Our Featured Pup:  MORIA JO    (click on the picture to learn more)

Just A Touch Rescue is a 501 (c) 3 non-profit corporation and was created in order to rescue, rehabilitate, and re-home dogs who are in need of a permanent, loving home. Unlike shelters and breed-specific rescue organizations, we focus the majority of our resources on rescuing dogs who have unique physical, emotional and developmental needs due to their upbringing in puppy mills across the country, and dogs that have suffered from abuse or neglect. We are dedicated to finding the best forever homes for these extraordinary animals and ensuring that their medical and emotional needs will always be met.

Our animals are individuals with differing medical and emotional needs, and special considerations may be required regarding a home placement.

Our focus is on abused and neglected dogs, dogs with special needs, and dogs from puppy mills. Some may require extra medical attention, some have physical or emotional disabilities, but all require patience, love and attention. They all need the touch of a loving hand and a caring heart ....

Bessie

Rescued from a Puppy Mill

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Helen

From a puppy mill, Helen was more than 50% underweight, had heartworm, and was blind at 5 years old.

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Check out Emmy’s Angels and see how you can give a special gift to your friends and family (or yourself!) and the gift of life to a special dog. 

A HOLIDAY STORY...

Have you heard of places called craigslist, kijiji, backpage, classifiedads, etc.?  Where you can get things for free?  Here is the story of what happened to a “free to good home” dog.   Say hello to little Jacki Jo.  Jacki Jo had been owned by a woman that passed away.  Her family did not want her, so they “sold” little Jacki Jo on a free ad.  Just how did she find her way to a rescue? 

...how she got here is the story of a journey of 1000 miles...click here to read about Jacki Jo and the village of angels that saved her. 

In Memory...

Some of our friends that have gone to the bridge

Opening our hearts, our hands, and our homes to help dogs in need.

          A friend is someone who reaches for your hand and touches your heart.

"You are not wanted, get out of here"..what those words really mean to  a dog.

 

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The day dawned hot and bright in the Virginia Swamp.. The stinging bugs were busy chewing on our irritated skin. My friend Beau and I got up from our den and went in search of food. It was our lucky day. A rabbit had been killed on the road overnight and we shared it. Our first meal in 3 days. We drank from the stagnant water of the swamp. It was all we could find.You see we are both sick and crippled from the years trying to live on our own. Beau Lochlan was someone's dog at one time, but he was turned away from his home. Somehow he was terribly hurt. He had a broken back, a broken femur, a dislocated hip and a fx pelvis. He is heartworm positive and lyme positive. OH!! I almost forgot..he was also shot in his ankle. The bullet pieces are still there. Yet he tried to hold the wild pack of throw away dogs together. Sadly only 3 were left when the trapping began. Beau is a terrier mix, a dog that is so terrified of a collar and leash he almost kills himself to get away from it.

 

Beau was my best friend, maybe even my father. You see everyone thinks I was born in the swamp, born to a sick mama and I soon became sick myself. I was a white terrier mix that was also terrified of people and houses and cars etc. I was disease ridden. I had protein losing neuropathy, heartworm positive, lyme positive, kidney infection and kidney failure. And generalized demodex (mange). I was about 2 years old when trapped but already dying.  Foster Mama named me Brave Heart of the Bayou. Bayou for short.

 

The people that rescued me tried very hard to FIX all my problems. They tried with Beau as well. We got use to the house we lived in, we used the dog door and we were potty trained. We eventually both would go to "mama" for pets. We loved our soft beds and good food. We laid on the deck in the sunshine. Yet off the property we were so scared we had to be carried. But we were learning about love..

 

Then I started to get even sicker, off the the Vets I went, they tried everything...but my 3 year old body was dying. The care of the last year could not reverse the damage of the swamp.

It was with many tears and soft hands and lots of love I was released from my disease riddened body. I could not enjoy the life ahead of me. I could not have  what the swamp had stolen from me..Foster Mama cried for just one more summer in the sun for me, but it was not to be..

 

Beau is still with Foster Mama. He is trying to be brave and actually has started to play with toys...I am writing this from the Rainbow Bridge (Heaven) so others may not have to suffer like we did.

Please tell our story..

 

 

We didn't stand a chance.  They broke our bodies, the folks that didn't care. They broke the hearts of the people that tried to save us. 

 

My death at 3 years old was totally preventable. If only someone had cared. Beau's years of misery were also preventable. Abuse and neglect stole his health. Again, preventable if only someone had cared.

 

If you have an animal, please remember they are feeling, caring beings. They deserve care and respect. They feel pain like people do. They suffer like people do when sick. They are afraid  like people are. Please share our message. If only one other dog can be saved from such suffering...if only...if only.

 

Remember...

No dog should  have had to live in a swamp, to search for days for a meal, to run from people with guns, to fend for themselves when dogs are domesticated and meant to live as a companion  animal. No dog should live in fear and misery. But it is up to you to stop the cycle of pain...speak up ...please!!!!

 

Thank you ,

Bayou

 

Please speak out against abuse and neglect of our companion animals. Silence is not golden. It is a killer of innocent animals. Let's become a country that is decent and responsible for it's animals. This is terrible beyond words. I know, I am Beau and Bayou's Foster Mama. My heart has been broken over this preventable cruelty and great loss. To watch the life go from Little Bayous eyes just about killed me.

 

Be a voice for the voiceless, take a stand against cruelty, join a group like Just A Touch Rescue. Just do something....this is a story of 2 dogs..but sadly there are many suffering just like they did, all over this country. Help them, please!!!

 

Eileen and Beau and Little Angel Bayou

 

                               

 Eileen in NY

The Bark Heard Around The World  5-22-2010

www.barkaroundtheworld.com

www.justatouchrescue.com

www.beverlyanimalshelteronline.com