A Forever-Home Rescue Foundation is a non-profit dog rescue group that operates in the Northern Virginia / Washington Metropolitan area. We strive to make quality dogs available for adoption and do our best to match prospective adopters with the right animal!

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Dory was rescued after an Effingham County (GA) Sheriff came across a couple of teenage boys kicking a 12-week old puppy back and forth like a soccer ball. He arrested those monsters and got the battered puppy to safety via Animal Control. Rescue really does take a village - there is the obvious - medical care. Then there are the kindhearted shelter and rescue workers who see the beauty in these animals and go to extreme measures to improve their lives. To hear more about her story Visit http://www.jtpetpics.com/monthpet.htm.

Jeanne Taylor offers beautiful, natural setting portraits of your rescued companion(s) - 10 percent discount on products for rescued pets PLUS a portion of proceeds is issued to the rescue of your pet's choosing. Visit www.jtpetpics.com to schedule your session today - please identify A Forever Home as your beneficiary selection.

Update: So far we have raised $956.00 towards this effort! Please follow her progress on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100003793220075.

Brazil is a very special puppy indeed. She is one pup from the litter - Back from the Brink - The only girl with 6 brothers.

The whole litter has been Back to the Brink too many times for comfort in their very short lives. They escaped being euthanized at the shelter by a matter of days as we made our plans to rescue them and bring them to foster care.

Just 1 week later, Bogie, became desperately ill with Parvo. One by one each pup fell to this devastating illness and required intensive care at our fantastic vet office. Brezlin lost his fight and went over the Rainbow Bridge. Brazil, probably the sickest of all, required 13 days of intensive care with our dedicated vet staff - she nearly passed away twice during her stay. This incurred a massive medical bill for AFH - (about $12,000) but 6 pups did come Back from the Brink and have had 6 weeks continuous nursing in foster care to bring them back to life and ready for their new homes.

Brazil has spent the whole time in foster care perplexing her fosters with her daredevil antics. She has become a great favorite of her fosters' Facebook friends and has earned the name Monkey Dog. The community has been entertained with stories and pictures of her climbing out of every pen and gate that they have tried. She just refuses to stay with her brothers and wants nothing more than to be with her humans. Now the unimaginable has happened and Monkey Dog has broken her leg. She needed expert orthopedic surgery from our friends at the Hope Center in Vienna. She has 3 pins in her leg and has just returned to foster care. AFH have paid yet another $4,000 to bring this wonderful girl Back from the Brink once again. She is going to need more xrays as the weeks go by and also rehabilitation which is going to be added cost to the already stretched funds of this group.

Apart from her Houdini antics she is a wonderful friendly, gentle puppy that LOVES people and showers you with puppy kisses. She just looks so sad in her crate on bed rest and we know she is merely plotting her new antics once she is on the mend.

Can you help us? Donations of any size are very welcome. Please help keep her from going Back to the Brink again and help us mend our little Monkey Dog.

If you would like to help Brazil and the rest of her litter, please send a donation to AFH, PO Box 222801, Chantilly, VA 20153 or click on the Donate button. Your help is greatly appreciated.

April 19th saw AFH provide puppies for a Wellness Fair on the U MD campus at College Park. We were blessed with sunshine-- and with the help of volunteers-- Tom, Tere, Stephanie, Barbara and Vandre we were able to take 15 pups to the campus for some stress relief for the students. This was a great opportunity for AFH to get involved in community education -- spreading the word about the importance of spay/neuter, vaccinations and adoption. Our pups were -- as usual -- very well behaved and got lots of fuss and attention...much deserved. Thanks to the University for hosting and to our wonderful volunteers for making it all possible.

Update: Scrappy made his debut at Petco so he could get a nice grooming. He was very happy to get all those mats out of his fur and his nails nice and trim.

Scrappy arrived in the U.S. at about 5:30pm and cleared customs at about 6:30pm. After many months he has finally made it to the land of the free and the home of the brave. Thank you to everyone who assisted in this great adventure!

We are currently in NJ driving back to Virginia. Scrappy did great on the flight. No accidents in his crate and he is a great car rider.

He is being very sweet and has already had his first American hamburger! All in all, a real trooper. Maybe that is a good new name, Trooper.

For those who don't know the story or our Iraq war refuge, Click Here to read about it in our Newsletter!

Our own Tori girl, adopted by volunteer Susan Johnston, got her story published in Lost Souls: Found! Inspiring Stories About Herding Breed Dogs. It is full of 50+ stories from people who have fostered and adopted Australian Cattle Dogs, Border Collies, Collies, Shelties, and more! If you purchase this book you can get either $2.00 off per book or pay full price and they will make a double donation to A Forever Home. Be sure to read Tori's story under Anecdotes. Here is how you can get your copy: http://www.happytailsbooks.com/books/dog-breeds-e-l/herding-breeds/

Read all about it! This edition of our newsletter features Scrappy's Escape from Iraq, Karin Duggan and Donna Niner in our volunteer highlight, Lilly's Story, The Amazing Piper (pictured here) and other great stuff. To see a PDF copy of our newsletter, just Click Here.

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A Forever Home Rescue Foundation wishes to thank Curtis Gray for his donation of this Public Service Announcement to our organization. Curtis is a longtime friend of We also wish to thank Robert Moffett for supplying the music. Click the title to see out PSA, Be Part of the Solution!

By donating old phones to the animal rescue, you are not only helping the rescue and charity, but also you are helping the environment by recycling. So, please spread the word! Ask your friends, family and co-workers if they will consider donating their used cell phones to Then, bring them to any AFH adoption event. For a list of upcoming animal adoption events go to the Events section. If you have phones or questions, but cannot attend an adoption event, please e-mail maribel@aforeverhome.org Please make sure the cell phones have had their service deactivated before dropping them off.

For more information about Phones 4 Charity, please visit their website at: www.phones4charity.org

A Forever-Home Rescue Foundation is registered with iGive.com!

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By doing your shopping through iGive.com you will benefit A Forever-Home Rescue Foundation. Up to 26% of your purchase price will be donated to That can go a long way to enabling us to help even more animals in need at this particularly difficult time of year. Please start all your holiday shopping at iGive.com!

AFH is ALWAYS in need of foster homes! It is fun and rewarding. Without enough foster homes we can't save as many pets. Since AFH tries hard to not use boarding facilities, we cannot accept new, deserving animals into our program without ready foster homes. If you are interested in making your home available to a deserving pet, please drop us an email at Foster@aforeverhome.org or come to one of our adoption days:

To see all events scheduled over the next month, look at our Events Page.