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C.A.R.E. Animal Rescue If you'd like to help us save more lives, please visit www.carerescue.org/donate :) We are, and have always been, a NO-KILL rescue. C.A.R.E. Sunshine St.).
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We are a non-profit organization founded in 1992 by Director Melissa Sartin dedicated to the prevention of cruelty to animals. We have an inspected and licensed facility that is in good standing with the state. Our animals are never euthanized for cage space, nor are they every transported to another facility for disposal. Every animal is cared for until the right family comes long to take them home. consists of two cage-free adoption centers which house our adoptable animals, who are waiting for homes (1328A-B W. This center is open to the public Thursday-Saturday from 10am to 4pm. also has a sanctuary located near Aurora MO. This is where we treat incoming animals in our clinic, and house our special needs animals, or those that may need a longer rehabilitation time before being placed for adoption. Often these animals were rescued from terrible situations and require a little TLC before they become ready to go to a family. We also care for our more unusual rescues there, such as goats, pigs, iguanas, ducks, horses and more animals that need the open space the sanctuary provides. relies solely on the kindness and donations of the public to care for our animals. We are not city or state funded and all donations are tax deductible. All of our pets are spayed or neutered before being put up for adoption. We support early-age spay/neuter programs for shelters. Spaying/neutering prior to adoption is the only way to guarantee that none of our shelter animals will contribute to the pet overpopulation problem. We also employ an application process that helps us better match pets and people. Prospective adopters are carefully screened to ensure that we find the best fit possible for the animal, based on the needs and personality of each individual dog or cat. does not accept in animals from the public. We rescue animals from kill shelters that would otherwise be destroyed. Please do not ask us to take in an animal. Visit our lost and found animals page to learn more.

10/30/2026

Here is our full lineup of available Horror TTRPG sessions for Roll for Ghoul on Halloween! We may add one or two more DMs as they come in, but this list has something for everyone!

Get your tickets today so you can get the game you want! https://bit.ly/4h0LXGW

🎃 John Smith
Halloween 5e / Alien: Cessation
D&D 5e (2014) + Alien RPG | Levels 1–4 | Session 1 AND Session 2 — Two Separate One-Shots
Session 1 — Halloween 5e: Mike Myers is real, he's here, and he's hunting your party. Can a group of adventurers survive a slasher who doesn't follow the rules of any world they know?
Session 2 — Alien: Cessation: A routine transport. A last-minute cargo pickup from Weyland-Yutani. Then the cryo pods open early. Alarms are blaring. Something is very wrong. Can you survive what's already on board?
Horror/Dark Themes
✅ Beginner-friendly — both tables
📜 Pre-gens provided for Alien RPG | For 5e: Level 3, standard array, 2 common + 1 uncommon item
⚠️ Content warnings: Graphic violence and gore

🧟 Bob McDowell
Night of the Living Dead — Shadowdark Edition
| Levels 1–4 | Session 1 Only (12:00pm–3:30pm)
The walls of The Lucky Goblin Inn are all that stand between you and the encroaching horde. Relive the classic movie as a Shadowdark character — if you can survive long enough to see how it ends. Fair warning: characters are quite likely to die.
Combat-Heavy | Survival Horror
✅ Beginner-friendly
📜 Pre-gens available or bring your own
⚠️ Content warnings: Zombies, survival horror, death, body horror, graphic violence, loss of agency, insect swarms

👁️ Ethan Wiley
Nest of the Eldritch Eye
D&D 5e | Levels 1–4 | Session 1 AND Session 2 — Two Separate One-Shots
A sinister cult has crept into the city's underbelly. Before harm befalls the innocent, your party must infiltrate their hideout and root out its members — but the deeper you dig, the more you realize the cult has been watching you too.
Mystery/Investigation
✅ Beginner-friendly
📜 Pre-gens available or bring your own (Level 3, Player's Handbook, Tasha's, or Xanathar's)
⚠️ Content warnings: Cult activity, murder, dead bodies

🕵️ Samuel Sarver
Operation: Catalyst
Delta Green | Intermediate Players | Both Sessions — Continuous Adventure
Delta Green has received reports from Judgment, Nevada: healing that defies medicine, crops growing impossibly perfect, a man walking on water — and someone who has come back from the dead. For thousands of years, humans have called these things miracles. You've been sent to find out if that's really what they are.
Mystery/Investigation
📜 Pre-gens available or bring your own (Delta Green characters — see guidelines at signup)
🎲 Bring your own dice if you have them — a D100/percentile die is needed
⚠️ Content warnings: Body horror, eyes

💀 Brian & Jennifer Jackson
Dungeon O' Dooooooom
D&D 5e | Both Sessions — Two Separate One-Shots
16 feet of 3D terrain, designed to challenge new and old players alike. Dark magic haunts these walls, divine intervention comes in the form of a Weezle, there are portals, traps, and monsters that a level 3 character should never have to deal with. The old magic here revives you after death (consider it a long rest), only to charge in and die again!
Combat-Heavy | Dark Fantasy | Absolute Chaos
🚫 Not recommended for young children
📜 Pre-gens provided — choose your fighter
⚠️ Content warnings: Dark fantasy themes, survival horror, intense and disturbing content

🕵️ Clint Kuhl
Last Things Last / ???
Delta Green | Beginner players | Session 1 AND Session 2 - Two separate One-shots
An old operative is dead. A-cell needs someone to sweep his apartment — remove anything that could expose the conspiracy, leave no trace. It should be a quiet, routine cleanup. Just paperwork and grief.
Then you find the cabin.
Last Things Last is Delta Green's official introductory scenario — fast-paced, deadly, and built around the slow horror of watching something routine become something you can't walk back from. Sanity is fragile. The line between solving the problem and surviving blurs quickly.
And when it's over — if it's over — the night isn't done with you yet.
Mystery/Investigation | Psychological Horror | Body Horror
✅ Beginner-friendly — perfect first Delta Green experience
📜 Pre-gens available or bring your own (Delta Green characters — see guidelines at signup)
🎲 D100/percentile dice needed
⚠️ Content warnings: Body horror, violence, moral ambiguity
☠️ Delta Green agents have a poor life expectancy. You've been warned.

🥂 Robert Latta
They Served Brandolyn Red
Dungeon Crawl Classics | Both Sessions — Two Separate One-Shots
The village of Portnelle is finally at peace. Two feuding families are joining their youngest in marriage, the w**e is flowing, and everyone is in good spirits. Then something evil — something that refused to stay buried — crashes the reception.
Blood will flow like w**e. This is a DCC funnel: you'll each control at least four Level 0 peasants, and most if not all of them will die in increasingly creative ways. Robert finds this delightful. You will too, eventually.
Comedy Horror | Dungeon Crawl Classics Funnel
✅ Beginner-friendly — in fact the more clueless the better
📜 Pre-gens provided — you'll need several, trust us
⚠️ Content warnings: Significant peasant mortality, horror themes, wedding-related trauma

⚔️ Rylan Moore
The Dark Descent
D&D 5e | Both Sessions — Continuous Adventure | Levels 4–10
The dead don't rest anymore. No one does. The undead have shattered the world and the living are fighting back — barely. You are part of a society of warriors dedicated to reclaiming what's left.
Today's mission: a mine critical to the war effort has gone dark. You're going in to find out why. You already have a bad feeling about this.
Combat-Heavy | Dark Fantasy | Survival
✅ Beginner-friendly
📜 Pre-gens provided — bring a pencil, bring your minis if you have them
⚠️ Content warnings: Death, major injuries, gore and blood

🎲 DM-Z Professional Gamemastering Services
The Defenders of Darrowshire
Daggerheart | Beginner-Friendly | Session 1 AND Session 2 — Two Separate One-Shots
A curse has fallen on the humble people of Darrowshire, using their life force to power a foul ritual. Can you track down the source and stop it in time to save the town? And what nefarious purpose would require so much necromantic energy?
Fantasy / Dark Mystery
✅ Beginner-friendly
📜 Pre-gens provided
⚠️ Content warnings: Undead, necromancy, curse themes

As planning for the 19th annual Putt for Paws Golf tournament has begun, we are already excited for some BIG changes for...
10/29/2026

As planning for the 19th annual Putt for Paws Golf tournament has begun, we are already excited for some BIG changes for next year- but you’ll have to wait for those 🙂 We wanted to take this chance to thank all of our sponsors who made this year’s event an incredible success!
First, to our presenting sponsors Tink, Ruby, and Buck: your generosity through the years is unmatched and absolutely overwhelming. Your unwavering support is truly heartwarming, and we are so thankful for the help you have and continue providing the animals we have been given the gift to take under our wings.
Eric Peterson and Peterson Wealth Advisors, our first Diamond, Gold, After Party, and Hole-in-One sponsor for a single event: thank you for the love you have shown and continue giving the animals of southwest Missouri who depend on you! Your life-saving efforts continue making a difference to those who cannot speak for themselves, and we are eternally grateful for your support.
Our Gold sponsor: Discount Smokes and B**r, We are honored and humbled by your generosity, and beyond grateful for your support. Thank you for the lives you have, and continue saving!
Our Silver Sponsors Foundation Credit Union, and Regent Bank: you are directly responsible for saving lives, and without your help, our mission and outreach wouldn’t be what it is today.
And our Bronze Sponsors: David Geisler, Rosalie O’Reilly Wooten, Springfield KIA, and AGCU: Every sponsorship saves lives, and we are so thankful for the lives you have helped us save through your sponsorships. Thank you. For everything this year, and throughout the years, thank you.
And to all sponsors, thank you. From the bottom of our hearts, and the hearts of 30,000+ animals we have rescued since 1992, thank you.

🐾🐶🐈 Rescue Wednesday ❤Thanks to your incredible support, 7 precious animals have been rescued! These guys and girls now ...
10/28/2026

🐾🐶🐈 Rescue Wednesday ❤
Thanks to your incredible support, 7 precious animals have been rescued! These guys and girls now have a second chance but with so many more still waiting and hoping to be saved, there’s no time to rest.
Our local animal control is overflowing, and C.A.R.E. is constantly at full capacity. Every foster home and kennel is full. Our team works tirelessly—morning and night, 7 days a week—doing everything we can to help. The pound remains packed with animals, still hoping for a chance at life.
We’re deeply grateful for the community’s support that allows us to keep going. If you’ve ever wondered how to help, it’s easier than you think:
👉 Donate. Foster. Adopt. Volunteer.
www.carerescue.org/donate
👉 FOSTERS URGENTLY NEEDED
www.carerescue.org/foster
Every new foster home opens the door to save one more life. We provide all medical care and supplies—you provide the love and a safe place to land. Just a few weeks in your home can change a pet’s entire future.
🐾 Ready to Foster or Adopt?
Visit: www.carerescue.org/matchme
❤️ Can’t foster or adopt, but still want to help?
Join our incredible volunteer team:
www.carerescue.org/volunteer
📍 Adoption Center:
1328 W Sunshine St, Springfield, MO
🕚 Open 7 Days a Week
Monday-Saturday 11 AM – 7 PM
Sunday 11 AM - 4 PM
Stop by—we’d love to meet you, answer your questions, and help you discover how you can make a difference.
From all of us at C.A.R.E.—thank you for believing in second chances. 💞

Please join us at Mother's Brewing Company on Halloween for a full day and evening of horror tabletop RPG one-shots acro...
10/28/2026

Please join us at Mother's Brewing Company on Halloween for a full day and evening of horror tabletop RPG one-shots across multiple tables — Call of Cthulhu, Delta Green, Liminal Horror, D&D 5e horror modules, and more. Costumes strongly encouraged. The dice don't care what you're wearing, but we've got a costume contest and bragging rights are on the line.

We'll also have a silent auction and raffle running through the night.

Tickets:

$25 — One Session (12pm-3:30pm or 5pm-8:30pm)
$45 — All-Night Pass
$10 — Non-Player Day Pass

Roll some dice. Survive the night.
Raise money for C.A.R.E.!

Here's the official Facebook Event page link, and we hope to see you there!
https://www.facebook.com/events/1362114876042225/

😁This smiley 17 month old with he cutest little underbite is Otto, an American Pit Bull Terrier mix who's full of person...
10/27/2026

😁This smiley 17 month old with he cutest little underbite is Otto, an American Pit Bull Terrier mix who's full of personality and ready to charm his way into your heart. Otto is playful, curious, and loves every moment of learning and exploring the world around him.
One thing about Otto is that he has never met a stranger, and adores everyone he meets... and the feeling is typically mutual! With his affectionate nature and puppy energy, Otto is sure to win hearts wherever he goes.
He's also fixed, vaccinated, microchipped, and while he's good with other dogs, Otto's perfect placement is in a cat-free home.
If Otto might be the missing piece to your family, please come meet him today! We're open from 11am to 7pm, and we have quite a few adoptables who would love to go home with you today... although you might have to just choose one... or two :) See you soon!
🐾Rob

🐶🐱 ADOPTED 🐱🐶Thank you so much for supporting C.A.R.E. by giving Alice, Annabeth, Appa, Bonnie, Grimm, Jazzy, Maisel, Ma...
10/26/2026

🐶🐱 ADOPTED 🐱🐶
Thank you so much for supporting C.A.R.E. by giving Alice, Annabeth, Appa, Bonnie, Grimm, Jazzy, Maisel, Matilda, Pavi, and Portia the second chance they deserve! We are incredibly grateful that you have opened your hearts and homes to these wonderful pets 🤗
If you're looking to foster or adopt, we can help you out! Our adoption center is open Monday-Saturday from 11am-7pm and Sunday from 11am-4pm! You can also find MANY of our animals at https://www.petfinder.com/member/us/mo/springfield/c-dot-ar-dot-e-animal-rescue-mo440/ with more added every week! If you're interested in fostering or adopting, you can find our matchmaking form here: https://www.carerescue.org/matchme . We would love the chance to help find the perfect addition to YOUR family, too 🙂
🐾Rob

💗Regal, handsome, and ready to be someone's very best friend... That's our Tiny!Tiny is a 5-year-old Lab mix who weighs ...
10/23/2026

💗Regal, handsome, and ready to be someone's very best friend... That's our Tiny!

Tiny is a 5-year-old Lab mix who weighs around 54lbs. With his beautiful coloring, soulful eyes, and dignified presence, Tiny has a way of turning heads wherever he goes. And underneath that handsome exterior is a sweet boy with a gentle heart.

Tiny can get a little anxious in unfamiliar situations. He does best in a calm and reassuring environment with people who understand that every dog has their own personality and pace.

There is just something special about Tiny. Maybe it's his regal good looks. Maybe it's those soulful eyes. Or maybe it's the sweet, gentle personality that makes you want to reach right through his door and give him a big hug... Tiny would love to find a loving family who will make him part of their everyday life and give him the comfort, companionship, and security every dog deserves.

At 54 pounds, Tiny is the perfect size for someone looking for a substantial, lovable companion without being too much dog. And at 5 years old, he's past the puppy crazies and ready to enjoy the good life with his forever family.

Tiny has spent enough time waiting. Now he's looking for someone who will see just how special he is and give him the forever home he deserves.

Could this handsome gentleman be your new best friend? We hope so! Our adoption center is open Monday-Saturday from 11am to 7pm, and Sunday from 11am to 4pm. Tiny, and dozens of other guys and girls can't wait to meet you!

☄ This is Comet, a 4-year old Lab mix 100% ready to fill the family role of a couch cuddler and adventure seeker at the ...
10/22/2026

☄ This is Comet, a 4-year old Lab mix 100% ready to fill the family role of a couch cuddler and adventure seeker at the same time! With his adorable face, lovable personality, and kind-hearted nature, Comet has a way of making everyone around him smile. Comet is good with other dogs, people of all ages, and would thrive with a family that's able to love him as much as he is ready to love them. He's also fixed, vaccinated, microchipped, and ready for adoption...
Why are you still reading? You're in love with him. Just come and adopt him already :)
Until then, he'll be waiting for you at the CARE Adoption Center! We're open today from 11am to 7pm (same hours tomorrow, too) and Comet is already getting excited to meet you!
🐾Rob

🐾🐶🐈 Rescue Wednesday ❤Thanks to your incredible support, 19 precious animals have been rescued! These guys and girls now...
10/21/2026

🐾🐶🐈 Rescue Wednesday ❤
Thanks to your incredible support, 19 precious animals have been rescued! These guys and girls now have a second chance but with so many more still waiting and hoping to be saved, there’s no time to rest.
Our local animal control is overflowing, and C.A.R.E. is constantly at full capacity. Every foster home and kennel is full. Our team works tirelessly—morning and night, 7 days a week—doing everything we can to help. The pound remains packed with animals, still hoping for a chance at life.
We’re deeply grateful for the community’s support that allows us to keep going. If you’ve ever wondered how to help, it’s easier than you think:
👉 Donate. Foster. Adopt. Volunteer.
www.carerescue.org/donate
👉 FOSTERS URGENTLY NEEDED
www.carerescue.org/foster
Every new foster home opens the door to save one more life. We provide all medical care and supplies—you provide the love and a safe place to land. Just a few weeks in your home can change a pet’s entire future.
🐾 Ready to Foster or Adopt?
Visit: www.carerescue.org/matchme
❤️ Can’t foster or adopt, but still want to help?
Join our incredible volunteer team:
www.carerescue.org/volunteer
📍 Adoption Center:
1328 W Sunshine St, Springfield, MO
🕚 Open 7 Days a Week
Monday-Saturday 11 AM – 7 PM
Sunday 11 AM - 4 PM
Stop by—we’d love to meet you, answer your questions, and help you discover how you can make a difference.
From all of us at C.A.R.E.—thank you for believing in second chances. 💞

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1328 W Sunshine
Springfield, MO
65807

Opening Hours

Monday 11am - 7pm
Tuesday 11am - 7pm
Wednesday 11am - 7pm
Thursday 11am - 7pm
Friday 11am - 7pm
Saturday 11am - 7pm
Sunday 11am - 4pm

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