This enables us to assess the needs and personality of each individual dog, and every foster home represents a life we can
save from a kill shelter.
We are in search of local heroes that are willing to drink a beer to aid in our mission of rescuing
cats from kill shelters and the streets.
I recently adopted a little 5 - lb
pup from a kill shelter and shortly thereafter he developed an eye problem that threatened his vision.
Even if you find homes for all of the puppies or kittens you produce, those homes could have adopted a puppy or
kitten from a kill shelter instead.
However, in an acute situation, where a dog must be
released from a kill shelter, this evaluation can be done by email or over the telephone.
Often something like this with three puppies being affected, the shelter can not take in any
others from kill shelters due to lack of funds.
Since our puppies
come from kill shelters, sometimes we see or hear about the mother, but almost never know anything about the father.
In tandem with this effort to save
pets from kill shelters has grown the number of rescues necessary to save their lives.
Joe has recently come to The Canine
Collective from a kill shelter in Kentucky so we don't know too much about him yet but he was owner surrendered and knows some commands as well as probably being housebroken.
He was then
adopted from the kill shelter by someone, who after 2 weeks of crating Buddy for 14 hours at a time, returned him saying she thought he was depressed.
Our foster parents need to understand that the dogs and cats we rescue have usually been through a lot and need time to decompress — often they come to us straight
from the kill shelter where they were poked and prodded... before that they may have been in neglectful homes or turned out on the street when their former owners no longer wanted them.
Free Spirit Siberian Rescue finds Siberian Huskies and Husky
mixes from kill shelters around the country and places them in caring homes.
Most of our companion animals have been saved
from kill shelters on Long Island, in New York City, and in several southern states.
We are still working to raise the funds to purchase our new transport vehicle so we can get back up to our goal of saving 50 animals each
month from kill shelters in Georgia.
Currently, the primary purpose of ARF is to save as many animals
from kill shelters within the Tulsa and surrounding area as they possibly can.
Charley's mom was rescued on her last
day from a kill shelter - at the time no one knew she was pregnant with a litter of 12 puppies!!
We began 2015 with a round of five $ 500 ♀ Spay ♂ Neuter Grants targeting rescue groups or shelters that pull dogs to
safety from kill shelters in NJ.
They had rescued her and her
sister from a kill shelter in Tennessee and when we saw her for the first time, my wife and I knew she was the one for us.
Every week, Colorado Springs - based non-profit From Forgotten to Forever rescues dogs by
van from kill shelters in New Mexico.
BASSET HOUND RESCUE OF NEW MEXICO, INC., is a non-profit organization dedicated to rescuing
Bassets from kill shelters and from the streets, then placing them in loving, permanent homes.
It seems that tack would ultimately save a lot more dogs since even no kill rescues have limited resources, and can not rescue more dogs
from kill shelters if they are turning so many potential adopters of dogs already in their care away for lack of a fence.
Most of our dogs come to us from our rescue partners in areas outside of New England,
taken from kill shelters where they have landed due to no fault of their own - many are strays, others have been turned in by their owners.