April Recap

5/23/2020

We continued to be so proud of the Chicagoland and Wisconsin  residents for their outpouring of willingness to foster and adopt. This has given us an inspiration push of more rescues needing rides for new pups and cats!    We started April with some of our favorite staff at Chicago Animal Care and Control and met the beautiful Hippo,  Wallace and headed to a foster with Players for Pits.   Word has it, he is listed on their website as adoptable!  The next day we got to swing back to CACC and bring  Rogelio to his foster with It’s a Pittie  Rescue.  We also celebrated some of our FAVORITE news: Sosa, is now Soda and was ADOPTED! Rescueber first met him when of helping his owner get to a vet appointment and several months later, giving him his freedom ride when he needed rescue after his owner passed away. We proudly showered him with some Bring a Buddy adventures to the city and events and couldn’t be happier to see him in his forever home!  Thanks to Mutts of the Midway  and their foster home for all the dedication to him!  Muenster was our first kitty rider of the month and went to a foster thanks to Castle Black Paws  (one of our fav cat ladies).   We love our Texas  dogs and McKenzie showed us her southern sweetness while getting a ride up North to Wisconsin with  Our Pack Animal Rescue and she is already adopted!  

We got to meet the sweet  Gizmo  and dropped him off at  Wright Way Animal Rescue  after he needed some extra care his home wasn’t able to provide due to owner illness. In case you didn’t hear, kitten season is in full swing and will be bigger than usual this year due to limited access of spay/neuter surgeries. We love the sweet meows on our drive for this foursome of kittens for  Heartland Animal Shelter.   We met new Wisconsin rescue partner,  Canine Cupid,  from Milwaukee. They made a freedom ride for sweet  Doja  possible.  I then got to meet the  super pittie wiggles of  Milkshake  thanks to  Mutts of the Midway, I am pleased to report  she is just as sweet as her name!  I then got to do one of my favorite things, foster some riders!   Three kittens  from  Heartland  Animal Shelter hung out with us for a few days.  Young kittens are very fragile and  unfortunately  we lost two of them due to that fragility, but little Ms. Rosalie is thriving in her  long term  foster! 

It was time for another meet up of a Texas transport team with  Mutts of the Midway  and got to make sure  Charlie, Della, and Clarebelle  arrived safely at their foster home.   Both Della and Clarebelle are  available  for adoption!  We headed down to Southern Illinois and picked up sweet small Luella for  Our Pack Animal Rescue.  We  were so happy to get a picture of her with her forever mama last week! We got back from Luella’s  transport  and headed right back out to pick up  Jeffery the cat  for  Lulu’s Locker Rescue.  

We may have mentioned that transports are getting bigger than what fits in our Subaru Forrester (hello!!! Van Fundraiser!!! more on that shortly), we were so grateful to have our friends Colleen and Stephanie join in a car caravan to fit all  11 riders  (3 cats and 8 pups) for  Alive Rescue.   We got to do  another ride for three of the newest  Fetch Rescue of Wisconsin  pups  hailing from Indiana:  Piper, Monroe, and Aspen.  We got home from transporting to some VERY happy mail, our monthly  donor gift!  They are amazing pins of one of our biggest fans,  Boston Buddy!   Click here to go to the  website  and join  our monthly club for gifts and sneak peaks.  We  have 4 new members  this month!  

We always strive to coordinate rides to help as many rescue partners and animals as possible.  We did just that when we had a ride from Indiana up to Madison, Wisconsin for  Fetch Rescue. We heard a pup from  Alive Rescue a pup needed to see a specialist up there, so Emmett hitched a ride along with another car caravan with the fabulous Colleen!   5 pups  got rides and we loved every minute!  We finished the month with another couple long transports, one for  four new pups for  Alive Rescue  and another with a  whopping 16 cats and two pups  thanks to  St. Sophia’s Feline Rescue  and  Heartland Animal Shelter!   Speaking of Heartland, they gave us a HUGE gift in letting us use their vehicle for some of these  long distance  transports while we continue to fund-raise for our own.  With this much space we  are able  to  transport double digit and help multiple rescues and animal shelters in 1 ride.  It’s  pretty magical  and we are so thankful for their commitment to help rescue animals both within and outside of their facility!  This is how you save lives. We are so grateful and proud of this journey thus far.  We also squeezed in the cutest kitten  Lilo  for her freedom ride to her first time  cat foster  mama with  One Tail at a Time!  

In case you weren’t counting, that is 60 riders in April (30 pups and 30 kits) for a whopping 2,438 miles!  We are also SUPER excited to announce that we have raised 15%  needed for our van thanks to our monthly donors, virtual bingo, a generous new sponsor  Boulevard Vet,  and individual donations.  We know it is hard financial season for many but every dollar makes a difference in the life to every ride from the full gas tank or the new blanket and treats to the  crates that keep everyone comfy and safe.  We couldn’t drive these miles  without  you and we can’t wait to have a van  filled with riders headed to the best rescue partners in the months to come!   