Friends… this is one of those hard but honest posts. The kind where we pull back the curtain on rescue life and show you the part that isn’t always cute, shareable, or easy — but it’s the very heart of why Runaways exists.​ Lately, we’ve taken in an overwhelming number of medical cases. The animals no one else can say yes to. The euthanasia deadlines. The broken bodies. The seniors. The special needs. The mystery diagnoses. 

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These are our mission animals.

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These are the ones we never want to turn our backs on. But in the fast-paced chaos of shelter life — emergency intakes, surgeries, recoveries, late nights, early mornings — we haven’t been posting every case like we normally do. And financially… it’s catching up with us.

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Here’s just a glimpse of what the last stretch has looked like:

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Buddy the Elf — a juvenile cat pulled straight from euthanasia with TWO broken legs. One required amputation. The other needed a specialized plated repair to save it.​

Grandma Juju — a senior pittie with two painful knees and heartworm disease. We started treatment and gave her Arthramid injections in both knees so her golden years don’t have to hurt.​

Bubbles — a tiny black pittie born with deformities, a funny little gait, two bad knees (also treated with Arthramid), and a leg that may still need an expensive TPLO surgery in the future. Four Frenchies rescued from a breeder — all needing nares and soft palate surgery just to breathe normally… and one who also needed an FHO surgery.​

Moxie — a tiny calico born with eyelid agenesis who required double reconstructive eye surgeries so she could live pain-free and see the world.

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Just these surgeries alone have cost us over $10,000. And that doesn’t include ongoing meds, follow ups, rehab, heartworm treatment, or daily care. We will ALWAYS choose the broken. We will ALWAYS fight for the ones with odds stacked against them.​ Right now our medical intake is temporarily closed until we can raise enough to keep going. And that breaks our hearts, because we know there are more Buddys, more Bubbles, more Grandmas waiting in shelters that need someone to say yes.

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If Runaways has ever touched your heart…If you believe every life is worthy — even the hard, expensive, complicated ones…If you want us to keep pulling the animals no one else can…Please consider donating today. Your support is the only reason these animals are alive.​