Stray Rescue of St. Louis

Ghost was abused and shot all over but she is in a rural town out of state. They are desperate and reached out to me. They want to transfer her to our trauma center Friday. If we can raise the funds fast ... I can call and say yes. Let’s save her as a group

Junebug is slated to die and she is pregnant. 18 yrs old and ridden almost to death. She is skin and bones in a kill pen  down south. When I got the call it was met with tears and the person begging me because she is Sweet. Let’s raise the funds so I can save her. I have til the weekend, I said yes but let’s get her vet bills covered now!! We can do it as a team!  Let’s save her baby.

Lying in the overgrown weeds lay a dog suffering. She was shot and left for dead.  She screamed in pain for over 24 hours as residents went about their daily life, seeming not to care. The police were finally called, and then I get the call. “Dog shot in the face and paralyzed. Please come.”   Words that make my heart sink, words that fill my mind with immediate sadness and a sense of urgency, words that are familiar.  Donna and I hop in the jeep and take off to Lotus Ave. in North City.

Waving down my jeep, I see a police officer who is also my friend and has helped me for over 5 years on the streets – Officer Lindsay.   My first reaction was that I thought it odd that plenty of people were out this evening, but there was no crowd gathered near the crime scene. Laying in the side yard I see the body on the other side of the fence.  I head to the gate which was wrapped with a rope – a long rope that was attached to the neck of a lifeless dog; I knew this was lifesaving serious. Using a knife, I cut the rope to the gate and as I get closer to the dog, I cut the rope again closer to her body.

What later made both Donna and I cry was when she saw me, heard my voice and felt my touch. She wagged her tail as if saying, “thank you for hearing my cries.”

Scooping her up, Donna has the jeep ready for her, and I get her situated for the emergency ride to our trauma center.

The team was waiting for her. Dr. Sullivan and his crew started to work on her, stabilizing her for x-rays.  The images spoke volumes. A large bullet entered through her right eye shattering her right jaw and traveled to a halt on her mid spine.  The bullet left her paralyzed on one side of her body. I kissed her face, and that’s when the tears started to fall. We knew we had to transfer her to a specialty hospital for further care.

Diseno’s care will be extremely expensive, but we will do everything we can to help her and provide her with the best medical care possible. That’s what we do at Stray Rescue. We heal. Inside and out. We will never sit by and ignore cries for help.

Please donate today to help us help Diseno. She needs you. She needs all of us. Please show her you care and won’t ignore her cries either.

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Pam McCutcheon touched hundreds of lives with her acts of kindness. She saved the lives of countless dogs and cats with the thousands upon thousands of dollars she spent to take care of homeless pets both herself and through charity. She would go hungry if it meant giving a stray dog a meal, and she often did just that.

Pam passed away on May 4, 2014 at the age of 59, and I, her son David, said that the world got a lot less charitable with her passing. Please prove me wrong by making this $5,000 goal a reality. $5,000 is required for receiving a bench in her honor at Stray Rescue of St. Louis, one of the top no-kill dog shelters in the United States.

My Mom is no longer with us, but she has a chance to live forever at Stray Rescue with her name immortalized doing her one true passion in life: taking care of those less fortunate.



If all of the people whose lives she made better could donate $25 or more, we could easily achieve dozens of benches in her honor. All we need is just one single bench at $5,000. I know we can do that for her.

Please help us make her name forever synonymous with helping dogs find rich, full lives with Stray Rescue of St. Louis, one of the nation's top no-kill shelters. Your donation will go entirely to the charity, helping them feed, house, and find home for stray dogs everywhere. Her last dog she ever had, Trina Marie, came from Stray Rescue. She is the ideal, perfect dog. With your help, we can make more lives better for both dogs that would not otherwise have a chance at a good life and their prospective owners.