Shelter Friends, Inc.

06/24/2026

GREAT NEWS!

🐾 We are excited to announce the “Fix Your Pit” program, offering FREE spay/neuter surgery for pit bulls and pit bull mixes at our St. Louis clinic. Dogs participating in the program may also receive FREE vaccinations, microchipping, flea prevention, and a nail trim at the time of surgery. No income requirements!

📞Appointments are required and funding is limited. Call 314-771-7387 to schedule your appointment today.

🐶 Please share to help us reach pit bull and pit bull mix owners throughout the St. Louis area! Thank you to a generous anonymous donor for making this possible!

06/24/2026

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The Rolla Animal Shelter recently posted a message about the Shelter being filled to the brim. We have absolutly no space for anything.

We have dogs that their owners will not come in and claim, we have citizens who are well aware that we have no space. But yet, they find strays, pick them up and dump them back out on the road because they decide they don't want them.

And now, some wonderful person dumps a box of six newborn puppies at a local establishment. Seriously?????

We are wondering what will happen next.

06/24/2026

There's always one oddball in every litter!

06/23/2026

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06/23/2026

We have our first 2-pounder in The Foster Palace!!

Of course it's the one I call "Dot", which will not be her real name eventually, but I just call her that because of the big Dot of ringworm on the top of her head and so I can tell her apart from the others! She's always been the heaviest one in the litter.

06/22/2026

And now some cute news!

06/22/2026

🚨🚨🚨HELP! HELP!!! WE HAVE TAKEN ON 3 CATS WITH BOBCAT FEVER IN LESS THAN 17 HOURS! ONE HAS ALREADY PASSED!! 🚨🚨🚨

🚑It started about 10 p.m. last night with darling little CLEMENTINE (calico) from Sedalia, then continued this morning with BOBO from Osage Beach and now TWITCH in Bonne Terre!!

💔When we say this awful disease is EVERYWHERE, we're not kidding!!

😿CLEMENTINE passed this morning (poor darling only weighed 1 lb and didn't stand a chande). BOBO and TWITCH are still fighting it!! The only chance of survival is catching it extremely early and doing long, expensive, aggresive treatment (and even with that, there's a 35% chance your cat will die)! Without that, the survival rate is less than 3%, that's how deadly it is!

💲Our portion for these 3 kitties is already around $2,600+! We just had to give them a chance, no matter how slim!! If you can help us with any donation, no matter how small, to help them, we would be deeply grateful!!

‼️And, for God's sake, KEEP YOUR CATS INDOORS!!! Inspect yourself for ticks if you live in a wooded area before you go inside! We know of one family who has already lost 2 of their precious cats b/c one of the cats carried an infected tick inside and it bit a 2nd one!! This is NO JOKING MATTER!!💔💔💔

06/22/2026

🚨🚨🚨Bobcat Fever is running rampant in Missouri! Here at Shelter Friends, we have already lost SO many innocent kitties to this horrible disease! The onset is quick and deadly and has a 90-95% fatality rate, even with treatment!! Just last night we lost a gorgeous calico baby kitten in mid MO to this horrific disease. 😿

🧪The meds are hard to get. You have to go to a human pharmacy. By the time you get them your cat is dead. 😭😭😭

‼️THE BEST PREVENTATIVE IS TO KEEP YOUR CATS INDOORS!!!

🩺But, if you even think your cat may have this disease, get him/her to the vet IMMEDIATELY if you see these symptoms. Ticks are MOSTLY outside but CAN come in on clothes, etc., and will stay in your house and bite your other cats. We know of one family who has already lost TWO of their precious cats to Bobcat fever cuz the tick stayed inside the house!! 💔💔💔

06/22/2026

It was time for the 2nd lime-sulfur dip for the Rugrats today since their ringworm spread last week.

As you can see, they were not very happy and left me another two-turd Google review! At least this time it was only one kitten, not four, so I must be getting better!