El Dorado County German Shepherd Rescue Selected for National Lifesaving Initiative to Boost Pet Adoptions
Best Friends Animal Society partners with animal shelters and rescue groups for Bring Love Home Challenge, to increase pet adoptions December 1-31
Shingle Springs, CA - Dec 14, 2025) ─ El Dorado County German Shepherd Rescue (EDCGSR) will participate in the Bring Love Home Challenge, a nationwide effort to help more cats and dogs find homes this December. Led by Best Friends Animal Society, a leading national animal welfare organization working to save the lives of cats and dogs in America’s shelters and take the country no-kill*, the challenge aims to increase lifesaving, and participants will be eligible to receive grant funding.
EDCGSR is joining nearly 300 animal shelters and rescue groups across the country to address the critical need for increased pet adoptions by piloting data-backed changes to help more pets get adopted or fostered — such as reducing adoption fees, eliminating home checks, and offering multilingual customer service for adopters and fosters.
In conjunction with the challenge, EDCGSR will be hosting an adoption event throughout the month of December.
When Best Friends launched its first Bring Love Home Challenge in June 2024, the response was extraordinary — 34,557 cats and dogs found loving homes, an impressive 3,548 more than the same time the year before.
"We’re so excited to participate in this challenge as an opportunity to broaden accessibility and outreach of our rescue. As part of the challenge, we now provide adoption and foster applications in both English and Spanish and will be promoting on social media this important update alongside our wonderful shepherds and shepherd mixes available throughout the month,” said Zoya Khan, Director of Outreach.
“More adoptions and pets being fostered means more lives saved,” said Whitney Bollinger, Director of Strategy & Network Operations, Best Friends Animal Society. “We selected EDCGSR for the Bring Love Home Challenge because of their commitment to making adoptions and fostering more accessible in their community and helping more cats and dogs find the homes they need and deserve.”
To learn more about the pets available for adoption and fostering at EDCGSR, and how to support lifesaving, visit EDCGSR’s website edcgsr.com or Petfinder and FB or Instagram — where EDCGSR will be sharing Bring Love Home Challenge updates.
Learn more about Best Friends at bestfriends.org.
*No-kill is defined by a 90% save rate for animals entering a shelter and is a meaningful and common-sense benchmark for measuring lifesaving progress. Typically, the number of pets who are suffering from irreparable medical or behavioral issues that compromise their quality of life and prevent them from being rehomed is not more than 10% of all dogs and cats entering shelters. For any community to be no-kill, all stakeholders in that community must work together to achieve and sustain that common goal while prioritizing community safety and good quality of life for pets as guiding no-kill principles. This means cooperation among animal shelters, animal rescue groups, government agencies, community members and other stakeholders, all committed to best practices and protocols.
About EDCGSR
Formed in 2013, EDCGSR provides refuge and prepares unwanted, abused, abandoned, or neglected German Shepherds, or GSD mixes, for adoption. German Shepherds that cannot be placed by local shelters are brought to our facility, vetted, rehabilitated, and socialized to provide excellent companions for forever families who understand and cherish the unique qualities of this breed.
About Best Friends Animal Society
Best Friends Animal Society is a leading animal welfare organization dedicated to saving the lives of dogs and cats in America's shelters and making the entire country no-kill. Founded in 1984, Best Friends runs lifesaving facilities and programs nationwide in partnership with more than 5,500 shelters and rescue organizations. From our headquarters in Kanab, Utah, we also operate the nation's largest no-kill animal sanctuary — a destination that brings our mission to life for thousands of visitors each year. We maintain the most comprehensive animal sheltering data in the country and make it accessible to the public — empowering communities with critical insights into the needs of their local shelters and how they can help. We believe every dog and cat deserves a home. And we believe that, by working together, we can Save Them All®.
EDCGSR is joining nearly 300 animal shelters and rescue groups across the country to address the critical need for increased pet adoptions by piloting data-backed changes to help more pets get adopted or fostered — such as reducing adoption fees, eliminating home checks, and offering multilingual customer service for adopters and fosters.
In conjunction with the challenge, EDCGSR will be hosting an adoption event throughout the month of December.
When Best Friends launched its first Bring Love Home Challenge in June 2024, the response was extraordinary — 34,557 cats and dogs found loving homes, an impressive 3,548 more than the same time the year before.
"We’re so excited to participate in this challenge as an opportunity to broaden accessibility and outreach of our rescue. As part of the challenge, we now provide adoption and foster applications in both English and Spanish and will be promoting on social media this important update alongside our wonderful shepherds and shepherd mixes available throughout the month,” said Zoya Khan, Director of Outreach.
“More adoptions and pets being fostered means more lives saved,” said Whitney Bollinger, Director of Strategy & Network Operations, Best Friends Animal Society. “We selected EDCGSR for the Bring Love Home Challenge because of their commitment to making adoptions and fostering more accessible in their community and helping more cats and dogs find the homes they need and deserve.”
To learn more about the pets available for adoption and fostering at EDCGSR, and how to support lifesaving, visit EDCGSR’s website edcgsr.com or Petfinder and FB or Instagram — where EDCGSR will be sharing Bring Love Home Challenge updates.
Learn more about Best Friends at bestfriends.org.
*No-kill is defined by a 90% save rate for animals entering a shelter and is a meaningful and common-sense benchmark for measuring lifesaving progress. Typically, the number of pets who are suffering from irreparable medical or behavioral issues that compromise their quality of life and prevent them from being rehomed is not more than 10% of all dogs and cats entering shelters. For any community to be no-kill, all stakeholders in that community must work together to achieve and sustain that common goal while prioritizing community safety and good quality of life for pets as guiding no-kill principles. This means cooperation among animal shelters, animal rescue groups, government agencies, community members and other stakeholders, all committed to best practices and protocols.
About EDCGSR
Formed in 2013, EDCGSR provides refuge and prepares unwanted, abused, abandoned, or neglected German Shepherds, or GSD mixes, for adoption. German Shepherds that cannot be placed by local shelters are brought to our facility, vetted, rehabilitated, and socialized to provide excellent companions for forever families who understand and cherish the unique qualities of this breed.
About Best Friends Animal Society
Best Friends Animal Society is a leading animal welfare organization dedicated to saving the lives of dogs and cats in America's shelters and making the entire country no-kill. Founded in 1984, Best Friends runs lifesaving facilities and programs nationwide in partnership with more than 5,500 shelters and rescue organizations. From our headquarters in Kanab, Utah, we also operate the nation's largest no-kill animal sanctuary — a destination that brings our mission to life for thousands of visitors each year. We maintain the most comprehensive animal sheltering data in the country and make it accessible to the public — empowering communities with critical insights into the needs of their local shelters and how they can help. We believe every dog and cat deserves a home. And we believe that, by working together, we can Save Them All®.
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