Fur Fun Rescue

Incoming dogs are placed in well-screened, experienced foster homes where they get immediate love and a home environment. After dogs decompress from stress, they learn social skills from their humans, and how to be a dog by watching other dogs. Our foster families are driven by passion for their work, which often involves special care (e.g., meds, frequent feeding, physical therapy).

To treat our many special needs dogs, we developed a diverse alliance of veterinary care facilities. Two in Cedar Rapids spay and neuter, and one in Anamosa is our “primary care” provider for many low-cost medical treatments. Major medical care (non-complex and complex) is given by veterinary specialty hospitals in Cedar Rapids, Des Moines, and Madison, WI.

Thorough screening of applications, applicants, and their households (especially other dogs and cats) helps ensure successful matches. We take time to do it right, and place each dog into its forever home. We try to adopt all dogs within 2 hr of Cedar Rapids, IA, to facilitate doing a home visit as part of each adoption.

We provide extensive education to the local community (up to 60 calls/day, a service many rescues do not provide). We advise owners about surrenders; offer dog training (sometimes in home); answer dog questions (about food, meds, behavior); fix fences; help look for lost dogs (lending traps and helping search); report observed animal abuse; and more.