Animal Planet Star Trying To Raise Enough Money To Support The Backyard Wolfdogs She Rescued From A Bad Situation
Athens, Texas. Have you ever seen the hit Animal Planet TV show Pit Bulls and Parolees? The show is based on Tia Torres and her life running the Villalobos Rescue Center, which predominantly focuses on rescuing pit bulls in need.
Interestingly enough, Tia actually started out rescuing wolves and wolf/dog hybrids, and she recently found herself in a situation where she stepped up to rescue some backyard wolfdogs in Texas.
“Last year, the responsibility of taking over a large backyard breeding situation in Texas became quickly overwhelming for us,” Tia explained on a GoFundMe page.
“Approximately 50 wolfdogs were abandoned after their owner killed himself on the property. The dogs were left to fend for themselves, many of them running loose and all were in need of serious medical attention.”
“The local Sheriff’s Dept put our their pleas for help and sadly no one was able to do so.”
Tia offered to help them out, hoping that some other organization or person would be able to assist as well, but the burden squarely fell on Tia herself.
Tia never thought that she would be having to create another enormous rescue operation, but she’s now in exactly that predicament.
Facebook; pictured above is Dexy, one of the wolfdogs that Tia rescued
Given the fact that it already costs her around $4 million dollars a year to run Villalobos in New Orleans and her TV show is not filming due to covid concerns, Tia really is in need of funds to help her save the Texas wolfdogs.
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To complicate things further, as soon as the word got out that Tia was taking over the rescue operation, she began getting tons of emails and calls from people all across the country who wanted to see if she would take on their wolfdogs too.
“With containment for these extremely athletic dogs being the #1 reason for being surrendered by unsuspecting owners or getting loose and ending up in an animal shelter, we sadly have a growing waiting list for these dogs who are desperate to come under our care,” Tia said.
Facebook; pictured above is another wolfdog at the Villalobos Rescue Center in Texas
If you would like to donate to the GoFundMe page Tia created to help care for the wolfdogs, you can do that here.
Tia has promised to send handwritten thank-you notes to anyone who donates to this worthy cause!
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