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Capital Area Rescue Effort (CARE)

Dog rescue in Sandston, VA

CARE is an organization comprised totally of volunteers who donate time, talents and energy to placing homeless and abandoned dogs in loving forever homes. Our volunteers are a diverse group of people with many different skill sets who come together to form a very successful collective. We welcome volunteers 18 years and over to help at our adoption events and lend their talents to other areas such as grant writing, publicity, fundraising, transport and the like. Please let us know if you have an interest in volunteering with CARE.

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Sandston, VA 23150
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Adoptable pets at Capital Area Rescue Effort (CARE)

We'll also keep you updated on Fawn's adoption status with email updates.
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Fawn

Chihuahua

Female, 9 mos
Sandston, VA
We'll also keep you updated on Miss Daisy's adoption status with email updates.
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Miss Daisy

Schnauzer (Miniature)

Female, 6 yrs
Sandston, VA
We'll also keep you updated on Lark's adoption status with email updates.
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Lark

Chihuahua

Female, 3 yrs
Sandston, VA
We'll also keep you updated on Cooper's adoption status with email updates.
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Cooper

Westie, West Highland White Terrier

Male, 2 yrs
Sandston, VA
We'll also keep you updated on Barnaby's adoption status with email updates.
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Barnaby

Lhasa Apso

Male, Adult
Sandston, VA
We'll also keep you updated on Wembley's adoption status with email updates.
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Wembley

Pug/Chihuahua

Male, 2 yrs 1 mo
Sandston, VA
We'll also keep you updated on Grant's adoption status with email updates.
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Grant

Beagle/Dachshund

Male, 4 yrs 1 mo
Sandston, VA
We'll also keep you updated on Niall's adoption status with email updates.
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Niall

Beagle/Dachshund

Male, 5 yrs 1 mo
Sandston, VA
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Rescue FAQs

We primarily adopt dogs to homes in central Virginia. A home visit is part of our adoption process, so it may be possible to adopt to homes outside of central Virginia, provided that we have a volunteer in the area able to visit the home of a potential adopter.

Additional adoption info

CARE Rescue is a private, non-profit, all volunteer organization. We do not have a public facility for you to visit, so the only opportunity to meet our adoptable animals is at a private appointment. We update our Adopt a Pet listing daily, so animals advertised as available are available for adoption!

Our adoption process begins with meeting the animal via appointment. We do NOT have an online application, but will offer you one after you have met the animal(s) you are interested in adopting and have determined that it is a good fit for your home. We are happy to discuss, at length, available information on our animals in person. Because we are a volunteer organization, we cannot always answer and respond to telephone calls and emails.

After the potential adopters meet an animal and complete an application, our adoption committee meets to determine which applications it has that meet our adoption criteria. Our adoption criteria is thoroughly discussed on Page 1 of the application. We reserve the right to deny an adoption to any one for any reason. Please understand that we know these animals and their needs well and our goal is to place them in the very best situation for each one individually. We do not place our animals in homes with preschool aged children and are careful with size differences in animals. A constructed fenced yard will be required for most adoptions.

We will request, and rely heavily upon, a veterinary reference. Your veterinarian can give us the information we need to determine that you are a responsible pet owner. We will check to see if your previous and/or current animals were spayed or neutered, kept up to date with vaccines, kept on monthly PRESCRIBED heart worm medication, and if you gave your animal the care your veterinarian recommended. This is the first step to our process

A home visit is required for all adoptions. Generally we require that this visit be done by one of our volunteers, so often it is difficult to place animals more than 100 miles of Richmond in any direction, although sometimes it is possible. The purpose of the home visit is to ensure that the home is safe for the animal being considered for adoption. We prefer to have all family members present for the home visit.

Most adoptions take place within 7 days. We ask that you not seek adoption just before a major life change (job change, wedding, divorce, relocation) or just before a planned vacation. Our goal is that our animals have several weeks to decompress and learn their place in their new families without additional stress.

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Pets at shelters & rescues near Capital Area Rescue Effort (CARE)

Happy Endings Animal Rescue Team

PO BOX 943,
Colonial Heights, VA 23834

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1915 Moonlight Rd,
Smithfield, VA 23430

Central Virginia Greyhounds

P.O. Box 171,
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We'll also keep you updated on Macy's adoption status with email updates.
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Macy

American Shorthair

Female, Kitten
North Chesterfield, VA
We'll also keep you updated on Rajah's adoption status with email updates.
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Rajah

Great Dane

Female, Adult
Richmond, VA
We'll also keep you updated on Bright Side's adoption status with email updates.
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Bright Side

Domestic Shorthair

Male, Adult
Richmond, VA
We'll also keep you updated on Teddy's adoption status with email updates.
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Teddy

Husky

Male, 2 yrs
Stony Creek, VA
We'll also keep you updated on Smokey's adoption status with email updates.
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Smokey

Domestic Shorthair

Female, Young
Petersburg, NC
We'll also keep you updated on LOVEABLE LEVI's adoption status with email updates.
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LOVEABLE LEVI

Golden Retriever/Poodle (Standard)

Male, Adult
richmond, VA

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