Phoenix, Arizona
26 of them need out this week.
Every dog on this page is on the Maricopa County priority list. That means a posted deadline and days, not weeks. Some need a rescue partner to pull them. Some you can walk in and adopt today with the fees waived.
You do not have to be a hero, and you do not have to pay the vet bills. What you do need is a spare room and the willingness to be that dog’s home until they are adopted. Think months. Rescues here are foster based, which means there is no building and no kennel to bring a dog back to. Your spare room is the rescue.
This week
Real records
Every dog and date comes from county files
Apply once
One application, then raise your hand per dog
Updated hourly
The list refreshes straight from the county
Volunteer run
No salaries, no call center, just neighbors
The next deadline is Monday, August 31. These are the dogs closest to theirs.
A5170132
1 year, 1 month old · Male · Black / Tan Belg Malinois / Mix
Amadeus is a young Malinois-type dog with a ton of energy and very little impulse control. He knows some commands and wants to engage, but he cycles between frantic arousal and brief pockets of calm, and right now he has no way to manage himself in between. He's been too much dog for the shelter to handle safely.
A5163733
8 years old · Neutered · Black / Brown Min Pinscher / Mix
Rocket is an 8-year-old Min Pinscher mix who spent two months in a home before his owner surrendered him after the bite incident. In the shelter he has been steady and responsive with handlers who move slowly and let him come to them, but his history shows he can escalate when someone he is guarding leaves or when he feels uncertain about a stranger.
A5169620
4 years old · Neutered · Black / Brown German Shepherd
Amarillo is a big shepherd caught between two versions of himself. When the pressure drops and someone moves slowly, he softens—takes treats, allows leashing, even opts to go back inside his kennel on his own. But the kennel environment is eroding him fast, and his frustration now floods over into biting at the leash, thrashing, and redirecting onto handlers when he can't cope. He has five days left and the shelter has named him New Hope Only because he is becoming unsafe to move.
A5170136
12 years old · Female · Brown / Black German Shepherd
Miriam is a senior dog with a soft body and low tail wags, the kind of old girl who needs a minute to trust that you mean well. She froze once on leash when the world felt too big, then settled when given time. She has multiple medical issues that will need care and monitoring.
A5170246
2 years old · Female · Brindle / White Black Mouth Cur / Mix
Ms Silly was found running scared in the streets and brought to a finder who reported no problems, but the shelter terrifies her. She shuts down hard in her kennel and has shown alarm barking, air snapping, and body language that says she is overwhelmed past what she can handle. Outside the kennel she wants connection and will seek out a person, but she is so rattled that sudden sounds or movements send her into a panic.
It lives at dogfoster.org. We will be straight with you: it is long, longer than we want it to be. Fill it in once and you never have to do it again.
Send us the name and the ID number of the dog you saw, by phone or in the form. We are watching that list all day and we will know exactly who you mean.
Most of these dogs need a New Hope rescue to pull them, and we work that side for you. Then you are the placement. These rescues have no facility, so if a foster hands a dog back there is nowhere for that dog to go. Plan on months, not weeks. Plenty of people who open the door end up keeping their dog, and that is a happy ending too.
We are building a shorter version, where you answer about half as many questions a single time and then raise your hand for any dog in one click. It is the next thing we are making.
Happening every day
We watch the county list, film the dogs nobody has seen, write their stories, and find the person or the rescue who moves before the deadline does.
Coming with our nonprofit later this year
The only way this list ever gets shorter is fewer puppies born into it. We are building a fund for the valley neighborhoods where the need is highest.
7 pulled by rescue partners and 3 adopted straight from the shelter. Some of those were ours, some were another group’s. We count them all, because a dog does not care who saved them.
We are The CrAZy Dog People, a volunteer community in Phoenix. Most of you know us as AZ Pound Pups, the pages that show up in your feed with a dog and a deadline. Everyone here has a full-time job. We do this in the hours around it.
We are not a rescue and we are not yet a 501(c)(3). Our nonprofit filing is in motion. Until it lands we will keep saying so plainly, and nothing given to us is tax deductible yet.
What we can do is see every dog on the county list, and make sure you can too.