Southern California German Shepherd Rescue
SCGSR is dedicated to rescuing, rehabilitating, providing spay/neuter and veterinary care, and re-homing German shepherds and other pets in Southern California. A 501(c)(3) nonprofit, we are funded through tax-deductible donations from adopters and individuals like you who care about the fate of these magnificent companions. SCGSR specializes in helping ill and unadoptable abandoned pets regain their health and placing them into caring, loving forever homes. Together, we can envision a day when companion animals will no longer face inhumane treatment, abandonment or perish in shelters.

An estimated four million puppies are produced in USDA "approved" factory farms each year and sold through pet stores via brokers. Yet, over four million dogs are euthanized each year in shelters because they can't find homes. Dogs are endlessly bred and kept in horrific conditions, confined in small wire enclosures resulting in severe injuries and deformities, in extreme temperatures resulting in death, without veterinary care and adequate food & water. When they can no longer reproduce they are killed (often brutally) by breeders. This is now a billion dollar industry in the U.S. with lobbyists paid to work on behalf of breeders, brokers and pet store corporations. The cruelty will not end unless people stop buying.

See how San Diegans are getting involved and join the fight at the San Diego Animal Defense Team. Take the SCGSR Puppy Pledge to learn more and receive future information on how you can get involved.

This extraordinarily cruel and inhumane treatment is how homeless pets are handled in Hinckley and towns like it such as Blanding and Monticello in Utah. Cats and dogs are held for only 72 hours in the local "shelter" and then taken to a nearby open sewer pit where they are shot. If they run out of bullets the animals are run over by a vehicle. The mayor of the community says it’s efficient and cost-effective, and perfectly legal. Neighbors have reported that the pets are not always dead when they’re thrown in the pit and some have crawled onto nearby properties to die a slow, painful death. Jed, shown in the photo (courtesy HWAC), is a six-month old puppy who luckily managed to escape such a brutal outcome.

Tell the State of Utah (by clicking on the Take Action button above) that enacting statewide legislation for the ethical and humane management of homeless pets is long overdue. All Utah communities must be held to a higher, acceptable standard.