The Real Cost
of Senior Rescue

These dogs arrive with histories. Failing organs. Deformed limbs. Compounded prescriptions. Bloodwork that has to be run every three to six months just to stay ahead of what their bodies are doing. Dental disease so advanced it requires a specialist 300 miles away. We do not look away from any of it. But we want you to understand what that commitment actually costs.

Beyond the financial cost is the cost of time. Hours of daily care, every single day, for every single dog. Medications administered on schedule. Mobility assistance. Monitoring for any shift in appetite, behavior, or breathing. Some of our dogs require the kind of profound, around-the-clock devotion that most people reserve for the final chapter of a human life. We consider that an honor, not a burden. But it is real, and it is relentless.

Every single month. Every single day.

What it costs to keep them alive and thriving

That number does not include emergency visits, specialist consultations 300 miles away, mobility equipment, or the facility that houses them. It is the baseline cost of keeping six senior dogs alive, medicated, fed, and monitored for one month.

This is why they get dumped

Dogs get surrendered at every age, for all kinds of reasons. But this is why senior dogs get dumped. When the bloodwork needs to be run every three to six months. When the medications start stacking up. When the monitoring becomes 24 hours a day, seven days a week. When any change in eating habits becomes a red flag that cannot be ignored. When the bills stop being manageable and start being impossible. That is when senior dogs lose their homes.

People are not always cruel. Sometimes they are just unprepared for what loving a senior dog actually requires. We understand that. And we show up anyway.

2 months of unexpected vet costs

These are veterinary bills only from the past two months. Every single one of these visits happened while the pads, the medications, the food, the equipment, and everything else on this page kept running without pause.

This does not include the ongoing dental specialist consultations scheduled for Noelle, Lucy, Ainni, and Yvette at Montana Pet Dentistry & Oral Surgery in Bozeman, 300 miles away. Dental procedures for small senior dogs average $2,500 or more per dog.

It does not include Noelle’s prosthetic limb, currently in discussion with a prosthetics provider.

It does not include the bloodwork, the compounding pharmacy orders, or the equipment that keeps these girls safe and mobile every single day.

We say this not to minimize the investment, but to be transparent about what it truly takes to run a rescue of this caliber. The facility is an advantage. The rest is still real, still ongoing, and still growing.

These numbers will change. New dogs will come. New crises will arrive. The costs are not fixed because the need is not fixed. What is fixed is our commitment to being there no matter what the bill says.

We share all of this because we believe you deserve to know exactly where your support goes. Not to a building fund or an administrative overhead. Straight to six little girls who have already been given up on once.