Pawsitive Impact

19/08/2025

Following up on post shared from NH... A great Southern rescue explains that differences from 5yrs ago til now.

19/08/2025

It's everywhere and worsening. What has happend in the last few years to change the culture in New England from a pretty good spot where many rescues are transferring up from the South to New England shelters and rescues full and dogs being abandoned. Why is the culture changing? ... Something to think about.

17/08/2025

Lyle Lyle Crocodile! He's incredibly adorable! I will be offering photo sessions in the upcoming months, and I'm particularly excited about capturing fall photos. Right now, I'm concentrating on setting up the photography side of things and photographing our dogs. All paid photo sessions will directly contribute to saving animals! This service will be under the name Pawsitive Impact, which is a rebranding of my previous business page, Emerald Moon Photography.

Cleaning up my Desktop (aka "The Beast") editing computer. Haven't calibrated it for color profile, so it may be off, and as always, calibrating is for exceptional prints. Every screen has variations in color and brightness depending on the settings of your phone, tablet, or computer. Ramble, Ramble...

This is LYLE, our FIRST EVER Pawsitive Impact dog. He had a fractured pelvic bone and is HW positive. He goes for his last heartworm shot at Spartanburg Humane Society tomorrow! He is the most gorgeous SHORT STACK you have ever seen! I can't wait until 30 days after his shot when his crate rest will be over. He LOVES to RUN!

17/08/2025

16/08/2025

I have 5 of those dogs ready for adoption!!!

15/08/2025

This, this, this!!!! Do NOT punish communication!

When we punish dogs for growling, even if they're growling at our child, we aren't helping them feel better about whatever it is that is threatening them. Instead, we are teaching to stop letting us know when they feel unsafe.

The result? A dog who stops giving us warning signs and "bites out of the blue."

And, that's how we create dangerous dogs. I'd much rather have a dog growl and tell me they're upset (so we have a chance to intervene and help them) than a dog who just bites without any warning signs.

Read more here: https://rescuedbytraining.com/2025/08/04/behavior-suppression/

15/08/2025

15/08/2025

I would hope there was some sort of good inte tion for this but regardless of intent, NEVER do this! Not all dogs in shelter are dog friendly! Dogs fight. And this is not the 1st time someone has done this leading to deaths of dogs. This isn't helpful. It's HARMFUL

13/08/2025

Meet Runt!

An office cat who had nowhere to go once the office closed. She was very stressed in shelter and needed out ASAP as the shelter is full and she made "the list".

Runt is medically available for adoption and once we get a good feel for her personality, she will be adoptable ♥️🐾

Noooo, we won't be doing cats regularly and we only have the space for this ONE cat. Something about her I just couldn't say no to 🤷‍♀️❣️.

13/08/2025

Nacho is a lap dog. He doesn't go far, comes when called and just loves the lap! He's keeping an ear out for falling leaves and dastardly walkers to make sure I don't get eaten up!

Nacho is adoptable and ready for his new lap ❣️