Hi Everyone, my name is Renee. If you know me at all, you know that I have a strong passion for animal rescue and have a family of 7 rescues myself, all of which I love genuinely more than anything in the world.

Life has been extremely tough the last year. I went through a very violent and abusive breakup that threatened my life, and immediately was left with an entire house, the animals, and all finances with 0 help day one, because my ex was not a good guy even though all of those items (minus the pets) we both has equal committed responsibility to. All this happened and caused me to hit rock bottom in my life. Due to no great support system, and the pressure on top of many severe things I was already balancing before experiencing this traumatic event, I broke down and couldn't carry the weight anymore and almost didn't make it a month..

March 30th, 2025 was probably the second scariest day of my entire life. I am a single pet mom, and left the house for only an hour to run a quick errand (my three dogs are VERY co-dependent), and came back to the biggest pet emergency I have ever had to deal with.

My dogs always have to be contained to one room when I am gone, because they get destructive and try to get to food out of rage when I leave. For the first time ever (they have NEVER attempted this before), my dogs broke the handle off of a draw and chewed open one of the drawers in my bedroom. They have never done this before even when this exact drawer has been full of pet treats.

I came how to two 200mg bags of edibles completely eaten, shreds of the bags everywhere. These were in a bag, in a box, in the closed drawer. I still don't understand what motivated them to do this, but immediately realized that the largest dog Saria, could barely stand, was falling as she tried to walk, among a list of other very abnormal scary behaviors.

I immediately contained the dogs to a closed area and threw every item out of the room, and started to call emergency vet services. After talking to them, they strongly advised I called Pet Posion Control even though the call alone costs $90. After chatting with them, based on her symptoms, they highly advised me rush her to emergency.

As I went to contain the other animals and check them extensively before leaving them alone so I could leave with Saria, Tornado sirens started blaring and a Tornado Warning was issued for my area. I ran around the house as fast as I could gathering all 7 animals and barricade them in our basement storage room, all while trying to constantly keep my hand on Saria to monitor her breathing and heart rate because they were too low.

We sat in the basement and I cried as I kept her as comfortable as possible and kept checking her vitals and keeping her awake so she didnt pass out. While we were sheltered she vomited badly, wouldn't touch water, wouldn't move, and was completely unlike herself. After an hour, we could finally un-shelter and as soon as the emergency vet was able to get me in, Saria and I ran to the emergency room.

Saria was given tests, a handful of medications, and hydration to avoid her becoming too dehydrated from the vomiting (even more was to come). Thankfully, nothing was fatal or serious damage done even though she probably consumed the most of the 400mg, as the other two dogs were completely normal.

I am so thankful she is okay. I felt like I was going to loose my heart, but it was so financially expensive (which i would do all over again to help her). I am already in an extremely hard financial time trying to close on my house and get it from said abusive ex, and the employment field has been full of bad luck.

I absolutely hate to ask for support it this way. It physically make me sick, but with the high costs of yesterday with the emergency charges, tests, and medications, I really really need help right now.