About TLC Animal Rescue, PR

 
Our Mission is to provide a safe, caring refuge for animals; to ensure quality adoptive homes; To advocate for their welfare through compassion, education, creative solutions and a passion for the human-animal bond.

We serve as a model for animal rescues worldwide. Today the relationship between humankind and animals is guided by compassion. Pet overpopulation and animal cruelty is being   reduced through animal welfare legislation, education of responsible pet ownership; rescue, adoption, non-euthanasia and mandatory spay/neuter policies.

TLC Animal Rescue, serving Puerto Rico, and Florida was established in 2008 and is run solely by volunteers through the generous help of our supporters and their donations.

We are here for the welfare of homeless animals. Our priority is to facilitate the rescue and adoption of stray, abandoned, neglected, abused, and surrendered animals and to place them into permanent, loving homes. In the interim, we will provide appropriate foster and veterinary care, proper nourishment, and give them plenty of love and attention.

We will support and conduct education and informational activities to increase public awareness of pet overpopulation, increase concern and promote responsibility as well as promote spay and neuter thru education and other activities.

Adopting a pet from TLC Animal Rescue, PR is easy! Simply fill out our adoption application, meet with one of our adoption counselors, and then take your new furry friend home. Our adoption fees are affordable and cover the cost of spaying/neutering, vaccinations, and microchipping.

TLCARPR can only rescue animals in need if we have foster homes to place them in until they are adopted. We provide all food and vet care while in your care.  You provide a safe home & love. Foster homes could be short term (couple days) or long term until they find their new home. Every minute counts to a death row or homeless animal. 

Why Foster?

TLCARPR does not have a physical shelter. All of the animals in our care stay in foster homes until adopted by their forever family. We can only help as many animals as we have space for in a foster home. Our foster homes are always full, sometimes past full. When rescues are full, homeless animals have no place else to go but the local kill shelter. County shelters do not have the option to be "no-kill", and when they get full, pets are euthanized to make room for new ones coming in. Fostering buys the pet time until their forever family comes along. 

What does fostering involve?

Pet foster parents are very much like child foster parents. They care for a homeless pet as if he was their own until he is adopted. Shelter environments can be extremely stressful for dogs. It is much more comfortable for them to stay in a home environment. They are able to get more individualized care in someone's home. It also gives them better socialization skills, which makes them a more well-adjusted pet. Also, the foster parent is able to learn about the pet's personality, likes, and dislikes so that he can be better matched to the right forever home. Most importantly, pet foster parents save lives! 

We will match you with a suitable pet to foster. For example, if you have a female dog who does not get along with other females, we will only have you foster male dogs. If you work full time and cannot care for young puppies, we will only have you foster adults.  We rescue very young puppies, pregnant or nursing mothers, sick or injured, senior, etc., but we cannot save them without an available foster home.