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CARE Southcoast

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Our Mission

CARE Southcoast is a volunteer-run, no-kill, 501c3 animal rescue/shelter servicing the Southcoast region of Massachusetts. All our dogs are in foster care, while cats can be visited at our shelter in Acushnet, MA. We also keep most kittens and some special needs cats in foster care. We focus our efforts on pets that wouldn’t do well in traditional shelters. Our mission extends to the Trap-Neuter-Release (TNR) of feral cats, training of dogs with behavioral challenges, and education to avoid rehoming of owned animals. 

What makes CARE unique is that our volunteers take in older animals, sick animals, and animals with behavioral issues that would not make it in a traditional shelter. CARE caters to the population of animals that others find not worthy of life. CARE sees the diamonds in the rough, the tail wags beneath the sad eyes, and rehabs the animals back to being happy, healthy, confident family pets who bring so much joy to their families. 

Along with our sheltering and adoption programs, CARE provides basic medical support to these same animals along with helping feral cats and low income folks who would not otherwise be able to keep their pets. In cases where people have found themselves temporarily homeless, we have provided shelter for their pets until they have been reunited with their owners. Most of these pets would have ended up on the streets or euthanized. Imagine losing your furry family member as well as your home!

On behalf of the homeless pets we have saved and continue to save, please accept our heartfelt gratitude and thanks. 

We hope you will support our mission of not giving up on any animal no matter how hopeless their situation may be. We are their voice when no one else is there.

Spotlight on Ruth Marshman, President of CARE Southcoast 

I started to rescue "professionally" in the 1990s, but have always rescued since I was a child. I would find animals and take them home. My mom would help me find their owners, and if we couldn't, we would just keep them. I used to find hunters' dogs in the woods after the hunters left them. The dogs used to have numbers on them that indicated who they belonged to, so I would call the owners and give them a strict talking to. As a child, when we adopted a dog, I would always pick out the scared one, the one hiding in the corner, because I just knew they needed someone. I guess you could say I always fought for the underdog, the one no one else wanted. I think I was born to rescue; it has always been a part of who I am and what I have done. 

The biggest reward is seeing these former cast-offs thriving and loved.

Adopt A Pet

CARE SOUTHCOAST
Tel.: 508-994-0220
email: Caresouthcoast1@gmail.com

Mailing address: 
CARE Southcoast, P.O. Box 149, E. Freetown, MA 02717

Shelter location: 197 Middle Road, Acushnet, MA

NOTE: CARE dogs are in foster homes and not located at our physical shelter.

Adoption Hours:  
Saturdays  10:00 - 12:30  and Wednesdays 6:00 - 8:00 PM

other hours by chance or by appointment

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