H.A.L.T. Dog Rescue (Helping Animals Live Tomorrow)

Good morning!! Harper here!! I'm asking all our friends and supporters to please donate $10 each today for $10 Thursday. We really need your support one bag of dog food is almost $50, the electricity to run our fans is so expensive, and our van to transport us to adoption events needs the a/c serviced. Please help us today 🙏 ❤️
Also we have a bbq gift card going on, I would love to have a family of my own to enjoy bbqs with❤️ -smooches from Harper

S’Mora, Arthur and Dobbie have some great news
coming up!!!
(Pictured is S’Mora and Dobbie heading to their meet and greets)

I know we keep asking and asking and asking, but we can not help dogs if they do not have anywhere to stay. So won’t you please open your home to a foster dog????? It makes such a difference in their lives. Gives them time to adjust and get ready for a home. Keeps them safe and loved. We have every size shape, colors and personalities just looking for somewhere to feel safe. Help make a difference in the life of a deserving dog while they wait for their forever home!

🐾🐾Tigger and Fancy🐾🐾
They have so much fun together, but need homes❤️
Foster or adopt, please let us know if you are interested. It would mean the world to them. Together or separately.

Just in case you missed it, now is the time for our 4th Annual Labor Day BBQ Raffle. This years chances to win are better than ever. Three chances to win one of 3 -$100 gift cards. That’s right, buy one ticket and triple your chances to win. We are giving away 3 $100 gift cards to Woodale Market. One of Bakersfield landmark meat markets with the very finest of meats !!!! So take your chance and buy a ticket for $5. $20 buys 5 tickets !
$50 buys 15 tickets and the best deal of all ….. $100 buys 40 tickets !!!
PayPal or Venmo

PayPal.me/HALTDogRescue

Venmo@Halt-rescue
Thank you for helping the dogs and we hope you win!!! We really do !

For everyone who has purchased raffle tickets all confirmations will be sent out by 3pm. Please be sure to give us a 👍when you receive yours. We will be selling tickets at our Petco Adoption Event this Saturday ‼️Be sure to come by and meet the paws and purchase your tickets ‼️

Ticket sales are up and running!!! Thank you to our first buyers ! This is how it works‼️❗️‼️ Each ticket is $5 or five tickets for $20‼️‼️‼️15 tickets for $50‼️‼️40 tickets for $100‼️‼️
Venmo or PayPal and message us with critical info we need. Your name and phone #
Allow 24 hours for your ticket stub info to be text to you !!!
Time to celebrate all our labors and win!!!

We are celebrating back to school week by kicking off our 4th Annual Labor DayBBQ Raffle‼️This is one of the favorite fundraisers of the year‼️This year we made it even better‼️Not 1, Not 2 but 3, yes you saw it right 3 =$100 gift cards will be raffled on August 31st! That means your ticket has 3 chances to win‼️It doesn’t get any better than that‼️A chance x3 to win $100 worth of Harris meat from one of Bakersfield’s finest traditional markets (now with 2 locations). A very big thank you to , 3011 F Street, for making this raffle possible with their generous donation!
Ticket sales begin today
Let’s end this summer with some red🔥hot winning‼️‼️

Olivia is finally up on our Petfinder page. Click the link at the end of the post to read her story. Olivia is a hard story for me as she actually belonged to my step-daughter who passed away suddenly and very young. I am trying to find her a home. I know, I’m a rescue why don’t I take her? That is exactly what we tell people when they come to us with the same circumstances. Trust me I would but the number that I currently have would cause an issue. Where I live is an issue.. The fact that I have 3 end of life rescues just waiting their time mixed with a cattle dog would be a big issue.
So I’m posting, texting,calling, searching and hoping for an answer. We have been looking for 2 months and now suddenly there are just 8 days before we turn the keys over to the landlord.
This is really a nightmare. Most recently we let our hearts open up and have taken in several dogs which has our kennel maxed out. So now we can’t even help our own selves. What’s the saying no good deed goes undone?
Please continue to share and tell your cattle loving dog friends about Olivia.

Adopt Olivia on Petfinder Olivia is an adoptable Dog - Cattle Dog searching for a forever family near Bakersfield, CA. Use Petfinder to find adoptable pets in your area.

No adoption event today due to the heat!🥵
But you can definitely hit a great sale if you are looking for something to do. Our Rags to Rescue store is Clearing out for summer. Clearance on the wonderful items inside the store.
Stop by!
Rags To Rescue
234 H st.
Starts at 9 am today

Be sure to load the kin in the car and head over to 234 H Street for the Sizzlin hot🔥sale of the summer! Starts at 9am! The entire store is clearance plus new items on the tables outside! As always, all proceeds go to help the dogs we rescue !

Some adoptable faces.
Also looking for fosters.
Please comment on the picture of the dog you would like to know more about.

JUST A QUICK PEEK of some of the items that are being clearanced out this weekend to yard sale prices. After Saturday our doors close until September 14th. We are closing for cleaning, repairs and redecorating !! We need everything gone ! That’s why we are pricing rock bottom. Don’t miss this sale!!!Starts Saturday at 9am-2pm. This sale is guaranteed to be as hot🔥🔥🔥as the predicted temp of 106💥🔥

So we sent our little Squatty to summer camp. The kennel doesn’t work for him. It creates anxiety and barking and useless energy that has no where to go. So we broke the piggy bank and we scrapped enough to pay for a short summer camp stint. Squatty is lovin’ n learning’ it!
He’s getting exercise, socialization, obedience and exposure. No more pent up worries! Please follow Squatty at camp because when it’s time to come home we don’t want that home to be the kennel we want it to be you !

Things are looking promising for S’Mora ❤️❤️❤️
*1st meet and greet with her potential adopters. Went great!
*2nd meet and greet at the park to do proper introduction with their dogs.
Went great!
*3rd meet and greet again at the park to start, then to the house to see if the other two dogs accept her in their living space. ✔️went great!

Every time went great!!!!
So she’s doing a sleep over❤️❤️❤️
Really hoping this is the break for S’Mora!
She deserves this🤗

Who doesn’t want to smell like IRIS , stinky paws

https://www.facebook.com/100064690566556/posts/940343691465308/?

Iris🩷our Rags to Rescue dog has created her very own fragrance. Now exclusively available this weekend at our sale of the summer. You can purchase this limited edition and smell just like Iris🩷
Be sure to join us this Saturday at 9 am-2pm@234 H Street where Bank meets H. Everything goes! We are taking it to the bare walls. All we want left is Iris 🩷!!!! Be radiant, Be like Iris!

Randall says to be sure and stay cool today.
Lay in a puddle, run through the sprinkler, stay inside with the fan blowing on you.
Randall still needs a home! He is now 6to7 months old. Knows or is learning some commands, sit stay, down,fetch, heel, go to bed, nap time, come etc… he is crate trained and doing well on leash and in the car.
Has always been pretty calm and laid back for a puppy.
He gets along with dogs big and small, does ok with some cats (depends on their attitude)
If you are interested in knowing more or want to meet Randall please let us know.

Stop breeding in Kern County. What don’t you get ?

https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=1004387291698443&id=100063815435656&mibextid=cr9u03

Deputy is going to put on his badge and start looking for some bandits to adopt him. He is tired of waiting in a kennel for his hold-up gang. Tonight he’s holding me a paw-point to get his profile on Petfinder so more people will know about him.

Cattle dog lovers!!!! We are still looking for a home, a foster, a herding dog training program, a solution for Oliva. It’s been two months since her owner passed away and it’s time to move out of the house. Olivia and 2 other dogs have no where to go. The cats have been placed with relatives but no one in the family is suited for the dogs due to cramped living and smaller dogs in the household. Although all 3 dogs are sweet they have not been thoroughly socialized with other animals. Olivia actually is but she has a strong herding instinct that doesn’t make her suitable around small dogs.
Olivia would be perfect for a single gal ( or guy) that wants a by-your-side companion, a running buddy or just loyal friend that only gives a open ear. She can be all of those things ! She is 4/5 years old, house trained and has been raised with a child in the household. Please share our post, tell a friend, give us a lead …. Time is running out

Can’t understand why people still breed when faces like these are in need

https://www.facebook.com/100064687451253/posts/910065384493035/?mibextid=cr9u03

There are some people in our world that just sprinkle that bit of extra into the atmosphere!!! This week dropped off 120lbs of dog food to our Rags store. She put on her work clothes and collected dog food for Halt and cat food for chance rescue making for many happy mouths. All the dogs at Halt Rescue and may I say especially IRIS say thank you Marty!!!

Downtown Second Saturday…. August 10th …… the heat is on and we have a red hot sale to celebrate !!! Everything is 50% off excluding jewelry. Great clothing items for $1, $2 and $5 !! This is an inside and outside sale. EVERYTHING MUST GO!!!!! Bring you shopping bag and join us from 9am till the cows come home, 234 H Street right where Bank meets H.
If you want to volunteer let us know !

Unfortunately we have to cancel😞 going to be too hot…
If you are wanting to meet or know about any dogs please send a message and we will be glad to get back to you.
🌞Adoption event today!🌞
🌞Petco🌞
5151 Gosford road
Bakersfield
From 1 to 4pm
Fancy hopes to see you there!

We need a few people to join our team!!! We have Fall events we need help with.
Planning, participating and putting our heads together for some pup fun-raising! We need 5-6 people to help get us through this. No special talents needed ( however if you have a fundraising background that would be great)just need to be a team player with a head full of ideas! We will be meeting in the next couple of weeks. If you are interested I will email you the current events in the making for late September and October. This opportunity is open to anyone over 21 years of age , men are welcomed ! Comment or message and you be added to the list and will receive an informational email !!!!!

***Anyone near McCutcheon/Gosford/ Taft Hwy. Possible sighting of PONCHO…
Walking East in field near construction site. Anyone near ? He might be staying around this vacinity.***

‼️‼️‼️should anyone spot this dog please call & text immediately…. (661) 840-7052 or 661-205-4834‼️‼️if safe stay with the dog or trail him until we arrive ‼️‼️thank you

The kitty life.
We currently have at least 3 kitties we are feeding in colonies which we are concerned about finding homes for each. This darling, young calico was an apartment left behind. She is friendly and since I came upon her has had 3 litters in the crawl space of a dilapidated house. I’m not sure where all the kittens have gone or how many were per litter. She kept that private. I do know she is up to get pregnant again very soon. Is there someone willing to foster so we can get her fixed and back up to having meat on her bones ,looking good and finding her a home. She greets me everyday !
Foster does not mean you have to keep for ever just until they find their forever home. Please comment your help !

Please consider fostering…

Well this is almost the perfect happy tail♥️SuperBowl Sunday 2023 Aunt Bea and her few day old puppies were rescued from a sewer drain. All her puppies are in homes 🐾🐾🐾Aunt Bea was scouted and entered Training Without Conflict as a program dog. The program lasted 6 months and this month Aunt Bea graduated. She graduated and she also became a well trained,confident companion dog. She was such a shell of a dog when we got her from existing on her own in survival mode. We are so grateful that she was chosen and given the opportunity by who was enrolled in the training program and in need of a trainee dog. You can see in the picture the well rounded dog Aunt Bea has become. There is just one piece of the picture missing. A home! Aunt Bea needs an adoption and a family of her own. Her Petfinder profile is up and we are accepting applications. If you love shepherds don’t miss the chance of becoming Bea’s master person