Animal Shelter Relief

ASR is an ALL-VOLUNTEER, 501 (c)(3) non-profit, charitable animal rescue. We were founded by three former open-door animal shelter employees in 2008 because at the time, there were no rescue groups in the Santa Cruz area devoted to rescuing the types of animals that our experience taught us needed extra help to be adopted. We are proud to partner with our local animal shelters to relieve overcrowding and reduce euthanasia. One of ASR's achievements is that we rescue hundreds of bottle baby kittens every kitten season. We also rescue special needs animals, check out some of their stories on our website! ASR does not have a brick and mortar animal shelter, therefore all of our animals are in loving foster homes, until they find they are adopted. Because no one at ASR receives a salary, this is truly a labor of love for our team of volunteers.