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Supporting rural shelters in MD , VA & WV by rescuing, healing, and rehoming animals. Focused on fostering, adoption, and donations.

Based in Potomac, MD, we are a 501(c)(3) nonprofit dedicated to making a difference. FOACAS raises money for food and other essential items, fosters, provides vet care, posts to identify loving homes for the animals, and spreads the word about how wonderful yet overlooked most of the animals are. FOACAS aims to contribute to the Shelter’s goal to become part of Petfinder, enhance its thrift shop,

subsidize trainers who will make each animal adoptable, take photographs and write appealing blurbs about each adoptable animal. When times are safe, FOACAS will help the shelter during Thanksgiving and the December holidays. Until then, we will, at the shelter’s request, sponsor a Montgomery County, MD, POTOMAC, BETHESDA/CHEVY CHASE AREA fostering program during the holidays. The shelter has tried that program with some success in the past in Cumberland and would like to try it in the Montgomery County, MD, POTOMAC, BETHESDA/CHEVY CHASE AREA, at least on an experimental basis.

02/12/2025

Today is Giving Tuesday.
If you like what FOACAS is doing, if you read our posts, if you cheered on Nora whose vision was restored, Lyla, whose walking and mobility were restored, Noah, who left the shelter after 126 other rescues turned him down, then donate what you can.
If you follow the story about our saving Lucy and her 8 week old babies, if you like that tomorrow we are rescuing three starved Great Dane pups, if you like that FOACAS not only rescues but rehabilitates, that we take ignored dogs out of rural shelters and give them freedom and good homes, then donate, please donate, what you can.
www.foacas.org
One click saves another life.

26/11/2025

We said goodbye to Bennett today, a puggle thrown into the streers at the age of ten. He was sick , and our vet did her best , but we think he was thrown out on the streets because he was so sick.
Bennett left us for his eternal peace after only one week , but this time surrounded by love and being told that he mattered.
His bravery lives on in our newest rescues, Nicholas, another abandoned senior, a poodle, and Coco, who turns out not to be a senior, just a grossly neglected little shih tzu also thrown into the streets.
His bravery lives on in Lucy, the fearless bernese mother of our eight puppies, and it lives on in Scarlett, a maltipoo who spent much of her first puppy year mistreated.
And it lives on in Fletcher, the beautiful but grossly emaciated blue tick coonhound who celebrates his first year of good health and freedom with Santa.
And to honor Bennett, FOACAS never says no.
Except today, when someone emailed and asked if her family could “visit all our hypoallergenic canines.”
We said no, we do not have any hypoallergenic canines.
We have needy dogs. All of them are beautiful. All of them are good. And all of them deserve homes.
With all of our efforts defying an increasingly cruel world, Bennett will live on.
And FOACAS will never say no to any dog that calls for us.
www.foacas.org

13/11/2025

LUCY THE SUFFERING BERNADOODLE AND HER 8 BABIES ARE SAFE WITH FOACAS.

Poor beautiful Lucy! A thoughtless owner would not spay her. Lucy had puppies. And then on Halloween day had eight more puppies.
The owner scooped up the day old puppies, threw them into a box, and demanded that a besieged shelter take them and bottle feed them. The puppies, she said, were a nuisance.
The shelter stood its ground and demanded nursing Lucy. The owner finally relented, demanding Lucy’s return when she had finished nursing.
Lucy and her babies were living in the shelter. But yesterday, Mama and her now two week old babies, almost a pound apiece, took a 2 1/2 hour drive to FOACAS Land, where they are safe and warm in foster care. Away from owner cruelty.
We wil need to stock up on blankets, pads, eggs and cottage cheese for Lucy, tiny winter coats, a large coat for Lucy, and monetary donations for their vet care within the next few weeks. If you can help, please send us a private message here or at [email protected] Or donate whatever amount you can to www.foacas.org
Nine lives need you.

11/11/2025

THIS DEPORTATION VICTIM NEEDS A HOME Please share

From the minute we saw his photo, we fell in love with Stanley. What a cutie!
Stanley is also handsome, friendly, outgoing, energetic, a yard enthusiast who loves other dogs and children. He is a year old and we believe fully grown at only 22 pounds. The vet called him a Jack Russell with a touch of beagle.
You would never guess that his previous owner tearfully had to leave him behind . You would never guess that a family member walked him a mile in the wind to meet us, give him a farewell hug, and ask for photos when he was adopted - to send to her deported relative. The love and the sorrow were palpable.
Stanley is fully vetted, neutered and microchipped. Can you share his story and help him find a new permanent home?
He is at www.foacas.org

31/10/2025

NORA HAS HER VISION AND NOW JUST NEEDS A HOME.
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If FOACAS Rescue ever needed one word to define its mission, its success and its passion, that word would be Nora.
We took a blind, neglected stray girl with no hope, raised thousands of dollars, helped transport her three hours, and arranged for her ophthalmologic surgery in DC.
It was a success.
For the first time in years Nora could see. The world opened in colors for her.
Nora can walk, go up and down stairs, play with a ball, greet children, and sit by the window and watch the day. She is a 17 pound Havanese, about 7 years old. No one is cuter, sweeter or more good natured.
Nora is spayed, microchipped, fully vetted , house trained and good with other dogs.
Nora only needs one thing to make her life complete.
You.
Do you have a warm spot for this brave girl? A place to call home?
Please apply for her at www.foacas.org. Email any questions to [email protected]
Nora is all about conpassion and hope and good deeds. Can you be the best good deed of all for her?

27/10/2025

FIVE ADORABLE YOUNG SHI TZUS NEED FOSTERS
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Do we have the Shi tzus! Five, to be exact! Three girls and two boys.
They range from 12 pounds to 15 pounds. Mom is about three and the pups are about 8 months old. All are tan and white and ADORABLE. They are being groomed tomorrow. If you can foster, please apply at www.foacas.org They will all be available for adoption.
Please email [email protected] with any questions.

18/10/2025

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This is the hardest post we have had to write in the 15 years we have been advocating for homeless dogs, years before the founding ofour miraculous rescue group.
FOACAS Rescue has found homes for every dog we have ever posted.
Not one dog has ever landed back in a shelter.
But the dog we are writing about today is young, sweet, smart and a staffy, who in the next five weeks will have nowhere to go and cannot return to a shelter that will euthanize him.
Do you remember Noah? We wrote about him in the spring. He was 18 months old then and set to be euthenized at the shelter because he had bad allergies and the shelter had no funds in the budget to treat him.
They appealed to 127 rescues to save him. Only FOACAS Rescue agreed to give him a chance.
The entire shelter staff joyously waved goodbye to Noah as he rode to freedom. He had been a.shelter favorite.
We found a foster to take him.
We found the money to treat his allergies.
Noah’s hair grew back. He is now a beautiful copper. He plays with puzzles and toys, knows commands, loves to fetch, and hugs everyone he sees. He is a wiggly sweet baby of about 65 pounds. His fosters adore him.
But they must move back overseas. We need to find Noah a home within five weeks.
If we cannot, this now 24 month old sweetheart once again faces death.
He should be the only dog in the household. He is great with children and adults. He actually adores children. He walks well on a leash, and FOACAS will provide the funds for him to continue to work with his trainer. His only medical care is a medicated bath twice a week and a shot once a week. We will pay for that, if needed.
We can consider a long term foster. What would be ideal is finding him a family of his own.
Noah is in real danger of losing his life without a home. He has a big heart, he has a bubbly personality, he has a life that could stretch out like any other living soul … if we can only find a place to love him.
You can apply for Noah at www.foacas.org Please call or text John Camp with any questions at 301 529 1059.
Noah needs a lifeline, and Noah pleads for his life.

09/10/2025

Oh, Alice, do we love you! Who wouldn’t? You are peppy, pretty, playful and polite. You love children. You love other dogs. You love car rides. You are snuggly and affectionate and you charm everyone.
You are our 8 month old , spayed and microchipped fun Jack Russell, with cute spots and big eyes. What a great family dog you are!
Please share sweet Alice. All she needs is a home as loving as she is! Apply at www.foacas.org

06/10/2025

FOACAS FIRST ADOPTION EVENT A BIG SUCCESS!

Did we have the weather! Did we have the volunteers! And did we have the crowd!

Thank you, our volunteers, friends and supporters, for a touching day of alumni dogs, warm wishes- and 11 dogs that rocked Park Potomac!
We have already received applications for Benjy, Nora, Princess Anne, Happy, Malcolm, Stacey, and Skyler. For those of you who spent time with Alice, Pia and Rollie, they are waiting for your applications. The day was too overwhelming for Little Logan, but he is now bouncy and lovable again at his foster home and deserves his private viewings.
FOACAS is all about second chances and never saying no. Thank you for saying yes.

04/10/2025

THREE LITTLE DOGS WITH SHOCKING STORIES ADDED TO OUR ADOPTION EVENT SET FOR TOMORROW.
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Benji is a 6 ish year old handsome Cairn terrier with a heart of gold. His owner had no succession plan when she died, and poor Benji ended up in a shelter. Then his owner’s will was read, saying her fervent wish was that Benji be euthanized and his ashes placed in her coffin.
FOACAS rescued Benji immediately. He is sweet, neutered and loves children, dogs and cats. Meet him tomorrow!
Malcolm is an 11 month old 13 pound Westie, a white Cairn, stabbed in the leg by a vagrant in Baltimore. He has a bandage, but the vet says he is 100 percent healing and will be perfect. He is sweet, affectinate, and curious, and loves children and other dogs.
Meet him tomorrow!
And Stacey is a beautiful mini schnoodle, 13 pounds, 8 months old, who was surrendered to a shelter vecause her owner, who paid thousands to a breeder, did not want to pay a vet to repair her cherry eye. FOACAS has arranged for that minor repair on October 22nd. Meet her tomorrow!

02/10/2025

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28/09/2025

FOACAS RESCUE’S FIRST ADOPTION EVENT! ON THE GREEN AT PARK POTOMAC.
( by Harris Teeter)

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