Rescued, My Favorite Breed

By Christa Stout

A little help goes a long way

The last two months have been tough for all rescues, shelters and pounds - very few adoptions and lots of dumped, sick and surrendered dogs. This is the environment that Wendy came into by starting her 501c3 non-profit organization, Triple H. Farm Rescue, outside of Washburn. Wendy is not inexperienced, quite the contrary, she has lots of rescue experience and is starting her efforts in the animal world on a small scale. She is working out of her garage and between April and September, does bi-monthly flea treatment distribution for dogs and cats, free of charge to anyone who wants to come by. The preventive is given by weight of the animal and kills all female fleas. A three months’ use of this

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flea treatment will get the infestation under control. If tick preventive is needed, a topical may be used, but since the flea treatment is internal, no other internal preventive can be given. Wendy and her volunteers give strict instructions how the treatment is to be used.

Since Wendy has a captive audience, she also gives out a list of free and/or reduced price spaying and neutering clinics. She also provides dog and cat food for those who find themselves in a position of needing a little help to take care of their animals, she calls it her food pantry. Her primary goal is to keep the animal population of southern Missouri healthy and eventually to start her own spay and neuter clinic for the area. I was amazed how many people stopped by to get the flea medicine and so many of these had multiple pets, many had five dogs and five cats.

Wendy is an energetic person, who spent some time in the military, where, unfortunately, she wound up with neck, elbow and spine injuries and was discharged with neuro and spine disease.

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Grace

Before

But this doesn’t keep her from working hard towards her goal of keeping the animal population of southern Missouri healthy and eventually to start her own spay and neuter clinic for the area. Working towards that goal, she purchased a few acres of land in late 2018. She says she has no close neighbors, which makes it easier for her to take in foster animals from Spay Arkansas. Her motto is “God gave us charge over the earth” and that, of course, includes animals and helping them. She does not house rescue animals, except those few who have had no luck getting adopted or those that have medical issues or are special needs pets. She currently has a foster cat named Dacs. This male cat is polydactyl and has extra toes, he has seven toes on the right front, six toes on the left front, five toes on the left back and four toes on the right back. Dacs was expected to go to rescue the Tuesday after my visit. He was thrown out of a car at her home which caused injuries to his hip.

After

Wendy also has Grace, a foster dog who was emaciated at 17 pounds and run over in the driveway, which caused broke her pelvis and hip. Grace has had multiple surgeries for which Wendy paid out of pocket. In addition to all of that, she facilitates transport when an animal is adopted or needs to get to a rescue miles away. In case you are wondering, she has five dogs and five cats of her own, because she always keeps the at-risk pets. Her plan is not to house animals but to allow them to be in their home by helping their responsible owners with flea treatment, free food and some education where needed. The big plans include securing a vet and a spay/neuter facility where cats and dogs may be spayed/neutered at a very low cost. This would also include getting all cats and dogs vaccinated. Any vet interested in helping Wendy reach her goal and improving the health of the cat and dog population? She is currently funding the operations of Triple H. Farm herself, but is hoping to obtain some grants to help with her efforts in Barry County. If you are able to help Wendy out by donating, any amount is appreciated. n