Victorian Dog Rescue and Resource Group Inc

Victorian Dog Rescue & Resource Group is a community foster care network that has existed since 2006 saving dogs and cats. As a volunteer charity we depend on your support. 

We believe the life of every one of our companion animals is important and must be valued. We do not say that we are no kill or pro life. There is no need. Every animal that comes into our care is treated as we would our own family dog or cat. No expense is spared to restore our charges to health, even if it involves an expensive surgery. Every effort is made to retrain dogs and cats that have been unfortunate enough to have a neglected background.

We will keep a dog or cat in our care for as long as it takes. If we do not have a suitable foster carer we will hold them at commercial kennels until we do. If when we rescue them from the pound they are too elderly, with too many health issues to rehome, we place them in permanent foster care. This means that VicDRG pays for the vet care and additional costs for the remainder of their life.  If someone else has abandoned them, we shall not.

Each dog and cat gets the best we can give them. For each dog and cat we feel an emotional bond. We maintain contact with our adopters so we can supply assistance if ever needed.

We believe the respect and care we offer to our companion animals is how they should all be treated.

We have been proactive in trying to change companion animal welfare since we began. We initiated the Drought Dogs Program and were the first group to work in rural Victoria, bringing pound dogs and cats to Melbourne for rehoming.

We ran a campaign to have community foster care networks, a name initiated by us, written into the Domestic Animals Act so that groups like ours were able to take worked animals from pounds, which meant that we no longer had to leave pregnant animals and un-weaned puppies and kittens to die.   We continue to be vocal advocates for the welfare welfare of dogs and also cats, especially those with the misfortune to end up in a Victorian pound or shelter.

We de-sexed, with the aid of a BAW grant, around 500 dogs and cats belonging to low-income dog and cat owners in rural Victoria and still run our $50 pound cat subsidy scheme to enable more cats to leave rural pounds alive.

We organised the setting up of  Dog Rescue Association of Victoria, together with a number of other long-standing rescue groups, to form a lobby group to enhance the standing of community foster care networks  and other rescue groups in our community.

We run many other programs such as Pets in Crisis, Animals, and Seniors for Seniors.

We believe that it is the responsibility of groups like ours to show how the community can and should look after and value their companion animals. We are so grateful for our adopters, supporters, carers and volunteers that enable us to continue to do this.

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Below are photos of our pets, located in Bendigo, who are currently available for adoption.  For information about them please go to our website at: https://www.victoriandogrescue.org.au/