Save-a-mutt

About

It Started with Lunch…Yes, really. After an Oprah show about puppy mills in 2008, two friends went to lunch and asked each other a question… “How can we do more?” A pet-sitter and a graphic designer who wanted to give more – more money, more time, more than they could give by themselves - to support their passion, dogs! They weren’t alone. After a bit of brainstorming, a fundraising dog wash just seemed like a fun idea. And isn’t ‘fun’ part of fundraising? They shared their idea with friends and family and the idea grew. Everyone wanted to help. So they turned to their community, looking for sponsors, and again, everyone wanted to help. The idea was now more than an idea, it was an event – a yearly event to raise money for dog based charities in their neighborhood. After the first few years of the dog wash, meeting amazing rescues and shelters, the ‘rescue’ bug took hold. Elizabeth had already been fostering senior dogs and had a grasp on that end of the rescue world. Jennifer began working with a few area rescues, learning about high kill, out of state shelters, and how transport works. Today, Save-A-Mutt is a full fledged 501c3 rescue that saves hundreds of animals each year. They work to find forever homes for dogs, cats, puppies and kittens. ‘Fun’draising is still very much a part of their organization, but now they work with an amazing team of board members, volunteers, fosters and rescue partners.

Pets available

Adoption process

1) Fill out our online adoption application. Save-A-Mutt responds to EVERY application – please make sure you check your junk mail to make sure our responses are not sitting there. 2) After we receive your application, we will review, send out reference emails, make phone calls. We will be in touch with additional questions and conduct a phone interview. Remember, this can take a few days. Please let your references know we will be emailing or calling them. Remember - our goal is to place dogs, cats, puppies and kittens in a FOREVER home… and as such we have certain criteria we look for to ensure this. We are primarily a volunteer organization and application review takes time, please, if you adopt elsewhere, let us know so we can move onto the next application. Don’t forget, your “adoption donation” may be tax deductible as we are a 501c3.

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