Contact Us

For urgent matters, please call us at (209)425-2827.

Otherwise, send us an email at info@betterworldrescue.org

OWNER SURRENDERS: Please be advised that we will offer you assistance to either help you keep the animal in your home or else to find a new home directly from your home or that of friend/family. We do NOT take owned animals directly into foster care, though we can post to look for a foster for you. As much as we would like to help, we do not have enough existing fosters to keep up with the animals being euthanized with our local shelter partners. Our shelters are in crisis and for every 100 dogs that we are asked to help, we have approximately 1 foster. Be sure to send cute pictures of the animal you need help rehoming as well as their good and bad attributes. Common questions we need answers for are if they are good with other dogs, kids, and/or cats. 


SPAY/NEUTER: If you would like to sign up for our low-cost spay/neuter program, please email us with the following information:

= Your Phone Number:
– Animal Name:
– Cat or Dog: 
– Gender:
– Animal Description (Breed):
– Coat Colors:
– Approximate Age:
– Approximate Weight: 
– Current on DAPV2 (dogs) or FVRCP (cats)
Note: these vaccines are 4 shots as kittens/puppies and then ANNUALLY as adults)
– Current on annual rabies vaccines?
– Microchipped?
– For Dogs: typical behavior at vet
Note: We don’t exclude ill-behaved animals but we need to know what to expect so we can best schedule/prepare


STRAY DOGS: Please work with animal control for any stray dogs you have found. It is illegal to rehome a stray dog without serving a stray hold where every conceivable effort is made to find owner. This includes animals that appear to be neglected or abused – these especially need to be reported to animal control. If they are severely injured or sick we will work with animal control to pull them immediately. The stray hold STARTS when you contact animal control and file a found report for the dog. Animal control can best advise how long the stray hold is for your jurisdiction.