Downtown Dog Rescue

Downtown Dog Rescue DDR is a nonprofit organization that supports low income families care for their pets. https://bit.ly/SpayNeuterForm
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Our Pet Support Space Counselors can be reached by calling 323-880-8259. We supply veterinary vouchers, pet food and other supplies as well as resources for individuals and families experiencing homelessness. You can help support our work by donating here https://www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/ls/8WZMGM11XFGI?ref_=wl_share

⭐ CHOCOLATE CHIP IS THE STAR OF SATURDAY’S ADOPTION EVENT! ⭐Chocolate Chip is only 4 months old, and he’s still living a...
09/03/2026

⭐ CHOCOLATE CHIP IS THE STAR OF SATURDAY’S ADOPTION EVENT! ⭐

Chocolate Chip is only 4 months old, and he’s still living at our clinic waiting for someone to choose him.

He loves to play, but what he really wants is to be held. Pick him up and the purring starts. He’s affectionate, sweet, healthy and ready to go home.

Chocolate Chip came to us sick after his former owner could no longer care for him. Today, he’s neutered, vaccinated, microchipped and thriving.

We’ll be at Urban Pets this Saturday, September 5 from 12–2 PM, and Chocolate Chip will be there hoping to meet the person who came looking for him.

Come meet our adoptable animals—but we have a feeling Chocolate Chip might steal the show. 🖤🤍

📍 Urban Pets
1127 Fair Oaks Ave., South Pasadena
🗓 Saturday, September 5
⏰ 12–2 PM

Please share. His person may be someone who sees this post today.

277 veterinary services (223 spay/neuter surgeries) in 11 clinic days.This is what July looked like at the DDR Community...
09/03/2026

277 veterinary services (223 spay/neuter surgeries) in 11 clinic days.
This is what July looked like at the DDR Community Clinic.

Our primary focus is high-volume spay and neuter, while also providing examinations, vaccinations, rechecks, and other veterinary care for pets whose families often have few affordable options.

Every month, we need to pay our veterinary team, purchase medications and surgical supplies, maintain our equipment, and keep our clinic doors open.

That's why monthly donors matter.

A recurring gift of $25, $50, or $100 a month gives us something especially valuable: the ability to plan ahead and know that the next pet who needs us can receive care. If you believe veterinary care should be accessible to people regardless of their income or housing situation, please consider becoming a monthly DDR Clinic donor.

One month of numbers tells part of the story. Monthly support makes the next month possible.

09/02/2026

He loves to play. He’d love someone to hold him even more. 💚

Chocolate Chip is 4 months old, healthy, neutered, vaccinated and microchipped—and still living at our clinic waiting for a home.

Meet him this Saturday, September 5, from 12–2 PM!
📍 Urban Pets • 1127 Fair Oaks Ave., South Pasadena

Can’t adopt? Share this reel to help his person find him.

Sometimes helping isn't about fixing someone's life. It's about making the load a little lighter. Blue's person told us ...
09/02/2026

Sometimes helping isn't about fixing someone's life. It's about making the load a little lighter. Blue's person told us they rescued him from an abusive situation and reached out because he needed to be neutered, vaccinated, and microchipped.

They don't have a secure place to live. Some nights are spent with relatives, others in their vehicle, and occasionally in a motel. They are also on dialysis, making an already difficult situation even harder.

Our surgery schedule was full, but Dr. Hoffman made room for Blue.

While we couldn't solve everything this person was facing, this was one thing we could make easier.

After Blue's surgery, his person texted to thank us and mentioned they had a motel room for a couple of nights so they could rest together. One of our volunteers quietly added a few more nights to their stay.

Nobody fixed anyone's life. We listened to what someone needed, helped with what we could, and lightened the load for a little while. Sometimes that's enough.

Kia is only four months old, but her story represents a lot of what we hope to accomplish. A DDR community member heard ...
09/01/2026

Kia is only four months old, but her story represents a lot of what we hope to accomplish. A DDR community member heard about this little puppy who needed somewhere safe to go before she ended up at a shelter, or worse. She reached out and asked if we could bring Kia into our adoption program. We said yes.

Kia was dropped off at our clinic in Maywood, and before beginning her search for a home, she needed to be spayed. Her surgeon was Dr. Tucker. a veterinarian who volunteers with us on Thursdays and is training with our medical director, Dr. Rachel Hoffman, to become proficient in high-quality, high-volume spay/neuter surgery. And that is an important part of Kia's story.

Our clinic was created to make veterinary care accessible to people who are too often priced out of it. The level of care an animal receives should not be determined by how much money their person has. But access to care also requires veterinarians with the skills and experience to provide that care.

So while Dr. Tucker is helping us spay and neuter more animals today, she is also developing skills she can carry with her to help thousands more animals in the years ahead. That's the kind of place we want our Maywood clinic to be: a place where animals receive excellent care, people are treated with dignity, and veterinary professionals can learn the skills needed to make that care available to more communities.

For Kia, it meant she was spayed by a skilled and compassionate veterinarian, surrounded by people who cared about what happened to her. Now she's safe, spayed, and officially a DDR dog. If you would like to meet and possibly adopt Kia, visit our website for more details.

08/30/2026

KIA is trying her best to live up to her brand name. This smart little puppy took a trip to Glendale and was super friendly with everyone she met and proved herself to be a good cafe dog in the making.
Let us know if you’d like to meet her!

In 2013, Downtown Dog Rescue built our South Gate kennel from the ground up. From the beginning, it was never about how ...
08/28/2026

In 2013, Downtown Dog Rescue built our South Gate kennel from the ground up. From the beginning, it was never about how many dogs we could house. It was about the quality of life we could provide while they were with us.

Today, our dogs range from 4 months to 18½ years old, all with different needs.

Every day means twice-daily meals, medications, cleaning all day long, and lots of laundry. But it also means walks, car rides, training sessions, weekly pack hikes, and plenty of time playing in our four yards: the "Fort Yard", "Bridge Yard", "Main Yard" and "Senior Suite".

Every dog receives veterinary care, including spay or neuter, vaccines and a microchip, but care doesn't stop there. When needed, we provide blood panels, diagnostics, specialized treatment and even weekly acupuncture for some of our dogs.

Our full-time kennel manager Jenny, part-time team members Cesar, Christine and Julie, along with our volunteers, make sure every dog receives individual attention, affection and time to just be a dog.

We can't control how long they wait for a home. We can control the life they have while they wait. But the kennel isn't meant to be their forever home. If you're thinking about adopting, come meet a DDR dog. Help make one of our dogs' wait finally over. You can meet our dogs at our kennel by appointment.

Street outreach requires us to meet people where they are, not where we think they should be.She is unhoused. She alrea...
08/26/2026

Street outreach requires us to meet people where they are, not where we think they should be.

She is unhoused. She already has an adult pit bull that she trusted Dr Hoffman to neuter. And recently, someone gave her a puppy as a gift. From the outside, it's easy to look at this situation and immediately see another problem. How will she ever find housing with two dogs? Why would someone give her a puppy when she is already struggling? If taking care of herself is difficult, how can she take care of two dogs?

These aren't unreasonable questions. Was getting a second dog going to make finding housing more difficult? Probably. Would explaining that to her change the fact that she now had a puppy in her arms? No.

So what was our job in that moment? Was it to explain why having another dog might make her life more difficult? Or was it to continue building a relationship that might eventually result in both dogs being vaccinated, spayed or neutered, and receiving veterinary care? We chose the relationship.

Those of us doing outreach often think about the future. We see the barriers ahead and want to solve them. We may see permanent housing as the most important goal. But it may not be her most important goal today.

Accepting a situation for what it is doesn't mean agreeing with every decision someone makes. It means understanding that judgment doesn't get a dog vaccinated. An argument doesn't get a dog spayed or neutered. Telling someone what they should have done doesn't build the community trust to scale the number of spay and neuter surgeries needed to make a significant impact.

About a month ago, while doing outreach, we met Max and his owner, who is homeless. Max wasn’t neutered, so we explained...
08/25/2026

About a month ago, while doing outreach, we met Max and his owner, who is homeless. Max wasn’t neutered, so we explained that to receive ongoing free veterinary care through our program, he would need to be neutered. His owner wasn’t ready. He said no. We respected his decision and moved on.

A couple of weeks later, we saw them again. This time, something had changed. Max’s owner told us he was ready to have him neutered.

But when Dr. Hoffman examined Max, the plan changed again. Max was much older than his owner realized, and he was extremely thin. Before considering surgery, Dr. Hoffman wanted to know why. We ran bloodwork. Max is diabetic.

So the neuter is on hold. The priority now is getting Max stable and teaching his owner how to give him insulin, something he is willing to learn because he loves his dog and wants to take care of him. As of today, that’s where we are.

We talk a lot about the importance of spaying and neutering, and it is central to the work we do. But getting pets sterilized isn’t simply about scheduling surgeries. It’s about building relationships with people who may need time to trust us, time to make a decision, or help with something we never anticipated.

If we had looked at Max’s owner the first time he said no and decided that was the end of the story, we might never have discovered that Max was sick.

So the neuter is on hold. The priority now is getting Max stable and teaching his owner how to give him insulin, something he is willing to learn because he loves his dog and wants to take care of him. As of today, that’s where we are.

Because we run our own community pet clinic, we can take on cases like Max. When you become a monthly DDR clinic supporter, you are making a difference for pets that would likely not access the care that they need.

Benji and Max came to Downtown Dog Rescue to get neutered and vaccinated at our community clinic in Maywood. Their perso...
08/21/2026

Benji and Max came to Downtown Dog Rescue to get neutered and vaccinated at our community clinic in Maywood. Their person loved them enough to make the difficult decision to surrender them to DDR, knowing we could give them the care they needed and find them their next loving homes. Thanks to Honest Groomers in South Gate, they are feeling fresh and comfortable. Benji and Max are ready for adoption!

They've already been loved once. Now we're looking for the people who will love them for the rest of their lives. Please share and help us find Benji and Max their forever homes.

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