Blue Ridge Bull Terrier Rescue

Bullseye is in need of a home as soon as possible

Bullseye came into rescue and went to his foster home on July 28th, 2022. He had been found the week before, chained to a trash can, abandoned in extremely hot weather. His paw pads were a mess from being left on the heated pavement. The original finder tried to get money for him but then the local humane society went and got him and took him back to the shelter. We knew very little information about him at that point except that he was very sweet with all the humans he interacted with. We found what we thought would be an ideal foster home for him. A home that we were told would keep him completely separate from the resident dog for at least the first 2 weeks and then slowly try to see if he was okay with the resident dog with off property, leashed walk by’s across the street from each other to start. If it appeared that Bullseye was not okay with the resident dog, the foster had agreed to keep him separate so that we could get a thorough evaluation over more time and learn more about him so we could find the right home for him. Unfortunately, things played out differently and we learned that Bullseye is not okay with the resident dog and the foster would like him to be moved as soon as possible. We have not learned if it is only the resident dog that he is not okay with or if it is all dogs. At this point, we will err on the side of caution and say he needs to go to a home with no other pets. If there was not another dog in the home, the foster would keep him because of what a good boy he is otherwise. He has been a typical bull terrier in the home, wanting to be petted and loved on, playing and going for walks. He is believed to be about 8 years old and weighs about 64 lbs. He is crate trained, potty trained and leash trained. He does have a strong prey drive. He is the kind of bully who can chill out in the house, keeping busy with his toys and just relaxing. He has been very friendly to people who come by for visits. If allowed, he will climb into your lap and lick your face with enthusiasm! He does not attempt to go up on furniture and has not had an accident ever since being in his foster home. He knows basic commands including sit, down, paw and heel. If you can open your home to Bullseye, you will receive lots of love and silly bully antics in return. No other pets, kids 14 and older. If you live within 6 hours of New Tripoli, PA and can provide Bullseye the home he needs, please either message our main inbox or Lisa Taubman Blount directly. Thank you.

Moving SALE! Our Treasurer, who handles all of our merchandise sales and shipping, is moving very soon and would like to clear out some of our rescue gear to lighten the load. All of our in stock gear is now 25% off (discount taken off total in cart) and we will also be including a FREE GIFT, valued at $25, with each shipment. All profits go to Blue Ridge rescue bullies in need. Thank you so much for your support! https://shop.brbtc.org/

Sale ends 08/19/22

Meet Gambit

Gambit is a 3 year old male bull terrier who LOVES going on daily walks and skateboard runs (he isn’t the one on the skateboard, he runs next to his human who is on the skateboard). He weighs 50 lbs. He is happiest if someone is petting him and will sit against you and lean in to get some love. He reportedly responds more to men but will listen to his current owner who is a female. It seems like with most bull terriers, he will do best with a human who he knows is in charge and doesn’t allow him to push boundaries. He is crate trained and potty trained. As far as other dogs go, he will do best with a submissive companion, he doesn’t do well with dominant dogs. He also hasn’t quite learned how to take cues from other dogs when they have had enough so he will need a human who pays attention to body language and will put a stop to him annoying the other dog before the other dog cues go from a warning to more than that. He does have a tendency to try to mount other dogs so he will need a human who will put a stop to that immediately so as to not frustrate the other dog. Gambit can be mouthy and headbutt at the face when excited when meeting new people (not in an aggressive way, just in a typical bull terrier excited way). He has a big Jolly Ball that he likes to play with and bring to you to include you in his play. There was a lot going on in the house during his evaluation and he was generally calm with it all. He is NOT okay with cats and if there is a squirrel or rabbit or other similar smaller animal in the fenced in yard, he will try to chase it but on walks, you can easily redirect him from them. He has been around children of various ages, however, due to him enjoying zoomies and hucklebutts and thus the risk of accidentally ramming into someone as well as his mouthiness and headbutting, kids 12 and older. If you live within 6 hours of Virginia Beach, VA and think you can provide the home Gambit deserves, please either message our main inbox or Lisa Taubman Blount directly.

Eleven month old Koopa was surrendered to a shelter when his family moved. The family never had a bull terrier before and was overwhelmed by his behaviors, which were just typical bull terrier behaviors. They would leave him in the yard, unsupervised, without any sort of mental or physical stimulation. He would then find ways to pull the fence apart and go explore the neighborhood. In spite of being at the shelter, Koopa maintained his happy attitude and just wanted to play, be loved on and have some human attention. While looking for a home for him, a woman named Melissa contacted us about the possibility of Koopa joining her family. It turns out that Melissa and her husband Austin have 3 very playful bull terriers. After talking with her, we felt that Koopa would thrive being in the presence of her very active dogs and 3 human siblings. This past Saturday, Koopa made his way to his foster-to-adopt home and has been settling in, without skipping a beat.

Special thanks to Sherry Bishop, Nathan Mullikin and all the staff at Scott County Animal Care & Control for taking care of Koopa while there, Leslie McKinley King for evaluating Koopa and Miche Branscum and family for driving the first leg of his transport.

You can like and follow Koopa’s adventures on his page, Hangin’ with Mr. Koopa.

UPDATE: We have a wonderful foster-to-adopt home lined up pending homecheck. Further updates to follow.

Meet Koopa

Koopa is an 11 month old male bull terrier. The family who surrendered him had no bull terrier experience and didn’t understand how to keep him physically and mentally stimulated. He also lived with a senior pit bull who didn’t appreciate his young energy. The big issue though was that he was often left in the backyard unattended and found ways to disassemble part of the fence and would then go explore the neighborhood. His family was concerned that he would get hit by a car. Koopa is a little overweight, currently weighing 53 lbs. He is very dog friendly and would do well with a dog who has similar energy and likes to play a lot. Dogs his size or bigger. He will not do well in a home with a calmer or older dog as he will annoy that dog. During evaluation, it was noted that he would prefer being with a human over playing with a toy. He would explore the yard but always had his eye on the humans and would come running back over as soon as his name was called. He definitely craves human interaction. He is crate trained and reported to be 95% potty trained. He was destructive in the home he was surrendered from but it is quite possible that he was bored and not getting enough attention, however, we can’t say that with 100% assurance. Koopa appears to be a very loving boy who just needs to be with a family who understands the breed. No cats or smaller animals. Kids 12 and older. If you live within 6 hours of Georgetown, KY and can provide the home Koopa needs, please either message our main inbox or Lisa Taubman Blount directly.

On Friday afternoon, we were contacted about a bull terrier who was abandoned and left tied to a trash can with a very heavy chain in sweltering heat. The person who contacted us had seen a post about the bully being found. She had been in touch with the finder. The finder had contacted the local humane society to report the found bull terrier but said he wanted to keep him. He said that the dog had been scanned but wasn’t chipped. We had been in touch with the humane society and knew he hadn’t brought him in to be scanned. He then tried to sell the bull terrier to the woman who contacted us. The humane society ended up picking the bull terrier up and have since named him Bullseye. His stray hold passed by and he was not claimed. We had several people contact us with interest in bringing Bullseye home. One of those people is a local man named Preston. He has had 2 bull terriers previously and is retired from the police force after a very long career, with plenty of time to devote to Bullseye. We are hoping it will work out and things will turn from a foster situation to an adoption situation. We just are unsure at this time since we know very little about Bullseye. So far though, Bullseye seems to be a sweet, loving boy. For the time being, Preston will bring Bullseye home, let him decompress, start getting him the medical care he needs and try to slowly integrate Bullseye with his current dog. If Bullseye ends up not being okay with the resident dog, he will be kept separate but stay there for a little so that we can learn more about him and then start looking for the right home. We are thankful that individuals like Preston and the others who reached out, are willing to drop everything and make sure that Bullseye had a place to go. Preston and his daughter Lindsey went to the humane society this afternoon to get Bullseye and bring him home. As you can see, he has no reservations about relaxing for a belly rub with his new foster dad.

Special thanks to Alyssa for initially contacting us about Bullseye and wanting to make sure that he would be in the right hands, the staff at The Lehigh Valley Humane Society for taking care of Bullseye while there and Preston for bringing him home so he can be loved and taken care of.

You can like and follow Bullseye’s journey on his page, All Eyes on Bullseye.

UPDATE: We have a great home lined up for Bullseye. He will be going there sometime today (07/28/22). Further updates to follow.

Immediate Placement Needed

Meet Bullseye

We don’t know very much about Bullseye yet. He was found abandoned last Friday, tied to a trash can with a very heavy chain in Allentown, PA. We are unsure if his feet got burnt that day because he was at a basketball court on hot pavement in extremely hot weather or if he has something else going on with his paws but they will need some medical attention based on what I was told. For now, he has tolerated walking around in little sneakers. If that tells you anything about his temperament and you know bull terriers at all, to us, it indicates that he is pretty laid back and just goes with the flow because lots of bullies turn into a statue or walk very oddly if shoes are put on them. He has been very sweet with all of the humans he has interacted with and has been non reactive to the dogs he has passed by. He seems to be a mellow, chill boy. He is currently estimated to be about 8 years old and weighs 64 lbs. We would be willing to send him to a home with another dog if he was initially kept separate to decompress for a few weeks and then slowly integrated to see if he really is okay with other dogs. You would have to be okay to keep him separate from the other dog if he did end up not being good with the dog until we could find another home. If you are on board with fostering, we need to know it is a minimum of a 30 day commitment so that there is time to get to know him and get him vetted and then work on finding him a permanent home. Kids 12 and older. No cats, no smaller animals. This is all the information we know about him right now. If you live within 6 hours of Allentown, PA and think you can provide the home that Bullseye needs, please either message our main inbox or Lisa Taubman Blount directly.

We are still looking for a home for Jerzy

We are truly surprised that the right family hasn’t been found yet for Jerzy. We thought it would be a good idea to have Jerzy’s foster mom write about her so everyone could learn about her straight from the woman who has spent so much time getting to know this adorable girl over the last few months.

Hi! Meet Jerzy! Jerz is a 20 month old deaf female. In May, I was contacted to do an evaluation on her and her sister. Jerzy had recently had a litter and hadn’t had any medical attention along with some visible skin issues. I immediately contacted Blue Ridge and said I would foster Jerzy so she could get the medical attention she needed and we could get a proper evaluation on her away from her litter mate.

I have never owned or fostered a deaf dog but over the past 2 months, I have had the distinct pleasure of seeing this little girl blossom and learning just as much as she has. Now that her skin is healed and has been fully vetted, most of her medical issues have resolved. She has developed a small hernia and is set to see her favorite vet this week to see if that will require surgery. I could write a book about this sweet girl but here are all the things I have learned about Jerzy.

Jerzy loves to go on walks! Walking directly by your side, she looks up frequently to make sure you are having just as good of a time as she is. She will prance along, smell flowers and likely, meet a new friend or two along the way.

Jerzy loves affection but doesn’t like to be hot so Jerzy can be caught just laying in the same room watching you as you take care of things around the house. If she isn’t laying on the floor where she has the best vantage point to see you, she can be found binge watching Gray’s Anatomy as TV is one of her favorite past times.

Jerzy is dog friendly and is learning more about proper interaction with other dogs and reading their body language. She is still a young bull terrier so a quick walk before play with another dog her size or larger seems to work really well. Currently, she is living with a 4 year old female bull terrier with a low to medium energy level.

Don’t let her deafness fool you. Jerz communicates very well and I have developed a unique bond with her unlike any other. Jerz loves a routine and lives her best life with structure. She will look to you more to read your body language and has learned some sign language, she knows when I’m upset with her or when I am proud of her or when I am happy, or sad. She is eager to learn and please her human so you will know by her booty wiggles, or her endearing floppy ears that change depending on what’s going through her head just what she is feeling.

Jerz has stolen the hearts of everyone she has met and has such a gentle, loving, happy soul. It pains us to see her go but we just know she will be the pawfect addition and a blessing to her lucky furever home.

No cats or smaller animals. Kids 12 and older. If you think you may be the pawfect home for this amazing girl and live within 6 hours of North Arlington, NJ, please either message Blue Ridge Bull Terrier Club Rescue or Lisa Taubman Blount directly.

You can see more of Jerzy on her page, Jerzy Girl and reach out with any questions you may have if you want to more know!

About 13 months ago, we received a message about a Lady, a bull terrier who had just been diagnosed as heartworm positive. Her owner was a backyard breeder who kept Lady outside with her male companion. He didn’t have interest in pursuing treatment for her. However, problems arose when we started to talk about Lady being surrendered to the rescue. His main concern was that the rescue would breed Lady and make money off her. This was very shocking as that is the complete opposite of what we stand for. Regardless of the countless ways we tried to explain that we would not breed her and only wanted to make sure she had the medical care she needed to live, he hedged. A local rescue that he was familiar with was acting as a liaison and ended up having him sign her over to them, at which point she was then transferred to Blue Ridge. Since that time, Lady went through heartworm treatment and is now heartworm negative, she was spayed, had all her medical needs addressed and taken care of. Just as importantly though, she learned how to be an inside dog, a member of a family, how to be loved and how to return that love infinitely. She did that all while in the care of Jessica and Tyler Dean, their daughters and their bull terrier, Blue Ridge alumnus, Olaf’s Warm Hugs – Adopted. The Dean family made it all possible for Lady and where we are today. Today, Lady is finally ready to start the next chapter in her life by going to her new home. She will be joining foster-to-adopt pawrents, Jackie and Jay and their Bull Terrier Rescue of Central Florida alumnus boy, Donut. We can’t wait to see Lady continue to flourish and get to know her family.

Special thanks to Hartman’s Haven Dog Rescue, Crystal Mosteller Hopson and Allison Sinchak for all of their initial help in making sure Lady got to Blue Ridge and the Dean’s, a selfless, loving family who continue to go above and beyond in every situation they are involved in, for teaching Lady all she needed to so she can be a part of a family and taking care of her through all her medical treatments.

You can like and follow Lady’s adventures on her page, Pretty Little Lady

Sam or Sammy as he is affectionately called has been through lots of change in his life. We first learned about him in June when we were contacted by a director of a shelter in Michigan. She told us that Sam, along with several other dogs, were seized in March from a backyard breeder for neglect. The dogs spent most of their time in crates in an unheated building with no running water. In spite of how sweet Sam was, they were having difficulty finding the right home for him. We were told he was very mouthy so we initially set things up for him to go to a foster, who had previously worked with a mouthy bull terrier and had done wonders. However, shortly after going there, it was evident that things had changed in the foster’s home since the last foster was there and it wasn’t working. We scrambled around and were lucky enough to have Sharon Whalen-Keillor of Key-Lore Kanine Kountry Klub and Doggie Day Care make space to have Sammy go to her for board and train. Sammy learned so much while with Sharon including how to be a good citizen. Our plan was to then have him go to Diane Thomas’s home for a short while as a foster just so he was in a home setting prior to going to a permanent home because Sammy has never actually lived in a home. Diane had spent some time with Sammy while he was at Sharon’s and was going to continue working on his training. However, our plans hit a snag when poor Diane blew her knee out a little after Sammy went to her. He went back to Sharon’s and we started to look for a furever home for Sammy. After we posted him, we were contacted by a woman who was his original breeder and subsequently spoke with his co-breeder as well. We learned that Sammy was not actually 5 years old but that he will be 2 years old in September, which helped explain some of his behaviors more so. We also were contacted by a woman named Dania who was interested in possibly bringing Sammy home. Once we spoke with her and her husband Stuart, we felt we had the perfect home for Sammy. They have lots of bull terrier experience and have dealt with the full gamut of bull terrier antics, quirks and issues. They have a teenage son who has grown up with bull terriers and absolutely loves them. Once decompressed, Sammy will also have a 4 legged brother named Eric. Today, Sammy started what we hope will be the final stage in his journeyed young life, a permanent home with a lovely family.

Special thanks to Elise Ramsey of the Little Traverse Bay Humane Society for continuing to be involved and caring so deeply about the well being of Sammy, Diane Thomas for her involvement and help and Sharon Whalen-Keillor for providing Sammy with the tools he needs to be able to become an active member of a family.

You can like and follow Sam’s journey on his page, The Best Sam Thing