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Homeless Animal Rescue Team (HART)


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PO Box 267
Los Lunas, NM 87031

The Homeless Animal Rescue Team is Valencia County's premier animal rescue organization. The HART is staffed by a Board of Directors, consisting of President, Vice-President, Secretary, Treasurer, and three Directors. The HART staff has extensive knowledge and has undertaken local and state-wide animal issues.

HART staff have collaborated and/or initiated a number of efforts which have led to recognition as a state-wide resource for individuals and agencies serving New Mexico's animal population. Since 1996, it has embarked on an agenda of promoting the concept and practice of the No-Kill Sheltering of Animals and has expanded its agenda beyond Valencia County to include the State of New Mexico.

Within the HART organization are programs that deal with different issues concerning animals. We house a No-Kill Shelter Plan, we house a Foster Home Program, we house a new Spay and Neuter Assistance Program. Also, we house a new Education Program, under which individuals from the very young to the very old can partake in multimedia education/service projects that benefit specifically the animals in the environment, and contribute to environmental education for all individuals.

Do you need to find a loving home for your pet?

No-kill shelters do wonderful work, but as a result, are often inundated with pet surrenders. In the unfortunate scenario that you have to find a new home for your pet, please read through the rehoming solution and articles on this page before contacting the shelter.

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Medical and Behavior Programs
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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 an XL dog crate (Great Dane size] that I would like to donate to the shelter or a foster home. It is in perfect condition. Please let me know if you could use it. Thanks!
posted by [email protected], on 2021-09-06 19:01:18
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Two puppies are abandoned by our church building last night. My husband was there for a men's class thankfully and brought them home. They look to be only months old. Rottweiler poss heeler mix. They were terribly frightened last night but very playful this morning. We would love to bring them to you to find them their forever home. It would be great if the girls could stay together. Thank you for any help you may be. Sincerely, Barb Griffith
posted by BarbaraMendozaGriffith, on 2018-09-28 13:18:50
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I have a cat that must go to a rescue. He is somewhat aggressive to my other cats and I am tired of breaking up cat fights. He needs to be an only cat. I WILL GET HIM FIXED ALONG WITH GETTING HIM RABIES SHOTS. i HAVE TO FIND HIM ANOTHER HOME Mrs. Stein
posted by sarastein0331, on 2017-10-07 01:58:49
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Do you house tarantula's, lizards, and turtle. Son is going back to school and cannot take them with him.
posted by rjburson07, on 2017-07-24 16:15:30
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Do you rescue mini pot belly pigs as well?
posted by (empty name), on 2017-04-25 12:46:47
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If you still need help with them, call me at 702-7569.
posted by michelleaguuilar, on 2017-03-26 18:16:06
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Have 13 puppy mom not won't feed can y'all plz take them they 3weeks old I think red healer they clean kind puppy but mom don't won't nothing do with them not sure why
posted by CindyDMcalister, on 2017-03-15 07:58:37
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Have someone taken this puppies from you? I can foster, then find a good home for them.
posted by michelleaguuilar, on 2017-03-26 18:14:49
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I WOULD LIKE INFORMATION ON VOLUNTEERING TO WALK THE ANIMALS OR SOMETHING I WOULD BE ABLE TO DO TO HELP WITH THE DOGS!! I AM RECENTLY DISABLED AND ABLE TO WALK FOR SHORT PERIODS OF TIME AT THIS POINT. I LOVE ANIMALS AND WOULD LOVE TO SPEND TIME WITH THE DOGS! CAN YOU PLEASE PROVIDE ME WITH SOME INFORMATION? MY E-MAIL ADDRESS IS: [email protected] THANK YOU!
posted by DeniseMark, on 2015-07-21 14:58:55
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