Maddie the Pibble

Oh blog, how I've neglected you.

This past week has been full of fun times in animal rescue.

Meet Maddie.

Maddie showed up a couple of weeks ago at the Central Missouri Humane Society as a stray. This situation is hardly uncommon, but Maddie's case was a little different.



Maddie came into the shelter with these massive burns along her neck and back, which the vet staff suspects is from a chemical burn (perhaps some jerks were trying to brand her). They were massive, and gross, and obviously super uncomfortable for her.


I felt sad for Maddie, so I brought her some cheeseburgers. Her outlook didn't look so great. Option A: her horrible owner claimed her (bad)
Option B: euthanasia (also bad)

This sucks.

I told my awesome friends about Miss Maddie, and the outpouring of support and desire to save her was absolutely incredible (as usual). The day before she was set to be euthanized, people from across the country were calling and emailing rescues everywhere begging them to take her in their program. These people opened their homes for fostering her and their wallets to cover her expenses and make a nice donation to the rescue group that agreed to take her.

Thanks to an awesome friend and fellow volunteer who coordinated it all, and another awesome friend in Texas who contacted them, next Friday Maddie will head to a new foster home in Minnesota with Midwest Animal Rescue & Services (MARS) where she will have the opportunity to be placed in an incredible forever home that will treat her like the angel that she is.

We are temporarily fostering her until she can get to her new foster home, and she's such a sweetheart. She has every reason not to trust humans, but she is an absolute love with us. I think she's just grateful to be around people who just love on her and treat her the way any living creature should be treated.


Her wounds are healing really nicely too!




It's stuff like this that makes me so happy to rescue animals. She should be dead right now, but thanks to so many incredible people (Amanda and Matt, Jennifer, and the rest of the P&F girls), she's alive, and will never have to experience that kind of pain and abuse again. Yay!