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Mutt Luv Rescue is a 501c3 nonprofit animal rescue in the Bay Area and Los Angeles. We rescue all breeds with a focus on working breeds. We are 100% foster-and-donation-based, and volunteer run. Mutt Luv rescues animals from all walks of life, prioritizing animals from high-kill shelters in California and the Rez in Navajo Nation in AZ.

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Fostering Saves Lives

Mutt Luv Rescue is a 100% foster-based animal rescue. Every foster = a dog saved. See how you can make a difference by becoming a foster!

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The reasons to adopt are endless! When you adopt you save a life, help fight pet overpopulation, and receive the best gift of all - a best friend filled with LUV and gratitude. Click below to see our available pups!

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View fullsize PLS HELP 🙏🏼 THIS IS AN URGENT MATTER 🚨Snickerdoodle needs a foster, preferably in the Bay Area. She’s been with our furiend and trusted trainer @k9optima for around 1 month now and is ready to start the next chapter in her journey to becomin
View fullsize Kinda chic? No. Fostering is très chic 💋 All 4 girls, Kira, Breckenridge, Pumpkin, and Snickerdoodle need fosters (or adopters), like yesterday. Please consider fostering one of our incredible and deserving girls. We promise you won’t
View fullsize UPDATE — Rocky’s owner just notified us that, while we were working on securing transportation, she placed him with a family friend. We hope this is true and that he’s going to a safe, LUVing home 💙 PLEASE HELP 🙏🏼 Do you remembe
View fullsize Update - they were brought to the Friends of the Valley shelter. Unfortunately, the finder could no longer safely keep them and no rescues or fosters reached out to help. We’ll keep an eye on them at the shelter. 🚨 URGENT HELP NEEDED 🚨 Rescu
View fullsize We Need Help 🙏🏼 No, like, we rrreeeaaalllyyy need your help. Because, lives are on the line ➡️ We help LUVs in need across California and the Navajo Reservation in AZ. From the shelters to the streets, help is needed everywhere. While we priorit
View fullsize A belated but very happy Gotcha Day to our sweet, happy-go-lucky LUV, Cali ✨💙✨ Cali’s family is the sweetest, most LUVing couple who are retired empty nesters. They had been looking for a LUV like Cali’s for years - their words, not ours
View fullsize The Lion King litter have all found their furever homes!! 🦁 ☀️ These 3 m/o, 30+ lb Anatolian Shepherd x Great Pyrenees LUVs are some incredibly special pups who have found truly incredible families to grow into the majestic dogs we know their destin
View fullsize ** COURTESY POST ** Rocky’s an 8 m/o Boxer x Pittie (Bittie?) mix. He needs a Rescue/Foster/Adopter by 7/30 or he’ll be surrendered to the shelter. PLS READ 👇🏼 AND SHARE his post to HELP KEEP HIM OUT OF THE SHELTER ‼️ The highlights:
View fullsize Happy Gotcha Day to our Summer Drinks Rez LUVs (in order 👉🏼) - Martini, Mojito, Cola & Squirt, and Paloma who was actually a foster fail but joined his sisters adoption picture this morning! Martini has a new Aussie x Husky big brother, 2 hum
View fullsize 🤞🏼 MAX UPDATE 🤞🏼 We’re so excited to share that Max has started trial adoption with a wonderful human. More in the comments 👇🏼 Mercury retrograde is over, but somehow, this beautiful boy is still waiting on his furever home 🤯 Sadly, Ma
View fullsize PUPdate — Both girls are adopted 🎉 Are you fluffing kidding us right now!? These 2 irresistibly adorable girls are in need of a foster or foster-to-adopt home by this Sunday 🤯 Meet Martini and Squirt, sisters from our Summer drinks litter.