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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.
🐾 A LITTLE TONKs UPDATE — AND A VERY BIG THANK YOU. 🐾❤️
We have been so incredibly blessed by the love that has surrounded our sweet Tonks through one of the hardest battles of his life.
After spending days in the ICU at BluePearl fighting severe diabetes, diabetic ketosis, and pancreatitis, Tonka has now moved out of emergency care and into another veterinary hospital for continued supportive care.
And while he is still not out of the woods, we are finally seeing some signs that we are moving in the right direction. ❤️
His diabetes has been very difficult to regulate, especially while his body is also fighting pancreatitis. His veterinary team is continuing to watch him closely, including a recent eye scare that needs monitoring as his little body works so hard to heal.
But Tonks is still here.
He is still fighting.
And we are gaining ground. 🐾❤️
We also want to take a moment to simply say ….THANK YOU!!!
Thank you to every person who donated, shared his story, prayed for him, sent messages, checked on him, or simply kept Tonks in your heart.
You helped carry something that felt incredibly heavy. And when a community comes together to carry that weight, it doesn't feel quite so overwhelming.
We are also incredibly grateful to www.lantztuckermemorialfund.org for stepping up to help with this second faze of Tonks medical care and @crystal pugh tucker for seeing his need and helping this family lighten the load on this next part of his journey. are hearts are full.
We are so grateful for your kindness and support. ❤️
We have approximately $1,900 of the $10,000 remaining on the emergency bill for Tonks current medical costs, and we are incredibly thankful for everyone who has helped us get this far. the family and all of us are grateful to everyone who believed.
What we need now is prayer. 🙏
Pray for his blood sugar to stabilize.
Pray for his pancreas to heal.
Pray for his strength to return.
Pray that his body keeps responding to treatment.
And most of all, pray that Tonka gets to go HOME. 🏡❤️
When that day comes, he will still need all of those prayers as he continues recovering at home.
So today, instead of asking you to open your wallets, we're asking you to open your hearts one more time for Tonks
Send him your prayers.
Send him your positive vibes.
Send him your love.
He's made it this far.
Now let's help him make it all the way home. ❤️🐾
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Old dogs. Young dogs. Sick dogs. Scared dogs. The ones someone wanted and the ones everyone overlooked. It doesn’t matter here.
They get friends. They get joy. They get to run, play, nap in the sunshine and live the life that is happening right now. You’d never know you were watching homeless dogs. And maybe that’s exactly the point.
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