Crossover Consulting

03/19/2026

🐾 WE CAN’T SAVE THEM IF WE HAVE NOWHERE FOR THEM TO GO. 🐾

Every single day we are asked to take in dogs that need help.

Sweet strays.
Owner surrenders.
Sometimes just tiny babies who need a safe place to land until they are vetted and ready for adoption.

But the truth is simple:

Without foster homes… we have to say no.

That’s where you come in.

At Deacon’s Hope Rescue, our fosters are the reason these dogs get a second chance.

You provide the home. We handle the rest.

✔️ All medical care is paid for by the rescue
✔️ Fosters schedule vet appointments around their own availability
✔️ Transport to vet appointments
✔️ Foster support available almost 24/7
✔️ Access to our foster group chat and support community

📍 Our veterinarians are located in:
• Maumee, Ohio
• Mansfield, Ohio
• Fredericktown, Ohio

Fosters should live within about 45 minutes to 1 hour of one of our vets and near an emergency after-hours veterinary clinic just in case.

A few important things to know:
🐶 We do not take dogs with known bite history or aggressive behavior into our foster program
🐾 Some of our fosters are simply puppies or young dogs needing a temporary home while they complete vetting
🐾 Fosters are part of the adoption decision-making process
🐾 Fosters have first right to adopt their foster dog

Fostering isn’t just helping a dog.

It’s watching a scared dog finally relax.
It’s seeing a puppy learn what love looks like.
It’s being part of the moment a dog’s life changes forever.

And along the way, you’ll build friendships and connections with an incredible rescue community.

✨ Apply today.
📣 Help us reach more potential fosters by sharing this post.
🔗 The link to the foster application is in the comment section.

❤️ Be the reason we can say yes to the next dog in need.

🐾 Join the Deacon’s Hope Rescue foster team.

03/19/2026

🐾 A TICK DID THIS TO MR. T 🐾

Mr. T recently tested 217 on his Lyme Quant C6 test, which means he now needs a series of Convenia injections two weeks apart to fight Lyme disease.

Unfortunately, this is something we are seeing more and more often in rescue dogs.

Many people believe ticks die off in the winter — but that’s not true. Ticks can remain active anytime temperatures are above freezing, even in colder months. That means dogs are at risk year-round, not just in the summer.

Lyme disease is spread through the bite of an infected tick and can cause:
• joint pain and lameness
• lethargy
• fever
• kidney complications
• long-term health issues if untreated

The good news is that Lyme disease is largely preventable.

Veterinarians strongly recommend dogs stay on tick prevention all year long, especially in areas like Ohio where tick populations are increasing.

Mr. T is now receiving the treatment he needs, but his story is an important reminder:

🕷️ One tiny tick can change everything.

Please protect your dogs with year-round flea and tick prevention.

And a word from Mr. T:

“I’m Mr. T. I pity the fool…but that tick didn’t pity me. Protect your dogs from Lyme disease.”

03/19/2026

📢 Meet Junie Bea — A Survivor of a Puppy Mill. Her story matters. And it’s one we can’t ignore.

This is Junie Bea — a sweet, quiet girl who just came out of a breeding mill. She barely makes a sound, has dealt with painful health issues including a rough spay recovery and a UTI, and still struggles to understand what comfort feels like. That’s the reality of life inside a puppy mill.

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❗ What is a Puppy Mill?

Puppy mills are commercial breeding facilities focused on profit, not the health or well-being of the animals they produce. Dogs in these places spend their lives in cages, are bred repeatedly without proper care, and often receive minimal veterinary attention or socialization. They are not pet stores — they are factories for living beings.

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📊 The Harsh Facts

🐶 Nationally:
• The USDA estimates there are hundreds if not thousands of puppy mills across the U.S.
• Dogs in puppy mills are frequently kept in unsanitary cages, denied basic veterinary care, and overbred until they are worn out.
• Many of these dogs suffer from infectious diseases, injuries, chronic pain, and emotional trauma.

Studies and rescue data repeatedly show:
✔ High rates of untreated infections and injuries
✔ Lack of socialization leads to fearful, withdrawn behavior
✔ Generations of inbreeding can cause genetic health problems

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📍 Puppy Mills and Ohio

Although Ohio doesn’t publicly track every mill, the state is known to have had multiple USDA-licensed commercial breeding facilities, some with histories of welfare violations.

Ohio’s proximity to several Midwest states with lax breeding laws makes it a key hub for:
• Puppy mill production
• Wholesale transfer of dogs to pet stores
• Minimal enforcement and oversight

These facilities often slip through the cracks due to:
🔹 Infrequent inspections
🔹 Loopholes in animal welfare laws
🔹 Reliance on self-reporting by breeders

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💔 Why Puppy Mills Are So Harmful

Dogs raised in these conditions often:
• Live in isolated cages
• Lack basic medical care
• Are bred repeatedly until physically exhausted
• Develop fear, anxiety, withdrawal
• Are discarded or euthanized when deemed “unproductive”

Junie Bea is one of the lucky ones — rescued, transported to safety, and given love and care. But for every dog like her, many others never get a second chance.

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🧡 How You Can Help

✔ Support rescues that pull dogs directly from mills
✔ Adopt — don’t shop
✔ Educate friends and family about the realities of puppy mills
✔ Advocate for stronger animal welfare laws in Ohio and nationwide

Every voice that speaks up is a step toward ending the cycle of suffering.

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💬 Junie Bea’s Spirit

Junie Bea doesn’t understand toys, soft beds, or belly rubs — not yet.
But she is learning. She is gentle, quiet, and trusting in a way that makes you realize how deeply resilient she is.

She deserves a life filled with love — not cages.

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💛 Thank you for caring. Share Junie Bea’s story. Together we can help more dogs come home from lives like hers.

10/01/2025

05/05/2025

A Hilliard,Ohio rescue.
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One of the hardest things in rescue is leading with your head not your ♥️ . So even though my heart has lots to say I’ll keep this post short as possible

After several days of much anxiety and stress, that no person should have to endure, we have decided to close intake. We do have some dogs that we are in the middle of helping, and we will finish those commitments and then we will be re-shifting our focus. We want to say thank you 🙏 to everybody who has followed us and supported us and who will continue to do that through this rough time. But we are at the point where I need to consider my own mental health and reduce some of the anxiety not only I feel but our entire team feels. So for starters, we will finish rescuing the nine puppies 🐶 dumped on our Foster‘s property, the two pitbull‘s dumped on the game land one of our fosters found, smoke from Cumberland County, and we will be helping Lee County with one dog today as they will be depopulating the entire shelter on Monday. 💉

The cause of this temporary shut down is simple, we have had more returns this month then we have pulled out of the shelters. These dogs have caused unexpected financial burdens 💰 , they fill up Foster homes 🏠 usually for months while we work through the anxiety and depression of being rehomed. Then they inhibit us from saving dogs from the shelter

For that reason, we are going to be changing some policies. And a lot of people are not going to like this. 😡 But taking in a return that has been in a for years, is one of the most painful and heart wrenching things that we have to do. The anxiety, the depression, the physical health that deteriorates from a dog losing its home is not something that we should have to continue to endure. Nor should our Fosters have to. The financial burden, the time we lose saving others in the shelter who die because that return fills a foster home is not fair. We did our part. We found them a home that committed to them for life. We will continue to be the first point of contact when our dogs do not work out in adoptions. And of course, short term placements that just didn’t work out will always come back to us. And we will of course continue to help the Adopter find a new home for the dog. But we will no longer be the scapegoat for every dog that we’ve adopted out that does not work out. Every puppy that was not trained or socialized and now has issues. It’s not fair to us, emotionally, nor financially, nor is it fair to the shelters and the dogs in those shelters that we can’t save because somebody gave up on the dog they committed to for life. I am happy to share more to those who oppose this change.  We have saved over 2500 dogs. Simple
Math shows we cannot continue taking them back at the drop of a hat. And of course every situation is different and will be approached that way. We simply cannot be the responsibility party to take back all these dogs at any point in time.

So how can you help us get through this hurdle? 1. we will be focusing on and posting our dogs who have been returned and have been in our rescue for months or even years. If you can not adopt, please share and network.

2. we will be fundraising 💴 for the dogs that we were already in the process of being committed to. We need donations for silent auctions, we need funds called into our vets or donated through Facebook. Even a dollar helps.

3. last don’t give up on us. I haven’t given up on the rescue, even though some days I feel like I have nothing left to give. We will be back to saving lives. But for the moment the lives under our care are priority.

And here it is. The dreaded photo ⛔️ I have tried to scroll by for the last week.

05/04/2025

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05/04/2025

⭐️⭐️⭐️UPDATE! WE JUST RECEIVED TWO GENEROUS DONATIONS!
*post with “thank you” photos forthcoming! ⭐️⭐️⭐️

Good afternoon,

If maybe you’re updating your outside chairs, shelter could use a few good used outdoor chairs, like the ones pictured from a few years ago.
We only have about 2 chairs left now.
They are used by prospective adopters/ volunteers who want to sit with a dog and believe it or not, for some of the dogs that like to sit in them. lol
So if you have one or a maybe few that you would like to donate, please drop off at the Wood County Dog Shelter or let us know and we’d be happy to meet you and pick them up.
Thank you with appreciation in
advance.

04/05/2025

Need better laws and examples made of individuals who do this., P.