Simi Valley

We are a 501(c)3 public nonprofit organization equine sanctuary and welfare program. We offer community service programs in the summer, adoptions, and sanctuary placement. We are an Adoptions Partner with the Ventura, Los Angeles, Santa Barbara, and San Bernadino County departments of Animal Care / Control and Animal Services. We are a member of The Homes For Horses Coalition, the Humane Society of the United States Safe Stalls Network, the ASPCA Horse Action Team, and the HSUS Forever Foundation Training Program. We have Platinum Seal of Transparency on Candid.com/GuideStar.com. We are located in Simi Valley, CA, and operate a satellite rescue with all horses privately fostered and/or boarded. We do this because we believe in the sanctity and dignity of senior equines and equines with special needs; we value them and all they have to offer their human partners, whether or not they are rideable.

Our mission is to make a difference in the pet overpopulation problem by rescuing and re-homing abandoned animals in the Simi Valley Community as well as the greater Ventura and Los Angeles County areas. In working with local animal shelters, veterinarians, and other rescue groups, we locate animals most in need of care. While in our foster care, we ensure animals are properly fed and exercised, spay/neutered, microchipped and have high quality medical attention. Animal Rescue Volunteers (ARV), Inc. is a non-profit organization that began in 1994. We are volunteers who love animals and wish to make a difference. ARV is a well respected, long-standing organization that provides this service to the Simi Valley Community as well as the larger Ventura and Los Angeles County areas. ARV has been instrumental in the adoption of over 5,000 animals since 1994. We continually provide veterinary care for rescued animals such as assistance for broken jaws, hip and leg fractures, and upper respiratory illnesses, cancer treatments, mange, vision impairment, infections, and heart problems while they are awaiting adoption. We even bought a pacemaker for ARV's mascot, who is no longer with us. We provide animal "well-care" such as shots and grooming. To date we have provided over $250,000 for this care.

Pet Stop Rescue is a non-profit animal welfare organization, dedicated to placing unwanted pets into new loving homes. We have many people volunteering to save the lives of stray or abandoned pets, get them spayed or neutered, adopt them to a caring person or family, and educate the general public on the need for more humane treatment of animals in our society.

This is a joint project between two rescues - TLC is a nonprofit (www.tinylovingcanines.org) that holds weekly adoptions in Moorpark, CA at PETCO; Pets Hope LLC is not yet a nonprofit, but they have a petshop location in a large mall in Simi Valley. Opened 6 months ago, they ONLY have rescued dogs and cats. TLC pulls the dogs and for those we are having a hard time placing with the limited 4 days a month, the petshop is a prime showcase for adoption but all month long, 7 days a week. Basically, TLC is trying to support this concept of having dogs and cats available to the public for adoption throughout the month - for those dogs and cats that can handle the petshop environment (not all of our rescued dogs can deal with this, and for those, we come into the petshop every Sunday and show them in Xpens).

See above.