Education & Outreach

We provide education, support and resources so that pet guardians can maintain safe, healthy and loving home environments to their companion animals. Through promoting responsible guardianship, we hope to reduce the number of animals surrendered to local shelters and rescues and to prevent countless animals from being euthanized. When all resources have been exhausted and any particular animal is still not in a safe and stable environment, we will offer the family re-homing as a final measure.

Akita Angels focuses on keeping the dog in the home and provides 100% no cost support to families experiencing issues. We promote spay/neuter, breed-specific training, responsible pet ownership and a lifelong commitment to the dog.

The FernDog Rescue Foundation’s founder and director, Fernando Camacho, has been working with animal rescue groups and shelters for his entire career as a dog behavior consultant and trainer. These dedicated groups typically rely solely on volunteers that work tirelessly trying to save as many animals as they possibly can. Unfortunately, these groups often lack the funding, time and resources to better accomplish their work. One of the things that hit Fernando the hardest was realizing that although the dogs staying at shelters were physically cared for, their mental health deteriorated daily. With each day a dog spends in an animal shelter, his chances for adoption decline due to the psychological effects of the typical shelter environment. It’s not the animal shelter’s fault – they do the best they can with what they have. The problem is that they have so little available to them to make any kind of change, and that’s why The FernDog Rescue Foundation was formed. The mission of The FernDog Rescue Foundation is to help dogs at risk by providing foster homes that will nurture their physical and emotional health, help locate the ideal forever homes for them while providing support and training to help assure that their stay in their new homes is permanent. In addition we focus on developing programs to promote pet adoption services and raise public awareness by providing community education of the issues surrounding animal rescue. We are a registered 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization.

Our primary mission is to help care for and reduce the number of cats living in our street through a Comprehensive TNR Program. Our secondary mission is to teach respect for life through our work. We work with individuals, communities and municipalities to promote TNR and responsible, humane colony management. We help with sick and injured cats. We work through a foster system to adopt kittens and strays. We do it for the love of cats and because there is such a strong need.

The Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (SPCA) for Monterey County is your nonprofit, independent, donor-supported humane society that has been serving the animals and people of Monterey County since 1905. The SPCA is not a chapter of any other agency and does not have a parent organization. They shelter homeless, neglected and abused pets and livestock, and provide humane education and countless other services to the community. They are the local agency you call to investigate animal cruelty, rescue and rehabilitate injured wildlife, and aid domestic animals in distress. Online at www.SPCAmc.org.

The Mission of Green Pets America rescue is to rescue animals in need and promote the humane treatment of shelter animals

We rescue Labradors that are in danger of being euthanized at animal shelters or that are in situations that are abusive, neglectful and/or harmful. Save A Lab Rescue provides all necessary veterinary care for its rescued Labradors and transports them to approved foster homes, where they are cared for until they are adopted. The organization conducts a thorough screening process of its prospective adopters, and seeks to place its rescued Labradors into approved, permanent adoptive homes.

is a no-kill, volunteer organization dedicated to the rescue, rehabilitation and permanent placement of homeless cats and kittens, and educating public about indoor-only and trap/neuter/release.

We mostly pull dogs from shelter but do occasionally take surrendered pets to keep them out of shelters. All pets are given an exam, spay / neuter, fully vaccinated and heartworm checked, put on monthly preventatives and basic obedience and housebreaking is begun. We work with other rescues that have the same processes and screening we do and can transfer dogs to them if they have approved adopters. Our ultimate goal is to remove as many pets from shelter situations as possible and place them in forever homes.

California Pit bull Rescue (CPR) is organized for the purpose of rescuing at risk "pit bull" type dogs and facilitating social change to abolish the abuse, over breeding and mis-education surrounding the breed. CPR will achieve these goals through a statewide fostering network, fundraising programs, educational initiatives and financial/physical support for needy guardians of pit bull type dogs.