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7+
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100+
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Providing Love Is Our Paw-ssion
Even a single act of kindness can save an animal’s life.
Always & Furever advocates not just for the lives of pets, but for the quality of their lives. We go beyond most shelters, offering our rescues a chance to experience kindness, comfort, and joy while they wait for their furever home to find them.
From critical medical care to daily moments of comfort and love, every animal in our care is treated with dignity while they wait for their furever home.
Whether you adopt, volunteer, or give, your compassion becomes their second chance.
Providing Love Is Our Paw-ssion
Even a single act of kindness can save an animal’s life.
Always & Furever advocates not just for the lives of pets, but for the quality of their lives. We go beyond most shelters, offering our rescues a chance to experience kindness, comfort, and joy while they wait for their furever home to find them.
From critical medical care to daily moments of comfort and love, every animal in our care is treated with dignity while they wait for their furever home.
Whether you adopt, volunteer, or give, your compassion becomes their second chance.
What Makes Us Special
Patience
Unlike other shelters, we refuse to give up on any of the animals that enter our doors. No matter what, our team devotes as much of our time, energy, and funding as possible to keep our animals healthy and safe.
Protection
Even after our animals find their furever homes, we vow to help you take care of them, if necessary. We conduct frequent follow ups and can help connect you to resources as needed. One day, we hope to reduce barriers between adopters and essential pet care, including veterinary costs and food purchases.
Positivity
Plans change and mistakes happen, but it’s our job to persevere and to learn. What began in Spring Hill, Kansas, has grown into a life-saving mission serving animals across Osawatomie, Kansas City, Wichita, and beyond. We’re here to be the model of forgiveness that these animals need, which helps us become better, kinder people.
Adoption Process
If you’re ready to join our community of adopters, we’re glad to have you! Before you bring your furry friend home, though, there are a few steps you’ll need to follow. Start by filling out an application and then we will begin:
- Reference Checks – This helps us understand you as a pet owner. If this is your first pet, don’t worry—this step helps us match you with the right animal.
- Virtual Home Check – The size of your home isn’t important, as long as it meets your pet’s needs.
- Background check – We need this information to check for any past animal-related incidents. All animals deserve secure, happy homes.
- Medical Team Consultation – Ensuring the health of you, your new friend, and any current pets you have is essential.
- Meet-and-Greets – We’ll repeat this step as necessary to verify that you and your desired companion are compatible.
Future Plans at the Homestead
A fortunate turn of events led Always & Furever to purchase 40 acres next to our original Little Red Barn. What began as a simple letter to the landowners is now a dream come true! Our main focus will be on building smaller facilities for puppies, cats, reactive animals, and on-site medical care. Then, we can shift focus to hosting community-centered activities on the property that encourage kind humans to adopt animals in need. This could include puppy yoga, pancake breakfasts with dogs, bingo nights with cats, and more.
Our mission continues to grow. Today, we proudly serve pets and people across the region, with key locations in Wichita, Osawatomie, and our soon-to-be Homestead East in Kansas City, MO.
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PLEASE DON’T JUDGE. JUST HELP US SAVE HIM. ❤️🩹
Today, we’re asking you to do something simple: look past the circumstances and see the dog who desperately needs us.
BluePearl reached out to us about a Bloodhound who is currently hospitalized with a massive abscess. He needs to remain in the hospital for at least the next two days, and we still don’t know exactly what the next 48 hours will bring.
But we know enough.
We know he is hurting.
We know he needs medical care.
We know his family can no longer provide the care he needs and has agreed to surrender him so he can have a chance.
And we know this:
Judgment won’t save him. Love might.
It’s easy to ask how things got to this point. Why wasn’t he treated sooner? Why did it take this long? Why couldn’t his family afford his care?
But those questions don’t change what is happening right now.
A dog is lying in a hospital, and he needs someone to step up.
That’s where we want to be.
That’s where YOU can help us be.
We are facing at least a $5,000 veterinary bill just to get him through this hospitalization, and that number could climb depending on what the veterinarians find and what treatment he needs.
$5,000.
One sweet Bloodhound.
One massive abscess.
One very uncertain road ahead.
And one chance to give him a completely different future.
We have so much sitting on our shoulders right now. So many animals need us. So many emergencies. So many times we have to ask our supporters to dig a little deeper.
But this is exactly when our rescue family shines.
This is when we come together.
If you can give $5, $10, $25, $50—or whatever you can spare—please help us get this boy through the next few days.
And if you can't donate, PLEASE SHARE. Your share may reach the person who can help.
AND WE NEED A FOSTER. 🏡
Once he is medically stable and cleared to leave the hospital, he will need a safe, loving foster home where he can decompress, heal and finally know what it feels like to be cared for.
If you can open your home to this big boy, please fill out our foster form:
alwaysandfurever.org/forms
❤️ HELP US WITH HIS MEDICAL CARE:
alwaysandfurever.org/donate
💰 Venmo: @AlwaysAndFurever
💰 PayPal: alwaysandfurever@yahoo.com
💰 Zelle: Zelle@alwaysandfurever.org
📬 Mail: 23595 W. 223rd Street, Spring Hill, KS 66083
We don’t know everything about his past.
But we can help change his future.
No blame.
No judgment.
No questions that need answering today.
Just a dog who needs help—and a community that has shown us time and time again what can happen when we refuse to let one be forgotten.
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