AZRR was formed January 1, 2006 and will shut-down operations as of January 31, 2010. 

We thank you for your loyalty and are forever grateful for the
143 loving homes brought to those dogs we were able to save.
 
In Forever Homes
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If you have time, help a rescue group, if you have a little extra cash on hand, make a donation.  It can make a difference to a rescue group.



In a dog's eyes, we are his everything.  In a dog's life, the most important thing is love, food, shelter, water and more love.  Can you help by fostering?  Would you love to have a loved one see you as the most important thing they ever knew?  Click on Fostering above, or Adoption and learn how.


If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you; that is the principal difference between a dog and a man.
--Mark Twain

When AZRR was formed, we felt we filled a need that was not being met here in the Valley:  That of rescuing all retrievers and not just Goldens.  Goldens, of course would be the main focus, but there are Chessies, Flat Coated, Tollers, and Curly Coated.
 
Due to the economy and declining membership participation, we have made a decision to disband the organization.  We feel the number of rescue groups, including Golden groups, here in the Valley and across the nation are being well handled finding new homes for these unwanted retrievers.

A video montage has been created depicting the past 4 years of work AZRR has done to save these dogs.  We invite you to view this beautiful piece.
Click here to see the montage

Golden Retriever rescue groups are many across the nation and if you are interested in one please check the website of the Golden Retriever Club of America National Rescue Committee's link at:

http://www.grca-nrc.org/

or locally for other local retriever organizations at:

Phoenix Animal Care Coalition
http://pacc911.org/

Coalition of All Breed Rescues in Arizona
http://www.cabra.org/members.html

If you are an AZRR Rescue and would like to continue discussions with other AZRR members or rescue dogs, we have an on-line discussion group you may join.  Please send an email to: 
azrr-subscribe@yahoogroups.com to join the group.

Meet Ginger our last adoption.  Ginger came to us extremely thin, but now loves her new home with mom, dad and kitty.  You may see Ginger's forever home store at the In Forever Home Links page above.

Ginger


 We have met all our financial commitments and believe we have enough money to pay the final vet bills.  The phone will be disconnected on 1/31/10 and community events have immediately ceased.  Any inventory and funds will be donated to other rescue organizations.

Our "In Forever Homes" pages will live on until our last day of website hosting is complete.  All email links will receive an automatic response telling the sender AZRR is no longer active. 

We thank our supporters dearly for your loyalty to the organization.  We thank those that adopted and we are forever grateful for your love of these dogs.  And most of all we thank the volunteers that have given their time and effort to help the dogs from shelters, owner turn-ins and strays through the process, and into forever-homes.

And lastly, if you love dogs, find a rescue group and support them in any way you can.  Your time is worth as much as the money they need to survive.  Do what you can to help, you'll see faces like we've seen smile again.