RESCUED PETS MOVEMENT

Each week, Rescued Pets Movement saves hundreds of animals from area shelters, often from the euthanasia list. We have saved over 100,000 lives since our founding in 2013. With your help, RPM makes new beginnings possible for homeless pets throughout Houston. Volunteer, foster, or donate today to help us continue our lifesaving work!

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What does Rescued Pets Movement do?

Why does RPM transport dogs and cats outside of Houston?

Why is there a demand for adoptable pets in other parts of the US?

What does RPM need most to continue saving lives?

What happens when there is an overpopulation of homeless animals?

Why can’t these pets find forever homes in Houston?

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How Rescued Pets Movement Works

Each year, tens of thousands of animals enter Houston area shelters. With most animal shelters and other animal welfare organizations operating at capacity (and overcapacity), RPM has been crucial in dramatically reducing the number of animals euthanized each year at BARC (Houston’s City Shelter). We achieve this by transporting homeless animals to areas of the U.S. where there is a demand for adoptable pets.

Rescued Pets Movement works every day to impact the lives of countless cats and dogs. We celebrated our 10th anniversary in September 2023!

Rescued Pets Movement provides
love, transport, and second chances.

Rescued Pets Movement gives homeless pets a second chance at life by, sometimes literally, pulling them from death row at area shelters. Once saved and in loving short-term foster homes, these pets receive essential rehabilitation and medical care. RPM partners with reputable animal welfare organizations in areas across the United States where there is a high demand for adoptable pets. Each week, we transport animals to our partners, where they are adopted into forever homes.

Our model is simple – The Greater Houston Metropolitan area has a very high number of homeless pets needing homes. Sadly, there are not enough homes here for all of the homeless animals in need. We rescue Houston’s homeless animals from shelters and send them to other parts of the U.S., where loving families are waiting to adopt animals. And it works! We drive hundreds of thousands of miles each year to bring homeless pets to their forever homes in places like Colorado and Virginia. With your help, we can continue our lifesaving work.

Help Us Continue Our Lifesaving Work!

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Your Donations Make A Difference!

Over 100,000 animals saved since our founding in 2013

Millions of miles driven each year

Average of 266 Pets Transported each week

$150 – Transportation cost for one homeless pet

$455 – Average total cost for medical care and transport for one homeless pet

Have items to donate? Here are lists of what we need and what we currently have enough of right now! Click HERE to see a PDF of both lists.

What We Need

Baby wipes
Bath towels/beach towels (used is fine, but must be clean and dry)
Batteries (unused in package)
Beds (dog & cat, used is fine, but must be clean and dry)
Blankets (used is fine, but must be clean and dry)
Bleach
Bottles (for puppies or kittens)
Calming treats and supplements
Car seat covers
Caribiners
Cat carriers
Cat food (dry kibble or wet/canned)
Cat litter (non-clumping preferred for our clinic, but other types also accepted for our foster families)
Cat toys
Chew toys
Churu
Cleaning supplies
Crates
Dental chews
Digital scales (for weighing pets)
Dog crates/kennels (pop up/wire)
Dog food (dry kibble or wet/canned)
Emergency flashlights
Exercise pens
Extension cords
Flea combs
Flea prevention
Food (dog and cat, wet and dry)
Grocery bags
Grooming scissors
Hand gloves (medical or cleaning)
Hand soap
Hand towels (used is fine, but must be clean and dry)
Heating discs
Heating pads
Kiddie swimming pools (plastic)
Kitten food (dry kibble or wet/canned)
Kongs
Laundry detergent
Lint rollers
Litter boxes (thoroughly cleaned and in good shape, or new)
Miracle nipples (for bottle feeding)
Microchip scanners
Odor neutralizer
Paper towels
Peanut butter (without birch sugar or xylitol)
Pee pads
Pill pockets
Playpens
Potty pads
Puppy food (dry kibble or wet/canned)
Puppy pads
Rescue sanitizing spray
Sanitizing wipes
Scrubbers (for cleaning)
Sharpies/permanent markers
Sheets (used is fine, but must be clean and dry)
Slip leads
Sponges
Syringes (new, unopened, for medicine)
Tape (medical)
Tarps for outdoors
Thermometers (new only)
Toilet paper
Toothbrushes (new only)
Towels (used is fine, but must be clean and dry)
Toys (meant for pets)
Training pads
Trash bags (all sizes needed)
Treats
Waste bag dispensers
Wipes (baby wipes, pet wipes)
Ziploc bags (all sizes needed)

Not Needed Right Now

Automatic feeders
Batters (used or open)
Bedding (thick comforters)
Belly bands
Bitter apple spray (anti-chew deterrent)
Bottled water (for volunteers)
Bowls (food and water)
Can openers (manual or electric)
Car seats (pets)
Carpet cleaners
Cat condos
Cat trees/scratch posts
Climbing trees
Collars
Conditioner (pets)
Collapsible bowls
Diapers (pets)
Dog booties/shoes
Dog clothes and accessories
Dog houses
Dryer sheets
Ear cleaner
Elevated feeding stations
Expired pet medication
Food (expired/opened bags) *** We accept opened food and give it out to street feeders, but this is not an item RPM directly uses
Fountains (water)
Frisbees
Gauze (medical)
Grooming spray
Grooming tables
Leashes
LED collars or tags
Lime dip
Litter scoopers
Mats (feeding)
Medicine (prescription)
Muzzles
Outdoor cat houses
Outdoor dog beds
Pet ramps
Pet strollers
Pet toothbrushes
Pet toothpaste
Pet wheelchcairs
Pillows
Portable water bowls
Prescription diet food
Prescription pill bottles
Puzzle games
Rawhide bones
Scratching posts
Shampoo (pets)
Shed control products
Snuffle mats
Stain removers
Supplements
Tennis balls
Toys (meant for kids)
Training clickers
Vitamins
Water bowls
Water hoses
Whistles
Window perches