All About Us

All about us…..

The

Looking for My Hero

Animal Rescue Foundation

How we came to be.

Anyone who has ever volunteered at an animal shelter quickly realizes that that many more animals could be saved if there was enough people working on them from all areas of the animal rescue spectrum. Animal shelters are staffed with just enough employees to get the necessities done for the animals. Anything extra is usually out of the question due to time and manpower constraints.

When rescue volunteers act as a liaison between the shelter, the rescue groups, and the public, the euthanasia rates can drop dramatically and many more animals can be saved and rehomed. This is the area of animal rescue that Looking for My Hero volunteers are committed to working on.

What we do.

We think of ourselves as a Rescue Coordination Network for animal rescue, working closely with animal shelters, rescue groups and the public in the pursuit of new adoptive homes for homeless animals. Our goal is to lower the euthanasia rates by working with the animal shelters and rescue groups to help expedite the length of time that an animal needs to spend in their facilities prior to being adopted or rescued.

We offer our assistance to shelters in the coordination of rescue efforts and advertisement of their animals to the public. Some of the ways in which we work in tandem with a rescue group include making them aware of animals that are in need at various shelters, photographing the animal for mass distribution, researching the animal’s past history, assessing it’s behavioral manner, coordinating it’s transport (both local and long distance) to the rescue group, addressing it’s medical needs, continuing liaison efforts between the shelter and the rescue group, temporary foster care while awaiting transport and a variety of other tasks that may become necessary in order for the rescue group to successfully pull the animal out of the shelter.

We are not the commonly known type of animal rescue group who physically rescues the homeless animal out of the shelter, places it in a foster home, then works on successfully placing it in a new home. There are many wonderful groups that fulfill this rescue niche already, and we are delighted to be able to work with them.

During this same time while we are assisting the shelter and rescue group in their efforts, we share the information we have about the homeless animal on our website for the potential adopting public to see. Thus giving the homeless animal a wider and quicker exposure to the adopting public, increasing it’s chances of adoption within the time frame that they have been given.

Every homeless animal needs a HERO to save their life. To be more correct they need multiple HEROES to get them from their shelter to their new adoptive home. The volunteers with our group are all HEROES and our collective goal is to help the animals find that one final HERO who adopts the animal and gives it a new forever home. This is why we have created the HERO Rescue Network.

The animals told us what the name should be.

“Oh good, there is a human coming down the aisle right now, looking into each kennel as they walk by. Oh please let them stop at my door and talk to me. I have been in here longer that most of the other animals and I want to go home with somebody. Somebody who wants and needs me as much as I want and need them”.

“I am in luck, they saw me and they seem to be talking about me. Oh, oh, here they come, walking toward me, now they are bending down and sticking their fingers through the kennel door slats. I am so excited I can’t stand it. I long for their gentle touch, I want to feel their arms wrapped around my neck giving me a hug. But I cannot reach them as I am locked behind these bars. I am so frustrated, I cannot show them from here what a great companion I would be, or how forever grateful I will be to have been given another chance at life. They are leaving, walking on to the next kennel. Once again I am alone”.

“Wait, they have come back, could it be it is finally it is my turn to leave with a new human? The kennel attendant has her keys in my kennel’s door, she is checking the collar around my neck and now she is attaching a leash to my collar. We are walking, we are leaving the shelter! The humans are smiling and talking to me, I hope they can see how happy I am that they have chosen me. If not, they see it soon, as I will show them everyday for the rest of my life. This human is my HERO! They have chosen me with no hesitation about my age, abilities, looks or needs. They want me! And I want them, I want to give them my unconditional love for the rest of my life”.

“I have needed a HERO for so long, and now I have one! What a very special person this must be. They must have special eyes that could see the goodness and value in me that so many others could not. I am already starting to forget all of the bad times I have been through before my HERO came, I know life will be good from now on”.

“Here we go, my new HERO is lifting me into the car, oh this feels so good, I feel safe with my new human, no more sadness or pain. Another chance to play, to be touched by a human, to sleep in total contentment. Another chance to live the life I was intended to live. My HERO has already given me so much, they have given me a future. I am home”.

And that is how we got our name, the animals told us with their thoughts and actions what the name should be.

Our legal information.

We are an IRS sanctioned 501(c)(3) public charity. Our EIN number is 32-0211243. Contributions made to us are deductible under section 170 of the Internal Revenue Code. We are also qualified to receive tax deductible bequests, devises, transfers or gifts under section 2055, 2106 or 2552 of the Code.

Our geographical area of focus.

We do not have a shelter of our own. Our home-base area is Reno, NV, but we work on animals from Washoe County, Lyon County, Carson City, Douglas County, Churchill County, Nye County, Pershing County, Lander County, Elko County, Humboldt County, Eureka County and Mineral County. We are happy to assist all the counties that make of the Northern, NV area. In addition we work with shelters and rescue groups in the California counties of Plumas, El Dorado, Placer, Nevada and many of the rescue groups located all over Northern, CA.

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Tuesday, June 10, 2008 Edition

Serving Northern Nevada and surroundings areas

~Established in 2007~