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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 equi

pment 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

11/07/2025

👀 We are looking for some local dog trainers in the Ventura County area and/or close to Thousand Oaks/Newbury Park and surrounding areas. Specifically we would like trainers that are willing to work with a rescue, who offer rescue rates (we operate off donations) and who are patient to work with fearful, non-aggressive dogs and have a desire to help them and take pride in their progress. They also must board or have a boarding facility.

We find ourselves rescuing dogs that have been out for months at a time who need proper socialization skills, and sometimes it goes beyond what our team can accommodate. We do our best to foster dogs like this, but occasionally we will get a dog in that really requires some long-term help. Training and boarding can be vital to helping them adapt to a "normal" home life, so that they can be ready for adoption.

These types of dogs usually do not do well in a shelter environment, and would otherwise potentially be in danger if we took them there, so we do our best to give them all the tools they need to find their forever homes, training included. The reward of watching these dogs transform is so fulfilling!

Mulligan is our next candidate up for a training program and we would love to get him into one as soon as possible. Please message our page directly if you are a trainer or you can email us at [email protected]

Please share to help!
Thank you!

10/07/2025

It is with deep sorrow that we share the passing of Barbara Sullivan, a beloved supporter and cherished honorary team member of our Dog Days family. Barbara was more than a donor or advocate, she was family and the mother of our very own team member, Chris Sullivan. 💔

For 11 years, she stood beside us in our work, not only with generous contributions, but with unwavering belief in what we strive to achieve. Every reuniting story or dog we saved, was a bright spot in her day.

While we mourn the loss of Barbara, we also hurt for Chris and the entire Sullivan family. We extend our deepest condolences to her family, friends and loved ones. May you find comfort in knowing the lasting impact Barbara had on so many furry lives.

Rest in peace, Barbara. Your love for animals and your memory will forever be honored in the work we do. Please keep watch and say hi for us, to those who have already crossed the rainbow bridge.

A celebratory mass in Barbara's honor will be held on Saturday, July 19, 2025, at 10:00 AM at St. Jude's Catholic Church, Westlake Village. In lieu of flowers, the family kindly requests
donations to three charities Barbara proudly supported:

Furry Funding: www.furryfunding.org
Special Olympics: support.specialolympics.org
Sapwi Bike Park: https://www.gofundme.com/f/donate-to-sapwi-bike-park-maintenance-fund

09/07/2025

In case you missed the update and video from Yesterday! Here is another update post & pic of Oreo!

Blown away! Thats how amazed we were when you all donated towards Oreos medical bills! Thank you for allowing us to pay that surgery bill in full!

How is Oreo? Well this cutie pie is just the most amazing, adorable pup ever! He is still learning how to reuse his leg that he would drag around, but he is playful, smart and having fun with his toys. How someone could have just left him like that out there, with such a bad leg and emaciated, is so hard to comprehend.

Oreo was given strict orders to USE his leg right after surgery and he has done so since! This is helping to build up his muscles again. Poor guy also had worms, earlichea and kennel cough, but is through most of that and on the mend! During all of that, he was still just a happy dog!

Oreo will be available for adoption soon and hopes to find a forever home ready for an active, funny, affectionate, cute boy!

Sorry we are so late on the update! He has been in foster with one of our teammates, and we will share some more updates soon. We just love him! 😍

Thank you all! We have the best supporters ever!! ❤️

His original rescue story is here:
https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1Ad2YfN2oM/?mibextid=wwXIfr

08/07/2025

Blown away! Thats how amazed we were when you all donated towards Oreos medical bills! Thank you for allowing us to pay that surgery bill in full!

How is Oreo? Well this cutie pie is just the most amazing, adorable pup ever! He is still learning how to reuse his leg that he would drag around, but he is playful, smart and having fun with his toys. How someone could have just left him like that out there, with such a bad leg and emaciated, is so hard to comprehend.

Oreo was given strict orders to USE his leg right after surgery and he has done so since! This is helping to build up his muscles again. Poor guy also had worms, earlichea and kennel cough, but is through most of that and on the mend! During all of that, he was still just a happy dog!

Oreo will be available for adoption soon and hopes to find a forever home ready for an active, funny, affectionate, cute boy!

Sorry we are so late on the update! He has been in foster with one of our teammates, and we will share some more updates soon. We just love him! 😍

Thank you all! We have the best supporters ever!! ❤️

His original rescue story is here:
https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1Ad2YfN2oM/?mibextid=wwXIfr

06/07/2025

June seemed to be a month with a lot of dumped dog help requests. It happened to be a record month for owner lost pet requests as well.

Our small but mighty team trudged on, and as always we do what we can but we were feeling quite overwhelmed.

With our local California shelter referring our team for what seemed like every loose dog, we had to unfortunately prioritize the dogs in need.

Owners missing pets were first priority, then, single loose/potentially dumped dogs were next, with pairs of loose/dumped coming in 3rd.

We hate to have to choose who we save and when but that is the sad reality of it.

Amber, who lives in the outskirts of Santa Paula reached out about an emaciated doberman/great Dane mix. She was seeing her in an orchard and when she saw people, she would run away.

We asked Amber to feed and water her daily. We asked to create a pattern with her, a specific feeding time to help cut down on how long it should take to trap her. Amber did great, feeding her 2x a day. They would arrive, call out to her and when they went back to their cars, here she came, grateful for the bowl of food.

Once a pattern was established, we had her contact Animal Control to bring out a trap. Inundated with calls, our team had traps for owner dogs all over the county and couldn't immediately help. There were currently 9 dogs needing to be trapped and this girl was first on the list, when we were available.

Animal control dropped the trap but she wanted nothing to do with it. Amber tried conditioning her but she refused and on day 3, began feeding her outside of the trap again.

We decided that we had to intervene. A lone dog in an orchard is a sitting duck for coyotes. We knew she was in imminent danger. The 4th of July was coming and Santa Paula becomes a war zone. We had one shot to get her and very limited time.

We removed a trap on an owner dog in Ojai, drove to Santa Paula and set the trap up across from the original trap and feeding area. We shoved it up under the trees to camouflage it. It was baited with ribs, chicken and kielbasa! Amber whistled and called for her and 6 minutes later, she was at the trap. Intrigued by the smells, she was cautious. She'd circle it, smelled it, and even grabbed a stick or two that were covered with liquid smoke! She wanted in but she would just walk away.

She was used to people coming and leaving her food. So we'd walk back to the trap, drop a few more morsels and leave. Within minutes, she was there again, examining what we had left.

This went on for about 2 hours. Finally, as the sun was starting to set, she walked in the trap, unable to resist the amazing food!

This poor girl was out for over a month on her own and finally safe!

Did we feel guilty that we couldn't capture her sooner? Of course we did, but as an all volunteer team, with limited time, we did the best we could.

We scanned her but she didn't have a microchip. She was a sweet girl. Letting us pet her as she waited in the intake room of the shelter. She now waits for her owner, she had one at one point because she had a harness and leash on when she was originally spotted in May. If they don't reclaim her, she will be available on July 8th for adoption.

We cannot thank Amber enough for feeding her and trying to keep her safe. Without her, we are not sure she would have made it.

If you are interested in adopting this gorgeous girl, please visit her at Ventura County Animal Services, 600 Aviation Dr, Camarillo. Her A # is A867625

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.

04/07/2025

🇺🇸 Happy 4th of July to everyone! Please be safe today and remember to also keep your pets safe! Our team has already been out helping lost animals this week.

They have been staging near fireworks shows, scanning lost dogs for microchips and continuing to help owners with active lost dog cases.

If you find a lost dog after the firework shows tonight, please do what you can to keep that dog safe until owners can be found. Our shelters will be overflowing, so anything you can do to hang onto a lost dog for a few hours while you look for owners would be appreciated and may save a kennel for another found dog. If you do find a lost dog, please take a picture and post it up on your local community pages and missing pet pages including Facebook and Next-door.

Thank you and wish all the dog rescuers luck tonight and the next few days!

03/07/2025

Did you know 4th of July is the WORST time of the year for Lost Dogs! They panic, escape, get lost, and often hit, injured or killed by cars. They break out of fencing, jump through windows and even off 2nd story balconies. Many new adopters have no idea how their dog (or cat) will react to fireworks so you should assume and prepare for the worst.
Start by having collars with tags and contact info on your dogs!

Get a cheap collar at the dollar stores! Grab a sharpie and write your number on if you don't have a tag!

A simple collar and phone number can also save you $$ in reclaim fees from the shelter (if you are in a shelter area) but most important it will help get your dog or cat returned to you quicker if found!

Don't let your dog become a statistic. Keep them safe!

For those with dogs that are not bothered by fireworks, you are very lucky and this message is not for you but could help someone else you know.

Thank you! The Dog Days Search & Rescue team.🐾

02/07/2025

🛑 🇺🇸 Just a reminder 4th of July is almost here and many of you are already hearing fireworks in your cities! Get your pets a tag with your current phone number now! Should they go missing this will help us and anyone that finds them, reunite with you quickly! Please share!

01/07/2025

**3 days left until the 4th of JULY! Get your pets microchip info UPDATED and tags and collars on NOW!!! Fireworks are going to get worse tonight so don't wait! Contact your local vet or pet store to get your pet microchipped if you have not already! REMEMBER - Microchips are NOT GPS detectors… you MUST register them with your information! Thank you! The Dog Days Search & Rescue Team!

30/06/2025

DOG DAYS are upon us! The countdown has begun to the 4th of July! Our busiest day and weekend of the year for lost dogs. Many of you have already experienced memorial day fireworks in your areas and we are already seeing lots of dogs loose.

NOW is the time to do your part. See below for a few of the most important tips to follow. NOW is the time to get those collars on, NOW is the time to get your tags on with current numbers and NOW is the time to get your microchips updated. Also, call in your prescriptions soon for meds if thats what your dog needs during the night of the 4th.

Make sure your RELIABLE dog sitters are dialed in if you are going to need one.
CHECK all your gate locks and fencing now to make sure they are secure as even the dogs who normally won't jump, dig or climb or leave a back yard, WILL GET OUT during fireworks if left with access to the yard.

For those of you with local missing pet/lost pet pages in your cities, please be sure to contact those pages directly with any lost or found dogs the day and night of the 4th that you may find. This will help owners and rescuers and the shelters.

The shelter intakes and resources will be MAXED! Anything you can do to help a found dog by posting them on a missing pet page, getting them scanned for a chip, putting up a hand written found flyer in the area and holding onto them for a bit would help the Shelters, help the Dogs and the Search and Rescue Teams.
Thank you!!!

30/06/2025

posters, Posters, POSTERS!!

Why do we say it? Because posters work! We have a great example to share of how well posters work with the recent recovery of a little French Bulldog named Kiwi, who went missing in Oxnard, CA.

When Cara and her family went on vacation recently, they left their dog with family. When they returned, they were horrified to discover that little Kiwi was missing. A sighting came in right away, but it was from two nights earlier and there had been no sightings since. Little Kiwi seemed to have just vanished off the face of the Earth. The worst thing about this, is that Kiwi had gone missing once before. Someone had stolen him and Cara was very lucky to get him back. She was traumatized to say the least. So, when someone contacted her on Facebook to tell her that someone else had messaged them after sharing her post, she was thrilled to get a picture of a dog that looked like hers. She shared the picture with us and we were immediately concerned. The picture showed the dog's face. It was blown up, but it did not show any of the dog's body. Red flag number one. We asked Cara how many pictures she may have of Kiwi online? She didn't think there were many and she was certain that this picture wasn't one of hers. However, we did a little digging and we were able to find some pictures and even some video of Kiwi. It isn't difficult for a scammer to take a video and pull a picture from it. That would make it seem like it was a new picture that an owner would not feel like they had ever taken or seen. As if that wasn't bad enough, it appeared the person messaging her was working with the scammer. They both had created FB profiles the day before, and they were each other's only friends. Red flag number 2. The scammer deleted every text message he sent immediately after Cara read it, and wanted game cards as a form of payment. Red flag number 3. He worked hard to try and extort hundreds of dollars from Cara. Thank goodness she listened to us and allowed us to guide her through her communication with this person. By the end, she was convinced,as were we, that this horrible person definitely did not have her dog.

We had been telling Cara to get posters up for Kiwi from the beginning of the case. Cara knew she needed to do it, but with two kids, a husband, and a full-time job, she wasn't finding enough time in her day. We also feel that like many others, Cara really did not understand the value of these simple hand-made posters when there was so much to do on social media, but this was, indeed, a huge error.

Justice, on our team, knew it was crucial to get posters up if they were going to get Kiwi back, and because she lived nearby, she took some time to make a few for them and went over and hung them in strategic locations around their neighborhood. Two days later they got the phone call they were hoping for. Someone had found their dog the week before but did not know that anyone was looking for him or how to contact them. Due to the posters, they were able to meet with the person and get Kiwi back home with his family.

We can only hope that this might serve as another good example of why we always say please do posters right away. The faster you do, the faster you could have your missing pet return to you and save yourself the worry, frustration, and access to scammers that poor Cara and her family had to endure.

This is also a good reminder that when you find a pet, the finder also has the responsibility of searching for an owner. Kiwi was microchipped, but wasn't taken to the vet to check. The finder also needs to post as found on social media, report to the shelter and hang found posters as well.

Welcome home Kiwi!!

24/06/2025

🆘 Oreo Update! We did not raise enough money to cover poor Oreo's surgery. 😢

When we got the call from law-enforcement about a stray dog that had been hanging out behind a Dollar General Store in Tennessee, we had no idea he would be in this condition. He was emaciated and starving, his back leg injured and he was covered in ticks. He was young and he begged us for food and help. Our hearts broke for him and we promised him we would help.

We took him to the vet where, after his X-rays, we found out his back leg has the ball/head of his femur broken off! Broken and just sitting there in the pelvis area. This poor boy was in pain.

In a county where there is NO animal control and NO animal shelter, we stepped up to help a dog in our community, who needed help. We promised him we would help.

So we got him the surgery he needed!

The vet said his injury looked old. That he had been living like this for a while. With bone on bone rubbing, in pain and with a lot of muscle atrophy.

We also have a $2000 balance at Copeland Vet. We are an all volunteer organization. This is now a debt we have taken on. We cannot help dogs like Oreo without your help.

Oreo is no longer in pain, giving us kisses to thank us and relearning how to use his now, good leg. He is now on the mend, up to date on shots and neutered. Recovering from surgery he is sweet and working through it all with love in his eyes and a fighting spirit, determined to walk properly again soon.

No owner has come forward.

If you are able to help us with this unexpected financial hit, we would greatly appreciate any donation amount! A big thank you to those that have donated. Oreo sends puppy kisses your way!

How to help Oreo? You can call in a donation directly to Copelands Vet @931-528-1111. Just say its for Oreo under Dog Days SAR. He doesn't want to go back and work his debt off there so he appreciates any help!

You can also send money to us via:

PayPal:
https://dogdayssar.com/donate
Or Venmo -SAR (7778 verification)
Or Zelle @ [email protected]

If your local and want to write a check we will take that as well, just send us a message here.

All Donations are tax deductible.

Thank you to all! We really appreciate you!

His Original story
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