Due to construction at IH10 and Beltway 8 we will not be conducting dog adoptions at Petsmart . Instead, we will be holding adoptions at Ace Hardware located at 14455 Memorial (just inside of Dairy Ashford). Come on by.

Note our phone number has changed. It is now 832 321-4621.

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Update 4/13/07 We will be at Ace Hardware, 14455 Memorial Dr, Houston, TX, in between Kirkwood and Dairy Ashford on Saturday from 10 AM to 4 PM and Sunday from 12 PM to 4 PM. (Note: we will not have dogs at Petsmart due to IH10 construction.)

Update 3/16/07 We had some great news - one of the recently fostered dogs, Coco, immediately found an escape route and her foster has been posting flyers and hitting the animal shelters daily and today we got the good news that Coco was safe and the family that saved her want to make her a permanent addition to their family.             Just a reminder -  We will be at Petsmart tomorrow from 10AM to 4PM

Update 3/12/07 - Unfortunately we did not have any adoptions at either Petsmart, Petco, or the clinic the last two Saturdays. A new female and a litter came in last week and a second litter is being dropped off any day. Check out the new dog, a lab/collie mix named Samantha - as you would expect from a collie and lab she is a sweetheart. It is the beginning of the puppy season and we typically get over 20 litters a year. A bunch of our young dogs were from last years litters - check out some of them - Spec, Parker, Sundance, .... They need fosters and volunteers and your support more than ever

           Samantha                        Spec (adopted 4/28)                    Parker                                 Sundance

Update 3/7/07 - Unfortunately we did not have any adoptions at the clinic last weekend but we will be conducting adoptions at both Petsmart and Petco this Saturday. Several pups showed up at the pound but unfortunately one did not make it. If you are interested in any of the dogs listed on Petfinder please let us know and we will include them on the transport list.

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Update -2/28/07 10:00 AM  - We will be conducting adoptions at the clinic on Friday from 1 to 3PM and Saturday from 9 to 10:30AM. We can only conduct adoptions when the clinic staff is there so the earlier part of the sessions is definitely better than at the end.  We are working to get pictures/descriptions updated on the website.  There are 51 dogs there at this time. - more or with fosters and are still in need of a home.

Directions to the kennel: Go west on IH10 past Katy to Brookshire (about 7 miles past Katy). Take the second exit (Koomey Road) and take a left over the interstate. The kennel is at the Brookshire Animal Clinic and is on the left side of the road about a block down the road. 

Adoptions at Petsmart this Saturday will be for cats only due to transport limitation this weekend.

Note: Next update will be Sunday evening.

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Update -2/26/07 11:20 AM -  Email traffic  Tues = 77, Wed = 74, Thur = 124. Fri = 93, Sat = 11, Sunday = only 2 , the phone call trend matches the email one ......

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Update -2/24/07 10:07 PM - BIG2 showed the story again and provided the correct information ie we are FULL - we have not placed all the animals,

Update  - 2/24/07 7pm: The rescue conducted adoptions at both Petco and Petsmart today. Turnout was disappointing and only 1 dog was adopted at each site. BIG2 ran a story that ALL of the animals from the rescue were placed.  THIS IS NOT CORRECT!

There were errors in the coverage on the Zeke Fund in the 6 pm news. All of the animals were removed from the Brookshire pound where any remaining would have been euthanized by the city at end of day Friday. They were removed by the Zeke Fund Animal Rescue and now 50 animals are being commercially kenneled and another 50 are now with fosters! The rescue is FULL and our monthly expenses has significantly increased with the increased number of animals housed at a commercial kennel.

The first hurdle was to get all 43 animals out of the Brookshire pound before the mayor killed them. We did that but now we face the huge 2nd task of paying for their kenneling while volunteers man adoption sites every Saturday. The coverage indicated that all of the animals were gone from the rescue which is false. Unfortunately this will lead people to believe there is now no reason to support us.

I asked BIG2 to run this again at 10 and correct it. It is critical that people understand that we only achieved the first hurdle of evacuating the pound.  The second is the rescue being able to be able to support these pets for more than one or even two months. A facility is the end game, certainly not the next step. A facility would be a place where the animals could live while waiting for new families and people could come and see all the animals instead of us transporting 5 or 10 of 100 or even 200 to some venue to try to get them adopted. There are more than a few hurdles between where we are now and that end – and those hurdles are significant. The city pound will become a "3 day and you are dead" facility once more - and we have nowhere to place the new animals that the cities' animal control brings in to the pound. (One "owner" recognized their missing dog from a news clip and demanded it's return - it has been kenneled by the rescue for FOUR months (=$600) - this suggests three days may be just a little bit less than needed! More incredible is they had only owned the dog for two months before he dug out.

Please note: once people knew we were no-kill shelter a significant number of litters and animals were dumped at the pound's front gate. Until yesterday we had Four "generations" of litters represented at a single adoption: 1st gen is Louie (who cries "Momma" when he wants attention, 2nd gen is Beebe (adopted), 3rd gen is Butch and Sundance, and 4th gen is Simone and Timba - obvious offspring from someone's brindle greyhound or whippet that the owner will not spay! Why bother when you can put the pups in a box and dump them on the rescue.

Update  - 2/23/07 8pm:

The special adoption session resulted in 15 adoptions/fosters and 9 dogs were taken by fellow rescue Mr. Ks.

 

       

Adoptions Yesterday                                                            The pound - everyone gone and runs coming down

ALL animals were removed from the pound before the deadline - NONE were euthanized by the city of Brookshire!

ALL are now safely kenneled at the Brookshire Animal Clinic - the clinic, staff, Jeff, and Dr. Crouch have been our partners in this mission since the beginning and have once again come to our aid during the worst of times!

The Waltrip Family Foundation has made the exceptional gift of funding the entire 1st month of kenneling charges!!!!! They are one of many who have generously contributed to give them time - every dollar matters and 100% goes to the animals

Our thanks to the Clinic, the Waltrip Family Foundation, the news professionals of Big2 and ABC13, and all of the caring people of the Houston area (which now extends north to Utah, west to California, east to New York and Virginia!!!) that responded both financially and by stepping forward as fosters and adopters. Because of all of you the Rescue made this first hurdle - you have our (and more importantly the pound packs) most sincere thanks!

The crisis is not over - we have many animals desperate for a family to take care of (Spec has to have kids as well) - come see us at adoptions tomorrow. You'll save a life and gain a new best friend.

Please note: the city has given us more time to remove our runs, houses, and equipment. Since all of our animals are in the clinic these items are not immediately needed so our volunteers will focus on conducting adoptions. We will get back to those who volunteered as soon as the smoke clears.

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Upcoming ADOPTION Times and Locations!!!

Saturday - 2 locations

 We will be at Petsmart from 10 am to 4 pm. The Petsmart is located on the north access road of IH10 between Gessner and the Beltway.

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We will be at the Mason Road Petco in Katy from 1pm to 5pm

PLEASE Note - volunteers will not be manning the phone as they will be at adoptions - Our email contact will be manned.

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Cats: Our vetted cats are housed at the Petsmart adoption center. We currently have three 3-4 month old kittens and possibly a couple of cats at the animal clinic.

What we need:  Some manpower with trailers to help tear down and transporting kennels to some private property where we set them up and move the last pound animals to. When: Friday and Saturday, Send an email to  contact@Zeke-Fund-Animal-Rescue.com  with "work crew" in the title along with your contact info and Steve will get back with you.

Misinformation

There is a ERROR in the original ABC13 web article which they immediately corrected: The Brookshire Animal Clinic is and has been our GREATEST supporter - they have provided discounted vet and kennel services since the beginning and have strained themselves to the breaking point helping us save animals during this crisis.

The Brookshire Animal Clinic deserves your thanks, support, and appreciation!!!!!!! Not harassment

First:       For the record we are not the ones putting the dogs down.

The Zeke Fund Animal Rescue is a handful of volunteers which all have full time jobs – we have no paid employees and spend our weekends conducting adoption days and helping these animals.

The pound is a city facility which until 2004 was a heavy kill shelter. Our rescue got involved in 2004 and since that time no animals coming into the pound have been killed. We have been ordered to move out of the pound - any dogs we want to save and all of the free standing kennels we installed must be out of the pound by this Friday – remaining animals will be destroyed by the city. That is why this situation exists.

Conditions at the pound are poor. Since we submitted plans for thirty new covered, cement runs in Feb 2006 we find this situation all the more disturbing. The cost for these runs could easily been covered with just a couple months of kenneling costs we have incurred this past year.

Activity- This last Friday through Sunday we have moved 11 dogs from the pound to commercial kennels bringing the number there to 50 dogs. We have found fosters or adopters for 12 others. There is no more room at that commercial kennel. Another kennel can accept some at a slightly higher discounted rate of $210 a month or approximately an extra $6000 a month just for the animals currently at the pound. Our monthly donations did not even cover 1 day of kenneling charges before all this happened – the rest has been made up by a few volunteers for months. THIS IS WHERE YOUR DONATION GOES! – it buys them time.

Tuesday we conducted adoptions during the evening at both the vet and pound and adopted or fostered 7 more. T

Wednesday we conducted adoptions placing one dog. Three dogs were moved from the pound leaving 20 there at this time.

Adoption/Foster hours: We will be conducting adoptions Wednesday evening starting at 5:30pm and Friday starting at 1PM. Please check back for expanded hours - they will be posted as they are confirmed.

Directions to the kennel: Go west on IH10 past Katy to Brookshire (about 7 miles past Katy). Take the second exit (Koomey Road) and take a left over the interstate. The kennel is at the Brookshire Vet and is on the left side of the road about a block down the road. 

After Friday - The city will keep the covered 10 bank of kennels. We have been told that any remaining animals will be destroyed and future animals coming in to the pound will have the legally mandated 3 days before being destroyed. In the past we took every animal coming in and have placed approximately 450 in good homes since we started. We will no longer enjoy the use of the pound which we expanded by a factor of three when we supplied the new chain link fence. Our efforts to find a couple of suitable acres so far have not been successful. Now that we can not use the pound facility we are forced to commercially kennel animals all of the animals that we do not have fosters for and that is why the donations are so desperately needed. 

For a more current list of our dogs please click here: http://www.petfinder.com/shelters/TX786.html

                                    Thank you,

                                     The Zeke Fund Animal Rescue

FAQ: Why not just give the animals away instead of charging a “fee”: We charge a tax deductible fee because it is less likely that someone will use them as a bait dog, resale them for medical experiments, or toss them in the backyard or on the road the first time they are inconvenient – besides if they can not handle $100 fee which includes, spay/neuter, rabies, deworming, and Heartworm test they for sure can not afford to provide them with vet care, heartgard, etc they need. These animals have come from bad situations and we are not going to put them back in to another one just because of this problem. Even now we lose money on each animal and the adoption fee goes right into helping the next animal.

 

I have called but can not get through or the mail box is full: Our contact number, 281 855-3634, is a regular landline and could not handle the volume of calls we have received. We are doing call backs at this time. Please email us at contact@Zeke-Fund-Animal-Rescue.com  and we will get back to you with updates on any expansion of adoption hours.