All Paws Safe Haven Fundraiser

My name is Jessica Hellmann and I am the Exective Director of All Paws Safe Haven. (* Note* We changed our name about a year ago but the government still has our official name as Paws Crossed, we are the same organization. 

It has always been my dream to start my own rescue, so I did! Your donation means a lot to me, and the pups. We have no paid staff and are ran on 100% volunteers. Your donation goes directly to helping our medical bills, supplies, training, and any other expenses that are to come up. 

All Paws Safe Haven is a new rescue with big dreams. Right now, we are a foster based organization, but we want to be so much more. We are raising money to buy a building, where our mission can really begin. We believe there are some dogs who do not work in a shelter environment. We would partner with other local rescues to take on their harder case dogs. Dogs who have been with the rescue for years and have not had much interest, dogs who maybe have been deemed “unadoptable” for whatever reason. We would take these dogs into our facility and work with them on a specialized adoption plan. We would do special training with the dog and if we felt the behaviors were too strong to be adopted, then we would set that dog up to live out the rest of his/her life in our sanctuary.

In the meantime, we are still keeping to our mission. We are still taking in dogs and placing them into foster care. We are rescuing the dogs that need our help the most. One example is our girl Daffodil. Daffodil was found eating trash along the road. She was brought to animal control where her medical needs were assessed. She was severely underweight, had a prolapsed anus, very bloated, just to name a few things. Despite her condition, she was giving staff nothing but love. She is now in a foster home where she is being given nothing but love while she heals. Another example is our pup Moose. Moose is only a year old and was living in a shelter. He had been around other dogs and was great with them. The longer he sat in the kennel, the more stressed he was getting. As days went by, he started showing signs of dog aggression. The shelter environment stress was really getting to him. We took him into a foster home and out of the shelter life. His fosters started socializing him with other dogs and his aggression went away. Just by removing him from the stressful daily life of a kennel, he was able to be a normal dog again. If he remained in the shelter, his dog reactiveness could have escalated and he possibly never would have been able to be around dogs. He was given a second chance, and that is what we hope to do to many many more pups once we get a facility.

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