes for mom – Annie and her five boys: Willie, Toby, Garth, Johnny and Kenny!

Annie is one of the sweetest dogs we have ever met. She is an approximately 2-year-old Border Collie mix, weighing in at around 38 lbs. She loves to cuddle with people and is great with other dogs. She was just spayed and microchipped and is ready to go to her forever home.

Here are some pics of the family just before we picked them up and after they were safely taken into TMHPR:

Christmas is a terrible time to be alone and afraid, but thanks to the efforts of some of our volunteers and fosters, these four puppies won’t have to worry about suffering through this holiday season and these freezing temps alone and unprotected.

Meet Nell, Marcy, Linus, and Violet! All four were part of a litter of puppies born to a stray Mama Dog near an Irving train station sometime in October. We estimate that they’re now about 10-12 weeks old. We are still in the process of trying to rescue the remaining two puppies as well as the Mama Dog and still one more male, older Shepherd mix dog (whom we call Big Brother) from a previous litter, but in the meantime, these four are enjoying life in their new, loving foster home.

LINUS

Linus

Linus was the first to be rescued when he got separated from his pack and got tangled in some brush and vines. Covered in fleas but otherwise healthy and squirmy, he’s the most sociable of the pack and loves being the “big brother” to his sisters!

MARCY AND NELL

Marcy and Nell were rescued just five days later, the day after Thanksgiving. They

Marcy (black) and Nell.

were found living under a shipping container in an industrial yard right across the street from where Linus was rescued. They were with the rest of the family, but we could only rescue these sweet girls. According to their foster mom, Marcy “likes to snuggle and has just begun to come when called. Lots of times she wants to get away from the hubbub of her siblings and just lie in the sun for awhile. She is black with a white chest and white toes. She is the fluffiest puppy of the bunch so I call her Miss Flufflebottom.”

Nell, on the other hand,  has really come out her shell. She loves belly-rubs, is super-friendly, and is up to challenging Linus for leadership of the pack. When Nell was rescued, she let out a big scream that startled us and caught their mom’s attention, but she immediately cuddled and became quiet once I held her close and rubbed her fluffy back. She’s got a sweet personality and a big heart!

Violet rescued, thanks to the City of Irving Streets crew!

VIOLET

Violet was the last one we were able to catch, and boy, was it a lucky break! Our volunteer, Brian, happened to hear her crying as he was walking to the train station early one morning, and sure enough, there she was — stuck in a storm drain. He called me, and I quickly drove over there and called 911 (injured animals are considered an emergency call by Irving Animal Services). The dispatcher contacted the City Streets division, and within twenty minutes a crew arrived to pull little, scared Violet to safety.

Violet

Shaken but otherwise healthy and uninjured, Violet is her foster mom’s favorite (shhhh – don’t tell the others!). She’s still the last one to come into the house when they’re all called in after potty breaks, so her foster mom will sometimes sit with her until she’s comfortable. Still, she’s really blossomed in her foster home and is no longer shy with people, other dogs, or even cats!

AND MORE PUPPIES…WE HOPE!

We’re still working on catching the remaining two puppies. We would also like to catch the Mama Dog and the puppies’ uncle, a male Shepherd-looking mix that was part of a previous litter. If you would like to foster both the Mama and Big Brother (or either one), please let us know by sending us an email. The other two puppies are both black, like little Violet, and are probably about 11 weeks old by now.

In the meantime, these four adorable pups will soon be available for adoption, so make sure you get your application in now! We’ve already gotten a few applications in for them and will continue to accept them until they all find their forever homes. If you’re interested in any of them, please click here to download the application.

Here are more pics of the pups!

Just in time for Christmas, we’re offering a discounted adoption rate for all of our kitties and cats! If you’d like to ring in 2013 with a new family member, now’s a great time to do it.

The adoption fee for cats over 12 months of age is $25, while the fee for kittens 12 months and under is just $50. If you’d like to meet many of our adoptable cats, head on over to our Adoption Center this Saturday from 10:00 am until 1:00 pm, when we’ll have a special  Meet ‘n’ Greet just for our cats. You’ll have a chance to interact with them, cuddle with them, and see which one will touch your heart (they all will!). We have so many wonderful, sweet cats waiting for a home they can call their own. We hope that yours will be the one!

For more information, email us at info@takemehomepetrescue.com. Hope to see you this Saturday!

It’s that time of year again — time to celebrate all that we’ve accomplished in 2012, all the animals that we’ve rescued and successfully rehomed with forever families, and all the volunteers, donors and supporters who made it all possible!

We’re hosting a holiday party and silent auction on Saturday, December 8th, at Casa Cha Cha in Richardson, and we’d love for everyone to join us. Enjoy a big, yummy fajita dinner buffet, complete with all the sides and fixin’s your heart (and stomach!) desires. You’ll also hear some of our favorite stories about being involved in rescue, meet new friends, catch up with old ones, and yep, bid on lots and lots of really cool and exciting auction items, from elaborate wine baskets and gift certificates to many of your favorite retailers.

Tickets are $30 in advance, $40 at the door. They’re expected to sell out super-fast, though, so be sure to get your tickets now to reserve your space!

DATE: Saturday, December 8, 2012

TIME: 6:30 – 9:30 pm. Silent auction winners will be announced at 9:00 pm.

PLACE: Casa Cha Cha, 3613 Shire Blvd., Suite 180, Richardson, TX 75082. Click here for a map.

RSVP: Click here to purchase tickets securely. We accept credit cards.

INFO: For more information, email us at info@takemehomepetrescue.com. We’re also still seeking donations to the silent auction, so please send us an email if you’d like to contribute!

Looking for your new best friend? Stop by Pet Supplies Plus this Sunday, November 4th, and meet some of our adoptable dogs and cats! We’ll be at the Richardson store from 1:00 pm until 4:00 pm.

Hope to see you then!

VENUE: Pet Supplies Plus, 200 N. Coit Rd., Suite 330, Richardson, TX 75080. Click here for a map.

DATE: Sunday, November 4, 2012

TIME: 1:00 pm to 4:00 pm

INFO: If you’re interested in a particular dog or cat from our Petfinder page or website, please email us at info@takemehomepetrescue.com.