BAYOU RESCUE

Thanks to No Paws Left Behind

Bayou Rescue has been receiving an increasing number of calls from families with pets that are facing foreclosure. Although our resources currently can only handle disaster related home loss, our volunteers work to counsel families about their options, and provide referrals in situations of foreclosure, owner illness and other types of home loss.

Just today, we sent out an email to our rescue friends to try to find help for someone in Charlotte, NC.  This family includes 3 cats, and the landlord they were renting from did not tell them the property had gone into foreclosure, and left them with little notice to vacate.  They tried the work and family route for temporary care, to no avail.

Our email made it's way to Cheryl, founder of No Paws Left Behind.  This organization specializes in assisting families with pets who are facing foreclosure.

This amazing organization will be providing for boarding as a temporary solution while the family looks for another place to live.  Thanks to No Paws Left Behind, a rotten situation may well end up with this family reunited instead of losing their beloved furry family members.

THANK YOU CHERYL, AND NO PAWS LEFT BEHIND

Bayou Rescue aids kitten who survived fire

Today the Orange County Red Cross referred a large family with several pets who lost their home to a fire.  Thankfully, ALL the humans and animals made it out.  "Fluffy" the 3 month old kitten was pulled from under a mattress from a local firefighter, which saved her life.

Unfortunately, "Fluffy" did such a good job of hiding that  it did take about an hour until the kitty could be found and saved.  "Fluffy" was seen by Dr. Smith at Four Paws Animal Clinic in Chapel Hill this morning.  The poor girl's pads were burned on all four feet, and she had an eye injury due to the smoke and toxins.  She was given pain medication, eye ointment, and antibiotics to prevent infection.

You know what "Fluffy" was doing the whole time she was being examined, and enduring the pain of her injuries?
 

She was purring, and nestling into her caretaker's hands for more petting.  The kind of cat that makes a "dog person" want to cross over to the cat side for life! 

THANK YOU everyone who has provided financial and in-kind support to Bayou  Rescue.  It is because of you that this family knows that their pets will be taken care of while they piece the rest of their lives back together.  They will have food, bedding, and other pet items for the kitten, the dog and turtles too.  Most importantly, however, "Fluffy's"  quick vet care and the special TLC provided by her foster make her chances for long-term survival possible.  Thanks to you, 2 little girls can hopefully soon have their healthy and loving kitten back in their arms.

Did "Freeway" Make You Do It?

Did the story of Freeway and his life make you want to adopt him or another "Freeway" of your own?

They all come with stories, although most not as public:  victims or foreclosure, schedules that didn't allow for play time, beloved people who due to illness were no longer to care for them.

Could one of these loving spirits come to your home for the holidays?

These are animals that are waiting for you TODAY to come adopt them.  Remember that you're not only giving them a chance, but also saving the life of another as you free up space at organizations such as Paws4Ever , Burlington Animal Shelter,   and MORE (see our long list of local organizations, many who are our VALUED partners - just go to LINKS!)

Theirs will not be the only lives made better (yours will too!)

(Bucky, Dancer, Azura, Crimson, available at Paws4Ever in Mebane)

(Mattie, Isis, Zena, & Mia available at Burlington Adoption Center)

  

PS - If you would like some of your adoptable pets featured on our blog, please send the photo and story, and we'll help make them famous in a good way!

Loss of homes for people and pets - foreclosures affect all

ALL families members are being hurt by the mortgage crisis.  It's been especially hard on the furry ones. 

Bayou Rescue volunteers have witnessed familiy pets dropped at shelters, and in better cases have been able to refer people to very kind fosters while owners seek out more affordable and pet friendly housing.  This is no longer due only natural disasters, but now new financial ones.

This is real. This is STILL now.

Thanks to one organization in particular that is reaching out to pets affected by foreclosure, No Paws Left Behind

See more info from the recent Fox News.com article

 

"Freeway's" Info Highway...

can be found at his new blogsite:  www.bayourescue.typepad.com/freeway.

"Haley" loves "Max"

One of the Wake County house fire pups, "Haley" has been ever so kindly taken for foster by the kind and generous owner of Max's Dog Wash in Pittsboro, NC.  It takes many volunteers to place and transport our special clients, and it takes many who can provide in-kind donations to replace items destroyed in disaster (pet beds, crates, etc.)

Thanks to MANY busy and loving people, we hope that this family of 8 (to include the 2 furkids) can be reunited soon in a new home of their own.  

If you'd like to volunteer to help in these happy endings, or to donate to provide care for them, please consider a special holiday gift of your time or 'stuff.'

Local Celebrity soon to have his own blog.

The handsome tan guy that has put himself in the Mebane limelight now has his own blog.  www.bayourescue.typepad.com/freeway

He is safe right now, enjoying curling up in a king-size comforter at the Burlington Animal Shelter.  He is being well cared for, and the shelter staff and police representatives, along with Paws4Ever, have put a lot of time and effort into giving Freeway a chance to live life out of the spotlight (and traffic lights).  There are legal forms to be signed, vet care to be done, and more, but know that good things are happening, THANKS to the county agencies and the community.

"Free" Update

Just wanted to let everyone know that "Freeway,"  aka, "Romeo", aka "Merle," aka "The brown Mebane dog," is still at the Burlington Shelter, and is safe. Paws4Ever will be meeting with the shelter in the next 1-2 days to discuss placement of this pup to ensure how he can be in good hands, and how the shelter can also cover their "assets,"  (as any shelter should and would do).

We want to thank the shelter managers and employees of the Burlington Animal Shelter for respectfully listening to all concerned citizens.  They have not only been respectful and considerate of those MANY folks who have come to know and love this boy, but also of the canine citizen himself. (See BurlingtonTimes article)

Today a resident of Alamance county came by with a donated bed and a couple of toys for this guy (many of us have seen him entertain himself with toys left by the interstate).  The shelter manager allowed the items to be immediately placed with the dog, to make his wait a bit more  comfortable.

We hope to have more updates soon, including some close up photos, keep paws crossed ;)  

By the way, if your concern for this abandoned dog has inspired you to give a forever home to one of your very own, please come to take a peek at all the adoptable pets at the Burlington Shelter and at Paws4Ever yourself!!  Below are just a few that need you NOW!

   

A little holiday spirit

Thanks to all those kind hearts helping a wake county family who lost their home to a house fire last week. Volunteers from Bayou Rescue, Triangle Red Cross, Independent Animal Rescue, NCSU mobile vet clinic, and neighbors and local churches stepped forward to provide care, love, and pet items for even the littlest family members. 

Hoping for life and freedom...

for "Freeway," who has become a local celebrity in Mebane since he started spending his days at a busy overpass at Mebane-Oaks exit, off I-85/I40.  He's managed to outsmart traffic and local agencies for five months.

Like MANY other locals who came to know and care about this very shy buy playful pup, Amber and Dave Alsobrooks had been visiting the area to gain his trust, and provide a meal (he seems to prefer chicken fingers from the Blue Ribbon Dinner over most all else).

Known by "Freeway,"  "Romeo," "Merle," and other aliases, this boy was captured by authorities just before Thanksgiving and his fate is still to be decided.  We'll know on Monday if he'll be released to Paws4Ever, or if he is to be put down.  

Please read this article from the Burlington Times.

BR Vols Complete CERT training

Helmets off to several Bayou Rescue volunteers who completed the recent Orange County Community Emergency Response Training (CERT).  Modules included Search and Rescue, Medical Operations, and of course Animals in Disaster module, led by our own Amber Alsobrooks.  In addition to the 'usual suspects,' we were fortunate enough to welcome three more awesome volunteers.

Want your neighborhood to come together and be prepared?  Click here for info

CONGRATS TO.....

INDEPENDENT ANIMAL RESCUE,

This awesome rescue gathered the most votes nationwide to win $10,000 from Care2, America's Favorite Shelter Contest.

We've always known IAR does fantastic work, now the rest of the country knows too!  Great job IAR!