Harley is Very Ill and Needs A Little Help

Harley was found tied to a fence at a school in Atlanta.  The person who found him called the Fulton County Animal Control, who picked up Harley and took him to the shelter.  The person who found Harley then also told one of our supporters, who helps us with adoptions in Milton/Alpharetta. She showed our supporter pictures of Harley. We used some creative thinking, a little Crisco, and a shoe horn to get Harley into our shelter in Blairsville.  YAY! Harley is safe but his story does not end there.

Harley is extremely sick. He is gasping for air, his lungs are filled with fluid and swollen, his temperature is 105.  He needs to remain in the vet hospital for at least 2 days (if not more) where he is receiving antibiotics and fluids.  We never give up trying to help a dog but we are EXTREMELY short on funds. We have been trying not to ask for help but Harley's recovery will cost much more than we can afford or have so we are not only asking we are begging each of our friends and supporters to donate even $1 because if we add them all together we can make a difference for Harley.

http://castawaycritterspetrescue.chipin.com/harley-the-sick-hound-boxer-mix

Our Paypal address is castawaycrittersrescue@gmail.com

For checks please send them to:

Castaway Critters Pet Rescue, Inc
1732 John Smith Rd E
Blairsville, GA 30512

If everyone would donate at least $1 we would have more than enough to help Harley heal.  Please, he has a family who wants to adopt him but he can not go home to them until he is 100% well.

Castaway Critters Pet Rescue, Inc is a 501(c)3 IRS recognized charity, all donations are 100% tax deductible as allowed by law.   We truly and sincerely appreciate every single donation we receive.

Thank-you!

Here is a video of Harley after he was rescued from the shelter
http://youtu.be/3zS1o-J_0As

CHANCE TO WIN A GRANT FOR FENCING

We have a chance to win a grant for fencing for our dogs at the shelter in The Animal Rescue Site's Project for Paws. Project for Paws is part of the of The Animal Rescue Site's $300,000 Shelter⁺ Challenge — with Petfinder.com

http://www.theanimalrescuesite.com/clickToGive/projects-for-paws.faces?siteId=3

We are a small group trying to help as many dogs and cats as we can in our rural Northern Georgia location.  We rely solely on donations to operate our rescue so this grant would not only mean a great deal to us but it would mean a great deal to the dogs in our care because it will give them a place to frolic, play, and run. 

Our grant proposal is called Longing for the Old Corral.

We would sincerely and truly appreciate it if you could vote for us, once a day, every day between now and 11:59PM PDT on September 16, 2012. Winners will be announced on Sept 19, 2012

http://www.theanimalrescuesite.com/clickToGive/projects-for-paws.faces?siteId=3

THANK-YOU!

Happy Tales-Zakary and Xavier

A heartwarming story about two pups from Castaway Critters.

I originally went to Castaway Critters to adopt two female puppies: one large and one small.  As I walked around looking for just the right pair, two pups about three or four months old caught my eye.  Both were a beautiful reddish brown with a little black and one had a pointed face and the other had a square face. Each would his brother’s movements exactly. They stayed as close to one another as possible.

 It was hard to tell how big they would be: one had large paws for his age and size.  I sent a couple of pictures to my husband’s phone and went home, not finding the lap dog and the guard dog I was looking for.  That evening my husband, my granddaughter and I looked at the pictures and discussed this inseparable pair.  It was unanimous; we had to have these two BROTHERS.  We could not choose between them and they were too attached to separate. 

                The next day we went and picked them up.  That was September 9, 2009.  Zakary and Xavier were now part of our family and neither the dogs nor us could be happier. We knew we did the right thing not separating them when earlier this year Zakary had to have surgery on his stomach.  Xavier cried for an hour and a half, standing by the door in which his brother had gone and that night there was no sleeping in their crate: he had to sleep right in between my husband and myself.  Xavier was one happy dog the next day when Zakary came home and he stayed right by his side without laying partially on top of him as they usually do; he knew his brother was hurting.
                These two boys are the most compassionate creatures I have ever seen, and my family and I could not imagine spending our days without them; they have wedged their way into our hearts and our family and have brought us all closer than we had been for a long time.