Virginia

My organization is young, we opened six months ago, but we're already making a difference. We don't intake pets from the public, only transfer pets from other facilities to include our municipal shelter. Our goal is to save twice the lives while also decrease our counties euthanasia rate by helping the shelter with the amount of space and animals they have.

Pibbles 4 H.O.P.E is a 501c3 non-profit, run fully by dedicated volunteers, donation based organization working to promote the well-being of companion animals belonging to people who are homeless and low-income, by providing supplies, spay and neuter, vaccinations, medical care, education and other resources to maintain the animals’ health and safety and to educate the community about responsible pet ownership.

SSR is a group of passionate people who love the GSD breed. The founders worked with another rescue before SSR and promoted rescue on social media. They wanted to personally save more dogs from more distant areas where the euthanasia rate is greater. They formed this rescue and now get a lot of dogs from high kill shelters out of state and transport them to VA, vet them and find them homes.

Franklin County Humane Society was founded in 1977 and has provided spay neuter, rescue and adoption help for the animals in our community for 40 years. During the early years volunteers fostered animals in their homes as we did not have a facility. At the same time the Humane Society tried to improve conditions for the animals at the County Animal Control pound in order to stop the killing of 90% of the animals taken to the pound each year. We did not have the funds to open our own shelter and our requests that the County hire a shelter manager and our offers to manage the pound were turned down multiple times. In 1999 we decided to raise funds to open a low cost spay neuter clinic as spay neuter is the most effective way to reduce the numbers of animals that end up abandoned at shelters and pounds each year. We opened our Planned Pethood Clinic in July 2000 in a rented building and were the second spay neuter clinic to open in the state. In 2003 we bought a house and land on Route 220 and moved the Clinic there. We continued to press for improvements at the County pound but in 2006 the County Board of Supervisors turned down our offer to manage the pound once again and announced they would rely on volunteers rather than hire a Manager. We realized that we needed to be the organization to help the animals going to the pound and we announced plans to raise funds for a no kill shelter. In 2007 we opened our Purrfect Treasures fundraising store and completed our campaign to raise funds to build the Adoption Center by the end of that year. The Adoption Center opened in April 2009. The numbers of animals that the Humane Society takes in each year has increased steadily while the numbers taken in by the pound has decreased. The Humane Society’s adoption, rescue and spay neuter programs and the cooperation between the Humane Society and the County pound staff has reduced the kill rate at the pound. The Humane Society now takes in 80% of the animals in need in our community and provided care for 2,420 animals at the Adoption Center last year. This is a complete reversal from the days when 90% of the animals taken to the County pound were killed. This is how vital the Humane Society is for the animals in our community. Though our programs have reduced the kill rate at the County pound down to 23% (204 animals) that is not good enough. The majority of animals killed at the County pound last year are outside cats and we have been working on programs to help outside cats and are providing free spay neuter for the pets of qualified residents. This month we are celebrating #FCHS Rocks: 40 Years Strong. Our Planned Pethood Clinic has provided over 55,000 spay neuters and our Adoption Center has provided care for over 15,000 animals in need. The Humane Society does not receive any government funding and relies on donations, grants and fundraisers to provide services.

Jeanne Lou and Dot Terry have been rescuing dogs for several years. We decided to form a non-profit rescue so that we could fundraise to support our mission. Dot's mission is to provide a permanent home at Dot's Old Dogs Home for large-breed senior dogs whose owners have died or gone into a nursing home. These dogs do not do well in shelters, and will not get adopted. At our sanctuary, these dogs have a promise of a forever home, but are also promoted for adoption because there's nothing better than your very own human. Jeanne Lou's mission is to rescue chained/penned and yard-sale dogs. A lot of these dogs tend to be the smaller breeds, thus the name, Little Big Dog, because we rescue the little ones and the big ones. Jeanne Lou's rescues are placed in foster homes, vetted, s/n'd, socialized, and offered for adoption.

We are a non-profit that rescues abandoned, abused, or surrendered Beagles. We only adopt Beagles out as family pets and companion animals. We are a breed specific beagle rescue, with the occasional "wannabe beagle". It is our mission to reduce the homeless dog population in Hampton Roads by promoting responsible pet ownership, education about spay / neuter, and to find responsible forever home for beagle dogs and puppies.

The mission of the Virginia Beach Animal Control Unit is to balance the health, safety and welfare needs of the people and animals in our City. Through our mission we will educate the public about responsible companion animal ownership, aggressively investigate animal cruelty cases, provide compassion and humane care for unwanted, stray, abused and abandoned animals in our City, give adoptable animals a second chance at a forever home, and humanely euthanize animals when necessary and appropriate.

We are a very small 501(c)3 nonprofit rescue group. Our county, Rappahannock County, does not have a public cat shelter, and we operate the only community cat shelter in the county, all done with private funding.

Located in beautiful Highland County Virginia, the Highland County Humane Society is dedicated to promoting health, safety, welfare, compassionate care and protection of animals through a cooperative engagement with Highland County, its citizens, and other like-minded animal welfare groups. We are a group of dedicated volunteers and foster homes taking unwanted animals from the public, Highland County pound and neighboring animal shelters in Bath, Augusta, Rockingham, Page, Pendleton and Pocahontas. HCHS has no physical building but has no boundaries. Our group consists of animal lovers and each of us believes that every animal deserves a loving home. Since forming in July 2012 HCHS has taken in over 850 dogs and cats. HCHS is a recognized 501c3 organization and is completely funded through donations, private and corporate sponsors, adoption fees and fund raising events. Your tax deductible donation provides day to day care, veterinary services, food and shelter for the animals under our protection.

I have been rescuing for another group for 8 years, that group is in the process of dissolving. I am forming this group because there is a desperate need for it in this area. I believe that every cat deserves to have shelter from the elements, food, and humane care. I am hoping to lower the shelter's euthanasia rates, and help the community by taking in sick, orphaned, and abandoned cats through a network of foster homes, once expansion is necessary.