The First Step Rescue - Downers Grove Pet Shelter

The First Step Rescue is a 501c3 non-profit organization dedicated to caring for homeless small breed dogs in our communities through adoptions, cruelty investigations, community awareness, fostering and caring for companion animals until loving homes can be found. We are a "Wall Less" shelter and our organization is run by folks who generously volunteer their time, homes and hearts in order to help. Through our foster care program dogs will have a safe, healthy "place to be" until they can return to their loving homes or new ones can be found for them. We are also big in educating the public on how to find their lost dogs in our county taking a pro-active approach. “For Every Lost Dog We Get Back Home to Its Family.. Is One More That Can Be Saved, Rescued and Adopted"

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  • Downers Grove, IL
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  • Contact eMail
  • thefirststeprescue@sbcglobal.net
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