180 Degree Rescue is a 501c3 dog rescue dedicated to saving, raising, and training dogs and puppies for therapy and service. We are located in Virginia and partner with shelters across the East Coast to save dogs in need. Our primary focus is on saving pregnant dogs in shelters across VA and the East Coast, raising and socializing the mom and puppies in foster homes, and preparing them to be healthy, happy family pets, therapy pups, or service dogs. All puppies born or raised in care are trained according to Puppy Culture, a thorough training and socialization protocol that sets them up to be calm, confident adult dogs. All pets adopted from us will be UTD on vaccinations and preventative treatments, microchipped, and spayed/neutered prior to adoption. 180 Degree Rescue is currently located in Northern Neck, VA, and accepts foster parents from across the state.
We are "a best fit" rescue, this is not a first come first served process, this means two things; first is that we will go with the best application on an animal not necessarily the first received, and in the case of litters of puppies you may be approved for the litter, (we do our best to honor things, especially gender, or coat type if it is varied) but we do NOT adopt based solely on aesthetics of a puppy you see in a picture, we carefully raise and evaluate all puppies and work with approved adopters to place a puppy in the home that will best suit it. Sometimes there are several who would be acceptable, sometimes they are very clear who should go into what lifestyle. Service and working homes will ALWAYS take priority in a litter, if we select a specific puppy as having working potential and there is a service need they will have priority to accept that specific puppy. ALL adopters start with an application, please fill it out in its entirety. Once received, we process the application as fast as we are able to. Please be patient, we are all volunteers working around our lives, families, pets, and fosters. We process available pets more urgently than pets that may not be ready to go into homes. When processing please make sure your vet is aware and has permission to speak with us because we will call. Be aware we WILL call landlords/management companies, this is non-negotiable, if we cannot speak with your landlord your application will not be processed. When there is any further doubt we will likely call your personal references as well. We will ask a variety of questions to get a feel for how you are with your animals. Once all of that is done, we will call applicants who have passed all the other aspects and conduct phone interviews, we will ask various questions, discuss the animal's needs, etc. If all goes well, you are selected and agree to the placement, we will set up a meet and greet with the dog/puppy(ies) you have been selected for. If you get to this step, and all goes well, and no concerns are raised, you will be able to adopt that animal. Please note as it has come up before, we will not conduct multiple meet-and-greets on the same animal at the same time. If your pet is fully vetted and ready to go at the time of meet and greet, you will be able to bring your new furbaby home with you after filling out the contract and going over all information (please bring a collar and leash). If your pet is not yet ready to go home you will pre-adopt your baby at the meet-and-greet. We will go through the contract and fill it out, go over all information again, half of the adoption fee is due to hold your baby at the time of pre-adoption the other half is due when he or she is ready to be picked up.