Posted by Service Dog Headquarters on Jul 4th 2026
Community Steps Up To Track Missing Miranda Dogs
As the devastating news from the Humboldt County Sheriff's Office continues to unfold—with 117 dog remains found, many with gunshot wounds, and over 600 collars recovered from the barn—we are not sitting idly by. Right now, we have two critical missions: saving the survivors currently on the property and tracing the ones who never made it out.
1. ADOPTIONS NEEDED IMMEDIATELY
There are still many innocent, living dogs remaining on the property that need immediate placement. If you have room in your home or your rescue, please step up to adopt or foster. They need out of there, and they need a safe place to heal. Let’s get these survivors into the loving homes they deserve.
Animal Rescues For A Change are donating up to $100 per adoption. Visit them by clicking here.
These dogs are still at Miranda's Rescue:
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2. THE DIGITAL INVESTIGATION
There are still over 730 dogs completely unaccounted for that entered Miranda's Rescue since January 2025. Rescues, advocates, and families who self-surrendered their beloved pets are banding together across this group to do what the official systems failed to do: track every single dog. We are cross-referencing paperwork to find out who was actually adopted and who might be gone forever.
How you can help right now:
- If you can adopt or foster: Contact Animal Rescue for a Change immediately to save a living survivor.
- If you surrendered a dog to Miranda's Rescue since Jan 2025: Please drop your surrender date, descriptions, and microchip numbers in a Missing Miranda Dogs Facebook group and contact Humbolt County Sherriffs Department.
- If you adopted a dog from them during this timeframe: Please share your adoption date and chip info so we can cross them off the "missing" list.
- If you are an outside shelter/rescue that transferred dogs to Fortuna: We need your transfer manifests.
The sheriff's office is scanning chips from the excavation, and we need our own data ready to match. Let’s work together to protect the living and get answers for the lost.
Hope on the Horizon: This massive grassroots effort proves that when a system fails, the collective heart of a community can step in to bring our dogs home.
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