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GreenePets Foster Network, Inc.

Mission Statement

To serve animals in need through rescue, foster and adoption.  Rescuing unwanted, neglected and abused animals, providing foster care, training, medical attention,  socialization, and finding permanent caring, loving, family homes for adoption.  GreenePets promotes responsible pet ownership, spay/neuter programs, and animal welfare education.

Founded in 2004, GreenePets Foster Network, Inc. 
is a 501c3 nonprofit in East Tennessee

GreenePets has been in operation since 2004, serving the Upper East Tennessee area.

In 2007, we partnered with CrittersWork Service Dog Partners, Inc. and we now foster Service Dogs in Training as well as our own adoptable pets.

Our partnership  with All Creatures Country Club kennels and training center enables us to operate as a full rescue.  We can never find enough foster homes to support our dogs in rescue.

Volunteers are needed all the time, and we would appreciate hearing from you.  

We are no-kill, which means when we accept a dog into our rescue, until a forever home is found for that individual, they stay with us.  Sometimes the dog will never find that special forever home.  We are dedicated to each dog throughout their life.

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NOTICE:
Due to the number of flippers and scammers we are encountering, background checks are run on all information provided to us.

IRS approves tax deduction for fostering expenses.  
Foster must be volunteering for a 501c3 charity...like 
GreenePets Foster Network, Inc!

Our dogs love to sleep on Kuranda dog beds, but we don't have enough for everyone. If you would like to donate a bed at a special wholesale price for another dog to sleep in comfort, please donate a Kuranda dog bed.

Why Do We Rescue?

Wow, now this is a complicated question.  We never intended to, these things just come about, because there are those who for some reason don't seem to understand responsibility.

We started long before GreenePets was founded, each of our dogs throughout our married life were in some stage of homelessness when they chose us, and did I ever tell you about the kitten that came for a weekend, and stayed 14 years? 

I guess someone has to step up to the plate.  It is sad though, because only so many pets can live in the house with us, currently five, which leaves others to live in the kennels.  Some of them have also been with us since 2003, like Maddie for instance. 

It takes a great deal of work to keep long-term kenneled dogs entertained enough and given enough activities to keep them happy and healthy.  Maddie, has the run of the place, though she prefers her kennel be available to her at all times.

Our rescue dogs are very fortunate that we work hard to make sure they are exercised and have activities to make their lives happy and whole, and it is extremely sad that these three adorable dogs have never been adopted.

The little dog digging after a grub in the picture came to us after she had been abandoned at age 5 weeks suffering with Parvo Virus.  She was saved by the wonderful vets at Greeneville Animal Hospital.  GreenePets paid her astronomical medical bills, and later the woman who had found her decided she could not house train her; she was turned over to GreenePets at age seven weeks.  Cricket became her GreenePets name, and she went on to find a very special home on Main Street in Greeneville where she is much loved, and rules the roost.  I warned her new parents that she would need a definite leader in the home, or she would take over... ;>)

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Meet Maddie - GreenePets Mascot

Maddie was a special dog who who was never adopted.  She couldn't cope with life without the certain pals she had selected as her pack.  We tried to get her a home, and she kept breaking out and trying to come back to us.

Maddie was rescued with her siblings from the banks of the Nolichuckey River in May of 2003.  Someone allowed this litter to be born, and then when they were about weaning age, they dumped them to fend for themselves on the riverbank.  You don't want to know my view of people that can do a thing like that.  It took my husband and I over an hour to round all those puppies up out of the overgrowth and trash on that riverbank.

Maddie was an adorable dog who is was also very hyper specific about her world.  She was able to cope with life with us, so with us she stayed her entire life.  At one point she decided to open up and add new human friends that she would trust and look forward to interacting with. 

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