About Our Rescue
Savannah
Has a home now because so
many cared
Sherman
Found buried in a snow bank
       Just A Touch Rescue is a small not-for-profit small
animal rescue organization based in Rhode Island.  Our
rescue was formed in early 2007 by our President, who has
been involved in rescue work for many, many years, focusing
primarily on puppy mill rescue work.  Just A Touch Rescue
consists of a six-member board and a continuously growing
network of volunteers who identify dogs in need, arrange to
bring those animals into the rescue, provide veterinary care,
socialization, rehabilitation and foster care.  Our dogs are
placed with carefully selected and screened adoptive families
to ensure that they will be loved and attended to for the rest
of their lives.

      Just A Touch Rescue was created in order to rescue,
rehabilitate, and re-home dogs who are in need of a
permanent, loving home.  Unlike shelters and breed-specific
rescue organizations, we focus the majority of our resources
on rescuing dogs who have unique physical, emotional and
developmental needs due to their upbringing in puppy mills
across the country.  Puppy mills are mass-breeding facilities
that over-breed dogs in order to produce puppies for pet
stores and private sales across the country.  Animals that are
kept in puppy mills are bred far more frequently than is
recommended by veterinary medicine, and are often kept in
small metal cages for their entire lives.  Additionally, puppy
millers begin breeding their dogs at an extremely early age,
usually before the age of 1, and continue breeding until the
animal has surpassed its usefulness to their facility,
sometimes up to the age of twelve or thirteen.  Many puppy
mill dogs die in captivity, either from over-breeding or from
common illnesses that are easily prevented and cured if the
animal were to receive basic veterinary care.  The luckier
dogs are somehow freed from the mill and are turned over to
groups such as ours.  Unfortunately, as money-seekers until
the end, many millers require rescue groups to pay fees in
order to “adopt” a dog out of a mill, even after the animal has
been deemed useless by the miller.

      As animal lovers, it is heartbreaking to see the suffering
that animals endure nationwide in puppy mills. Fortunately,
there is a nationwide movement to educate the public on the
horrors of puppy mills, and to shut these facilities down.  For
example, a puppy mill in VA was raided and closed down by
VA authorities on November 3, 2007 – over 1,100 dogs were
found in the facility! Now that this mill has been closed, it falls
upon rescue groups such as ours to take in these animals
and find them permanent, loving homes. These animals are
frequently shunned from typical shelters due to the increased
effort required to find suitable homes that will accept their
unique needs. Due to their “upbringing,” puppy mill dogs
often have developmental, physical and emotional problems
that need to be addressed and corrected.  Some of these
animals can be rehabilitated fairly quickly, while others will
require a patient, understanding owner to work with their
special needs for the remainder of their lives.  Just A Touch
Rescue is founded upon the belief that all dogs are deserving
of a patient, loving, attentive home, and strives to unite
disadvantaged animals with the people who will provide such
an environment.

      As with most non-profit organizations, financing is our
major limiting factor.  We do ask for a donation when our
dogs are adopted, and are constantly fund raising in order to
help the continuous stream of dogs in need.  Additionally, we
have begun to research the numerous grants that are
available to 501(c)(3) organizations, and have decided that
this is the best manner in which to secure funding.  Becoming
a 501(c)(3) organization is the greatest administrative goal
that Just A Touch Rescue has, based upon the belief that the
sooner we achieve this federal status, the sooner we can
work to obtain larger sums of grant funding, subsequently
saving many more abused animals.

      Just A Touch Rescue is already incorporated with our
state government.   Just A Touch Rescue allocates a very
small percentage (less than 10%) of our income to the
administrative aspects of our organization, so that the vast
majority of our resources can be applied directly to the care
and well-being of our dogs.

      Thank you for taking the time to read about our
organization and our mission.  I hope that this letter is enough
to convince you that Just A Touch Rescue is a laudable
organization with goodhearted intentions.  
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