Fur Ever Yours Photography: ARE YOU MISSING ME?

This BEAUTIFUL pitt came into the shelter this past week, she's gorgeous! She's well taken care of. She was picked up on Reed Street running around loose. She had on a black, spiked collar. Gorgeous dog. She has a unique way to ID her that only the owner would know. (We're calling this a girl, but a few people that have said they "know" this dog have said it's a boy, and honestly I didn't get to "look" for myself so for now, she's a she, and her name is "Dolly" for now until we find out other wise LOL)

DO YOU KNOW MY OWNERS? IF SO PLEASE HAVE
THEM CONTACT THE SHELTER! WE NEED TO HEAR
FROM MY OWNERS!!!

She knows her basic commands too, and is very well mannered.

She has to belong to someone.

But who?

So many people have left comments on the Facebook page saying "We KNOW this dog!" Etc etc. And yet...no one has come forward to claim her. If you know who she is, that's GREAT! But that doesn't help her or us. How about you get ahold of her owners, let them know where the dog is? While it's true, the shelter may be closed today due to the holiday, you can message us on the shelter page and we can go from there. Anyone could "know" this dogs name and be able to claim it. I've noticed that many times dogs don't care if you know there name or not they'll still run up to a person that looks nice. You could call the dog Bagel and it would probably come running up to you, so the whole "name" test isn't very accurate all the time. I'm pretty sure that the owners of this dog would know a few things about it that no one else would, so we're holding out for that. And since the dog is so well taken care of...I'm hoping there is some rabies records somewhere for this dog and a vet that can ID and confirm the dogs owners. I'd hate for this dog to go to the wrong person. If my dog were as sweet and gorgeous as this one, I'd be moving heaven and earth trying to find it! There would be flyers hanging up, phone calls being made, posts all over Facebook, EVERYTHING. Just trying to get my dog back. I realize it's a holiday weekend and all, but I'd make DANG there I was reachable JUST in case someone found my dog. My dogs, are my family too and if they were missing....I'd be tearing up the whole town to find them just like I would be if it were my own child! This is coming from someone who spent 2 HOURS driving and walking around town yelling and whistling and calling for a dog that went missing that wasn't even MINE. So imagine what I'd be like if my own dogs went missing.
Her 10 day hold period for someone to claim her is up soon, and no one has come to claim her, this makes me very sad! When your dog goes missing the animal shelter should be the very first place you call. Even if they don't have your dog, you can leave a description and contact info should they come across your dog or someone calls in saying they have found a dog.

We're fighting a battle getting people to even realize our community has a shelter. Yeh. That's how small we are. No one even knows we exist. We're getting there, little by little but for a majority no one knows we are here. It doesn't help we are a college town with 2 colleges so people are always moving in and out of town so we always have new people that don't have a clue the shelter exists. There are lots of locals that have been here their whole life, and they don't even know the shelter is here!

I think we are also in a bad location too. Even when people find out we have a local shelter, they have no idea where it is. We're located in a CEMETARY for crying out loud. Yeh. A Cemetary. Cozy huh? Nestled away in the back of the cemetary over by the water treatment center, and where you dump off things like paint and whatever so they don't end up in the city dump.

It can make it difficult for people to find the shelter. But again, we're getting there!

We have fantastic volunteers who bring friends, and tell friends about the shelter which helps a lot!

Here are a few dogs that are hanging out at the shelter still and where their stats are right now on adoption/rescue/available.

This is Rosie, and she is marked to be rescued
by Dirks' Fund a rescue in MO.

This is Honey a gorgeous female Shepered Mix, she is *hopefully*
getting adopted this week! However, this is another Shepered almost exactly
like her at the shelter. I somehow missed the new shepered on Friday
so no photos of her, but she is a lot like Honey who is pictured here
only the new dog doesn't seem to get on too well with other dogs,
and Honey does just fine.

Above are our two dogs of the week that are hanging out at the shelter, still. Starla a gorgeous lab mix, and Jeffrey a handsome basset/beagle mix. Jeffrey's adoption fee has already been sponsored so he is seriously ready to go as soon as someone comes forward to adotp him. Please, adopt these two. If the shelter suddenly fills up, they will be in danger of being put down, and we do not want that! They are healthy, and happy and good dogs. They do not deserve to be put down at all, especially just because the shelter "got full" so let's get them adotped, NOW! If you are a rescue group that can help, we'd REALLY SUPER appreciate it!

Here is a funny video taken the other day of my dog Molly and a friend of mine. My dog really wanted pancakes but was being so patient. She was rewarded with a bite in the end though! Molly and Pancakes

Below are a few dogs that are waiting in FOSTER HOMES to be adopted. If interested in adopting them, please call the shelter at (660)833-7330

Meet Flynn, he's a handsome yellow lab male.
He's under a year old and still has a
lot of pup in him. Trainable he just needs someone to work
with him, and have patience.
His sister has already been adopted, and here Flynn waits
he still sits, waiting for someone to love him.

Sasha is an adorable little gal. We're not exactly
sure what breed she is, but she's adorable. Probably
around 1-2 years of age. Doesn't bark too much,
will pee outside needs work on pooping outside. Getting
better with a leash, does ok with kids but probably needs
to be in a home with older kids who know how to handle
a small dog. She gets along fine with other smaller dogs
not sure how she does around big dogs or cats yet.
But her foster family plans on finding out.

This sweet lab we named Sadie has had a
litter of puppies at some point, we think
she just weaned them not too long ago.
She came into the shelter, and there were no puppies
when she was picked up. So I hope they are safe.
She's currently being fostered but she is so sweet
and so calm that she'd make someone a fantastic
fur ever dog!

Below are a few dogs that have been adopted from the shelter! Yay! It always makes me smile to know dogs have been adopted!

Shasta, the adorable shepered mix puppy was adopted
from the shelter on Friday!
The woman that adopted her had
recently had to put her poor dog
down, and she decided she was ready
for another dog to love and snuggle.
She chose Shasta, and I think
it's a perfect match!