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Save A Dog, Inc. is private, non-profit 501c3 humane society whose mission is to rescue adoptable dogs from euthanasia, to provide temporary housing for such dogs, and to find qualified, permanent homes for them. Save A Dog volunteers work tirelessly to match the dogs in the program to the right adoptive families. There is an adoption application process including an interview, meeting members of your household, and making the right match for both dog and family. The goal is to find, loving, adoptive homes who are committed to providing a forever home for the dog.

Save A Dog, Inc. was founded by husband and wife team, Shirley Moore and David Bernier, of Wayland, Mass. After volunteering at local shelters and seeing the detrimental effect that kennel life had on some dogs, they decided to begin fostering and to build a foster network for the dogs they took in from local and remote dog pounds. They targeted many of the big city shelters and would load up their vans with many adoptable dogs, foster them, provide medical care and a holistic protocol, and put them up for adoption to approved homes. Save A Dog has grown over the years and now we have over 100 volunteers who help on an as-needed basis, and approximately 25-30 volunteers who help on a weekly basis.

With over millions of pets being euthanized annually, our goal is to save as many lives as we can with the limited resources that we have. One way to maximize the number of lives we can save at one time is to bring in groups of a dozen or so dogs at one time. In rural WV and TN, the plight of dogs is heart-breaking. Puppies are thrown in dumpsters, drowned, or left in a box in the woods to die. We work with several humane societies in the south who are overwhelmed with dogs. They foster the dogs for us prior to sending them up for adoption. The dogs we receive from rural humane societies all would otherwise have been put to sleep. We also take in many dogs from local owners who can no longer care for them.

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