Dogs/Cats

Annie's Pet Rescue

Cottonwood, CA

About

Our mission is to spread the idea that all life is significant and worthwhile. We started our pet rescue focusing on pets considered “un-adoptable” that are generally not accepted into traditional rescues due to illness, injury, behavioral issues, age, breed and/or appearance. Knowing that with some care and time, most pets CAN find a home. It just takes work to find the right fit.

Pets available

Dogs Cats

Adoption process

We are committed to placing pets into homes where they will be enjoyed and loved for their lifetime. We want our fosters and the people who adopt them to be happy and comfortable with each other. Our adoption process is in place to ensure that we make good matches and, though it can be difficult for us to choose one home over another or decline an adoption application, we do so with the best interest of our foster pets AND YOU in mind. You will always be told if we have a concern with your application or any other part of the process. We believe in honesty and education, so you will know if there is a problem. We hope you will understand the choices we make. Most denied applications have more to do with the pet not being suited to the particular environment and not with any other issues. It is important to be honest and realistic, so that you won't end up with a bad match that makes you and the pet unhappy. We prefer to be contacted with questions through email (rather than by phone), that way details and answers will be in writing for you to look over again as needed. It can be very exciting to bring a new pet into the home and sometimes the excitement makes it hard to remember details from a phone call in order to also make a very important decision. Many people fall in love with a picture and, even when I tell them details that are important to the situation, are so determined for this to be their match, they wave away any concerns and just want to get to snuggling their new buddy. I have learned to see the signs that someone is not hearing the possible negative issues and if we don't seem to be communicating well with each other, I may ask you to work with another rescue. This is not a personal issue, just a communication issue. However, having ignored this type of interaction in the past in order to give kitties a chance at happiness, only for them to be returned because the issues were not considered properly in the first place, I will not knowingly put our fosters through that anymore. It is so stressful on them to be juggled around! After determining that the foster pet may be a good match for you, we will schedule a meeting. You are still not under any obligation to adopt until you have met the pet and feel that they are the one for you. We hold adoption days at Petco in Redding and it may work out for you to come see the pet there or we can work out a one on one visit. Our cats can be adopted directly from our adoption days. If you are looking to adopt a dog, we require a home visit to make sure the yard is secure and the environment will work for that dog, taking our cue by how comfortable the dog seems while there. We feel that the foster dogs pick their homes. When a foster is fairly calm in your home and happy to meet you, we feel like that is the home for them. If you feel the same way, then a great match has been made. You may expect to be able to keep your new pet starting immediately. If you need time to consider, you will be given time. We do not have a public shelter for you to visit, so Petco or home visits are the ways that you may meet our fosters. We take responsibility for these pets for a lifetime. If, for any reason, an unforeseeable event should make it necessary to return a pet, we take them back into our rescue. We are a small rescue. Imagine if we didn’t take great care in selecting homes. We must do our best to ensure that our pets stay in their homes and are cared for. For example, if a dog was returned years later and we find they have not received Heartworm prevention while in the home, we would need to pay for heartworm treatment that would take a lot of resources that could be used for saving other pets from euthanasia. Even worse, we would hate to find out one of our previous fosters had passed away due to negligence. We are in this to save pets from bad situations and give them the opportunity to live in a loving family of their own. We love these pets in our own home. We provide the very best Veterinary care and preventative medicine. We expect an adoptive home to do the same. We also charge an adoption donation. We cannot save other pets if we cannot pay our medical bills or buy food, etc. We rely on donations to function. We put more money into your future pet than you will pay in an adoption fee 99% of the time. We do not pass along costs we incurred caring for the pet, to the adopter. Most of the medical care, food, cat litter, toys, blankets, etc are donated by others. Your job is just to love and care for your new pet. Having said that, we don't believe in free adoptions. Most dog adoption fees will be between $75 and $150. Cat adoption fees are between $20 and $60. If you have gotten this far, it is fair to assume that you understand our intention is to find great homes for our great pets. If our process is not for you, please check with other rescues, as we all have different rules we go by. By all means, if you want a pet right away and don’t want to go through an adoption process, please go to a local shelter and adopt a pet that might not make it out if not for you.