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"We love her already"
Elvira
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OCTOBER 12, 2021
This is Elvira. We don't know how she wound up in a South Carolina shelter. We only knew we could not let her stay there.
This weekend, Elvira will head north with us - way north, to Fargo, North Dakota, where the kind hearts of 4 Luv of Dog Rescue will welcome her. "We love her already," they said.
Elvira is said to be 9 years old, but we have to believe she's older. She has cataracts, a heart murmur, mammary tumors, bad teeth and skin. She also has a soul, love, and a desire and right to live. Her story might have ended at a public shelter this week. Instead, this is where her story begins.
Thank you to 4 Luv of Dog Rescue, Natalie, Heidi, Jill, Joni, Andrea, Joy, Patti and the entire Mutt Mutt Engine community. Elvira doesn't need to see you to know how beautiful you are.
Elvira we love you.
This is Elvira. We don't know how she wound up in a South Carolina shelter. We only knew we could not let her stay there.
This weekend, Elvira will head north with us - way north, to Fargo, North Dakota, where the kind hearts of 4 Luv of Dog Rescue will welcome her. "We love her already," they said.
Elvira is said to be 9 years old, but we have to believe she's older. She has cataracts, a heart murmur, mammary tumors, bad teeth and skin. She also has a soul, love, and a desire and right to live. Her story might have ended at a public shelter this week. Instead, this is where her story begins.
Thank you to 4 Luv of Dog Rescue, Natalie, Heidi, Jill, Joni, Andrea, Joy, Patti and the entire Mutt Mutt Engine community. Elvira doesn't need to see you to know how beautiful you are.
Elvira we love you.
OCTOBER 28, 2021
She made it up onto the bed herself, a bed she is able and allowed to access at will; a soft, cozy bed that's filled with kind people every night in a house that's always warm.
Elvira was in a southern shelter, old and patchy and mostly blind. But those are just superficial traits. Much more importantly, Elvira was in a southern shelter sweet and vital and worthy of a life - a life of love.
Mutt Mutt Engine is proud to be a catalyst for the cooperation that provides salvation. Greenville County Animal Care in South Carolina told us Elvira's story, hoping we could help. We could. A local foster in South Carolina took Elvira in until our transport could take her to Minnesota. Once she arrived in Minnesota, volunteers Jude and Sherry brought Elvira north to Jill, who then brought Elvira to Fargo, North Dakota where foster Natalie of 4 Luv of Dog Rescue was waiting for her.
Elvira's rescue story - a story of many kind hearts coming together to save lives - is not unique. This is what happens every time a dog is saved, with any rescue. The difference here is that we aren't worried that giving credit to the many others that help will somehow make your support of Mutt Mutt Engine disappear, or will make us seem smaller or less deserving to you. No rescue or rescuer does what they do alone. We enjoy shedding light on any and all who help at any and every step. We think you enjoy it too. We think you enjoy a side of cooperation, sharing and honor with your rescue main dish. We worry you grow tired of the self-purported heroics from certain individuals and organizations we all endure when we quietly, steadily and sincerely do good.
But here's the thing: We see you. We know that what you give us - from dollars to faith to hours to attention, to the most tender chambers of your heart - is what offers us the great privilege of doing this work. Because it is a privilege, and we are lucky to be able to do it, and we are lucky to have you by our side, giving us strength, and joy, and enabling us.
So while we try our best here to recognize all the amazing people who helped save Elvira's life, one very important name is missing: Yours. Because in whatever way you help, you are forever part of the story of every dog we help, and are forever a part of every good thing we do.
Elvira, we love you.
She made it up onto the bed herself, a bed she is able and allowed to access at will; a soft, cozy bed that's filled with kind people every night in a house that's always warm.
Elvira was in a southern shelter, old and patchy and mostly blind. But those are just superficial traits. Much more importantly, Elvira was in a southern shelter sweet and vital and worthy of a life - a life of love.
Mutt Mutt Engine is proud to be a catalyst for the cooperation that provides salvation. Greenville County Animal Care in South Carolina told us Elvira's story, hoping we could help. We could. A local foster in South Carolina took Elvira in until our transport could take her to Minnesota. Once she arrived in Minnesota, volunteers Jude and Sherry brought Elvira north to Jill, who then brought Elvira to Fargo, North Dakota where foster Natalie of 4 Luv of Dog Rescue was waiting for her.
Elvira's rescue story - a story of many kind hearts coming together to save lives - is not unique. This is what happens every time a dog is saved, with any rescue. The difference here is that we aren't worried that giving credit to the many others that help will somehow make your support of Mutt Mutt Engine disappear, or will make us seem smaller or less deserving to you. No rescue or rescuer does what they do alone. We enjoy shedding light on any and all who help at any and every step. We think you enjoy it too. We think you enjoy a side of cooperation, sharing and honor with your rescue main dish. We worry you grow tired of the self-purported heroics from certain individuals and organizations we all endure when we quietly, steadily and sincerely do good.
But here's the thing: We see you. We know that what you give us - from dollars to faith to hours to attention, to the most tender chambers of your heart - is what offers us the great privilege of doing this work. Because it is a privilege, and we are lucky to be able to do it, and we are lucky to have you by our side, giving us strength, and joy, and enabling us.
So while we try our best here to recognize all the amazing people who helped save Elvira's life, one very important name is missing: Yours. Because in whatever way you help, you are forever part of the story of every dog we help, and are forever a part of every good thing we do.
Elvira, we love you.
NOVEMBER 29, 2021
Elvira's hair is growing back in now which makes us both happy and sad. Happy, because with nothing but love and peace, her coat is growing back all on its own. Sad, because her hair loss wasn't a medical issue, it was stress, and fear, and misery.
To think of Elvira in the kill shelter where we met her losing her hair and shaking like leaf is any empathetic soul's nightmare. But to see her now in her 4 Luv of Dog Rescue foster home, finding that love and peace she should have had all along, well, that's any dog lover's dream.
At Mutt Mutt Engine we do our very best to help dogs that need help most, and to help in ways that support a better future for all dogs...all while supporting initiatives and fellow rescues on the front lines of abuse, abandonment, overpopulation and neglect. Rescuers in places like Tijuana, Beijing, Kabul....South Carolina, Georgia, Texas....so many of our colleagues are hands-on battling hardship we try hard not to imagine, lest our tender hearts break apart. We offer medical support, placement and transport. We sponsor spay/neuter clinics and stock food banks. We look for ways to help that aren't exclusively about moving dogs through our system but rather are focused on supporting those systems that will create fewer dogs needing rescue long term...and that will collectively rescue more dogs, too. In this our third year, we anticipate helping 500 dogs - this year alone. In tandem, we support many brave rescuers doing wonderful, ethical work. We've saved many mama dogs from giving birth on the street and many puppies from being born on them. We've saved many senior dogs, quirky dogs, black dogs and dogs with special needs. We've lost some dogs with parvo and we've saved some dogs with parvo and we've kept hundreds more dogs from getting parvo because we helped those that harbor this terrible, often fatal disease. We've gotten many distemper dogs off the street too. We've saved nearly all of them, while preventing hundreds more from contracting it.
These actions are our bricks and mortar, but what we are building is a community of cooperation, compassion and love. Because united forces save the most lives. Because each rescue has a role, a duty, a specialty and working together with human foibles like competitiveness, greed and domination set aside saves more lives, and makes a better, kinder world while doing so.
Mutt Mutt Engine will never be the largest rescue you follow. We will never do all things and would never try to. We believe in working together; we believe that compassion must drive our every action, and must extend beyond how we treat dogs to how we treat our fellow humans too. We figure you're here with us because you love dogs like we do, but also because you're good and kind and want us to share with you our burdens and our victories both while acknowledging that we each have a role in all this, and that each role is important, and there is no such thing as a small contribution to a better world.
When we say You are Us, we mean it. You are a part of every life we save, every happy ending, every sweet story, every successful effort. You are our everything. You are every mutt-mutt's everything. We are beyond grateful to you every day.
But seriously, how delicious is Elvira?! We know she feels the love of us all. We are the new hairs, the soft, baby hairs that love and peace - and a wonderful foster mom - coax to grow back. Thank you everyone, so much.
Elvira's hair is growing back in now which makes us both happy and sad. Happy, because with nothing but love and peace, her coat is growing back all on its own. Sad, because her hair loss wasn't a medical issue, it was stress, and fear, and misery.
To think of Elvira in the kill shelter where we met her losing her hair and shaking like leaf is any empathetic soul's nightmare. But to see her now in her 4 Luv of Dog Rescue foster home, finding that love and peace she should have had all along, well, that's any dog lover's dream.
At Mutt Mutt Engine we do our very best to help dogs that need help most, and to help in ways that support a better future for all dogs...all while supporting initiatives and fellow rescues on the front lines of abuse, abandonment, overpopulation and neglect. Rescuers in places like Tijuana, Beijing, Kabul....South Carolina, Georgia, Texas....so many of our colleagues are hands-on battling hardship we try hard not to imagine, lest our tender hearts break apart. We offer medical support, placement and transport. We sponsor spay/neuter clinics and stock food banks. We look for ways to help that aren't exclusively about moving dogs through our system but rather are focused on supporting those systems that will create fewer dogs needing rescue long term...and that will collectively rescue more dogs, too. In this our third year, we anticipate helping 500 dogs - this year alone. In tandem, we support many brave rescuers doing wonderful, ethical work. We've saved many mama dogs from giving birth on the street and many puppies from being born on them. We've saved many senior dogs, quirky dogs, black dogs and dogs with special needs. We've lost some dogs with parvo and we've saved some dogs with parvo and we've kept hundreds more dogs from getting parvo because we helped those that harbor this terrible, often fatal disease. We've gotten many distemper dogs off the street too. We've saved nearly all of them, while preventing hundreds more from contracting it.
These actions are our bricks and mortar, but what we are building is a community of cooperation, compassion and love. Because united forces save the most lives. Because each rescue has a role, a duty, a specialty and working together with human foibles like competitiveness, greed and domination set aside saves more lives, and makes a better, kinder world while doing so.
Mutt Mutt Engine will never be the largest rescue you follow. We will never do all things and would never try to. We believe in working together; we believe that compassion must drive our every action, and must extend beyond how we treat dogs to how we treat our fellow humans too. We figure you're here with us because you love dogs like we do, but also because you're good and kind and want us to share with you our burdens and our victories both while acknowledging that we each have a role in all this, and that each role is important, and there is no such thing as a small contribution to a better world.
When we say You are Us, we mean it. You are a part of every life we save, every happy ending, every sweet story, every successful effort. You are our everything. You are every mutt-mutt's everything. We are beyond grateful to you every day.
But seriously, how delicious is Elvira?! We know she feels the love of us all. We are the new hairs, the soft, baby hairs that love and peace - and a wonderful foster mom - coax to grow back. Thank you everyone, so much.
DECEMBER 26, 2021
The holiday isn't over! We have a couple of presents for you!
First one is the news that Elvira is adopted! There's a saying "every pot has a cover" and 4 Luv of Dog Rescue found Elvira's. Thank you to Natalie, Heidi, Beth, Lola, Joy, Patti, James and senior dog lovers everywhere!
Second one is a good one too....we're going to help a whole bunch of dogs before the year ends! We've got a short-notice transport in the works. Stay tuned for more details on this fate-changing, love-adding, life-saving adventure that your kindness, support and generosity make possible. If you can help us, thank you so much. Remember Mutt Mutt Engine is a 501c3 charity and donations are tax-deductible.....and used with utmost respect and care to save dogs....no salaries, no galas, just rescue.
Happy holidays one and all!
The holiday isn't over! We have a couple of presents for you!
First one is the news that Elvira is adopted! There's a saying "every pot has a cover" and 4 Luv of Dog Rescue found Elvira's. Thank you to Natalie, Heidi, Beth, Lola, Joy, Patti, James and senior dog lovers everywhere!
Second one is a good one too....we're going to help a whole bunch of dogs before the year ends! We've got a short-notice transport in the works. Stay tuned for more details on this fate-changing, love-adding, life-saving adventure that your kindness, support and generosity make possible. If you can help us, thank you so much. Remember Mutt Mutt Engine is a 501c3 charity and donations are tax-deductible.....and used with utmost respect and care to save dogs....no salaries, no galas, just rescue.
Happy holidays one and all!