Hodgepodge Pets, Inc

08/21/2025

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We've sure been busy this summer! As the pace slows for most folks and that means vacations, relaxing, and more family time, for us it means more work: more surrenders, more time, more kittens and puppies born, more fundraising efforts. And, less adoptions, less volunteers, less fosters available, and less donations.

Unfortunately, we can't put these kids on a shelf or in a closet until things turn around. They still need to be fed, medicated, vetted, cleaned, and cared for 24/7. It's a huge responsibility, and again, we are willing to put in the work. We're still giving it all we've got! But, we need your help!

We really need financial donations! A nearby store in Pa. has had great sales on pet food. Another store has a great sale on paper towels and laundry detergent.
Both store's sale prices were far cheaper than our friends at Am*zon. But, neither offer online shopping.

We really need canned cat food, canned dog food, dry cat food, and pill pockets.

Please donate and please share!

Folks can donate the following ways:

Venmo:


PayPal:
[email protected]

https://www.paypal.me/hodgepodgepets

Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/hodgepodgepets

Mail:
Hodgepodge Pets
P.O. Box 42
Monkton, Md. 21111

Amazon:
https://www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/ls/1RQYSNEE5SMC3?ref_=wl_share

08/10/2025

We've sure been busy this summer! As the pace slows for most folks and that means vacations, relaxing, and more family time, for us it means more work: more surrenders, more time, more kittens and puppies born, more fundraising efforts. And, less adoptions, less volunteers, less fosters available, and less donations.

Unfortunately, we can't put these kids on a shelf or in a closet until things turn around. They still need to be fed, medicated, vetted, cleaned, and cared for 24/7. It's a huge responsibility, and again, we are willing to put in the work. We're still giving it all we've got! But, we need your help!

We really need financial donations! A nearby store in Pa. has had great sales on pet food. Another store has a great sale on paper towels and laundry detergent.
Both store's sale prices were far cheaper than our friends at Am*zon. But, neither offer online shopping.

We really need canned cat food, canned dog food, dry cat food, and pill pockets.

Please donate and please share!

Folks can donate the following ways:

Venmo:


PayPal:
[email protected]

https://www.paypal.me/hodgepodgepets

Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/hodgepodgepets

Mail:
Hodgepodge Pets
P.O. Box 42
Monkton, Md. 21111

Amazon:
https://www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/ls/1RQYSNEE5SMC3?ref_=wl_share

08/05/2025

These are some of our recent Hardship Fosters. Our Hardship Program is in place to help struggling owner's keep their pets. We foster, for free, for military families and first responders, and for those facing various trials: homelessness, hospitalizations, rehab, divorce, domestic violence, illness, etc.
Most pets that come into our program are in need of vaccines, spaying or neutering, flea preventative, wormer, microchips, etc. Their owner's are in a bad place and can rarely pitch in for their care.
We are always in need of financial contributions and food donations for them, as well as more families to foster!
Please consider helping us to keep these families together. It makes a world of difference to them!

08/05/2025

Thank you to our wonderful foster families for taking great care of our kids until they can be adopted!
Financial donations are needed for spaying/neutering, vaccines, wormer, flea meds, testing, etc, prior to adoptions! Please help if you can!

08/05/2025

Catching up on adoptions! Thanks for choosing our kids!

07/08/2025

Hardship cases:

Case 1: Are any of our followers able to foster a senior bulldog for a week or two? Her family is homeless and living in their car in Lutherville. Her dad needs to be admitted to the hospital, but won't go until he knows she is safe. I've been told that she's good with dogs and kids, but not with cats. She's spayed and UTD on vaccines. This situation is urgent!

Case 2: Little Marie is 16 y.o. and is currently in our Hardship Foster program. Her dad held out for as long as he could, hoping for foster placement somewhere. We were working with his social worker over the weekend, with plans to help him today. But, his health declined rapidly and was taken to Harbor Hospital's ER early this morning, with his girl at his side. We are shocked, and incredibly thankful, that they allowed her to go with him to the hospital until our rescue could pick her up! The hospital staff was wonderful and supportive! Please keep Mr.Jones in your prayers for a complete recovery. He is in bad shape, but refused to abandon his girl. He said that after losing his parents recently, she's all that he has left. Can you imagine being so alone, that you don't have a single person to care for your most treasured friend? It's heartbreaking, and we are so glad that we could help relieve that burden for him! Rescuer's see so many pets discarded every day - it is nice and needed to see the other side as well. We hope that these two are reunited very soon! Until then, the old gal is settling in, getting extra love, and will be well cared for! She's a sweetie!

Reminder that we really need fosters, especially for our Hardship Program! We get dozens of calls every week from folks needing temporary help to prevent them from the heartache of surrendering their pets. Help us keep them together. Please consider fostering and please share!

07/08/2025

Many thanks to Graul's Market of Hereford, again, for their continued support! Last weekend, we raised much needed funds for pet food and expenses, and because of the hands on exposure, we had 4 pet adoptions this week, with 2 more pending! That's an event record for us!
Jade, our pittie ambassador, enjoyed greeting everyone, especially all of the kiddos!

Thanks, too, to the Hereford Community for all of your generous monetary donations! Volunteers Lynne, Jay, Kya, and Jonah, your help was appreciated!!

06/22/2025

Putting out another plea for food and monetary donations. It's been nearly a month since the original post, and we even paid to boost it during that time. Only 6 people have donated so far. It's incredibly discouraging! Adoptions are at an all time low, as are donations. We realize that everyone is excited and making plans for summer, vacationing, having fun, and probably not giving a whole lot of thought to rescue's right now. But, we are still here, still struggling, and still in need. In order to care for the animals already here and continue our mission, we need your support. We'll keep putting in the hard work, we just need financial support. Please donate and please share.

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May 24, 2025

Can anyone donate pet food? Our Amazon Wish List is below. Or, if anyone donates money, we can look for clearance sales at local pet stores, TSC, etc., and really stock up.

If we could get support with regular weekly or monthly sponsors/deliveries, that would take a huge load off! So much of our income (both rescue and personal) goes towards pet food, and it would free that up to go towards other expenses like spays, neuters, vet bills, flea
/tick meds, repairs, grooming, etc.

Folks can donate the following ways:

Venmo:


PayPal:
[email protected]

https://www.paypal.me/hodgepodgepets

Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/hodgepodgepets

Mail:
Hodgepodge Pets
P.O. Box 42
Monkton, Md. 21111

Amazon:
https://www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/ls/1RQYSNEE5SMC3?ref_=wl_share

Thanks for your support!

06/15/2025

We've had 4 people make donations since this was posted nearly 3 weeks ago. While we are grateful, it's just a drop in the bucket of what we need. We have exhausted all of our personal funds - again - to make sure everyone is fed and cared for. I hate to beg or sound like a broken record, but we can't continue at this rate. Please donate and share this post.

We are a small, dedicated, family run animal rescue, in operation for over 30 years. We're committed to helping animals and people in need, thru our military, senior, therapy, foster, owner hardship, and volunteer programs.

06/12/2025

Update: Friday A.M.
Matt's best childhood friend is going to drive 4 hours to pick C.J. up on Saturday and foster him for a week or so until we can get him.
Thank you so, so much to everyone who was willing to lend a hand to help us! We are grateful! I'll update again soon.

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We need to get a 7 m.o. yorkie from a shelter in Cu***ng, Georgia, to Maryland. He's located at Forsyth County Pet Resource Center. They will not allow him to come to Maryland on any of the regular, commercial or private shippers that we would normally use to bring dogs up.

Are any of our followers in that area? Can we arrange a transport chain?

A bit of back story: My 34 y.o. son wants him. He was his father's beloved dog. Mark passed away in his sleep unexpectedly, and C.J. was locked in his crate for at least 3 days before it was discovered. The police called animal contol, and they took him to a local shelter to be cared for. The staff has been great, but they can't hold him indefinitely.

Can anyone help bring C.J. to Maryland to help mend Matt's heart?

05/24/2025

Can anyone donate pet food? Our Amazon Wish List is below. Or, if anyone donates money, we can look for clearance sales at local pet stores, TSC, etc., and really stock up.

If we could get support with regular weekly or monthly sponsors/deliveries, that would take a huge load off! So much of our income (both rescue and personal) goes towards pet food, and it would free that up to go towards other expenses like spays, neuters, vet bills, flea
/tick meds, repairs, grooming, etc.

Folks can donate the following ways:

Venmo:


PayPal:
[email protected]

https://www.paypal.me/hodgepodgepets

Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/hodgepodgepets

Mail:
Hodgepodge Pets
P.O. Box 42
Monkton, Md. 21111

Amazon:
https://www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/ls/1RQYSNEE5SMC3?ref_=wl_share

Thanks for your support!

We are a small, dedicated, family run animal rescue, in operation for over 30 years. We're committed to helping animals and people in need, thru our military, senior, therapy, foster, owner hardship, and volunteer programs.

05/08/2025

Sorry for the delayed update. I was planning on posting when we got home, but I got really sick with a high fever, achiness, headache, etc. during the drive. I'm just now feeling well enough to post this.

Unfortunately, I was right about Charlie's tumor being a squamous cell carcinoma. (Well, they are almost certain that it was. It presented as one in every way, but the only way to know 100%, is to send out samples for biopsy.) Since radiographs showed that his tumor wrapped around his ear, to his eye and down his cheek, it wasn't operable. I couldn't justify paying for biopsies just so we knew what type of tumor it was. Surgery couldn't save him, and that money could be better spent on helping other pets.

Charlie was a good boy until the very end. The vets were so impressed with him and said that the exams and tests on any other pig would have had them freaking out.

We sat with him and gave him every snack we could find in the car, plus some mints that Dr. Louie gave us for him. He was still a bit sedated but a true pig and happily ate everything. He got lots of love and snuggles before he was humanely euthanized.

Thank you to New Bolton Center and their compassionate team. I don't know the total for yesterday yet, as they will be emailing an invoice in the next day or two. I wish that I had better news. Thanks to those who have supported us.