Our mission is to rescue, rehabilitate, and provide sanctuary for unwanted poodles, poodle mixes, and other animals as resources allow and educate people in economical and cost effective ways to own, maintain, and feed their animals with true nutrition. Once these dogs have been properly rehabilitated and trained, our goal is to adopt these animals into appropriate, loving, and responsible \u201cforever\u201d homes.\u00a0 Our adopters are contracted to return adopted dogs if they can no longer care for them no matter what period of time has passed since the initial adoption.\u00a0 Our adopted dogs are non-transferrable.<\/p>\n
A FAIR CHANCE<\/strong><\/p>\n It is so easy to take in animals and adopt them out as fast as possible just to boast high adoption numbers.\u00a0 That is not what we are about.\u00a0 Although we would like to find the right home for each dog as fast as possible, we are true rescue and want the rescue cycle to end for each dog so we thoroughly screen to ensure a good match to people with appropriate experience.\u00a0\u00a0People feel comfortable relinquishing their animals to us and people prefer to adopt from us as we focus on quality adoptions\u00a0to ensure the adopters and adopted animals are a good match, we ask for veterinarian and groomer references as well as personal references.\u00a0 We physically go to each home the dog will be adopted to and perform fence checks where appropriate so we can ensure the dog is in a good environment.\u00a0 To help ensure our dogs have a good chance of meeting the goal of ending the rescue cycle, we are the first rescue organization that we know of that commits to having our adopted dogs already trained in basic obedience and pack leadership protocols, receive potty training, leash training, socialization with other animals and humans, and\u00a0training instruction to their new owners with ongoing support and consultation for the lifetime of the adopted dogs.\u00a0 Also, before all dogs are adopted to their new homes, they are\u00a0brought up-to-date on their rabies, distemper combo, and bordatella vaccinations, heartworm tested, spayed or neutered and other necessary and immediate medical procedures performed as resources allow.\u00a0 We have been operating this way since our creation in 2009.\u00a0 We fall under\u00a0Georgia Poodle Club Incorporated and are the first breed club that is rescue based as opposed to breeder based.\u00a0We do\u00a0not discriminate against mixed poodle breeds as it\u00a0is not the dogs fault they were bred that way, and they, too, are loving dogs, that need true rescue to find them a forever home.\u00a0 Many of our dogs come from families who\u00a0purchased these dogs from breeders with AKC and CKC and other certification.\u00a0\u00a0Dogs do not need certification to be wonderful dogs, especially since we have noticed that many dogs coming with their certification are not all bred to the same standards.\u00a0 Unless the certifying\u00a0body begins to police the certification they administer to ensure the breeders are breeding dogs to certain standards then really ask yourselves what good is that certification?\u00a0We have many certified and uncertified dogs coming through our rescue that are absolutely wonderful and that we find good homes for.<\/p>\n Deborah Blatchley, CEO and Founder<\/p>\n Board<\/strong>:\u00a0 Deborah Blatchley, Counsel David Geiger, Laura Rosa.<\/p>\n Advisory Board<\/strong>:\u00a0 Counsel Victoria Hoffman, Counsel Thomas Wynne<\/p>\n ADOPTION PROCESS<\/strong><\/p>\n The process for adopting one of our poodles or mixes begins with completing our application amd only\u00a0 returning it as an email attachment and submitting a non-refundable $20 \u201capplication fee\u201d via PayPal.\u00a0 We do not accept paper copies of applications.\u00a0 The application will be reviewed when Paypal notifies us of receipt of the application fee.\u00a0 The adoption amount varies for each dog and is listed by each dog\u2019s profile.\u00a0 The adoption amount helps offset the food, nutritional, medical and other costs we incur amongst all our dogs.\u00a0 All dogs are spayed\/neutered, given vaccines, tested for heartworm, treated for worms, treated for injuries and illnesses when necessary, given dentals\/tooth extractions if needed and are treated for infections, allergies, and other things, if needed.\u00a0 Serious medical problems are also treated, which may result in going to specialists and operating, if necessary.<\/p>\n Our application is thorough in that it will ask you many questions about your lifestyle, your ownership experience, the type of animal you seek, and the lifestyle you intend to provide the animal you seek to adopt from us.\u00a0 Once your application is received and your application fee\u00a0is received via Paypal, the application will be reviewed.\u00a0 When the application is initially approved, you will then be contacted, sometimes with further questions, and if appropriate, to schedule a meet and greet with the dog usually in Milton, GA.\u00a0 \u00a0This has always been a fun session.\u00a0 ALL family members that reside in the household, which includes any dog family members, must be present for the meet and greet.\u00a0 After the meet and greet, we ask that you send us an email letting us know your thoughts.\u00a0 This way there is no pressure and no obligation for you to commit and adopt on the spot if the situation is not right.\u00a0 At this point we will begin contacting the references for all the people interested in the same animal.\u00a0 The adopter(s) chosen to adopt any dog(s) from Georgia Poodle Rescue are required to sign our standard adoption agreement, which the application also becomes part of, stating they will provide proper care and love for the animal as well as other details, including returning the animal to us for any reason after any length of time if they could no longer keep the animal.<\/p>\n We encourage you to return the application, even if you don\u2019t see the poodle or mix you are seeking, so we can place you on our waiting list and contact you when the dog you seek comes into our program.\u00a0 We are always receiving new dogs, calls from people who can no longer keep their dogs, and may know of someone else or another organization who has a dog that you seek and can also refer you to them if we have your application on file.\u00a0 We have provided 100% of the people formerly on our waiting list with a wonderful family member!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Georgia Poodle Rescue is a legal entity formed under Georgia Poodle Club Incorporated and licensed in January 2009. We are a licensed and permitted Georgia non-profit corporation located in the new city of Milton, Georgia, formerly known as Alpharetta unincorporated.\u00a0 We are licensed by the state, by the city, by the Dept of Agriculture and receive inspections by the state and county.<\/p>\n We were created to rescue, rehabilitate, and provide sanctuary for unwanted poodles, poodle mixes, and other animals as resources allow. Once these poodles have been properly rehabilitated and trained, our goal is to adopt them into appropriate, loving, and responsible \u201cforever\u201d homes located in the state of Georgia.\u00a0 We vet, vaccinate, spay\/neuter all animals within two weeks of them arriving as long as they are medically fit to undergo the surgery.\u00a0 Our policy requires us to conduct meet and greets with the dogs and their potential new owners at their home.\u00a0 We do not adopt out of state.\u00a0 Also, we do not adopt to families with children under the age of 10 for the safety of the children and for the safety of the dogs.<\/p>\n We do the work for you!<\/strong>\u00a0 We are looking for a certain lifestyle for the dogs we adopt out.\u00a0 We want our adopted dogs to be adopted into their forever homes on the first adoption and not be bounced around from home to home, as they are already coming from at least three to four different places by the time they come to us (the home they came from, another home, an animal control or other facility, our shelter and your home.).\u00a0 We do everything we possibly can to help ensure our dogs receive a good chance of being adopted into their \u201cforever\u201d homes.\u00a0 We are the first rescue organization that we know of that commits to providing ALL<\/strong> of the following to dogs adopted from us:\u00a0 training in a home environment in basic obedience, socialization, housetraining and acclimation to a home environment, how to walk on a leash, pack leadership protocols (with instructions to the lucky new owners), up-to-date vaccinations, spaying\/neutering, and microchipping.\u00a0 Adoption amounts can range up to $500 per dog, with an occasional dog outside this price range, which allows our organization to be able to pay our very high expenses, continue feeding, housing, training and providing medical and nutritional care for the poodles, especially for those poodles that will most likely be with us for the rest of their lives due to their age or other issues.\u00a0 The adoption amount also includes a free one-year membership in Georgia Poodle Club Incorporated and lifetime discounted dog boarding at the exclusive Blue Willow Farm as space allows.\u00a0 All dogs are in a home environment and are allowed to run and play outside in the sunshine and on real grass several times per day and evening.<\/p>\n If you are unable to adopt from us at this point in time, we greatly accept all donations, no matter how small or large, to help our organization continue helping the poodles.<\/p>\n Our shelter stays small with the number of dogs we take in. \u00a0That said, we are always in need of good foster homes (short term, very short term, or long term) that meet our guidelines, and in need of monetary donations, donations of blankets, towels, paper towels, Odo-Ban (gallon size and full spray bottle available at Sams Club or Home Depot for under $10), laundry detergent, large and small kennels and runs, toys, healthy treats, volunteers, gift cards to WalMart (Food, Garbage Bags, Paper Towels, Laundry Detergent, Towels), Home Depot & Lowes (20x20x1 Air Filters, Construction Supplies For Ongoing Maintenance of the Kennel), Sam’s Club (OdoBan), Costco (Kirkland Grain Free Dog Food), gas cards (as we do a lot of driving),\u00a0auto stores,\u00a0and much more. to help us out, especially at our events.\u00a0 We are also in the process of forming various committees and are looking for people to help lead, manage, and volunteer on these committees.\u00a0 If you are interested or have any thoughts to help out, please contact us at georgiapoodlerescue@gmail.com<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n Our full contact information is:\u00a0 email at georgiapoodlerescue@gmail.com<\/a> , phone at 678-624-0444, and US mail at 12850 Hwy9N, Suite 600-230, Alpharetta, GA 30004. \u00a0Our phone number is not to be used to ask questions about the dogs or other questions. \u00a0That information can be found on our web site. \u00a0Our phone is for people needing to give us their dogs. \u00a0It is only for them. \u00a0Do not leave questions about dogs on our phone line.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n <\/p>\n WHERE DO YOUR DONATIONS GO?<\/strong><\/p>\n We rely on your donations to continually allow us to be able to rescue new dogs and to care for our existing dogs, some of which will most likely be permanent residents due to their age and\/or other conditions.<\/p>\n You can control exactly where your donation is applied by your specific instructions to us.\u00a0 All other donations are applied to the costs of running a rescue and shelter, which include veterinarian medical care and supplies (spay\/neuter, vaccinations, exams, emergency fees), nutritional care and supplies (food-we use kibble and the raw meaty bones diet as well as make our own home-made and healthy nutritional food for the dogs), kennels, stainless steel bowls and holders for food and water, healthy water, rescue efforts and fees, grooming, training, utilities (electric, water, web site maintenance and development, internet, phone), transportation, licensing, phone, and much more.<\/p>\n Our dogs are not yard dogs. \u00a0Poodles do not want to be outside by themselves and it is not fair to keep them outside all day long. \u00a0Our dogs go outside to play and potty several times per day (as they would in a home environment). \u00a0We have much property for the dogs to run around and have fun on, however, we want to expand our private, shelter building by raising funds to increase our indoor space and also have a space for the dogs to run around in indoors, especially during inclement weather.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 As such, we are always in need of funding, food, other types of donations, good foster homes and volunteers to help us out at our adoptions, fundraisers, grantwriting, grant researching, and other events.\u00a0 We are also in the process of forming various committees and are looking for people to help lead, manage, and volunteer on these committees.<\/p>\n YOU ARE NEEDED AS A VOLUNTEER<\/strong><\/p>\n Won’t you help the poodles by donating your time in fostering, volunteering, donating food, and\/or funding?\u00a0\u00a0 The poodles are relying on you!<\/p>\n You can contact us via email at georgiapoodlerescue@gmail.com<\/a> , via phone (phone is for people giving us their dogs only) at 678-624-0444, and via US mail at 12850 Hwy9N, #600-230, Alpharetta, GA 30004.<\/p>\n Thank you for leading the way in caring and making a difference in the lives of these poodles and poodle mixes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Georgia Poodle Rescue is registered in the state of Georgia as operating\u00a0 under Georgia Poodle Club Incorporated. 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