Why Bartow County?
- No public animal shelter
- No permanent low-cost veterinary care
- No organizations with the capacity to meet the need
What the Campus Will Offer
- People Support Services — Partnering with local organizations to help families facing crisis, because when people heal, pets stay home.
- Low-Cost Vet Care — Affordable wellness and sick care, spay/neuter, vaccines, and preventative care for pets and people who need it most.
- Adoptions & Foster to Adopt — Saving lives through compassionate adoptions and our Foster to Adopt program.
- Foster Program — A strong foster network is the heart of our rescue, with support, supplies, and love every step of the way.
- Community Outreach — Our Pet Adoption Wagon brings resources, education, and hope directly to our communities.
- Education & Training — Empowering our community with knowledge on responsible pet ownership, training, and humane care.
- Boarding & Daycare — Safe, loving care for when life gets busy, with revenue that helps sustain our life-saving mission.
- Grooming Services — Professional grooming that keeps pets healthy and helps fund our life-saving programs.
Curious what each of these looks like in action? Visit our Programs page to see how we’re already serving pets and people across Bartow County today—and how the Community Campus will help us do even more.
Imagine a Place Where...
Imagine a place where no one hears,
“Sorry, we can’t help.”
Where a frightened dog finds safety.
Where a family facing hardship finds compassion instead of judgment.
Where children discover the joy of adopting their first best friend.
Where seniors find companionship.
Where veterans never have to choose between getting help and keeping the pet that helped them through life’s hardest moments.
Where a temporary crisis doesn’t have to become a permanent goodbye.
Where volunteers become family.
Where neighbors become partners.
Where every act of kindness inspires another.
Imagine a place built by a community that chose to become the solution instead of waiting for one.
That’s the future we’re building together.
The Bartow Rescue & Resources Community Campus
The Community Campus is envisioned as Bartow County’s first private animal shelter—a welcoming place where people can seek help, adopt a pet, surrender an animal safely when no other option exists, volunteer, and become part of the solution.
It will be more than a shelter. It will be a community resource built around compassion, education, and responsible care.
Looking Ahead
As the campus grows, so will the opportunities to serve our community.
Future plans include:
- Affordable veterinary services
- Daycare
- Training programs
- Grooming
- Community dog parks
- Expanded educational programs
- Event and gathering spaces
The vision will continue growing as our community grows.
Built Through Partnership
The Community Campus isn’t intended to replace the incredible work already happening throughout Bartow County.
It’s designed to strengthen it.
We’ll work alongside local veterinarians, rescue organizations, municipalities, businesses, nonprofits, and community partners to create a stronger network of support for pets and families.
Together, we can accomplish more than any organization can alone.
Why Veterinary Care Belongs on the Campus
One of the reasons veterinary care is central to the Community Campus vision is a puppy named Valor.
In September 2025, Valor and his five littermates came into our care as fearful, feral-born puppies. Valor was the first to trust us. He was the one who showed us that underneath the fear was a puppy who desperately wanted to connect. It was Valor’s courage that helped his littermates learn to trust us too—trust we’d need just days later, when it came time to treat them for the same disease that took him.
Days later, Valor contracted parvovirus.
We fought for him. We provided around-the-clock care and did everything we could to give him a chance. But we lost him.
Valor’s five littermates survived, but only because we were able to treat them ourselves—monoclonal antibody treatment that cost us about $700 per puppy. Even that option meant driving two hours each way to a clinic that could provide it, because nothing closer existed. When we checked with local providers, the same treatment cost $2,500 per dog at a veterinary clinic, and emergency veterinary hospitals charged $3,000 per dog per day, with a two-day minimum. For a litter of five puppies, that’s the difference between roughly $3,500 and $30,000 or more—a gap most families, and most rescues, cannot close.
Losing Valor affected us deeply. He wasn’t simply another animal we had lost. We had watched him begin to trust, watched him change, and then watched a preventable disease take him from us. His loss stayed with us—and it changed the way we thought about what we were building.
We came to understand that veterinary care could not be an afterthought at the Community Campus. It had to be part of the foundation.
We can’t promise that an on-site veterinarian would have saved Valor. We will never know that.
What we do know is that when an animal is sick or injured, access to care matters. Time matters. And families in our community shouldn’t have to face impossible choices simply because veterinary care is out of reach.
That’s why we want the Community Campus to include an on-site veterinarian, providing accessible veterinary care for rescue animals and community pets alike.
Valor’s life changed us. His loss became part of the reason we are determined to build something better.
We can’t change what happened to Valor. But we can let his story help shape what happens next.
A Sustainable Mission
A stronger future requires a strong foundation.
Mission-supporting services like boarding, retail, and future campus programs will help generate revenue that can be reinvested directly into rescue, community assistance, and long-term sustainability.
Every service strengthens the mission.
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Help Build What's Next.
The Bartow Rescue & Resources Community Campus will belong to this community.
Its success will be built one volunteer, one donor, one partner, and one act of kindness at a time.
If you believe Bartow County deserves a place like this, we’d love to have you join us.