Meet the Team Behind: Animal Rescue Corps

Animal Rescue Corps protects dogs, cats, and other domesticated animals through large-scale animal rescue, disaster response, shelter relief, education, and training. They turn compassion into action to ensure all animals are cared for in emergency situations. Learn more about their work here! 

Can you tell me about the need for your work? 

In today’s world, animals are suffering from cruelty and neglect in places that lack the resources to help them. The mistreatment of animals is one of the most pressing moral issues of our time. Many regions don’t have animal services or shelters, and others are already stretched thin with resources. To help fix this, we work to end animal suffering through direct action and to inspire the highest ethical standards of humanity towards animals. In practice, that means we conduct emergency rescues for animals who are victims of abuse and disaster, we offer interventions to move animals into high-adoption regions, and we raise awareness about animal suffering. 

What do your programs entail? 

Our large-scale rescue efforts save animals from natural disasters, dangerous puppy mills, hoarding situations, animal fighting rings, and more. Many shelters in this country are overcrowded, leaving animals with little hope of finding their forever homes. Our shelter relief program takes animals from these overburdened shelters and cares for them until they are matched with our broad network of vetted placement partners in high-adoption regions. Education is a major aspect of our programs— we raise public awareness around the plight of animals through solutions-based education. 

What kind of work do you do outside of rescuing and relocating animals? 

To expand on our rescue and protection work, we conduct investigations into animal cruelty, document all evidence, create detailed medical findings, and provide expert testimony in trials. To help crowded animal shelters, we provide food, supplies, and send volunteers to assist in crisis situations. We also offer training to law enforcement, shelter professionals, civilians, and volunteers to teach them how to effectively, safely, and responsibly bring animal aid to their own communities. We work alongside government agencies, law enforcement, animal protection agencies, and communities to confront abuse cases head-on, ensuring that animal abuse ends here. 

What are some of your success stories?

Operation Harvest Moon rescues over 140 dogs from a home in Florida where a backyard breeder was selling dogs online. The owner was arrested on hundreds of counts of animal cruelty, and all of the dogs were taken into ARC’s medical care where they safely recovered. During Operation Cruel Confines, we rescued 109 chickens, 59 dogs, 3 cats, 2 turkeys, and 2 rabbits from a property in Tennessee where they had been kept in small, unsanitary cages. We worked with our partner Redemption Road Rescue to give medical exams and help match the animals into forever homes. Operation Countdown was an ARC rescue mission that saved 23 puppies from severely neglectful conditions at a trailer park. All of the animals were given medical exams and were transported to trusted shelters and rescue partners that adopted them into loving homes.