Poodle Rescue of Houston

Urgent Needs

Poodle Rescue of Houston desperately needs money to treat and care for some of our most severe poodles struggling to get better with each new day. We are currently treating heartworm infestations that are very expensive. Please help us help these poodles in distress by donating thru
Pay Pal. Just click on the credit card picture above and give a charitable donation that will be greatly appreciated and needed.

Our On Site Surgical Suite
We are very proud to have an on site surgical facility where a licensed veterinarian comes two or three times a week resulting in lower overall costs.

Donations are needed to help with continuous ongoing costs related to the following:

Monthly heart worm preventative for all the dogs that are in our care
Diagnostic tests, blood work, X-rays, ultrasounds
Surgical removal, treatment and/or repair of tumors, bladder stones, hernias, broken bones, etc.
Tooth extraction and dental cleaning
Prescription food required for dogs with special dietary needs
Costs associated with dogs that must be treated at outside veterinary hospitals when more sophisticated equipment/expertise is required.
Medications/treatments for worms, mange, mites, chemical burns, infections etc.
Payment of the veterinarian and the certified vet tech that assists her.

Want to donate products in person? We’ll give you a tour of our facility when you come. Products we need on a continuous basis include:

Large bags of dry dog food. Less than 10% of our food is donated. Over 90% is purchased by Poodle Rescue.
New white bath towels used in surgery, kennels, grooming
Small dog toys (plush, twisted rope chews, etc.)
Paper towels
Printer paper
In case you like to scout out garage sales or you have some in your closet, we can always put used towels, comforters and quilts to use as long as they have been laundered.

We have an urgent ongoing need for donations to help defray the cost of treating heartworm positive dogs. This treatment is very expensive. We have no way of knowing if a dog is heartworm positive until after we accept them into our adoption program and test them. It’s never a question of “if” we have any heartworm positive dogs to be treated, but rather how many.

Princess Peach (Sophie) Has Been Adopted

Sophie bear is a female, 2 year old Maltese that was snatched into the jaws of a pit bull. Her lung was punctured and her rib was fractured. The owners could not afford the surgery and were having to put her down, due to cost.

Harvey picked up from BARC. Picked up at 1 PM. In surgery at Poodle Rescue of Houston by 3PM.

We named this dog Harvey. He was scared and acted vicious in his kennel. I doubled two towels on my arm. When he quit biting, I sat with him on the kennel floor until I could pet him without the towel. He appeared to have been in a dog fight and probably got the worst end of it. He also tested positive for heartworms.

Thanks to donations from caring people like you, Harvey’s injuries were successfully treated and we then turned our attention to treating him for heart worms. Now Harvey is healthy and happy and has found his forever home.

Unfortunately many of the dogs we rescue come to us in deplorable condition. Their hair is often filthy and grossly overgrown and matted. The filth and restriction can cause problems with the dog’s skin, eyes, teeth, ears, and private areas, any or all of which may require treatment. The hair can be matted so tightly to their skin that they have painful sores. We use your donations to help dogs like the one pictured above named Charisma who has since found her new forever home. Dogs come to us in every imaginable condition. The suffering some of them have endured is heart breaking. We have 75+ dogs to keep clean and groomed on a daily basis. We need donations to purchase shampoo, flea treatment, ointments, medications, scissors, clippers, clipper blades, brushes, combs and dryers, etc. This need is never ending.

Urgent Needs Success Stories

Below are examples of past dogs with urgent needs that Poodle Rescue was able to help with medical care

Dainty (on the left) had an embedded collar. We rescued Charisma (on the right) from a kill shelter.
Both have since healed and been adopted by loving families.

It takes six to eight weeks to cure sarcoptic mange. Princess Ann was turned into a Montgomery County shelter in this condition. Her rehabilitation at Poodle Rescue would not have been possible without the support of people like you. With treatment she healed beautifully and her coat grew back. Someone quickly fell in love with her and adopted her as a new member of their family.

Fergie is another little poodle who needed our help. You can see her transformation in these photos. Look for the video of her “happy tail” with her new family which appears elsewhere on our website. We love it when people who have adopted from us take the time to bring the dogs they’ve adopted back to Poodle Rescue of Houston for a visit or drop us an email with a recent photo.

This is a very informative video showing 51 poodles we rescued from the August 2009 “puppy mill” seizure in Kaufman County Texas. We continually rescue dogs from puppy mills and back yard breeders. Sadly, the need never ends.

STARVED AND CAUGHT IN A TRAP
I am too dishearted to go to the kennel and read the run card to tell you what we named this young female poodle that arrived on July 30th. She was one of three neglected poodles from three different shelters and surrenders that we accepted one day. Let's ''Cut to the Chase" Not beat around the bush. We are all poodle lovers. That's why we are here. We need your support! We are one of if not the largest Poodle Rescue Organization in the world and we operate in the red. Never in our history has any officer or director of Poodle Rescue of Houston ever compensated themselves. 100% of donations and adoption fee's go back into rescue. I feel that we are one of the most productive and least compensated breed rescues in the states. We rescued 615 poodles in 2010 and 610 in 2009. That is more than one a day and the number we’ve rescued has continued to grow year after year. Please donate what you are able to give so we can continue the fight to save these little ones.
Guinnette, Director of Poodle Rescue of Houston.

Kenan is one of 26 poodles that we rescued from a puppy mill where the conditions were deplorable. Rescue operations of this size and nature are an immense undertaking that tax the resources for our organization. Take a good look at the picture of Kenan on the left. Can you imagine the suffering he endured prior to being rescued and all the way through to recovery? At times this work can be discouraging and demoralizing, even heartbreaking. We do our best to remain confident that in the end the challenge will be met and dogs like Kenan will go on to the happy life that has thus far eluded them.

Fluffy is a female miniature poodle rescued by Poodle Rescue of Houston (PRH). As you can see from the photos, her coat was in deplorable condition. Under all that matted hair, she was extremely thin and probably starving. Within hours of her arrival, she was groomed and slowly but surely a beautiful white princess emerged from the tangled mess. We’d like to tell you that we don’t get dogs in Fluffy’s condition very often, but that would be untrue. This same scenario repeats itself day after day; year after year. Through donations we are able to give dogs like Fluffy the medical attention, food, shelter and loving care they so richly deserve until a permanent home can be found for them.

35 standard poodles rescued from Oklahoma Farm by Poodle Rescue of Houston. They filled a double decked van and a U-Haul trailer. After making sure they received a nourishing meal and a good nights rest, we began the task of cleaning and grooming them and evaluating their individual needs. Sometimes we get in groups of dogs that are un-socialized, having had almost no contact with humans. Part of the work we do includes providing them with continuous positive human interaction until they begin to realize that humans really do have good things to offer. When adopted, these dogs are often in the first real home they have ever known.

35 Tennessee Poodles Found With Dead Woman

These Tennessee poodles were being groomed and bathed by Bluebonnet poodle Club volunteers at Parkland Kennels in Richmond, Texas. Owner Dawn Zack generously donated available kennel space to help these pure bred poodles after they were rescued by Poodle Rescue of Houston from a deceased puppy mill breeder found dead in her unairconditioned trailer house following a heart attack. Her body was discovered several days to a week after her death. The condition of the house was deplorable and unsuitable for animals. Unidentified debris littered every inch of floor or surface. Crates were stacked head high like chicken coops for the many dogs she bred for profit. The larger standard poodles were kept outside in several fenced areas and they were filthy with dirt and infested with fleas. Their coats were matted and overall condition unkept. Animal control was forced to noose the unsocial frightened poodles with catch poles for their own safety. It was impossible to lure them with food. They had never been walked on a leash. The dogs were difficult to catch. The temperature was near 100 degrees. Time was of the essence. Animal control was efficient and professional. We were able to load all of the standards in less than an hour and a half. We went back into the house and searched again for small poodles and found five more in the debris.

Poodle Rescue spent $2,100.00 to fly two drivers and rent two cargo vans for the transport back to Texas. Costs associated with rescues of this scale mount quickly. We could not help dogs like these without your help.

Canyon was retrieved from Animal Control in Seagoville, Texas after a long time attempt by neighbors to capture this illusive canine. Neighbors put food and water out for him over a month but he would run away each time he was coaxed toward a human. Finally he collapsed and was sent to Animal control. Canyon had hundreds of maggots in his open flesh wounds. The animal control officer stayed until midnight trying to remove the maggots from his wounds. A desperate plea was cross posted to animal rescues across Texas. Poodle Rescue Of Houston left early the next morning for the four hour drive to Seagoville. He was driven directly to the veterinarian hospital, anesthetized in the vehicle to reduce stress. He was shaved by the vet tech and rescue volunteer Guinnette Pebbles. Additional maggots were removed from the wound and from the anal canal. Maggots were flushed from the ear canal by the veterinarian. His body and wounds were scrubbed with chloroform antiseptic. Fluids were administered with antibiotics. Stool test confirmed hookworm infestation but his blood test was negative for heart worms. We named him Canyon for our records.

After a lengthy recovery, Canyon found a loving home. Dogs rely on humans to be their advocates. Please donate whatever you can.

A passer by observed this middle aged dog being dumped from a moving vehicle. Discarded like trash the dog was abandoned. A passer by saw the dog being dumped and they brought the dog to poodle rescue. Within the hour the dog was being seen by the vet. Although there were no apparent bodily injuries from the dog being dumped there was a physical story of long term neglect.