Beagles And Bentleys Animal Rescue is dedicated to providing loving homes for animals in need. Our mission is to maintain affordable adoption fees, ensuring that each adoption covers the basic medical costs associated with the animal being adopted. This approach improves adoption accessibility, but when an animal requires extensive medical care, the costs can significantly exceed our standard adoption fee.

The Strong Paws Fund is a new initiative designed to address the gap between our adoption fee and medical costs for our animals. This fund aims to to support medical costs that extend beyond the funds generated by our adoption fees. Our inspiration and mascot for The Strong Paws Fund is Thor, a magnificent dog whose story embodies the very essence of what this fund seeks to achieve.

Many dogs like Thor are often overlooked in shelters or denied by nonprofit rescues due to the anticipated additional medical costs they may incur. Thor?s initial need for an ACL repair, coupled with the general risks and costs associated with caring for a dog of his size (140 lbs), made him a less desirable candidate for many rescues.

This fund will support not only the dogs who go overlooked due to the cost of their care, but also those whose medical needs go undiscovered. Shelters often have limited budgets, and animals may not be able to receive a full workup to uncover issues such as heartworms, bladder stones, breed specific surgeries, high parasite loads or other GI infections. These dogs may languish in shelters for months due to the unknowns surrounding their care. Some may even be moved up on the euthenasia lists simply because their condition may cost too much to treat. The Strong Paws Fund will help us support these animals, ensuring we never have to worry about the "how much?" when a foster says yes to a dog.