Missing Mutts Search and Rescue Inc

11/05/2026

Although I am stepping away, please know that my door is always open to anyone who needs advice, guidance, or support while searching for a missing pet.

If trapping equipment is needed, I am still happy to lend it to responsible individuals who will use it properly and safely.

Please don’t ever hesitate to reach out. Whether you have a question, need some guidance, or just aren’t sure what to do next, you are always welcome to contact me. If I can help point you in the right direction, I will gladly do so.

❤️ You can reach me by calling 413-777-3627 or sending me a message through Facebook Messenger.

Stepping away doesn’t mean I’ve stopped caring. My heart will always be with these animals and the families desperately trying to bring them home. ❤️🐾

11/04/2026

As our two-year anniversary approaches and
after a lot of thought, heartache, and some very difficult decisions, I have decided to close Missing Mutts Search and Rescue.

When I started this group nearly two years ago, I had one goal: to help bring lost animals home to the families who desperately missed them. I poured my heart, soul, time, and energy into every search. Every animal mattered to me, and every family became a part of my journey.

Unfortunately, behind the scenes, these past two years have brought challenges and hurt that many people will never fully understand. I have shared some of what I have been dealing with since leaving another rescue group and starting my own. What should have been something filled with compassion, teamwork, and a shared love for animals became something that has taken an emotional toll on me.

I never started this group for recognition, praise, or anything in return. I did it because I genuinely love helping animals and the people who love them.

To every family who trusted me, and every person who shared a flyer, reported a sighting, donated, or simply offered kind words — thank you from the bottom of my heart.

I will forever cherish the animals we helped bring home, the friendships made, and the lives we touched along the way. I will never get over the ones we could not save.

I may be closing this chapter, but I will never regret the lives I helped save.

Sometimes walking away from something you love is the hardest decision you will ever make. But there comes a point when you have to choose your own peace and well-being.

I wish things could have ended differently.

Thank you for believing in me, supporting Missing Mutts, and being part of this journey.

This isn’t the goodbye I wanted, but it’s the goodbye I need to make.

With love and gratitude,

🐾 Melissa from Missing Mutts Search and Rescue ❤️

10/30/2026

We can't forget about Dolly!! Still missing 💔

10/30/2026

🎉Zorkie has been safely trapped by her mom!!Looks like she made a friend on her 6 day escapade. Great job to Carmen and her children for setting everything up and following my instruction. 🩷🐾

10/29/2026

I need to speak from my heart for a moment, and I apologize in advance for venting. I am Melissa who started this small nonprofit organization.

I am deeply hurt, frustrated, and honestly disgusted by some of the behavior I have experienced within the lost pet rescue community in Massachusetts and Connecticut.

It has been brought to my attention that certain individuals and rescue organizations are going directly to families and discouraging them from working with me and Missing Mutts Search and Rescue. If I am helping a family "They" tell the family they can not help them.

Let that sink in. Families with missing pets we have already started helping, reach out for more help are told they cannot help them because we are. AND the family has to decide who they want?? Unreal

I genuinely cannot understand it.

I have dedicated countless hours, sleepless nights, and so much of my heart to helping lost animals. I am not perfect. I don’t know everything, and I am always willing to learn. But my intentions have always been genuine.

You do not have to like me. You do not have to agree with my methods. But trying to damage my reputation and interfere with my ability to help lost animals is not okay.I do not make money on this, I barely have money after paying my bills and taking care of my 4 rescue dogs. I spend my own money on everyone's lost pets.

This is not a competition. There is no trophy for recovering a lost dog. There should be no egos, no jealousy, and no personal agendas.

There are frightened animals out there trying to survive and families who are absolutely devastated.

THEY are who this should be about. NOT US.

I have remained quiet about a lot of things because I never wanted negativity to overshadow the mission of Missing Mutts Search and Rescue.

But being quiet does not mean something doesn’t hurt. After 2 years of learning about what THEY tell people about me. I had enough.

I care deeply about every animal I try to help. I take this work seriously, and I will continue to show up for the families who put their trust in me.

I am asking for one simple thing:

If you don’t want to work with me, that’s your choice. But please stop discouraging families from accepting my help. Let them make their own decisions.

There is more than enough heartbreak in lost pet rescue without us creating more.

We should be working toward the same goal: bringing lost pets home safely.

I will not allow negativity to change why I started doing this.

The animals will always come first.

🐾 Missing Mutts Search and Rescue

10/29/2026

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🎉 Hooray!!!! Rocky was found today!! He traveled to his old home over 25 minutes away!! Dogs are so much smarter than we think 💕🐾🎉

10/29/2026

Buddy was found and is home!

10/28/2026

🎉Update!! She was trapped successfully by her family!! And she must have made a friend!!She has been missing 5 days now and her family needed our help. We are pretty far from that area to actively trap so we lent them the trap and the camera to set up at home. The kids in this family are the sweetest you would ever meet. Praying we see her tonight 🙏🐾🤞

10/28/2026

🎉 Hooray!!!! Rocky was found today!! He traveled to his old home over 25 minutes away!! Dogs are so much smarter than we think 💕🐾🎉

10/26/2026

Charlie update almost 3 weeks post op! She is making great progress!! She made a new friend last Thursday at the farm. She is walking so good and coming out of her shell 💕