TFBT Rescue
Rehabilitating Animals
For a Second Chance at Life
email: [email protected]
West Columbia, Texas
Rehabilitating Animals
For a Second Chance at Life
email: [email protected]
West Columbia, Texas
Rachel
Pit Bull dominate mixed with Boxer
Fleas and ticks treated, now on preventative maintenance schedule.
Hookworm has been treated. Proper hygiene and clean living environment should prevent recurrence.
Rachel needs to gain about 20 pounds, so she's been receiving an extra meal throughout the day to help her gain.
On maintenance treatment to prevent new worms
Started doxycycline (antibiotic) for 30 days followed by 30 days of rest, then initial heart worm treatment therapy can begin
Needs one canine tooth extraction after weight gain and heart worm treatment
She will need to be spayed once she is healthy and the more important health concerns have been addressed.
Friendly but skittish. Craves love and attention but is timid to trust how gentle interactions will be. Obedient and eager to please, but submissive and shows signs of abuse. For example, we’re retraining her to sit as a rewarded behavior rather than a punishment.
Since coming to the Rescue, Rachel has began adapting to new rules and freedoms rather quickly. There are many instances where we have modify her negative response caused by abuse, to being positively reinforced behaviors, from sitting to leash training. She’s surpassed trust to the point of protecting us and craves love and attention.
She has certainly been bred before but the status of her litter(s) is unknown.
Rachel will be beginning heart worm treatment soon and should not be subjected to the stress of rehoming during this time. She will not be ready for adoption until around mid-September.
Bleue
Vietnamese Pot Belly Pig
Special diet with high fiber, low fat, and low protein will be fed. Needs to lose 30-50 pounds to increase mobility, allow ease to exercise, reduce pain and inflammation, and increase sense perception (eye sight and hearing)
Precautionary treatment for intestinal worms
Intensive removal of dirt and dried waste from around face, belly, legs, and generally in between skin rolls caused by excess weight
Overgrown hooves trimmed to increase mobility, improve posture, and will be regularly maintained as required with most mammals
Lazy and sweet, Bleue loves to lay in the hay, root around her enclosure for oats, and get scratches on her big ole belly. She’s very sweet, even to new people, but she can be easily startled because she’s partly blind and may have hearing loss due to her large size.
Bleue has lost about 10% of her goal, but is already feeling much happier and healthier. She is quicker to get up, stays up longer, and stands up more frequently than before. She’s responding better to light and movement, which means her eye sight may be returning as the fat recedes and her eyelids are able to open again. Bleue can now roll completely on her side for belly rubs and no longer grunts in agony as she rolls around.
Bleue is not spayed and has not been bred in the past.
Lucy
Vietnamese Pot Belly Pig
Lucy was a stray that wandered into the yard at the beginning to 2020. She was about 3 old at the time and after being checked, she received a clean bill of health and has been in maintenance and prevention since.
Lucy is curious and loving, she likes to know what her humans are doing and if she’s going to get any food from it. When she doesn’t get her way, Lucy can be quite vocal about it, but she eventually accepts things as they are.
Lucy has been healthy from the beginning and is doing a wonderful job adapting to the new animals coming onto the farm after her. She has more than doubled in size and still has about two years of growing to do.
Lucy is not spayed and has not been bred in the past.
Silkie Bantams and Barred Plymouth Rock Chickens
Isolated, quarantined, and monitored for illness before being considered for integration into existing flock.
These four stick together, having a traumatic past of being attacked by dogs, they are always looking out for one another.
Birds received a clean bill of health and were integrated into our existing flock. These four still stick together mostly, are also braver than the rest of the flock, and are the first out birds into the run each morning.
As a nonprofit organization, TFBT Rescue is owned by the public and operates strictly as a dog foster and rehabilitation facility to grant dogs an opportunity to heal and return to being functional parts of a human-dog family unit.
In our care, these dogs begin to heal physically and mentally until they are ready to be adopted. Adoptable dogs have clean bills of health and have began retraining social and obedience behaviors. Some dogs do have long term impressions of their past trauma, but rescue dogs generally live normal, healthy lives and have a lot of love to give in return.
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email: [email protected]
West Columbia, Texas 77486 USA
Federal EIN: 85-1375643
Texas Filing Number: 803635098
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