Please help Mateo stay in his HOME! (Legal fees)

Hello! my name is Mateo and I’m a 3 year old boxer pit mix dog. I was recently in the care of a local rescue in Marana, AZ. It was not a healthy situation and am finally out of that crate and have a real home and I want to stay!

The rescue got me when I was 10 months old then they fostered me out to another lady who didn’t have any knowledge of how to handle or properly care for a spicy pup like me. At first, everything was great and I really loved her and my 2 dog brothers but that didn’t last long.

The foster lady didn’t want to stop fostering after she got me there and she kept bringing in more and more new foster dogs. It was getting busy, then she got a German Shepard puppy who ended up just driving me crazy. There was a fight I will admit … I’m not proud, and the foster lady’s hands got in the way while I was trying to bite the puppy but this ended with what they call my first human bite ..I promise I never bit a person before but i was so frustrated and over whelmed. She sent me back. She gave up on me. It broke my heart and I did miss her and my dog friends. I was really sad and depressed for a long time afteri had to come back to the rescue, This rescue isn’t a home .. in fact they were under construction in some way and I was stuck in a boarding facility where I sat for a long time in a crate and well, I got scared again, then I didn’t know who i could trust, who would be kind to me, I started not to like other dogs at all anymore. The humans say I got more dog aggressive, kennel aggressive, male aggressive, and food aggressive. That’s a lot of big scary words!

I really wanted to be a good boy.

The rescue had been in that transition and after years of planning and construction they were ready I guess and so they moved me over there. Scary, but good news! This is where I met my new mom Josie …. Oh man do I love Josie. She’s like my bestest friend and mom if I’m ever gonna have one.

Everyone else was scared of me at the rescue and wouldn’t even try to interact with me but that never scared Josie. She’s a brave loving little thing with with a great big heart and I could tell she would love me and be kind to me.

I even lunged and tried to bite her one time and she showed no hesitation! oh my gosh! She knew I was testing her i think and she just gave me a firm verbal correction that was it! She didn’t hurt me!! and I never tested her again.

We became good friends that day for sure and have been friends ever since. She shows me love and kindness. I’m never afraid with her.

After about a month back at the rescue, Josie disappeared for about two weeks (because her mom passed away from lung cancer) and I felt really scared that something had happened to her.. that my friend might never come back!

I was afraid she might not come back to ME.

Sadly, I didn’t know what to do now and that’s when I really started freaking out. The other people there were having a hard time even giving me food. I could tell they didn’t love me. I was afraid again. I couldn’t trust anyone. It was horrible!!

But guess what, she came back!! MY Josie was back!! and the best thing in my whole life happened, JOSIE TOOK ME HOME!! !

This was my best life EVER.. I have a home with Josie with my own room and kennel and soft bed and TV!! No more loud barking dogs to be afraid of, no more hard kennel floor or not being able to go outside when I want. It’s been the greatest time of my whole life with Josie and I am a very good boy with my family!

We do training everyday with my dog brothers and I even have a cat brother, Enec and catch this, I love to cuddle!

I’m very important because I help Josie out a lot too. I give her lots of cuddles and kisses when she’s sad about her moms passing because I’m a very good boy and I can pick up on her emotions like that. Its a talent that God gave me to help MY person.. It’s the coolest thing ever and I am so loved and so happy.

I get the best care I ever have in my life here with Josie and she says im “thriving” Thats a much better word!! Im a good boy!

I love my home so much.

But … heres where I NEED HELP!!

I might not get my happy ending because of that “rescue” I was at.

My mom stopped her job there and they didn’t pay her for something and everyone was upset with each other over money and stuff.

She also left because she didnt feel right about how the other poor dogs were handled and cared for there. Most all those dogs came from the shelter because they had big problems like me. Yeah, they are alive, but most of them just got worse in those cages with scared dogs and people fighting with them and the dogs not getting along and all sorts of scary stuff.

Its a sad place because the dogs came there with problems like mine but everything that happens there there just made them worse..

Theres a lot of reasons she didnt feel safe or valued there so she decided she needed to leave.

Now, the rescue decided they don’t want me to stay in my home! They want me to back to that place where I was so scared and angry. How can I go back .. why cant I keep my home.

My mom is taking great care of me, she wants me! My mom is so good for me. She owns her own grooming business, she is kind and gentle and patient, she has enough space and time for me, She is more then qualified to handle my spicy personality and can love me for the rest of my life. ♥️

Mom Josie even offered to pay that rescue my adoption fee and adopt me officially but the rescue said NO! He seems mad about how they parted ways but I dont see how that should affect me having whats best for ME, my home and family.

September 12th Josie and her roommate were served with a summons to court about me. The Rescue is saying they own me like a piece of furniture, they said I have to back there!! NO!!

I think they could use their money to take better care of the dogs instead. But they are using time and money (that was donated to those other dogs) to hire a lawyer and try and force me to go back to that terrible life at the rescue. 

Please help! They don’t even care how good I have been and how happy I am here with my family.

How could someone who was supposed to “rescue “me and promised to protect me, do this to me now that Im finally the good boy and the happy boy I always wanted to be.

My mom, the person I love so much, who has put so much love,time and her own money to help me doesnt want to loose me. She needs your help to fight for me. PLEASE

Please dont let them rip me out of the only good home I’ve had because that place does not seem to care of what’s best for ME. Oh I cant even think about it, back to the loud barking and sitting in the cage feeling afraid all the time. Back to trying to hold it for hours until i can get outside.. or going in my cage because I just can’t hold it and I’m so stressed. NO please NO.

I am sorry to say, but I didnt like the other people there, they are afraid of me and won’t give me the time, kindness and proper training I need to get over my aggression feelings.

I am so afraid oh what will happen. I’ll bite again. Maybe staff this time. They’ll say if I can’t be fixed I’ll die …. All this human drama really has messed up my life ..and it’s not Mom Josies fault if I have to go back but I’m just really sad and scared and confused.

PLEASE will you share and please donate money for my lawyer and all they need to fight for me??

Share my story please before it’s too late! We need help. I need to be allowed to be adopted by my mom and stay in the home that I live in with my family that I feel safe with.