We’re so proud to be a part of this long-standing tradition of Best of the Bay, brought to you by 48 Hills and The Bay Guardian. Thank you to everyone who voted for us; we are deeply honored and grateful to be part of such an amazing … [Read more...] about 51st Annual “Best of the Bay” Animal Rescue Winner: Rocket Dog Rescue!

We've teamed up with the folks at CUDDLY to provide meals and funding for rescue pets. Through the CUDDLY affiliate program, every time a pet parent makes their first purchase of CUDDLY Food using our unique link, we earn a $35 commission and a meal donation — one pound of food for each bag … [Read more...] about Support Rocket Dog by Ordering Dog Food From CUDDLY!

A night of music, silent auction, sparkles, down-home goodness, and saving lives! TICKETS AVAILABLE NOW! https://secure.thefreight.org/15012/15013-rocket-dog-rescue-benefit-fundraiser-250621     … [Read more...] about Rocket Dog Rescue Benefit! June 21st, 2025 @ The Freight (Berkeley)

We're so proud to be a part of this long-standing tradition of Best of the Bay, brought to you by 48 Hills and The Bay Guardian. Thank you to everyone who voted for us; we are deeply honored and grateful to be part of such an amazing list.   You can read more … [Read more...] about 2024 Best of the Bay Winner! Rocket Dog Rescue: Best Non-Profit

https://www.baywoof.org/featured-article/why-we-do-it-a-grateful-salute-to-my-fellow-rescuers … [Read more...] about Read the Bay Woof Article by Pali Boucher

We are honored and flattered to have won the Best of the Bay 2022 Award for Best Animal Rescue (and runner-up for Best Non-Profit)! What is Best of the Bay? Thousands and thousands of voters expressing their love for the local people, places, and things that make this the Best Place on Earth, the … [Read more...] about Best of the Bay Winner: Rocket Dog Rescue!

Thank you to all of our supporters who voted for us! We so appreciate this award.  HERE ARE THE 2022 TOP ANIMAL SERVICE PROVIDERS AS VOTED FOR BY RESIDENTS IN OAKLAND AND THROUGHOUT THE EAST BAY: Top 5 Reader’s Choice Best Animal Shelter or Rescue Groups in Oakland and the East Bay in … [Read more...] about Best of Oakland: We won! Best Rescue Group in Oakland & the East Bay 2022

Hello, Howl-adays!  Can you believe it's already November? Want to start a new holiday tradition? How about hosting one of our Rocket Dogs?  We have lots of personalities and sizes to fit your home and lifestyle and we would love to match you up.  Fostering is one of the most generous … [Read more...] about Host a Rocket Dog for the Holidays!

Voters in the Bay Guardian/48 Hills 46th annual readers' poll have voted Rocket Dog the Best Animal Rescue in the Bay Area! Thanks to 48 Hills and everyone who voted for us, and congratulations to the runners up in this category, our good friends at Muttville Senior Dog Rescue and the … [Read more...] about 48 Hills Names Rocket Dog the Best Rescue in the Bay for 2021!

Please consider volunteering with Rocket Dog at our sanctuary in Oakland.  We are looking for dedicated and friendly people who can commit to two shifts per week per month for six months.  You will attend a volunteer orientation, and be doing a variety of activities including, but not … [Read more...] about Rocket Dog Rescue Sanctuary Volunteers Wanted!

https://www.ktvu.com/news/oakland-volunteers-help-pregnant-dog-wandering-streets-give-birth-on-valentines-day Read the incredible story of how our volunteers spent weeks trying to save sweet (and pregnant!) Matilda.  Puppies will be available for adoption in May.   … [Read more...] about Rocket Dog Volunteers Rescue Pregnant Dog

Winter is coming! ????Holidays are here✨  Come join Rocket Dog Rescue Saturday December 7, 2019 for our (first ever!) SF Pop Up Shop - featuring an epic gourmet bake sale, incredibly cool one of a kind gift shopping- along with some of the bay areas best local jewelers & … [Read more...] about SF Holiday Pop Up Shop 2019

Welcome to the 44th edition of the Bay Guardian Best of the Bay, hosted by 48 Hills! We’ve been keeping this essential Bay Area tradition alive since we put out the original ballot—the first ever “Best of” in an alternative weekly paper—way back in 1974. Voting commences August 6th and continues … [Read more...] about Best of the Bay 2019 Awards•Vote for Rocket Dog Rescue!

Fantastic news! Rocket Dog Rescue is taking part in Strut Your Mutt, a huge fundraising event that helps to save the lives of homeless pets. Once again, I will be Captain of Team Rocket Dog and I'm looking forward to a succesful event. I’ll be fundraising for Rocket Dog Rescue, and our team goal is … [Read more...] about Best Friends Strut Your Mutt Sept. 7, 2019

*UPDATE:  We did it!!  Thank you to our fabulous Team Rocket Dog 2018 and supporters! We are almost there! Team Rocket Dog 2018 is excited to be participating in Best Friends' annual charity walk, STRUT YOUR MUTT on Sept 29! Our goal of $8500 is at 91%! Translation: we need less than … [Read more...] about Help Us Reach Our Goal!

Join us this year on September 15 and 16 at the Alameda Fairgrounds in Pleasanton for this year's Bay Area Pet Fair! Come up and meet our newly rescued Rocket Dogs who are looking for their forever home. There are many fun activities, vendors, and rescues. Come spend the day! … [Read more...] about Bay Area Pet Fair 2018 is coming up!

We're excited to tell you that Rocket Dog Rescue won Best Humane Organization (San Francisco and East Bay), Best Rescue Group (East Bay) and Best Online Adoption Site in Bay Woof's "Beast of the Bay" Contest! Thank you to all of our wonderful supporters!  We couldn't do it without … [Read more...] about We won! Beast of the Bay Awards 2018

This past Saturday was a very exiting day in Pacifica for the 2018 World Dog Surf Championships and  we were honored to once again be one of their recipients. We are very grateful to Team PFE for the fundraising on our behalf and meeting their $1000 goal!!!!! You can still donate Big congrats … [Read more...] about Congrats to Team PFE at the 2018 World Dog Surf Championships

Best Friends Animal Society’s Strut Your Mutt is a series of charity walks that bring entire communities together to raise money to help save the lives of homeless pets. This fun-filled festival on Saturday September 29th from 1-4pm brings together four-and two-legged participants of all ages who … [Read more...] about Strut Your Mutt 2018 is Coming! Join our Team

FOAS-sponsored events are taking place monthly at Rocket Dog, and people can go to their web page to get information about signing up or donating to support this donor-funded program. Thank you, Friends of OAS, for being part of the solution!  … [Read more...] about Friends of Oakland Animal Services Offer Free Spay/Neuter to Oakland Residents

Rocket Dog is thrilled and delighted to have won the title of Best of the Bay SAN FRANCISCO NON PROFIT. … [Read more...] about Rocket Dog Wins Best Of The Bay Non Profit 2017!

We Did It! Strut Your Mutt raised over $6,000 for animals! September 30, 2017 | Little Marina Green Strut Your Mutt is way more than a charity walk, it’s a fun-filled festival that saves lives! At San Francisco’s Strut Your Mutt this year, Team Rocket Dog 2017 crushed our goal of $5000 and with … [Read more...] about Strut Your Mutt 2017

We have had an amazing year in 2016, saving the lives of over 700 dogs! From taking in 70 dogs in a fresno hoarding case, to over 30 litters of puppies who ran out of time at high kill shelters - 700 dogs lives are forever changed. Thanks to all of our amazing volunteers, fosters, donors, and the … [Read more...] about Over 700 dogs saved in 2016!

Rocket Dog is honored and excited to be featured in "Dog Nation." The dog being evaluated at Oakland Animal Services is a gorgeous mixed breed with a multicolored coat and startling eyes — one brown and one blue. She is also bone-thin and given to self-harm, unable to get used to the cacophony … [Read more...] about Rocket Dog featured in show “Dog Nation.”

We had such a fantastic year, and were able to to save so many lives! In 2015, we saved dogs from high kill shelters, neglect and cruelty situations and stepped in to take in owner surrenders. We are happy to announce that 743 lucky dogs are now in wonderful, forever homes! Thank you for all your … [Read more...] about 743 Dogs adopted in 2015!

Rocket Dog is thrilled and delighted to have won the title of best online adoption site in Bay Woof magazine's 2015 Beast of the Bay Awards. Rocket Dog is also honored to be a runner-up for "best thing to happen to Bay Area dogs in 2014," with the recent opening of our urban sanctuary and adoption … [Read more...] about Rocket Dog Wins Best Online Adoption Site

We did it!!!... Because of YOUR votes, we won BEST CHARITY in the Bay Area on The Bay Area A-List!! Thank you to everyone who voted, shared, and of course to the volunteers who make this organization what it is. We are so thrilled to have this honor … [Read more...] about ROCKET DOG VOTED “BEST CHARITY”

Rocket Dog Rescue Opens Urban Sanctuary And Adoption Center For Saved Animals Non-Profit Volunteer-Based Animal Rescue Gets Its Holiday Wish, Reaches Out To An Underserved Community... SAN FRANCISCO AND OAKLAND, Calif., January 27, 2014 – Rocket Dog Rescue, San Francisco Bay Area’s leading … [Read more...] about Rocket Dog Opens Urban Sanctuary & Adoption Center!

Rocket Dog Rescue was voted "Best Animal Rescue" in the Bay Guardian's BEST OF THE BAY 2013! http://www.sfbg.com/specials/best-bay-2013-readers-poll-city-living … [Read more...] about Rocket Dog Voted “Best Local Animal Rescue” in 2013!

http://www.sfbg.com/specials/best-bay-2012-readers-poll-city-living … [Read more...] about Rocket Dog Rescue voted “Best Non Profit” in SF

When people tell them, “I couldn’t foster because it would be too hard to give the dog up.” They say, “How can it be harder than knowing a dog died because no foster home stepped up?” And that is why they do it time and again. Everyday foster family … [Read more...] about Save a Life, Foster a Dog!

According to the Humane Society of the United States, four million cats and dogs are put down in U.S. shelters every year. That’s one dog or cat every eight seconds. With statistics like these, it’s easy to feel overwhelmed and bury one’s head in the sand. However, 12-time Grammy Award-winning … [Read more...] about Emmy Lou Harris & Pali Boucher TEAM UP!

http://baywoof.com/shelter-zone/rocket-dog-rescue-january-2012/ … [Read more...] about Rocket Dog Celebrates 10 Years of Saving Dogs