Black Dog Club

05/28/2026

We just ordered a Waggle for our puppy barn to monitor temps since it is away from the common room. Honestly had never thought about it, my bad, but makes complete sense!

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05/28/2026

Where's Wally beach edition 😆 He is down visiting all of his peeps at Emerald Isle and brought along big sister, BDC mascot Pibbs and brother Loki.

05/22/2026

Starting Memorial weekend with a wonderful adoption. Happy tails Didi!

05/21/2026

If you know me and my team, you know I'm not allowed at the shelters. I typically show up to get one dog but come back with 3 or 4 or 5. Four years ago...almost to the exact date...I went to evaluate a dog. While checking out pup one, the beautiful hound directly behind me started working me. It worked! Gus joined us on the freedom ride home. We do a ton of hounds here and most move fairly quickly, but for some reason, no one ever chose Gus. After 2 years, we moved him to Sanctuary status. He's had free run of the farm and completely enjoyed life. He is a staple at the rescue and everyone knows him. Seems Doc is doing something for him at least once a month!

Yesterday morning, he had a slight nose bleed. We checked it out and thought Chunk the cat had given an extra swat or two to him. Lord knows, nose scratches bleed forever. As the day progressed, the bleeding increased and we discovered it was actually coming from inside his nasal passage. Of course, Doc answered my panicked call and gave me some things to try.

Sometime overnight, his eye ruptured and the decision was made to let him cross peacefully today.

I'm posting pics from the day he came in. There are thousands on our rolls that I will share later. I'm just not there yet. It's been a long, rough week here on the farm but this is the most painful for sure.

Run free my baby boy! I will love and miss you forever!

05/20/2026

I am so exhausted tonight. The short concise story…rescue sucks! You better have deep skin, deep pockets and a deep need to actually commit or this life is not for you. I am a rescuer at heart.

You are screwed 10 ways till Sunday. You don’t get to sleep, you work 18 hours a day, you stress about financials, you stress about making sure everything is 100% every single day! You don’t have time for family or friends. The only time you get away is when you are about to snap and make the hard choice to walk away for a few hours or a few days…but only if you have reliable volunteers or employees to show up and care for the critters. You get hundreds of emails, texts, website messages, social media messages and or phone calls all day, every day from people wanting help including shelters from NC to CA, other rescues calling it quits, a dog someone found, a colony of cats that the property owner wants removed, a dog that showed up that is more than likely pregnant from her brother because the owner bought puppies (registered) but couldn’t afford to spay and neuter.

Then, your friends get butthurt because you didn’t say hi when they showed up while the feed person was delivering supplies while you’re already on the phone with one of the other 100 calls you get per day. Your husband is pi**ed because he supports you but he has to make his own dinner after working 12 hours because your tied up with dogs.

You get to cross your fingers and hope the dogs you just pulled are heartworm negative knowing damned well they aren’t. You get to host a vet (or actually two) for multiple days to complete basic care for pets you pulled to “just save one more.” You get to host heartworm treatment days because folks won’t educate themselves on what Ivermectin is…. which is cheap as hell at the farm store. I damned well assure you, prevention is a hell of a lot cheaper than treatment. We did 8 yesterday that were positive and already have June and July on the books for the ones that tested positive the past 2 days.

You spend your weekend mending fences, replacing shelters, sanding doghouses cause dear lord dogs love to chew igloo’s. You get to cuss one of the best people in your life because the dogs killed the stuffed penguins they donated and there are plushy guts all over your facility…while you apologize to the folks for the mess when they show up to adopt. Some are forgiving and think it’s funny! We love you.

You find a wonderful donor to sponsor a spay/neuter clinic so you can add one more thing to the list of stuff you already do everyday…just to save one more.

At the end of it all, you have folks that claim to be in rescue that do underhanded s**t to each other, talk crap about each other and try to harm each other. Yep, I admittedly do this myself if…and only if… I see a group take puppies and leave mom behind. That is my no deal scenario!

At the end of the day, I’ve been up since 5 AM working my t***y off. It’s 11:45PM and the only thing I’ve had to eat is the food another rescue lady brought to me this morning which I reheated at 11. Dinner may or may not happen.

But guess what, we will do it all again tomorrow. And to the folks that wish us ill will…look at yourself in the mirror and ask if you would do this every day for free. I don’t draw a salary nor will I ever.

05/19/2026

2 of my heart dogs I will forever miss...along with the entire rescue family. Adopted together as a bonded pair and will still have horses to tend. This breed needs a knowledgeable family and we held out for over a year to find the perfect placement. We will all miss you Jeffro and Nakoa. We loved sharing our home, space and time with you both. Forever in my heart ❤️ so glad you found the perfect home.

05/19/2026

Thank you so much to an amazing dog foster family that stepped up for a litter of kittens! I seriously do not do cats but they ran out of a neighborhood shed...no mom. My cat friends were all full so here we are. They saw Doc today and got deworming treatment, weighed and a clean bill of health. F***l came back clean which is rare. So, in foster until old enough to vaccinate and then will be available for adoption. Worst case, we will TNR and will be barn cats. Fingers crossed that is not the destination! Spay and neuter would have prevented another unwanted litter!!

05/18/2026

It looks nepharius but she really was just grooming one of her flock! Love the Cindy Lou. Best rescue mom ever.

05/06/2026

I love my boys!! The work here never ends and we couldn't do this without amazing volunteers!! Come join us if you are missing something in your life!

05/06/2026

Enjoyed a fun day with the kids and Dawn and Lou! The kids love ginger snaps!