Bam Bam was shut down at the shelter and in desperate need of busting out as he was at risk of being euthanized. Now, he is doing AMAZING in his foster home!! His foster dad has crate trained, potty trained, leashed trained, dog tested and even bird tested our little guy! Bam has no prey drive, loves other dogs, is still weary of new sights & sounds but with a little patience and love, he's becoming more confident by the day! His foster dad took him to park to play fetch on a long lead and Bam choose to sit on his feet and watch the turkeys instead. He knows his basic commands of sit, down, heel, middle, come, stay, leave it, drop it, spin, back up, weave & place. According to his foster dad, Bam is no longer afraid of motorcycles. He loves squeaky plush toys and does not destroy them right away. Foster dad has to hide his oranges from Bam too, because he likes to steal them! He is still full of puppy energy which gives his foster dad plenty of laughter as he can be the biggest goof ball at times. He is still very food motivated and easily trainable. He finally had his first pup cup awhile ago and it was Love at first taste. Bam was initially weary of small children, but has since shown interest in kids and wants to play. He may be a bit too big to do so with small children, but slow intros might help him figure kiddos out. Foster dad also mentions that Bam is not the best photo subject "I try very hard to get pictures of Bam while at the park. But he always seems to find a stick or a leaf that takes his attention away. His favorite things to do are running & swimming. Bam is now fully vetted & ready for his forever home! He would love a k9 sister to play with as well as boost his confidence even more.

Brooklyn is an amazing dog with tons of drive and athleticism. She discovered a bird feeder hanging in a tree and jumped 8 feet straight up to get it!! ??She absolutely loves swimming, running, jumping, working, playing, adores kids, and her favorite thing in the world is car rides. She is great with other dog as long as they can handle her high energy. She is crate trained and knows "Sit", "Shake", "Down", and "Spin." Don't let her small size fool you, she is a tank of brute strength! Brooklyn is great on leash but needs a handler who leads her. She loves to curl up on the couch or in bed and hide under the covers. We could see her with a young family/couple/person who is active. She doesn't need lots of space as long as you work her: teach her tricks, take her running, hiking, throw the ball, etc. She loves puzzle toys and is so smart! Brooklyn came to us from the Bay Area where her time was running out in the shelter due to space.

Cane came to us with his Momma Merry and 9 siblings on December 17, 2023 after she gave birth as a stray.

Cookie, originally Oreo, came from the East Valley shelter. She was dumped there after being overbred. Sadly this is an all too common situation. She is doing wonderfully at her foster home, and is ready for a forever home. We have been fostering her for over a year. She loves to get cuddles and love and will sit on you for hours if you let her. She loves the tennis ball but will only play for a little bit before she gets tired and wants you to sun bathe. She loves outside time and is good with her foster brother and sister. She does well with other dogs with proper introduction. We have a cat and she sometimes pays attention to her and other times she won't. She loves to chew on pillows and socks so we keep them far way from her :) she is good walking but will sometimes pull when a bike comes by. She is crate trained and does well in her kennel, car rides she needs to be in a kennel if you alone cause she will try to get up front with you, even if she is on the car seat buckle with her collar. She is over all a love bug and just wants her forever home to be loved like she deserves.

Momma Merry was found as a stray and had a Microchip. After reaching out a dozen times to the original owner, we never heard a peep from them! After just a few days with her good Samaritan, she went into labor and delivered 10 healthy, beautiful puppies! The good Sam was overwhelmed and reached out to us for help. We took one look at Merry's sweet face and jumped into action! They are now safe with us and have have been examined by our vets the second day of arrival. The babies look perfect but momma is struggling to keep up. Momma merry is overwhelmed with 10 babies so our vet has suggested we supplement feedings so she can have a break. At only 40 lbs they are nursing her to near emaciation so we are supplementing momma and stepping in to help nurse. Momma is so darn tiny she is withering away caring for her giant litter! It's our turn to help momma, but we need your help We are so grateful the good Sam reached us so we can help her care for her beautiful babies. We need supplements, whelping pads, donations for 11 dogs to be vaccinated & fixed which will be between 10-15k easy! It is a huge undertaking but with your help we can reach our goal to provide absolutely everything they need! Momma is just a year old. She is just a pup herself and she is such a good momma! She needs us and we need your support.

Meet Nemo, our newest foster! Sadly, Nemo was abandoned at a park by his POS owners. When Nemo attempted to run after his owner's car, they brought him back to the park and tied him to a tree. Luckily, someone witnessed the whole thing, notified Pit Crew, and a volunteer was able to pick him up right away. Nemo was thought to have some sort of neurological issue. He was clumsy when he walked, often bumped into things, and dragged his front paws. He needed to wear booties on his front paws on walks or he would scrape them on the cement. He was otherwise a playful and loving puppy who just wanted to be loved and cuddled. He took to us right away and made himself right at home. Fast forward to now, 6 months later, and those neuro issues have mostly resolved. He still is a little clumsy but the bumping into things and dragging paws has greatly improved to almost where it doesn't happen anymore! Nemo is a 70lb loving and playful pup who just doesn't realize how big he is! He can't wait to find his furever home

Say hello to Sweetie, also the world's most loving, affectionate, forgiving soul to ever grace our universe! Sweetie was thrown out like trash when her little body could no longer physically produce more puppies for some a-hole to sell illegally. To say we love this little nugget would be such an understatement. She is BY FAR the sweetest dog we have ever had in our 14 years of rescue work so to hear her cough, to know it isn't kennel cough, to even think this darling angel likely has a heart condition: it absolutely shatters what little faith we have in humanity these days. How someone could be so evil, so cruel... and for her to be so incredibly trusting of her rescuers & love us with all of her being... it just breaks us wide open. Sweeties new life starts NOW. We desperately need funds to have an echocardiogram, chest xray and bloodwork done immediately. Unfortunately we are unable to get her an appointment this week, so we need your help to help her. Every dollar we raise from this post will go towards taking her in for all diagnostics under emergency care. Yes it will cost a significant amount more than a basic vet appt but she's been neglected far too long and now she is a PRIORITY for us. Despite her dragging female parts, literally vulva nearly touching the floor, more excessive skin in her breast's we have ever witnessed in our life, broken teeth, double horrible ear crop.. she is still ALL LOVE.

Say hello to our newest rescue boy Bear! We named him after Teddy, one of our director's dogs because he has the same little short body and is just as goofy! Bear was on the kill list at the Stanislaus County Shelter after he ran out of time when nobody was interested in him. Their diehard volunteer (a champion of their dogs), Nadia, sent us a plea and a video of his dog to dog test where an enormous husky laid his paw on his head to hold him down and Bear wiggles his whole body to play. We knew instantly this boy was special!! Luckily we had foster space so we sent a transporter to pick him up the next day. The shelter notated that he had bad skin, deformed back knees, and something with him mouth to where his tongue hung out. They assumed he was missing a K9, and frankly so did we! Once he arrived and we were able to check him out closer, it was obvious his jaw had been broken in the past and since healed on its own incorrectly. His tongue doesn't just hang out the side, the top jaw sits on the bottom jaw at an angle. So Bear has to drink out the side of his mouth, eat out the side of his mouth, and he even kisses us out the side of his mouth. BUT all that aside, he is still the happiest little nugget! He hops around and kisses all the dogs and people... or he tries to! AND every dog he has met, he has won over, even those not fond of other male dogs. We just knew he was special. Bear also has a unique walk indicating prior injury as well. His bad breeding left him with deformed back knees but he gets around well without any pain. Our theory is one of two: He was kicked in the back and face OR he was his by a car and left to suffer and heal all alone. Either way, we are so grateful he made his way to us and has been nothing short of a way of sunshine everywhere he goes! He is seriously the happiest, sweetest little guy! We just adore him!! Bear was thought to be a senior by the shelter, but we believe he is more like 6 years young, and with good nutrition, supplements, love, and exercise he could go on to live a long, wonderful life with a special family. You simply cannot have a bad day with this little guy in your presence. In fact, we took him to our hospice foster who lost Jericho to cheer them up until their next foster, and he has done exactly that! He makes them laugh, he plays with their pack, and gives sideways kisses to everyone at the company. UPDATE - 11/6/2023 Bear is still doing great. He had fun at the Halloween photo shoot and is overall a happy guy. He hates to go out when it rains, so what he does is instead of going to the back yard he goes to the garage (yes he can magically open doors somehow.. just by pushing i think) and starts his inner bark for me to open the garage door so he can go outside in the front underneath a big tree so he stays dry. He is so smart! He also still has his playful moments every day where he storms through the house like a little bull just cause he is happy UPDATE - 1/7/2021 HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYONE! I am working on learning commands this year. So far I am doing really good with "Sit" as long as my Foster Momma keeps those treats coming! ;) UPDATE - 12/10/2020 OH MY GOSH EVERYONE! Foster Momma and I went one a walk and guess what I saw!?! CHRISTMAS DECORATIONS!! They were so bright and pretty and I just had to laid down to watch them for a bit. It took a bit of coaxing from my Foster Momma to get me to get up and keep going on my walk but she promised to bring me back the next day.

Oliver is as sweet as he is adorable! After several months under our Behavioral Assessment Hold & Medical Hold, he was finally cleared on both. He had 6 punch biopsies done & to all of our surprise, they all came back benign. As it turns out Oliver has solar dermatitis from living a life of neglect outdoors. However, the masses came back and after more testing, he has been diagnosed with hemangiosarcoma. Oliver will have to be monitored closely to ensure this condition will not worsen suddenly, as it can be deadly, and we feel the medical expenses related to mass removal and close watch on him will be too costly to burden an adopter with. Despite this, we've got our couch potato for life and we will do everything to support him! He is now with a wonderful foster hospice who will take him to all appointments and events and help us to give him the best care. Oliver is like a bump on a pickle. The bump being Oliver, the pickle being the couch or bed inside the AC. Which as it turns out, is PERFECT because he cannot be exposed to direct sunlight for long periods of time. In fact, he has to be coaxed outside to go potty then comes right back in. Every now & again we see his silly side which consists of about 2.3 seconds of a hop/zoomie & we all laugh hysterically. He does have a stubborn streak and is known for putting on the brakes when he does not want to go somewhere. Oliver really is the funniest bestest boy ever! Oliver CAN go outside, he wears doggie sunscreen & doggie onesies if necessary. His ongoing protection from the sun is quite easy. Oliver came to us from Riverside County Shelter after he was labeled rescue only for Medical reasons. He had open lesions. His ears were infected & swollen shut. And yet, he was still all tail wags & sweetness at the shelter. His videos went viral and when we called the shelter to place a hold, we were told he had 13 local rescues who had expressed interest, so we moved on. Fast forward a week later & we saw his pleas still circulating. We called the shelter and every rescue who expressed interest had backed out. So we hustled to contact our rescue friends in SoCal. We had a local rescue with pull rights tag him so he was not destroyed. Then we put out a plea & found a volunteer to transport him. Thanks to everyone involved we were able to save his life and in turn, he has made all of ours better.

This sweet, enormous teddy bear was so shutdown at Animal Care & Control San Francisco that he was trembling in the corner and refused to walk out. It was so heartbreaking! The staff worked hard to network this guy as they knew he deserved a fighting chance outside of the shelter environment. Bobo has completely transformed into a silly, loving, goofball who loves other dogs and is beginning to show us his silly side. He has taken a liking to stealing couch pillows and taking them to his crate!

Meet Griffin! This sweet boy has had a hard life! A follower found him beside a warehouse with multiple deep lacerations, fleas, hungry and thirsty and HOT! They contacted us and we hopped to it. Thanks to our wonderful donors, we were able to get him the emergency treatment he needed. The road is long though. He will need a lot more medical care due to his rough life. Anything and everything helps! Click the paw to help out.

Three different rescues & trainers said to euthanize him. To that we responded, "Hand him over." Chaos, now Louie, was found chained up in a yard in Bakersfield. He was scared and defensive, but now he never needs to worry about any of that again. We got him on February 22, 2021. On day one he nipped to let us know he wasn't ready. We listened. He said, "I'm scared but I want to love you." Dogs communicate differently. Louie is an amazing dog who needed capable, confident handlers who provided structure. He has come so far in such a short time. Here at PCS we don't kill dogs we can't adopt out immediately. We see rescues euthanize dogs all the time because they have behaviors they claim they cannot handle. In fact, we don't adopt our dogs out quickly whatsoever. Maybe that's why out of over 1300 dogs adopted we have only every had ONE returned. Chaos, is now our loving Louie. Louie has now been integrated with the entire pack off leash at the ranch, where Cosmo, Teddy, Porsha and Teddy gave him time and taught him he can trust them. He's even met Reese, Daphne and Gilligan! He is not human aggressive. He just needs time. He is not dog aggressive. He just needs time. Foster mom says "Now we spend our days cuddling on the couch and I can make full eye contact with him, pick him up, handle him in any capacity and he trusts me wholeheartedly. It took me just as long to trust him too....but we made it. I love this dog. He listens to every word I say and he is super responsive to corrections. He is just a sweetheart who never got a fair chance. He is still reactive to any new humans who come around so the next step is introducing him to the rest of the world and teaching him that nobody will hurt him and he can trust me to lead out there too." Louie will not be available to the general public. He will need a very seasoned owner who has experience with reactive dogs so he is setup for a lifetime of success. Louie has to be managed and protected. His owner has to be able to say, "NO STAY BACK" when taking him out because he is so adorable everyone will want to pet him and we can't risk him biting. It's not worth the risk. Strangers don't need to pet your dogs anyway. Tell them to stay in their lane. So far he is still under behavior assessment and he has been with us for several months. We don't rush. He's not even ready to go to foster. We take our time with every dog we save and we focus on them instead of trying to bring in more and take away from the dogs we have already committed to.

Lucy was confiscated from a breeder, birthed her babies, all of them got adopted through the Sacramento SPCA. Then when it was Lucy's turn, they couldn't make progress with her severe human & dog aggression. The shelter worked with a UC Davis "behaviorist" who gave her meds, but after 8 months they still couldn't pet her. Here is what Ilbra, our founder, decided to do next: "When they contacted us I told them wean her off the meds, bring her to meet me for an assessment. I ended up having to go to their car to grab her and take her for a walk. They were extremely nervous and of course, I had no issues. Lucy has been handled by me since day ONE of meeting her. No meds. No reactivity. No problem. Lucy is also integrated with my entire personal pack and even has a foster playmate Louie! She's safe with us??" As of December 2022, Lucy has five dog siblings that she plays with every day. She gets treats all day, new toys every week and fresh blankets out of the dryer each night. She loves to be carried around the rescue like a baby while being showered with kisses. Pit Crew has never killed a dog just because they couldn't be adopted out to the public. We commit to every dog we save for life! Lucy's Diary: *4/17/2023: Lucy is part of our Sanctuary Program ? She is not adoptable. She has been through enough. Now she gets to live on 3 acres, play with her friends every day, explore the country, chase lizards & sun bathe to her hearts content?. She is why we do what we do??? We love you babygirl. You are safe with us FOREVER!

Muffin came to Pit Crew as a stray, malnourished, injured, and unloved. She had likely been hit by a car and left to die. Her elbow had been severely broken, since she had been left to fend for herself her injury healed incorrectly. After her corrective surgery Muffin is running, jumping, and loving life!! She is adoptable now and ready for a family/person to call her own. She is just a huge puppy with tons of energy and now, has the capacity to be a crazy lovebug ?? Your donations are to thank for allowing her a second chance. We couldn't do it without you and we appreciate every dollar immensely, we know Miss Muffin appreciates it too! Just look how happy she is!!!?

Please welcome beautiful boy, Rudy. The pressure sores on his body tell his history. This beautiful big boy has captured the hearts of so many shelter volunteers and rescuers alike that they moved mountains to spare his life. Rudy has been terrified at the shelter since January 2023. Shelter volunteers worked tirelessly with him to get him comfortable enough to even leave his kennel. Multiple rescue groups came together to put a plan in motion to save his life. He is headed to us today and we can't wait to make him feel safe & loved. Rudy was unable to be neutered by the shelter due to his fear, so we will need to get that done once he's had an opportunity to decompress and get comfortable with us. I am so excited to share that he actually eats all his meals from my hands now. Still can't touch him. Still can't leash him. But he's loved and cared for so whenever he's ready we'll get there too.

We are calling this little guy "Short Stack" AKA "Stacks" or "Shorty" welcome to Pit Crew little man!!!! Upon arrival it was apparent he still has a little kennel cough. We also discovered some blood in his stool so we will keep a close eye on him and start him on antibiotics right away and get him to the vet for fecal testing and blood work. He's scheduled to have his neuter next Thursday and after a week or two from that point, we will begin to evaluate him with other dogs, cats and children to determine what home would be best suited for him. Our goal is to avoid him being returned to a shelter or rescue ever again. He appears to be about 4 or 5 years old and unaltered, so he marks everything around including anything indoors which tells us he has not spent much time inside a home. We will work with him on this as well as his confidence but sadly this is definitely a reason someone would return him to the shelter or just throw him in the backyard for the rest of his days not knowing how to handle it. We're not going to let that happen. We're going to make sure he's properly trained with a healthy, happy, clear bill of health and matched up with the most suitable home that's best for this little guy. He's already been through enough. THAT much we can assure everyone! :)

This beautiful boy was waiting to be rescued after hiding under a car for three days! He is slow to warm up but such a playful boy once he does! Sometimes when he gets too excited, he forgets how big he is. Stanley is a giant puppy at heart who just wants to play and fetch. He is over 100 pounds and his head is twice the size of a human. We are working on helping him trust the world as much as he has learned to trust us. Stanley would make a great addition to a home that can dedicate the time and attention that he needs.