The Animal Guardian Society currently has a limited program which rescues abandoned dogs and cats. We do not have a shelter yet, although our shelter fund is growing. We board out and seek to re-socialize the animal, while finding a new, loving home. We do not have space to take unwanted pets, and encourage people to find a loving solution to keep them in the home.
What are the stories behind some of the animals we have rescued?
We have also rescued animals run over and left in the streets to die.
We have taken some animals off death row in local shelters. One rescue involved hundreds of stray kittens. Again, a “well-meaning” woman was feeding local strays without getting them spayed/neutered. Before long, during kitten season, sounds of crying could be heard throughout the neighborhood. Upon investigation, little kittens were seen in the gutters, in the rain spouts, on the roof, in the trees, in the bushes….. there were over two hundred kittens. Many were starving, many beyond saving. It took a wonderful young woman in the neighborhood, The Animal Guardian Society and two other organizations to rescue those who could be.
**So you’ve found the perfect new home, but they don’t take pets? Keep looking. If your pets can’t live there, then you shouldn’t either!** **If something happens to you, what happens to them? Don’t assume your family will step in and take care of them. We get hundreds of calls that prove you can’t count on family! Older pets don’t deserve to be taken to the pound if you should pass on before they do. After years of being in a loving home, imagine the shock of losing your beloved humans, your home, to be shoved into a strange, empty cage and be given (in many states) just 3 to 15 days to be adopted or else be put to death.** Avoid this tragedy! Click on to our Who Gets My Pets? page and find out how easy it is to register a plan for your pets with us. Emergency workers or family can quickly call us and discover what arrangements you have made, in case of…. Boarding a rescued animal costs us about $70 a week per dog or cat. You can help by becoming a member, and sending in an annual donation.
Immortalize your pets on our WALL OF COMPASSION and create a SHELTER Immortalize your beloved pet(s). Their name(s) will be hand painted on a tile(s) and placed on our Wall of Compassion, to be located at the entrance of our first, no-kill sanctuary. Tiles are ceramic and hand-painted.
But remember: shelters are not the solution! They are evidence of the terrible problem of overpopulation and pet abandonment. Think carefully before becoming a pet-parent. Make a commitment and keep it. Pets are members of YOUR family. Order Now and Save Lives: See the photo as example. Order on-line with PayPal!
Mail order & check to: Questions? E-mail us at TheAGSsoc@aol.com
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than one was a pet belonging to someone who changed their mind about
keeping it. Instead of taking the responsibility and time to find
him a nice, new home, these people drove to a desert area or to
the railroad area downtown and threw the dogs out of their moving
car before racing off. Can you imagine the fear and confusion the
dogs felt? Can you imagine the betrayal? Dogs have the instinct
to wait for their people to return, and so they have a hard time
accepting help from a stranger, no matter how well-intentioned that
stranger is. In the desert, dogs or cats wander around in brutal
weather conditions, without hope of finding food or water, and often
become victims of coyotes. And yet many people think this is better
than taking them to a local shelter. They can’t live with that guilt,
and conveniently convince themselves that “at least their animal
has a chance to live; they are free”. 
