Summary
Organization name
RezDawg Rescue
other names
REZDAWG, Rezdawg Rescue, Rez Dawg Rescue
2012
Category
Animal-Related
Organization Size
Medium Organization
Address
PO Box 448Lafayette, CO 80026
Boulder County, CO, US
RezDawg Rescue
A nonprofit organization
$1,052 raised by 33 donors
3% complete
$35,000 Goal
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From the Mountains to the Mesa, Hope Starts Here
RezDawg Rescue works with communities across the Four Corners region of the Southwest to save more than 2,500 homeless pets each year through transport, foster care, veterinary services, mobile clinics, pet food donations, and adoption. We proudly collaborate with Indigenous and rural communities in the Southwest to provide access to compassionate animal care where it’s needed most.
Since our founding in 2012, RezDawg Rescue has helped over 25,000 dogs and cats receive the rescue, rehabilitation, rehoming, and medical care they deserve. Our lifesaving programs are possible because of people like YOU. Together, we can make a difference — for pets, for people, and for the communities we call home. 💛
Dr Winnie Neunzig leading a pet wellness clinic on the Ute Mountain Ute Reservation in Towaoc, CO.
Community Outreach
This expansive property located 30 miles east of Albuquerque, NM, is home to our transport hub, pet pantry storage building, and a dog-friendly rented studio apartment. The transport hub is permitted for 30 rescue dogs to help prepare them for receiving transport partners and foster homes. Our Pet Food Pantry is within a 30’ x 80’ double-insulated Quonset hut and distributes over 26 pallets of pet food plus animal care supplies per month to over 45 rescues, shelters, and animal control officers throughout southern Colorado, New Mexico, and Arizona—a service RezDawg is proud to provide as a GOODS Ambassador through Greater Good Charities.
Here's a glimpse of the property, recorded earlier last year. https://youtu.be/YA3ZB-QNJ6U?si=Hr8WDyI9Ozugputy
Happy Pet Pantry and clinic patient!
Our Programs in Action
At RezDawg’s Animal Care Center in Moriarty, NM, we’re feeding pets across southern Colorado and New Mexico, staging transports, clinics, and caring for animals in need — all while searching for the perfect Colorado location to expand our spay/neuter and animal care services.
👉 Know a spot? Email angela@rezdawgrescue.org!
🎥 See Us in Action!Take a peek behind the scenes: CLICK HERE
🐾 Clinics That Change LivesCheck out Day 1 at Nambe Pueblo and see our amazing team at work! View on Facebook
📦 Pet Pantry PowerHelp us keep pets home with their people — see our monthly pantry deliveries.
👕 Shop with HeartLook good, feel good, and give back — grab your RezDawg gear!
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Mission
RezDawg Rescue partners with Indigenous and rural communities across Colorado and New Mexico to support pets and their people. Through animal rescue, rehabilitation, fostering, and adoption, as well as mobile vet clinics and a pet food pantry, we serve the most underserved areas in the Four Corners Region. Since 2012, we’ve helped transform the lives of over 25,000 dogs and cats, working alongside an extensive network of rescues, shelters, and animal-loving partners. Together, we save lives!
Background Statement
Founder and Executive Director Angela Cerci started RezDawg Rescue while working through Teach for America on the Navajo Nation in New Mexico in 2010. She was struck by the enormity of the stray dog problem in the region and was compelled to help. She began taking in stray dogs off the streets and from high-volume shelters, and quickly found herself cohabitating with a rotating stream of 15+ dogs in her small home. Angela quickly became known in the area as "the dog lady," and soon boxes of puppies were being abandoned at her door. She picked up litters of puppies that were living under her classroom trailer and answered calls for help with local injured animals and from pet owners in the community.
But the efforts of just one person were nowhere near enough. By no fault of their own, the local shelter was euthanizing an astounding proportion of the 6,000 animals coming in each year. RezDawg Rescue was founded to help face the crisis.
Moving to the Colorado Front Range area in 2013 gave Angela access to dog-loving communities that offered a wealth of fosters, volunteers, and eager adopters—the very people that make RezDawg Rescue work! Angela established the transport program that delivers animals in desperate need to Colorado foster homes, and then to connect them with adopters. Transport is the essential foundation of our rescue operations. Since inception, RezDawg Rescue has transformed the lives of over 20,000 pets.
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Lafayette, CO 80026