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The Hard Knocks Mission:With our individualized, respect-based training and decompression program, we will ensure more dogs find and keep loving homes. We will assist local shelters and rescues in rehabilitating abused and neglected dogs who are considered “unadoptable” due to anxiety triggered behavioral issues. We will provide training and resources for the entire community to promote safer interactions between dogs, their canine companions, and humans. In doing so, we will help reduce the number of dogs euthanized due to fear-based reactivity.

Seattle Dogs Homeless Program is a WA State 501c3 non-profit street outreach program and foster based dog rescue dedicated to animal welfare. Our street outreach program provides pets and their people living thru homelessness with food and supplies for both human and animal For dog owners seeking drugs/alcohol treatment or wanting to work access to free boarding. Aside from food our #1 need is vet care! Seattle Dogs has a mandatory spay and neuter policy for all animals needing vet care. We place a strong emphasis on helping to control the population and abuse from over breeding. We are also a foster based rescue for dogs that are abandoned, abused or owner surrender. Once healed, healthy, emotionally ready, their placed for adoption. We believe every pet living homelesss should have a voice, lots of love, good food and vet care. By helping people with the necessary supplies and support we empower them to feel better about themselves by meeting the needs of their pets. Seattle Dogs makes a difference 1 bag 1 paw at a time🐾

Therapy comes in many different forms, for many different people, for many different reasons. Therapy dogs provide a type of therapy that is different than almost anything else. They provide a sense of comfort, peace, patience, ease, love, and provide all of this…especially, during times of crisis.

The mission of the Kindness Ranch is to provide a sanctuary and place of rehabilitation for animals who have been used in laboratory research while fostering compassion for all animals.Consistent with our mission, we work to rehabilitate our dogs and cats in a home-like environment. Cats and dogs at The Kindness Ranch live together with their human caretakers in spacious yurts specially designed to meet their needs. They receive round-the-clock care to help them adjust to their new lives.The Kindness Ranch also provides an adoption program for all the animals we can rehabilitate. Those who are too debilitated, old or ill to be placed in a loving home can remain on the ranch to live out their days, surrounded by caretakers and volunteers who put the animals’ well-being first.***Kindness Ranch IS a 501c3 non profit organization. A request to change from a POF to PC was filed in 2007 and was approved by the IRS August 2014. This can be confirmed by going straight to the IRS website. Guidestar has yet to update our profile, which has been requested. Please see the IRS documents in the notes section of our profile.

To reduce the number of dogs and cats entering Arizona shelters by providing the resources needed to keep pets and their families together.

Rhode Island Parrot Rescue is an all volunteer 501(c)(3) organization dedicated to the rescue rehabilitation of unwanted, abused or abandoned parrots. Our mission is to educate people on the proper care of parrots and parrot-like birds, their specific physical and psychological needs, rescuing companion parrots from harmful or unwanted situations and rehabilitating, when necessary, unwanted, found, or injured naturalized (free-flying) parrots; and offering these birds to qualified homes for adoption

Spirit’s Promise Equine Rescue and Rehabilitation rescues horses who have been abused, neglected, or unwanted. When these beautiful animals arrive, we give them a new educational and recuperative purpose. In return, they repay us with love, sensitivity, and an innate spirituality unique to the species.

The Odd Cat Sanctuary is a nonprofit 501c (3) organization approved MA charity. Our mission with the Odd Cats of New England is simple, yet complex – our foundation regards the Odd Cats in every sense, be it a medical illness, a behavioral issue, abandoned, abused, neglected, feral, semi-feral, death row inmates, or physically challenged. While our cats cannot speak for themselves we have committed our time and effort to champion their cause. Cats have a magnificent presence that deserves to be defended through love, medical care, and affection in the fostering role first; and then with adoption options and placement in their forever home. We have developed the process toward adoption that supports our mission. Our adoption procedure is a three step method that nurtures a successful placement. Additionally, our rescue seeks to decrease the overpopulation in New England that is desperately challenged, this challenge to the overpopulation is where the Odd Cat thrives. We are entirely foster based, volunteer driven, and completely reliant on donations, contributions, and fund raising. Community support is our foundation.

Laws throughout the country treat companion animals as mere property, denying them basic rights often leading to their death. The Center pursues high impact litigation and legal challenges against archaic and constitutionally infirm animal laws to save these animals and advance their fundamental rights against government indifference and abuse. We have saved hundreds of animals in dangerous dog bite defense proceedings, pet custody disputes, evictions and other situations where the law does not protect them and their owners. The Center’s mission is to foremost save lives, protect at-risk animals and cause critical change in the law so it reflects the value people place on their animals today.

To provide the finest of dog guides to the qualified sightless.

ICAN trains and places assistance dogs with individuals with disabilities and provides foundational like skills to inmates through their experience as trainers.

Their Mission : " The Midwest Horse Welfare Foundation is dedicated to providing qualified homes for any horse in need. It is our goal to make certain that every horse placed in our care is provided with all the necessary ingredients for a safe and happy life, and that it is also protected from those who would do it harm. Each horse placed in our care will receive our full efforts to ensure that it never ends up in the auction ring or on the slaughterhouse floor. We promise to do our best to provide only the best homes with dedicated families for every animal we place."