Tiny Dog Rescue
Rescue & transport
Coordinated intake, safe climate-controlled transport, and rapid placement for dogs at risk from seizures, closures, and disasters.
Our Work
Care that begins in crisis and lasts for life.
From an urgent call to a stable home, our programs bring together field response, veterinary expertise, foster care, adoption, and prevention — designed so that no dog falls into the gap between two of them.
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Veterinary recovery
Clinical partners provide diagnostics, surgery, medication, rehabilitation, and recovery plans tailored to every dog we take in.
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Foster & adoption
We prepare dogs and people for lasting placements through behavioral support, careful matching, and post-adoption guidance.
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Spay/neuter access
Funded clinic days and mobile surgical units serving counties where the nearest low-cost appointment is more than an hour away.
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Community partnerships
Operating grants, training, and shared capacity for the municipal shelters and volunteer rescues already rooted in each community.
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Crisis & disaster response
Pre-signed agreements that let us move animals, supplies, and veterinary staff into a response zone inside 48 hours.
Inside an intake
What the first seventy-two hours actually look like.
Hour zero is a phone call — usually from an animal control officer or a partner shelter director who has just been handed more dogs than they have kennels. We confirm the count, the condition, and the legal status of the animals before anything moves.
By hour twelve a transport route is built around available foster capacity rather than geography, because a shorter drive into a full county helps nobody. Crates, medication, and a veterinary escort are assigned to the run.
Between hours twenty-four and seventy-two each dog gets an intake exam, vaccinations, a microchip, and a decompression window in a quiet foster home. No adoption conversation begins during that window. The dog is allowed to simply be somewhere safe first.
The part nobody photographs
Prevention is the cheapest rescue we run.
A funded spay surgery costs a fraction of what one unplanned litter costs us in intake, care, and placement — and it spares a dog the crisis entirely. Our prevention program funded 18,600 surgeries last year across counties with no low-cost provider.
The retention fund works the same way. When the only barrier between a family and their dog is a one-time bill for a dental extraction or a hernia repair, we pay the bill. It kept roughly 900 dogs in their existing homes last year.
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