06/05/2026
🚨 URGENT COMMUNITY HELP NEEDED: PUPPIES DUMPED AFTER HOURS 🚨
Last night, an off-duty CCAPS Magnolia staff member noticed a moving box on our security camera footage. A staff member living close to town rushed to the shelter to check. Inside the box, they found a helpless puppy abandoned in the dark with no humans around.
Since this morning, our team has been scouring the property. More puppies were located wandering the grounds. As of right now, the current number of recovered puppies is 3.
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🐾🐾Please note we can help with a Spay/Neuter Voucher, contact the Shelter for more information,
🔍 CAN YOU HELP US? WE NEED CRITICAL INFORMATION!
See pictures below of the woman picked up by our camera footage.
• If you are this person, or if you know her, PLEASE message us immediately. We urgently need to know exactly how many puppies were originally placed in that box. Because the box was left unattended overnight, we need to know if any are missing so we can determine if we should keep searching. Every minute matters. If more puppies are out there, they are completely defenseless against predators. We have at least one fox and one raccoon in the area that we know of.
🛑Please do not post the woman's name and /or private contact information in comments. Call or message the Shelter directly.
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🛑 WHY DUMPING ANIMALS AFTER HOURS IS INCREDIBLY DANGEROUS
Leaving animals at a shelter door when it is closed is not a safe surrender—it is illegal abandonment. We understand people fall on hard times, but doing this puts lives at immediate risk:
• Predator and Traffic Risks: Domesticated puppies cannot defend themselves against wild coyotes, foxes, raccoons, or stray dogs. The puppies found wandering our property this morning easily could have become prey or run into traffic.
• Deadly Disease Risks: Unvaccinated, unprotected litters dumped like this can bring devastating viruses—such as Parvo—into the shelter. Parvo is highly contagious, extremely expensive to treat, and can quickly sweep through a facility, killing many vulnerable shelter animals.
• Extreme Weather Exposure: Leaving young animals exposed overnight leads to severe hypothermia in cold weather, while the rapid dehydration and heatstroke comes with the hotter weather.
• No Care History: When animals are dumped, staff receive zero medical, behavioral, or age history, making it significantly harder to provide immediate, targeted care.
🛑 🛑Note: Please do not toss animals by their foot or leg and/or attempt to drop or throw them over the fences as this can kill or seriously injure the animal, leaving them without help for many hours.
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🐾 HOW YOU CAN HELP US CARE FOR THESE PUPPIES
Our resources are already stretched thin, and unexpected emergency rescues like this divert crucial funds and staff attention. If you would like to support the care of these 4 newly recovered puppies, here is how you can help:
• Donate Supplies: We urgently need puppy food, replacement milk, blankets, and cleaning supplies.
🐾Shelter: 510 W. Columbia St.
🐾KZHE: 406 W. Union St.
• Financial Contributions: Donations toward their incoming veterinary exams, vaccines, and parvo preventative testing are desperately needed.
🐾 paypal.me/ccapsshelter
🐾Credit/Debit Card: Call Clistie directly at the CCAPS Warehouse & Thrift Store at (870) 904-7772.
• Foster or Adopt: Opening your home to foster helps keep these vulnerable puppies safe from shelter-borne illnesses while they grow.
• Share This Post: Help us find out the total number of puppies so we can ensure no animal was left behind in the woods, or we can possibly locate if they are hiding.
• Please, if you need to surrender an animal, reach out to us during business hours so we can assist you safely and legally. Thank you to our dedicated staff who rushed out in the night, and thank you to our community for helping us work to keep all abandoned and homeless animals safe.
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If you are a local resident, please let us know if you can:
🐾assist with a physical search of the property grounds when these situations arise (we're creating a call list for searches),
🐾provide foster care, or
🐾donate specific puppy supplies right away as these are needed immediately!
Use this page's Messenger, to contact Terri, the Shelter Manager, or call (870) 234-7297 if you know the exact number of puppies that were left in the box last night?
🛑Please do not post the woman's name or private contact information in comments. Call or message the Shelter directly.
Thank you to all that help these puppies get the best Vet care and food we can provide. Your help appreciated.
