09/03/2026
UPDATE! Emergency placement found. We picked them up late Wednesday evening. Noelle is now in a longer term foster home but Navy is still with the emergency foster and needs placement until adoption.
🚨 EMERGENCY FOSTER TAKEOVER NEEDED — NAVY & NOELLE NEED OUT NOW 🚨
Navy and Noelle need to leave their current placement NOW. This is no longer a routine foster takeover where we have a few days to coordinate placement. We urgently need somewhere safe for these two approximately 3-month-old female Husky mix puppies to go as soon as possible.
They can be fostered together OR separately. If you can take even one of them, please submit our foster application immediately.
We normally handle foster issues privately, and we will not be sharing names or personally identifying information. However, after what our volunteer team has dealt with today, we are also not going to pretend that this is simply a routine foster takeover.
We completely understand that circumstances change and that sometimes fosters unexpectedly need animals moved. We have never had an issue with a foster telling us they can no longer continue fostering. We will always work to find another placement.
What is not acceptable is what has happened today.
Our volunteer team has spent hours receiving communications that we experienced as hostile, accusatory and personally disrespectful while actively trying to find placement for these puppies. Team members have been accused of failing to provide adequate care and supplies, threatened with reports to authorities, and told that if we cannot remove the puppies immediately, they may be taken to animal control or a shelter for us to “pick them up there.”
Meanwhile, we have been actively working this entire time to get Navy and Noelle moved.
The claims that Ruff Road Revival has failed to adequately provide for these puppies are simply not accurate. We have provided food, crates, puppy pads, collars, leashes, toys, cleaning supplies, prevention and medical care, and we have documentation of what has been provided.
Ruff Road Revival is 100% volunteer-run. Our Foster Supply Coordinator worked a 15-hour day yesterday outside of the rescue, and yet the most recent supply request was still addressed and fulfilled within approximately 24 hours of our team receiving it. Our volunteers have jobs, families and responsibilities outside of rescue, but they continue showing up for these animals every single day.
We have also received multiple, seemingly conflicting explanations for why the puppies suddenly need to leave immediately.
We were told that one concern was that the puppies were urinating frequently throughout the home. Rather than dismissing that concern, our team recommended that they be evaluated by a veterinarian for a possible UTI or other medical cause.
We were also told that having the puppies in the home put the household over the number of animals reportedly permitted by their city. However, later the same day, the individual demanding their immediate removal was also communicating to our team that the puppies’ original foster wanted to adopt one and that her older daughter wanted to adopt the other.
We cannot speak to the household’s circumstances or local animal limits beyond what was communicated to us, and we are not going to speculate about anyone’s motivations. What we can say is that our team has received changing and conflicting information throughout the day, while simultaneously being expected to produce immediate placement for two puppies and being threatened with having them taken to a shelter if we cannot.
None of those explanations change our response: if a foster tells us an animal needs to leave, we will work to move that animal. We do not need to agree with or even understand the reason. But we do need a reasonable opportunity to arrange a safe transfer through our rescue rather than having our animals surrendered elsewhere while we are actively working on placement.
Our Foster Manager has spent hours attempting to calmly and professionally resolve this situation while receiving repeated hostile and accusatory communications. As the situation continued to escalate, other members of our team have had to step in as well.
And now, because we cannot magically produce two new foster homes on demand, we have been told that our puppies may be taken to animal control or a shelter.
That is unacceptable.
Ruff Road Revival is a foster-based rescue. We do not have a facility. When a foster placement unexpectedly ends, another person has to open their home. We can post, call, message, rearrange placements and beg for help—but we cannot manufacture a foster home out of thin air.
We are not refusing to take Navy and Noelle back. We are not asking anyone to keep them indefinitely. We are actively working to find alternate placement and coordinate their safe transfer.
Instead, our volunteers have now had to divert time away from actually finding placement to contact animal control and shelter facilities to make them aware that Ruff Road Revival has not authorized these puppies to be surrendered or transferred.
What makes this situation even more concerning is that the individual involved has represented to our team that she is heavily involved with another rescue organization and has fostered animals for them for a significant period of time. We are not naming that organization because they are not involved in this situation, and we cannot independently speak to her relationship with them.
However, based on the behavior our team has experienced today—particularly the threat to take rescue animals to animal control or a shelter rather than allowing the rescue responsible for them reasonable time to arrange their safe transfer—we are genuinely concerned about any foster animals being placed in an environment where this could be considered an appropriate response when a placement needs to end.
There is absolutely nothing wrong with saying, “I can no longer foster this animal and need them moved.” Fosters are allowed to reach their limit. Circumstances change. Emergencies happen. We understand that.
But threatening to independently surrender a rescue’s animals to a shelter because another foster home cannot be produced immediately is an entirely different matter, and it is not behavior we consider appropriate or acceptable from anyone entrusted with foster animals.
Our volunteers deserve better than this.
Being part of rescue does not mean our volunteers should be expected to tolerate threatening, hostile or personally disrespectful communication while they are actively trying to help. We will always hold ourselves accountable when we make a mistake, but we will also stand behind our volunteers when they are being treated this way.
And most importantly, Navy and Noelle do not deserve to be caught in the middle of any of it.
🐾 Approximately 3 months old
🐾 Female Husky mixes
🐾 Can be fostered together OR separately
🐾 Supplies and approved medical care provided by Ruff Road Revival
🐾 They need to leave their current placement NOW
We will not identify the individuals involved, and we do not want anyone attempting to figure out who they are or contacting them. This post is not an invitation to harass anyone. We are sharing what our team has experienced because we believe in being transparent with our supporters about why this situation has become so urgent.
Right now, our priority is getting Navy and Noelle out of this situation and somewhere safe.
If you can foster Navy, Noelle, or both, please fill out our foster application linked in the comments ASAP.
Please share. We need somewhere safe for these girls to go NOW.
EDIT TO ADD: If you are coming onto this post to be rude, judgmental, make incorrect assumptions, or just cause you are having a bad day and need someone to take it out on, this is not the place. We have dealt with enough in the last 24 hours, we will have no qualms about blocking you.
