Stephanie's Shepherds Rescue, Rehab and Training, 501C3

10/13/2026

Good afternoon all....i apologize for not posting about our 50/50...I got a text message last week, from one of our adopters who's also a kennel mgr and trainer in one of the shelters we pull from in SC....when I saw this dog that she wanted us to help, I lost it....no doubt that you have to have thick skin in order to do this job… And after doing this for 13+ years, my skin is pretty thick however, this dog broke my heart! I couldn't believe what a cruel world he was living in it… One of the things that is truly important to me is making sure that a dog has a good life, and if they aren't going to be provided a good life, then they need to be humanely put down… After seeing him and reading his medical, there was no doubt in my mind that this poor thing was living in an incredible amount of pain on a daily basis, and was going to live a very difficult life… So I spoke with Val at length, and told her that I think the most humane thing that can happen is that he be euthanized… We talked for several days, and she made sure that he was given the most amount of pain meds that he could tolerate, and made sure that he got an abundant amount of treats, and today I got a text message from her stating that she was there with him while he passed… this was a hard one for me! Probably one of the hardest ones I've ever had to deal with for as long as we've had this organization… However, I am beyond thankful, that not only did Val respect, an honor what I was telling her, but she did everything for this sweet boy! Sometimes when you are in this field, and you see dog after dog after dog, you become immune to your feelings, and I am so thankful that she did not… She made sure that he was comfortable, and at the very end, she made sure that he knew that not all humans are pieces of trash! I so wish I could've been with her and by Max side , but I am so beyond grateful to her that she made sure he was loved even if it was for a few days! Thank you, Val, truly thank you for making sure that Max knew love!

Unfortunately, we did not hit anywhere near our 50-50 raffle, and I am just completely and totally devastated that we didn't get anywhere near what we were asking… I'm going to put up our platforms with the hopes that people will continue to give as we still need to pay off the two incredibly generous people who helped us with smoky! Whatever amount you can give, we would greatly appreciate it!

Additionally, I asked that everybody please like and share this post, and if you could spare 15 seconds to please like and share Zelda's post, so that we can get some traction and stay up with the Facebook algorithms, so that we can get her adopted!

For now, I just need a break for today… As much as I was so brokenhearted to see that this poor thing was in the incredible amount of pain he was in, I'm so thankful that Max is now pain-free and running with so many of our dogs at the rainbow bridge! RIP sweet boy!!

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10/10/2026

What is happening here??? I'm so bummed right now as we are NO
WHERE NEAR our goal for our 50/50....we've gotten 4 donations....that's it....why aren't people donating??? Am I missing something here??? We've always done great with 50/50's and to see even with GREAT prizes, we couldn't even break $100!!!! At this juncture I'm asking for $395 to be able to pay back Rick and Melissa...as clearly we need to re think continuing....I've never seen this happen and I'm ABSOLUTELY CRUSHED!

We still need over $350....I'm PRAYING our supporters help us.....PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE HELP!!

Venmo
Is Stephanies_Shepherds
Pay pal
Is fortheluvofGSDs

PLEASE HELP US!

10/07/2026

Hello all....have to say I'm pretty sad that we didn't get ONE donation yesterday for our 50/50....while it's been very slow, to ask for $2 from supporters for $2 TUESDAY, I didn't think was unrealistic or unreasonable....we unfortunately have bills to pay and as much as I'd love to use my own $ to pay back these 2 amazing supporters, I personally don't have it. So at this point while I HATE begging, if I must, I must....my goal was $1200 and while we started out well, we still need over $1100....so I'm coming here BEGGING our supporters for HELP. We have AMAZING prizes, including CASH....so PLEASE help us....THE AMOUNT DOESNT MATTER....as long as we hit our goal of $1200....we've raised a heck of a lot more $ than that....so i KNOW this is do-able....pls help repay our wonderful supporters!

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THANK YOU!

10/06/2026

Hello everyone....our 50/50 is still active...so seeing as it's Tuesday, let's get as MANY people as we can to donate their $2 to help get us to our goal of $1200 by this Saturday! Below is the candle that is being donated by Soylicious Candles LLC! Just in time for fall!!! And the beautiful collar that I am personally donating, is below also. Remember we have several prizes including ACTUAL $ for the first 3 prizes!!! But we need everyone to pls donate!!!

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Pay pal is fortheluvofGSDs

Lastly....we STILL have scammers!!! Below is a SS from one of our supporters asking if this was us....no...we do not have a ' in my name....nonetheless scammers are everywhere and these dirtbags went so far to use one of our rescue dogs as their profile pics !! So PLEASE pay close attention to our handles when making your contribution. Thank you!!!

10/04/2026

Ok guys....got a few donations for our 50/5 raffle....let's keep this donation train going...we have some AMAZING PRIZES!!!

We have till next Saturday to get $1200 and we've already made a dent....no amount is to small!!!

Lastly....RULES FOR THE 50/50!

The fundraiser runs from this Saturday to next Saturday....
The goal is $1200, with 3 places-
1st gets $300, 2nd gets $200, and 3rd gets $100...we get the $600 needed for the bills and extra $ for Smokey's bloodwork....
We will ALSO have 4,5,6 th place!

PRIZES ARE:
4th is a beautifully made bling collar and candle wreath from Kari Wright
5th a 6x6 pet portrait but our amazing e board member and unbelievably talented artist, Julia Turner
6th a wellness basket and Soylicious candle from 2 of our amazing e board members, Soylicious Candles LLC and Natalie

So the way it works is you donate whatever amount you can to our platforms below and next Saturday we'll pull the winners! We have 6(maybe more if I can get some things donated) amazing prizes....so let's get this donation train going for Smokey!!

AND PLEASE
******LIKE*******
AND
****** SHARE******

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Thank you all!!!

10/03/2026

10/03/2026

Hello all!!! So we have some AMAZING news....once again my apologies as my health is getting in the way of us keeping up...but know we are working behind the scenes! So stay with me here as THIS will be long....LOTS of updates!!!

First of all Smokey is doing great...unfortunately donations slowed and we still owe $180 for the first bill and the entire $290 for the second bill! But THATS ALL! I think you ALL know that while we'll try and rescue as many well deserving GSD's as we can, I was not willing to put our organization or myself, or our e board in any kind of debt! After having this organization for 13 years, 10 years having our nonprofit status, not being in much debt, as I don't think $400 plus is much debt, is pretty good! However, at the end of the day, we do still owe these two people that money and in discussions with the board, we are going to do a 50-50 raffle. Keep reading, as I will put the parameters of the raffle below.

I did want to let everybody know that as of this past week, Avala, Blitz and Luna, have been transferred to K9 Responder Academy, Blitz is going to be a SD for a disabled veteran, and Luna will be most likely working as a single purpose working dog. Avala is happy and healthy in her home with Matt and Casie and they will be looking for a home for her down south. And speaking with the president of K9 Responder about Smokey, he needs to have some blood work to figure out why this situation happened with his intestines… So would that being said, we would like to raise at least a couple hundred dollars to get him tested. So in all we'd like to raise around $600 with our 50-50 raffle.

We still do have Zelda who we need to get adopted....so we will be posting here tomorrow. And we still have Jurassic as he's with Natalie ThatMalinoislady and going through HW treatment.....stay tuned for their updates!

Lastly....RULES FOR THE 50/50!

The fundraiser runs from this Saturday to next Saturday....
The goal is $1200, with 3 places-
1st gets $300, 2nd gets $200, and 3rd gets $100...we get the $600 needed for the bills and extra $ for Smokey's bloodwork....
We will ALSO have 4,5,6 th place!

PRIZES ARE:
4th is a beautifully made bling collar and candle wreath from Kari Wright
5th a 6x6 pet portrait but our amazing e board member and unbelievably talented artist, Julia Turner
6th a wellness basket and Soylicious candle from 2 of our amazing e board members, Soylicious Candles LLC and Natalie

So the way it works is you donate whatever amount you can to our platforms below and next Saturday we'll pull the winners! We have 6(maybe more if I can get some things donated) amazing prizes....so let's get this donation train going for Smokey!!

AND PLEASE
******LIKE*******
AND
****** SHARE******

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Pay pal is fortheluvofGSDs

Thank you all!!!

09/25/2026

He is home and he's relaxing but we
Still don't know why his intestines aren't working right....right now we need to pay off these bills (have about $450 left to pay off) we've made a good dent, so thank you to all of you who've donated but we need to get the remaining $ paid back. Then we need to raise a little bit more for some blood work for Smokey....pls help us pay these back. Thank you to Rick at k9 Responder Foundation for your assistance and to our annon person who paid off the first bill....

My goal is to get $175 by today to be able to pay off the first bill....

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Pay pal is fortheluvofGSDs

Thank you all!!!

09/25/2026

Good morning all, wanted to give everybody an update, as things were crazy last night! First and foremost I'd like to give a big shout out to our amazing Foster, Amanda N Chip Fifield and to Thin Blue Line K9 Academy , and The K9 Responder! That's one thing that's so frustrating being so far away, from some of our fosters! But no doubt in my mind that if Amanda did not act as quick as she did, we would be mourning Smokey today! We are truly blessed with having amazing fosters in our organization! I do also want to give a big shout out to Matt with the thin blue line, and Rick with k9 responder as they were both incredibly helpful to the situation! And Rick also paid for Smokey's visit at the Emergency clinic last night!

Luckily, because Amanda moved as quickly as she did, this situation did not turn into bloat however we don't know why it happened. I know a lot about intestines, as both of my children were born with birth defects in their intestines, which required emergency surgery, as crazy as it sounds, both of them actually experienced bloat in humans! Now granted dogs are different than humans however very much so like humans we need to figure out why this happened. A couple of the vets did tell Amanda yesterday that this may be a secondary condition to something else he may have, so we need to run some more bloodwork, and see what we can find out. However, as of right now, we are thinking the good Lord above for keeping Smokey here and getting him back to his normal self.

Once again, I'm not going to get into our future plans as we just had some big news come to us, so now I'm not sure what we're gonna do, but right now for today I would like to concentrate on being able to pay Amanda and Rick back for the to that visits yesterday.

Our platforms are below, and right now I only have one bill which was $340, so I know that we owe Rick that much, I'm waiting for Amanda to get me the other Bill for the first visit. Seeing as how today is Friday and we have an asked for donations within the last couple of weeks, I'm really hoping that we can at least pay Rick back, the $340 with the hopes that we will be able to pay Amanda back as well today once I get the bill.

Please keep our sweet boy and your thoughts and prayers! And whatever donation you can afford, please send to us and remember every penny counts!

I do also want to add real quickly as I will get more into this as soon as I can take a breath, but I am thrilled to add that Blitz, who was one of the Mal x's that Caroline Callison Ti helped rescue is training to become a service dog for a disabled veteran! We will keep everybody updated and his progress. And Luna, who is the Dutchie, who rescued about six months ago is going to potentially be a single purpose sent dog with the k9 Responder Academy, which Rick is the president of! We could not be more excited about these two! Will keep everybody updated, but in the meantime, please donate whatever you can so that we can pay Pay back our amazing supporters!

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Pay pal is fortheluvofGSDs

09/24/2026

Ok everyone....Smokey has ileus....basically the intestines aren't working right but looks like Amanda N Chip Fifield got him to the emergency vet just in time to stop the bloat!! Right now we are looking at about $1000...but of course it may be more....good news is that the hospital will take donations over the phone....pls help us help Smokey!! Below is the name of the hospital and the phone number....he is under Stephanie's Shepherds....PLS help us with any amount!

And pls keep him in your thoughts and prayers!