Eleventh Hour Rescue

Eleventh Hour Rescue is a primarily VOLUNTEER based, no-kill rescue that saves animals on Death Row from over crowded high kill shelters, as well as taking in strays and owner surrenders before they go to the shelter. Eleventh Hour Rescue dogs and cats are cared for by our compassionate and dedicated team of volunteers and staff. Whether in foster homes, our kennel, or adoption centers, each dog and cat receive a clean and safe living environment, fresh food and water, medical attention, and most importantly an abundance of love and care until they find their forever homes. We are dedicated to educating the community about the animal overpopulation problem and the importance of spaying and neutering, as well as microchipping. Our goal is to find the best FURever home possible for all of our animals, no matter what breed, size, age, or medical need.

Eleventh Hour Rescue partners with shelters and rescues around the country and beyond, to make sure that we are pull ing as many animals as we can handle and finding them the best homes possible. We have fosters based all over and volunteers who help handle our organizational needs, from administration, vetting, processing intake and applications, caring for dogs & cats, and fundraising. Through it all, we try to raise awareness on the issue of animal overpopulation, stressing the importance of sterilization, vaccination, microchipping, and animal registration.

We partner with organizations in other states who are best in the position to pull highly adoptable dogs and cats from their area shelters. We form associations with reputable vets who are able to work with us in providing prompt and quality veterinary care for all animals. We employ staff at our kennels who are trained to handle the day to day needs of the animals in residence, as well as dealing with the proper intake procedures for new arrivals. We have a vast network of fosters who can take the cats and dogs into their homes and provide quality care for them while they wait through the adoption process. While dogs and cats are in residence with us, either through foster care or the kennels, staff and volunteers lead them through socialization, agility, and enrichment activities, to not only strengthen the animals positive behaviors, but to get the best read on the individual needs and creating a plan for moving forward with that animal to ensure a successful, long term placement, whether it be through adoption or sanctuary living. A trained group of volunteers handle the adoptions and foster application process, checking references and carefully reviewing the application to make the best determination for approval. Our meet & greet volunteers handle then matching the right FURever family to each animal, and another group handles to follow up to monitor the placement moving forward, providing support to the adoptive family as needed.

Every year, we are proud to see the number of intakes for both cats and dogs go up from the year before, showing that we have been able to expand our capacity through kennel growth and foster enrollment, as well as through streamlining the adoption process. This means animals are carefully, but efficiently placed, thus making room for new animals within our program. In the same trend, we have seen the number of successful, long term adoptions rise each year. In 2018 alone, 1889 dogs and cats were adopted out and remain with those FURever families. During that same year, 1899 total animals came into our organization. Some animals are with us a very short time, while others have been in our care for longer, needing a more monitored placement in an adoptive home.