Tail Wags Rescue

Tail Wags Rescue Tail Wags Rescue is a foster-based nonprofit dog rescue in Utah dedicated to saving at-risk dogs and helping them find loving forever homes.

🐾💛 FANTASTIC FOSTER FRIDAY! 💛🐾Today we’re celebrating Jaimie and her incredible family! 🌟Some dogs come into rescue read...
08/22/2026

🐾💛 FANTASTIC FOSTER FRIDAY! 💛🐾

Today we’re celebrating Jaimie and her incredible family! 🌟

Some dogs come into rescue ready to play, snuggle, and trust. Others come to us completely terrified of the world around them—and those are the dogs who need an extra-special kind of foster. ❤️‍🩹

Jaimie and her family have opened their home to TWO incredibly scared pups, giving them exactly what they needed most: patience, love, safety, and TIME. 🏡🐾

They didn’t expect them to trust overnight. They gave them space to decompress, celebrated the tiniest victories, and showed them day after day that people can be kind. 🥹

And slowly… those scared little pups began to flourish. 🌱❤️

They learned to feel safe.
They learned how to trust.
They learned how to just be DOGS again. 🐶

And eventually, both were ready to take the biggest step of all—going home to their forever families! 🏡😭❤️

Jaimie & family, THANK YOU for being the safe place between the shelter and forever. Thank you for taking a chance on the scared ones and loving them through the hard parts. The transformation that happens in a foster home like yours is exactly why fostering saves lives.

We are SO incredibly lucky to have your family as part of the Tail Wags Rescue team! 🐾💕

✨ You may have only been one chapter in their stories, but you helped change how their stories ended. ✨

🚨🐾 FOSTER OR FOSTER-TO-ADOPT NEEDED FOR TRUFFLE! 🐾🚨🍫 Meet Truffle! 🍫This adorable 4-month-old Coonhound mix is making hi...
08/21/2026

🚨🐾 FOSTER OR FOSTER-TO-ADOPT NEEDED FOR TRUFFLE! 🐾🚨

🍫 Meet Truffle! 🍫
This adorable 4-month-old Coonhound mix is making his way from a New Mexico high-kill shelter TOMORROW EVENING and needs somewhere safe to land! 🥺❤️

📍 Arriving in Bluffdale, UT

Truffle is a super playful, sweet little boy who deserves to get off that transport and walk straight into a loving home—not another kennel.

🏡 Foster OR foster-to-adopt needed!

He’s just a baby with his whole life ahead of him. All he needs is someone willing to open their home and give him the chance he deserves. 🐶💕

WHO CAN STEP UP FOR TRUFFLE?! 🙏🏼

Fostering truly saves lives. Without foster homes, Tail Wags Rescue simply cannot say YES to dogs like Truffle who desperately need a way out of overcrowded, high-kill shelters.

🥰 Interested in fostering or foster-to-adopt? Apply here:
https://tailwagsrescue.com/forms

🐾 Please SHARE! His safe place could be one share away. ❤️

🦆💛 Three Little Duckies Still Waiting! 💛🦆Donald, Dewey & Louie are the last three of our Duckies litter still searching ...
08/20/2026

🦆💛 Three Little Duckies Still Waiting! 💛🦆

Donald, Dewey & Louie are the last three of our Duckies litter still searching for their forever families! 🥹🐾

These adorable Lab/Pointer mix boys had a heartbreaking beginning after being dumped in a tote and abandoned, but you’d never know it from their personalities. They’re happy, social, playful, and full of puppy love—ready to leave their past behind and start their happily ever after. ❤️

🩵 Donald — white w/ black spots
🩵 Dewey — black
🩵 Louie — white w/ black spots

Their $350 adoption fee includes their full set of vaccinations, microchip, and spay/neuter when they’re old enough.

Three little Duckies are left… let’s help them fly the nest! 🦆🏡💕

📩 Apply to adopt or SHARE to help them find their families:
https://tailwagsrescue.com/forms

Meet Marigold, the doodle of your dreams. You can apply here: https://tailwagsrescue.com/forms/Chantel Griffin Tova Kir...
08/20/2026

Meet Marigold, the doodle of your dreams. You can apply here: https://tailwagsrescue.com/forms/

Chantel Griffin Tova Kirstina VonkChristina Grace Baldassari

🥺We truly don’t understand how this sweet boy keeps getting overlooked🥺Belmont is now 6 months old, and he has been wait...
08/20/2026

🥺We truly don’t understand how this sweet boy keeps getting overlooked🥺

Belmont is now 6 months old, and he has been waiting far too long for someone to finally choose him. He came to us from a New Mexico high-kill shelter, scared, shut down, and on the euthanasia list. He was given a second chance at life… and now he’s just waiting for the family that second chance was meant to lead him to. ❤️‍🩹

And underneath that once-scared puppy is the BIGGEST snuggler. 🥹 Belmont absolutely loves being close to his people and soaking up all the affection he missed out on.

🐾 6-month-old Lab/Pit mix
💙 Neutered, UTD & microchipped
🐶 Gets along GREAT with other dogs
🐱 Curious about cats
🥾 Would make an AMAZING hiking/adventure companion
🦮 Great on leash
🤗 Professional-level snuggler
🏡 Would do best with older children

Belmont could be the perfect addition to an active family, or the best sidekick for a single gal or guy looking for a loyal adventure buddy who will hike with you during the day and curl up beside you at night. ❤️

He may need a little patience and time as he settles into a new home. Rescue dogs don’t always walk through the door knowing they’re finally safe. They need someone willing to give them the chance to figure that out.

Belmont has already waited long enough.

He survived the shelter.
He survived being placed on the euthanasia list.
He learned to trust.
He learned how wonderful it feels to be loved.

Now he just needs someone to choose him. 🥺

Please share Belmont. His forever person might simply not have seen him yet.🥺🫶🏻🐾
Being fostered in Roy, UT
🏡 Apply to meet Belmont:
https://tailwagsrescue.com/forms

Meet the sweetest little loves around! They are currently 7 weeks old and will be available to take home next weekend. ...
08/20/2026

Meet the sweetest little loves around! They are currently 7 weeks old and will be available to take home next weekend.

Revere has been adopted.

You can apply here: https://tailwagsrescue.com/forms/

❤️UPDATE SAFE WITH FOSTER❤️🚨🐾 HELP US GET JUNK OUT OF THE SHELTER… AND GET THIS POOR BOY A NEW NAME! 🐾🚨This sweet 2-year...
08/19/2026

❤️UPDATE SAFE WITH FOSTER❤️

🚨🐾 HELP US GET JUNK OUT OF THE SHELTER… AND GET THIS POOR BOY A NEW NAME! 🐾🚨

This sweet 2-year-old Collie mix was owner surrendered because his family simply didn’t have time for him. Now he’s absolutely terrified and shutting down in the kennel, and he desperately needs out. 💔

But the second you get him outside of that kennel? Completely different dog. He turns into the sweetest, most affectionate boy who just wants love and reassurance. He’s also great with other dogs and has done wonderfully in play groups.

He didn’t do anything wrong. He went from having a home to suddenly finding himself scared and confused in a shelter—and he needs a patient foster to remind him that he’s safe and loved.

🏡 URGENT foster or foster-to-adopt needed ASAP! And yes… his foster absolutely gets to help us give him a name worthy of his fresh start. 😂❤️

📩 Apply to foster or please SHARE to help us get this sweet boy OUT:
https://tailwagsrescue.com/forms

Let’s get Junk out of the shelter and start his new life—with a much better name. 🩵🐾

💛 How is Cheddar STILL waiting for her forever family?! 💛Cheddar’s foster mom says if she could keep her, she absolutely...
08/18/2026

💛 How is Cheddar STILL waiting for her forever family?! 💛

Cheddar’s foster mom says if she could keep her, she absolutely would—and that pretty much tells you everything you need to know about this girl. 🥹

Cheddar is the perfect adventure buddy + cuddle buddy all wrapped into one adorable puppy. She has enough energy to hike, walk for miles, travel, and play all day, but when the fun is over, she’s perfectly happy to curl up with her people for some serious snuggles.

She loves other dogs, doesn’t mind cats, and pretty much assumes everyone she meets is her new best friend. She’s confident, smart, eager to please, and a quick learner. She does great in her kennel overnight—but if you’d rather have a little cuddle buddy in bed, Cheddar certainly won’t complain. 😂❤️

And this girl knows how to enjoy life: random puppy zoomies, splashing in the pool, running around the yard, puppy kisses, and WATERMELON. 🍉💦

Her foster mom’s biggest wish is for someone to find her while she’s still a puppy—someone who gets to enjoy this silly stage, soak up all those puppy kisses, and maybe even give her the permanent name she’ll carry through the rest of her life. 🥹

Cheddar is ready for adventures, snuggles, and a family of her very own. How has someone not scooped this girl up yet?!

📩 Apply to adopt Cheddar or SHARE to help her family find her:
https://tailwagsrescue.com/forms 🩵🐾

❤️UPDATE FOSTER FOUND!❤️🚨🐾 FOSTER OR FOSTER-TO-ADOPT NEEDED ASAP FOR LUCKY! 🐾🚨Lucky needs OUT of the shelter. 💔 This swe...
08/18/2026

❤️UPDATE FOSTER FOUND!❤️

🚨🐾 FOSTER OR FOSTER-TO-ADOPT NEEDED ASAP FOR LUCKY! 🐾🚨

Lucky needs OUT of the shelter. 💔 This sweet 1-year-old Shepherd mix is severely kennel stressed and struggling in an environment that simply isn’t setting him up to succeed.

Lucky is still very much a puppy with lots of energy, but with nowhere to properly burn it off, that stress and excitement have started coming out as leash biting. What this boy desperately needs is a calm, structured home where he can decompress, get some exercise, and learn the good-dog basics outside of a stressful kennel.

He’s an absolutely fantastic pup who has done great with the dogs he’s met and tends to be pretty neutral around them.

Lucky doesn’t need to be perfect right now—he just needs someone willing to give him the environment he needs to become the dog we know he can be.

🏡 Foster or foster-to-adopt needed ASAP.
📩 Apply or please SHARE to help us get Lucky out:
https://tailwagsrescue.com/forms

Let’s get this boy out of the kennel and into a home. 🩵🐾

Three sweet boys still looking for their furrrever homes 🏡 🐾 Lab Pointer puppies 🐶 going to make such a great companion ...
08/17/2026

Three sweet boys still looking for their furrrever homes 🏡 🐾 Lab Pointer puppies 🐶 going to make such a great companion to grow up with 🫶🏻

If interested please apply here 🥰 https://tailwagsrescue.com/forms

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