DO YOU KNOW WHAT HAPPENS TO MANY OF THESE BELOVED PETS?

Currently, over 500,000 pets each year are euthanized in shelters because their owners have passed away and failed to make plans for their continued care. This number excludes the thousands of orphans abandoned to die on the streets or who are privately euthanized by veterinarians because their owners believed they had no other choice.
More Faces and Facts.

 

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Help Blue Moon With A Kwik Fill

Dear Friends and Visitors [to our Website],

    Please consider sending Blue Moon Meadows a donation in the form of a Kwik Fill gas card.  Any amount, even a $10.00 card, will aid us in our work.  For many of the hundreds of dogs we've rescued, the journey began in a kill shelter in another state, and from there a pony express of volunteers drove them each leg of the way to us.  We can use your gas cards here to take our dogs to their vet appointments, transport them to their new fosters, bring them to Meet and Greets, to home visits, and finally to drive them to their new homes and owners.  Your donation will mean so much to our devoted volunteers and fosters who feel the crunch of today's economy and gas prices.  Please, think of us when you fuel up or stop for coffee, and purchase a Kwik Fill gas card for Blue Moon.

Mail it to us at:

Blue Moon Meadows
2061 Dutch Hollow RD
Avon, NY 104414
All of us at Blue Moon Meadows, and our dogs, thank you.

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A Survivor's Tale

Our knowledge of Jengo begins around 2006 after a series of deadly tornados devastated the area where he lived in Missouri.  If his owners survived, they lost him in the chaos that followed the destruction, and Jengo became an orphan.  Often too many stray cats and dogs are left in such circumstances and Blue Moon was one of the rescues who reached out to find a home for Jengo.  He was and is an irrepressibly happy and very kissy yellow lab, now about six years old.  When he came here he limped a bit, as from an old injury, but it didn't slow him down.  We thought we'd found him a great forever home until a call came not long ago to please take him back- after 2 1/2 years.  Jengo wasn't wanted anymore because he couldn't keep up with the family's active lifestyle. In the car it was clear Jengo was in a lot of pain, so we took him straight to the vet.  The vet x-rayed Jengo's leg and told us with a wince that it was the worst x-ray she had seen in her practice.  There was evidence of an old gunshot wound, probably predating the tornado years, but either stress on the leg or another injury had caused the bone to fracture, splinter, and slip down, biting into the flesh in many places.  It must have caused Jengo considerable agony, and the damage was so bad that the leg had to be amputated.  This sweet and brave dog recovered well, running fast on his three legs, but not before weathering another crisis for a bleeding ulcer from a medication.  Now, Jengo's as friendly and trusting as ever, living with a foster who would love to adopt him.

A special thank you to all involved in Jengo's care and rehabilitation-

Sue and Paul Norton for providing a loving foster home and countless trips to the vet and rehab center.
Dr. Heather (Animal Rehabilitation Center of Rochester) for Jengo's rehabilitation.
Dr. Curry (York Animal Hospital) Jengo's amputation.

Blue Moon, however, carries the responsibility of the many vet bills for Jengo's care, and we would like to ask you to help us, if you can, and no amount is too small.  We can't survive without the help of all you caring friends and visitors to our website.  Please, send a donation to Jengo's Fund, either through our web page here, or mail a tax deductible check to us at Blue Moon Meadows, 2061 Dutch Hollow Rd. Avon NY 14414

 

Thank you to the follow for their generous donations!

Anne Ruflin In loving memory Millie

Sandra Smith

Anne Ruflin In loving memory of GSD Frank