Mostly Mutts Animal Rescue and Adoption, Inc.
Bringing Out The Best in Rescue
Programs and results
What we aim to solve
Since 2004, Mostly Mutts Animal Rescue has been working to reduce the number of animals euthanized at local shelters in metro Atlanta. We work closely with animal control officers to save adoptable dogs that are often moments away from being put to sleep. Often, these dogs are sick and injured and require rehabilitation. Mostly Mutts provides housing, health care, training, and physical and emotional care to them until they can be placed in a new home.
Our programs
What are the organization's current programs, how do they measure success, and who do the programs serve?
Pet Rescue & Adoption
Since 2004, Mostly Mutts Animal Rescue has been working to reduce the number of animals euthanized at local shelters in metro Atlanta. We work closely with animal control officers to save adoptable dogs that are often moments away from being put to sleep. Often, these dogs are sick and injured and require rehabilitation. Mostly Mutts provides housing, health care, training, and physical and emotional care to them until they can be placed in a new home. We hold weekly adoption events at our facility in downtown Kennesaw to help each dog find their “fur-ever home.”
Where we work
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Our results
How does this organization measure their results? It's a hard question but an important one.
Number of animals rehomed
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
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Pet Rescue & Adoption
Type of Metric
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Direction of Success
Increasing
Number of animals rescued
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Pet Rescue & Adoption
Type of Metric
Input - describing resources we use
Direction of Success
Increasing
Number of animal adoptions
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Pet Rescue & Adoption
Type of Metric
Input - describing resources we use
Direction of Success
Increasing
Number of animals spayed and neutered
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Pet Rescue & Adoption
Type of Metric
Input - describing resources we use
Direction of Success
Increasing
Average number of days of shelter stay for animals
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Type of Metric
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Direction of Success
Decreasing
Number of trained volunteer dog-and-handler teams
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Pet Rescue & Adoption
Type of Metric
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Direction of Success
Holding steady
Number of volunteers
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Pet Rescue & Adoption
Type of Metric
Input - describing resources we use
Direction of Success
Holding steady
Hours of volunteer service
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Pet Rescue & Adoption
Type of Metric
Input - describing resources we use
Direction of Success
Holding steady
Goals & Strategy
Learn about the organization's key goals, strategies, capabilities, and progress.
Charting impact
Four powerful questions that require reflection about what really matters - results.
What is the organization aiming to accomplish?
Our goal is to save lives and find each animal a loving forever home. We rescue animals from local shelters and also accept pets whose owners can no longer care for them for various reasons such as illness, loss of income or home. Mostly Mutts provides housing, health care, training, and physical and emotional care to our rescued animals until they can be placed in a new home. Since animal overpopulation continues to be a huge problem in our community, promoting spaying and neutering is another important goal of our organization. All of our dogs are spayed or neutered before they are adopted out, and we encourage all pet owners to help “stop the littering” by having their pets fixed. Not only does it result in a healthier, happier pet, but also a healthier, happier community!
What are the organization's key strategies for making this happen?
Our strategies for making this happen are twofold. First we make sure their medical needs are met. They are fully vetted, spayed/neutered and given proper medical treatment and surgeries if needed. Second, we not only provide care and housing, either in our shelter or through our extensive network of foster families, but training to make sure that they are given the best start to their new lives. Many dogs have not been properly socialized and need to learn to trust people and learn basic obedience skills.
Mostly Mutts has implemented a unique initiative we call Mostly Mutts University (“MMU”) where the adoptable dogs in our shelter are trained in basic commands while they wait to be adopted by their forever family.
What are the organization's capabilities for doing this?
We have an army of over 400 volunteers who work tirelessly to care for our animals. From feeding, cleaning kennels, working our front desk, vetting potential adopter, fundraising and community events, they are committed to mission. Our shelter dogs get walked no less than 4 times per day in addition to outings and field trips.
Our Mostly Mutts University training program is administered by a professional trainer, who trains a team of volunteers who are assigned two dogs each for training. The trainers work with the dogs several times a week, and once they determine the dog to have mastered a particular skill, Emily tests them. Their MMU kennel tag proudly displays which commands they know.
The skills being taught are: Sit ~ Stay ~ Down ~ Come ~ Leave It ~ Drop It ~ Place ~ Leash walking ~ Walking in/out of doors calmly ~ Accepting strangers ~ Not jumping when meeting people. Dogs are also being tested for toy aggression, kid tested 10+, and dog tested.
This program is truly wonderful, not only because the trained dogs are likely to be adopted faster and adjust to their new homes more easily, but also for the very important one-on-one time the dogs have with the trainers. The mental stimulation of learning new things helps burn off excess energy, leaving the dogs tired and happy! Starting in 2020 we are expanding MMU to include dogs in our foster program.
In 2020 we partnered with our county re- entry program where our dogs go to the local prison to live with an assigned inmate who is their designated trainer.
What have they accomplished so far and what's next?
From our inception, we have increased the number of animals rescued and animals adopted each year. We started out in the founding member's home, moved 2 times to an increasingly larger facility until we were able to purchase our current building. in 2019 we adopted out over 800 animals! We plan on continuing our lifesaving work and are looking to expand our shelter to be able to save even more lives!
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Operations
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Mostly Mutts Animal Rescue and Adoption, Inc.
Board of directorsas of 02/24/2024
Dr. Kirk Underwood
Kennesaw Mountain Veterinary Services
Term: 2016 -
Karen Mitchell
Karen Mitchell
n/a
Thomas Hacker
The Home Depot
Kim Savery
CP Kelko
Matthew Sender
Acworth Police Department
Tammy Maass
Community Bankers Association of GA
Board leadership practices
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Board orientation and education
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Ethics and transparency
Have the board and senior staff reviewed the conflict-of-interest policy and completed and signed disclosure statements in the past year? Not applicable