Choosing a puppy older than twelve weeks is perfectly fine, and
even senior dog rescue can be a great investment of your time and love.
Check out this list
of senior dog rescue groups across the U.S. and this Facebook page dedicated to senior cats!
Across the country at the Muttville
Senior Dog Rescue in San Francisco, there were 80 dogs all older than seven years old and weighing between 3 and 110 pounds waiting to be adopted.
«The Grey Muzzle Organization was with Muttville
Senior Dog Rescue from the very beginning,» says Sherri Franklin, Executive Director of Muttville, another 2016 grantee.
Lionel's Legacy is a 501c3 non-profit San Diego
based senior dog rescue and humane education program for elementary school children.
Seeing a need in her community that was not being filled Cathie started Elder
Paws Senior Dog Rescue in 2012, the Central Valley's first and only non-profit dedicated exclusively to older dogs in Central Valley kill shelters.
Then this beautiful book will make the perfect gift for yourself or others — with 50 percent of the author's proceeds going to help
senior dog rescue groups during November and December!
Bob and Debbie Gretz created the non-profit, Gray Face
Acres Senior Dog Rescue and Retreat, in April 2016 — their mission, «to provide the comfort and love of a home and family for senior dogs abandoned or left in shelters.»
The Sanctuary for
Senior Dogs rescues senior dogs abandoned in shelters and pounds; provides lifelong care for rescued senior dogs; adopts appropriate dogs into loving, permanent homes; develops programs that match senior dogs and senior people to their mutual benefit; fosters an awareness of our lifelong responsibility to our companion animals; and strengthens the bond between humans and animals by teaching respect and compassion for all living things.
A grant from Grey Muzzle supports their Senior Fund, a medical fund specifically supporting a General Health Profile screening for every senior dog and dental cleaning for
most senior dogs rescued by RAL in 2016 - 17.
Adoption Partners Bull Terrier Rescue CalChins Chinchilla Rescue Family Dog Rescue Give Me Shelter Cat Rescue Grateful Dogs Rescue K - 9 Armor Mickaboo Companion Bird Rescue Mighty Mutts Milo Foundation Muttville
Senior Dog Rescue Northern California Weimaraner Rescue Palomacy SaveABunny SFDOG SFSPCA Toni's Kitty Rescue
There is also a list and map, maintained by Resources for Dogs,
showing senior dog rescues and sanctuaries, as well as some of the general or breed - specific rescues, shelters, humane societies, and SPCAs that have special programs for older dogs.
California Give Me Shelter Cat Rescue Grateful Dogs Rescue Mickaboo Companion Bird Rescue Muttville
Senior Dog Rescue Miranda's Rescue Cal.
Approximately 400,000 senior animals die in shelters each year in the USA, according to Jackie Meyers, founder of
senior dog rescue Peaceful Passings Senior Animal Rescue.
In late 2016 Elder Paws
Senior Dog Rescue become Elder Paws Senior Dog Foundation and began administering our pet retention program, called «The Pandora Fund».
«We're taking over 70 dogs and cats that are available and don't have owners, to make room for the devastated dogs that can be hopefully reunited with their families at some point,» said Muttville
Senior Dog Rescue volunteer Patty Stanton.
Lionel's Legacy is a 501c3 non-profit San Diego -
based senior dog rescue and humane education program for elementary school children inspired by a senior pit mix named Lionel.
In all, 7,820 pounds of food was donated to two shelters renowned for their care of senior dogs: Muttville
Senior Dog Rescue in San Francisco and Castaway Critters in Harrisburg, Pa..
Cathie Garnier, Executive Director of Elder
Paws Senior Dog Rescue, sheds some light on the benefits of adopting a senior dog:
When Sherri Franklin started
Muttville Senior Dog Rescue, she not only wanted to rescue senior dogs, but also change the way the world perceived and treated them.
White, who runs
the senior dog rescue in Kentucky, turned to Corbett after attempting, and failing, four other 100 - mile races.
Special tee shirts were also made for the event, with part of the proceeds going to the Corgi Aid and Muttville
Senior Dog Rescue.
Muttville
Senior Dog Rescue was founded in 2007 by superstar animal advocate, Sherri Franklin.
She also teaches dog training classes at the San Francisco SPCA and volunteers as a dog trainer for Muttville
Senior Dog Rescue.
She volunteers as a dog trainer for Muttville
Senior Dog Rescue.
That was the question on Sherri Franklin's mind as she first created Muttville
Senior Dog Rescue, a San Francisco organization that has saved thousands of dogs since its founding in 2007, through its network of hundreds of foster homes.
She currently volunteers at the San Francisco SPCA and Muttville
Senior Dog Rescue.
by Sherri Franklin and Liz Brooking of Muttville
Senior Dog Rescue.
A grant from Grey Muzzle helps American Rescue, Inc. to support
their Senior Dog Rescue Program.
Our causes include shelters,
senior dog rescues, low - cost spay and neuter services, and military charities involving service dogs.
Muttville
Senior Dog Rescue's Seniors for Seniors program in San Francisco is a stellar example of one such program.
It was a total team effort, involving Houston Pets Alive, Austin Pets Alive, Mad Dog Rescue, The Milo Foundation, Muttville
Senior Dog Rescue, San Francisco SPCA, and Jameson Animal Rescue Ranch.
The Senior Dog Rescue Program protects and rehabilitates these dogs, both physically and emotionally.