Ruff Ruff! My name is Wembley

We are an all-Volunteer run organization with no paid Members and NO FACILITY. We have been rescuing small breed dogs in Southern California since 2005 and have been in rescue for over 11 years and rely solely on foster homes.

OCPoundHounds focus is to rescue small, apartment-sized dogs, usually under 12 lbs, from local “High Kill” shelters in Southern California, mostly who are on the euthanasia lists for minor medical issues (kennel cough, urinary and/or respiratory tract infections, skin allergies, demodex mange), cruelty and/or neglect cases, or just because the shelter is over-crowded and has to make space for incoming dogs.

OCPoundhounds rescues small dogs they feel have the best opportunity for being rehabilitated and re-homed with “Homes-For-Life” by dog-parents committed to giving an OCPoundhound a forever home, usually a 10 to 15 year commitment.

Once we rescue a dog. we specialize in socializing, positive reinforcement behaviour training and meeting all medical needs while in our care. We keep a dog in our rescue organization for as long as it takes for us to make the right placement match between the dog and the adoptive pet parents.

The adoption donation which is asked for a rescued OCPoundHound, cash and gift donations are 100% tax deductible.

These pay for a dog’s veterinary care, such as spay and/or neuter, dentals, vaccinations, micro-chipping, shelter fees and other medical care, such as kennel cough, flea/tick infestations, demodex mange and various other illnesses like parvo, distemper, and injuries, which need extensive and multiple veterinary visits. Some of our rescued dogs coming out of the shelter system need hundreds, even thousands, of dollars worth of veterinary care to make them adoptable. 100% of the Adoption Donation requested is used for our rescues. Some need less care and others are more medically-involved.

Owner Surrendered dogs, are very, very rarely accepted, and are reviewed on a case-by-case basis. We believe owning a dog is a life-long commitment, but there are always extenuating circumstances. Owner-surrendered dogs have to be spayed or neutered and vaccinated before being accepted by OCPoundHounds to assist with placement.

A surrender fee is asked in these cases. Taking an Owner Surrendered dog means a Shelter Dog has to give his or her life.

Not all dogs attend the Meet & Greet so check to make sure the dog in which you are interested will be attending

We require that our adopters are 25 years or older to adopt one of our rescued dogs.

Our adoption process works as follows:

Download (print off) and complete an application for adoption that can be found on our website;

Submit the application by scanning and e-mailing OR by bringing with you to a Meet & Greet event;

Your application will be reviewed and if we feel there is a potential match a telephone interview will be conducted. If the telephone interview determines there is a good match we will check veterinarian, grooming and personal references provided on the application;

If the references are positive, we then arrange a Meet & Greet with all members of the family (and other dogs) at a neutral location;

If the Meet & Greet is successful, we then arrange for the 10-day in-home adoption trial to start. We recommend these start on a Friday evening to give you the weekend to adjust with your new family member;

After 10 days the adoption is evaluated, and if successful, the adoption is finalized. At this time all medical and vaccination information we have on the dog while in our care is transferred.

Each of our dogs have different adoption donation requests. This is a tax deductible donation that can be written off your taxes at the end of the year as a charitable deduction. This donation covers some of the veterinary / medical costs for the dogs, housing, food, board, flea prevention, micro-chipping and transportation, just to mention a few things.

We are an all-volunteer run organization who have full-time, regular employment and run the rescue in the hours left over in our day. We do not conduct individual dog previews. Please check our website for our Meet & Greets dates and locations.

Our dogs are not adopted out from Meet & Greets, and we do not place on a First Come, First Served basis.

We adopt out on the principle of what home is the best home for that dog, from what we determine by knowing the dog, his/her personality and learning about the lifestyle of the family interested in adopting .