East St. Louis, IL (KTRS) A $2,000 reward is being offered after a horrific case of animal abuse in East St. Louis. An anonymous donor has put up the money to find those responsible for shooting a 1-2-year-old Newfoundland mix multiple times and gauging out her left eye. The dog who has been named “Glamour”,…
St. Louis, MO (KTRS) Stray Rescue of St. Louis is officially back open. A grand-reopening ceremony was held Thursday morning to celebrate the end of the shelter’s deadly distemper outbreak. Stray Rescue Founder Randy Grim says he’s so excited that the shelter will be able resume rescues. “I’m so excited about going out on the…
( KTRS ) Officials with the Stray Rescue of St. Louis say they will hopefully be open again on Thursday. The animal shelter forced to close recently due to a deadly distemper outbreak. Stray Rescue founder Randy Grim first reported the outbreak on social media in October. Distemper is a respiratory disease that also attacks…
( KTRS ) According to a video on Facebook, the distemper outbreak at Stray Rescue of St. Louis is not over. Thursday afternoon, in a Facebook video, Stray Rescue Owner Randy Grim said that the shelter had lost 2 more dogs to distemper, bringing the total number of deaths to 23. He added that further testing…
ST. LOUIS (AP) – A St. Louis animal shelter operator says more than a dozen dogs died because of a virus outbreak. Stray Rescue owner Randy Grim told The St. Louis Post-Dispatch that 17 dogs – mostly puppies – died because of the distemper outbreak Saturday at Stray Rescue. Distemper is a virus that can…
( KTRS ) A fundraising partnership between Budweiser, Milk-Bone and Dierbergs has raised more than $34,000 for Stray Rescue of St. Louis. The “Be a Bud” promotion ran through August at all Dierbergs stores – Budweiser donated $1 to for every 30 pack sold and Milk-Bone donated 25 cents for every Milk-Bone product sold. In…
St. Louis, MO (KTRS) Stray Rescue of St. Louis is calling a recent rescue one of its most tragic cases for the year. A call came in on Thursday about an injured dog in north St. Louis on Jefferson and Sullivan. When the Stray Rescue team arrived they found a severly emaciated dog with a…
St. Louis, MO (KTRS) Stray Rescue of St. Louis is hosting a donation drive today for GivingTuesday. For every donation , supporters of the no-kill organization will receive a gift as a thank you. In addition, your donation will go twice as far thanks to a$5,0000 matching gift from Tito’s Vodka. Stray Rescue Founder, Randy…