The Dallas Ranch

🌈 We lost a sweet little soul yesterday. Duke fell ill to a very rare situation & deteriorated rapidly. It became evident that prolonging his life was simply not the humane thing to do. We are truly saddened at a short life cut even shorter, but how grateful we are that he experienced love and comfort from his extraordinary foster mom, Molly.

💙 We also send a heartfelt thank you to Taney County Veterinary Service. They jumped in quickly to do everything they could for Duke and provided a tremendous amount of love & snuggles for him once the decision was made. If you need a vet in the area, we simply cannot recommend them enough!! ❤️

💔 It’s especially heartbreaking that Duke was just a short time away from finding the family who would have loved him forever. We are dedicated to finding the perfect homes for his siblings.

🐶 As always, we plead with you to spay & neuter your animals. Love your animals enough to provide even basic levels of care.

Little Miss ChiChi Rodriguez is outta here. Literally. She is heading to Maine with her new family! We fell hard for this pint-sized beauty. Safe travels and happy tails, cutie pie!🩷

The sweetest little girl in the whole wide world found the sweetest little family. This is a happy ending we will remember for a long time. We are so very grateful to her foster family for all the love and care and yard time they gave her. Happy tails to this little princess!

Come meet Quinn & ChiChi at the Fall Festival in downtown Branson tomorrow from 10-3 (we’ll be near the pawn shop)! They are hoping their forever people find them! Some of their pals from Voices for Taney County Animals will be there, too!

🐶 Pre-approval for adoption is required. Please fill out an application here.👇🏻
https://new.shelterluv.com/matchme/adopt/DAL/Dog

AHEM….May we have your attention?

We present to you…the JOURNEY PUPS! Meet Duke, Ozzy, Gracie Lou, Clara Sue, Adeline, & Caroline. They are five-week old mixed breeds (mom is a smaller beagle mix, dad is unknown), and they are getting all ready for their new families in just three weeks!

If you would like to be apply to adopt a new member of your family, you can do that here.👇🏻
https://new.shelterluv.com/matchme/adopt/DAL/Dog

🐶 UPDATE! FOREVER HOME FOUND!

We are so excited to hear from the Good Samaritan family who found this poor girl that they were able to help find a home for her where she can be loved and get the care she needs.

When you ask how you can help rescues, shelters, & stray animals, THIS IS IT! Shelters are overflowing, rescues are overwhelmed. Fosters are full, money is low, and they cannot fix everything.

Oftentimes, the hero is YOU! Maybe a dog needs you and/or your help to either keep the animal you found or help find them a permanent situation. It’s not that a shelter or rescue doesn’t want to help the animal, it’s more that they can’t. We cannot make foster homes appear from thin air. We cannot make money fall from the sky. The burden of what to do is too easily being shifted to shelters and rescues.

🐶 Move? You already said yes to an animal. Please factor that into wherever you are headed.
🐶 Didn’t get your animal fixed? You risk contributing to the animal crisis, because life can come at you in a flash. Animals get loose (despite your best efforts), then they mate. Period. And it can happen to anyone. Spay/neuter is the ONLY way to guarantee it won’t happen. Animals don’t get knocked up. Please stop saying that. There is an amazing low-cost clinic here in town that will provide spay/neuter services for just $75. Just message us. We can help!
🐶 Didn’t get any vetting for your animal? Did you know Tractor Supply regularly hosts low-cost vaccination clinics that make it possible to provide much-needed vaccinations to protect your animal. A 12-week old puppy we were trying to help a few weeks ago died from Parvo. It is a miserable death, and $50 worth of shots from Tractor Supply would have prevented it. Parvo is rampant right now. Please do whatever you can to protect your animal.
🐶 Behavioral issues? There are so many resources available to help (like YouTube). Dive in and stick to the decision you made to get that cute puppy. Shelters and rescues are full of 1-2 year old dogs. And why? Because that is when animals get hard, and people give up. The cute puppy is now a little terrorist that needs your consistency and commitment. See it through, and you’ll have a best friend for life.
🐶 In the later stages of life? Definitely have a plan before you get a dog that could outlive you.
🐶 Have housing instability? A lot of people are sadly in the same boat. Be patient and wait to get an animal until life is more stable & certain for you.
🐶 And last but not least, the incomprehensible lack of laws & ordinances regarding breeding, animal abuse/neglect, and spay/neuter ordinances is allowing the animal crisis to spiral out of control, leading to higher unwanted animal populations & more animal suffering. This HAS to change.

Where does it end, folks? It ends with us. Calls like this come in daily. Our small little rescue had six calls over the weekend. You think rescues and shelters are the answer? They’re not. They’re the bandaid…the worn down, tired, broke bandaid that could never even scratch the surface of this problem. They most certainly can help some animals, but never all.

Change is necessary. We have to demand animal control for all counties. Bigger budgets for a growing problem. Accountability for those contributing to the ongoing crisis & those abusing animals. Spay/neuter ordinances. Education. It’s the only way.

We are incredibly grateful to the family who found this innocent girl and then did the work to find a path for her. But the battle rages on for the countless animals being dumped, abandoned, abused, and neglected.

We want to work together with everyone to help make the problem better. We are already out in the community helping families keep their pets & helping to facilitate needed care (like spay/neuter, vaccinations, flea & tick treatment, food, even simple joys like beds and bones). Stay tuned as we officially launch this community program. More info to come on how you can get involved. But it will take ALL of us to even put a dent in this.

Adoption days are the best days! Georgie is headed home to a life full of love, hooman siblings, and long naps (her fave!). We are incredibly grateful to Georgie’s foster family for helping her adjust and become the best girl she could be. And a huge thank you to those rescue friends who helped us make this love connection.🩷

Sending all our love with you, Miss Georgie!

Hey you? Can we maybe go home with you?

Georgie and Quinn were hoping you’d meet them at the State of the Ozarks Festival tomorrow on Downing Street in Hollister from 9-5! They will be there along with some of their new friends from Voices for Taney County Animals. They wanted to let you know that they will be right in front of Sweet Shack, just so you don’t get lost on your way to tell them that they finally get to be part of a family!

Adoption applications can be filled out in advance here, they said they’d be all ready for you.🩷🩷
https://new.shelterluv.com/matchme/adopt/DAL/Dog