Assistance Guidelines
Brindlee Mountain Animal Rescue, Inc. is a foster home based rescue group. We do not operate a shelter or have a physical location to house animals. We rescue responsibly. This means that we only help those number of animals we can reasonably help with our physical resources, foster resource and finances. We focus on humane education to encourage people to make better choices which affect their own families and our community as a whole.
Surrender of puppies or kittens. If you contact us to try to surrender a litter of puppies or kittens, we will try to help you if we have resources available to take them. You will be expected to give us the entire litter of animals and we will spay the female adult dog for you. This is not optional. We do this to prevent additional litters from unspayed females and from the offspring.
Surrender of adult dogs or cats. If you contact us to try to surrender an adult dog of cat, you will undergo surrender counseling to determine if there is an alternative to surrendering your pet. Although we fully recognize that unexpected things happen in life which make it difficult to keep a pet, our focus is on keeping animals in existing homes or finding ways to re-home animals with family members, friends, co-workers or people with who you attend church. If you have a short-term issue related to finances or housing, we will encourage you to find a foster home for your pet so you can get your pet back once the short-term issue is resolved. We encourage all animal owners to have a plan in place to re-home pets in the event of their death, serious illness or some other situation which prevents the owner from caring for the animal.
Surrender of animals found running at large. Animals are property under the law. If you find an animal running at large and want to help that animal, you are encouraged to contact the animal control agency for the area where the animal was found so that the animal can be recorded as an “intake” into that animal control system and so the owner of the animal is given every possible opportunity to reclaim the animal. If you choose to house the animal temporarily to keep it safe and until you can take it to the animal control location or have an animal control officer get the animal from you, we encourage you to network with a variety of rescue groups to try to have that animal transferred once the property hold period ends. We try to help people in our region when we can. We cannot take in every animal found running loose and to do so would violate laws about property. We have a list of local rescue groups on our website with whom you can network.
If you genuinely fear that surrendering an animal found running at large to animal control will result in the death of that animal, contact us to see if some plan can be developed for the found animal to be reported to animal control for record keeping purposes, but retained by you until a rescue placement can be secured.
Pet Food Assistance. If you encounter a short-term problem with affording pet food, contact us and we will see if we can help you using donated funds. We would prefer for your pet to stay in your home with you and for you to not surrender your pet to any animal control organization or rescue group. You will be required to answer questions about your financial challenges and about your plans moving forward to be able to afford to feed your pets.
Veterinary Assistance. If your pet requires some veterinary care for a serious injury or life-threatening emergency, contact us and we will determine if we can help you so you can retain ownership of your pet. You will be required to answer questions about your financial challenges and about how your plans moving forward to pay for other serious injuries or life-threatening emergencies yourself, using pet insurance or with the help of family members.
Spay/Neuter Assistance. We believe that all pets should be spayed/neutered in order to reduce pet populations in our community. Having your pet sterilized reduces the risk of many diseases and cancers and can add years to your pet's life. If you cannot afford to have your pet spayed/neutered, contact us to ask for help. It is possible we can help offset part of the cost of the procedure using our Spay It Forward fund set up to help people in the community.
Surrender of puppies or kittens. If you contact us to try to surrender a litter of puppies or kittens, we will try to help you if we have resources available to take them. You will be expected to give us the entire litter of animals and we will spay the female adult dog for you. This is not optional. We do this to prevent additional litters from unspayed females and from the offspring.
Surrender of adult dogs or cats. If you contact us to try to surrender an adult dog of cat, you will undergo surrender counseling to determine if there is an alternative to surrendering your pet. Although we fully recognize that unexpected things happen in life which make it difficult to keep a pet, our focus is on keeping animals in existing homes or finding ways to re-home animals with family members, friends, co-workers or people with who you attend church. If you have a short-term issue related to finances or housing, we will encourage you to find a foster home for your pet so you can get your pet back once the short-term issue is resolved. We encourage all animal owners to have a plan in place to re-home pets in the event of their death, serious illness or some other situation which prevents the owner from caring for the animal.
Surrender of animals found running at large. Animals are property under the law. If you find an animal running at large and want to help that animal, you are encouraged to contact the animal control agency for the area where the animal was found so that the animal can be recorded as an “intake” into that animal control system and so the owner of the animal is given every possible opportunity to reclaim the animal. If you choose to house the animal temporarily to keep it safe and until you can take it to the animal control location or have an animal control officer get the animal from you, we encourage you to network with a variety of rescue groups to try to have that animal transferred once the property hold period ends. We try to help people in our region when we can. We cannot take in every animal found running loose and to do so would violate laws about property. We have a list of local rescue groups on our website with whom you can network.
If you genuinely fear that surrendering an animal found running at large to animal control will result in the death of that animal, contact us to see if some plan can be developed for the found animal to be reported to animal control for record keeping purposes, but retained by you until a rescue placement can be secured.
Pet Food Assistance. If you encounter a short-term problem with affording pet food, contact us and we will see if we can help you using donated funds. We would prefer for your pet to stay in your home with you and for you to not surrender your pet to any animal control organization or rescue group. You will be required to answer questions about your financial challenges and about your plans moving forward to be able to afford to feed your pets.
Veterinary Assistance. If your pet requires some veterinary care for a serious injury or life-threatening emergency, contact us and we will determine if we can help you so you can retain ownership of your pet. You will be required to answer questions about your financial challenges and about how your plans moving forward to pay for other serious injuries or life-threatening emergencies yourself, using pet insurance or with the help of family members.
Spay/Neuter Assistance. We believe that all pets should be spayed/neutered in order to reduce pet populations in our community. Having your pet sterilized reduces the risk of many diseases and cancers and can add years to your pet's life. If you cannot afford to have your pet spayed/neutered, contact us to ask for help. It is possible we can help offset part of the cost of the procedure using our Spay It Forward fund set up to help people in the community.
