09/18/2026
We need some help. I have been stressing a lot lately over the state of rescue and the general state of the US because the two things are closely related. Weirdly, I got a call from PayPal to ask me if there was anything we needed from them, as our donations are much lower than normal. When the company that processes your donations calls to ask where they are, things are not going especially well.
We have a dog named Shimi who needs surgery to repair a blown knee next week. I am about to do something that is probably financially inadvisable and go rescue a bunch of dogs someone dumped in the woods, including a lot of puppies. We owe $12,000 for emergency cases already treated. And the donations we depend on to pay for all of this have slowed to a frightening degree.
I know why. Everything costs more. Groceries, fuel, just being alive on a Tuesday. The money people used to have left over to help a dog is now going toward getting through their own week. We understand that because we are living it, too.
We are asking for help again. Honestly, I am tired and discouraged, and I wish I had something more entertaining to offer you today. But Shimi needs care, the emergency bills are real, and being discouraged does not pay them.
Our immediate goal is $12,000 to clear the emergency bills, with Shimi’s surgery still ahead of us. If 600 people can give $20, those emergency bills are covered. If you have $5 to spare, please do not think it is too little to matter. Small donations are how we have kept doing this for years. If donating is out of reach, please share this post. You do not owe us an apology for having bills of your own.
There are a lot of good people here. Today, we need you. For Shimi, for the dogs whose emergencies brought us to this point, for the dogs dumped out there and for the next dog who is going to need us.
Please help if you can. Support your favorite rescues and nonprofits as best you can. We are being asked to do the government’s job on a shoestring budget, and the billionaires are not even offering us cake.
PayPal: https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=LPNJEHNPR8AUU
Stripe: https://donate.stripe.com/cN2dTq20J4H7aBi144
Venmo: (make sure you have exactly this spelling; there are copycat accounts that are fake; first time donors, the last 4 digits are 9191).
Thanks as always. If you donate via Venmo, please make the transaction private. The Nigerian princes are out there scalping your public contact info.