🐾 ABRT's Rescue & Adoption Ethos

When we rescue a dog, we make a lifelong promise. Every dog in our care is treated like one of our own—loved, understood, and given the time and support they need to heal and thrive.

We believe every rescue deserves a happy, lasting home, which is why we take extra care to ensure each adoption is the right match. Before you bring your new companion home, we’ll share everything we know about their history, personality, and needs—honestly and transparently. And our commitment doesn’t end at adoption day.

We stay connected for the long haul, offering ongoing phone and email support for the life of your dog, plus a wide range of training programs to help you and your pup build a strong, lifelong bond. 💛

🐾 ABRT's Training Ethos

We believe that at the core of training is a willingness to communicate with our companions. They are living, breathing, sentient creatures with complex internal lives - not robots who must be dominated and coerced to know that sit means sit.

Our dedication to positive reinforcement and reward based training is not only built on the huge breadth of scientific literature showing that it is the most effective way to create solid and predictable behaviors in animals of all shapes and sizes (from dogs to humans to elephants to bears to whales); it is representative of our dedication to build the strongest, most compassionate bond with every dog in our program, and every human who walks through our doors.

Person and dog alike, we all carry peculiarities and past experiences that influence the way we see the world; and at ABRT, we feel that it's our privilege to be a positive step in the journey of every creature's big, beautiful, dog-hair filled life.