River City Chihuahua Rescue

River City Chihuahua Rescue

(RCCR)

Link to adoption application at the bottom of this page
Copy and paste application to email back to us please

Our Adoptable Pet List

Adopted pets and their Happy Tails!




Please help by voting for River City Chihuahua Rescue in The Animal Rescue Site's shelter contest! Just put in River City Chihuahua Rescue and MO for the state We can help so many dogs with this money! Please vote, you can do it once each day.

Upcoming Adoption Events



Upcoming Adoption Events


**We are working hard to get more dogs on line
before this adoption event.
We have a variety of small breed dogs and a few puppies
who are available but not yet online... usually a photography issue!






Saturday, November 21, 2009
10 am - 2 pm
Kirkwood Petco
1125 South Kirkwood Road
Kirkwood, MO 63022
314-822-2997




Sunday, November 22, 2009
10 am - 2 pm
Kirkwood Petco
1125 South Kirkwood Road
Kirkwood, MO 63022
314-822-2997


If you live near or are
willing to come to the St. Louis
area, we can usually make arrangements for you to
meet dogs between adoption events. We will need
to have an application in hand before a meeting takes
place. We check our email several times a day!




Adopted from us?

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Meet Our Featured Pet- Sherry




Sherry would like you to know that although her life up to this point has been like a sad country song, she's looking forward to a brighter future. Sherry came to us with Emily the Pomeranian on cold, rainy night last October. She was in a cardboard box with a log on it to keep it closed stuck in the back of a pick up truck with a light camper shell. Her owner, a real winner of a backyard breeder, was in jail and thankfully someone was feeding the dogs "nearly every day". Gee, what a wonderful world for these girls, eh?

Enough of the country song though. Now highfalutin, Sherry wants to tell the world that she knows she was rescued and is grateful for for the second chance. She's hoping that you might like to be her forever parent. She's a smooth coat Chihuahua that is black with a bit of white and is a bigger girl at about 12 pounds. She'd like to point out that she is not fat; this is just a characteristic of puppy mill breeding. However, she has excellent table and potty manners despite being raised in a barn. (Remember getting yelled at for that when you were younger?) She is a girl you would be proud to take places!

The adoption fee for Sherry is $200. Each of our dogs is up to date on all shots, including rabies, spayed or neutered, microchipped, fecal tested for internal parasites, treated if necessary, tested for heartworm, treated if necessary, on heartworm preventative and we also take care of dentals or any other medical needs they may have.




If you are unable to make a monetary donation, we are now collecting used ink cartidges and unwanted cell phones. We will have a receptacle at our adoption events. We receive a small amount for each one that will help our dogs. We are grateful for any and all donations to our organization. Every little bit helps!

Who We Are

In August, 2006, we branched off from a long association with Chihuahua Rescue and Transport in order to have a more local focus. We love CRT and are modeling ourselves after the high standards of that wonderful organization. You may have noticed that we have also branched out from chihuahuas. As we were doing shelter pulls, it became harder and harder to pull chihuahuas for rescue and leave behind other small breed dogs that we knew were highly adoptable. So we started taking them also. Chihuahuas are first in our hearts but we have been very successful in finding wonderful homes for doxies, miniature pinschers and various terriers. If we have the means, the desire and the drive to rescue them as well, how could we not? I guess we should start calling ourselves River City Canine Rescue.

River City Chihuahua Rescue (RCCR) is a non-profit, voluntary organization. We have no paid employees. We are a local, internet-based organization dedicated to the rescue, medical care and adoption of stray and homeless small breed dogs in need. We help control the growing overpopulation by spaying and neutering all dogs in our care. We provide all necessary veterinary treatment and place them in foster homes until they are adopted into forever homes. Whenever possible, RCCR also raises public awareness regarding the abuse and neglect of small breed dogs as well as overpopulation caused by not spaying and neutering.

Come visit our store on CafePress to support our little dogs!

Adopting a dog from RCCR - The Process

All of our dogs are in fostered in our homes. They are fed premium dog food, temperament tested, altered, vaccinated, heartworm tested, on monthly heartworm preventive, and fecal tested prior to adoption.

RCCR does not adopt out dogs on a first come, first serve basis. Because we want this to be a permanent adoption, we will place the dog in the home best suited for him/her. We can not hold dogs for homes that are not ready to adopt yet or have not yet been approved.

RCCR is 100% spay/neuter prior to adoption. We do NOT make exceptions so please do not ask. If we have puppies available, they will not be available to go to an adoptive home until they are spayed or neutered.

Here's what you need to do...

  • Please access our adoption application at the bottom of this page.

    • We check your personal and vet references that are given on your online adoption application

    • A home visit is scheduled for your family. A home visit involves a rescue volunteer coming to your home and visiting with you. All family members and pets must be present at the time of the visit. If you refuse a home visit, your application will be declined.

    • Your information is submitted to the coordinator, foster home and Board of Directors for a decision. Based upon your application, home visit, and references the Board of Directors will either approve or decline your application for adoption.

    • If you are approved, we will require you to sign an adoption contract and pay an adoption fee. Please see our application for the adoption fee schedule.

    Adoption Application - Having Trouble? See below

    If you receive an error message while accessing our application via google docs, please send a blank email to: rccr.app@gmail.com to our application email address rccr.app@gmail.com and you will get an automated response containing our application. You can fill it in and hit reply and send to: rivercityrescue@gmail.com and we will respond as soon as possible.

    Adoption Application

    Interested in Volunteering with RCCR?

    We would love to have your help! We need volunteers to help foster, transport, conduct home visits, help with fund-raising, contact shelters, and much, much more. Every little bit helps! Please access the volunteer application from Google Docs to tell us about yourself and your interests.

    Volunteer Application

    Please copy and paste the application to fill it out then return via email.


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    Your New Chihuahua

    Our Wish List

    VERY SPECIAL THANKS



    River City Chihuahua Rescue

    River City Chihuahua Rescue is a non-profit organization in the state of Missouri with 501(c)3 status through our association with Rescue Alliance of Hairless & Other Breeds, Inc., a nationwide 501(c)3 non-profit animal rescue organization. We have no paid employees. We are dedicated to rescue, adoption and the medical care of stray and homeless small breed dogs in need, and to help control the growing overpopulation through spaying and neutering all dogs in our care.

    Email: Rivercityrescue@gmail.com

    Click here for a list of wonderful little dogs available for adoption