NEW! Kroger Grocery Stores - please print the letter at this link and take it one time to your Kroger cashier, and all your future purchases will mean a donation to the Rescue! Thank you!
NEW 2009 Entertainment PASSBOOKS on sale now, benefitting the Rescue! Great savings on restaurants, shopping, entertainment, and more! Buy one for yourself, and give one to a friend! Available at all our locations where supplies are sold.
Happy Summer from Patriotic Piggy!
Hoedown Gift Basket Winners Hoedown PHOTO ALBUM!
THANK YOU to everyone who made the 2008 Hoedown event such a huge success! Nearly 300 people attended, around 80 piggies had a well-piggy check-up, thanks to the wonderful staff of Carrollton West Pet Hospital, and we were able to raise around $2000!
Of course the need to continually raise funds, especially this time of year when intake is up and adoptions are down, continues, so please consider a special Donation:
or product purchase from our friend below, and know it is appreciated!
Make a Mary Kay cosmetics purchase from our friend Carla Pruett with this link - mention Texas Rustlers in the comments box, and 40% of your purchase is donated to help the piggies! Thank You!
Vacation Foster Parents
Are you interested in fostering a pair of piggies? We have a boarding service for those on vacation and often run out of space. If you would like to help, we will provide everything except veggies. Please call or e-mail the rescue for more details.
Lab Piggies Rescued!
from Rescue Director Julia Hinrichs: This spring, Texas Rustlers finally got to rescue 32 lab piggies from a local university. We had been contacted late last year regarding the piggies that the university was finished with and required re-homing - if they could not be re-homed the alternative was the CO2 chamber. All the piggies, with the exception of 4, had been used in behavioral testing; 1 was used as a mosquito feeder, and the other 3 were accidentally bred after the program had finished and not used for testing purposes. Thanks to Carla, we were able to able to load all the piggies into 2 cars and get them to the rescue around 5pm; it then took us nearly another 4 hours to set them all up. The caging we currently have them in is far from ideal, but better than what they had before. They do not eat veggies, they are reluctantly trying hay, and they are absolutely terrified - I have never met such scared piggies in all my life. We want to thank those who have already helped or offered to help. As you can imagine, these poor piggies are going to be with us a while. They need intensive care in the form of love and gentle handling, some have medical issues, 1 with an inner ear infection, 2 with hair loss and 1 with possible heart issues. All the lab piggies are pink-eyed whites!
If you would like to see the initial pictures of them.
If you would like to help, donations can be made with one click via Paypal below on this home page, or mailed to the address on the contact page. Please be sure to mention that the donation is for the Lab Piggies.
If you are interested in fostering or adopting and have adopted or fostered from us before please contact us.
If you are interested in fostering or adopting and have not adopted or fostered from us before, please complete either the foster or the adoption contract. Again, please specify that your interest is in the Lab Piggies.
If you would like to volunteer at the rescue, we require help cleaning cages, water bottles, food dishes, cutting nails etc. every Saturday between the hours of 9am and 5pm, if interested please contact us.
Welcome!
Texas Rustlers Guinea Pig Rescue is a 501(c)(3) corporation that rescues abandoned, neglected, and/or abused guinea pigs in the Dallas / Fort Worth, Texas area and beyond.
Click here to view our Mission Statement.
"Life is as dear to a mute creature as it is to
man. Just as one wants happiness and fears pain, just as one wants to live
and not die, so do other creatures."
-- quote from his holiness the Dalai Lama
| Current Statistics |
| Adopted | Rescued |
| 2 | 3 |
Currently At the Rescue |
176 Guinea Pigs,
1 Gerbil, 14 Hamsters, 1 Cat
Guinea Pigs Rescued to Date: 1,367 |
Did you know? Quite often, people think that all rescued piggies have been horribly neglected or abused. This is unfortunately true some of the time, but most guinea pigs at Texas Rustlers are given up due to children tiring of them, and they are perfectly healthy and well adjusted. In fact, our piggies are given attention by a qualified guinea pig veterinarian when needed, and are under the watchful care of Rescue volunteers, who feed them optimum diets which were often lacking in their former homes. Rescued piggies may be shy at first until they get used to their new, loving owners, but be assured they are well taken care of as they wait for their permanent homes.
Donations Always Welcome
and Greatly Appreciated!
... Or, send your tax deductible donations
by check made out to "Texas Rustlers GPR"
160 Cedarcrest Lane
Double Oak, TX 75077
Your $5 donation provides...a Pigloo home in which to sleep and feel secure.
Your $10 donation provides...aspen bedding for three pairs of guinea pigs.
Your $15 donation provides...24 piggies with nutritious Romaine lettuce for a week.
Your $20 donation provides...morning tomatoes for 7 piggies for one month.
Your $35 donation provides...all the Rescue piggies with Timothy hay for 2 days!
Your $50 donation provides...a thorough health exam by an experienced guinea pig veterinarian.
Your $100 donation provides...aspen bedding for 30 pairs of guinea pigs!
Your $250 donation provides...fresh vegetables for half the Rescue's guinea pigs for a month.
Your $500 donation provides...neutering surgery for 10 male rescued guinea pigs.
Your $1,000 donation provides...enough quality Timothy hay to provide 80% of the daily diet for all the guinea pigs at the Rescue for 2 months!
At any one time, nearly 200 rescued guinea pigs are housed and cared for through Texas Rustlers Guinea Pig Rescue. We are an all-volunteer non-profit organization, and we depend solely on donations from caring individuals and companies.
Thank you for your support!
This site was last updated on 8/26/08.
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