CCCompassionate Canine Society
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About Compassionate Canine Society
A rescued dog can be part of a new beginning for more than one life. Compassionate Canine Society helps dogs find homes through rescue, fostering, and adoption, while its Empathy for Animals program pairs rescue dogs with youth and young adults for structured lessons in compassion, responsibility, and emotional awareness. Your support helps sustain hands-on care for dogs and education that brings animal welfare into communities.
Compassionate Canine Society connects dog rescue with an eight-week empathy education and diversion program for youth and young adults. Its work also includes animal welfare research, advocacy, education, adoption, fostering, and hands-on care.
Programs
The concrete work this nonprofit runs. Each program may later become a fundable project.
Rescue operations
Rescues dogs in need and works to find them homes.
Adoption
Offers dogs for adoption through an application, reference and veterinary screening, and virtual home check.
Foster care
Provides supplies and veterinary care while foster caregivers provide temporary homes, care, and playtime.
Foster to Adopt
A two-week program allows a potential adopter to foster a dog before deciding whether to adopt.
Empathy for Animals
An eight-week humane education and diversion program pairs rescue dogs saved from euthanasia with youth and young adults to teach compassion, responsibility, and emotional awareness.
Animal welfare advocacy
Advocates for animal welfare and conducts research addressing challenges facing animals.
Animal welfare education
Provides educational resources and promotes empathy, responsible stewardship, and animal welfare.
Counseling services
Provides telehealth counseling for couples and individuals in Texas and New Mexico, including couples counseling, trauma and attachment support, parenting support, and Emotional Support Animal evaluations and letters.
About this work
Mission
Compassionate Canine Society promotes animal welfare through rescue efforts, advocacy, and education.
Who they serve
Dogs in need, prospective adopters and foster caregivers, youth and young adults, schools, diversion and probation programs, community and social service programs, and couples and individuals in Texas and New Mexico seeking counseling.
Need help?
How someone in need can access Compassionate Canine Society’s services.
People interested in adopting or fostering can complete the applicable online application. Judges, probation officers, teachers, social workers, and other community members can refer youth to Empathy for Animals or host a trial session. Couples and individuals in Texas and New Mexico can inquire about telehealth counseling.
In their words
Together, we can give both ends of the leash a second chance!
Every animal deserves to live a life free from suffering.
Ways to help
Concrete needs and volunteer roles Compassionate Canine Society has shared.
Volunteer opportunities
- Provide a temporary home, care, and playtime as a foster caregiver
- Apply for the foster to adopt program
- Support adoption by completing the adoption application and screening process
Frequently asked questions
Common questions about this nonprofit and how its work happens.
How does the Empathy for Animals program work?
The eight-week program pairs participants with rescue dogs through guided activities, reflective exercises, structured discussions, journaling, and quizzes. It can take place in person in select states, by Zoom, or through asynchronous online modules.
Who can partner with Empathy for Animals?
Judges, probation officers, teachers, social workers, and other community members can refer youth, host a trial session at a school or facility, or collaborate on data collection about empathy education.
What does Compassionate Canine Society provide to foster caregivers?
Compassionate Canine Society provides supplies and veterinary care. Foster caregivers provide a temporary home, care, and playtime while helping dogs adjust and prepare for adoption.
What is the foster-to-adopt program?
Foster to Adopt gives a potential adopter two weeks to foster a dog before deciding whether to adopt.
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