Dog Rescues and Shelters

Alberta Rescue Organizations & Shelters

 
Please Note: Breed specific rescue organizations are listed under the individual breed sections of this website.

 

For ease in finding a rescue organization near you, the shelters/rescues are listed under specific regions. Please note that some of these rescue groups do provide services/foster care throughout the province and/or in regions beyond their listing.

Shelter & Rescue Listings in Alberta

Select from the following menu for listings of
Rescues/Shelters across Alberta:


 

Calgary & Area

  • Alberta Animal Rescue Crew Society (AARCS)
    — A non-profit organization whose mandate is to rescue abandoned, surrendered or abused small animals from First Nations Communities in Central Alberta and place these animals in the safety of a foster home system while awaiting suitable placement in forever, adoptive homes.
    For further information, please e-mail: info@albertaanimalrescuecrew.com,
    Tel. 403-250-7377, or Fax: 1-866-223-0365
  • Alberta Herding Dog Rescue
    — “We rescue, retrain and rehome herding breeds of all types. That includes Border Collies, Australian Cattle Dogs, German Shepherds, Belgian Shepherds (Tervurens, Malinois, Groendals), Australian Kelpies, Australian Shepherds, etc. This includes crosses, providing those crosses look and act like one of the herding breeds.”
    Serving Calgary and the surrounding areas.
    Phone: 403-335-2382
    Email: HerdingDogRescue@telus.net
    Petfinder: www.ab-herdingdogrescue.petfinder.com
    Facebook: www.facebook.com/HerdingDogRescue
  • A·R·F — Animal Rescue Foundation
    — ARF’s mission is to rescue stray and abandoned dogs and cats from First Nations and rural areas and place them in loving, permanent homes while providing programs to reduce pet over-population.
    P.O. Box 34160
    Calgary, AB, Canada T3C 1S2
    E-mail: general.info@arf.ab.ca
  • BARC’s Rescue (Bonerz Advocacy & Rescue Center)
    — “We are a No-Kill Organization based in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. We are committed to educating the public and ensuring Calgary and other areas remain responsible and free of BSL. We rescue dogs who are on death row at high kill shelters with the ultimate goal of placing them in loving, permanent homes. We advocate for dogs who are on death row solely due to the way they look. Recognizing that every dog deserves a chance, BARCS will not discriminate on the basis of age, health or breed. We will dedicate every resource at our disposal to the physical, emotional and behavioral rehabilitation of each animal that we rescue.”
    Email: barcsrescue@gmail.com
    Website: www.barcsrescue.com
  • The Calgary Humane Society
    — The Calgary Humane Society’s mission is to foster the humane treatment of animals and promote values which demonstrate respect for animals.
    4455 110 Ave SE
    Calgary, AB
    T2C 2T7
    Tel.: (403) 205-4455
    E-mail: admin@calgaryhumane.ca
  • Cochrane & Area Humane Society
    — The Cochrane Humane Society is a charitable organization dedicated to promoting and preserving the well-being of animals, sustained by volunteers and the community.
    62 Griffin Industrial Point
    Cochrane, AB T4C 0A3
    Tel.: (403) 932-2072
    E-mail: shelter@cochranehumane.ca
  • DINO Dog Rescue
    — Rescuing abandoned dogs in Canada, USA and Mexico. Providing care and shelter until placement into forever homes.
    2419 Erlton RD SW, Calgary, AB
    Tel.: 403-452-4900
    Email: dinorescueorg@gmail.com
    Website: www.dinorescue.com
    Facebook: www.facebook.com/DINORescue
  • Heaven Can Wait Animal Rescue Foundation
    — Heaven Can Wait provides shelter, care and nourishment to abandoned, abused and homeless domestic animals within High River and the surrounding area.
    Box 6131
    High River, AB, T1V 1P7
    Phone: (403) 601-2520
    E-mail: hcw@telusplanet.net
  • Misty Creek Dog Rescue “All Breed Dog Rescue”
    — Misty Creek Dog Rescue is a non-profit organization dedicated to helping all canines in need.
    Mailing Address Only:
    Suite # 472
    300, 8120 Beddington Blvd. N.W.
    Calgary, AB T3K 2A8
    E-mail: mistycreek@netkaster.ca
  • No Borders Animal Rescue Society (NOBARS)
    — “No Borders Animal Rescue Society (NOBARS) consists of volunteers dedicated to providing rescue to stray, abandoned, abused, or surrendered animals, to prevent cruelty, to re-home and promote the welfare of animals. Our mission is to successfully match adoptive homes with adoptive animals.”
    Edmonton, Calgary and Central Alberta
    Tel.: 587-363-3100
    Email: info.nobars@gmail.com
    Website: www.nobordersanimalrescuesociety.ca
  • Oops-A-Dazy Rescue and Sanctuary Society
    www.oppsadazy.com
    — Serving Calgary and Area.
    Tel.: (403)734-1013
    E-mail: oopsadazyrescue@yahoo.ca
  • Pawsitive Match Rescue Foundation
    www.pawsitivematch.org
    — Pawsitive Match Rescue Foundation, a registered Canadian charity, is a not-for-profit, no-kill dog rescue based in Calgary, Alberta, Canada.
    Located in the Calgary area.
  • Pound Rescue
    — A Registered Charity – Helping homeless, suffering and abandoned animals in Okotoks, Calgary and surrounding rural areas.
    Okotoks, AB
    Tel.: 403-938-4890
    E-mail: poundrescue@gmail.com
    Website: www.poundrescue.com
  • Rocky Mountain Animal Rescue
    — Founder, Rory O’Neill is a dog behavioral consultant, trainer and rescuer, saving animals worldwide. Rocky Mountain Animal Rescue focuses on Canada, yet at the same time, helps groups in other parts of the world desperate for help. There were thousands of dogs and cats left behind starving and breeding after Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans; Tiajuana, Mexico, where breeders abandon small dogs like chihuahuas by the hundreds; Baja, Mexico, where spay and neuter is infrequent, and friendly, beautiful dogs are rapidly breeding and being killed inhumanely. Rory O’Neill helps match people wanting to give a loving home to a pet, to animals desperate and deserving of a life. She also has contacts with many overcrowded shelters, where darling cats, dogs, puppies, and kittens, don’t always have much time before the “shelter” euthanizes them. People adopting from Rocky Mountain Animal Rescue are literally saving a dog or cat from a life of misery and/or no life at all.
    Canmore and Calgary, Alberta
    Website: www.rockymountainanimalrescue.com
    E-mail: rockymountainanimalrescue@gmail.com (preferred method of contact due to time)
    Phone: 403-673-3224 Office (voice mail)
    Cell Phone: 805-722-5906 (no voice mail, for urgencies)
  • Rocky Organization for Animal Rescue Society
    — Animal rescue located in Rocky Mountain House, caring for cats and dogs.
    Box 2098, Rocky Mountain House, Alberta
    Phone: 403-844-6024; Cell: 403-844-6024; Fax: 403-844-6024
    Email: roarsociety@yahoo.ca
    Website: www.roarsociety.ca

Edmonton & Area

  • Alberta SPCA
    — The mission of the Alberta SPCA is to have every animal in Alberta humanely treated.
    10806 124 Street
    Edmonton AB Canada T5M 0H3
    Information: (780) 447-3600
    Animal Abuse and Neglect Complaints: (780) 451-CARE
    Toll Free: 1-800-455-9003 Fax: (780) 447-4748
    E-mail: info@albertaspca.org
  • Animal Rescue and Outreach Society
    — Animal Rescue and Outreach Society (AROS) is a charitable, non-profit organization serving the Alberta Capital Region. Our main objectives are:
    – To promote the welfare of animals by providing temporary and permanent homes for pets who are surrendered, abandoned, abused, sick, and/or injured.
    – To provide free and/or low cost pet care programs to the community.
    Edmonton, AB
    Email: animalrescueandoutreach@gmail.com
    Facebook: www.facebook.com/animalrescueandoutreach
  • Edmonton Humane Society
    — The Edmonton Humane Society is dedicated to protect animals from suffering and to promote life long commitment to animal welfare and dignity.
    13620 – 163 Street
    Edmonton, AB, T5V 0B2
    Phone: (780) 471-1774
    E-mail: ehs@edmontonhumanesociety.com
  • The Humane Animal Rescue Team (HART)
    — A non-profit organization committed to: rescue stray, abandoned and unwanted dogs and cats from rural areas surrounding Edmonton, AB and place them in permanent homes; and provide programs that promote responsible pet ownership, and prevent cruelty to animals.
    c/o 12348-134 Street
    Edmonton, AB, T5L 1T9
    Tel.: 455-hart (4278)
    E-mail: info@humaneanimalrescueteam.ca
  • NASAP — The Northern Alberta Society For Animal Protection
    — “To show compassion in action. NASAP is a registered charity dedicated to helping unwanted and abandoned animals of Edmonton and Sherwood Park area since 1999. We believe in rescue, rehabilitation and re-homing of animals.”
    P.O. Box 3236, Station Main
    Sherwood Park, Alberta, T6H 2T2
    Phone: (780) 922-0250
    E-mail: admin@nasap.ca
  • No Borders Animal Rescue Society (NOBARS)
    — “No Borders Animal Rescue Society (NOBARS) consists of volunteers dedicated to providing rescue to stray, abandoned, abused, or surrendered animals, to prevent cruelty, to re-home and promote the welfare of animals. Our mission is to successfully match adoptive homes with adoptive animals.”
    Edmonton, Calgary and Central Alberta
    Tel.: 587-363-3100
    Email: info.nobars@gmail.com
    Website: www.nobordersanimalrescuesociety.ca
  • Northern Spirit K9 Rescue
    — Provide food, shelter, medical treatment and rescue to dogs on First Nations Reserves and in other areas. To Educate and provide support to residents of First Nations Reserves and other areas. To promote, facilitate, organize, direct and carry out ventures of all kinds designed to enable people in the community to participate in the development and improvement of caring for and providing food, shelter and medical treatments for dogs on First Nations Reserves and other areas.
    16103-98 Street
    Edmonton, Alberta, T5X 4Y6
    Tel.: (780) 456-2544
    E-mail: contact@northernspiritk9.com
  • Second Chance Animal Rescue Society
    — To promote the humane care and protection of all animals and to prevent cruelty and suffering. The Second Chance Animal Rescue Society is dedicated to reducing the number of homeless and abandoned animals in the Athabasca and Lakeland area (northern Alberta).
    Box 3045
    Athabasca, AB T9S 2B9
    Tel.: 780-466-SCAR or 780-466-7227
    E-mail: scars@scarscare.org
  • SNAP Rescue (Spay Neuter Action Program)
    — SNAP’s mission is to rescue, rehabilitate, and place animals in need. Since SNAP was formed as a registered charitable organization in 2003, we have successfully rescued and placed more than 1000 cats and dogs. Many of these animals were victims of neglect, abuse, and violence, some of whom had special needs and were rejected by other organizations.
    Tel.: 780-968-0025
    E-mail: snaprescue@gmail.com
    Website: www.spayneuteractionprogram.ca
  • Underdogs Rescue
    — “Underdogs Rescue is a not for profit organization that is dedicated to rescuing large “power” breed dogs in shelters across Canada. This includes (but not limited to) Humane Societies, SPCA(s), Animal Control(s) and other Rescues. We are committed to the re-homing of these dogs, through rescue, rehabilitation, training and care to responsible and loving dog owners.”
    Edmonton, AB
    Contact: – see www.underdogsrescue.com/contact-us
    Website: www.underdogsrescue.com
    Facebook: www.facebook.com/underdogsrescuealberta
  • Zoe’s Animal Rescue Society
    — “Our mission is to rescue dogs and cats and find them their furever homes. We also aim to help educate the public about the necessity of spay and neutering and humane animal treatment.”
    Edmonton, Alberta
    Tel.: 780-887-2798
    Email: info@zoesanimalrescue.org
    Website: www.zoesanimalrescue.org

Canadian Rockies

  • Bow Valley SPCA
    — Providing the community with a No-Kill, No-Cage Adoption Centre to shelter and care for stray or abandoned dogs and cats in the Bow Valley, and promotes humane attitudes and responsible pet companionship through educational programs to ensure that the number of abandoned dogs and cats does not increase as dramatically as the human population.
    Canmore, Alberta
    Tel.: 403-609-2022
    E-mail: info@bowvalleyspca.org
  • Rocky Mountain Animal Rescue
    — Founder, Rory O’Neill is a dog behavioral consultant, trainer and rescuer, saving animals worldwide. Rocky Mountain Animal Rescue focuses on Canada, yet at the same time, helps groups in other parts of the world desperate for help. There were thousands of dogs and cats left behind starving and breeding after Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans; Tiajuana, Mexico, where breeders abandon small dogs like chihuahuas by the hundreds; Baja, Mexico, where spay and neuter is infrequent, and friendly, beautiful dogs are rapidly breeding and being killed inhumanely. Rory O’Neill helps match people wanting to give a loving home to a pet, to animals desperate and deserving of a life. She also has contacts with many overcrowded shelters, where darling cats, dogs, puppies, and kittens, don’t always have much time before the “shelter” euthanizes them. People adopting from Rocky Mountain Animal Rescue are literally saving a dog or cat from a life of misery and/or no life at all.
    Canmore and Calgary, Alberta
    Website: www.rockymountainanimalrescue.com
    E-mail: secondchance@telus.net (preferred method of contact due to time)
    Phone: 403-673-3224 Office (voice mail)
    Cell Phone: 805-722-5906 (no voice mail, for urgencies)

Central Alberta

Southern Alberta

Northern Alberta

  • Barrhead Animal Rescue Society
    — The Barrhead Animal Rescue Society (B.A.R.S.) was established in January 2010, and is dedicated to ensuring the humane treatment of all animals in the Town of Barrhead, the County of Barrhead and surrounding areas.
    Barrhead, AB
    Phone: 780-307-6590
    E-Mail: Terry@BarrheadAnimalRescue.org
  • The Bonnyville & District SPCA
    — The Bonnyville & District SPCA was created to give a home to animals who have been abandoned, lost, abused and to provide these animals with a safe haven. We promote responsible pet ownership, and a commitment to make a difference. We always welcome volunteers.
    Box 5444, 5601-54 Ave., Bonnyville, AB. T9N 2G5
    Phone: 780-826-3230
    Fax: 780-826-2266
    Email: spcabonn@telus.net
  • Fairview Area Animal Rescue Society (FAARS)
    — We are a society dedicated to the rescue, rehabilitation and re-homing of abandoned, neglected and abused animals in the Fairview, Alberta area. We aim to promote the humane care and treatment of animals through compassion and respect. We believe that all animals deserve a safe world, a world without cruelty or neglect.
    Phone: 780-834-7722
    Email: loriolga@yahoo.com
  • Fort McMurray SPCA Animal Shelter
    — The mission of the Fort McMurray S.P.C.A. is to have every animal in the Municipality of Wood Buffalo humanely treated. The objective is to prevent cruelty to any and all animals within the Municipality of Wood Buffalo.
    155 MacAlpine Crescent
    Fort McMurray, Alberta T9H 4A5
    Phone: (780) 743-8997
  • Grande Prairie & District SPCA
    — A non-profit organization serving the northern communities of Alberta. Providing not only a safe haven for neglected/abused animals but also perform adoptions, provide education in the community, as well as investigate and shelter those in need in a professional and compassionate way.
    Located in the Airport Industrial Park
    12220-104 AVE, Grande Prairie, AB T8V 8A8
    Phone: (780) 538-4030
    E-mail: info@gpspca.com
  • Lac La Biche Regional Humane Society
    — Mission Statement: To lead the way and set standards of excellence for the humane treatment of animals, thus fostering a community based on respect and compassion.
    Our Values: The Lac La Biche Regional Humane Society values respect, compassion, team work, integrity, and commitment.
    Lac La Biche, Alberta
    Phone: 780-520-PAWS (7297)
    Email: llbrhs@gmail.com
    Website: www.llbrhs.com
  • NASAP — The Northern Alberta Society For Animal Protection
    — “To show compassion in action. NASAP is a registered charity dedicated to helping unwanted and abandoned animals of Edmonton and Sherwood Park area since 1999. We believe in rescue, rehabilitation and re-homing of animals.”
    P.O. Box 3236, Station Main
    Sherwood Park, Alberta, T6H 2T2
    Phone: (780) 922-0250
    E-mail: admin@nasap.ca
  • Peace Regional SPCA
    — A non-profit homeless shelter for animals who have been abused, neglected or abandoned.
    9510-94th Avenue
    Peace River, AB
    Tel.: 780-624-3633
    E-mail: prspca@telusplanet.net
  • Sundance Canine Rescue Society
    Serving North Central Alberta.
    — We Have made a great effort to provide refuge to Dogs who are unwanted, homeless and in need of a place away from cruelty, and neglect. We Spay/Neuter all dogs before they get adopted out to there forever loving homes. We save lives one dog at a time.
    Phone: 780.850.7484
    Email: SundanceCRS@gmail.com
    Website: SundanceCRS.com
    Facebook: Facebook.com/Sundance.Canine.Rescue.Society
    Twitter: Twitter.com/SundanceCRS
  • St. Paul Animal Shelter
    — A non profit organization that provides a shelter and adoption agency for St. Paul and area. Secondly, acts as the pound for the town of St. Paul. Open to the public from 1-4 pm every day except Stat holidays.
    PO Box 422, 5417-50 Avenue
    St. Paul, AB T0A 3A0
    Phone: 780 645-2262
    E-mail: pawsofgold@live.ca
  • Second Chance Animal Rescue Society
    — To promote the humane care and protection of all animals and to prevent cruelty and suffering. The Second Chance Animal Rescue Society is dedicated to reducing the number of homeless and abandoned animals in the Athabasca and Lakeland area (northern Alberta).
    Box 3045
    Athabasca, AB T9S 2B9
    Tel.: 780-466-SCAR or 780-466-7227
    E-mail: scars_general@yahoo.ca

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