Save a Life--Rescue a Dog

Dog rescue organizations are groups run by individuals, small groups, or breed clubs that help find homes for unwanted animals. These loveable dogs come from a number of places, including animal shelters or private owners who can no longer keep their pets, for a variety of reasons.


Find a shelter: Search by your state, city, or ZIP code through the ASPCA's shelter finder.

Find a pet: Petfinder.com- A conglomeration of thousands of rescues nationwide. You can search by location, breed, sex, age, or even size of dog and come up with any number of potential adoptive candidates! Each dog's page contains a short bio and adoption information, and often a link to the shelter's website where the dog is residing. Petfinder also contains a "classifieds" section where individual owners looking to rehome their dogs may post.

Find a breed: Visit the rescue pages, listed by breed, in the WikiFido breed directory. Or, search shelters and rescue groups in your city in the Dog-Friendly City Guides.

Add to these lists!

Click EasyEdit to add an organization or group to this page. Or, create a new page for your rescue group: click "add a new page"

Dog Rescue Search Engines

1. Dog Rescue and Humane Society Search Engine
   

National Dog Rescue Organizations

1. Humane Society of the United States
2. Pet Ark
3. ASPCA
4. Noah's Wish
5. Ratbone Rescues
6. White German Shepherd Rescue
7. American Fox Terrier Rescue

Regional Dog Rescue Organizations

1. MidAmerica Border Collie Rescue: Rescuing Border Collies in Minnesota, Wisconsin, Michigan, Illinois, Indiana and Kentucky.
2. Where Wolves Rescue: Education, Rescue, Refuge, Placement and Adoptions of Domestic Wolf Dogs, Wolf Hybrids, and Domestic Wolves. Based out of Arizona but works with a large national community of rescuers.
   
3. Creature Concerns, Inc: Rescuing animals and promoting responsible pet ownership in Oklahoma and Kansas.
4. PomRescue.com: Saving Pomeranians one at a time. Located in SC
5. Oldies But Goodies Cocker Spaniel Rescue: Rescuing homeless cockers and cocker mixes to find them forever homes, based in VA/MD/DC. Visit us at

Local Dog Rescue Organizations

If you want to find a dog to rescue in your city, visit the dog rescue pages for your city in the Dog-Friendly City Guides. Here are a few of the groups that have already been added:

San Francisco

• Rocket Dog Rescue
  

Austin

• Jack's Fur Angels of Texas

• Weimaraner Rescue of North Texas

Seattle

• Seattle Pug Rescue
• Ginger's Pet Rescue

Phoenix

• AZ DOG resources
• Coalition of All Breed Rescue of Arizona
• Where Wolves Rescue

Connecticut

• The Simon Foundation, Inc.
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Spartanburg, South Carolina
PomRescue.com

Memphis, TN
www.tnmuttleycrue.com

International Dog Rescue Organizations

1. The Association of Wildlife Conservation Minis-APAM - APAM - Romania
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We need your help!

Know a great local rescue group that should be included? Add it to the city guides!