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San Francisco Animal Care & Control keeps our community safe and protects all animals from abuse, neglect, and cruelty. SFACC is the City’s only open admission shelter; we accept all animals regardless of temperament, medical condition, or species. We rescue, reunite and rehome all species of animals.
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SFACC currently has over 30 national and local partners in rescuing, rehabilitating,
and rehoming animals of all species, both wild and domestic.
A network of volunteers respond to calls from shelters, vets, and good Samaritans to provide avian vet care for ill or injured domestic, unreleasable pigeons and doves, long-term foster care, and to develop adopters and place them into qualified forever homes. www.pigeonrescue.org
GMS rescues abandoned and unwanted adult and senior cats, and provides behavioral and medical intervention, unconditional love and a safe haven through foster homes. www.givemesheltersf.org
VET SOS provides free veterinary care to the companion animals of homeless San Franciscans and links their human guardians with health care services. www.vetsos.org
San Francisco Rescued Orphan Mammal Program provides care to San Francisco's injured and orphaned wild mammals with the goal of returning a healthy individual back to the wild for independence. www.sfromp.org
Muttville is a nonprofit, 501(c)(3) organization dedicated to improving the lives of senior dogs. On a local level (SF bay area), Muttville rescues senior dogs and finds them new homes or gives them hospice. www.muttville.org
Save A Bunny is a nonprofit rabbit rescue organization based in Northern California, serving both people and animals in the community through adoption, advocacy, education, outreach and rescue options. www.saveabunny.org
PFE’s support for local community shelters and rescue groups extends to SF ACC, which has benefitted from the Save-a-Kitten, Giving Tree, My Mutt, and Adoption Coupon campaigns to name a few. In August of 2011, Pet Food Express opened a Cat Satellite Adoption Center at their Market Street store for ACC to adopt out cats and rabbits. www.petfoodexpress.com
Since 2009 Alaska Airlines has flown ACC dogs to New York where adopters eagerly awaited the arrival of their new family members. Alaska Airlines has also supported SFACC fundraising events. www.alaskaair.com
For 20 years, GDR has been saving the lives of dogs at SFACC that are at risk of euthanasia. GDR places them in experienced foster homes, and provide veterinary care and training as needed until loving adopters can be found. www.gratefuldogsrescue.org
Located in San Rafael, WildCare operates a wildlife rehabilitation hospital that accepts any injured animal (wildlife) and provides numerous resources to the local and larger community. www.wildcarebayarea.org
California Chins runs a rescue group that helps care for orphan chinchillas, find them homes and educates people about their care. www.cachins.org
An SFACC partner, based in Coyote Point, San Mateo, with an adoption facility in Burlingame, PHS cares for the community’s sick, injured, abused, unwanted, stray, neglected and older animals. www.peninsulahumanesociety.org
A Bay Area organization that rescues dogs at over-crowded shelters, treats them for medical or behavioral conditions and finds them loving homes through their volunteer foster network and adoption fairs. www.rocketdogrescue.org
As the fourth oldest humane society in the U.S. and the founders of the No-Kill movement, the SF SPCA has always been at the forefront of animal welfare. As a result of our efforts and those of our community partners, San Francisco has the lowest euthanasia rate of any major city in the United States. As a partner of ACC, the SFSPCA takes some dogs and cats from ACC into their adoption center. www.sfspca.org
The SFPD Vicious and Dangerous Dog Unit (VDDU) investigates such incidents and encourages the public to immediately notify police whenever a dog bites, so that the police can render aid. www.sanfranciscopolice.org
Dedicated to the rescue, rehabilitation, and placement of domestic pet rats in Northern California. www.rattieratz.com
The mission of Copper’s Dream is to help end the euthanasia of adoptable dogs in the U.S. through increasing public awareness, taking legal action benefiting shelter animals, and by rescuing dogs scheduled for euthanasia and placing them in permanent and loving homes. They are a San Francisco Bay Area rescue organization that saves all dog breeds from shelters throughout California. www.coppersdream.org
Dedicated to rescuing companion birds (parrots and other commonly domesticated birds) in the Bay Area who have been neglected, abused, injured, or surrendered to them. They also educate bird owners on the most current standard of care. www.mickaboo.org
Bay Area biologist and animal expert Paul Haskins is dedicated to the rescue, rehabilitation and re-homing of exotic pet reptiles and amphibians. Through educational shows and helping individuals with their reptile pals, his work with SFACC and beyond reduces the number of neglected, ill, and deceased pets, and reptiles released into the wild in San Francisco and other California regions. Contact Haskins through SFACC or call (831) 535-2437.
Animal Care and Adoption Network (ACAN) helps rescue and adopt out rats. They provide surgeries and medications, and helps with transports and outreach. www.thetravelinrat.weebly.com
Founded in 1990, PHR is an all-volunteer nonprofit organization that rescues unwanted and abused Persian cats from shelters, fosters, and rehomes them. www.persiancats.org
Wonder Dog Rescue is a dedicated volunteer group, serving the San Francisco Bay Area and beyond, and rescuing dogs from all over Northern and Central California. www.wonderdogrescue.org
North Star Rescue (NSR) is the only rescue organization in the San Francisco Bay Area specifically dedicated to all species of pet rodents and rabbits. www.northstarrescue.org
Rescues German Shepherd dogs in life-threatening situations in the Northern and Central Valley of California, providing them with health care and foster homes until adopted, while also educating the public about these dogs. www.gsgsrescue.org
TKR is a 501(c)3 rescue organization that works with SFACC to rescue and provide foster care for sick, orphaned kittens until they are old enough to be adopted from the shelter. www.toniskittyrescue.org
Thanks to a generous donation of Spot’s Stew from Halo and Pet Food Express, our dogs and cats are always well-fed and well-loved. www.halopets.com
GSRNC regularly rescues and adopts out dogs from shelters in 11 counties in Northern California, and occasionally other counties in CA and NV. The GSRNC Thulani Program rescues terminally ill or extremely old German Shepherd dogs from all of California and Nevada. www.savegsd.org
Project Coyote, a North American coalition of wildlife scientists, educators, predator- friendly ranchers and community leaders, promotes compassionate conservation and coexistence between people and wildlife, especially coyotes, wolves, and other native carnivores. www.projectcoyote.org
Wonder Cat Rescue is a San Francisco-based non-profit organization devoted to rescuing needy kittens and cats from shelter euthanasia and abandonment. They are a team of caring foster homes and volunteers who provide rescued cats with all necessary medical attention while caring for them in foster homes, where they’re given abundant love and affection until they can be placed in permanent homes. www.wondercatrescue.org
