Living Grace Canine Ranch

A secondary problem we strive to address is human isolation. Like canines, humans are social creatures and believe 'feeling whole’ is possible regardless of the life challenge. Dogs seek and value human relationships; they are experts at detecting body language and are pre-wired for nurturance.

Across Central Texas, memory care facilities enthusiastically embrace LGCR to provide emotional and tactile comfort to their resident's quality of life experience.

Lastly, our community outreach program, the Ranch Buckaroo Club, works on the opposite vulnerable age spectrum: children. Being ‘different’ has always placed children at risk of bullying, but most often, it was localized. Today, the new tool for bullying and demeaning is social media, whereby in the matter of a ‘click,’ the entire school or neighborhood casts unwanted spotlights.

Our Ranch Buckaroo Club seeks to provide children with first-hand experience of giving and receiving unconditional love through LGCR residents, increase knowledge of pet caregiving skills and encourage human respect for differences.

Summary
Core Mission: Save, Serve, and Value adoption-disadvantaged Texas senior dogs. The core purpose of Living Grace Canine Ranch is to provide homeless dogs, commonly undervalued by society, with an opportunity to live medically, physically, and emotionally in wellness for the remainder of their life stage.

The Texas landscape for treating homeless senior dogs falls short in every resource measure. Long considered by shelters as the 'old dog' problem, convenience euthanasia claims sixty-four percent of elderly dogs' lives despite having age-appropriate and treatable conditions.

LGCR's Beliefs and Values
• We value all dogs, regardless of breed, and believe they are born with natural gifts and talents.
• Beyond basic life sustainment (food, water, and shelter), we believe all dogs seek companionship and reach their fullest potential when supported by medical, physical, and self-agency caregiving.
• We believe that man is solely responsible for the lives of domesticated animals, and every effort should be made to prevent and protect pets from harm.
• We hold that death is a natural part of the life cycle and active dying with dignity is paramount to the life completion journey.
• We support and advocate No Kill in philosophy and practicum. Terminating a life due to anything other than unmanageable suffering falls short of humane caregiving governance.

Lastly, we are convinced that the traditional animal welfare model purporting ‘adoption’ as the gold seal of program success is problematic in concept and execution for lasting change.

Programs
#Ranch Sanctuary: The LGCR sanctuary does not offer adoption; LGCR maintains legal guardianship until a resident life cycle is completed.

#Live Long Live Well: A comprehensive wellness approach enjoyed by every sanctuary sweetheart (resident). Focus: Disease prevention, early detection, and management through diagnostics, nutritional support, and alternative healing modalities, such as acupressure, massage therapy, and nutraceuticals.

#Senior2Senior: For residents who may resume a life off-sanctuary, our Forever Foster program offers senior parents an opportunity to share a life of companionship without the financial burden of pet ownership.

# Let's Shake Paws: Remarkable to LGCR, Central Texas community educational outreach activities indirectly support our core mission of saving, serving, and valuing adoption-disadvantaged senior dog lives.
In eight short years, puppies become senior dogs. Because the trimester life stage is critical to how they will experience it, LGCR is committed to providing educational opportunities to advance pet parenting strategies for living with and loving an aging family member.

Takeaway
LGCR's philosophic beauty shines through three simple words, "Where Love Resides." Pure at heart, it is an exceptional organization that elevates the traditional animal welfare conversation by valuing man's most trusted companion because life is precious and time is short.

#Ranch Sanctuary
Located in the heart of the Texas Hill Country, forty-eight miles NW of Austin, the Living Grace Canine Ranch Sanctuary is a welcoming sight and permanent home for homeless senior orphans due to medical, physical, and behavioral challenges.

Most often arriving broken in body and spirit, our residents thrive throughout their life journey surrounded by 10,000 square feet of senior lifestyle wellness. Since 2020, LGCR's uncompromising integrity and dedication to adoption-disadvantaged dogs has been exalted as the 'ultimate' destination by veterinarians, shelters, rescues, and the Texas community at large for "Where Love Resides."

Evidence of Unfilled Service Need
Since 2020, LGCR's sanctuary has operated at total medical caregiving capacity, providing homes for nearly one hundred senior dogs to address the issue of senior dog homelessness. However, our Texas population of advanced-age homeless dogs shows no signs of slowing down; at a rate of thirty, public requests for safe harbor occur daily.

Senior Dog Planned Community
Located in the heart of the Texas Hill Country, the five-acre sanctuary is unique to Texas in philosophy and design. It was specifically engineered to promote canine life satisfaction and caregiving considerations for senior canines with medical, physical, and behavioral challenges.

Amenities include:
~Ten thousand square feet of breed-appropriate sized apartment-style living, private patios, community socialization space, and a full kitchen that fills the air with scents of 'something delicious.'

~ Eight agility and water play parks that turn every hot Texas day into an oasis of exercising pleasure.

~ Casey's Healing Hands Wellness Clinic supports life's health essentials with immunizations, pharmacy, and routine veterinarian exam assessments. Beyond general health, Casey's trained staff delivers critically needed post-care for all too frequent gunshot wounds (country living spoiler alert) and cruelty/neglect survivors.

~ Minnie's Skincare and Groom Salon. Dry eyes, lenticular disease, alopecia (hair loss), and dermatitis infections are common in aging canines. Of equal importance to living joyfully in the golden years are therapeutic massages targeted to promote neuro-muscular elasticity, cold laser therapy, and medically applied acupressure massage techniques.

~ Parker's Place Memorial Garden. As humans, every Cypress tree is a living memorial to residents who celebrated their end-of-life journey experiencing love, inclusion, and dignity at LGCR. But to LGCR residents, it's a natural scent wonderment experience that offers enrichment long after vision and hearing fade.

Known across Texas, LGCR has earned the trust of the veterinarian community, shelters, rescues, and the private sector. It offers joy, wellness, and inclusion to seniors with much to enrich humanity and little remaining life stage time.