Hey my name is Becky as you all know

this week I took on what felt like the most impossible and most stressful thing of my entire life

On May 20, when I was scrolling on social media, I had the sweetest face of a little dog come across my feed saying she was on the euthanasia list at the Dallas animal shelter in Texas for “SPACE” and my heart literally felt like it was ripped out of my body. I tagged and commented and messaged every rescue around now that I could find, but because the overcapacity of dogs in Texas, nobody could help.

So out of desperation and panic I started calling the shelter myself to adopt her and to much of my heartbreak I was just too late, not only had they just euthanized her, but they had euthanized an entire litter of 12 week old puppies. But as I was on the phone with them, I was scrolling still and I saw all these other faces that were due to be euthanized the following day and again I panicked and I told the shelter I would adopt three of them and I needed some time to get the picked up because I didn’t know anyone there and I live in Canada…. They said you have 48 hrs!!! Oh boy… didn’t I have my work cut out for me

Then came what felt like the impossible seemed almost too easy at first …. we got it all figured out or so I thought…. The woman that was supposed to pick the dogs up and take them to a foster she set up until their transport date on June 9 went AWOL. So here I am again in a panic trying to find anyone in a country where I don’t know a handful of people and a state where I don’t know anyone and I am absolutely fighting an impossible battle

But somehow along my trails of becoming acquainted with so many wonderful people of the rescue world and some wonderful friends right here in Canada we managed to figure it all out. We were able to get the girls out of the shelter before my time ran out

Three of the most sweetest, kind and lovely girls!!!

I learned so many shocking things this week….. that this shelter alone has over 480 dogs!!!! 480! In one building! These dogs are 2 to 3 to a kennel and apparently the hallways are lined with crates that have dogs in them. The devastation I felt in my heart hearing this and that’s what every rescue in every direction pulling dogs as fast as they can while overloading and overwhelming themselves. Every foster in every direction is tapped out. And yet they cannot get ahead of it. Today alone, the list of dogs to be euthanized was 18…. 18 perfectly healthy dogs that died because there’s too many. And although I cannot fix this problem, I was able to save these three little girls.

And if I can raise the money to cover the cost of these three, then I can hopefully do it again!

someone said to me when I felt like I didn’t make a difference….

“You didn’t just save three lives today….. you saved six! Because you opened three more spots for three other dogs to live” and although six feels like nothing in the massive amounts of dogs that are dying every day. I know that these three beautiful girls get to live out the rest of their lives when someone else failed them

I wish I could’ve taken out so many more, but they would only let me take 3

Although the adoption fee is free for dogs on the code red list, there are some costs that come along with it after that

The girl who is fostering them had to purchase three kennels and dog food for all three dogs

There is also the international vet certificate they will have to get at the border

And then the cost for each dog to travel is $564.12 per dog

and although they are all healthy Bella does have heartworm so she will have to be seen by the vet when she gets here and then there will be 30 days of medication that she will have to be on

So there’s going to be a fair amount of cost and although I don’t expect anyone to help my irrational choice that I have made but I would love to be able to do it again as soon as possible, but I cannot do that financially

I know life is hard for everyone, but even $5 helps or even $1! Every little bit helps