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Luckydog Sanctuary

Animal rescue in La Jolla, CA

"You can't buy love, but you can adopt it!"

Luckydog Sanctuary is San Diego's premiere holistic pet rescue and sanctuary. At Luckydog, we use proper nutrition and gentle remedies to help pets achieve balance. Our specialty is lifetime care and support of pets who require special care, training, and protection. Our many pets need your support desperately. If you can volunteer time, talent or treasure, we need it and very much appreciate it.

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La Jolla, CA 92037
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Adoptable pets at Luckydog Sanctuary

We'll also keep you updated on Sonic. I'm a fit 40lbs!'s adoption status with email updates.
Special Needs
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Sonic. I'm a fit 40lbs!

German Shepherd Dog/Greyhound

Male, 2 yrs 7 mos
La Jolla, CA
We'll also keep you updated on Orange Chicken aka "Orange"'s adoption status with email updates.
Special Needs
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Orange Chicken aka "Orange"

Domestic Shorthair

Male, 4 yrs 5 mos
La Jolla, CA
We'll also keep you updated on Peanut I'm only 6 lbs's adoption status with email updates.
Special Needs
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Peanut I'm only 6 lbs

Chihuahua/Miniature Pinscher

Female, 10 yrs 11 mos
La Jolla, CA

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Additional adoption info

If we have an adoptable pet you are interested in, please message us with some details about your home/family and request an application. Please allow 5 days for a response and if you don't get one, please email again.
If you're interested in helping us keep special needs pets alive and well, please arrange a recurring weekly or monthly donation at LJK9.com Even $5/week helps a lot. Thank You.

If you wish to adopt a single kitten, please note this. Kittens who have no other kittens to grow up with can be too rough as they grow larger and don't realize their increasing strength. Humans can communicate with cats, but fall short of what other cats can teach. Single kitten syndrome is a major factor in cats being given up to shelters so please do your part in preventing this by refusing to adopt a single kitten under 12 wks of age.

Prior to applying for a pet from any rescue, Please watch The Truth About Pet Cancer (linked below) to learn about common products linked to cancer. No doumentary is perfectly unbiased, so please ignore the unsubstantiated, biased claims and those based on single events. Please pay close attention to the parts backed by convincing evidence.

Please also note that Luckydog is generally against the use of essential oils in homes with pets. Many vets recommend them because they have some beneficial effects in some pets but nobody has propertly studied the long-term effects of exposure to these oils. Even undetectable vapors from EOs can be deadly. A pet owner may not realize a pet's been exposed and that pet may go on to be diagnosed with non-specific liver or kidney disease, for example, or seizures. The problem may never be linked to the EOs in the home. I'm yet to see a veterinary laboratory order form that offers a test for EO toxicity. The only way we find out a pet's been injured by EO's is usually when they've been acutely poisoned (exposed to large amounts in a short period of time) and get extremely ill. We recommend avoiding most fragrances and EO's in a home with pets.


Luckydog is big on promoting natural, holistic, and integrative health-optimization-protocols and wil like to help you keep your pet healthy after adoption (or while being fostered). Our experts scrutinize information gathered from thousands of medical journal entries and hundreds of experts rather than simply regurgitating the opinions of a single expert or community.

What Luckydog does isn't easy but we hope that it makes pet care easy for our followers. Luckydog's goal is to ensure you have no regrets on the day that you say "goodbye" to your furkid and that that day doesn't come any sooner than it has to. With that in mind, please enjoy this video series then come to our website (a work in progress) for more information. LJK9.com is our website.

1: https://www.facebook.com/449177788861175/videos/449201708858783

2: https://www.facebook.com/449177788861175/videos/449281812184106

3: https://www.facebook.com/449177788861175/videos/449299102182377

Pets at shelters & rescues near Luckydog Sanctuary

Crossing Guardians

P.O. Box 210505,
Chula Vista, CA 91921

Second Leash on Life

San Diego, CA 92130

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

Labrador Retriever/Mixed Breed (Medium)

Male, Young
Carlsbad, CA
We'll also keep you updated on Gretchen's adoption status with email updates.
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Gretchen

Hamster

Female, Young
Escondido, CA
We'll also keep you updated on Bailey's adoption status with email updates.
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Bailey

Guinea Pig

Female
Escondido, CA
We'll also keep you updated on Gaston's adoption status with email updates.
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Gaston

Mountain Cur/Mixed Breed (Medium)

Male, 2 yrs 7 mos
Puyallup/Vancouver, WA
We'll also keep you updated on PUMBA's adoption status with email updates.
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PUMBA

Pig (Farm)

Male, Adult
Carlsbad, CA
We'll also keep you updated on Catelyn Bark's adoption status with email updates.
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Catelyn Bark

Mixed Breed (Medium)

Female, Puppy
Rancho Santa Fe, CA

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