Behavior & Training

Open-admission shelter serving the homeless animal population, and promoting responsible pet ownership, including spay/neuter.

Midwest Animal Rescue Service of Illinois (MARS) was started in 2009 in order to help alleviate the pet over-population issues in southern IL, MO, KY, AR, and TN through a no-kill adoption program. Our desire to help animals in need has allowed us to offer rescue services for hundreds of dogs and puppies, cats and kittens, and horses.

The mission of Collie Concern Rescue is to facilitate the adoption of displaced collies into loving and responsible homes and to provide a good interim quality of life for homeless collies. Our focus is on matchmaking the right collie into the right adoptive home. Collie Concern Rescue will seek to educate the public on responsible dog ownership through mentoring and post-adoption services. Collie Concern Rescue will work with adopters and fosters in neighboring states. Collie Concern Rescue is a non profit self funded organization established in Nov. 1994. All members of Collie Concern Rescue are unpaid volunteers and are doing this for their love of the breed.

Dogs As Family, Inc. is an all volunteer 501(c)3 rescue organization. We are not breed specific and focus on dogs who are living on the streets. We work with every dog and love them for who they are - we treat everyone's injuries and conditions and provide a loving home based on each dog's individual needs.

We are a small non-profit organization devoted to rescueing and rehoming schnauzers. We make every attempt to find them a permanent home so they will never be displaced again. We also work with other Rescue groups and Shelters to insure that animals are not euthanized due to limited space.

Cooper's Chance Animal Rescue, a national, 501c3 nonprofit, all volunteer animal rescue. Our mission is to rescue, rehabilitate and re-home unwanted, abused and neglected animals. We rescue all animals and are not breed specific. We also focus our efforts on larger dogs or elderly dogs in need of extra care. We are not a shelter and do not accept strays, all of our rescued pets are placed into loving foster homes and receive one on one attention, complete vet care, training and socialization. We also educate the public on proper and responsible pet ownership through nonprofit partnerships, public education programs and grass root efforts within communities. Currently we are striving to raise funds to initiate the building of the country's first eco friendly and environmentally sustainable no kill shelter! This awesome facility, open to the public, will offer not only a clean, safe place for animals of all shapes and sizes...we will be working to save our planet too! A completely Green Building, we will reuse and recycle everything we can to insure our paw print on earth is minimal.

Since our rescue started in August of 2005 , we have adopted out over 2,600 dogs to new and happy homes. WOW!! Our main problem is people in our area do not spay or neuter their animals. We have a lot of problems with families that get a puppy and then when they are about 1 year of age they want to get rid of it. Both of the humane societies in our area are too full so, now they are sending animals to us. We are extremely pleased to see that people are opening there hearts to our wonderful rescue. If you are interested in seeing our rescued pets, please visit our happy tails site to see how these dogs have been given a second chance. We are always looking for families who would like to help us foster these kids until they find their new homes. We are always getting feedback and pictures of our adopted pets with their new families which is shared with the fosters.

We are a group of private foster homes dedicating to saving and finding forever homes for as many dogs as we can. We primarily pull from the local kill shelters, and we also rescue abandoned dogs. We fully vet and assess the temperaments of our fosters and then try to find them the best forever homes possible. We do it because we love them and because we hope our efforts encourage others to do the same. We also participate in local rescue advocacy groups and work in public education efforts to promote spay / neuter and responsible pet ownership.