Puppies Promises Program

Castaway Critters (a newly formed local animal rescue group) has joined together with Saving Shelter Pets (a group formed during Hurricane Katrina with volunteers located throughout the United States) to prevent future unwanted animals. These two groups are working together in implementing a new program "Puppies Promises". The mission of this program is to save puppies (from being abandoned, possible euthanasia) and to spay the mother (at an appropriate time after the birth of the pups).

If you have a pregnant dog, or one that recently had puppies, please call Sharen Lindley at 1-828-837-4186, and she will explain the guidelines for qualifying for the Puppies Promises Program.

A Castaway Critter volunteer would vaccinate and worm the puppies (no expense to you). You would have to keep the puppies until a quarantine period (two - threee weeks) has ended and a transport date has been determined for their travel to future loving homes. This holding time and vaccination of the pup allows them to acquire the immunity they need to prevent disease. Even in the cleanest of shelters, the stress of being brought into the shelter, along with the introduction of new germs, can be a death sentence to young pups.

You would have the responsibility of keeping the mother dog and having her spayed. Saving Shelter Pets would pay for this surgery (spaying).

Castaway Critters CANNOT TAKE IN, OR FOSTER, mom, or her puppies.

If you love animals, and would like to be a part of Castaway Critters, help is needed as follows: a) Puppies Promises Program b) digital camera/computer skills c) walk dogs d) socialization of animals e) fund raising, f) transporting animals to and from vet, and g) adoptions.

Castaway Critters and Saving Shelter Pets join together to say, "please spay and neuter your dogs/cats."