Jailbreak Husky Rescue

I have mainly stayed off these posts today, but yall continue to bring the dumb here and virtue signal.

STOP BEING DUMB ON MY PAGE.

I am a GOOD person, not a nice one. Remember that.

I know some of you cannot comprehend this, but rescue is a BUSINESS and every rescue decision is also a decision for the business as a whole and impacts how the business operates. This does not mean that rescue decisions are devoid of compassion. You need a brain and a heart to rescue.

If you take in 10 medical cases of 10k each and only have half of those funds, then you cannot get vet care for half of those dogs and your business fails. This is exactly how rescues get in 100k boarding debt and board animals in their homes covered in f***s and animal carcasses. This will never be me.

Let me be perfectly clear- I will never risk everything for ANY dog, except mine.

You wanting me to risk everything is not you supporting rescue. It’s you virtue signaling pretending to be a good person, but using me to do the work, and risking everything of mine and nothing of yours.

STOP IT. This does not make you a good person. It makes you a selfish as***le.

You don’t need to tell me you would do it and that a real rescuer would. Just go do it and leave me the f**k alone.

F**K. 🙄

-Brooklyn

*pic of our orphan Tx street baby after medicated bath time ♥️

(Bethany here. Brooklyn requested me to share my reflections on Mousetrap’s death that I posted, stream of consciousness, to my personal page. For those who do not know, Halo and Ballistic referenced in this post are Woof Tribe huskies who died - from metastatic cancer and hidden internal infection, respectively - simultaneously with the deaths of Jailbreak’s Stalker and Mousetrap, all in a two week period.)

The death that was the most devastating.

How can you rank them?

But last Friday, I sat in my living room, having received a text from Brooklyn that they were at the vet. I was paralyzed. The last two weeks of quarantine were so painful. Knowing that the clock was ticking down on his life day by day. Every one of those days, it was like a part of me was mentally in Colorado, waiting for this heartbreaking end.

This was one of the most beautiful rescues that I had been a part of. I thought we were going to give him the world. Every time I went to Colorado, I made sure to see him, except that I couldn’t the last time because Halo‘s visit took the whole time and I had no reason to believe I would never see him again. Sarah always welcomed me in and I always got spend time playing with him, cuddling him, watching him frolic in the yard with his foster husky siblings.

To have this play out in the midst of Halo's and Ballistic's excruciating deaths, to learn that Jailbreak's Stalker had died within 24 hours of Halo, and to have a ticking timer on Mousetrap's remaining days, and to know in the end, this ultimately had to have a human component… That’s why I said this two week period filled with four husky deaths was the most excruciating experience of my rescue life. That nothing even in 2025 could possibly manage to compete with.

With Halo, I have the peace of mind that there is nothing further we could’ve done no matter what. We did and gave her literally everything we possibly could.

This is my first real, 3D, surround sound experience with behavioral euthanasia. (Yes, this happened at a prior rescue, as you would expect given the scale of the operation. Multiple times. Once even with a dog who I had “picked” for rescue. But never like this. Never a husky I pulled out of the shelter with my own two hands.). I’ve known it would come. I’ve known it would be shattering. But despite knowing that Jailbreak did every single thing that they possibly could… And I’m not just saying that, there’s a reason that I went to see him every single time I could, and to see how well they were taking care of him… what I now understand is that behavioral euthanasia will always come with a haunting, excruciating, what if? How far back in his life would we have to go to break the causal chain? To make sure that humans did not fail him? To fix it so his life would not have ended early, at human hands—BECAUSE other human hands failed him?

I voice typed this stream of consciousness. I have tried to write more polished posts about this story. But in the end, on my own page, I just want to share spontaneously the hell that this experience has been.

How were the first five days after Halo’s death?

It was this. We lost Mousetrap. In a way where - thanks to the mandatory quarantine period that kept both the agony and him alive - we knew every. single. day. that the appointed moment was coming.

No rescuer should have to know this much pain at one. But I suspect that everyone here who rescues is going to tell me that they know the pain that I’m talking about.

You know my sign off. . Does it apply here? Did we succeed or fail in saving him?

I define rescue as “giving them every good day that is possibly available to them.”

In that sense, yes, Mousetrap was rescued.

But I wish we could have given him more good days.

🪤……. M🐁USETRAP.

Rescue has felt especially heavy these past couple of weeks, and even as I begin to make this post, I’m sitting here paralyzed, struggling to express how we got here.

Last Friday, Mousetrap buried his head into his foster Sarah’s lap and drifted off to sleep as he took his final breaths with us.

This was a decision that I made, and for which I take full responsibility, after a string of serious incidents two weeks prior. These added to an already troubling snapshot of his behavioral history and marked a critical shift in determining his continued status within our rescue organization, as well as outside.

Mousetrap now had 3 human bites under his belt- all three to his foster, Sarah, with the most recent bite requiring urgent medical attention. Mousetrap also had a pattern of escalating behavioral incidents causing injury to other dogs, with that most recent incident landing Sarah’s husky (also a prior jailbird, Geralt) at the emergency vet with battle wounds that rendered him non weight bearing, attached to a $1500 vet bill.

This was a first for us in rescue and we were faced with what felt like an impossible situation. We heavily weighed the implications for Mousetrap, Sarah, Sarah’s huskies, for the rescue, and for the community.

Mousetrap was in our care for nine months, following his rescue from a shelter in California’s Central Valley. While he was with us, we worked extensively on his behavioral challenges while also managing his significant medical needs and prosthetic journey. We saw improvement in many areas related to his behaviors and we believed he would continue to build on the training skills of which he demonstrated strength and reliability. We were so proud of how far along he had come- from the early struggles and setbacks of his prosthetic training to watching him reach milestones of taking his first steps to succeeding the broom jump! We truly believed he would one day be running with his prosthetic.🦿✨

However, we could not responsibly ignore the risks to human and canine safety that became evident. The most concerning part was the unpredictability of his behavior and its increasing severity. We grappled with the fact that Mousetrap’s human bites all involved Sarah—one of our most seasoned medical fosters who is experienced in training our huskies and setting them up for adoption success.

Sarah was Mousetrap’s favorite human in the world- he LOVED her. More than any dog I’ve ever rescued has loved a foster. And it makes sense- she took him straight into her home when he arrived in Colorado. He came with significant trauma—missing a paw and forelimb, and with open wounds, bite marks, and other injuries that could possibly have come from dogfighting. She spent countless hours with him teaching him how to use his prosthetic leg. She gave him endless patience, structure, safety, affection, billions and billions of treats (confirmed actual number), and the kind of devotion that only exceptional fosters provide. Mousetrap was not an easy dog 🙃, and it was a tremendous amount of work.

Before and after these most recent incidents, we consulted extensively with our team and all the relevant professionals. Veterinarians, trainers and behavioral professionals, public health, multiple animal control officers across jurisdictions, PACFA, bite-experienced rescuers, counsel, and others whose judgment we trust.

Though he was fully vaccinated, authorities wanted to quarantine Mousetrap in a government facility for a two-week bite hold before euthanasia. In these last excruciating couple of weeks, the person most impacted was Sarah. And yet she never stopped showing up for Mousetrap.

To spare him that pain and trauma, Sarah held up her commitment to him and continued fostering him for in-home quarantine. Even as Geralt and she recovered from their injuries, she dedicated those final two weeks to Mousetrap- to love him, spoil him, and advocate for him.

Please know that we considered and reconsidered every option and exhausted them as viable options for various reasons. We spent WEEKS agonizing over those very issues. In the end, we even pressed the very vet who euthanized him for other options, desperately hoping that she might see something we had somehow still missed - but after hearing what happened, she gently told us that we really had no other choice- the final moment where we had to accept that we didn’t.

We knew he would reoffend and that it would very likely be much worse. We knew his unpredictability prevented effective management. We knew that his documented bite record and history with us puts everyone at risk. But we also knew Mousetrap deserved to know love and safety. He deserved to know what it felt like to be somebody’s dog. We rescued him and gave him exactly that.

As we sat on the vet floor with Mousetrap, drowning in our tears, I had to remind myself that Mousetrap knew love, consistency, care, and the incredible bond between a husky and his favorite human. We knew we would be with him through his final moments, and that we would protect the trust he had in us. ♥️

I never thought we would be here with Mousetrap. We are devastated.

I’m so incredibly sorry. 💔

🌈 ✨ 🐁 You’re free now from all the trauma you endured and the pain you carried. Hoard all the toys, eat all the treats, and run free, Mousetrap 🪤

🩺Support Orphan & Smokeshow 🩹

Right now we have several huskies needing extra medical care, and extra medical care equals extra biiilllllls. 💸 Here’s looking at you Orphan (scraggly yet adorable Texas street dog with a big healing journey ahead) and Smokeshow (heartworm positive beauty queen). 🩶

Buying a t-shirt or hoodie is a perfect way to help support these high-cost, high-maintenance huskies who are worth every dollar. 💅

🔗 to purchase in the comments

‼️These are not print-on-demand shirts. They are high quality screen print on super soft t-shirts. We print a limited number of each shirt to keep our costs low, and all orders are processed by Jailbreak volunteers to maximize the amount that goes directly to the huskies. If you see the size and color you want, buy it now! When they’re gone, they’re gone.

🚫Beware of scams! The only way to foster/adopt is to apply via jailbreakhuskyrescue dot org. ONLY donate via the ways listed above and confirm our accounts to avoid fraud. We do NOT charge app fees!

the event today has been postponed to July 19th due to the weather!

Happy Five Dollar Friday! We have some exciting MATCHING DONATION NEWS for Orphan! 🐺❤️. PLEASE SHARE.

Our friends at The Howling Foundation have selected Orphan as their Husky of the Week and will match every dollar donated toward his care this coming week, up to $1,000. (Give them a follow if you haven’t already!)

That means every $5 donation becomes $10. Every dollar goes twice as far for Orphan’s recovery.

A few weeks ago, the then-nameless Orphan wandered into a Texas yard looking like this.

Hair loss. Inflamed skin. Grotesquely underweight. Exhausted.

Barely recognizable as a dog, let alone a husky.

We don’t know who did this to him. How long he had been fighting to survive on the streets. Or how many people saw him before someone finally stopped to help.

When Jailbreak saw him, we did what we do: step in to transform a “medical case” into a healed and thriving husky. We’ve gotten him to Colorado and moved him in with one of our medical fosters.

But his rescue is not over. It’s just beginning. He’s still waiting for his first dermatology appointment, and his vet team thinks he might need up to six months in medical foster before he is healthy enough for an adopter to take over.

Six months of healing ahead . . . But through it all, look at his eyes.

Even at his lowest, he was still looking up.

Life gave this husky every reason to give up. But he didn’t. And we’ll never give up on him either. He is finally where he belongs, surrounded by loving people committed to helping him heal.

If Jailbreak’s and our supporters will come together to donate $1,000 for Orphan’s care in the coming seven days, we’ll match his community dollar for dollar and do the same.

If you’ve been waiting for the perfect time to donate, this is it. You can use Meta’s donate button, or all of our donation options are in the comments.

Let’s show Orphan that he was right to keep looking up.

🐺❤️

Anyone able to take a crate, pen and some foster supplies from DENVER ➡️ PARKER area (Colorado) for our Ophelia?

Please let me know if you’re available! Need to get this stuff to her ASAP!

✨Pic of Ophelia and her wonderful foster for tax!

EDIT: JULY 19th! Everyone free up that date and get your state park passes!

More info coming soon!

Beautiful day!

-Speedbump