Welcome to Saving Senior Dogs USA

Participating Rescues

• Albert's Dog Lounge – Whitewater, WI
  ​Albert's Dog Lounge is a foster-based rescue focused on providing loving homes to seniors, special needs, and hospice dogs. We help dogs in need from overcrowded shelters and also from local families who are no longer able to care for their pets. Albert's Dog Lounge was established in 2017 with the vision to be the stepping stone to a new life for those dogs who are less likely to be rescued, adopted, or at a higher risk for euthanasia.  
• Animal Synergy, Vista, CA
  Mission of magic: we believe by working together, through awareness & education - we can create great change together. Animal Synergy rescues super senior, special needs and terminally ill animals who have run out of time at animal control. Their souls are restored for whatever time remains. *We are at a last resort rescue.* Our goal is to provide respect and dignity to all beings, no matter their age, appearance, or health status. The time is now to shift society's perspective on these beautiful, quirky, normal is boring, amazing, love nuggets. In case you haven’t heard, super senior is spectacular, special-needs is magic fantastical & palliative care, that’s why we are there… together, we are the change!
• DaisyLu Ranch – Camarillo, CA
  DaisyLu Ranch is a 501(3)c non-profit senior dog rescue and sanctuary located in beautiful Camarillo, CA. We have over two acres of property filled with avocado, citrus, and palm trees. Here our dogs are free to roam and explore as they wish. We at DaisyLu Ranch bring these forgotten dogs to our sanctuary, where they get the unconditional love and care they crave and deserve, possible for the first time. Their new home is theirs for the rest of their lives, free from worry about ever being abandoned and lost again.
• Dog Lodge - Hempstead, TX
  Dog Lodge Sanctuary is a Texas-based 501(c)3 organization dedicated to providing a permanent home for senior and/or special needs dogs that otherwise might face a very bleak future but in the right environment can still lead a quality life. We are focused on providing a safe, loving, healthy and stable environment for our dogs so that they may know peace and dignity for the rest of their lives. The primary function of Dog Lodge is to come to the rescue of dogs that are, for all intents and purposes, considered “unadoptable” because of advanced age or because they have chronic illness or physical disabilities.
• Emma’a Wish Senior Dog Rescue  -  Plano, TX
• Forever Loved Pet Sanctuary – Scottsdale, greater Phoenix area, AZ
  Our mission at Forever Loved Pet Sanctuary (FLPS) is to help overlooked senior dogs in Arizona find their forever homes. We’ve been rescuing and adopting out senior pups since 2012, and the success stories are powerful. Dogs who were abandoned or tossed out as strays are incredibly resilient — they simply want a place to call home and people to love. Older dogs make loving, loyal, wonderful companions. 
• Four-Legged Forgotten Oldies Senior Animal Farm - Baltimore, MD
  ​(FLFO) is a 501(c)(3), all-volunteer organization founded in 2020, located on a 1 ½ acre farmette in Baltimore County, MD. FLFO is dedicated to rescuing homeless, forgotten senior dogs and providing them with love, shelter, and medical care for as long as necessary to maximize their quality of life. Some dogs who come to live here will stay forever, and some find loving homes through adoption. We partner with area shelters to save the oldest and neediest dogs and occasionally take in retired breeding dogs from area puppy mills. 
• Frosted Faces Foundation – Ramona, CA
  Frosted Faces Foundation is a 501(C)3 non-profit organization that delivers the promise of family and quality veterinary care for senior animals whose love and lives are in jeopardy
• Golden Years Dog Sanctuary - Sylmar, CA
• Grand-Paws Senior Sanctuary – Acton, CA
  Grand-Paws mission is to rescue primarily large breed senior dogs who’ve been abandoned.  We rescue from local high-kill shelters and let them live out their lives in our sanctuary or in one of our wonderful foster homes: happy, safe, and loved.
• Gray Paws Sanctuary - White Oaks, PA
  At Gray Paws Sanctuary, we are passionate about providing safe and beautiful places for older and abandoned dogs to spend their lives. Since 2014, we have been building our non-profit to care for older dogs in need of preventive and routine medical care, physical therapy, socialization, and above all, love!​
• Lily’s Legacy Senior Dog Sanctuary – Petaluma, CA 
  Lily’s Legacy Senior Dog Sanctuary, located in Petaluma, CA is a 501(c)3, volunteer run, non-profit established in 2009. We provide 24/7/365 care in a safe and loving sanctuary for senior large breed dogs who have been displaced from their homes or abandoned for any reason. Our mission is to ensure that each of our senior dogs will live out the rest of his/her life as a well-loved family companion in a forever, adoptive home, a foster or hospice home or here at the Sanctuary. Each dog we rescue receives a thorough medical evaluation and treatment as necessary, as well as temperament assessment. If the dog is adoptable, a home that will meet his or her emotional, medical and daily care needs is sought. Dogs who are not adoptable, for whatever reason, remain at the Sanctuary or in permanent foster or hospice home for the remainder of their natural lives.​​​
• ​Lionel’s Legacy – San Diego, CA
  Saving one senior dog at a time and educating MANY young minds to create a legacy of compassion and advocacy.
• ​​Marty's Place Senior Dog Sanctuary - Upper Freehold Township, NJ
  Offers senior dogs physical comfort, emotional care and enrichment in a safe, loving and protected environment. Marty’s Place is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization dedicated to enhancing the lives of senior dogs and ensuring that older dogs whose owners can no longer care for them will have a loving home for life. Each dog has comfortable living spaces, human and canine companionship, and access to physically and mentally stimulating activities suited to their age and abilities. Once with us, dogs will either have a home as residents in our sanctuary or with a new family through our foster or adoption programs.
• Moose Lodge Senior Pet Sanctuary - Castle-On-Hudson, NY Moose Lodge is a small non-profit senior dog rescue located on two acres of fenced land in upstate New York. We are founded on the belief that all senior dogs should live  out their final years in the comfort of a loving and caring homestyle community. Our "residents" come to us through volunteers who find seniors in local shelters who have been surrendered by their owners found abandoned. They are pulled from shelters, and come to us to live out their days as loved family members in our sanctuary. We can accommodate up to fifteen dogs at one time. They have supervised indoor/outdoor access and can come in and out as they please.
• Muttville – San Francisco, California
  Muttville’s mission is to give senior dogs a second chance at life. We rescue them, give them the care they need, find them loving homes, and spread the word about how WONDERFUL they are!
• Old Dogs Go To Helen - Epsom, NH
  ​Old Dogs Go To Helen is a 501(c)3 senior dog rescue based in NH and began in 2016 when Helen and her husband Jake began taking in hospice dogs from the local shelter. They provide all medical care, testing, treatment, as well as end of life care for seniors and hospice dogs in a loving environment. 
• Old Dogs New Digs - Colorado and Maine
  ​Old Dogs New Digs is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit (all-volunteer) organization dedicated to helping homeless and displaced senior dogs and cats. We focus on getting senior animals into loving homes and raise funds to support their health and well-being. ODND partners with animal shelters, rescues, and vet clinics – mostly in Maine, Colorado, and New Mexico.  We assist with foster or forever home placement, make financial contributions toward vet care or special food/medications, and raise awareness about seniors in-need. We also assist those who have fallen on hard times, unable to afford quality food and medical care for their aging dog or cat through our Community Assist Grant Program.

• ​Old Friends Senior Dog Sanctuary - Mt. Juliet, TN
• Payton's Promise Sanctuary, Marathon, FL
  Payton's Promise is a volunteer-based nonprofit organization that provides sanctuary for homeless and underprivileged senior dogs who are nearing the end of life, have special needs, or are otherwise difficult to adopt. We focus especially on senior dogs that are at high risk of euthanasia. We are a “soft place to land” and a voice for these dogs. Our hospice dogs comfortably live out their lives with us while receiving deep love and respect. Non-terminal dogs receive their necessary care and are available for adoption to loving humans who resonate with our mission. Our holistic approach to care includes a variety of therapies to ensure our dogs' well-being. We offer a rehabilitation pool, PEMF, red light and cold laser therapies, sound/vibrational healing, and regular massages to enhance their quality of life. At Payton's Promise, we are dedicated to making the end of life the best part of life for our beloved dogs.
• Peace of Mind Dog Rescue – Pacific Grove, CA 
  Our mission is to be a resource and advocate for senior dogs and senior people on California’s Central Coast. We focus on helping dogs and people from Monterey, Santa Cruz and San Benito Counties.
• ​Pepper’s Senior Dog Rescue, Denver, CO
  Pepper’s Senior Dog Sanctuary was founded in 2019 by a trio of dedicated senior-dog advocates. Pepper’s is located on 50 acres of beautiful farmland in Littleton, Colorado. Pepper’s legacy teaches us to appreciate the connection and purpose we find within each other and the honor that it is to care for the most vulnerable among us. As Pepper showed us, senior dogs have so much love and wisdom to share. We provide senior dogs with a compassionate, forever home, at our veterinarian supervised sanctuary. We care for our dogs for all the days of their lives, including hospice needs.  Pepper’s is a sanctuary that was founded to honor a special senior pup,  it was a 7-year-old Pomeranian that made it all happen. As Pepper showed us, senior dogs have so much love and wisdom to share. 
• Senior Dog Haven & Hospice – Wilmington, DE
  The mission of Senior Dog Haven & Hospice is to rescue and re-home senior dogs (age 7 and older) and to offer hospice care to rescued senior dogs in our program. We are a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization that incorporated in June 2012. SDH&H is an all-volunteer foster based organization located in Delaware. Our goal is to be there for the older dogs who have been abandoned at a time in their life when their need for comfort, companionship and care is at its highest.
• Senior Dog Sanctuary of Maryland - Severn, MD
  Our mission is to provide a safe haven for senior dogs who would otherwise face abandonment, neglect or euthanasia. Our Sanctuary is nestled inside three serene acres in the heart of Anne Arundel County Maryland. Cozy sun-soaked spaces provide the perfect spot for our residents to unwind and relax. Dogs that are interested in a more active day can take a stroll on our nature trail, race around the agility course, or accompany a human for an off-site excursion. Residents with daily medical needs are treated in our on-site medical suite by our specially-trained team or visiting veterinarian. 
• Senior Hearts Rescue & Renewal - Bradfordwoods, PA
  Senior Hearts Rescue & Renewal (SHRR)l, founded in 2016, is a Pittsburgh, PA based 501(c)3100% volunteer organization. With no facility or shelter, all senior dogs rescued reside in loving foster homes. SHRR saves old dogs from the shelter system in a five state area as well as directly from owners through the Home-to Home program in the local Pittsburgh community. Senior dogs are renewed through a proven medical, surgical, and emotional process. They are then placed in well-matched adoptive homes where they have a high quality rest of life. In just five years, SHRR has saved the lives of 600 senior dogs.
• Senior Paws Rescue – Palmyra, IN
  ​Senior Paws Rescue provides a refuge for homeless senior dogs to live out their lives in a safe, comfortable, and loving environment.  Our dogs are not up for adoption.  Our philosophy is that these dogs have been through enough and just need a final place to call home.  We are with them when it is their time to cross the Rainbow Bridge.
• Tails of Gray - Livermore, CA
  Tails of Gray is dedicated to saving the lives of innocent senior dogs left homeless for any reason, providing quality medical care and placing them into loving, responsible and permanent homes whenever possible.
• The Roland Senior Dog Rescue Gang – Melrose, FL
  The Roland Senior Dog Rescue Gang, Inc. is a registered 501 c3 non-profit established to help senior dogs who have been abandoned in municipal shelters and seniors who's owners can no longer care for them due to their own health issues or age. We provide vet care, quality food and a loving environment for them to live out their lives. We promoted and find foster homes for seniors. We also promote education concerning the joys of having a senior dog and senior dog health issues​​
• Top Dog Foundation - New Germany, MN
  Since 2004, Top Dog Foundation has rescued senior dogs in Minnesota. We work ONLY with senior-aged dogs in Minnesota. The goal is to create a Second Act for ElderPups, welcoming each dog to a loving and caring home for the rest of his or her life. We begin that process by providing any medical care needed to restore each dog to the greatest health possible. From its start, Top Dog Foundation focused on the health and well-being of these dogs and the people who love them.
• Vintage Paws Rescue – Sarasota, FL
  We rescue senior dogs who have been abandoned, surrendered to shelters or whose humans have gone into senior living facilities or passed away. Our goal is to provide sanctuary fir these old souls to live out their lives with dignity surrounded by the loving care they deserve.
• Vintage Pet Rescue – Foster, RI
  Vintage Pet Rescue is a Rhode Island based 501c3 non-profit run by Kristen and Marc Peralta (who met in an animal shelter in Los Angeles in 2013). Their mutual love for senior dogs is the driving force behind Vintage Pet Rescue and they are  committed to rescuing vintage (senior) pets from shelters and assisting owners who can no longer care for their senior pets. Along with their small team of volunteers, Kristen and Marc give these animals love, attention, and medical care for the last months or years of their lives. 
• Whispering Willows Senior Dog Sanctuary - Hermitage, MO
  Whispering Willows Senior Dog Sanctuary Inc is a 501(c)3 sanctuary specializing in end of life hospice care for senior dogs 12 years and older that have a short time to live, allowing some to experience love for the very first time by providing them a lifetime home, allowing them to live out their lives as a family, regardless of the amount of time they have left. At Whispering Willows, love is whispered until the last breath.​
• White Whiskers Senior Dog Sanctuary – Buffalo, NY
  In Western New York, an entire community came together to create White Whiskers Senior Dog Sanctuary! We know senior dogs often end up in shelters when their owners can no longer care for them. Sadly, these dogs aren’t regularly adopted. They are now having to adjust to a very different life. Our goal is to offer a safe landing place for these beloved pets, a home with warm, comfortable beds, safe outdoor space and love and comfort from humans who will benefit from the love only dogs can give. 
• Woody’s Place Senior German Shepherd Sanctuary, Inc. - Greentown, PA
  Woody’s Place Senior German Shepherd Sanctuary, Inc. is a 501c3 non-profit organization. Since our start in 2011, it has been our mission to provide the best possible long-term care for displaced *senior German Shepherds. It is our philosophy that these loving, and often overlooked displaced senior German Shepherds have the opportunity to live the best possible life that we can offer. They are just as deserving as their younger counterparts. "We are that place in the country where old dogs come to retire!"

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