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ScratchMyBelly.org is a non-profit founded to save animals from high-kill shelters in Southern California and the streets of Baja California. Join us.

Scratch My Belly Rescue focuses on saving dogs on the day they are to be euthanized at high-kill shelters, dogs surrendered from owners in crisis health situations, and abused and severely neglected dogs from Southern California and Baja California. Our goal is to rehabilitate the neglected, injured and sick. We also help healthy animals find forever homes. Every year, about 10 million pets are br

ought to animal shelters across the US and more than 2 million of those are put to sleep. Economically distressed areas and the mindset that selling puppies will make one rich results in too many of the current popular breeds, physical and mental issues in many offspring, and sickness when puppies are not vaccinated and kept in unclean conditions. Parent dogs suffer by being bred over and over and are eventually dumped when they can no longer produce puppies. People adopt these puppies without any concern by the sellers for how the dogs will be raised or live. Many grow up without training or socialization and they wind up in animal shelters. There are areas in Southern California where dogs are not protected in homes and they roam freely, eventually being picked up as stray. Our goal is to rescue dogs who are at the end of their time in a shelter or on the streets in Tijuana when other rescues have not responded to save them. We rescue all breeds as long as we have fosters to bring them into a home. We rescue puppies, adults, and some senior dogs. Every dog is fully vetted and gets the care needed to be sure they are healthy before they are made adoptable. We also take in some owner surrenders, focusing on dogs whose owners have medical or financial emergencies that force them to relinquish. We look for just the right home for each and every dog. We do home checks of fosters and adopters and dogs are part of the rescue for their entire life - if they ever have to be surrendered, they are to come back to Scratch My Belly. Donate, foster, adopt. Save a life with us today.

07/05/2025

Per popular request 😉 more pics of Bear 🥰

07/04/2025

Little Bear is looking for a foster or an adopter immediately as the foster’s resident dog is not happy with having a new guest. Bear is approx 4.5 months and so very smart that has learned to sit, he sleeps through the night and is conquering potty training like a champ. His mom is a black/brown yorkie dad is unknown. He is fully vetted. Can help us? Please complete a foster app

Location: San Diego, Orange County or Murrieta/fallbrook/ Temecula area

07/03/2025

Temp foster needed! Dates are 7/18-7/21. Location San Diego. Please let us know if you can help!

07/02/2025

So many dogs end up on the euthanasia list because shelters are forced to make space for pets lost during fireworks—often due to irresponsible owners who fail to plan ahead.

This isn’t funny. It’s not “he’ll come back.” It’s about taking responsibility—not just for your own pet, but for the lives of others. One more dog entering the shelter system can mean another doesn’t make it out.

PLEASE keep your dog safe this Fourth of July. Plan ahead. Keep them indoors. Protect them from panic—and protect the lives of countless others by doing your part. 🇺🇸

06/28/2025

New pics of this little beauty! Totally obsessed with her 😍 rescued from the streets with Confetti. They are both ready to mingle. To foster or adopt, complete an app on our website ScratchMyBelly.org/forms

06/24/2025

San Diego friends…
Little Chata needs someone to watch her this Wednesday from 10:00am to approx 6:30pm. Can anyone help? Foster is located in Tierrasanta.

06/20/2025

Little Nugget is with his foster Mom Leslie in San Diego. Want meet him? Stop by to say hello. Many thanks to our amazing volunteer and friend of the rescue who always saves these innocent babies and reaches out when help is needed. Being in rescue is working together as a community! Making friends and changing the world for one dog at the time ❤️

06/19/2025

Our handsome boy Koda is now available for adoption! Koda is a AKC frenchie surrendered to our rescue as his breeder is now retired. Friendly with people and other dogs he would be an amazing addition to any experienced frenchie family. Koda is a “fluffy” frenchie. No doggie doors, home check required, experience with the breed preferred. For more information please DM us or head over to our website to complete an application.

06/16/2025

Just a few of our precious babies needing fostering…
Supplies provided ✅
vet care provided ✅
local small rescue support ✅
lots of love for your foster pup ✅

experience the joy of fostering and being a part of the changing an animal’s life!

If you can’t foster, share our post,
if you can’t volunteer, share our post
If you can’t donate, share our post

Help us have them seen, YOU can make a difference 🙏

ScratchMyBelly
Local small San Diego rescue, relying on the support of our community.

Founded in 2013
1,000 dogs and NO longer counting 😉
❤️🐶

06/15/2025

Sweet little nugget was surrendered to a friend of our rescue after being tormented by kids and hiding under a couch for an entire week, only coming out at night to eat. Nugget is just 3 lbs and approx 8 -9 weeks. In order to help Nugget we need a foster! Please share far and wide so we can bring him into our rescue.

06/14/2025

Awe sweet Mandy… over a year of vet care all worth to see your sweet face. Many thanks to the Yuyos for making sure our girl is fully healthy! If you have not followed Mandy’s journey, she was rescued from kitchen coop living situation in Mexicali and was positive for heartworm amok g other issues. This sweet senior spent her entire life breeding for profit and not she gets to be loved and spoiled. Cases like this drain the rescue financial resources (over $2000) but we continue to do it because they deserve a chance! Many thanks to Christine to help coordinate and Jen for fostering

06/10/2025

URGENT FOSTER NEEDED! Long hair frenchie needs a foster to land safely with our rescue. Approx 2 yrs male Great with other dogs and kids. Supplies provided.

Address

P. O. Box 3879
Rancho Santa Fe, CA
92067

Telephone

+18583442423

Website

http://www.scratchmybelly.org/, https://form.jotform.us/form/52377166480157, https://www.petfinder.com/search/dogs-for-a

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ScratchMyBelly.org is a non-profit that was founded to save dogs from high-kill shelters in Southern California, from homes where an owner has suffered a critical life-changing situation requiring them to give up their dog, and from the streets of Tijuana, Mexico, where dogs are neglected and abused.

Scratch My Belly is a “death-row” rescue - our primary effort in saving shelter dogs is to take the dogs that are going to be euthanized at the last minute - when we are their last hope. We do not go to a shelter to look for the most adoptable dogs and pick the cute ones. We take the ones nobody else wants, when they are desperate and scared and sick. When we are needed most. Our goal is to get the dogs into safe, happy foster homes where they can recover physically and emotionally. We provide all the vet care needed to make sure the dogs are healthy before we go through a process to find each one its own perfect forever home.

We strive to meet the highest ethical standards in rescue and require home checks for both foster and adoptive homes and we take dogs back for the lifetime of the dog. Our foster program includes support with food, crates, beds, toys, leashes, collars, harnesses, baby gates and anything else needed to make a foster home successful. We are contracted with over a dozen veterinarians so that dogs can receive care as close as possible to a foster’s home. Most of all, we focus on quality, not quantity, of adoptions. That means it may take longer to find the right home for a dog, but it also means we have almost no returns.

Join us. Volunteer. Foster. Donate. It takes a village to save each and every life.