Exciting Update on Dory

Exciting news to share about our girl, Dory:

Thank you to all who have donated, shared about her & donated towards Dory's care. She is such a lucky little dog and we are so, so grateful for your love.

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It's Me, Max

Check out the article about Max here

Thank you for spotlighting our special boy, Arin Greenwood!

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Updates on Dory Here

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Penelope Playing

Look at Penelope the Paraplegic Pit go! So good to see her hoping around, having fun & being a wild child.

Posted by Joa's Arc on Monday, March 23, 2015

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Penelope

Remember Penelope the paraplegic pit bull? Well, not so paraplegic now!

Less than 3 months ago, Penelope sustained severe hind end trauma (hit by car?) and ended up in a local shelter where they wanted to put her to sleep... thanks to one dedicated tech though, Penelope is not only safe now ... but here she is running through the waves on the beach in NJ!

It seems like all Penelope needed was TLC - Time, Love and a Chance!

Post by Joa's Arc.

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Update on Mop

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Penelope the Paraplegic Pit Bull

Welcome, Penelope the paraplegic pit bull...

Penelope came into a local shelter from Camden city after being hit by a car. Sadly no one claimed her...

Although she arrived with hind leg paralysis, she has shown improvement with steroids. X-Rays showed that there was nothing out of place, nothing broken and so there is hope Penelope may regain the use of her legs. She retracts from deep pain, which indicates Penelope does have some feeling in her legs and initially she was unable to move her tail, but just a few days ago she did! Joa's Arc wants to give Penelope a chance at regaining some or all use of her hind legs.

Joa's Arc is hopeful for Penelope and we need your help for the next step - hydrotherapy, PT and acupuncture. She has a long road ahead, but this happy girl is so worth it! I am super excited to make the announcement that Joa's Arc has stepped up to save a paraplegic pit from a local shelter! Hit by a car in Camden and never claimed... Everyone, please welcome PENELOPE

She's already made great steps (no pun intended) in the right direction: pulling away from pain (proving she feels) and no use of her back end at all to wagging her tail the other day!! Joa's Arc is hoping that with more time & treatment that Penelope may regain some of the use of her back legs!

You can read more here and please consider helping us help her - http://www.youcaring.com/nonprofits/penelope-and-friends/237985

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More Than What It Seems

Lots of comments have been made about how the cats looked healthy, how they looked cared for, that they were lovable, etc.

There were a handful or so of friendly, mostly healthy cats. That's true. Actually, there are often pets like this in just about any hoarder's house. Hoarders don't usually start with dozens and dozens of pets - there is often a small, "original group" which at one point got their own individual, they were loved, socialized and cared for... at one point.

Like in most hoarding situations though, underneath the healthy looking pets were ones who were anything but well or even properly cared for. In this house, aside from the friendly, healthy cats, there were:

- cats with eye injuries
- cats withpainful genetic eye deformities
- several cats with chronic URIs (imagine a raw, runny nose or crusty eyes all the time)
- females constantly lactating because kittens that weren't even theirs were nursing on them
- 2 rooms of "families" of cats closed in there all the time interbreeding with each other with barely a fan to circulated the hot summer air
- cats with injuries going untreated
- bugs by or in the food
- unfixed tomcats marking (peeing on) everything
- a kitten born paraplegic just wriggling in all the filth

Could the cats have been sicker? Yes.

Could they have been starving? Yup.

But this house absolutely was not simply a herd of cats that we felt was 'too many'.

This house also completely drained our rescue. Although many people kindly donated to help out, things like the flea covered, sick kittens we removed at the end of October and Alexa's requiring her eye to be removed, cleaned up out. We have no money for the special needs animals still in our care. Please consider donating so we can keep up the work we do:

You can also send a donation to our PO Box

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Sadness over Scooter

This took me some time to write...

Scooter is across The Rainbow Bridge now and at peace. On May 11, 2011, we lost our boy.

So, S is for Sadness once again. S is for I'm Sorry and S is for we will sincerely and severely miss the presence of Scooter's little life.

I'm sad for Jen S and her daughter Hailey for these losses ... but I cannot imagine these animals with anyone else. Through tears and heart ache, Jen S has continued to love animals like Scooter, not caring where they've come from, what baggage they might bring or how much time she'll have with them...

Scooter had a short life, but because of Jen S he experienced love, kindness and caring. Thank you, Jen S, for all you did for him.

Thank you, Scooter, for teaching us that special needs animals deserve our love even if it is for a short time. Your big spirit will remain with us, reminding us of what we do and why.

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Introducing Scooter

How can you resist that little face?! I found it impossible... even after I found out the little munchkin was a paraplegic kitten who drags his back legs around. Thankfully, so did Joa’s Arc volunteer Jen S and these two adorable kittens are now safe in foster care with Joa’s Arc. Meet Scooter and his littermate, Bump. Although Scooter's "normal" littermates had somewhere safe to go, we were told that Bump loved him and followed Scooter everywhere. Did we mention Bump doesn't have any tail either? It's a fact! She barely even has a "bump" of a tail on her rump.

Scooter and Bump were on the patio of a nice lady in Southern New Jersey. Although they were barely done nursing from their mom, we felt it best to get them into foster care due to the fact they were living outside and that their semi-feral mom cat had made several attempts at moving them to places where we could not reach them. We felt it best to get Scooter and Bump inside and safe, especially since Scooter is paraplegic - dragging his back legs around from the hips down. Here is a cute photo of Joa’s Arc volunteer Joyce M getting ready to help feed the babies their first night in foster care. Scooter is happy exploring. Bump is so impatient for food she seems to be considering just climbing into the cup of food.


The video is dark, but you can get an idea of how Scooter gets himself around. Although Scooter has an obvious disability, he doesn't know there is anything wrong with him. It is hard for us not to go weak in the knees for paraplegic kittens and just like Joa, whose spirit encouraged Joa's Arc's mission, quickly stole everyone's heart, Scooter seems to be doing the same already... and Bump too! The two are quite the adorable pair.

Stay tuned in here for more information and updates on Scooter & Bump. Feel free to donate towards their continual care too. Any and all help is greatly appreciated! Tweet This