Golden Huggs Rescue is a small rescue run entirely by volunteers. We have made it our mission to find loving suitable homes for displaced, abandoned, or stray dogs with golden personalities. We work with volunteers in New England and with our partner rescue groups outside of New England.

Our dogs come to us in different ways: relinquished by their owners, found as strays, or abandoned at a shelter. It doesn’t matter how we find them, we take them into our rescue, provide veterinary care, evaluate their behavior with regards to their age and temperament, and match them with their best adoptive home.

All of our volunteers have rescued and placed dogs for years. We are committed to decreasing the numbers of dogs euthanized at overcrowded shelters, primarily in the south.

adopt

We are a foster based rescue, which means that we do not have a facility that you can visit. Most of our dogs come to us from our rescue partners in areas outside of New England, taken from kill shelters where they have landed due to no fault of their own - many are strays, others have been turned in by their owners.

Because of their various backgrounds, we rarely have any medical or ownership history on them. All of our dogs are vetted age-appropriate meaning they are spayed or neutered and given all necessary vaccines. Together with our vet we will treat them for medical issues that are diagnosed. When they are ready to go to their forever homes, our dogs are transported with a USDA certified transport company and require a license to cross state lines (aka a health certificate) to travel.

For additional information about who we are and how the adoption process works, check out our adoption information.