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Home Fur-Ever Rescue (Detroit)


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Home FurEver is a non-profit, no-kill, foster based canine rescue that takes in all dog breeds. The group was officially started in 2003 and has rescued, rehabilitated and re-homed almost 4,500 dogs and puppies. We do not discriminate against any dog or any breed; we give everyone a chance to live a normal healthy life.

Our dogs primarily come from the rough streets of Detroit. We find some as strays running the streets or in abandoned houses or automobiles. There are occasions when a dog rescued is in very poor health. Other groups may humanly euthanize the dog, but our dedicated vets do everything they can to save our dogs so they can start their lives over with a loving family. We also take in dogs periodically from kill shelters, other rescues and owner surrenders.

All of our financial support for food and veterinary care is from generous donations and fundraising. At any given time, Home FurEver could have anywhere from 90-130 dogs that are in foster care. That makes us one of the largest foster based rescues in the metro area. That also means that we are always looking for more donations, more volunteers and more foster parents.

Our mission is simple; give every dog a chance to find its FurEver home.

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PO box 12102
Detroit, MI 48212

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Feral Cat TNR Program
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High-Volume, Low-Cost Spay/Neuter
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Rescue Groups
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Foster Care
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Comprehensive Adoption Programs
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Pet Retention
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Medical and Behavior Programs
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Public Relations/Community Involvement
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Volunteers
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Proactive Redemptions
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A Compassionate Director
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1. Feral Cat TNR Program

Many communities are embracing Trap, Neuter, Release programs (TNR) to improve animal welfare, reduce death rates, and meet obligations to public welfare.


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2. High-Volume, Low-Cost Spay/Neuter

Low cost, high volume spay/neuter will quickly lead to fewer animals entering the shelter system, allowing more resources to be allocated toward saving lives.


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3. Rescue Groups

An adoption or transfer to a rescue group frees up scarce cage and kennel space, reduces expenses for feeding, cleaning, killing, and improves a community's rate of lifesaving. In an environment of millions of dogs and cats killed in shelters annually, rare is the circumstance in which a rescue group should be denied an animal.


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4. Foster Care

Volunteer foster care is crucial to No Kill. Without it, saving lives is compromised. It is a low cost, and often no cost, way of increasing a shelter's capacity, improving public relations, increasing a shelter's public image, rehabilitating sick and injured or behaviorally challenged animals, and saving lives.


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5. Comprehensive Adoption Programs

Adoptions are vital to an agency's lifesaving mission. The quantity and quality of shelter adoptions is in shelter management's hands, making lifesaving a direct function of shelter policies and practice. In fact, studies show people get their animals from shelters only 20% of the time. If shelters better promoted their animals and had adoption programs responsive to the needs of the community, including public access hours for working people, offsite adoptions, adoption incentives, and effective marketing, they could increase the number of homes available and replace killing with adoptions. Contrary to conventional wisdom, shelters can adopt their way out of killing.


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6. Pet Retention

While some of the reasons animals are surrendered to shelters are unavoidable, others can be prevented-but only if shelters are willing to work with people to help them solve their problems. Saving animals requires communities to develop innovative strategies for keeping people and their companion animals together. And the more a community sees its shelters as a place to turn for advice and assistance, the easier this job will be.


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7. Medical and Behavior Programs

In order to meet its commitment to a lifesaving guarantee for all savable animals, shelters need to keep animals happy and healthy and keep animals moving through the system. To do this, shelters must put in place comprehensive vaccination, handling, cleaning, socialization, and care policies before animals get sick and rehabilitative efforts for those who come in sick, injured, unweaned, or traumatized.


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8. Public Relations/Community Involvement

Increasing adoptions, maximizing donations, recruiting volunteers and partnering with community agencies comes down to one thing: increasing the shelter's exposure. And that means consistent marketing and public relations. Public relations and marketing are the foundation of all a shelter's activities and their success. To do all these things well, the shelter must be in the public eye.


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9. Volunteers

Volunteers are a dedicated "army of compassion" and the backbone of a successful No Kill effort. There is never enough staff, never enough dollars to hire more staff, and always more needs than paid human resources. That is where volunteers come in and make the difference between success and failure and, for the animals, life and death.


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10. Proactive Redemptions

One of the most overlooked areas for reducing killing in animal control shelters are lost animal reclaims. Sadly, besides having pet owners fill out a lost pet report, very little effort is made in this area of shelter operations. This is unfortunate because doing so-primarily shifting from passive to a more proactive approach-has proven to have a significant impact on lifesaving and allow shelters to return a large percentage of lost animals to their families.


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11. A Compassionate Director

The final element of the No Kill equation is the most important of all, without which all other elements are thwarted-a hard working, compassionate animal control or shelter director not content to regurgitate tired cliches or hide behind the myth of "too many animals, not enough homes." Unfortunately, this one is also oftentimes the hardest one to demand and find.


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I have to move and I have a dog and can not take her with me. I live in Detroit, I do not want to leave her or turn her loose in the neighborhood. I have to be out of here by December 31, 2018. Can someone help me. Thanks.
posted by EloiseSweeney, on 2018-12-24 19:35:44
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Hello, my name is Kristine I work in detroit and we have a stray boxer/female that has been abandoned. Weve been giving her food and water for over 6 weeks now but she wont let us near her. She has a colar on and it's getting tight. She is here every morning for feeding and night. she lives in the field across from our bldg. Please help!!! Winter is right round the corner and I cant watch her freeze.
posted by KristineAltherr, on 2017-08-24 15:16:01
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dear sir,i need help for a ten yr old part maine coon,he will not go in his litter box ive tried several things,someone PLEASE!!!
posted by SheilaShimmell, on 2017-07-01 11:07:07
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1-31-2017 1633 Hi Debra! It is Kelly again, http://www.allaboutanimalsrescue.org this is another wonderful group in warren; called all about animals and they can be reached at 586-879-1745. Perhaps someone could even foster for you why you seek a place that will let you bring your dog. They are a wonderful organization with low cost services and adoption too. My heart goes out to you and your loved pet!!! Stay Strong ...i am believing you will be able to stay with your dog!!!!
posted by KellyHocker, on 2017-01-31 15:36:34
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my dog is a rebone coon hound and is age is 14 years old. the house sold I am a renter. I am having to surrender my pet. no one will allow him to go with me. I have until feb. 28th 2017 to find him a good home. breaks my heart to have to do this to him or I. I have no other choice. I hope you can help me.
posted by DebraMccray, on 2017-01-26 11:16:55
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hi Debra.....i am an animal lover too may i post your information on my facebook page where we have a networking group that helps for things like this? Kelly
posted by KellyHocker, on 2017-01-31 15:21:08
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HFE's address is actually PO Box 10203, Detroit MI 48210.
posted by MargoButler, on 2014-03-31 21:24:07
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