My name is Courtney Baird and I’m raising funds to pay the attorney fee’s to bring my dog Jaxon home to me. While I was in and out of the hospital in November and December of 2023 Jax was staying with family members near Muskogee Oklahoma, while he was with them someone broke the lock off the fenced in yard to get to him and he was taken, he was ultimately transported to Arkansas, where he ended up in an animal shelter. I was able to track him to the Lester C Howick Shelter in Arkansas and immediately reached out to them to try and get my stolen baby back. When I reached out to the shelter I was met with resistance and dishonesty as the shelter would not tell me what happened to my dog or what they had done with him. Along with hiding Jax from me this shelter publicly bashed me, told me I didnt deserve my dog back and that he would get a new family and I should just accept that. But I couldn’t and will never accept that. After weeks of fighting to find out where my Jax was, a resident of Arkansas put in a freedom of information request and got the records showing that Jax had been sent to a shelter called Wayside Waifs in Kansas City, Missouri. The sheriffs deputies where I live made calls to Wayside Waifs on my behalf and found out that someone had adopted him a few weeks ago and “didn’t want to” bring him back or return him to me, even knowing that he was stolen. The shelter can’t give out information of the people who adopt dogs from them and said they do not have to abide by government standards because they’re a private shelter so I can not put in an FOI to get the information on where my boy is now. I have tried doing things as nicely as possible and tried at every turn to avoid having to take the hard road of lawyers and courts to get Jax back, but At this point my only course of action is to have an attorney file to get the information I need and go through the court system to get Jax back from the people who won’t willingly bring him back so he can come home to me. Jax has been my best friend for almost 6 years and I miss him so much every day.. my heart hurts every single day without him. The depression, the stress and the loss of sleep has taken such a toll on my life and I will do whatever it takes to bring my baby home. It breaks my heart knowing he’s out there wondering where I am, not knowing how hard I’m fighting to get to him. I know many of you out there have pets you love deeply and would never stop fighting for. All donations will go directly to the attorney fees and to any fees to transport Jax back from Missouri to Oklahoma. Each day he is gone just gets harder and harder, but I will not give up on him, just like I know he’d never give up on me. To anyone who takes the time to donate, send a kind message, make a comment or even send a prayer our way, I will appreciate it immensely. Thank you all for your support thus far, you all have kept me going each day

Any extra funds raised will be donated to a non profit to stop the theft, exploitation and euthanizing of pets