10/30/2026
$5 FRIDAY… Sweet, Skinny Boy Burke ❤️❤️❤️
Some dogs speak novels without making a sound.
That has definitely been the case with our super skinny new addition, Burke.
Burke is a local rescue dog. His shelter reached out to us because Burke was losing weight and losing his mind.
After one look into this confused dogs’s eyes, we knew we had to help him. We begged and begged for a foster home for him for weeks.
Each time the shelter reached out to us, we could tell the situation was becoming more and more desperate. Burke was hanging on by a thread.
By some divine intervention, a family had seen another dog we were looking for a foster home for and applied to foster.
Luckily for Burke, these angels joined our foster team just in the nick of time to save him. ✨
The volunteer who went to pick Burke up described him as frantic. He was hungry, he was lonely, and he was so desperate for any little kindness to hang onto.
He rode to his foster home constantly touching the driver. You could tell in his eyes how thankful he was.
When he finally reached his foster home, the real work began. We set up a feeding schedule for Burke. We let him relax and decompress. We set him up with a schedule, so he knew what to expect, and could start trusting again.
And of course, we took him to the vet. At the vet, we discovered that not only was Burke emaciated and mentally beat down, he was also likely feeling pretty crummy with Giardia and a badly broken canine tooth that needed extraction. 🦷
This poor dog had not only endured months and months of stress and loneliness at a shelter, but he was in extreme pain as well! 💔
We want to be very clear about something. This is not a shelter problem. This is a society problem. Too many people are neglecting or dumping dogs, too many people are complaining and doing nothing to help, and too many people are turning a blind eye.
WE CANNOT DO THIS ALONE!
WE NEED YOUR HELP! 🙏🏼
So today we are asking you to help us.
We need adoptions! Adopting a dog often opens up a foster spot for us to rescue another dog who won’t make it out of the shelter without us.
See our amazing adoptables and fill out an application here.
https://www.pitrescue.org/adoption
If you can’t adopt, join our foster team! SEPR pays all major expenses associated with fostering. You supply the love, time, and safety.
Apply to foster here.
https://www.pitrescue.org/foster
If you can’t adopt or foster, join us and volunteer! We need volunteers to help with events, adoptions, dog outings, and so much more!
Fill out a volunteer interest form here.
https://www.pitrescue.org/volunteer
And of course, we cannot continue to save dogs without financial help!
Every penny of your donations to SEPR goes to the dogs. We do not have any paid staff and are all volunteers so make a difference today! 🐾♥️
GIVE NOW:
💰Venmo: SiouxEmpirePitRescue
💰PayPal: https://www.paypal.com/donate?hosted_button_id=4KN75K98GUHSW
💰Mail: SEPR, PO Box 2321, Sioux Falls, SD 57101
💰Tea Vet Clinic: 605-368-2088
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