Mutt Mutt Engine, P. O. Box 55, Northfield, MN (2026)

05/30/2026

MN, WI, IL, IA...special boy looking for a temporary foster!

This sweet double-amputee has an expiration date at his current rescue in WI. He does have sanctuary placement but they don't have a spot until July 1. We are desperate to find him someplace to go for a month. He is very friendly, has a cart, and is likely incontinent. We is available for adoption (to just the right home) as well, but coverage for the next month is what will save his life.

Please share. Please tag. Please consider. [email protected] if you might be able to help!

05/29/2026

"Ladybug ladybug fly away home. Your house is fire. Your children are gone."

This nursery rhyme dates back to the 16th Century. It's so sad and so dark.

As is the story of our Ladybug. As you can see, she is starving. But check the photos in the comments to see too that she is absolutely full of milk. We searched for hours...

"Your children are gone...."

We do not know how Ladybug arrived to this place or this state. Was she dumped without her puppies? Did she give birth in the dirt and some other awful fate became them? We searched for hours. Ladybug's children are gone.

But Ladybug is not. We have her, and we'll heal her, and we will love her with all our hearts. She has a life to live, a beautiful life, if only she survives this hardship.

Ladybug is emaciated. Mastitis is likely. She is covered with fat ticks and likely has the diseases they carry. But together, we will carry Ladybug into a kinder version of the world, one defined by love.

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05/28/2026

Imagine this: You're coming back from the market. You're along a busy road. There is garbage on the road shoulder - plastic bottles, plastic bags, styrofoam food trays, forks. You don't think much about it because it's always like that there. But then you see something moving.

At first you think your eyes have played a trick - it's hot and there's traffic and those heat waves coming off the pavement. But you keep your eyes on the spot. And then you see her.

It's not easy to pull over and you're afraid she'll dart but she actually comes limping right up to you. She is tiny and sickly and one of her legs is like a peg that points the wrong way.

So you put her in your car. You commit to helping her. And you cry.

This is Charmaine and we are Mutt Mutt Engine. Together with our fosters and partners throughout the world, we're trying hard to change things where change is most desperately needed.

There is something wrong with Charmaine's leg and moreover her hip, which is allowing her leg to point in the wrong direction. Charmaine might not weigh even four pounds. Stray. Mangled.

Found.

Please help us support her journey Paypal.me/muttmuttengine Venmo [email protected] Mutt Mutt Engine PO Box 55 Northfield MN 55057.

05/27/2026

Losing most of your teeth can make your tongue dangling, leading to the appearance of having a giant tongue.

Or maybe Leon DOES have a giant tongue!

Little old man Leon's salvation is a collaboration between Mutt Mutt Engine and our amazing partners Tails of Tijuana Rescue Project. Thank you TOTRP for getting Leon off the street (and loving him), and for the opportunity for us to cover Leon's medical care, eventual transport and placement! This handsome boy will soon be adoptable through Mutt Mutt Engine!

05/26/2026

Rest in Peace, Baby.

To say we are crushed is an understatement. He came to us twisted and broken, but full of spirit, even joy. Baby, despite his injuries - the leg we had to amputate immediately, the leg we seeming saved, the cuts and gashes and blood loss - was full of delight, even at the smallest things...a pat, a coo, a whisper, a little treat.

We truly thought Baby was out of the woods. He'd stabilized, was so cheerful and sunny. Then Sunday morning, he was gone. Baby had passed in his sleep.

He was too little, too young, too small for all his body had gone through, said the doctor. Or maybe Baby was just satisfied too easily. We like to think he left without pain, his brief time on earth defined by our collective love. But we're aching.

We were going to begin this post saying "the unspeakable has happened, Baby is gone." But the unspeakable happened when a motorcycle ran little Baby over, crushing his back end and driving off. The "speakable" only begins when Grace found him, and we began the work of trying to save his life. We couldn't. Or couldn't for more than a week. It's soul crushing.

Thank you for your contributions to Baby's care. We remain only $150 shy of covering it. Admittedly, it is very hard to think about this right now - or Dobie's bill. But it's how we'll save the next one. Paypal.me/muttmuttengine Venmo [email protected] Mutt Mutt Engine PO Box 55 Northfield MN 55057.

Baby, we love you always. Did Dobie call you? (They were next to one another in the hospital. A tough week....).

05/24/2026

We woke up to terrible news we can't bear to share.

But it is not about Benito. Benito brings us good news, and much-needed hope - this we can shareh today. Benito, once so weak and broken body and soul shows us both body and soul are healing!

Benito now stands on his own. He walks on his own. Yesterday he came down the stairs on his own! This particular milestone speaks of increasing fitness, but also of a desire to participate in life! Benito wanted to sit in the sun like he likes to. He wanted to be with the other dogs like he likes to. And now Benito chose to be with foster Grace - a human!!!!

Hearts heal. Ours will too. Bad news can wait until tomorrow. For now, we'll take the Joy.

05/22/2026

Oh Dobie, were you brought into this world only to suffer? Born with little or no sight and likely deaf, you adapted. You grew to the size we see you now. You lived only so long to have Grace find you on the street in a pool of blood. Your front paws looked blown apart as if you’d stepped on landmine. There are no landmines in Tijuana. You cannot tell us the specifics of what had happened to you before, but your ribs, your hips, your legs told showed us things we hoped never to see or think about.

Your hardship became the hardship of all kind hearts who witnessed your misery. Your paws could not be saved. We imagined a life where you were fattened, carefree, moving about in a cart fitted just right for you and at last knowing something of the beauty of this world instead of its utmost ugliness. But in a life in which you had virtually no say at all in your fate, you took back your power. You stopped eating. You stopped fighting. You told us in no uncertain terms it was time to let you go. At long last, a human being did exactly what you wished they would: We let you go.

Dobie, you are a ghost that will haunt us. We console our own selves that you did not die on the street; that you did indeed know love…though admittedly, it was wrapped in our panic and papered with our broken hearts.

Rest in peace you sweet broken boy. We wish we could have done more to save you. We wish you had wanted us to. Dobie send us a sign, tell us what it feels like to see and hear and dance in the fields of heaven.

Donations here will go straight to the bill for Dobie’s triage care, around $1800.

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You can say it’s for Dobie’s bill. Thank you.

UPDATE: After some debate, we have decided to post some of the photos of Dobie's wounds to help those who ask understand the scope of his injuries. Please proceed with extreme caution.

05/21/2026

52 dogs sterilized yesterday! Countless pregnancies (and misery) prevented!!!

In addition to the hundreds of street dogs we sterilize each year, our newest program has now sterilized over a hundred owned pets in one of Tijuana’s most humble neighborhoods. This work is so important because this is the work that builds trust, that educates, that changes culture so that the kind of rescue support we offer is needed less and less.

“Spay or neuter your pet” – no one did this fifty years ago! Down south, the pivot point to spay/neuter practices came a bit later. All over, the evolution remains in progress, but is taking hold. In the areas of Mexico where Mutt Mutt Engine started, sterilization became the norm! A rescue culture took hold, and our particular help isn’t needed in Vallarta anymore!

So in Tijuana – a much larger and poorer city – we’re planting the seeds that will take root and grow, so that someday there aren’t dogs on the street, and there is much, much less suffering – for dogs, and those who love them too.

Yesterday, our second dedicated clinic took place. We sent each participant home with preventatives and a big bag of food. It is an undertaking made possible by foster Rita’s commitment and organization, a secret sponsor who knows that rescuing dogs is super important but making it so fewer dogs need rescue is – if you will – the head of the snake, and by all our supporters and donors! If you’d like to help grow this program, it’s only around $40 to sponsor a dog (or cat!) and we’re already working on planning our next clinic (in August)!

Rita, thank you for your hands-on work, for spotting a real need, and giving us the opportunity to do something about it!

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(Additional photos in comments)

05/20/2026

This dog is so small, but that did prevent his abandonment in Tijuana. His abandonment did not prevent this tiny dog from running across an extremely busy roadway....not once, not twice, but three times: Running east to west, dodging cars; running west to east, back across the six lanes of fast-moving traffic; then east to west again and then....

Foster Rita couldn't take it. She'd spotted the little dog when she was on her way to an appointment. The first time it crossed, Rita prayed and shuttered - there were so many cars - but she figured the dog had made it and was on its way somewhere, just like she was. Rita had pulled over though to make sure. Then the dog crossed back. Rita checked her watch, checked to see where the little dog was going now back on the east side of the busy road...when the dog pivoted and ran across again.

Was the dog looking for the car that had dumped it off? Had it been on the streets awhile and was suicidal? Or was it psychic, knowing just when Rita would be passing by, and just how to gain her attention?

Rita named him Pepper. He's a mutt-mutt now.

Pepper will head to the vet tomorrow,. Stay tuned, and thank you for your support.

Paypal.me/muttmuttengine Mutt Mutt Engine PO Box 55 Northfield MN 55057 or Venmo [email protected] ( - DO NOT USE THE ACCOUNT WITH THE LITTLE DASH AFTER - those are theives/fraudsters and have been reported, ugh!).

05/19/2026

HELP! Grace how found another intensely wounded being, this one a tiny puppy, maybe six pounds. There are deep cuts on his back end. One rear leg is dangling, as the photo reveals with as little gore in doing so as is possible. The other leg is in peril. Such pain and sadness. So small and so young. Grace named him Baby.

We have no funds and this pups needs help desperately. Paypal.me/muttmuttengine Venmo [email protected] Mutt Mutt Engine PO Box 55 Northfield MN 55057. All donations on this post go to Baby. You can denote same on donations through other platforms.

PLEASE HELP.

Very gory photos in comments. Please proceed with extreme caution if you choose to view them.

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