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Last Chance Arkansas
P.O. Box 242703
Little Rock, AR 72223-0030

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Last Chance Arkansas

Last Chance for Arkansas Animals is a 501(c)(3) non-profit animal rescue organization dedicated to rescuing animals in partnership with Little Rock Animal Services

 

Mission Statement

Last Chance Arkansas is a 501(c)(3) non-profit, all volunteer, organization whose primary mission is to help reduce the number of homeless companion animals in the Little Rock Animal Services shelter and to assist in the care of the animals that are in the shelter.

To achieve these goals we:

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  • Photograph the animals in the shelter and post their pictures on our website to help promote adoptions and to reunite lost pets with their owners.
  • Work with out-of-state rescue organizations that are willing to take LRAS' dogs into their programs and place them into loving homes.

  • Facilitate out-of-state adoptions of LRAS' animals.

  • Aggressively promote spaying or neutering of all companion animals to help reduce the number of stray, abandoned and neglected animals that would otherwise have to be taken in by LRAS.

  • Promote volunteerism by recruiting volunteers to help care for the animals at LRAS and to assist at special events.

Core Values

We believe that our first and foremost responsibility is to the animals and that we can best help the animals by working in a cooperative, positive and forthright manner with Little Rock Animal Services and by serving as an ambassador between Little Rock Animal Services and the community.

We believe that every adopted or rescued animal must be spayed or neutered before being placed into an adoptive home or leaving our custody. We believe that the only exception to this policy should be when a veterinarian determines that the animal is too sick, too old, to ever be able to survive the spay or neuter surgery, and then only if the animal is adopted by a responsible person who will not, under any circumstances, allow the animal to reproduce.

We believe that it is our responsibility to ensure that every dog we rescue is as healthy as possible before we send them to other communities. Therefore, we will keep all dogs in our foster care for at least 14 days after pulling them from the shelter before transporting them out-of-state. We will ensure that every dog receives quality veterinary care, and is properly vaccinated, before being transferred to another recue or to an adopter.

We believe that it is our responsibility to ensure that we are not endangering dogs, or putting them into bad situations. Therefore, we will thoroughly evaluate every potential adopter and rescue group that wants to adopt or rescue a dog from Little Rock Animal Services before we agree to assist them with the adoption or rescue.

We believe that dogs that exhibit aggressive tendencies, either towards people or other animals, are not the best candidates for rescue or adoption into homes. Although we recognize that there are many reasons a dog might act in an aggressive manner, there are simply more dogs needing homes than we can possibly save so we feel it is best to put our limited resources to use rescuing dogs that don’t exhibit questionable temperament.