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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 Wembley's adoption status with email updates.
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Wembley

Pug/Chihuahua

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

Pug/Beagle

Male, 11 yrs
Sandston, VA
We'll also keep you updated on Murphy's adoption status with email updates.
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Murphy

Poodle (Miniature)

Male, 10 yrs
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
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
Sandston, VA
We'll also keep you updated on Gigi's adoption status with email updates.
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Gigi

Poodle (Miniature)

Female, 1 yr
Sandston, VA
We'll also keep you updated on Rex's adoption status with email updates.
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Rex

Silky Terrier

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

Yorkie, Yorkshire Terrier

Male, 3 yrs
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)

Animal Welfare League of the Northern Neck, Inc.

75 S Main Street,
Kilmarnock, VA 22482

Betty Baugh's Animal Rescue

5322 Patterson Ave.,
Richmond, VA 23226

Believe in Buster Animal Rescue & Sanctuary, Inc.

Beaverdam, VA 23015

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

Border Terrier

Male, Adult
Richmond, VA
We'll also keep you updated on DA 34 Monna's adoption status with email updates.
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DA 34 Monna

Pit Bull Terrier

Female, Young
Glen Allen, VA
We'll also keep you updated on KITTY MOMA LILY's adoption status with email updates.
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KITTY MOMA LILY

Domestic Shorthair

Female, Adult
richmond, VA
We'll also keep you updated on Charcoal's adoption status with email updates.
Special Needs
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Charcoal

Domestic Shorthair

Male, Young
Petersburg, NC
We'll also keep you updated on Maude's adoption status with email updates.
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Maude

Domestic Mediumhair

Female, Adult
Kilmarnock, VA
We'll also keep you updated on Sienna's adoption status with email updates.
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Sienna

Plott Hound

Female, 3 yrs
Callao, VA

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