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Southern California Golden Retriever Rescue take in Goldens in need of homes, medical care, and love throughout Southern California, including San Diego, Orange, Los Angeles, Ventura, Santa Barbara, Riverside, and southern Kern counties. Our volunteers work with applicants in all those counties to make the most perfect Golden-family match possible.

Our mission is to find loving, lifetime homes for all Southern California Golden Retrievers in need, regardless of conditions or circumstances. We will always strive to heal the sick and injured, rehabilitate the neglected and abused, and nurture the aged and unwanted until we find the perfect family who will shower them with unconditional love.

Our vision is to build a refuge - a sanctuary - to serve as a halfway house where each of our beloved Goldens can rest and recuperate, prior to being placed with a foster or permanent family and moving on in their new lives.

Board of Directors

• Stevi Martin, President
• Barbara Gale, Treasurer
• Jenni Morita, Secretary
• Lynette Findlay, Procedures and Documents
• Lois Neely, Director
• Jan Simmons, Director
• Flori Camhi, Director/Volunteer Coordinator
• Lois Neely, Intake Coordinator

Of Counsel

• Beverly Bradshaw

Consulting Veterinarians

• Dr. Howard Brown, Pet Vet
• Dr. Robert Fisher, Animal Medical Center
• Warner West Pet Clinic
• South Temecula Veterinary Hospital
• Gateway Animal Hospital
• Cottage Pet Hospital

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In this House
(Author unknown)

Here in this house...
I will never know the loneliness I hear in the barks of the other dogs "out there".

I can sleep soundly, assured that when I wake my world will not have changed.

I will never know hunger, or the fear of not knowing if I'll eat.

I will not shiver in the cold, or grow weary from the heat.

I will feel the sun's heat, and the rain's coolness, and be allowed to smell all that can reach my nose.

My fur will shine, and never be dirty or matted.

Here in this house...
There will be an effort to communicate with me on my level.

I will be talked to and even if I don't understand, I can enjoy the warmth of the words.

I will be given a name so that I may know who I am among many.

My name will be used in joy, and I will love the sound of it!

Here in this house...
I will never be a substitute for anything I am not.

I will never be used to improve people's images of themselves.

I will be loved because of who I am, not someone's idea of who I should be.

I will never suffer for someone's anger, impatience, or stupidity.

I will be taught all the things I need to know to be loved by all.

If I do not learn my lessons well, my teachers will blame themselves, not me.

Here in this house...
I can trust the arms that hold, hands that touch...knowing that, no matter what they do, they do it for the good of me.

If I am ill, I will be doctored.

If scared, I will be calmed.

If sad, I will be cheered.

No matter what I look like, I will be considered beautiful and known to be of value.

I will never be cast out because I am too old, too ill, or too unruly, or not cute enough.

My life is a responsibility, and not an afterthought.

I will learn that my humans can almost, sometimes, be as kind and as fair as dogs.

Here in this house...
I will belong.

I will be home.