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🚨🐾 RESCUE PARTNERS — CORINTHMS IS PUPPIED OUT! 🐾🚨Hey, rescue partners and rescue friends! Our friends at Corinth-Alcorn ...
08/31/2026

🚨🐾 RESCUE PARTNERS — CORINTH
MS IS PUPPIED OUT! 🐾🚨

Hey, rescue partners and rescue friends! Our friends at Corinth-Alcorn Animal Shelter are officially PUPPIED OUT. 😩🐶🐶🐶

And y’all… this isn’t even all of them.

The puppies below have had TWO vaccines, some are actually already fixed, and they NEED RESCUE.

Please look through the pictures below. I’ve separated all the information by litter to make it as easy as possible.

🐾 G LITTER
Top row:
Male • Female • Male • Female

Middle row:
Male • Male • Male • Female

Bottom row:
ALL FEMALES

⚖️ Weights range from 13.6 lbs to 21.7 lbs

🐾 N LITTER
➡️ Far right — Female, white on her nose — 23.5 lbs
➡️ Middle — Has an adoption hold
➡️ Far left (sitting) — Male — 31 lbs

🐾 M LITTER
Top row:

1. Male — 17 lbs
2. Female — 18 lbs
3. Male — 17.2 lbs

Bottom row:

1. Female — 19 lbs
2. Female — 22 lbs
3. Male — 23 lbs

🐾 L LITTER
ALL MALES
⚖️ All are around 40 lbs

🐾 RICH
Male — 21.4 lbs
✅ Already neutered

🐾 LOUISA
Female — 25 lbs
❌ Not spayed

These babies are ready for somebody to say YES. ❤️

Rescue partners, take a look through the pictures, check your space, check your fosters, check that one person you know you can probably talk into taking “just one more.” 😂

Let’s help Corinth Animal Shelter get some of these puppies OUT and into rescue!

If you can tag, pull, foster through one of our rescue partners, or help make a connection — LET’S MOVE SOME PUPPIES. 🐾❤️

08/30/2026

❤️🐾 LET FINN BE FINN — POST 5,436 😂

Because why? BECAUSE FINN STILL NEEDS A RESCUE OR A HOME.

And I told y’all—we’re doing this EVERY. SINGLE. DAY. Y’all are gonna get absolutely exhausted seeing this sweet boy, because I am not stopping until somebody sees what I see.

Finn deserves a home. And he deserves a home that understands that he is PERFECTLY IMPERFECT.

Behavior issues? ZERO.
Seriously. ZERO.

His only “issue” is a little hitch in his giddyup. That’s it. Finn is about 18 months old and has an old injury, most likely from being hit by a car. It’s healed. He is what he is. A few speed bumps here and there, and we keep on trucking. 😂

He is not in pain. He just needs somebody who understands that he may not move exactly like every other dog.

Please go back and read my previous posts about Finn if you’re new here.

And YES, this video is sped up. 😂 But believe it or not, Gimpy McGee over here is a BIG fan of playing ball. 🎾

So we play ball.

You know why?

BECAUSE FINN LIKES BALL. SO WE’RE GONNA PLAY BALL.

His little mechanical imperfections don’t stop him from being a dog. They don’t stop him from playing. They don’t stop him from loving life. And they sure as hell don’t stop him from being an absolutely wonderful dog.

His limitations are so much smaller than people are going to assume when they first look at him.

So here’s post 5,436. And tomorrow there’ll probably be post 5,437. 😂

Because somewhere out there is somebody who doesn’t care if their dog runs perfectly straight.

They just want a really damn good dog.

And that’s Finn. ❤️

🐾 LET FINN BE FINN. 🐾

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08/30/2026

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❤️🐾 LET’S TALK ABOUT TRUST.I think trust may be one of the biggest—and most important—parts of rescue.Because when you r...
08/29/2026

❤️🐾 LET’S TALK ABOUT TRUST.

I think trust may be one of the biggest—and most important—parts of rescue.

Because when you really stop and think about it, this entire thing runs on trust.

Owners trust us to make the best decisions for dogs they can no longer keep.

Shelters trust us when they hand us a dog and believe that we are sending that dog somewhere safe, somewhere reputable, and somewhere that will give that dog the life it deserves.

We trust the people sending dogs to us to be honest about temperament, behavior, medical history and vetting. Because we make decisions based on the information we’re given.

We trust our transporters to take care of them on the road. To make sure they’re comfortable and safe. To check on them. To not drive like they’re qualifying for NASCAR with 20 dogs in the back. 😂

But maybe the most important trust of all?

THE DOG HAS TO TRUST US.

We can explain to an owner what we’re doing. We can talk to a shelter. We can call a rescue partner. We can ask questions and get answers.

We can’t explain any of this to the dog.

We can’t tell them, You’re safe now.

We can’t explain why they’re leaving the only place they’ve known, why they’re getting into another vehicle, why they’re sleeping somewhere different tonight, or why another stranger is holding their leash tomorrow.

They just have to trust us.

And sometimes, we have to earn that trust.

Some walk right up and hand it to us immediately.

Others have been failed by people enough times that they’re not handing us a damn thing.

So we sit with them.

We feed them.

We talk to them.

We give them space.

We show them, over and over, that our hands aren’t going to hurt them and that the leash we’re holding is taking them somewhere better.

And eventually, maybe we get the tail wag.

Maybe they finally take the treat.

Maybe they let us touch them.

Maybe they fall asleep in the kennel instead of sitting in the corner watching every move we make.

That’s trust.

And when a dog finally gives you that after somebody else taught them not to?

You better understand what they’ve handed you.

Because these dogs don’t know what The Grit Factor is. They don’t know what a rescue is. They don’t understand transports, fosters, adoption applications or forever homes.

They just know the person standing in front of them.

And for however long they’re ours, we’re asking them to trust us when they have absolutely no idea where we’re taking them.

That’s a responsibility we don’t take lightly.

And then there is another huge piece of trust.

We trust our rescue partners.

We trust them to make the right decisions once those dogs leave our hands.

We trust them to provide whatever medical care they still need.

We trust them to learn who that dog really is.

We trust them to choose the right adopter—not just an adopter.

And we trust them to love these dogs enough to make decisions based on what is best for the DOG.

Because I want people to understand something about The Grit Factor:

We don’t just move them and move on.

We love them.

Some stay with us for a few hours. Some stay a few days. Some stay long enough that we get ridiculously attached to them. And yes, sometimes there are certain ones that leave and we want to know EVERYTHING.

Did they get there okay?
Do they like their foster?
Are they happy?
Did somebody adopt them?
Do they sleep on the couch?
Does their new person know they’re supposed to scratch that one spot behind their ear? 😂

But eventually, we have to let go.

And that’s where trust comes in.

We have some AMAZING rescue partners, and we trust every one of them to make the best decisions for the dogs we send them—even when we’re overly attached and part of us would really like to personally interview every potential adopter ourselves. 😂

That’s the relationship.

A shelter hands us a leash and trusts us.

That dog looks up at us and has to trust us.

We put that leash into someone else’s hands and trust them.

A rescue eventually puts that leash into an adopter’s hands and trusts that person.

And somewhere along that chain is a dog who has absolutely no idea how many people had to trust one another to get them from where they were…

to where they were always supposed to be. ❤️

Once they leave us, so much of it is out of our hands.

So we choose our partners carefully.

We build relationships.

And then we trust.

Because rescue isn’t just about saving a dog today.

It’s trusting the people beside you to protect that dog’s tomorrow—and earning enough trust from that dog to let us get them there. ❤️🐾

GRIND. RESCUE. INTEGRITY. TRANSPORT.
THE GRIT FACTOR

08/28/2026

❤️🐾 — MEET FINN. 🐾❤️

Okay, if you’re new here, let me catch you up. This is Finn.

Finn came to us a couple of days ago, and Finn has some imperfections—which make him perfectly imperfect. He’s about 18 months old, fully vetted, male, and around 80 pounds. He could probably stand to gain a few pounds, but we don’t want him carrying a bunch of extra weight because Finn’s suspension system is already… custom. 😂

Finn has an old injury. His back end has a limp, and one of his front ankles sometimes rolls under. Basically, Finn’s legs occasionally appear to be four independent contractors given the same job with absolutely no instructions on how to work together. 😂

And then Finn runs. Y’all. I don’t even know what to call it. It’s a run, shuffle, hop, sideways scoot, and there may be a skip involved. Sometimes the front of Finn and the back of Finn appear to have chosen two completely different routes to the same destination. BUT HE GETS THERE. 😂 And he gets there HAPPY.

We’ve talked to veterinarians, gotten opinions, done our research, and looked at the whole Finn—not just one leg, one hip, or the way he moves. The consensus: Leave Finn alone. Let Finn live. Let Finn be a dog.

So that’s exactly what we’re doing.

I’ve been doing rescue for 20 years, and I feel pretty comfortable saying Finn may be the happiest dog I have ever had in rescue. He eats, drinks, plays, loves people, and runs around the yard with ZERO concern about whether the rest of us think he’s doing it correctly.

Finn doesn’t know his gait is weird. Finn doesn’t care. Finn isn’t sitting around Googling orthopedic surgeons. FINN HAS S**T TO DO. 😂 There are toys to play with, people to follow, food to eat, water to sling across the floor, rugs to drool on, naps to take, and yards to shuffle-run through. Finn is BUSY. 😂

And here is the most important part: FINN IS NOT IN PAIN. Finn can live a happy, normal life.

Am I adopting Finn to somebody looking for a marathon-running partner? Absolutely not. Finn ain’t training for a 10K. The Boston Marathon is out. The Olympics have stopped calling. 😂 But Finn can run around your backyard. He can play. He can make you laugh every single day. He can follow you through the house, sleep at your feet or beside you in bed, and be your best friend.

Finn can be a DOG.

And now I’m going to say something I mean with everything in me:

STOP ONLY RESCUING THE PERFECT ONES. RESCUE AN IMPERFECT ONE.

Listen, I know it’s hard. I rescue. I KNOW. The imperfect ones are harder to place. They’re harder to get tagged. They’re harder to get a rescue to take a chance on. They’re harder to get an adopter to stop scrolling long enough to actually SEE them.

Somewhere along the way, we started looking for the dog with the perfect picture, perfect body, perfect walk, perfect everything.

But there is somebody out there who doesn’t give a damn if Finn runs right. I KNOW there is.

There is somebody who doesn’t care that his ankle rolls or his back end has a hitch in its giddy-up. Somebody who isn’t looking for four perfectly functioning legs.

They’re just looking for a really good dog. And THAT is what Finn is. A really, really, really good dog.

Whatever happened to Finn happened a long time ago. His body healed the way it healed. And Finn moved on. Maybe the rest of us should, too.

Finn doesn’t wake up every morning thinking he’s disabled. He wakes up thinking, HOLY S**T. ANOTHER DAY TO BE FINN. 😂❤️

Honestly, I think those little imperfections gave this dog more character and personality than one animal should legally be allowed to possess.

So you’re going to see Finn. Then you’re going to see Finn again. And probably again. I will post this goofy-ass dog every damn day if that’s what it takes, because I am dead serious about one thing:

FINN DESERVES A PLACE TO CALL HIS OWN.

A family. A rescue. Somebody who looks at him and doesn’t see what’s “wrong” with him. Somebody who just sees Finn.

There is somebody out there for this dog. Help me find them. Share him. Tag a rescue. Tag the person who loves the weird ones. Tag the person who has never needed perfect.

Stop only rescuing the perfect ones. Sometimes the imperfect one turns out to be the most perfect dog you could have picked.

❤️🐾 — Let him be goofy. Let him be awkward. Let him be happy. Let him be loved. LET FINN BE FINN.

08/27/2026

FINN GOT A RUG!!! 🥹🐾❤️

Y’all remember last night when I said, “Finn needs a rug”?

Well… FINN GOT A RUG. 😂👏

And I don’t even know the sweet lady it came from, but THANK YOU—from Finn and from me. ❤️

This may seem like such a little thing to some people. It’s just a rug, right?

But it’s not.

Finn is a big ol’ 90-pound boy with some pretty significant leg issues, and when he drinks water, approximately half of it goes in his mouth and the other half goes EVERYWHERE. 😂 That meant a wet floor and Finn slipping and sliding around his 10x10.

So we said, “Hey, does anybody have a rug?”

And just like that… Finn has a rug.

That is what our Grit Fam does. ❤️

We say, “Hey, does anybody have a…?”
“Hey, can somebody help with…?”
“Hey, we need a…”

And somehow, almost every single time, it just magically happens.

I don’t think y’all truly realize how much that means to these dogs. Every donated rug, bag of food, kennel, ride, dollar, supply—whatever it may be—makes their lives a little safer, a little easier, and a whole lot better while they’re waiting for their forever. ❤️🐾

Y’all are absolutely phenomenal. Truly.

Thank you for always showing up when we ask. ❤️🐾

Now please enjoy this message from Finn, proud new owner of one very fancy rug. 😂👑🐶

And thanks to Nicole for bringing it him last night!

FILLED!! 🙌🏻🫶🏻🚨 OKAY, FOLKS — HERE’S MY DILEMMA. I NEED A PUPPY EXPRESS. 🚨🐶🐶I am in Savannah, Tennessee.I have two tiny p...
08/27/2026

FILLED!! 🙌🏻🫶🏻

🚨 OKAY, FOLKS — HERE’S MY DILEMMA. I NEED A PUPPY EXPRESS. 🚨🐶🐶

I am in Savannah, Tennessee.
I have two tiny puppies in Lebanon, Tennessee.
And I need those babies in Savannah as EARLY AS POSSIBLE tomorrow morning. Like first-thing-in-the-morning early. ☀️🐾

So I need to make ONE of these plans happen:

🚗 OPTION 1: Someone leaves Savannah very early tomorrow morning, drives to Lebanon, picks up the puppies, and brings them back to Savannah.

🐶 OPTION 2: Someone gets the puppies from Lebanon to Columbia, and I will meet you in Columbia and bring them the rest of the way.

🚙 OPTION 3: Someone in/near Lebanon picks them up and brings them all the way to Savannah.

And before anybody asks…

💰 YES. I WILL PAY YOU. 😂
I am not asking someone to donate six hours of their life, a tank of gas, and their sanity to my puppy problem.

I just need to know WHO CAN DO IT AND HOW EARLY CAN WE MAKE IT HAPPEN?

These babies need to get from Lebanon ➡️ Savannah ASAP.

Who wants to be tomorrow morning’s PUPPY UBER? 😂🐶🚗💨

PLEASE SHARE — especially Lebanon, Columbia, Nashville/Murfreesboro-area people!

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