If you do not have a Camp Cocker alumni dog, please understand that we will try our best to help you but that it will mean us being taken away from our primary rescue mission of trying to save dogs from being killed in the shelters.  Please understand that we do not have a rescue facility where you can drop off your dog, that we do not have enough foster homes ever and when we get a new foster home, it is used so we can save a dog from being killed in a shelter.  Please understand that we do not offer free dog sitting, that we do not offer free medical or obedience training for your dog.  What we expect from you is that you will put in the time and the effort to help your dog be ready for adoption, and in return, we will put in our time and effort to seek out an appropriate new home for your dog.  It is not realistic that we can find a good home in a matter of days or weeks.  It is realistic that a new home might be found in a month or two.   If you have waited untl the very last minute to find a new home for your dog, we cannot help you.   Please understand that if you bring your dog to a kill shelter, its chances are very good that it will end its life there.  If you are prepared to keep your dog for as long as it takes for us to find a good home, or if you are prepared to find a friend or family member to keep your dog safe while we try to find a new home, then please proceed to fill out the rest of the form.  We look forward to working with you!

Thank you so much for contacting Camp Cocker Rescue to try to get some assistance with rehoming your dog.  We appreciate that you are not bringing your dog to a shelter.  In the Los Angeles area, there are thirty high kill shelters and on a daily basis, about ten new cocker spaniels end up in those shelters.  Of those ten new dogs a day, about four of them will be killed in the shelter.  The shelters are extremely overcrowded; your dog will be thrown into a small kennel with so many dogs that often there is no room to lie down and they have to stand in each other's urine and defecation.

Many people do not realize how a dog ends its life in a shelter.  It is not done in a gentle quiet and peaceful way like at a private vet.  Your dog will have a rope looped around its neck, and it will be dragged down a hallway passing other stressed out barking dogs in overcrowded cages.  It will smell the death the moment it enters the medical room.  There is often no sedation given first like at a private vet.  The dog is thrown on a medical table and jabbed with a needle.  If the dog resists or tries to scream or yelp or move, it will be smacked in the head or have a towel thrown over its face until the injection takes effect.   Shelters are understaffed and more dogs are entering than will ever get to leave.  Shelter workers have to kill the dogs quickly, in an assembly line, and the bodies get tossed on one another in a freezer.  Shelter workers do not have the time to comfort your dog or be gentle or talk to it first or to give it a last meal.  This is the most horrific way for someone's pet dog to spend the last few weeks and few moments of its life.

If you are ready to go to any lengths to ensure your dog does not end up in a shelter, then please begin the owner relinquishment form here: