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OCPoundhounds Small Breed Rescue Canada

PO Box 801, Barriere, BC V0E 1E0

Contact Dori McRae
Email adopt@pommycountry.org
Phone
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Areas OCPoundhounds Small Breed Rescue Canada serves

North Thompson region of BC, Canada. This area includes Kamloops, Barriere and the surrounding areas.

OCPoundhounds Small Breed Rescue Canada's adoption process

Additional adoption info

ADOPTING an OCPoundhound:

1. Print off and complete an application for adoption that can be found on our web site; www.ocpoundhounds.com

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

3. 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;



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

5. If the Meet & Greet is successful, we then arrange for an in-home adoption trial to start. These normally start on a Friday evening;

6. After 10 days the adoption is evaluated and if successful the adoption is finalized.

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 after hours. Therefore we do not do 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 . will then be the proud Pet Parent of an OCPoundhound!

We rarely place dogs with someone who is renting their residence. Our adoption restrictions have developed over time, and are a result of many years of working in the rescue world. We’re contacted regularly by people who desperately want to surrender their dogs to us because they rent and their Landlord no longer wants pets on the premises, or they are moving and cannot take their dog with them to their new residence. Hundreds of dogs are euthanized weekly in California shelters due to similar circumstances

About OCPoundhounds Small Breed Rescue Canada

Headquartered in Orange County, CA our small breed rescue group is local and independently managed by a small group of dedicated volunteers. We DO NOT have a central shelter location where people can see our dogs. The rescued OCPoundhounds live as Family Members until adopted. We specialize in identifying small breed dogs from the local high-kill shelters in LA City and County and the Inland Empire area. Our outstanding team has been extremely successful at identifying dogs on the shelter euthanasia lists to rescue and place successfully in forever homes in the Orange County and BC communitie.

We partner with PommyCountry in Kamloops, BC to assist with helping Chihuahuas and other small breed dogs which are available in overwhelming numbers in Southern CA and are regularly euthanized due to new homes, get a new leash on life in Canada where they are not so abundant.

We do not have a shelter location. Our dogs live in private foster-homes while they wait for their furever homes.

We are a registered Federal and California recognized 501(c) 3 non-profit organization. All adoption fees requested for our dogs are 100% tax-deductible and are used to pay for shelter fees, spay/neuters, vaccinations and other medical needs, both minor and major. We rely on tax-deductible donations from the public and business organizations to fund more major medical care our rescued poundhounds, and to purchase supplies.

Donations of dog crates (wire, hard and soft-sided), beds and grooming supplies are much appreciated, as are monetary donations, which can be donated on our website through PayPal.

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