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This rescue is amazing! It is 100% Foster-based, which means all of the animals in their care are…read morein homes with families to look after and care for them until they are adopted. Everyone associated with the rescue is a volunteer and they give their heart and soul to provide opportunities for dogs to find forever families. Most of the dogs are coming from shelters and other rescues in areas of Texas where the support services for animal welfare are lacking. Full disclosure, I am a foster with AjK Family Rescue, and have the upmost respect for everyone involved in the organization. My family has personally adopted two dogs from AjK.

Start to finish, a clear and transparent process to adopt our 2nd dog from Heart of Texas Lab…read moreRescue. All volunteers were communicative and responsive. Overall a great experience working with them.

We've adopted 2 dogs from HoTLR over the years (and have had 10 Labradors over the years - most…read morerescues) the latest was in Jan 2024. Our second Lab from HoTLR was used as a puppy mill prior to being rescued...like our last Lab She has a number of concerning health issues... Broken teeth, tumor adjacent to one of her anal glands, and She has such a severe limp, massive swelling in her elbows and has such a difficult time negotiating steps we had her limbs radiographed. The results? Severe bilateral degenerative osteoarthritis of the elbows - this girl is in pain ALL of the time. We have a 1 story house, with steps down to the back yard; we walk her around to the backyard now to relieve herself. Walks in the "neighborhood" are very short and only to "lubricate" her elbows. She does love to retrieve, but becomes disinterested quickly because of the pain she's in (our Vet prescribed an anti-inflamitory, 2 different types of pain meds, & glucosamine. We also give her turmeric, hoping it would help). We have had this sweetest of Labs for a little over 9 weeks - this week will be our last. We won't let her suffer any longer. SHAME ON YOU HEART Of TEXAS LAB "RESCUE?" for NOT DOING the right thing by not having our sweet dog euthanized when you obtained her. It's not about the adoption fee, or the Vet costs, it's about the DOG, and her quality of life. These folks search shelters and more all over Texas to get their dogs. That's where we'll go in the future.

I believe this "rescue" is a scam. I have not been able to find any indication that they have…read moreadopted any dogs out. The amount of money they claim to have spent getting one of their dogs back from it's owner is inconsistently varies quite a bit. They have quite a few fundraising pages and are quick to pepper the internet with requests for donations. Their interaction with me was extremely suspect. I saw their dog, Nolan, on petfinder. When I emailed to ask about his availability, heartworm status and age, I was told he has to be adopted with their dog named, Lulu and I did not receive an answer about his current HW status. I asked for more information about Lulu. I found out that both dogs had been heartworm +, but Cindy Marabito wouldn't tell me if they had their vaccinations or had been cleared by a vet after their "holistic heartworm treatment." There was or is some kind of messy legal/custody battle over Lulu. Cindy wouldn't tell me if it had been sorted out. I had to ask: 4 times if they were fixed. I never got an answer, but Lulu's petfinder page now says she is spayed. 4 times if the legal problems with Lulu's custody were resolved. I still haven't gotten an answer. 3 times if they were now heartworm free. Finally Cindy claimed that Nolan was healed with raw and herbal diet/treatments. So I asked if she had verified with a vet that the treatments were successful. She refused to answer that too. 2 times if they were vaccinated, I never got an answer, but Lulu's petfinder page now says she is UTD on vaccines. Cindy sent this: "Both are raw fed and homeopathically treated, so would need to continue that lifestyle. Nolan was hw positive when we got him and totally cured with herbal..a raw fed dog treated with herbal will not become infected with hw or other parasites or disease..take a look at our website .... Health Page. It's amazing..none of our dogs go to conventional vets or ever get sick, get fleas, cancer, etc." I'm certainly not against raw or herbal, but this all just sounds like a scam or wingnut on the loose.

I've only known about Reunion Rescue for a short time, about 3 years now. I haven't been this…read moreimpressed in such a long time of the dedication and extra mile that Reunion goes to help educate and provide care for animals. Besides advocating for Pit Bulls, they are a Menagerie & melting pot of all kinds of dogs, cats, & birds that take it to the next level by feeding a raw & holistic diet. The knowledge and expertise is hard to find. I would highly recommend this group

Lil Paws Maltese Rescue is responsible for bringing joy into our home. We recently adopted an…read moreadorable little maltipoo. She came to us housebroken and full of love. I contribute that to the amazing and compassionate volunteers who run this rescue. Their puppies are raised in the homes of these caring individuals so they have been trained and socialized with love and care. If you are interested in adopting a dog needing a forever home, Lil Paws Maltese Rescue is where you need to go. They have meet and greets every month to find good matches for their puppies. We are so in love with our new fur baby.

I'm sharing this as a genuine concern for animal welfare and transparency…read more I've noticed this individual adopting animals from local shelters while simultaneously requesting donations and then selling the animals at retail-level prices. That raises serious ethical questions. Animal shelters exist to place pets into safe, permanent homes--not to supply inventory for resale. If money is being exchanged beyond standard adoption fees, the public deserves clarity on where funds are going and whether shelters are aware. Donations should support care, vetting, and rescue efforts--not personal profit. If this is a legitimate rescue operation, transparency, nonprofit status, and itemized use of funds should be clearly provided. Otherwise, this feels misleading to donors and unfair to families who adopt in good faith. I hope proper oversight is in place to protect the animals and the community.Donations solicited under the appearance of animal rescue while animals are sold at retail prices.

Great staff and service. We love our new puppy. So glad we went out to Bastrop…read more When we arrived we had our application filled out and ready and they set us up in the system and provided medical history, advice, RF Chip paperwork, linked our data, signed us up online and sent us on with a bag of Hill's Science Diet. Finally they took a photo of my son and I with the dog and messaged my phone with the portrait. Very nice touch.

First let me start with the positives about this shelter…read more... I found the staff to be very welcoming and nice. The dogs were extremely well cared for, despite a very crowded shelter and low budget to work with. The cages are clean and the dogs appeared to be in as good of health as one can expect in a shelter. I found our beautiful gentle dog there and she now has a wonderful home. So, for that, I am extremely grateful. On to the negatives... I was able to walk in fill out one very simple form and pay ONLY $20 to walk out with a dog. Why is this a problem? Well, think about it. Think about all the very bad situations and bad people who could walk in and get a dog for $20. Abusers, dog fighters, lab experiments, etc. The reason that rescues charge fees of over $100 is to make sure that the person wanting to adopt is serious about it and that they have resources enough to care for the dog. I understand that this shelter is overcrowded and new dogs are surrendered everyday. However, I think charging a higher fee for adoption would be much more beneficial to the dogs and help ensure that they are going to homes who really want loving pets. I don't like the idea of a kill shelter, however, when I think of an animal being abused versus euthanized, euthanizing would be the more humane choice. At $20 potential abuse and neglect is too much of a risk. IMO

We adopted our first dog from Austin Dog Rescue in 2011. She was the best dog we could have ever…read moreasked for. She passed in 2023. In 2024, we started looking at the ADR site again for our next dog. We have since adopted another pup from this group. Everyone we have met is lovely; they genuinely want the best for the dogs. If we ever have an issue, they have been a great resource. I highly recommend them if you are looking for a paw family member. They are tiny but are doing great work.

Doing a great service to so many who can not speak for themselves. Saving dogs every day…read more Volunteer to help if you can. Or if you can, take a loving, desperate abandoned soul home. Dogs and cats are angels who walk among us. Please call ahead and make an appointment to visit. See for yourself and share your life with a special friend or two. You will never get a more committed and loving four-legged friend than one you give a 2nd chance at life to.

I just recently adopted my new dog through GRR and it was an incredible experience start to finish…read more Yes, it's thorough and yes it takes time, but I definitely feel like that is by design and ultimately matched me with a pretty incredible pup - you shouldn't be in a hurry to find your next family member! The care and passion for each dog is apparent, and I had a whole support team throughout the process to ensure I had all the information and resources I needed to bring my Cooper home.

short version: most of the people in the org are nice but it all depends on who you get as your…read more"matchmaker". if you get Jennie Lou then I wouldn't waste your time and just start looking for another place to get your golden. don't waste almost a year like we did. just be careful on facebook a lot of the group posts are scams. i had high hopes for GRR, i've been following them for a couple years and they were the first people i reached out to about donating stuff when i lost my last golden of 15 years. After going through the intense interview process we were assigned a matchmaker. I thought this process would be exciting but it was not. JL didn't have the best communication, not hearing from her 1+ months at a time and even getting us confused with other couples. She was usually abrasive and condescending over the phone. I felt like I had to keep reminding her that we've had goldens before. We tried to suggest dogs that popped up on the website or facebook page and were reprimanded for doing so. We said that a main requirement was making sure the new dog got along with our current one but that never seemed like a concern to them. JL would call us about a dog that just came in that they didn't know anything about and give us a couple to hours to decide and we'd have to go pick them up in 2 days from the Vet right after being spayed. I felt like they just wanted to throw something at the wall and see what sticks. She kept telling us to trust the process (over and over again) so we did with one of these last minute dogs and it did not work out. In fact she wound up having giardia and gave it to our older dog. Then we got gaslighted for saying it was a bad match and I once again had to remind her that we've had young goldens before. This is when I started asking around and it seemed like everyone I talked to that had a positive experience adopting from GRR had a different matchmaker than us. Before giving up i sent an email to the GRR President and VP pleading to try one more time with a different matchmaker and instead of responding they forwarded it to ours and she proceeded to chew me out over the phone like i was a child. I was never mean or ugly or anything in that email. if there was room i'd paste the email in here. As I'm writing this it's been 3 months since we've heard from JL. No check in or anything. In that 3 months we've found another golden rescue (based in dallas), got approved and already have had the new dog a couple months now. We've also met several other people that used to get their dogs from GRR that are working with this new rescue now. They were assigned JL as well and just gave up and left like we had to. Hopefully you'll have better luck than we did with GRR.

I found my new love through this organization. She is the sweetest, lovingest little girl ever,…read moreexactly as advertised. They were responsive and the application process was very smooth. I really felt like they were most concerned with what would be best for the dog, and i am grateful that they decided it is me! We are busily living happily ever after.

Worst rescue group ever! Poor people skills and they play favorites with others not in their…read more"group". They claim to do what's best for a dog but it's a smokescreen.