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Rocket Dog Rescue is a voluntary nonprofit organization based in San Francisco, California, devoted to pet adoption and animal rescue. This is the most prominent of some local private organizations that rescue dogs from euthanasia by taking care of them and finding new families. The program places dogs from animal shelters in the San Francisco Bay Area into an orphanage while awaiting adoption. It also treats medical and behavioral issues such as socialization issues, neuter and animal spays, and provides vaccines, thus making their animals adoptable.
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History
The organization was founded by Pali Boucher, daughter of a hippie mom and Paul Boucher, director of the San Francisco KSAN radio station program (formerly "Jive 95"; now 107.7, "Bone"). Pali is a victim of HIV and a former adopted child and a drug addict whose mother died when she was ten years old. After being homeless for more than ten years, he adopted an abandoned coonhound dog from a local dog pound. He named him Leadbelly and stayed with him on the road for a few more years. After spending six months in prison, he later entered the Gracenter of the Good Shepherd, a women's housing restoration program run by the Roman Catholic order, the Good Shepherd Sister. He praised the program and his dog by saving his life.
In the late 1990s Boucher began working for Hopalong Animal Rescue, based in Oakland, California. In 2000, when he became a client at the SF/SPCA Animal Hospital, he inspired his vet, Dr. Ilana Strubel, to find Veterinary Street Outreach Services (VET SOS), a Project of the San Francisco Community Clinic Consoritum's Street Outreach Services Program, a private non-profit personal health care agency, where Pali has received homeless care. VET SOS is a mobile clinic that helps homeless people who can not care for their pets.
In 2001, a year after Leadbelly's death, he started the Rocket Dog Rescue and won the Points of Light award for volunteerism. He claims to have saved 150 dogs in his first year. In 2006 the organization was profiled on the Planet Animal Discovery network within an hour of the documentary, Rocket Dog . In 2007 the organization has saved about 3,000 animals, and spent $ 150,000 a year on donated funds for animal bills for ailing animals.
In December 2007, Boucher's home in Bernal Heights burned, homeless again and killing three dogs, a parrot, and a pigeon that he was caring for. The group has housed most of their dogs in an orphanage, and emergency funds are proposed.
In 2014, Rocket Dog Rescue opened the Urban Sanctuary and Adoption Center in East Oakland.
In 2017, Boucher and Rocket Dog Rescue are featured in the episode of the TV series Cesar Millan Dog Nation .
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References
External links
- Official website
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