Arkansas Animal Alliance

06/16/2025

This boy could be my Porgy’s twin. If someone would like to rescue a senior dog, please consider this boy. I wouldn’t adopt a puppy for a million dollars but I would another senior dog. Someone needs this boy!!

06/16/2025

Brody is getting his travel papers and LaLa is getting her booster vaccines. Good Shepherd Animal Clinic takes good care of our babies.

06/16/2025

06/15/2025

LaLa, the little brown puppy, isn’t going to put up with any crap! 🤣 Why is it always the littles? I think she’s about 9 weeks old or so now. She is still getting all her shots and not spayed just yet. She not growing very fast so don’t think she will be very big but she will be the perfect size whatever the size she grows to. Just ask her. So glad we were able to save her when we grabbed Brody because I can’t imagine her lasting much longer with the pack of dogs in Saline county. She was still trying to nurse off momma and was full of ticks, fleas and worms.

She is loving life in her foster home. Has been dewormed twice and has had 2 sets of shots now.

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Arkansas Animal Alliance
17200 Chenal Parkway, Ste 300-181
Little Rock, AR 72223

Good Shepherd Animal Clinic (501) 459-2121

06/13/2025

The story about Makayla has been all over social media. It is so heartbreaking! If you can donate even a few dollars, her family I’m sure would be very thankful.

While the pack of dogs that attacked Makayla was supposedly (I was not there) on a property, how many of us in rescue have received calls wanting help with a pack of dogs, usually outside city limits where there is no animal control? We pulled 2 puppies from a pack of dogs in Saline county about a month ago. The sheriff departments should be responsible for handling packs of dogs instead of saying “we don’t have animal control”, “shoot them”, or “call a rescue” because it can be a very dangerous situation. I don’t know if in this situation all the dogs on the property were sterilized or not but all it takes is for one female to be in heat and for 2 intact males to give the look and the battle royal begins. You think telling rescues to put themselves in danger is ok? Go shoot the dogs yourself, sheriff, because you are trained to protect the public. Did you know that AR state law requires that dogs and cats be current on rabies vaccines so these packs of dogs are a health hazard because they do not have their rabies vaccinations. Furthermore, they are having litters of unwanted and unneeded puppies. We shouldn’t stand for our law enforcement not enforcing the law and not protecting us. While it breaks my heart for dogs to die, our safety is more important and we should not be silent.

Praying for your family, Makayla. Thank you for your loving heart. So sorry it had to end this way. Hope something positive comes from this. 😥

On behalf of my dear friend Stephanie Wilkie, I am heartbroken to share… Erin Bowman needs your support for Support for Makayla's Family in Their Time of Loss

06/11/2025

This is why we need statewide animal control. Packs of dogs can be dangerous. I remember an elderly lady in Faulkner County several years ago asking me to help her with a pack of dogs because she was afraid to go get her mail out of her mailbox. I told her that I couldn’t heji her and to contact the Faulkner County Sheriff’s Department. She told me that she already had and they told her to shoot the dogs. Y’all this lady was like 80+ years old and did not have a gun first of all and would have likely shot herself if she had. Around the same time a guy at an apartment building in Faulkner County told me the same thing and he lived in an apartment building. Who wants someone shooting in your parking lot if you live in that apartment building? Come on, Arkansas!

06/10/2025

I am getting SICK of county sheriffs, city shelters and people who don't spay/neuter. Just got another message:

"Hi. My number is (501) ###-###-###x. and I live in Saline county off of Springhill Rd at the edge of Bryant and I have a pit bull coming to my house every day and antagonizing my male and female dogs and it's getting pretty violent. I called animal control and because I am in the county, they said to call rescue come pick him up. He's a beautiful dog but it's getting pretty aggressive and I won't want to hurt him and don't want my dogs to get hurt and so if you could give me a call back and maybe come rescue him that would be great. Thanks. Bye."

We are not animal control. We do not come get aggressive dogs. The sheriff's department should have to handle these situations. This is why rescues are overwhelmed. If I happen to intake a dog that shows the slightest bit of aggression towards a person or a dog, let me tell you this right now. That dog WILL BE EUTHANIZED IMMEDIATELY and I will not apologize for that. I will not still that dog in a kennel so that I don't have to euthanize it. It will be euthanized. If you ever think that you are going to pawn off an aggressive dog on me thinking I won't euthanize it, you are mistaken.

I am tired of city shelters telling people that they will euthanize dogs if you bring them in. While that may be true, well that is the state we live in. That is sadly your job. I hate it but keep it to yourself. It is better than the person dumping the dog and that dog getting pregnant because it isn't sterilized etc. Just intake the dog and whatever your protocol is for euthanizing, then euthanize. I wish no dogs ever had to be euthanized, but unless everyone spayed/neutered, dogs will be euthanized. I don't care if you disagree. Feel free to comment. I will not block you if you disagree. You have a right to your option just as I have a right to mine.

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06/09/2025

So yet another call about a litter of 2 week old pit bull puppies in North Little Rock whose momma was dumped and has passed away. The guy can’t keep up with feeding them. He has called like 35 rescues/shelters/vets and had no luck. I told him how rescues are all overwhelmed and since he has had no luck thus far that the most humane thing he can probably do at this point is call some vet clinics and see if one will give him a good rate on euthanizing. This is beyond ridiculous! Rescues are facing this battle daily. I refuse to have a stockpile of dogs that I can’t get adopted. I hate euthanizing but there are less humane things than euthanizing. Arkansas needs to wake up and start implementing more spay/neuter requirements across the state and enforcing animal welfare laws that we do have.

06/08/2025

I have personally and on our rescue page received so many requests asking to take either a pit bull that someone picked up because they didn’t want it to get hit by a car an wanted a rescue to take it or an owner surrender. We don’t have the adopter resources for pit bulls. Sadly, my best advice is to humanely euthanize if you can’t foster and find the dog a home because even the rescues that try to rehome pit bulls might have 50-100 lined up in outdoor kennels and might live out their lives there. If I don’t have an indefinite foster home for a pit bull, I’m not taking one. That’s the way it is. If you believe you can “save them all”, please let me know and I will send these people your way because I sure hate telling them “no”. It breaks my heart. That is definitely not why I got into rescue. I’m so sorry for the ones I can’t help. Please spay/neuter your pit bulls and pit bull mixes!!! This breed is prone to have large breeds and we are over populated.

06/04/2025

Pictures to come later but will be posting a sweet middle aged female house trained chihuahua whose mother died that is needing a new home. 😥

06/04/2025

Today has not been a good day for us. We made the decision to let Sammy go. We went back and forth on this decision. We knew we possibly had a long road ahead and we were ready for that. Sammy had ehrlichia and we were treating that but after his leg swelled suddenly and after doing some x-rays it was believed he had a serious fungal infection that would take causing his lungs to look horrible and crackle and would take about 4 months to treat. Additional testing was done to positively diagnose but results aren't in yet. His eye was going to be removed also when he got neutered. On Tuesday night at about 6:30 when his foster left for a church event, Sammy was doing fine but when she returned around 9 PM he was having labored breathing and lethargic. If you are not familiar with trying to get into an after hours vet in central AR, well just hope you never have to and my recommendation is try to always just get into your regular vet during normal vet hours even if it’s precautionary because there’s a good chance that you will need to drive to Memphis, Springdale or Ft. Smith to get seen by a vet and your baby could easily die by then. Anyways back to Sammy. We could not get Sammy into the after hours vet so his foster snuggled with him all night and was waiting at our vet clinic when they opened this morning. I met her there. With his labored breathing and lungs like they were, we made the decision to let him go and not suffer. I’m glad that we let him go peacefully and in his foster’s arms. This little guy suffered so much in his life. He has been so loved over the last week. We are heartbroken. Sammy was so sweet. No dog deserved the hand he was dealt. RIL, Sammy.

Thank you for your prayers. We still need your prayers as we mourn for Sammy. If you would like to make a donation in memory of Sammy so we can help another dog, here's how you can donate:

CashApp = $ArkAnimalAlliance

https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/aranimalalliance

https://venmo.com/u/arkansasanimalalliance

Arkansas Animal Alliance
17200 Chenal Parkway
Ste 300-181
Little Rock, AR 72223

Good Shepherd Animal Clinic
(501) 459-2121

06/02/2025

Let me start off by saying how sweet this boy is but bless his heart because he just can’t catch a break. When he was found, he was infested with ticks. We found out he had ehrlichia and is symptomatic with joint pain. He has an inflamed eye with pressure causing him pain and we have him on RX eye drops to relieve the pressure as much as possible until we can remove the eye. We can’t remove the eye until he has been in the Doxy for the ehrlichia long enough to not bleed out because ehrlichia causes excessive bleeding. His foster has been very observant and realized she thought more was going on so we had x-rays and bloodwork done today which also led to a urinalysis because we believe he has a fungal infection that will take up to 3-4 months to resolve. I’m not familiar with this issue so I’m not sure if it can be deadly but we are going to do everything we have to in order to treat Sammy. With this said, yes we could use donations. Here’s the short laundry list of why we needs donations for Sammy to sum it up: 30 days Doxy for ehrlichia, ProHeart 6, flea/tick prevention, eye removal, neuter (of course), dog food, eye drops, x-rays, blood work, urinalysis, meds for fungal infection for 3-4 months, vet check ups, 4DX heartworm test and I’m probably leaving something out.

Here are ways you can donate:

CashApp = $ArkAnimalAlliance

https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/aranimalalliance

https://venmo.com/u/arkansasanimalalliance

Arkansas Animal Alliance
17200 Chenal Parkway, Ste 300-181
Little Rock, AR 72223

Good Shepherd Animal Clinic (501) 459-2121

Also PLEASE pray for Sammy and his fosters.