Rescue4All

08/29/2026

Clifford and his love affair with a big brown truck 😍

The joy and excitement that Clifford has when he hears the roar of the truck 😆

We have the best UPS guy who will even stop and give him treats before their “race” It’s pretty cute. 💗

08/26/2026

On August 5th I saw this scruffy little walking skeleton out with a volunteer at the shelter I knew I had to go meet him. 😍

I learned his name was Silas and he came in as a stray at the beginning of July, emaciated, severely flea-infested, and anemic. He was missing hair everywhere because of FAD, Flea Allergy Dermatitis, which happens when the dog’s immune system reacts to flea saliva, causing hair loss, scabbing, and intense itching.

When no one came to claim him, it wasn’t shocking😡, but how anyone could neglect any animal to this point is sickening.

Just 4 days later, my friend Julie Saraceno and I volunteered to walk dogs at the shelter during the Spokane Complex Fires, and we spent more time with him and his sweet cuddly personality was on full display.

That day we found out he needed rescue immediately because of his undiagnosed medical problems the shelter didn’t have the funds to get the diagnostics he needed so they were reluctantly placing on the euthanasia list and I said Rescue4All would take him.

On August 10th I arranged for their vet clinic to do a bile acid test and a full GI panel.

He got his freedom ride on August 14th, and on August 15th we got the results from his lab work:
Silas has EPI (Exocrine Pancreatic Insufficiency) and SIBO (small intestinal bacterial overgrowth)

EPI means his pancreas isn’t producing the enzymes his body needs to break down and absorb food. That’s why he was starving literally starving to death no matter how much he ate.

EPI is a lifelong condition, but it is very manageable. He’s eating Honest Kitchen Turkey recipe because it’s minimally processed and easier for his body to absorb, with digestive enzymes added to every meal at $125 per bottle. The $425 in lab work finally gave us a roadmap to start his healing journey.

He came to us dangerously underweight, his lowest recorded weight at the shelter was 19.8 lbs, and he’s now at 26.3 lbs, steadily working his way toward a healthy 32-35 lbs. 👏

We’ll be scheduling a consult with Internal Medicine Specialists to address his elevated liver values and make sure we aren’t missing anything.

When he reaches a healthy weight and is stable, he’ll get neutered and he will be available for adoption.

He’s roughly 4 years old, sweet, social, loves people and other dogs, and he is a hard no on cats. 🚫

Welcome to Rescue4All, Silas. Time to live your best life. 🐾

Please, if you can donate to help, we always need you and we are so grateful.

And if donating isn’t possible right now, that’s okay, you can still help by sharing this post with someone who might be able to 🫶

Every single dollar helps. 💵

Links are in our bio 👆and at 💻www.rescue4all.org/donate

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📲PayPal: www.paypal.me/Rescue4All

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We can’t do what we do without you. 🤟🏼🥰

08/21/2026

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08/10/2026

This is Dude aka Dude the Pood aka Dude the megaesophagus Doodle 🫶

This month marks 4 years that Dude has been with R4A, he is thriving and doing amazing! He is happy, smart, super silly, super funny, and he submissive grins and fake sneezes when he was attention from me. He is a very easily managed ME case and I’m super grateful that Amie was working the day he was brought in and sent me a text to see if I would pull him.

In August of 2022 he was 8 months old, matted, and emaciated and brought into a local shelter to be euthanized by the same unethical POS backyard breeder who bred him.

The people who originally purchased him at just a couple months old, returned to him because they were unwilling to learn how to manage his megaesophagus condition that the breeder did not disclose. The breeder that same afternoon brought him directly to the shelter to be euthanized because they didn’t want him and he wasn’t worth any money 😡

We have taken in 4️⃣4️⃣ megaesophagus dogs and what I will say is that they are no different than any other dog they just have to eat differently.

Megaesophagus is not a death sentence and for most dogs it is manageable. Every mega dog is different and needs a different consistency of food and duration of time being vertical.

We’ve had dogs that were so severe they needed an external feeding tube called a PEG tube and we’ve also had easy to manage cases like Dude.

What I will say is that every mega dog deserves the chance of a full life, despite being brought into this world by people who deemed them worthless because they couldn’t sell them.

Stop buying puppies from unethical breeders.

Any breeder who has bred dogs who produced one megaesophagus puppy and didn’t immediately sterilize both parents, and ensure that every puppy that they have ever produced with either parent is also sterilized is a piece of s**t, unethical, breeder. PERIOD.

Any breeder who continues to breed under any of those circumstances is a piece of s**t, unethical breeder. PERIOD.

FULL STOP.

08/08/2026

Start the day with p**p scooping after a herd of foster dogs and you end up saving a little juvenile baby bird. 🫶

This little youngin is so lucky that he was loud and he screamed when someone was trying to attack him (like we all should) because I turned around, ran, and was able to grab him before anything bad happened. 🙌

He has some flight feathers, but he doesn’t have all of them so he’s young likely just got booted out of the nest because he can “fly”, but when they are this young, they can’t get much height and can’t go very far 😔

I took him outside the fence where I know that there are other birds like him. I made sure he wasn’t hurt and he perched on my finger for a minute then flew all of 3 feet at just a few inches off the ground over to where the other birds were.

Just another day in the life 🫶

08/06/2026

60+ Lost, Injured, Displaced Animals. 100+ Hours of Overtime. SpokAnimal Was The One Local Shelter That Didn't Wait to Be Asked.

Here is the best way you can help them:

I spent time at today and what I witnessed was our community at its best. People showing up with donations, people who have lost everything coming in for help, everyone just wanting to do whatever they can for the animals and for each other.

Since Saturday, SpokAnimal has taken in 60+ dogs and cats on top of the animals already in their care, animals that ran from the fire, got separated from their families in the chaos, and showed up injured and scared with no way to tell anyone where they belonged. SpokAnimal is the bridge between right now and the moment those families find their animals again, and they stepped into that role without hesitation because that is exactly who they are.

Every animal coming through their doors is being cared for. Their in-house vet clinic and veterinary staff are working around the clock, and for the animals with injuries beyond what they can handle internally, SpokAnimal is sending them to Pet Emergency Clinic and Hunter's and absorbing every one of those costs themselves. Their entire staff has been all hands on deck since the fires started because they know that is what this moment requires, and collectively they have logged over 100 hours of overtime. The in-house vet care, the outside emergency vet bills, the overtime, the cost of housing and caring for 60+ additional animals, none of this was in their budget, and all of it landed on them at once.

The food and supply donations have been incredible and SpokAnimal is so grateful for every single one of them, but they have more than enough and will be distributing the surplus to other organizations and people impacted by the fire.

What they need most right now is money, plain and simple, because when the fires are out and the donation drives wind down, the monumental financial impact of everything they took on to help could leave a lasting effect on what they are able to do in the future. I have known their Executive Director Dori since 2009 when I first started volunteering in animal welfare, and I can tell you that the reason SpokAnimal responded the way they did is because helping is not something they do, it is something they are. Please, let's raise as much as we can for the one local shelter that never hesitated for a moment to open their doors when our community needed someone the most.

Every single dollar adds up. Even if you can't donate please share and maybe someone who can will 🤞

👉 Donate to the fundraiser here or on Instagram 🤘
👉 Donate at www.spokanimal.org
👉 I am helping to get Venmo and PayPal set up so that's coming soon!!

On Sunday my good friend is coming here from Tri-Cities and we are going to introduce you to some of their adoptable animals 🎉

08/05/2026

Please share

Our state is burning. These organizations are helping the animals and their families in the Eastern Washington wildfires, or are on call for tactical animal rescue during disasters like these. Right now, what they need most is cash support so they can step in where it's needed most. Please consider donating to:

💙 SpokAnimal || https://checkout.shelterluv.com/donate/spok

💚 Team Okanogan Animal Rescue || https://givebutter.com/TOAR

💙 Washington State Animal Response Team (WASART) || https://wasart.org/donate/

💚 Wenatchee Valley Humane Society || https://www.wenatcheehumane.org/helptoday

💙 HEART Spokane || https://www.heartofspokane.org/donate

Our deepest condolences go out to all of the families, communities, and animals impacted by the wildfires. You are our neighbors, and we are grieving with you. Thank you to everyone who has stepped in to help, all the first responders, and the firefighters battling this enormous blaze.

Community takes care of one another. If you know other rescues and organizations impacted by the wildfires, please tag them below so we can help connect them to the support they need.

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📸 Pictured: TOAR volunteer, Jason Buchanan, delivering pet food and supplies to help support pets and families during the fires. Shared with permission.