Senior Dog Sanctuary & Hospice Needs Urgent Help Vet Cost's
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My name is Heather and my husbands nane is Brandon and we are The Twelve Tail's Senior Dog Home. A privately ran sanctuary where we rescue and provide lifelong and end of life care for senior, ill and special needs dog's! Our mission began twenty year's ago in 2004 and it's been our lifes mission ever since! They mean the world to us! We've paid out hundred's of thousand's of dollars providing their medical care and food alone and we can not fulfill our mission without your help.
We've been blessed to save more than fourty dog's and several cat's! And those numbers don't include the numerous others we saved before we married and bought the home that allowed us to truly bring our mission into fruition.
Our goal with our mission was to be entirely self funded. We used the entirety of our life savings and invested every dollar of our personal income into funding our mission. After fifteen year's when that no longer was enough to keep up with their needs we then maxed our credit and now have over $100,000 in credit debt. We then proceed to sell anything we had of value to fulfill the promise we made to the the senior's, ill and special needs dog's in our care. We managed soly on self funding for fifteen year's until we realized we'd no longer be able to continue without help and that led to us creating our first fundraiser. Having to rely mostly on the help of others we realized that we'd no longer be able to take in new dog's so our focus became to fulfill the promise we'd made to the current seniors in our care which at the time was fifteen. Our greatest hope is that some day we'll once again be able to open our doors to more senior, ill and special needs dog's.
We humbly ask if you'd consider donating towards veterinary expenses for the remaining seniors in our care. Without your kindness and support we won't be able to fulfill our mission and keep the promise we made to each of them. Every penny donated goes towards their care and all invoice's are posted and available upon request. We're greatly ashamed we've found ourselves in need of help as it was never our intention to have to as for help.
We've sadly lost fourteen in the past several year's leaving us with only three still left in our care.
Dingo 11, Posey 15 and Kitty MaowMa 8.
Their health challenges include cancer, lung, bone, brain, heart, kidney, liver, gallbladder & skin diseases, severe arthritis, elbow dysplasia, luxating patellas and collapsing trachea and more.
Posey is our only cancer survivor! In 2020 she had a toe removed and thankfully it was a keratocantheoma, a benign tumor. Malta was diagnosed with osteosarcoma in January 2023 and has had amputation, chemotherapy and the Yal vaccine. She was in remission for twenty one month's before we lost her to brain and abdominal metastasis on 10/18/24.
The purpose of this fundraiser is to make it possible for us to continue covering the cost of their extensive veterinary care, rx medication's and rx supplement's that has on average cost us a minimum of $20,000 to $30,000 per year.
Despite serious illness they're thriving and living their very best live's.
Your support today ensures that they're able to continue receiving the critical medical care that's vital to extending their quality time with us and making their golden year's the absolute best they can possibly be!
All donation's go 100% towards veterinary care, medication's, rx supplement's and their veterinary reccomended food.
We humbly ask if you'd consider helping. A small donation or share of their campaign is so very much appreciated.
We use several veterinary offices depending on their needs and the illnesses/cancer's being treated. Listed below are the offices we use currently.
1. The Whole Pet Veterinary Hospital Of Davidson North Carolina 704-765-1171
2. East Lincoln Animal Hospital Denver North Carolina 704-827-5300
3. Carolinas Veterinary Specialists Matthews North Carolina 704-815-3939
4. Partner Veterinary Emergency & Specialty Center Richmond Virginia 1-804-206-9122
5. Denver Animal Emergency Denver North Carolina [phone redacted]
6. Urgent Vet Belmont North Carolina [phone redacted]
7. A Holistic Veterinary Services Kings Mountain North Carolina (704) [phone redacted]
We post frequent updates via our Twitter (now known as X) at
Our veterinarian's will be glad to provide invoices and I have folders full of them as well.
We pride ourselves on transparency. It's extremely important for you to know how your donation is put to use.
Our Mom and Dad say we were a once-in-lifetime family, that each of us are what they call a soul dog and that it's been the privilege of a lifetime to be our parent's!
Please Allow Us To Introduce The Pack
Posey Mae aka Poe Poe
Dingo aka Dinks
T.C. (Tree Cat) aka Kitty MaowMa
Some Of Our Favorite Pictures Of Our Pack Past & Present
Our YouTube Channel
Some favorite YouTube videos
Follow us on Instagram
2021 Veterinary Invoice's $15,658.60 Paid Out
This campaign was created in September 2020, below are $2,877.81 worth of paid Veterinary invoices from September 2020 to December 2020
To View Our 2021 Spending List https://drive.google.com/file/d/1fNTYG6MvfNHUATPgQDoY04WSIBhOVPFr/view?s=09 A Total Of $28,620.54 Paid Out
Vet invoice's/estimates 2023
Beginning in 2022 I've been so busy being a primary caregiver to my grandmother who raised me with alzheimer's disease and other medical issues that I've gotten behind posting invoices inside the campaign but I have included every single veterinary invoice in with my updates in the update section but haven't posted any invoice's for medication, food and supplement's due to limited time. I have to edit each invoice to size them to fit Go Fund Me allowed photo size and I just haven't had time to get them all done. You can visit our X formerly Twitter @ TheTwelveTails and most invoices have been posted there. Just search the word invoice, vet, medication, supplement or food on our page. My grandmother just entered hospice care at home and myself and my grandfather are still her full time caregivers but he has end stage COPD and was recently (2024) diagnosed with pancreatic cancer so he can't help much anymore and has began needing help himself which I also provide. I'll try to catch up by posting as many veterinary invoice's here inside the campaign as soon as possible. I apologize. Feel free to contact me and I can provide year's worth to you personally.
Thank you again for your kindness!
Organizer
Heather Oliver
Organizer
Iron Station, NC