Project Safe Pet

08/31/2026

Happy Monday from Soby💕 This precious pup was found by a college student in a rural area on the side of the road😥. She is now enjoying being fostered with kiddos and doggos.

08/30/2026

Too many animals not enough homes.
Please Spay-Neuter
Spay-Neuter Coalition fill out form for 🐈🐕‍🦺

08/29/2026

Beasley living his BEST LIFE!

08/28/2026

9 BUSY little pups! 🐾 Their foster is amazing! She was the miracle foster angel that was new and experienced with bottle feeding
when we got them at 3 weeks. Look at the pups thriving! We are so thankful for her taking such great care of the P litter:
Pipsqueak
Pure
Perry
Papi
Puck
Poe
Piglet
Porkchop
Pimba

08/28/2026

Way to go Laurens County! 👏👏👏 Imagine putting accountability on owners ?

08/27/2026

For so much of his life, Buddy has lived on the outside looking in, always wanting to be part of a family, always hoping someone would let him in.

Even at my house, he had to be separated from my dog Zeppy by a gate. But Buddy never let that stop him from loving. He doesn’t know a stranger. He just wants to be near people, to be loved, and most of all, to finally belong.

And now… he is surrounded by love in his foster to adopt home. No more watching from the outside. No more wondering when it will be his turn.

Buddy is finally getting what he has always wanted and deserved, a family, love, and a place to call home🐾❤️

Sometimes the sweetest dogs are the ones who have waited the longest. And Buddy is so very deserving of his happily ever after.

08/26/2026

Saturday, Lewis left on transport up to NJ to find his forever family.

Little Lewis was part of the L litter that left last month, but he needed a little more time so stayed an extra month. His story is one of incredible resilience.

Lewis came to us with his littermates—seven puppies in all—and we immediately knew something was wrong. He couldn’t lift his head, and his little neck simply couldn’t hold it up. He was the runt, so much smaller than the others.

A vet visit revealed that he was anemic, malnourished, and absolutely loaded with hookworms, whipworms, and tapeworms. But even knowing all of that, we still didn’t know why Lewis couldn’t lift his head or why his neck was unable to support it. He was so weak, he didn’t even have the strength to scratch off the fleas bothering him.

Because of his amazing foster, who gave Lewis so much love, patience, physical therapy, and good nutrition, he began to improve by leaps and bounds.

Today, he is a healthy, fit 13-week-old puppy, ready to explore, play, and get into whatever life has to offer!

We are so incredibly proud of Lewis and how far he has come. His little body fought hard, and he never gave up.

Go get ’em, little Lewis. Your forever family is out there and will be so lucky to have you💕

08/25/2026

This ⬇️ and better laws would help stop the backyard breeders and dog fighters that create a big part of our problem. All breeders should have to have permits and inspections- criteria. And at a time when so many animals are struggling and there’s nowhere for them to go. There should be a moratorium on breeding altogether.

WE’RE CALLING THE “NO-KILL” MOVEMENT’S BLUFF.

We cannot tell you how many messages we get that say:

💬 “𝘿𝙤 𝙮𝙤𝙪 𝙠𝙣𝙤𝙬 𝙖 𝙣𝙤-𝙠𝙞𝙡𝙡 𝙨𝙝𝙚𝙡𝙩𝙚𝙧?”
💬“𝙄𝙨 𝙩𝙝𝙞𝙨 𝙖 𝙣𝙤-𝙠𝙞𝙡𝙡 𝙨𝙝𝙚𝙡𝙩𝙚𝙧?”
💬“𝙊𝙝 𝙢𝙮 𝙜𝙤𝙨𝙝, 𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙮 𝙨𝙖𝙞𝙙 𝙩𝙝𝙞𝙨 𝙖𝙣𝙞𝙢𝙖𝙡 𝙘𝙤𝙪𝙡𝙙 𝙗𝙚 𝙚𝙪𝙩𝙝𝙖𝙣𝙞𝙯𝙚𝙙!”

Somewhere along the way, people started believing “no-kill” automatically means compassionate, while euthanasia automatically means cruel.

𝗘𝘅𝗰𝗲𝗽𝘁 𝗶𝘁’𝘀 𝗻𝗼𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝘀𝗶𝗺𝗽𝗹𝗲.

A shelter can protect its “no-kill” status by limiting intake and saying no when it is full.

An open-admission shelter doesn’t have that luxury.

✅They get the sick cat.
✅The injured dog.
✅The unwanted litter.
✅The animal dumped at the door because somebody decided it was no longer convenient.

𝗢𝗻𝗲 𝗼𝗿𝗴𝗮𝗻𝗶𝘇𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗴𝗲𝘁𝘀 𝘱𝘳𝘢𝘪𝘴𝘦𝘥 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗶𝘁𝘀 𝗽𝗲𝗿𝗰𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗮𝗴𝗲.

𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗼𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗿 𝗴𝗲𝘁𝘀 𝘣𝘭𝘢𝘮𝘦𝘥 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗱𝗲𝗮𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝘄𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘆𝗼𝗻𝗲 𝗲𝗹𝘀𝗲 𝗿𝗲𝗳𝘂𝘀𝗲𝗱.

That’s not an honest comparison.

❌And simply keeping an animal alive is not automatically humane.

𝗔𝗻 𝗮𝗻𝗶𝗺𝗮𝗹 𝗰𝗮𝗻 𝘀𝗽𝗲𝗻𝗱 𝗺𝗼𝗻𝘁𝗵𝘀 𝗼𝗿 𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗻 𝘆𝗲𝗮𝗿𝘀 𝗱𝗲𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗼𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗮𝗹𝗹𝘆 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗲𝗺𝗼𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹𝗹𝘆 𝗶𝗻 𝗮 𝗸𝗲𝗻𝗻𝗲𝗹 𝘄𝗵𝗶𝗹𝗲 𝗮𝗻 𝗼𝗿𝗴𝗮𝗻𝗶𝘇𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝘁𝗲𝗰𝘁𝘀 𝗶𝘁𝘀 𝗹𝗶𝘃𝗲-𝗿𝗲𝗹𝗲𝗮𝘀𝗲 𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗲.

An animal can also leave alive and later be neglected, bred, chained, dumped, returned or passed from home to home.

None of that shows up in the shiny “no-kill” statistic.

𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗻𝘂𝗺𝗯𝗲𝗿 𝗼𝗻𝗹𝘆 𝘁𝗲𝗹𝗹𝘀 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗵𝗼𝘄 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗮𝗻𝗶𝗺𝗮𝗹 𝗹𝗲𝗳𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗯𝘂𝗶𝗹𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴.

Now, let’s be very clear:
When a healthy, adoptable animal is euthanized simply because there is nowhere for it to go, that is heartbreaking.

It 𝙨𝙝𝙤𝙪𝙡𝙙 𝙗𝙤𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙧 𝙪𝙨.

But our outrage needs to travel a little farther upstream.

That animal didn’t appear in an overcrowded shelter because shelter staff woke up one morning and decided they needed more animals to euthanize.

It got there because somewhere along the way:
❌Someone didn’t spay or neuter.
❌Someone allowed another litter to be born.
❌Someone dumped an animal.
❌Someone treated a living thing as disposable.

And collectively, we keep expecting shelters and rescues to somehow absorb an endless supply of animals without an endless supply of adopters, fosters, funding, kennel space and human beings to care for them.

The shelter didn’t create the crisis. It was left holding the consequences.

We work primarily with free-roaming cats and we volunteer closely enough with our local shelter to see what happens when prevention is ignored and the shelter is expected to clean up afterward.

‼️You cannot rescue your way out of unchecked breeding.

‼️You cannot adopt your way out of it.

‼️And 𝘄𝗮𝗿𝗲𝗵𝗼𝘂𝘀𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗮𝗻𝗶𝗺𝗮𝗹𝘀 𝗶𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗳𝗶𝗻𝗶𝘁𝗲𝗹𝘆 𝘀𝗼 𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘆𝗼𝗻𝗲 𝗰𝗮𝗻 𝗳𝗲𝗲𝗹 𝗯𝗲𝘁𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝗮𝗯𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝗮 𝗽𝗲𝗿𝗰𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗮𝗴𝗲 𝗼𝗿 𝗶𝗺𝗮𝗴𝗶𝗻𝗲 𝗶𝘀𝗻’𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗮𝗻𝘀𝘄𝗲𝗿 𝗲𝗶𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗿.

Of course we want animals leaving shelters alive.

But “alive” should be the 𝙗𝙚𝙜𝙞𝙣𝙣𝙞𝙣𝙜 of the standard not the entirety of it.

Instead of obsessing over whether a shelter has a “no-kill” label, we need to ask the question that actually matters:

What are we, as a community, doing to stop creating more animals than our community can responsibly care for?

𝗕𝗲𝗰𝗮𝘂𝘀𝗲 “𝗻𝗼-𝗸𝗶𝗹𝗹” 𝗶𝘀 𝗮 𝘀𝘁𝗮𝘁𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗰.

𝗜𝘁 𝗶𝘀 𝗻𝗼𝘁 𝗮 𝗴𝘂𝗮𝗿𝗮𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗲 𝗼𝗳 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗽𝗮𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗼𝗻.
𝗜𝘁 𝗶𝘀 𝗻𝗼𝘁 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗼𝗳 𝗼𝗳 𝗵𝘂𝗺𝗮𝗻𝗲 𝗰𝗮𝗿𝗲.
𝗔𝗻𝗱 𝗶𝘁 𝗰𝗲𝗿𝘁𝗮𝗶𝗻𝗹𝘆 𝗱𝗼𝗲𝘀𝗻’𝘁 𝗺𝗮𝗸𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗮𝗻𝗶𝗺𝗮𝗹𝘀 𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗻𝗲𝗱 𝗮𝘄𝗮𝘆 𝗱𝗶𝘀𝗮𝗽𝗽𝗲𝗮𝗿.

We can keep arguing over which shelter has the prettier percentage.

👏🏼OR we can spay and neuter our animals, support affordable access to those services, foster, adopt responsibly, stop dumping animals and start addressing the problem before an animal ever reaches a shelter door.

That may not fit neatly on a bumper sticker.
But it would save a hell of a lot more lives.

‼️Attention: We appreciate our work being shared! 𝐏𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐬𝐞 𝐮𝐬𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐒𝐡𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐛𝐮𝐭𝐭𝐨𝐧 𝐰𝐡𝐞𝐧 𝐩𝐨𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐛𝐥𝐞. 𝐈𝐟 𝐫𝐞𝐩𝐨𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠, 𝐩𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐬𝐞 𝐭𝐚𝐠 𝐂𝐚𝐫𝐨𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐚 𝐒𝐭𝐫𝐞𝐞𝐭 𝐂𝐚𝐭𝐬 𝐚𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐨𝐫𝐢𝐠𝐢𝐧𝐚𝐥 𝐬𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐜𝐞.

08/25/2026

Mama and 22 pups rescued, fostered and ready to start their new life. We couldn’t do it without fosters and our rescue partner. Thanks a million🐾💕

08/24/2026

From confinement to freedom, Simon’s new backyard! 🐾

This fence was built with donated pen panels, T-posts, and four women who labored for love. 💪❤️

Simon came to our attention through a fellow rescue volunteer, Claudia, who has helped Max and Messiah for years, both dogs for whom we had also built a fence. She learned that a relative of theirs had a dog who needed help.

Simon had been brought home by the kids as a puppy but was spending almost 24/7 in a crate, with only short walks. With all that energy and so little freedom, he was having accidents in his crate and developing painful sores, along with food allergies that were causing additional skin problems.

Claudia stepped in, talked with his owner, and arranged a vet visit to get Simon neutered and have his skin evaluated and treated. His treatment was extensive, and the bill was nearly $500. Project Safe Pet, Halfway There, and Worthy Dog Rescue split the cost.

Claudia also helped set him up with a gate blocking the hallway so he could get out of his crate and have a little more freedom inside the house. Items were donated bones, toys for him to be more occupied while he was in the crate, and hallway. A nice bed was also donated by Claudia’s friend.

But what Simon really needed was a place to run.
His backyard had plenty of shade, it just needed a fence.

His owner has been incredibly receptive, grateful, and willing to do better. And just look at Simon now!

The fence took about three hours to build, but there was plenty of work before we even arrived. Two volunteers picked up donated panels and took them down from two different locations—a huge job!

Using pen panels and the house as one side of the enclosure can turn an entire backyard into a safe, usable space for a dog. It gives them so much more room than a small separate pen and, just as importantly, keeps them connected to their family. When dogs are kept in separate pens they are isolated from their family. Dogs are pack animals and isolation is cruel. This setup gives Simon the freedom to move between the house and his new backyard while still being part of the family.

We can’t rescue every dog, but we can help change the lives of the dogs who are already in homes by giving their owners the resources, support, and knowledge to meet their needs.

Simon’s family wanted to do better for him. We just needed to help them make it possible.