Please Help Almost Home Win Up To $21,000!

"The Animal Rescue Site"
$20,000 Grant Contest(see below for the Voting Tutorial)

Another Contest!—An animal welfare organization called "The Animal Rescue Site" is giving away $20,000 to one lucky animal shelter with smaller cash prizes for runners-up. Please vote for Almost Home Canine Rescue of South Dakota on this site once each day, every day through July 26!

Voting on The Animal Rescue Site:

is free
is very quick
does not require registration or even an email address

Plus, every day that you vote, The Animal Rescue Site donates food to animal shelters!

Voting runs daily through midnight on July 26
There are $1,000 weekly prizes for the shelter with the most votes that week, as well as $1,000 prizes for the top-voted shelter in each state at the end of the contest

Voting Tutorial

Voting is easy and fast. Just click to go to TheAnimalRescueSite.com and then follow the steps below:

1) Click on the big purple button that says "Click here to Give - it's FREE!" :

2) Next, click where it says "Vote Now!" near the top of the screen :

3) Then, scroll down a bit and search for the "Almost Home Canine Rescue" by typing in the Shelter Name and entering "USA" as the country, "SD" as the state, and then click "Search":

4) "Almost Home Canine Rescue" will return in the Search box, along with a button that says "Vote." Click the "Vote" button

5) You will have to prove that you are a real person voting (and not an automated computer program) by correctly identifying a photo of a type of animal, such as a "fish," "horse," "tiger," "dog," etc. Type in the kind of animal pictured where it says "Your Answer:" and then click the "Confirm Vote" button :

6) That's it! Please spread the word and vote every day so Almost Home Canine Rescue can win $20,000 in the nation wide contest and $1,000 for the state of South Dakota contest!

Thank you for your support.

April 2009 Puppy Mill Rescue

We just completed another large puppy mill rescue. 60 dogs from puppymills were rescued on April 19th. Almost Home Canine Rescue coordinated the rescue working with 8 other rescues in Nebraska, South Dakota and Minnesota.

Breeds included boxers, chihuahua's, maltese, brussels griffon, keeshonds, yorkie's, cavalier, basset hound, poodles and a husky. Many of the dogs had major medical issues. Many of the dogs had rotten teeth and lost most or all of their teeth. A few of the dogs had deteritorating jaw bones due to their teeth being infected for so long and infecting the bones. Some of the dogs had scars, new wounds and old from enduring years of cage aggression.

Lake Vet Clinic is Madison, SD did the vet work on 18 of the puppy mill dogs. Thank you Dr Anna and staff for providing the highest quality vet care provided to the 18 dogs you treated!

More large-scale puppy mill rescues are being planned for this summer. These rescues are very expensive; the dogs need extensive vet care and we spend significant amounts of money transporting these dogs to safety. Would you consider making a donation towards our puppy mill rescue work? Donations can be sent to Almost Home Canine Rescue PO Box 129 Madison, SD 57042 or you can send money through paypal using the paypal icon on our web page at http://members.petfinder.com/~SD17/index.html

These 60 dogs were the lucky ones. There are thousands and thousands of dogs in mass breeding facilities in this country enduring horrible suffering. There is only one way to end the suffering of the dogs in puppy mills: NEVER buy a puppy at a pet store and adopt your next best friend from a shelter or rescue organization!

Welcome to the new Almost Home Canine Rescue blog! We will post about our latest rescues, events and fundraisers in this blog. Keep up with the latest at Almost Home by checking back to this blog often!