Enrich Rescue Dogs' Lives

We have recently hired on one part time kennel caretaker to help with the tremendous amount of work that comes with rescuing, vetting, and training and/or behaviorally rehabilitating the constantly worsening flood of homeless dogs.

We can currently budget out $400/month (between rescue funds and our own personal funds), which allows us to pay for a little over 20 hours of additional help a month. We would ideally like to be able to support having one or two kennel caretakers help out at least 12 hours a week (48+ hours monthly), with a 2 month padding while we work towards being able to funding this on our own (so at least $800/month instead of $400, for 2 months, and ideally more).

By adding additional caretaker hours, we are hoping to:

It is also our hope to teach our kennel caretakers as much about dog training and behavior modification as possible in the hopes of increasing the future amount of available compassionate and educated dog trainers with history and interest in helping rescues and even shelters with their dogs to increase adoption chances (and eventually even possibly evaluate dogs for realistic service dog, therapy dog, or other unique potential with training to increase their adoption odds), and who find it as valuable as we do to make training PRIOR to dogs losing their homes as accessible and problem free as possible to any owners willing to resolve issues rather than abandon or need to give up.

These may sound like big dreams - and they are, but not impossible ones, I feel. I have come to realize though, to achieve such big things, it will take a time and money and skills, and it will take a much larger community and wolfpack than the (amazing!!) one that we have so far.

Beyond the additional amount that would be needed for the minimum 2 month goal (2 months, 48 hours each month) - $800 - I have also added an additional $400 in the possibility we could fundraise to cover additional hours per month, as well as a few hundred to cover purchasing 10 plastic kiddie pools for the dogs and 2 galvanized stock tanks for fun & keeping cool in summer ($400 ideal budget), and up to a little shy of 30 water Buffalo horns (generally $10 a piece from PetSmart and then whatever amount tax is) for chew toys for our rescue and dogs in foster to have throughout the day :) the Buffalo horns can be chewed on for months by even the biggest dogs we've met, and don't have us worried about fracturing and causing unplanned vet bills (and aren't greasy/mess making like some bones), and also provide cleaning assistance for oral health. These and the black (power chewer) Kongs are two of the toys I recommend most. (I advise everyone I recommend these to, to pick them out in store so they can also pick the thickest rimmed horns [smallest hole inside, more mass] for longer chewing and increased safety.)

Thank you so much for reading this, and for any support towards one the small steps in our efforts to improve operations and create a wider and more impactful change in our community

More information about Wolf Creek Dog Rescue: Our goal is to rescue, rehabilitate (medically and/or behaviorally), and safely rehome as many dogs as we can help, regardless of age or origin. We strive to work with our community to come up with solutions to an increasing epidemic of dog homelessness and overflowing shelters.