Heaven After Hell Rescue

Teeny little sneak peek….

We need epoxy….for large rooms. Ideally someone who would donate their time (we would pay for materials and have bodies to help) or someone who would give us a discounted rate.

And potentially some concrete staining…

Tag who you know!

I’m going to add a donation link, even though I don’t have numbers, yet. I think our new kennels will be most expensive so going to get a head start.

Venmo-
Via our site- www.heavenafterhellrescue.org

Hello new friends!

They will learn that photos are part of the trade for us saving them. 🤣 Not quite there, yet.

No one is available, yet but we will share more when they are.

We will still be open 11-1 every Saturday!

Come see some cute babes.

WE'VE GOT A SECRET TO TELL!

After 10ish years in our current building, WE ARE MOVING!

This is exciting and terrifying, as we are starting fresh. As many of you know, our current building is less than ideal. The condition of it has never been a true representation of who we are but we have felt stuck for a very long time. We have battled going back to foster but then several of our dogs would literally be homeless. While the disdain for our current landlord is extreme, it's always been something we figured out so our dogs have a safe place to land.

I won't go into the years of asinine behaviors we have endured from our landlord but to give you a little idea, we will review some highlights.

We used to have another business at the front of our property. That business owner harassed our VOLUNTEERS, relentlessly. She would literally come outside and chase cars down to act a fool because she couldn't regulate her emotions. Most of the time over absolutely nothing. I cannot tell you the amount of times they would park in the drive so we couldn't go through. And she lost her mind when we would ask them to move. While we know people can't really make someone else leave us alone, nothing was ever done to attempt it by our landlord.

The new renter screams at us through her ring doorbell for walking our dogs by on our SHARED driveway. They also have an unaltered, large dog who is outside off leash all the time and he went after one of our dogs a couple of weeks ago. Now, we aren't perfect and one of our volunteers did step on to their grass, previously, but that stopped as soon as we were made aware. Again, landlord "talked to them" and same day, their dog is outside off leash.

We have currently been without AC for 6 days. Instead of calling around to find the part we need, I got a "they can't do anything until they have the part and I just landed in Phoenix. They will call you when it's in." This happens every couple of years.

There are holes all over the building so critters find their way in. We have had a family of racoons in the ceiling of our lean-to (which is our laundry room and a play area for the dogs), every year for the past few years. After I complained enough, he sent someone out and said it was taken care of so they couldn't get back in. Might have been a couple weeks and there were more.

I heard something in our ceiling in the main part of the building a couple weeks ago. Go in the attic and am staring down a racoon. On our drop tile ceiling tiles that we replace ALL THE TIME. We trapped and relocated him but when I messaged about fixing the holes in the building, he acted as if he had no clue what I was talking about. When we have talked about it so many times before. And walked the property WITH HIM to show him, more than once.

We literally had a cat fall through the ceiling. A cat that was not ours. Thanking God it wasn't in to a dog's kennel.

Anytime it rains hard.....our laundry room, bathroom and office flood. He did pay someone to come out and move some dirt around and install a "drain" type thing in the yard but completely ignored our future complaints when it flooded the very next time it rained.

We were without running water for over 30 days, at the end of last year. Luckily, one of our volunteers lives up front and their family filled buckets to bring back every single day, so we could take care of our animals appropriately. Our well had issues several months prior to that and the company told the landlord it was going to go out. Sure, enough it did and we paid the price for it. Guess who still expected their full rent check? When asked what we were supposed to do with no water, the response we got was "I guess do what you've been doing". Cool.

In previous years we would take care of things ourselves, just so they got done. We weren't willing to do that anymore, so for the last year or so, we have sent everything to him. It is usually ignored until it is an even bigger problem or takes an insane amount of time to fix.

The property has been up for sale maybe 5 times since he bought it at auction. Think we get a 24 hour notice for showings? Nope. Think we ever got 24 hour notice that he was stopping by? Nope.

The absolute last straw.... Once our water was restored, the pressure was so hard that it was springing leaks in several of our fixtures. I am not a plumber and nor are any of our crew but we all had a pretty good idea what the issue was. I texted him and he had a long rant about how if it was the pressure the other buildings would have the same issue and they don't. The other buildings that are on their own meters and have their own plumbing. Got it. He stopped by and I continued to tell him it was the pressure and he needed to call the people who did the work and ask them to fix it. He told me it wasn't the pressure several times and that we needed to just replace all the fixtures. The final time I stated it was the pressure, this grown man stomped his feet, flailed his arms and yelled "it's not the pressure". There are a lot of things I will do to keep the peace so our animals have a home but I am not a big enough human to put up with that kind of behavior, appropriately.

PS- Our plumber did in fact confirm it was the pressure, without even needing to come and see it.

We received a note that our rent was increasing by 44%. Our notification came via a chat GPT screenshot in a text. I asked what work was being done to justify that and never got a response.

So, one of our amazing volunteers had a building that the tenant was vacating and we were able to come to an agreement. The goal is a lease to own BUT we don't want to get into that if we can't manage it, long term. For now, we are doing a year of renting and then we will plan from there.

It's big. It's clean. It's been maintained. It's a fresh start. It's exciting. It's insanely overwhelming to plan, quickly. And it's going to be quite a bit more expensive than what we have now. But we do think it will be worth it.

We will be posting some needs, in the coming days/weeks but for now I am attaching our wish list with some of the needed items.

Be on the lookout for -
Sponsorship opportunities
Fundraiser posts
Contractor needs
Material needs

Thank you all for always supporting our animals and our efforts. That building was a stepping stone...a long one lol... and will always be a bittersweet part of our history. Those walls housed so many animals and we figured out how to make it work. But we are ready to thrive instead of constantly figuring out how to survive.

https://www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/ls/1O1D3JZ18PO35?ref_=wl_share

My fav pic of Petunia for tax.

REMINDER! TONIGHT!
Have dinner at BIG WOODS SPEEDWAY,
4-9pm, and a % of proceeds will benefit the animals at Heaven After Hell Rescue.
Be sure to show this flyer to your server to receive credit for HAHR!

Thank you and See you there!

Stopped and visited our little bottle babe. We lost his sister a couple days after we took them in so our foster has been on edge. However, he’s doing well so far.

Give her some unique name ideas for this boy. Momma is a Rottie. Daddy is a mystery.

Dad doesn’t need another coffee mug this Father’s Day… he needs a clean car.

-This June, support Heaven After Hell Animal Rescue by purchasing Online Crew Car Wash coupons that make the perfect Father’s Day gift AND 50% of your purchase goes to the rescue .

https://crewcarwash.com/fundraisers/heaven-after-hell-animal-rescue-6967196539486084/

-Because a clean car feels good.
-Saving lives feels even better.

Shout out to our friends at Rosie's Place!
-Bring your pups to one of their locations:
-Zionsville, Noblesville, Carmel & dine on the patio
-Order off their special menu for dogs
-Heaven After Hell receives a BIG, GENEROUS donation from Rosie's! 💰😍 https://www.rosiesplace.net/

Cheery is such a good girl. I don’t know how she hasn’t been snatched up, yet!

Cheery is a year old and will smother you with love for about 10 minutes when first meeting you. She’s dog friendly and a great snuggler. She loves walks, toys and doing whatever it is that the humans are doing.

Cheery came to us after her pelvis had been broken. She is all healed up, now but watching her go from a dog who had no clue how to be a dog to a really well rounded pup has been an amazing thing. But it’s time to watch it from someone’s living room. 😉

www.heavenafterhellrescue.org