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❄️🩵 It’s Freezing Outside… but we have some snuggly pups to warm you up! 🩵❄️

February is the month of love — and right now, we have 51 puppies in foster homes hoping this is the month they finally find their true loves.

While it’s frigid outside, these pups are still waiting for something warm:
a couch, a family, a forever home.

Our longest-waiting sweethearts are:
🐶 Blossom
🐶 Buster
🐶 Annie
🐶 Rooster
🐶 Fiona
🐶 Rajah
🐶 Dixie
🐶 Grizzly

And our winter crew:
❄️ Drift
❄️ Snow
❄️ Squall
❄️ Aspen
❄️ Winter

They’ve been patient. They’ve been brave. And they are READY to be adopted.

💘 Let’s make February their month of love.

🐾 MEET THEM IN PERSON!

Join us for a Meet & Greet Adoption Event:

📍 @westwoofnj
📅 Saturday, February 7th
⏰ 12:00 pm

Come snuggle some pups, meet your future best friend, and help us clear our foster homes so we can save more lives.

With 51 puppies currently in foster care, every adoption opens a space for another dog in need.

Adopting one dog = saving two lives.

👉 HOW YOU CAN HELP RIGHT NOW:

✔️ Apply to adopt through Petfinder
✔️ Come meet them at Westwoof on Feb 7
✔️ Share this post to help them reach their forever families

Even one share could be the reason a dog finally goes home.

💬 Which pup steals your heart? Comment their name below and help us boost their visibility!

Let’s turn this cold season into the warmest one yet — filled with wagging tails and forever homes. 🐾🩵
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#ClearTheFosters #AdoptDontShop #SouthernPaws #RescuePuppies #Westwoof

🐾 The puppies are safe, warm, and settling into their foster homes, dreaming of their forever families.

We are deeply grateful for the incredible response from our community — from foster families who opened their homes to donors who ensured these puppies arrived safely and are now receiving the medical care, nutrition, and comfort they need.

While this milestone is worth celebrating, their journey is not yet complete. Ongoing care, vaccinations, food, and supplies will be needed in the coming weeks as they prepare for adoption.

You can help right now by:
➡️ Donating on our website
➡️ Applying to foster or adopt
➡️ Sending items from our wishlist

Every action makes a direct impact on their path to forever homes.

Your compassion is transforming fear into safety and uncertainty into hope. We could not do this work without you.

We may not be able to reply to every message, but we are reading them all and feeling the love. Thank you for standing with us — and with them.

From wagging tails and grateful hearts.
~The Southern Paws Team🩵🐶

🐾🚐 THE PUPPIES HAVE ARRIVED!

They made it safely with our amazing partner Niki from Paws of War, and now the real work begins. 🩵 All of the sweet puppies packed into the van — tired, confused, but finally safe.

These pups will need:
🩺 medical care
💉 vaccines
🪱 deworming
🍽️ food & supplies
🏡 foster and forever homes

We can’t do this without YOU.

👉 Please consider donating to help cover their medical care and supplies

👉 Interested in adopting? Apply now through our adoption page:

https://www.southernpawsinc.org/adopt

👉 If you can’t donate or adopt, PLEASE SHARE this live video so more people can see these pups and help us help them.

Every share, every dollar, and every application brings them one step closer to the life they deserve. Thank you for being part of their rescue story.

⏰ They’ve been waiting. Let’s change that tonight.

As of tomorrow, Southern Paws will have 51 dogs in foster care. Some of our pups have been waiting the longest for their forever homes — and they need your help now.

These sweet dogs are READY for adoption:

🐶 Pepper
🐶 Buster
🐶 Fiona
🐶 Rajah
🐶 Grizzly
🐶 Dixie

Each one has already come so far in foster care and deserves a family of their own.

🩵Adopting one of these pups doesn’t just change their life — it opens a foster spot for another dog in need.

👉 Please apply to adopt on our website today.

Even if you can’t adopt, sharing this post could help them find their forever family.

Let’s help these pups who have been waiting the longest finally go home. 🏡🐾
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#AdoptDontShop #ClearTheFosters #SouthernPaws #ForeverHome #RescueDogs

We asked… and YOU DELIVERED. 🐾🩵

In just 24 hours, you helped us find foster placement for 28 puppies coming up from the South. We are completely blown away by this community and so grateful for every single one of you who stepped up.

Next step: making sure these pups have everything they need — food, supplies, medical care, and safe housing.

If you’re able to donate, now’s the time. Every dollar helps these babies start their new lives.

Thank you for showing up for them. Always.

#RescueCommunity #FosterSavesLives #ThankYou #PuppyRescue #AnimalRescue

🚨 We need your help before these puppies even arrive. 🚨

Tomorrow, Southern Paws will have 51 dogs in foster care as we are preparing for a major transport from Mississippi.

These incoming puppies will need:
🩺 medical exams
💉 vaccines
🪱 deworming
🦠 preventatives
🍽️ food & supplies

Every single one of these pups depends on donations to get the care they need the moment they arrive.

🩵Your donation today helps us say YES to this transport and YES to saving more lives.

👉 Please consider donating now to help cover medical care for the incoming Mississippi pups!

If you can’t donate, please share — it truly makes a difference.

Together, we can turn fear into safety and empty crates into full hearts. 🐾
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#MississippiTransport #DonateToSaveLives #SouthernPaws #RescueDogs #UrgentSupport

✨❤️‍🩹LETS REWRITE THE STARS FOR THESE PUPS! UNIQUE FOSTER-TO-ADOPT PROGRAM: A PUPPY WHO NEEDS YOU❤️‍🩹✨

We’re helping with a hoarding case involving puppies who urgently need safe homes.

What is foster-to-adopt?
It means you welcome a puppy into your home with the intention to adopt after a 2-week trial period. If you decide it’s not the right fit, you’ll simply continue fostering while we find the puppy their forever home — no pressure, no guilt.

💙 All supplies, medical care, and support are provided while the foster period is active!

💔 What we need most right now? Homes.

Opening your home saves lives and helps us pull more puppies from this case.

TO FOSTER TO ADOPT OR ANT QUESTIONS, PLEASE EMAIL US AT: SOUTHERNPAWSRESCUE@GMAIL.COM
OR FILL OUT OUR ADOPTION APPLICATION ON OUR WEBSITE! *
*Please specify “Foster To Adopt” with the puppys name**

🚨 URGENT: 24 HOURS. 100+ DOGS NEED HELP. 🚨

We are in a race against the clock.

In the next 24 hours, we need to secure as many foster homes and rescue/shelter commitments as possible for nearly 100 dogs.

Our partner Niki Dawson is currently working with @pawsofwar on a devastating hoarding case in Mississippi with over 200 dogs. She is heading north on Thursday, and we need to fill her truck with pups to give them a chance at a better life.

At the same time, we are racing to clear space at temporary Mississippi facilities to make room for these pups and desperately need fosters for about 20 puppies and rescue or shelter partners for as many dogs from the hoarding case as possible — at least 80 of the 200 dogs still have nowhere to go.

💔 What we need RIGHT NOW:

🐶 Fosters for at least 20 puppies

🐕 Rescue or shelter commitments for as many dogs from the hoarding case as possible — at least 80 dogs who have nowhere else to go

Even helping ONE DOG makes a difference.

Do you have room in your home for just one?

Do you know a rescue that can take one or two?

👉 If you can foster: please apply immediately using the foster application link on our website.

👉 If you are a rescue or shelter that can help: please email us directly at southernpawsrescue@gmail.com

👉 If you can’t foster or rescue, PLEASE SHARE — your share could be the reason a dog gets a second chance.

This is one of those moments where community is everything. These dogs are depending on us to speak up for them.

⏰ Time is critical. Decisions must be made in the next 24 hours.

Please help us fill that truck with hope instead of heartbreak. 💔➡️💛
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