Shelter Relief: for homeless companion animals,
LOCATION IS EVERYTHING

For a homeless companion animal in the shelter system, their location often determines their fate.

If you are a homeless companion animal, your future just might depend on a simple twist of fate: where you live. In overcrowded and under-resourced places, you might never make it out of the shelter you arrive at: destined for euthanasia or being warehoused for years on end. Yet, in other places, you might be adopted within days or sometimes hours of hitting the adoption floor.

Animal Rescue Corps’ Shelter Relief program works with overcrowded and under-resourced shelters, intaking at-risk dogs and cats from them, bringing them to our Rescue Center outside Nashville, TN for medical, physical, and social care, and then matching them with our vetted network of placement partners in high-adoption regions, and transporting them as far as they need to go to get there… so they will find the loving homes they have always deserved.

In the first two months of 2023, 200+ dogs and cats have entered Animal Rescue Corps’ Shelter Relief program.

These animals include Jane, who arrived very pregnant as part of a transport of 57 vulnerable mother dogs and puppies from overcrowded shelters in rural Tennessee to ARC. Jane went into labor soon after arriving, and gave birth to ten puppies.

These animals also include six-month-old Moe, who was brought in as a stray to an overcrowded shelter. He was gravely injured, with his outgrown baby collar and a piece of string cutting into his soft neck and throat. Unable to provide him medical care, the shelter reached out to ARC. Animal Rescue Corps took Moe in and rushed him to emergency treatment, where he is on painkillers, receiving medical care, and awaiting lifesaving surgery.

For a homeless companion animal in the shelter system, their location often determines their fate.

If you are a homeless companion animal, your future just might depend on a simple twist of fate: where you live. In overcrowded and under-resourced places, you might never make it out of the shelter you arrive at: destined for euthanasia or being warehoused for years on end. Yet, in other places, you might be adopted within days or sometimes hours of hitting the adoption floor.

Animal Rescue Corps’ Shelter Relief program works with overcrowded and under-resourced shelters, intaking at-risk dogs and cats from them, bringing them to our Rescue Center outside Nashville, TN for medical, physical, and social care, and then matching them with our vetted network of placement partners in high-adoption regions, and transporting them as far as they need to go to get there… so they will find the loving homes they have always deserved.

In the first two months of 2023, 200+ dogs and cats have entered Animal Rescue Corps’ Shelter Relief program.

These animals include Jane, who arrived very pregnant as part of a transport of 57 vulnerable mother dogs and puppies from overcrowded shelters in rural Tennessee to ARC. Jane went into labor soon after arriving, and gave birth to ten puppies.

These animals also include six-month-old Moe, who was brought in as a stray to an overcrowded shelter. He was gravely injured, with his outgrown baby collar and a piece of string cutting into his soft neck and throat. Unable to provide him medical care, the shelter reached out to ARC. Animal Rescue Corps took Moe in and rushed him to emergency treatment, where he is on painkillers, receiving medical care, and awaiting lifesaving surgery.

Moe, Jane, and Jane’s puppies would never have had their second chance in an overcrowded shelter with low adoption rates. But, because of caring donors and volunteers powering ARC, Moe, Jane, and Jane’s puppies have a bright future ahead. They are receiving the care they need, and will be individually matched with the best placement partner to set them up for success in life… and the happily ever after they deserve. You can power the happily ever afters for them and for animals like them with a gift to ARC’s Shelter Relief fund.

Because if you are like us, you don’t think that money should ever stand in the way of being able to help an animal in need like Spud.

Spud entered ARC’s Shelter Relief program in late January 2023. His guardian had passed away, and he was dirty, neglected, matted, and sad.

Spud quickly moved through ARC’s Shelter Relief program, receiving medical, physical, and emotional care in the Rescue Center. As soon as Spud was ready, ARC’s team matched him with our trusted placement partner Animal House Shelter in IL, making the around 1,000 mile round trip to bring him there to find his forever family. In just days, Spud found the loving home he’d been longing for and needing.

ARC’s Shelter Relief program is a way to help fix the imbalance in our shelter system… to move homeless animals out of low-adoption, overcrowded shelters in regions where they have poor odds of finding a home into high-adoption shelters in regions so they can find their forever family… just like they all deserve.

Moe, Jane, and Jane’s puppies would never have had their second chance in an overcrowded shelter with low adoption rates. But, because of caring donors and volunteers powering ARC, Moe, Jane, and Jane’s puppies have a bright future ahead. They are receiving the care they need, and will be individually matched with the best placement partner to set them up for success in life… and the happily ever after they deserve. You can power the happily ever afters for them and for animals like them with a gift to ARC’s Shelter Relief fund.

Because if you are like us, you don’t think that money should ever stand in the way of being able to help an animal in need like Spud.

Spud entered ARC’s Shelter Relief program in late January 2023. His guardian had passed away, and he was dirty, neglected, matted, and sad.

Spud quickly moved through ARC’s Shelter Relief program, receiving medical, physical, and emotional care in the Rescue Center. As soon as Spud was ready, ARC’s team matched him with our trusted placement partner Animal House Shelter in IL, making the around 1,000 mile round trip to bring him there to find his forever family. In just days, Spud found the loving home he’d been longing for and needing.

ARC’s Shelter Relief program is a way to help fix the imbalance in our shelter system… to move homeless animals out of low-adoption, overcrowded shelters in regions where they have poor odds of finding a home into high-adoption shelters in regions so they can find their forever family… just like they all deserve.