Barks of Love Animal Rescue and Placement Services is a non-profit volunteer group, established in June 2008 by Ashley Greenspan in California. Their goal is to decrease the total number of animals being euthanized in animal shelters each year by finding new, permanent homes for them.

Most of them are rescued from “Death Row” at local shelters, while others are brought to us by their owners as an alternative to the shelter, and others are just found afraid and abandoned on the streets. They do not yet have their own kennel facility, so all of the animals we take in live in “foster homes” or with their owners until they are adopted.

Barks of Love Animal Rescue and Placement Services has no paid employees and does not receive funding from any government agency.

Barks of Love is staffed entirely by volunteers and obtain funds solely from adoption donations, fund-raisers, and donations. All adoption fees go 100% directly into rescuing and caring for the dogs.

In order to ultimately reduce the number of unwanted animals killed each year, they feel it is important to educate prospective owners and the general public about pet overpopulation and enforce a very strict spay/neuter policy for all our adopted pets.

All dogs are then rehabilitated, loved and cared for, bathed, vaccinated, micro chipped, have had a vet evaluation, and are free of internal and external parasites.

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