Nobody's Perfekt Dogs and Cats

Nobody's Perfekt Dogs and Cats We rescue "imperfekt" dogs from local shelters in danger of being euthanized and find homes where imp Looking for a “perfect” dog? Sorry, we can’t help you.
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We specialize in finding homes for dogs where “imperfection” is tolerated in exchange for a lifetime of love and devotion. Our foster dogs have been discarded by the people they once trusted, only to find themselves in a shelter with no other options. We want them to have a second chance to receive the love and care they deserve. Our Story:

Nobody’s Perfekt Dogs is not a shelter, but we only pull

dogs from the local community shelters. We do not take dogs directly from people wanting to dump their dogs or strays that people find. We consider ourselves a “rescue of last resort.” Shelters who call us about a dog in need, have exhausted all other rescue groups and options, leaving no choice but to consider euthanizing the dog. Many of our dogs are seniors, or have special medical needs. Some of our dogs are just too traumatized in the shelter to pass the temperament test for adoptability. They are fearful or shutdown. Simply taking them out of the shelter and putting them into a stable foster home often makes all the difference in the world. We adopt to people and families that are looking for more than just a pet. Our adopters are truly interested in saving a dog’s life by giving it a forever home. When people adopt from us, they are actually saving 2 dogs: the dog they adopted and the next shelter dog on the euthanasia list that we now have room to foster.

09/02/2025

Update on Bernie (a.k.a. “French Toast”). He came to us from the Turlock shelter after being hit by a car, which left him paralyzed in his back legs. X-rays showed that he had two compressed spinal discs. Spinal surgery was recommended (at about $15,000). We chose a “wait-and-see” approach using an oral steroid to help reduce the inflammation and cage rest. That approach seems to have been successful, so far. He is walking again. Luckily, the injury didn’t affect his ability to control peeing and pooping, which seems to be a motivation for him to use his back legs as he wants to go outside to relieve himself.

Our second rescue of the week is another broken leg dog. We named her Brie. She is from the same shelter as Grayson (a...
08/30/2025

Our second rescue of the week is another broken leg dog. We named her Brie. She is from the same shelter as Grayson (another wire-haired terrier who had a broken hind leg that we pulled over a week ago). She came to the shelter through a local ER vet who assumed she was hit by a car, but the surgeon who repaired her leg this week said that this type of injury was more likely jumping off (or dropped) from a high place and landing wrong. She is about two years old, and not that thrilled about having to stay in a pen for the next few weeks, as her leg heals. Otherwise, she is a sweet dog, that will likely be very active.

Two more new rescues this week. In the early days of Nobody's Perfekt Dogs, we focused mainly on rescuing dogs with beh...
08/30/2025

Two more new rescues this week. In the early days of Nobody's Perfekt Dogs, we focused mainly on rescuing dogs with behavioral issues in the shelters (fearful, shy, food bowl guarding, depressed, etc.) that made them unadoptable by the shelters' standards. It has only been in the last 3-4 years that we shifted our focus on more medical cases.

One of the dogs we pulled this week (Mara) had some high-value guarding behaviors in the shelter with other dogs and with people. Our past experience with these dogs is that the behavior gets better out of the shelter. Mara has been with us for 3 days now. The first day, she was pretty stoic, maybe a little depressed. Then she started bonding with a volunteer or two. We introduced her to a lot of the other dogs in the rescue. She was a little overwhelmed initially, but tolerates them. We haven't seen her interested in playing with the dogs, but that might come later . . . of not. She is good on a leash and may be housebroken.

We haven't yet tested her for high-value guarding. For now, we'll just avoid interacting with her while she is eating.

After being in foster care for almost 2 years, Penny has found her forever home. She came to us from the Oakland Shelte...
08/29/2025

After being in foster care for almost 2 years, Penny has found her forever home. She came to us from the Oakland Shelter. The person who found her loose on the streets reported to the shelter that Penny bit as the person was trying capture her. That reported bite squashed all chances of Penny getting pulled by a rescue group, so the shelter called us. She has been a model citizen while under our care.

Congratulations on your new forever home!

Adoption Event Sunday, August 31st from 1-3 at the Castro Valley Pet Food ExpressPlease come check out our cats & kitten...
08/29/2025

Adoption Event Sunday, August 31st from 1-3 at the Castro Valley Pet Food Express

Please come check out our cats & kittens at Pet Food Express located at 3385 Castro Valley Blvd. in the Lucky Shopping Center. You can visit & play with them between 1 & 3 pm on Sunday, August 31st.

Our adoption fee of $100 ($150 for kittens under 6 months) includes spay/neuter, microchip, vaccines, combo test for FeLV/FIV, deworming & flea meds.
Kittens 6 months & younger must be adopted in pairs or can go as singles to a home that already has a young cat.

You can read about all of our kittens and cats at Adopt-a-Pet.
https://www.adoptapet.com/shelter/190316/available-pets

It is going to be a busy week for us. In addition to the 4 new dogs that we took in a couple weeks ago, we are taking i...
08/27/2025

It is going to be a busy week for us. In addition to the 4 new dogs that we took in a couple weeks ago, we are taking in another 3 dogs this week. Beetle came to us on Monday from the Turlock shelter. There was something SERIOUSLY wrong with one of his eyes. We thought that maybe he was a street dog that had an embedded foxtail. We assumed that he would be thin, poor quality coat, long nails, typical issues with a dog that has been on the streets for a while. On the contrary, other than the eye, his overall condition was very good, seemingly well cared for, even. Perhaps the person who turned in the dog as a stray was the owner who couldn't afford to provide vet care (it happens a lot)? Our vet was able to see Beetle right away and remove the eye the next day. The injury was probably trauma related. The eye was out of the socket, but there was a lot of scabbing, ulcers, debris around the expelled eyeball. Who knows how long it had been that way. There were no other signs of trauma on his body. He didn't appear to be in any pain, and he is super sweet with people.

This morning (the day after surgery) he is struggling a little bit. We are thinking it has more to do with the e-collar/cone than pain.

Lola found her forever home. Her microchip history indicated that she has had a few "forever homes" in the past. We ar...
08/26/2025

Lola found her forever home. Her microchip history indicated that she has had a few "forever homes" in the past. We are confident this will be her last home. She has a new brother, Popeye. Congratulations!

Grayson had his leg fracture repair surgery last week. It went well. Didn't slow him down one bit (he is a 4-5 month o...
08/26/2025

Grayson had his leg fracture repair surgery last week. It went well. Didn't slow him down one bit (he is a 4-5 month old puppy - not sure if there is anything that would slow him down at this point).

Still looking for a foster home for him . . .

A second dog this week crossed the rainbow bridge. Edgar was a special needs English Bulldog puppy that was surrendered...
08/25/2025

A second dog this week crossed the rainbow bridge. Edgar was a special needs English Bulldog puppy that was surrendered to our vet by an unscrupulous local backyard breeder to be euthanized due to a congenital spine issue and megacolon, that left him incontinent. There was a chance that he might grow out of the issue, but after being with us for a year and a half, he didn't so the incontinence was permanent.

We listed him for adoption. He had hundreds of inquiries and dozens of applications - all of which were withdrawn once the people truly understood his condition. In addition to his congenital issues, he also proved to be very aggressive with some of the special needs dogs in his foster home, resulting in serious injuries. The foster family did their best to try and keep him away from the at risk dogs, but it proved impossible. We didn't have any other foster homes that could take him, and since the likelihood of him ever getting adopted was 0%, we decided to euthanize him.

At the 11th hour, he got an application from a woman in the Sacramento area that didn't care about his incontinence (she worked at an convalescent home and dealt with diapers all the time). She had no other dogs. She took him on a sleepover. She was so in love with Edgar - it was her soulmate and she was definitely going to adopt him. We scheduled the signing of the papers. Then a day later, she said that she no longer wanted him - "it wasn't working out." We told her to bring him back to us. The woman couldn't be bothered to transport him back to the Bay Area. That day we got a call from the Yolo County Animal Shelter that Edgar was turned in as a stray. Did this horrid woman just let him loose? Not exactly, she took him to the shelter herself and said she found him. I guess she wasn't smart enough to realize that his microchip was traceable to us. We explained the situation to the animal control officer, he was not happy about being lied to by the applicant.

So we went up to the shelter the next day had brought Edgar back to the our vet, and had them go ahead and euthanize him. A lot of the time, rescue involves making impossible decisions. We can only do what we can do. We tried reaching out to other rescue organizations that specialize in English bulldogs with these issues, but they were all full and no longer taking in dogs.

R.I.P. Mr. Edgar.

In addition to the dogs for whom we are trying to find forever homes, we have about 50 dogs that were deemed "unadoptabl...
08/25/2025

In addition to the dogs for whom we are trying to find forever homes, we have about 50 dogs that were deemed "unadoptable" that the foster home has kept and we support their ongoing medical bills. Then we have another dozen or so dogs that are in a "hospice status" with terminal medical issues (very advanced age, heart or kidney disease, etc.) that our rescue supports. One of our hospice dogs recently crossed over the rainbow bridge.

Bo Peep came to us from the Oakland Shelter as a cruelty case. Both eyes had to be removed due to painful, long-term glaucoma. She also was diagnosed with heart disease and was put on medication. That was a little over two years ago. Bo Beep was only about 10 years old, but succumbed to congestive heart failure. Thank you, Eileen for ensuring that for her last 2 years on this earth, she was loved and well taken care of (probably for the first time in her life).

Sweet trails, Ms. Bo Beep

Just a reminder!Mark your calendars and plan to join us for our annual Twining Vine Winery Fundraising Event!When: Sund...
08/20/2025

Just a reminder!

Mark your calendars and plan to join us for our annual Twining Vine Winery Fundraising Event!

When: Sunday, August 24, noon to 4 PM

Where: Twining Vine Winery, 16851 Cull Canyon Road, Castro Valley CA

What: Silent Auction, Door Prizes, Food, WINE, vendors, live music, dog & cats for adoption, etc. No admission fee - donations welcome.

Can't attend but still want to donate? Use this link to make a donation on our website:
https://www.nobodysperfektdogs.org/donation-link

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3810 Castro Valley Boulevard
Castro Valley, CA
94646

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Tuesday 12pm - 4pm
Wednesday 12pm - 4pm
Thursday 12pm - 4pm
Friday 12pm - 4pm
Saturday 11am - 5pm
Sunday 12pm - 4pm

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Nobody’s Perfekt Dogs is not a shelter, but we only pull dogs from the local community shelters. We do not take dogs directly from people wanting to dump their dogs or strays that people find. We consider ourselves a “rescue of last resort.” Shelters who call us about a dog in need, have exhausted all other rescue groups and options, leaving no choice but to consider euthanizing the dog. Many of our dogs are seniors, or have special medical needs. Some of our dogs are just too traumatized in the shelter to pass the temperament test for adoptability. They are fearful or shutdown. Simply taking them out of the shelter and putting them into a stable foster home often makes all the difference in the world.

We adopt to people and families that are looking for more than just a pet. Our adopters are truly interested in saving a dog’s life by giving it a forever home. When people adopt from us, they are actually saving 2 dogs: the dog they adopted and the next shelter dog on the euthanasia list that we now have room to foster.