Texas Husky Rescue
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Adopt
Our adoption process is designed to ensure the right dog goes to the right home. It is a multi-step process involving vet checks, home visits (virtual during COVID), and discussions with an adoption counselor.
Foster
Fostering saves lives. We get 30-35 requests a week for intake, and we can’t meet all the requests without dedicated fosters. We provide the supplies, you provide the love, training, and structure with support from our community!
Donate
Our adoption fees cover less than half of the cost of the “average” healthy dog. Most of our dogs have medical costs far above our donation fees. Your donation helps cover the medical vetting and needs for our huskies.
Volunteer
Volunteers are the life-blood of our organization, and we can use any skills, time, energy, and enthusiasm no matter where you are. Our hubs are in DFW, Austin, and San Antonio, but we have volunteers across Texas and the United States.
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Latest News
Katya’s Journey
On February 28, 2023, we accepted Katya and her puppies as an emergency request. Her puppies story was told in a previous blog, If Love Could Save Them. Katya had severe Demodex Mange and secondary skin infections all over her face and body; she also had an eye infection, was very anemic, had low blood …
First Quarter 2023 Financial Report
It was a TOUGH quarter. Our revenues for the quarter were $52,923 from adoption fees, donations, and various fundraisers, which is “pretty” good. But not against expenses of $83,632. Most of that was from our medical expenses, which totaled $59,321. (See story about the Survivor Puppies in the previous blog for more information.) Boarding (because we don’t have enough fosters) was $10,405. We incurred dog …
If Love Could Save Them
On February 28, 2023, TXHR received an URGENT request to take a mama and her four newborn puppies. Mama Katya (her story will be told shortly!) was unable to care for the puppies, but thankfully, our amazing foster volunteers bottle-fed the puppies every 2-3 hours. The puppies, Red/Gray (males), and Purple/Green (females), were at HIGH risk, and now needed …
Thank Woo!
For Joshua’s eleventh birthday, he didn’t ask for anything for himself (but he did get a GREAT Texas Husky Rescue t-shirt!). He chose to share his birthday with Texas Husky Rescue, and he raised $110 to #savemorehuskies! Plus, he shared the AmazonSmile link with his family and friends, so we will see good from that …
From Bobblehead to UConn Stand-in: Drayson’s Story
Drayson had a rough start because he was the runt from a litter of pups of a backyard breeder. He found his way through several rescues until arriving as rescue #1286 with Texas Husky Rescue. Since we are 100% volunteer, foster-based organization, we rely on fosters to take care of our dogs so we can learn …
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Volunteer Spotlight: First-time Foster Experience
Guest Blogger: Geneva is a hardworking college English major, volunteer, and (now!) first-time foster. Having been working behind the scenes for TXHR as a grant writer for a little over two years now, I had always admired our fosters who would take emaciated and abandoned pups and turn them into happy, healthy, and adoptable dogs. …
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2020 Successes!
Despite the COVID restrictions, our awesome Texas Husky Rescue applications team processed 630 applications in 2020! Yes! 630 prospective husky owners applied for adoption, and each application had to be carefully prescreened, including veterinary reference checks, and landlord checks. If the hopeful applicant made it past this initial screen the team interviewed, completed virtual home checks, …
Medical Spotlight: Nala
Update: Nala was adopted and in her furever home! Rescue NEVER stops…not even on New Year’s Eve. We receive 15-20 requests a day from shelters and good Samaritans with info on huskies needing help. We can’t help them all, but when we commit, we fully commit! Nala came to us from Corpus Christi on New …
Blessings as bountiful as husky hair!
It’s been a hard year for everyone, but November is a time to count blessings. Rescue work is an extended family, and we are so grateful to everyone who volunteers, fosters, adopts, donates, and generally contributes good will and good wishes to our work. Recently, we were blessed with a carload of donations from one …
Check out our new website!
We are proud to announce the launch of our new website! Thanks to social media, we’ve been able to stay virtually “in touch”, but COVID underscores the need for additional avenues of outreach until we can start having meet and greets, events, and husky social walks again. The website will provide a little more interactivity …