Rescue One

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Rescue One is a state-licensed, 501(c)(3), foster-based rescue located in Springfield, MO. All of the animals in our care live in foster homes until a forever home can be found. We rescue without regard to breed, age, or ease of placement. Our mission is not only to rescue animals in need, but to also educate the public on responsible pet ownership and help provide low cost spay/neuter for those in need of assistance.

Since forming in 2013, Rescue One has grown from a handful of volunteers and 221 intakes to over 460 volunteers and 150 foster homes with over 2,300 intakes in 2020 alone!  Overall we have helped save over 9,000 animals. Dogs and cats find their way to us for many reasons: some are owner surrenders, some are strays, some are found abandoned, left to fend for themselves in vacant homes, open fields, or on the side of the road, and many are pulled from area kill shelters. Besides giving love and socialization to the animals, all will receive necessary medical care, required vaccinations, and be spayed or neutered prior to adoption.

Our goal is to place animals in responsible, committed homes, and considerable care will be taken to find good matches for both the animals and the adopters.

Our plan includes a 14,000 sft building, one side that is our rescue center, the other a low cost community vet clinic.  This will not be an animal shelter and we have no intentions of ever becoming one.  Warehousing animals is not the solution. Education, assistance, and spay and neuter is.  The rescue center will include 10 emergency boarding kennels for assisting law enforcement and our partnership with domestic violence shelters, 5 larger behavior boarding kennels for hard to place or feral dogs waiting for a foster, meet and greet rooms, space for adoption events, cat rooms for recovered injured/sick cats waiting for foster homes, supply storage, and training areas.  We currently only have 4 boarding kennels and they are always full. The low cost community vet clinic will be able to help those who can not afford to take their sick or well animals to receive vet care or sterilization. There are currently no other full service, non profit clinics in this area.  This clinic will also give us 5x more space to hospitalize unowned pets or animals in our care. 

The task at hand is huge and will only happen if the community feels it is needed.  We have found land in northwest Springfield and are currently raising money to purchase it.  That is where you come in!  All of your donations will be used to purchase land and begin building this much needed facility!!