Rescue Services

We are the Clay County Animal Shelter.

GARD is a 501(c)3 / 509(a)2 licensed non-profit no-kill animal shelter. We rescue dogs from high kill shelters and find them loving homes. We extensively promote the spaying and neutering of all companion animals. We operate solely on private donations and receive no funding from the state. We have devoted our lives to saving dogs and have sacrificed a lot personally to be able to live out a dream we have long held - to make a positive difference in how companion animals are treated.

In an effort to combat the enormous number of purebred Labrador Retrievers put to sleep every day as a result of backyard breeders and puppy mills, we serve to save the lives of Labrador Retrievers and find them new homes. Rescuing a Labrador Retriever is a wonderful way to get the companion you want without contributing financially to the terrible backyard breeding problem and the abuse that exists for these wonderful dogs.

Cat's Cradle is a nonprofit no-kill organization. We do TNR, rescue, have volunteer foster homes. Last year we assisted in 2300 spay/neuter surgeries and found homes for aprox. 300 cats. I have been a volunteer for about 10 yrs., my passion is fostering but I do many other things within the group involving operations. I do this becuase of my love for animals and to some how make a difference in the animal welfare world and most importantly to educate the public.

We are a group of volunteers who have been in the rescue field since 2005 and volunteered as staff volunteers with other non-profit animal rescue groups. Now, we have our own group. We love and care about the present and future of the lives of the many homeless dogs and cats and strive to improve their lives for them to know stability, love and safety. We focus most of our resources to help our sister animal rescue group in the City of Tijuana, Mexico as we are achiving to work with the Mexican Goverment to implement educational programs of pet care and sterilization in schools and large working fabrics to be able to have a large mexican population know there is help out there and the importance of sterilizing and treating animals humanely. We also help other rescue groups from San Diego and LA as well as rescue animals that are being relinquished by owners or other unfortunate events.

The Boston Terrier Rescue of East Tennessee is an affiliate of the Boston Terrier Rescue Network and a Chartered Rescue in the State of Tennessee. We operate within the full breath and width of the state. We also operate in Virginia, Kentucky, North and South Carolina, Georgia, and West Virginia collaboratively with other Boston Terrier Rescues and in Arkansas, Texas, Oklahoma, Mississippi, Louisiana and Alabama as backup to those rescues. Most of our energy focused in the areas of greatest need, East Tennessee/Eastern KY/Western North Carolina and the metropolitan area of Atlanta, GA. We work with all Boston Terrier Rescues recognized by the Boston Terrier Club of America’s Rescue Board and maintain a personal relationship with individuals in these affiliate organizations, generally involving personal communication via telephone and email but also sharing information and needs through several Yahoo groups formed for that purpose. We also operate and share resources through partnership arrangements with many other fine breed and mixed breed rescue organizations, particularly within the Southeast and Midsouth. We are particularly active within the Atlanta Metro/Chattanooga area. We support and maintain mutually supportive relationships with Best Friends and AnimalWorld and Petfinder as well as other fine organizations dedicated to animal welfare. Our relationship with most of the hundreds of municipal shelters in the southeast is personal, one to one and we know many of these volunteers and shelter operators on a personal basis. We support and help each other and actively courtesy post dogs needing adoption as requested, especially if they are distant from us for these shelters. We have been fortunate enough to aid in successfully place a great number of them and now many local Humane Societies and shelters initiate the contact with us when they are in need with a Boston or Boston mix. We are a small, focused rescue with regional coordinators, representatives, agents and foster homes in Tennessee, western North Carolina, southwestern Virginia and northern Georgia. We place an average of 120-140 dogs annually as well as operate as a sanctuary for those dogs either too old or too ill to place. At this time, we have approximately a dozen foster homes within our organization and nearly four dozen agents and representatives who are willing to transport, pull or otherwise help a dog in need as well as a sizable “HELP list” of volunteers from all over the eastern 2/3’s of the country who are willing to move to help a dog on a moment’s notice. Many of these kind people are also members of other Boston Terrier rescues where we have formed partnerships. Our mission and our focus is to rescue Boston Terriers, mixes and any other kind of dog that we can manage from a bad situation and place it into a good, forever home after any needed veterinary care or convalescence. For the old dogs, sick dogs and otherwise unadoptable dogs, we provide a sanctuary. All those managing this program are already professionals, many retired, with successes in business enterprises. We realize that in order to survive in RESCUE, one must apply the same attention to cost management while still providing superior care to our kids. Therefore, we seek those opportunities to reduce costs whilst maintaining a superior program. Examples of this are some of the routine veterinary processes that we can provide for ourselves, e.g., routine “worming” and certain vaccinations that require only training to properly administer. Our program seeks to pull Boston Terriers, Boston Terrier mixes and others from kill shelters and other undesirable situations such as abusive environments. Our focus is on Boston Terriers since we know that in being breed specific we can better address specific needs and quirks of Boston Terriers and their mixes. We also seek to work collaboratively with other similar breed rescues, .e.g., bulldog, boxer, French Bulldog, pug, etc. inasmuch as their peculiarities and needs are often similar to Bostons. As active members of several mixed breed groups and organizations, we further seek to find homes for other breed and mixed breed dogs and spend a good deal of effort matching dogs in need with rescues. In those unfortunate and all too commonplace situations when a shelter is in trouble, or a rescue needs help, we work together with other like minded rescues to organize funding/transport and support. Recently, our work in Leland, MS resulted in community focus brought together from phone calls and internet postings which helped provide public and private funding to help that poor shelter out of an economic crisis. We have some dogs that are simply too old, too sick or having behavioral characteristics that make them poor adoption candidates. An example is Rodney Buster, a “bait dog” from Georgia who’s lost most of his ears and an eye. He was used to train fighting dogs and is a very bad risk. He and the old dogs, 11-15 years old don’t stand much of a chance of being adopted. They stay with us and help to make the other dogs comfortable and when we occasionally have puppies, they get to babysit. If it’s a Boston Terrier or a Boston mix, we take it. We take the sick, the old and the otherwise unadoptable. That’s our commitment to this wonderful breed of very smart little dogs.

NOAH Animal Rescue is dedicated to providing assistance and placement to animals of all kinds, no matter what the circumstances. Animal rescue began many years ago for me. As far back as I can remember animals of all shapes and sizes have been a central part of my life. It all started with dogs and cats then on to wildlife; squirrels, bunnies, opossums, birds, skunks, ferrets and prairie dogs. This is something so near and dear to my heart that I can't imagine ever not being there to give aid to a animals in need.

We are a grassroots organization concerned with the humane treatment of animals in the Helotes TX and surrounding communities. We want all homeless animals to find homes, and we are also concerned with pet overpopulation and education of the public about animal welfare issues.

We are a labrador retriever rescue that places labs and lab mixes in new homes. We do this because we love the lab breed and want to be sure dogs in need of a new home find the right home for them.

The organization was founded in 2002 by myself, the founding President and Executive Director. We are a no-kill, licensed Animal shelter and rescue/adoption group. We specialize in Persians and Siamese but we also rescue all breeds and mixed breed cats. I am a die hard cat lover and I wanted to help the pet overpopulation in the South. I have recently become involved with the trapping and taming of feral kittens.