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El Camino Dog Rescue, Okanogan, WA (2026)

05/31/2026

28 puppies transferred in just 4 days. ❤️

Yesterday, 16 puppies headed out to rescue partners for a chance at a brighter future. Combined with the 12 puppies transferred just four days earlier, that’s 28 puppies moved in less than a week.

The need never seems to slow down. We already have a waiting list forming for upcoming transports and are hoping these puppies and dogs find homes quickly so rescue partners can continue making room for the next group already coming down the pipeline.

A huge thank you to Wet Noses Foster Paws for continuing to step up and help us move puppies into rescue where they can receive veterinary care, vaccinations, spay/neuter services, and the opportunity to find loving homes.

Thank you as well to Gaby and Tyler for making yesterday’s transport happen, and a very special thank you to Anna for jumping in with very little notice. We are incredibly grateful for her willingness to help on a whim with these smaller transports whenever we need her. We honestly didn’t think we’d be able to move another group so soon, but thanks to everyone working together, here we are again.

We are also incredibly thankful to the owners who trust us enough to reach out when they need help. One of the most important parts of what we do is helping get mama dogs spayed so the cycle doesn’t continue while also helping puppies find a path toward veterinary care and permanent homes.

If anyone would like to help Gaby with gas money for transports, it is always appreciated. She spends countless hours driving for these dogs and puppies throughout Okanogan County and beyond, and every dollar helps keep transports moving.

Venmo: Gabriela-Reyes-167
Cash App: $greyes433

Finally, thank you to Team Okanogan Animal Rescue for continued support with vaccines, dewormer, and supplies that help make these transports possible.

Thank you to everyone supporting these dogs and the people working behind the scenes to help them. ❤️
-El Camino Dog Rescue

05/30/2026

💛 A huge thank you to everyone who has purchased items from our Amazon Wish List over the past couple of weeks.

The puppy food, adult dog food, small breed food, p*e pads, and other supplies have been incredibly helpful. We have a steady stream of puppies, litters, and adult dogs coming into rescue every week, and having these supplies on hand makes a huge difference.

Whether you sent one item or several, please know that every donation is appreciated and goes directly toward helping dogs in need. Your support helps us continue saying “yes” when another puppy litter or dog needs a safe place to land.

Thank you for being part of the
El Camino Dog Rescue family.
We couldn’t do this without you. ❤️

Amazon Wish List:
https://www.amazon.com/registries/gl/guest-view/1LJNSUB4XOSH0?ref_=cm_sw_r_apin_ggr-subnav-share_VC462PC8VMANXG6N16ZP&language=en-US

05/28/2026

Today we transferred 12 puppies from three separate litters to our amazing partners at Wet Noses Foster Paws ❤️

We are so grateful to Wet Nose for continuing to step up for these puppies and helping them get the chance at safe homes, proper vetting, and brighter futures.

Huge thank you to Dawn for helping with weekday transports. Weekday transports are always harder to line up, and we truly appreciate you making the drive from Tacoma to Cle Elum and back again to help these puppies get where they need to go. Thank you as well to Gaby and Tyler Dearmin for making the drive to Cle Elum today and helping make another transport happen for these puppies.

Also thank you so much to everyone who has donated gas money to help Gaby with transports. Every trip to Cle Elum is expensive, and every donation truly helps keep these puppies moving toward safety.

Venmo: Gabriela-Reyes-167
Cash App: $greyes433

And a massive thank you to Gaby for the amount of work, care, and attention she puts into every litter that comes through rescue.

One of the biggest reasons we are able to continue moving litter after litter through rescue and transport is because of how cautious and responsible Gaby is with puppy care and quarantine protocols. Puppies are far more vulnerable, have weaker immune systems, and can pick up viruses extremely easily, especially when coming from stray situations, orchards, overcrowded homes, dumping situations, or pounds where vaccine history is unknown.

Every litter is quarantined separately in crate setups within separate quarantine areas and kept off dirt and grass to help reduce contamination risks. Thankfully, despite the large number of puppies that have come through rescue, there have only been a couple situations where puppies arrived already incubating parvo and showed symptoms shortly after intake. Because of strict cleaning, separation, and quarantine protocols, future litters have remained protected.

We also use Kenesol disinfectant protocols, and if a puppy develops symptoms, crates and quarantine setups are pulled from use and properly disinfected before being used again. These precautions take a tremendous amount of daily work, cleaning, monitoring, and organization behind the scenes.

Gaby takes that responsibility extremely seriously and cares for these puppies as if they were her own little fur babies.

Thank you as well to Team Okanogan Animal Rescue for continued vaccine and dewormer support that helps us continue caring for these litters as they come through rescue ❤️

Thank you to everyone continuing to support these puppies and the people working nonstop behind the scenes for them ❤️ El Camino Dog Rescue

05/27/2026

Meet Kai ❤️

Here is a before and after of Kai from when we first got him over a month ago from the tribal pound.

Kai is probably some sort of St. Bernard and Great Pyrenees mix if we had to guess. When he first came in, he was very underweight.

Thankfully, with the help of his wonderful foster family, Cheryl and her family, this big guy has slowly gained back the weight, confidence, and love he deserved all along. His ribs and hips were extremely visible when he first came in, and it took weeks of consistency, good food, care, and commitment to help fill this boy back out and get him healthy again.

We truly cannot thank Cheryl and her family enough for the time, patience, and dedication they have put into helping Kai recover. Their commitment to dog rescue and helping dogs like Kai is beyond appreciated.

Kai is about 2 years old, possibly, from what we can estimate. Now that he finally has the weight back on him, we would love to get him neutered and into a home where he can truly be a dog again. He has spent weeks being more cooped up while focusing on gaining weight and recovering physically, and now we would love to see him have room to run, play, explore, and just enjoy life the way he should.

And honestly, he’s such a good boy.

Kai:
• Has been tested around cats on a leash and has not chased them, but that is the extent of his cat testing so far
• Is good with other dogs
• Is extremely friendly and affectionate
• Is very smart and alert
• Will absolutely let you know when something is going on around the property

At one point, Cheryl’s ducks got out of their pen and Kai immediately alerted them to it. He notices everything and really seems to enjoy watching over the property and the people around him.

He has not been formally tested around livestock or poultry loose with him directly, but so far he has been an absolute sweetheart with everyone he meets.

Unfortunately, larger dogs and dogs over a year old often take longer to get adopted, and we want to give Kai a fair shot here in Okanogan County first, where someone may truly appreciate a dog of his size, presence, intelligence, and protective nature.

If you would like to set up a meet and greet with Kai in the Okanogan County area, please reach out. We would absolutely love to find this boy the perfect match. ❤️

05/21/2026

Diesel and Daisy are both already doing so well, and we wanted to say a huge thank you to everyone who donated food and supplies from our Amazon wish list. It truly helped more than you know. ❤️

This picture was Daisy on her very first day with us. Skin and bones, exhausted, and clearly struggling.

Their fosters have been absolutely incredible. Feeding tiny meals every few hours, monitoring them closely, helping them slowly gain weight safely, cleaning up messes, keeping them comfortable, and making sure they feel secure. Caring for severely emaciated dogs is not just tossing food in a bowl. It takes constant attention, patience, time, and a whole lot of dedication. We are beyond grateful for the people willing to step up and do it. Thanks again to their hero Zach for saving them in the first place 💪

We also want to say thank you to all the new people who reached out offering foster help. Even when people can only take certain sizes, ages, or types of dogs, it still helps tremendously because every open spot matters.

Thankfully, Sue and her husband reached out to me the same day Daisy came in offering to help foster. Then, the very next day, another dog that had been sitting in the pound for several weeks needed out, and they were able to go directly down and pick her up immediately. She is now safe in foster care while we work on getting her transferred.

This is exactly how rescue works. One person donates food. One person fosters. One person drives. One person reaches out at the right time. And together, dogs get a second chance.

We appreciate all of you more than you know. ❤️
El Camino Dog Rescue

Our Amazon wishlist:
https://www.amazon.com/registries/gl/guest-view/1LJNSUB4XOSH0?ref_=cm_sw_r_apin_ggr-subnav-share_VMKKEK6E58KJ4FJ8XNFP&language=en-US

05/18/2026

This past Saturday, we transferred another 13 dogs.

Yes, that means we are still moving dogs every single week. It feels never-ending, but every single transfer matters.

We also want to say a huge thank you to the people in the community who find stray dogs and actually hold onto them while waiting for rescue openings instead of dumping them back out somewhere else. Thank you for taking them in, feeding them, keeping them safe, and being willing to hold them for weeks sometimes until we can step up and find help for them. That patience and willingness to help truly makes a difference, and more dogs would die out there without people willing to step up like that.

We are also incredibly grateful when people reach out while their puppies are still young and easier to transfer.

Waiting until puppies are six months old, bigger, harder to place, and harder to get openings for only makes everything more difficult. When people reach out early, those puppies have a much better chance at getting transferred quickly, vaccinated, dewormed, fixed through our rescue partners, and placed into safe homes.

Because we all know what happens when that does not happen.

Those same free puppies often become nine-month-old starving dogs. They get handed off to someone who never gets them fixed, then they have another litter, and the cycle starts all over again. It is the same revolving door we see constantly. Dogs dumped like trash because people only wanted a cute free puppy at the time and never thought beyond that moment.

That is why transfer matters. It gives these dogs a real chance at a different life.

This transfer also included several dogs from the tribal pound, and we are so grateful they were able to get out. Thankfully, they were social with people and other dogs, which made them transferable and gave them the opportunity for a better future.

Huge thank you to Wet Noses Foster Paws for once again stepping up and taking another amazing group of dogs. Their commitment to helping our rural area over and over again has changed the outcome for so many dogs that otherwise would not have had many options.

Thank you to Tyler, Gaby, and Dawn for doing the Omak to Cle Elum to Tacoma commute. Without their commitment, consistency, and willingness to give up entire weekends to transport dogs, we would not be able to do this. Gaby had literally just returned from vacation the night before transport and was right back at it riding along with Tyler the very next morning. That level of dedication says everything.

Thank you to Todd, who donated the use of his van on a day he was not even available and still filled it with gas out of his own pocket for this trip. Todd has stepped up for these dogs over and over again, often on short notice, and his commitment to helping save dogs in this county deserves far more recognition than it gets.

Thank you to Charlotte, who juggled dog after dog while Gaby was on vacation. Honestly, Charlotte is constantly juggling dogs even when Gaby is in town, and without her willingness to continuously shuffle dogs around, help with holding, and make things work when we are scrambling, we would not be able to save nearly as many as we do.

Thank you to Keuna and her husband Dominick for juggling two handfuls of puppies and making sure they got the care they needed. Puppies are exhausting, messy, time-consuming, and nonstop work, and people willing to step up for litters are a huge reason these transfers keep happening.

Thank you to Renee for fostering Rusty. Adult dogs are much harder to find fosters for and much harder to get transfer openings for, so people willing to step up for adult dogs truly make the difference between a dog sitting without options and a dog getting a chance.

Thank you to Racie for always being on call to help pick up dogs and move them into foster homes. Transporting is honestly half the battle when it comes to rescue, and people willing to jump in and help move dogs from place to place are a massive reason we are able to keep things moving.

Thank you to Team Okanogan Animal Rescue for continuing to provide vaccines and dewormer and helping support rescue efforts throughout the county.

And thank you to everyone in the community who donated for all the dumped dogs we have had coming in week after week. The p*e pads, puppy food, adult food, and supplies make a huge difference. We cannot keep doing this as volunteers without community help.

The donations these last couple days have honestly been more help than we have had in quite a while, and I cannot fully explain how much we appreciate every single person that stepped up.

Another 13 dogs are safe because a whole lot of people kept showing up.
El Camino Dog Rescue

Our Amazon wishlist:
https://www.amazon.com/registries/gl/guest-view/1LJNSUB4XOSH0?ref_=cm_sw_r_apin_ggr-subnav-share_VC462PC8VMANXG6N16ZP&language=en-US

05/15/2026

This is Ghost ❤️

Beautiful white husky who had been sitting at the Okanogan pound for a few weeks. I could not find an available foster for him anywhere. Sharon had been asking to foster for quite a while, but it was always tricky because she lives all the way over in Republic, which is quite a haul from Omak when we are trying to move dogs quickly for transport. Because of that, I usually have to wait for the right fit and the right timing before using her as a foster.

Big dogs also usually end up being longer holds anyway since there is such a long waitlist for large breed openings, so Ghost ended up being the perfect dog for her to foster while we waited for rescue space with our wonderful partners at Wet Noses Foster Paws.

Sharon picked him up after he had been in the pound for about two to three weeks, and honestly I am really grateful that pound held him for so long because it is not easy finding fosters for big dogs, especially Huskies. You never fully know what their prey drive will be like or how they are with other dogs when we haven’t been able to dog test them first.

I prepared Sharon for the possibility that he may need to stay kenneled and separated the whole time just in case he turned out to be dog selective. But after a couple days of decompressing, he ended up fitting into her pack perfectly. Her adult children live right around the corner, and it turns out he is wonderful with her granddaughter too.

He is just a happy guy now ❤️

Well this weekend, I somehow managed to get an opening for him with rescue, and Sharon told me, “I can foster for you again in the future, but I think I’m a foster fail. I’ve fallen in love with him and want to keep him.”

And honestly, this is the BEST kind of foster fail.

For anyone who has been thinking about getting a dog in the future, this is exactly why I always tell people they are welcome to foster first if they want to do a “trial run” while a dog waits for transport. If you think you may want a dog someday, tell me what kind of dog you’re looking for and I may end up accidentally matching you with your future dog 😂❤️

Sometimes fostering turns into forever, and we are absolutely all for that.

And before anyone panics that Sharon can’t foster again now, she absolutely still can and wants to. She just is not one of the fosters I rely on weekly because of how far out in Republic she lives, so the fact that she still has the ability and willingness to foster in the future is actually amazing for us.

Huskies also tend to take a lot longer to get adopted out and can sometimes spend months waiting for the right home, so the fact that Ghost found an immediate family of his own is the best possible ending for him.

Now his spot opens up room for me to save another big dog sitting on the waitlist waiting for their chance.
El Camino Dog Rescue

05/14/2026

Update foster found!

We urgently need an immediate foster for the female emaciated dog that was found in the mountains.

She needs someone who is able to feed her every 3 to 4 hours with carefully scheduled small meals throughout the day due to how underweight she is. This is extremely important for her recovery and safety.

Right now she is still in a crate at a foster home that already has a house full of dogs and is stretched very thin trying to manage everyone.

We do NOT currently have a dedicated foster for her.

If anyone can volunteer to help foster her, even temporarily, please reach out to me immediately. She needs a quiet place to decompress, rest, and safely recover.

05/14/2026

Well, the hunter that found the two emaciated dogs has a name. His name is Zach.

We want to give a huge thank you to him for going completely out of his way to help save these two pups that are probably less than a year old.

Zach was up here from several hours away spending the week hunting up near Tunk Mountain and Crawfish Lake when he came across TWO severely emaciated dogs out in the mountains.

The female was absolutely terrified and took off before he could safely catch her. Thankfully, somehow, he was able to get ahold of the male before he also bolted. Scared, skittish, starving, covered in sores, and completely skin and bones, but thankfully Zach managed to safely get him into his truck. The poor guy smelled strongly like diesel fuel, so for now we are calling him Diesel.

He kept Diesel overnight the night prior, even sleeping with him in his tent while trying to figure out how to help him. The next afternoon, Zach drove all the way down from the mountains to Omak so we could get the dog somewhere safe.

Rita was actually the one who first alerted me that Zach was trying to figure out what to do to help the first dog he got. Thankfully after getting in contact with Zach, I was able to coordinate getting Diesel safely down to Omak and handed off to Tyler for a few hours until another foster Charlotte could take over.

Then after all of that, Zach turned around and went BACK up the mountain again to continue hunting and try one more time for the female.

Before heading back up, he picked up one of our humane traps that had been donated to us last year by Mike. And thankfully, that trap made all the difference in the world.

She was hungry enough that she finally went into the trap. Zach was then able to safely get her and bring her all the way back down to Omak before midnight last night.

We truly do not know if these dogs would have survived much longer out there.

We believe they are brother and sister and were likely leftover puppies from a litter someone could not give away, so they were dumped out in the middle of nowhere like trash. Judging by how thin they are, they may have been surviving out there for months.

Right now both dogs are safe, but they are extremely underweight and will need very careful feeding and monitoring while they recover. They need very small meals every three hours at first so they do not get sick from eating too much too fast after being starved for so long.

This kind of recovery schedule is not something everyone can realistically do. Ideally we are looking for fosters who are retired, stay-at-home parents, work from home, or otherwise have the flexibility to keep up with the around-the-clock feeding schedule they currently need.

We are urgently looking for fosters for these two. We may have a foster lined up for the male, but we are still actively looking for another foster for the female. We also have several more litters of puppies coming in this weekend just hours after Saturday’s transport, so space is incredibly tight right now.

If anyone has the time and capacity to foster, please reach out.

And again, thank you to Zach. This is the kind of men we need more of in this world. Someone who saw suffering and chose to help instead of looking away.

El Camino Dog Rescue
To donate dog food please use our wishlist!
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05/14/2026

We have an Amazon Wish List! 🐾

We are constantly taking in puppies and adult dogs, even when we do not always have time to post every single one every day. At minimum, we are consistently helping around 40 dogs every month, and many arrive underweight, neglected, or severely emaciated needing good quality food immediately.

Right now we have multiple litters eating kibble or close to weaning, plus adult dogs continuing to come in nonstop.

We do receive occasional food help from Team Okanogan, which we are thankful for, but the reality is we need something more consistent month to month to keep up with the constant flow of dogs coming through.

Puppy food, adult dog food, and p*e pads are some of our biggest ongoing needs. Even one bag or one item from the list helps more than people realize and truly adds up when multiple people pitch in.

Having supplies already on hand helps us continue saying yes to dogs that otherwise may not have anywhere to go.

💛 Thank you for supporting El Camino Dog Rescue

Amazon Wish List:
https://www.amazon.com/registries/gl/guest-view/1LJNSUB4XOSH0?ref_=cm_sw_r_apin_ggr-subnav-share_VC462PC8VMANXG6N16ZP&language=en-US

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