Rescue FAQ
THIS IS A RESCUE...NOT A SHELTER!!!.A rescue is a network
of VOLUNTEER PRIVATE foster homes who work diligently, with no pay, for the good of the
animals they love. This rescue office is a PRIVATE HOME and not a place to visit!
There are no dogs at the mailing address. Our dogs are in various
private foster homes at various locations. When
you contact a rescue or foster home, you are contacting a
private home! Please be sensitive to the fact that
this rescue person also has a life, a job, perhaps children,
certainly animals and may not reply immediately or be available when you
want them to be. SOS DOGS is a New Jersey non-profit
corporation, and a federal 501(c)3 non-profit
organization. All donations are tax-deductible!
Sometimes dogs can no longer be kept by their
owners. Maybe the owner has died. Perhaps there is a divorce and neither
party can keep the dog. Often it's a new baby in the house and the owner
"doesn't have time" for the dog. Perhaps improper training may have led
to inappropriate dog behavior, and while the owner can't
deal with the problem s/he has created, a new person can fix the problem in
a few weeks. For reasons of moving, job change,
birth, death, and everything in between, dogs lose their homes. Whatever the
cause, there are many perfectly wonderful dogs who need new homes. The
are NOT someone else's junk. They are absolutely loving dogs who just need
new homes because their human family failed them. We also help
shelters place loving little dogs, and sometimes we take on dogs who have
medical needs, like surgery needed after a car accident, and the owner can't
afford it. We also get dogs from puppy mills who are about to be shot
or starved because they no longer produce. These are usually in the
3-5 yr range and are wonderful dogs after we clean them up and meet their
medical needs.
The
function of a rescue/rehoming service is to provide
these wonderful little dogs with new PERMANENT homes. Most pure breeds have rescues. Some
rescues only work with one breed, some with several.
For an excellent book to read on rescues and rescue
dogs, please get Save That Dog by Liz Palika.
If it is not in your library, book store or pet
store, you can get it through Howell Book House, A Simon
& Shuster Macmillan Company, 1633 Broadway, New York,
NY 10019. It costs $14.99 and explains everything
about rescues, rescue dogs and what to expect.
SOS DOGS (which stands for "Save Our Small"
Dogs) is an all volunteer non-profit rehoming service located in
Southern New Jersey, approximately twenty (20) minutes
outside Philadelphia.
This is NOT a shelter you can visit.
Like
all rescues, (and I am repeating here for emphasis) SOS DOGS is run out of a private home, and dogs for adoption are kept
in private foster homes. If you are interested in adoption, follow our
adoption process in the Adoption FAQs. Do NOT attempt to visit us!
We specialize in
finding homes for Yorkshire Terriers (national
coordinator of Yorkie rescuers for Project BREED), Bichon Frise,
Westies and Maltese, Toy Poodles, and other tiny breeds. We work closely with other rescuers
of our breeds in the area and all over the country.
Remember, most dogs have
lost their homes due to some change in lifestyle on the part of their
owners (death, moving, change of job, divorce, etc.) and the pet
can no longer be kept. Sometimes it's simply having a baby, and the new
mom is overwhelmed. There is nothing wrong with the dog! We are dedicated to saving tiny, helpless, dogs from
being put into a shelter. We work to place them in loving homes with
experienced, compatible and compassionate owners.
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