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An animal search and rescue organization created to assist in reuniting lost pets with their owners as well as saving stray or abandoned animals in need.

We have team members in Southern California & Middle Tennessee. Our experienced team not only has the passion and drive for search and rescue but they also have the skills! Working along with other rescuers in our field we have formed an exclusive team to help owners bring their pets home safely, along with catching and saving other stray, neglected or abandoned pets in need. Using the latest equipment and technology we will conduct search and rescues in a professional and compassionate manner. If you need our help, Dog Days Search and Rescue is here! Your support and contributions will enable us to help reunite lost & found pets and save homeless strays. Your generous donation will fund our mission and is tax deductible. You can donate via paypal, Venmo at DogDays-SAR or via mail to our P.O. Box at Dog Days Search & Rescue, P.O. Box 1511, Simi Valley, CA 93062

11/03/2026

Remember the shepherd that our Cali team caught just 2 weeks ago? She was running around Oxnard and covered some serious ground over 3 weeks. She seemed sweet but shy.

We received some great info from staff at the shelter. She is quickly becoming a favorite over there! 🥰

"I just wanna tell you she is an absolute doll once she warms up to you. She is absolutely perfect. She’s beautiful. She is young. She’s super sweet. She’s seen other dogs and has had zero reaction to them. She would rather be with her person so I’m glad you found her and brought her to us cause I’m enjoying her right now. 😊😊. She really is a great dog. If someone is willing to put the time and patience into her due to her fearfulness, she’s gonna be really perfect."

Because she is shy, they are recommending a home with no small kids. Teenagers though are a great age to help with a dog like Zara.

What great notes for this girl! She has a lot of potential!

Zara is ready for adoption and a family to call hers.
She is at Ventura County Animal Services, 600 Aviation Drive, Camarillo. Her A # is A889411. They estimate her at 1.5 years old.

Ventura County Animal Services

Her original story:
https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=1420751783600633&id=100069974743749&mibextid=Nif5oz

10/31/2026

Happy Halloween! Below are some pet safety tips to keeping your furry friends safe tonight! 👻

10/30/2026

BIG NEWS! 📣📣📣

Shep is ready to be ADOPTED!

We cannot believe we are saying those words! In just over a month, Shep, who spent the last 8 years outside & alone is ready to find his forever home!

Shep is a smart boy and learned quickly to walk on a leash (he loves going on walks), he learned that the crate is one of his favorite places, he learned that dog beds are soooo comfy & he learned that not all people are bad! He is trusting more and more everyday!

Shep is housebroken, neutered, up to date on his vaccines and according to all his blood work, one healthy dog! 🦴

Shep is dog friendly and we think cat friendly! (a little more testing is needed to confirm)

Shep would make a great companion! And we can't wait to watch someone adopt him and give him the life he so much deserves. He is one special boy! 🥰

If you are interested in adopting Shep or even a foster to adopt situation, please email us at [email protected] or DM us.

We are accepting applications for a home in Southern California only.

Please share to help him find his happily ever after!

You can also follow him on Tik Tok https://www.tiktok.com/?_r=1&_t=ZP-9AzTtZ3JVfz

Original story:
https://www.facebook.com/100069974743749/posts/1400674365608375/

10/27/2026

Newly adopted Bubbles is a dog who squeezed out the door as her owners opened it to get the mail. And she did what scared ones do, RUN!

She was seen running on Mulholland Highway, she was spotted running mountain trails, she was reported by State Park Rangers darting thru the tree line of Reagan Ranch all the way into Agoura, and this was only after 2 days of zero sightings.

Bubbles covered miles during her 6 day adventure on the run in California! Once Linda maps all the sightings, she will have a precise number. But we are guessing close to 20 miles!

She was elusive and would camouflage with the shrubs on the hills so she would disappear quickly. We had traps set a few times but she never made it back to them, she was always moving. At one trap, we nearly caught a coyote and had to go close it as a pack of 6 circled it, hoping to get the good food inside.

We were awakened on Monday morning with calls of her running major streets, crossing over the freeway, to yet another new unfamiliar area. Then the last sighting we got was around 10 am. She had run up the hillside, veering right on the trail running next to the big A (for Agoura) on this hillside. We were there, animal control was there, but she was gone in the blink of an eye. We set our trap and hoped she would come back down. The day ticked away but nothing yet.

We studied the map to determine her possible exit points from the mountain. As we checked out one of those possibilities, we met a woman named Laura who lived near the end of the trail. She took our card, just in case. We'll say it's fate or whatever you want to call it but miraculously, Laura's husband David spotted a dog. His own dogs alerted him to something coming down the hillside. He saw it was Bubbles and called us!

We rushed over to their location. As they had access from their yard to this open space, we were able to drop a trap here. Now all we could do is wait!! We did also set up a second trap at the other end of the trail, where she went up. Just in case. We only had one camera with us so we had to stay close in case she went in that second trap.

2 AM came and still no dog. We picked up that trap with no camera and hoped that she would go back to the one near Laura and David's house.

Just before 6 AM today, we got the "animal detected" notification on our cameras. Ugh, it was a coyote. JoAnn talked thru the camera and scared it away. Another notification, another coyote. It was a busy coyote morning. Thankfully, they all moved on.

Then just after the sun had come up, another camera animal notification. The lens slightly foggy from the morning sun, we thought it might be another coyote. Then we saw her face! It was the right animal at the trap! She sniffed, she circled and was hungry! She grabbed a few bites then walked in. After 6 days with no food, Bubbles was safe!

If Bubbles were a cat, she would have used all her 9 lives! Cars, rain, coyotes and this girl survived!

We took her home and discovered that she was matted badly and covered in giant burrs. She had a cut on her paw pad too. Ya, running crazy will do that to your paws! She will be going to the vet.

Thank you to all who called in sightings! Your immediate information is what helped us narrow down where she was. Remember if you see a lost dog, your sighting could be the most important one so please call or text asap! Welcome home Bubbles!

We are a 100% volunteer organization. We never charge for our time or for our services. We are 100% supported by our donors. To help us continue our mission to help lost and stray dogs, please consider making a donation to our cause. Dog Days Search & Rescue is a 501c3 Non Profit Organization. ALL donations are tax deductible!!

PayPal:
https://dogdayssar.com/donate
Or Venmo -SAR
Or Zelle @ [email protected]
Donations can be mailed and we also can receive corporate donation matching gifts. Contact us for more details on donations.

10/24/2026

Did you know our all volunteer search & rescue team members also foster animals? These are some of the faces of fosters in our care currently. Are they not adorable! Do you recognize any?

Very often we help a dog or cat and it does not have an owner or no owner comes forward. While we always try to utilize the animal shelter to give the owners an opportunity to reclaim their animals, often they don't get reclaimed or in some instances, there's no shelter in the city or county where the animals are found.

Sometimes a dog is just too scared and won't do well in a shelter environment when first caught so our team will foster it, for however long is needed. Other times we go back and pull a dog from the shelter that we rescued because no owners came for it and it may need training or just some additional time to assess what it needs. Other times, we might foster it because it had an injury and needs medical recovery time before it can be adopted and having that in a home environment can be very helpful rather than it recovering in a shelter.

In many situations, the dog is just fearful and we have to pull it or foster it so it doesnt get euthanized. Thats the stark reality of rescuing stray animals from California to Tennessee. Some are just very scared and when they get into that shelter environment, unfortunately they're not highly adoptable and it might take some time for them to come around. We try to give them that time.

We don't talk about it often, but our team does a lot of fostering. This means we're taking time out of our daily lives to care for these animals. While you might only see one little posted story on them, we are spending a lot of time caring for them. We're using our donated funds for their medical and their care and training, to get them to a place where they can be adopted. This can range from a few weeks to over a year, depending on the animals challenges. We do it to help the animals we rescue get the best chance of finding a forever home possible.

When you help a dog or cat on the street, you're committed to making sure you do everything possible to help that animal including keeping them alive after you have caught them. Picking up a stray animal off the street should never end at the shelter door when you drop it off, especially if you're in rescue or call yourselves a rescuer. At a minimum, that animal needs to be networked and followed up on regularly.

We wanted to remind everyone that fostering saves lives. If you have space in your home to foster a dog or cat, whether it's for a week or a few months, please reach out to your local rescue or animal shelter to help them. They need you! Fostering truly saves lives and gives animals the chance to decompress and it also allows the rescues and shelters learn their personalities to help find them the perfect forever home. 🐾🐾

10/23/2026

Bringing you yet another story of perseverance, challenge and some luck. And we're talking about the dog! 🐾🐾

This gorgeous shepherd has been running in Oxnard, CA for just over 3 weeks. She has been spotted on porches, hiding in bushes and crossing major roads. Temperatures have been in the 90's and the last few days, raining.

Animal control was contacted numerous times but this girl would run when anyone tried to help. We were wrapped up in some other cases and was just hoping that someone would get her in a yard or gain her trust.

Her pattern was erratic, her times were all over the place and we couldn't ever get a current sighting while we were out. Linda sat down and tackled mapping all of her sightings and after 4+ hours of locating all her sightings posted online, we were just as baffled as before the map! She went to just about EVERY neighborhood in Oxnard. What is so shocking about this is that she crossed major roads, with cars that drive like they are on the highway! We don't know how she didn't get hit. Another twist though, there is a Belgian Malinois running in a lot of the same neighborhoods. So when sightings came in, we had to confirm which dog!

Today, we got a call from a neighbor who said she was howling on their porch the last 2 mornings. Justice headed over to the neighborhood to see if she could spot her. Jenn and Linda took to hitting up all other neighborhoods, hoping to get a sighting. Justice noticed across from the house she has been howling at, a crate and bowls on the porch. She took a shot and went to talk to them. Sure enough, they had been feeding her for days!! They agreed we could put the trap out and then as we finished setting the trap, a call came in. She was just around the corner and heading that way!

We all waited, holding our breath. Justice spotted her, walking slowly in the pouring rain. She was soaked and just looked defeated. She was also limping. But she was heading to the trap! Minutes later, the homeowner called and we all said "we got her!" We had watched on camera and she was peeking out the window! We rushed over and there she was, finally safe! She ate all the food, she sat there dripping wet but looked relieved. She seemed gentle, no barking and barely a grumble as we walked up.

Thankfully, our friends at Ventura County Animals Services agreed to let us bring her just after hours! She did good thru the intake process. She wasn't microchipped but she was wearing a green camouflage collar. Someone loved her. But who? She is now safe and warm tonight and will be available on 10/28 for adoption if her family doesn't come. Here A # is A889411

Thank you to all the Oxnard residents who reported her and called in sightings and tried to help! Thank you to the neighbors who called today and gave us great info and permission to trap her there. Great timing! So glad she is safe!

We are a 100% volunteer organization. We never charge for our time or for our services. We are 100% supported by our donors. To help us continue our mission to help lost and stray dogs, please consider making a donation to our cause. Dog Days Search & Rescue is a 501c3 Non Profit Organization. ALL donations are tax deductible!!

PayPal:
https://dogdayssar.com/donate
Or Venmo -SAR
Or Zelle @ [email protected]
Donations can be mailed and we also can receive corporate donation matching gifts. Contact us for more details on donations.

10/21/2026

Another dog safe!! 🐾🐾
We were recently contacted by a rescue partner, Rich, who owns and operates Captain Enzo’s Lost Pet Rescue, a drone service. Rich told us he was contacted by a group of homeowners in San Dimas, CA who had recently found several large dogs running in the open space of their neighborhood. They had managed to get two of the dogs captured but still had one dog at large they were attempting to rescue.

Rich thought their case was a strong candidate for our services and invited us to join him in the rescue effort. Rich was aware the dog had been coming regularly to one particular house, and the residents had procured a coyote trap, but the dog had not yet triggered it. This was very concerning because if the trap did indeed close on the dog and the dog was able to back out of the trap before being fully secured, that would make it much less likely the dog would go into another trap afterward.

The residents had done a very good job of gathering videos and keeping a record of the times the dog would visit. We figured it would be a relatively simple capture since the dog had been conditioned to the trap feeding station.

Justice made the trip to San Dimas to meet up with Rich. Our trap was set with live cameras on the area. Then came the waiting. The dog was known to show up any time between 11:00 pm and 4 am. As time ticked by and turned into hours with no sighting, everyone became concerned.

The dog did not seem to be making its regular rounds and had not come anywhere near the house with the trap and food. The residents were particularly concerned about the possibility of the coyotes getting the dog as there had been a lot of coyote activity recently in the adjacent hillsides.

When it was clear the dog was not going to show up at the regular time and location, Rich began a drone search to try and locate the dog. It was still dark, and his thermal drone did get a hit on a location where he observed what appeared to be a large dog. It was resting just down the hill from the house where the trap was. So, we waited patiently in hopes the dog would show.

As morning brought daylight, we still had no dog anywhere near the trap or close to the area. Our dog just seemed to have suddenly vanished.

We began to see numerous trucks and equipment from both Edison and local tree trimming companies that were preparing the area for the Santa Ana winds due to arrive within the following days. We knew this would cause a reasonable disruption to the dog’s pattern and could even cause the dog to leave the area altogether. We had to put the rescue efforts on hold and head home until we could get some sightings again.

Justice did her best to assure the worried residents that the dog should show back up and resume its pattern and explained how sometimes it is best to just allow the dog the time it needs to hide out and get comfortable again. She told them to tie their coyote trap open in the same spot with food and water. We wanted the dog to know the feeding station was there when it returned.

A few days later, the residents contacted us to let us know that sure enough, the dog had come back. Bad news was it was limping badly now. Their video confirmed that indeed the dog had been injured somehow and was not bearing any weight on one of its hind legs. That was a reasonable explanation for why the dog had not showed back up to the trap in a few days for food. But it made the rescue more urgent and complicated.

Although the dog showed back up, it was not making it all the way into their trap to get to the food. Justice immediately headed back out to try again with our larger trap. The dog was mostly hopping on three legs with his injury. and we knew there was a risk he may not go in the trap.

Justice got the trap and camera set up. Not long after, the dog showed up and made several appearances at the trap. It drank the water that was left nearby but simply would not make any efforts to get into the trap for the food. Justice speculated that it could be the injury keeping the dog from entering the trap but also believed it was much more likely the dog was not hungry enough and wondered if someone else in the neighborhood had been feeding the dog.

The residents said they had put out a notice to their neighbors that explained there was an effort to trap the dog underway and they had made a request for everyone to please not put out any food. As daylight came after the second night’s attempt to rescue this poor pup, we were able to verify that some of the other local residents had put out food for the dog. We got that handled and stopped the food from being put out, but the damage was already done for the time being and the dog was not coming back until well after dark.

Unfortunately, Justice had a prescheduled event planned that required her to go back to attend the function, so she decided to give the locals who had put so much of their own time and energy into this rescue operation very specific instructions about how to reset and rebait our trap. We would leave our bigger trap and camera with them for the next night's attempt.

The women, Cathi and Maureen, who were left in charge of the effort did an amazing job of following the instructions precisely. The trap was rebaited later that day by them and ready for the evening attempt.

Thankfully, the dog showed up a couple of times and was interested in the food. He did not go in the trap though and we were on pins and needles watching the camera overnight. The trap was also visited by a coyote twice during the night. Thankfully the coyote moved on.

Then, just after 3 am this very injured dog visited the trap once more and decided it was the right time to go all the way in and get the yummy food! He was finally safe! Success at last!!

The residents were incredible and worked together to get the dog in the trap to an emergency vet right away.

At the vet's office, it was discovered that the area of the dog’s foot known as the tarsus, which contains seven of the small bones that make up the foot and ankle, had been crushed. As they judged the dog to be young, between 1 and 2 years of age, the treatment options dictated that with around 8 to 12 weeks of crate rest, this fellow had an excellent chance at fully healing from his injury.

This sweet dog is now on stray hold. He had no microchip. He showed up in the area, along with 4 other dogs who appeared to be dumped. Two of those dogs were also caught by residents and went to their local shelter. Two additional residents have stepped up to offer to foster this injured dog through his recovery. The last dog was just caught by them a day ago and also went to the shelter.

We cannot be more in awe of the hard work this community put in to rescue all these dogs!! Great job to the whole team who helped bring this injured boy to safety!

10/13/2026

A reminder for windy days ahead! Always secure your gates. It reminds the gardener, the pool cleaner, the kids and anyone else entering or exiting they need to close the gate and latch it! We see so many dogs escape when gates get blown or left open! One simple carabiner can help!

10/11/2026

Calling all Cane Corso lovers!! This girl has had it rough! Thankfully, our team got her safe and she is getting treated for her skin issues. She is looking for an adopter or a rescue. ASAP. The shelter is full!

She is at Putnam County Animal Services, Cookeville, TN

Here is her original story!
https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=1402667262075752&id=100069974743749&mibextid=Nif5oz

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