Seeking Foster Homes in Tuba City and Flagstaff!

Tuba City Humane Society

18 hours 53 minutes ago

😭 It pains us a lot to do this, but we are on intake hold. We have no places to take anyone in. Every day we are called or messaged about strays needing help, some who are injured. For a humane rescue, having to turn away people and say that we have no way to help, hurts, and keeps us up at night. This is the reality of our situation. In a normal year, before COVID, we helped about 400 strays a year, year after year. This was a LOT for our little tiny group. We do not have an animal shelter. We are a foster home based rescue. In order to help this many, we could not take them all through to adoption, just some of them. Others moved to rescue partners, mostly in Phoenix, so that we could help as many as we could. In 2020, we helped 646 animals. Last year, we helped 775. This year, we have already helped 393 animals and it is only May. Last year, we were also able to sponsor The Parker Project bringing very accessible spay/neuter/vaccination clinics. Between that and Dr. Holgate, we paid for more than 750+ spays and neuters. We have responded to hundreds of calls for help this year so far, and last year just under 500. We need more help in order to continue to help. What we need the most are FOSTER HOMES. That is the only way that we can take in animals. We

Tuba City Humane Society

19 hours 27 minutes ago

We were contacted a week ago by someone about 2 puppies that showed up at their place in Tuba City. We had no immediate place to take them in. When we are contacted about strays needing help, we don’t have an animal shelter, and the only way we can take them in, is if we have space in a foster home. We barely have any foster homes in Tuba City. And the strict pet housing limits makes it almost impossible to have more people fostering for us in Tuba City. Yet this is the only way we can help. Foster homes are temporary places to take in animals while we provide veterinary care to get them healthy, and a family provides socialization to help a puppy or dog learn to live in a home. (We also need foster homes for cats and kittens.) This provides such an important community service. We also have foster homes in Flagstaff. All the foster homes we currently have are full. And it has been slow and rare to get new foster homes. So back to these 2 puppies. When we went to pick them up, a couple days later, they were gone. One showed back up and she was brought to Dr. Holgate to get started on initial care. She got named Betsie. The next day a student found another puppy at Cal’s auto and brought him to Dr. Holgate. He looks like he might possibly be her sibling. But he was injured,

Tuba City Humane Society

19 hours 53 minutes ago

Photos from Denise Moore's post

Huge thank you to Denise Moore and to Arizona Small Dog Rescue for helping baby Belle and all the ways they help us! We can’t thank them enough. ❤️

Tuba City Humane Society

19 hours 59 minutes ago

👍🏽 Handsome boy Beanie made it through Parvo!! ❤️❤️❤️❤️

➡️ He was released from Canyon Pet Hospital yesterday. Big thank you to all the staff and veterinarians who took care of him.

👏 Thank you, also, to some amazing fosters and volunteers who rescued and have been caring for him! Thank you to donors and supporters who make what we do possible! Thank you to April for driving from Kayenta to pick Beanie up give him a ride home, and thank you to Deb for coordinating supplies. Thank you to Nikki for all her care. 😍

Tuba City Humane Society

1 day 17 hours ago

On Thursday a family in upper Moenkopi reached out about a friendly stray momma dog that had 7 puppies outside less than a week before. They were seeking where they could go. With so many others in the same situation, we were pondering what, if anything we could do. We are in dire need of foster homes to be able to take anyone in. A volunteer brought some dog food and a blanket and the family tried to create some protection under a table outside, to block some of the wind. Thankfully an amazing rescue partner, Almost There: A Mom + Pups Rescue, responded to us and let us know that they would be able to receive them in a few days, a huge blessing. We juggled a temporary holding spot in Flagstaff so that they could be safe and inside. And the next day, Tina picked them up and brought them to Flagstaff. Momma dog is sweet and friendly. The family called her Shorty, for her short legs. She has some skin issues, which might be mange, not sure. Her temporary foster used coconut oil to try and keep her comfortable. With nursing puppies, you cannot use most medications. Thank you to Claudia Giannetta for driving up from Phoenix today to transport Shorty and her puppies. Thank you to Denise for helping to coordinate. Thank you to Almost There for taking them in to provide care for all of them going forward. It is such a relief to

Tuba City Humane Society

1 day 20 hours ago

Puppy Leon survived Parvo! He still has a ways to go in recovering from mange. Big thank you to Elward and Dr. Holgate and to Canyon Pet Hospital for all his veterinary care. We are so grateful he made it through.

Thank you to Coconino Humane Association for taking over on Leon’s care yesterday, and he also got to be back with his sister. We really appreciate all that CHA does to help us! Thank you to Keli for picking Leon up from Canyon. Thank you to donors whose support makes it all possible

Tuba City Humane Society

2 days 10 hours ago

UPDATE: Returned to owner!

Tuba City Humane Society

2 days 12 hours ago

Big thanks to John and Tina for an amazing rescue today of a stray momma dog who they have had their eye on and been feeding and following her to figure out where she goes. She had puppies earlier this week under a shed in a gated area in Tuba City.

Yes the rescue involved crawling under a gate, digging to reach puppies under the shed, distracting the mom while pups were gotten out, and then humane trapping of the mom dog outside the gate. These are two dedicated people! We so appreciate what they are able to do and how many get helped.

Thank you to High Country Humane for taking in the mom and her 5 puppies. Thank you to John and Tina for bringing them to Flagstaff. Hopes and plans to still catch her best dog buddy, another mom, soon as we can.

Tuba City Humane Society

2 days 12 hours ago

Thank you to C-A-L Ranch Stores for hosting a fun adoption event today! Thank you for supporting rescues. We really appreciate it!

These dogs and pups have some developed awesome skills!

Adoptable puppies: tubacityhumanesociety.org/adoptions/

Thank you to volunteers for making this happen and all that you put into helping foster pups get a solid foundation for successful adoption. Couldn’t do it without you.

Thank you to Sean and Keli Openshaw for video.

Tuba City Humane Society

2 days 21 hours ago

Please come meet our awesome adoptable pups and dogs at C-A-L Ranch Stores right now!