06/19/2026
WE NEED YOUR HELP. WE NEED ADOPTIONS.
IF YOU CAN’T ADOPT, WE NEED YOU TO SHARE.
❗️To get our dogs adopted, we are reducing adoption fees to $200 through July. All dogs are spayed/neutered, microchipped, vaccinated, any known medical issues treated, and live in homes with other dogs, and often kids and cats, which means their temperaments are known, they are socialized, etc.❗️
The hard, honest truth about why we have to do this:
We are in the worst animal welfare crisis this country has seen in decades. It is nationwide, but it is BRUTAL here in California, especially in San Bernardino.
Shelters across LA County are operating at 155% capacity, housing over 1,100 dogs in facilities built for 737.
Across Southern California, every municipal shelter is overcrowded. Right here at home, the last year our San Bernardino city shelter published their data (2023), it took in 6,535 animals and euthanized 1,516.
The 2024 and 2025 numbers are not posted publicly yet, and from everything we are seeing on the ground, these number continue to climb exponentially.
California consistently reports one of the highest shelter numbers in the country. Why? Sheer size and population, yes, but also a regional lack of accessible spay/neuter, limited community resources, and overcrowded, understaffed, and underfunded shelters, which drives disease and behavioral decline.
Here’s the infuriating part:
Spay and neuter is one of many solutions, but we lack the high volume, free/reduced spay/neuter clinic needed to make a small dent in San Bernardino. And spay/neuter rates are out of reach now at upwards of $550. A spay that used to cost the rescue $80, is now $400+.
How could that be, at a time when we’re all struggling so much?
During the pandemic, venture capitalists bought up struggling mom-and-pop clinics and quadrupled their prices, and to make matters worse, vets and RVTs are in critical shortage. The city of San Bernardino has been seeking a critically needed full-time shelter vet for several years, and has thus far been unable to find one.
So the one tool that can help actually stop this crisis, has been made unaffordable for the families and organizations who need it most.
And so it lands on us. The rescues. The fosters. And right now, our hands are tied. Our fosters are full. They are holding dogs for months, sometimes years, sometimes forever. We cannot pull a single new dog from a shelter or off the streets until our dogs find homes.
Every empty foster bed is a life we can save. Every full one is a door closed.
People are scared. The country is divided and money is tight, so adopting a dog feels like a luxury nobody can afford. We understand. But the animals didn’t make these problems, and they are the ones paying for them with their lives.
So here is what we are asking:
ADOPT. These dogs are perfect. Look at them:
🐾 Cookie — tiny chi/terrier mix, about 8 months. We rescued her at 4 months. The sweetest, cutest little thing alive. How is she still here?
🐾 Ashley — small, about 2, with the BEST underbite you have ever seen. Endless energy, loves to play. Waiting 4+ months.
🐾 Chai — mellow 2-3 year old lovebug who wants nothing more than a dog bed and a warm lap.
🐾 Cowboy — 8 years old, loves peace and quiet. Waiting 8+ months for someone to choose him.
🐾Indie — Rescued from Devore after being hit by a car. Had surgery, healed, had a few almost adoptions, but still with us, 5 months later!
And our big dogs, who have waited with ZERO inquiries since BEFORE 2020:
🐾Lincoln, — 6 years old, best hiking and ball retrieving dog ever!
🐾Leia & Leota — They came to us as PUPPIES in 2023! They have been totally overlooked and are now beautiful, 80 lb young adults!
🐾Riley — poor Riley was originally rescued from SBC in a garbage pail with gasoline in it. He had to be hospitalized and his fosters nursed his burns and tiny dehydrated body back to health. He was adopted and returned a few years later. He has also been sitting, ignored, with an overwhelmed foster family.
🐾Bruno — older gentleman Bruno was returned about a year ago, and now he also sits, waiting, ignored. He was ALMOST re-adopted. They were all in. We got him ready for his new home. And then ghosted him. This happens more than you would like to know.
🐾And Courtesy Posted Dogs Fred, Ethel, and Denver all wait too!
FOSTER. You hold a dog, we cover the rest. You open up one space, and we save one more life. BUT…new fosters need to know they will foster a dog for months, years, if not forever. Most are not willing to do this.
SHARE. If you can’t adopt or foster, share this post. Send it to your friends, your family, your coworkers. Make people aware of what is actually happening.
This is how dogs get seen. This is how dogs get saved.
See them all here: http://www.causeforsbpaws.org/animals/browse
Adopt here: http://www.causeforsbpaws.org/forms/form?formid=3251
Email us: [email protected]
These dogs have done nothing wrong. The least we can do is not give up on them.
