Renegade Paws Rescue

The orginaztion provides medical care for all animals in need. Medical care includes special surgical needs including, spay and neuter surgeries for animals in care and for community pets. Animals treated for heartworms in house as well as vaccines and microchips.

The organization found homes for 759 animals in care through direct adoption, 250 animals were transported to Rescue partners. The organization does not kill for space but does provide compassionate end of life and hospice care.over 600 volunteers and 300 foster families supported the organizations efforts. Foster homes served 90% of the dogs that entered the organization prior to their adoption. An average of 3 weekly adoption events were manned by volunteers and attended by volunteers with pets across the community including 4 counties (chathan, bryan, effingham, beaufort). On-site volunteer opportunities were introduced in 2023 and onboarded during weekly orientation programs to include cleaning, animal care and enrichment, advocacy programs for dogs not in foster, and short term foster opportunities.

Renegade Paws Rescue (the organizations) is a non-profit that serves the greater savannah, ga region and partners closely with chatham and bryan county animal services in Georgia as well as other municipal and nonprofit groups. In less than five years, Renegade has become one of the largest foster-based animal rescues in the country. In 2023 Renegade purchased a building allowing for in-house boarding and expanded volunteer opportunities and community programming.the primary services are to provide the highest quality care for animals through shelter, feeding, medical care, and preventative treatment until adoption and to keep wanted pets in homes through community-focused programming including basic and emergent veterinary care, food, shelter, and education.

Formal training and enrichment opportunities for animals in care and foster volunteers were expanded in 2023 to include on site one-on-one training for dogs and play training. The additional training prepared animals for safe placement in foster homes, adoptive homes, and supported adopted animals to reduce returns to Rescue. A safe space for animals on-site allowed the organization to take on more sensitive federal cases and provide more specific training, evaluation, and rehabilitation of animals held as live evidence or involved in legal cases.

Community programs are at the center of the organizations mission to keep wanted pets in loving homes and reduce the surrenders of pets to shelters and Rescue organizations. To this end, the organization covered the cost of spay and neuter surgeries to the community to reduce unwanted litters, partnered on free microchip and rabies clinics, provided preventative vaccines and food from our pet pantry. Community animals were helped with emergent veterinary needs. The Renegade claws program focuses on tnvr (trap, neuter, vaccinate, and return) of feral and free-roaming cats and a small foster program for kittens found when trapping and the organization provides emergency pet housing for victims of domestic abuse and roofless pet owners in partnership with local social services.