Westie Rescue USA is a national home base for reputable organizations and individuals that volunteer their time and efforts to rescue, rehabilitate, and rehome West Highland White Terriers (Westies) in the United States. It is also the home of Westie Rescue – Mid-Atlantic Region, a nonprofit organization based in Virginia.
Our Impact
1,449+ | 258+ | 94.7% | 389+ | 487+ |
| Westies rescued, rehabilitated, and re-homed – Westie Rescue – Mid-Atlantic Region. Now on our 33rd year of service. | Additional Westies helped by Westie Rescue groups all across the USA in 2023 | Operating Expenses going to pay off Veterinary bills (2023) | Donors who helped our programs pay off $105,107.00 in Vet Medical Bills (2023) | Calls/email requests from owners asking for help with Westie issues – Medical/Behavior/Socialization (2023) |
What is Westie Rescue?
All across the United States, independent Westie Rescue organizations and their volunteers are helping to identify Westies at risk of homelessness or death, fostering them, getting them well needed Vet care, and placing them into permanent “forever” homes.
Our dogs come from lots of places. Some are surrendered to rescue from a private homes, seniors unable to care for themselves or their Westie, financial hardships, and animal shelters. Other rescues come in from backyard breeders or “puppy mills,” where unprincipled business owners breed dogs for profit at a massive scale without regard to the dogs in “their care.”
We believe all dogs should be held harmless for their circumstance.
Through collaboration with other organizations, donations from private individuals and foundations, and the tireless work of volunteers, hundreds of Westies and other small dogs are saved each year from indignity, pain, and needless death.
Westie Rescue volunteers have helped over 10,600 Westies get the care they need to be ready for their new homes.
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Pups in pots - “Ok, it was funny to you, now let us out.”