Serenity Canine Advocacy Rescue & Rehab

11/02/2026

🦁🏈 DETROIT LIONS FANS, THIS ONE’S FOR YOU! 🏈🦁

It’s FOOTBALL SEASON, which means it’s time to raffle off another signed football by none other than Jahmyr Gibbs! 💙

But this football has a pretty special story behind it. ❤️🐾

In 2024, our rescue had the incredible honor of helping Jah and Nicole adopt their rescue German Shepherd, McCoy (Koi). As a thank-you and to help support our rescue dogs, Jahmyr generously donated signed sports memorabilia featuring his rookie #26 for us to use as fundraising items. We are so grateful for his kindness and support!

But before Koi was living his best life, his story was heartbreaking. 💔

Koi spent his life living outside in a Flint backyard alongside another dog named Blue. For years, MPEP Outreach Programs worked to care for both dogs and find a way to get them to safety.

Blue was the first to be surrendered and transferred to Serenity Canine Advocacy Rescue & Rehab. He spent just ONE day inside before being rushed to the veterinarian the very next day. Sadly, he was suffering from late-stage heartworm disease and cancer. He was incredibly sick, and the kindest thing we could do was let him go peacefully. 💔🌈

Blue’s tragic story helped spur efforts to hold his former owner accountable. Authorities eventually intervened, and animal control seized Koi, who was still living outside.

MPEP stepped in to get Koi out of animal control. He was severely matted, so badly that he had to be shaved. From there, he came into SCARR’s foster program, where he received heartworm treatment, comprehensive veterinary care, and a second chance at life. ❤️

Then came the happy ending. 🥹

Jah and Nicole found Koi on Petfinder and chose him. They gave this boy the safe, loving home he’d always deserved. The dog who once lived outside in a Flint backyard now gets to live the life every dog deserves.

THAT is what rescue is all about. ❤️🐾

And now, thanks to Jahmyr’s generosity, we have another opportunity to turn a little Lions love into help for the dogs still waiting for their happy endings!

🏈 THE RAFFLE DETAILS 🏈

🦁 Prize: A football signed by Jahmyr Gibbs, featuring his rookie #26!

🎟️ Ticket sales open: November 2nd

⏰ Ticket sales close: November 16th at midnight

🏆 Winner announced: November 17th at 7 PM!

📌 The link to purchase raffle tickets will be pinned in the comments!

Every fundraiser helps us continue caring for dogs who need medical treatment, a safe place to land, and a chance at a better life.

Let’s turn this Lions pride into something GOOD for the dogs! 💙🦁🐾

LET’S GO LIONS!!! 🏈💙

11/01/2026

Vote for MPEP Outreach Programs on the original post!!! Help our friends keep the Flint chained dogs warm this Winter!! 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻

FIVE to SURVIVE $5000 Award for life saving straw this winter.
A post I just saw from our friends at Bark Nation gave me an idea.
Positive Step Foundation has a new page and to kick it off we are having a FIVE to SURVIVE give away!
Starting today November 1, we are asking you to vote for your favorite (or favorites) outreach or large animal rescue Charity. The group with the most votes by the end of the month Nov 30 will be awarded $5000 to supply straw for the animals in their care this winter season. The next 5 groups with the most votes will receive $500 each to help with their straw supply. You can vote for as many Charities as you want but please only vote once per Charity. Extra votes will be disqualified.
VOTE by following our page and commenting the names of the Charities you want to support from the list below.
Dog Aide
Grand Rapids Pitbull Alliance
MPEP Outreach Programs
No Swine Left Behind
Operation Solo
The Karens
The Charity with the most votes will be our $5000 Award Winner! If you know a deserving outreach or large animal Charity that is not on the list, please message us and we will look into their 501c3 status and consider adding them to our give away. We know all of these groups do amazing work, so vote for your favorites and help us save lives this winter. Thank you!!!

10/31/2026

Happy Halloween!!! 🎃🐾👻

10/27/2026

One of our amazing volunteers is leasing out her apartment if you know of anyone who has been looking. You truly couldn’t ask for a better landlord, she’s an amazing woman!! Check out the details below. ⬇️

🚨APARTMENT AVAILABLE FOR LEASE🚨

Make rent cheaper by fostering a dog through Serenity Canine Advocacy Rescue & Rehab, or volunteering twice monthly for MPEP Outreach Programs!

This small, 600sqft unit is best for 1 adult, plus one child or 1 - 2 pets.

School staff, social workers, bus drivers, first responders, elder care workers, and other community servants receive income-based pricing.

If you or someone you know needs a safe place to go, please have them fill out an application. Short term leases, furnishings, and domestic violence refugee support can be made possible.

Book a tour here: https://forms.gle/u8DCwYfc9n3v3oen7

10/26/2026

We don’t know anything about Bruno’s background because he ended up as a stray sleeping on someone’s concrete porch before coming to rescue.. But we hope that they see him now, happy, healthy, healing, and cared for. We hope they are sick when they see the photos of him from when he first came to rescue but we know they probably don’t care… From our experience and the condition of Bruno’s health when he arrived, we can almost guarantee that he lived a lonely sad life as a chained dog spending his life outside. Bruno was found with severe neglect, signs of abuse, and a negative experience with people. Unfortunately no one claimed him or could be held accountable for the pain and suffering they put him through which is so unfair. We hope that whoever owned him before stops getting animals because none of them deserve what he has went through.

Bruno is adoptable, but will definitely need a unicorn home of someone who is willing to slowly gain his trust, because his faith and trust in humanity has been totally shattered. When this dog trusts you and opens up, he is just the happiest, goofiest, sweetest boy in the whole entire world. He loves to sleep in bed, play with toys, he gives you a hug and leans his body and head on you. This dog bonds so deeply with his people which breaks our heart even more, because his previous abuser not only neglected him, but they also crushed his spirit. Not everyone is capable of owning a dog like Bruno, and we know that, but we believe someday we will meet someone who is perfect for him and who realizes he’s worth the effort. Until then we will love and care for him on our own, and make every day the happiest day ever for him because he deserves nothing less.

We love you Brunie B Jones, you’re a special boy, and although most people would give up on you we just can’t do that. You deserve a life of happiness after everything you’ve been through. ♥️

10/25/2026

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10/23/2026

It’s $5 Friday and today our favorite Shepherd Shadow is going to the vet to finish his vaccines, get neutered, and microchipped. This will wrap up his vet care and will be the last step for him before becoming adoptable. 🥰
If you have $5 to spare this week to donate towards Shadow’s surgery and vet care today we would really appreciate it. 🐺♥️

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10/22/2026

There's a shift happening in animal rescue, and I don't think enough people realize how serious it's becoming.

We're facing an animal welfare crisis that affects everyone, yet very few are actually involved in addressing it.

There are more animals needing help than there are homes, fosters, or rescues able to take them.

We've made animal control the villain for euthanizing animals when they run out of space. But they're doing what they were created to do: take animals in, protect public safety, and manage the constant intake. We condemn the decisions while ignoring the circumstances that force them.

We treat animals like disposable commodities and expect shelters and rescues to deal with the consequences.

But overcrowding isn't the only problem. The entire rescue model needs to change.

State reporting requirements and many grant criteria focus heavily on intake, adoptions, and shelter pulls. We've been conditioned to measure success by how many animals we move through the system instead of how many we prevent from entering it.

What about the animals that never entered a shelter because someone helped with a veterinary bill? The unwanted litters prevented through spay and neuter programs? The families who were able to keep their pets?

Those numbers should matter just as much.

Meanwhile, rescues are expected to survive on donations, volunteers, foster homes, and personal sacrifice.

Animal welfare is real work. It requires time, training, experience, and accountability. We need sustainable funding that allows organizations to establish paid positions instead of depending entirely on unpaid labor.

Volunteers are important, but they cannot be the only foundation of a system that animals depend on for their survival.

And we're already seeing what happens when that system stops working.

Rescues are shutting down because there isn't enough help. Volunteers disappear overnight without warning, leaving the animals, expenses, and responsibilities on one person. Fosters burn out, donations slow down, and the people still standing are expected to somehow do more.

Even within rescue, competition, criticism, and poor cooperation make an already difficult situation worse.

We've also created an environment where saying no to another animal is treated like a failure, even when an organization doesn't have the resources to properly care for it.

We cannot keep expecting a handful of people to manage the consequences of an entire community's choices.

We need stronger penalties for animal cruelty, abandonment, and neglect, with actual enforcement. Responsible breeding regulations. Affordable spay and neuter programs. Resources that help people keep their pets. Local governments taking an active role. And funding that supports prevention, not just intake.

We need better cooperation between rescues, animal control, veterinarians, and local governments.

And we need to rethink how we measure success.

Are we actually fixing the animal welfare crisis, or are we just the Band-Aid that allows everyone else to avoid taking responsibility for their choices and actions?

I'm not suggesting we stop rescuing animals. There will always be animals that need somewhere safe to go.

But rescue cannot continue being the primary solution to a problem society refuses to address.

I don't believe the future of rescue should be about building more kennels, finding more fosters, or expecting existing organizations to continually expand.

We need a sustainable animal welfare system that includes prevention, professional staffing, reliable funding, and community accountability.

Volunteers will always be important, but an entire animal welfare system cannot depend on volunteer availability and personal donations.

At some point, we have to recognize that animal welfare is a public responsibility, not just a charitable cause.

10/20/2026

🎃👻 🎃 NO TRICKS, JUST BANDIT! 👻🎃

Looking for a Halloween companion who will keep you on your toes, launch himself at you like a furry torpedo, and provide approximately 47 hours of entertainment per day? 💀😂

MEET BANDIT! The 5-year-old Pittie mix who is ready to haunt YOUR HOUSE… with LOVE! 🧡🐾

Bandit is a professional toy flinger, Olympic-level lap torpedo, and full-time goofball. His hobbies include:
🎾 Throwing his own toys around because apparently he doesn’t need a playmate to have a party.
🚀 Launching himself directly into your lap from whatever dimension he was previously occupying.
😂 Keeping his humans laughing with his endless supply of goofy energy.
🛏️ Being a good boy in his crate AND keeping his potty habits on point!

👻 BUT WAIT… THERE’S A PLOT TWIST!

Bandit is looking for a home where he can be the ONLY PET. No other dogs, cats, or furry roommates, please! He wants to be the star of the show, the pumpkin spice in your latte, the candy in your trick-or-treat bag. You get the idea. 🎃

And here’s the part that breaks our hearts a little… 💔

Before coming to rescue, Bandit spent his days living outside in a backyard, alone and by himself. No cozy couch. No family to hang out with. No one to throw his toys at (or launch himself onto). 🥺

He’s been with SCARR for OVER A YEAR now, waiting for someone to see just how special he is.

This Halloween, we’d love nothing more than for Bandit to trade his rescue life for a forever home filled with love, laughter, toys, and all the couch privileges a good boy could ever want. 🧡

He doesn’t need a haunted mansion. He doesn’t need a house full of pets. He just needs HIS PERSON. Someone who will love his big personality, embrace his ridiculous antics, and let him finally experience what it means to belong to a family.

🎃 THE BANDIT WANTED LIST:
🐾 5-year-old Pittie mix
🐾 ONLY pet in the home
🐾 Crate trained ✅
🐾 Potty trained ✅
🐾 Professional goofball ✅
🐾 Will absolutely attempt to become a permanent lap attachment ✅
🐾 Has been waiting WAY TOO LONG for his happily ever after 💔

🧡 Can you help us find Bandit’s forever home?

Share his post, tag your single-pet-loving friends, and help us get this boy OUT of rescue and INTO a home of his own!

Because the only thing scarier than Halloween is the thought of this sweet boy spending another holiday without a family. 😭🎃

ADOPT BANDIT. He’s a little spooky, a lot goofy, and 100% ready to steal your heart (and probably your couch). 🧡🐶

Adoption application in comments. ♥️

10/16/2026

It’s $5 Friday!! ♥️
This week we were contacted by an owner reaching out for help with a dog she had rescued from a puppy mill. Poor Maizy never had a name when her owner got her, she was stuck in a crate her whole life and was used to breed over and over with minimal human interaction. 😓

Her new owner rescued and has been slowly gaining her trust and helping her learn that she is safe, and will no longer be used to line pockets.
Unfortunately Maizy’s new owner unexpectedly lost her job and then this week Maizy was having trouble eating, and seemed to be in a lot of pain. We got her into our vet and she was examined and treated for a double ear infection. She has been perking up and has been feeling much better, sometimes it’s the simple things that can make a huge difference in a dog’s life.

If you can contribute $5 towards Maizy’s vet visit this Friday we would appreciate it, it was $167 in total. Thank you for helping us help dogs like Maizy. ♥️

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