DO NOT CALL ABOUT THIS DOG.  ONLY EMAILS WILL BE RETURNED AT THIS TIME. Everyone in our rescue is a volunteer with full time jobs. The amount of phone calls we receive can be more than we have time to return.  So please email us, so your are not overlooked as a possible home.

Meet Lou Lou!  She came to us dehydrated.  Had to receive IV fluids prior to being ready for surgery.  Then she was spayed, hernia repaired, vaccinated, wormed and heartworm tested (negative).  She is now doing great. Very alert and active! Loving sweet girl. Being fostered with other animals and children and loving it!  $150 adoption fee.  Email us for an application.  Pictures coming tomorrow.

All dogs are fostered in private foster homes all through Kansas and Missouri. We do not have a shelter for you to visit them all in one location.  Each dog is living with other animals, most with children etc. This enables us to provide you with accurate personality traits, schedules etc of each dog to make sure you and the dog are the "right" match for each other.  A completed application is required before meeting a dog.

We are a Mastiff rescue, but several of our members foster small dogs that we will courtesy list on our website.  Application and adoption fees are different from the Mastiffs.  But all are vetted the same.  To adopt a Mastiff, please fill out our online application at www.MastiffHope.org/forms .   To adopt a small dog, please email for an application.

Small dog adoption fees "average $100-200".  Mastiff adoption fee is $350 (unless otherwise listed).  Our Adoption fees are kept as low as possible. The fees are used to pay the vet  expenses. All dogs are up to date on shots, heartworm tested, spayed or neutered, wormed, flea preventative applied and any known problems are treated before they can be adopted. Each year our vet bills are many thousands higher than our adoption fees, so we are not able to adopt dogs without an adoption fee. We have to rely highly on donations and sponsorships to stay afloat. If you can't adopt - please consider sponsoring a dog!  Cash, crates and dog food donations are always the greatest need.

Just in the first 2 months of 2010 we have taken in 3 puppies with parvo (average vetting to save a parvo puppy is $700 each).  2 eye removals ($400 each).  Cherry eye's repaired $250.  Have one needing TPLO surgery ($3000).  Etc. This is all above and beyond the cost of typical vetting.
Typical Vetting costs:
Check up/Office visit - $30-50
Spay/Neuter - depends on weight of dog $100-400
DHLPP - $27
Rabies - $25
Heartworm test - $35
Wormer - $15-25
Antibiotics - $15-70

Good with Dogs, Good with Cats, Good with Kids