Aussie Rescue of Minnesota

Aussie Rescue of Minnesota Aussie Rescue of Minnesota, Inc. All members of ARM are volunteers and receive no monetary compensation for their efforts.

(ARM) is a 501(c)(3) non-profit adoption and referral organization dedicated to placing homeless Australian Shepherds in loving, permanent homes where they will be indoor dogs and be incorporated into their family's life. All of our dogs live in foster homes until a suitable "forever home" can be found.

In the midst of Give to the Max last week, we celebrated two adoptions!Rufus, a stunning 7 year red tri, was adopted by ...
11/27/2025

In the midst of Give to the Max last week, we celebrated two adoptions!

Rufus, a stunning 7 year red tri, was adopted by repeat ARM adopters who came all the way from New Mexico to pick him up! He was surrendered by his owner and was immediately adopted. Happy "fur-ever" after Rufus; enjoy the sunshine and warm weather!

We also celebrated Honey's adoption - she was returned to ARM after her family realized that they couldn't meet her needs. An approved adopter caught our eye and it was love at first sight for Honey and her new owner; we couldn't be more thrilled for Honey and her new home. Congratulations Honey!

Welcome to ARM Piper!Piper is a darling black tri spayed, 8 year old female, who was surrendered by her owner. Piper is...
11/25/2025

Welcome to ARM Piper!

Piper is a darling black tri spayed, 8 year old female, who was surrendered by her owner. Piper is currently being fostered in a home with other dogs and she gets along wonderful with them. Her disposition is so sweet and she is friendly to everyone.

Piper is very affectionate and craves attention. She is crate trained and house broken, she comes when called and behaves very well in the house. Her favorite place is the couch. She would love someone to cuddle with.

Piper keeps her crate clean, she doesn’t bark unless there is a reason to.

In her current foster home, there are no cats or children where she is staying but her foster shares that her temperament indicates that she will get along well with either. She is not afraid of strangers and a friendly voice telling her hello will get her tail wagging. (So if you need a guard dog, Piper is not your gal - she will invite them in for tea and show them where you keep your best jewels!) She has also been caught smiling a couple times.

Piper is an “easy keeper” who prefers to eat once a day - since she can gain weight while breathing air, this means she could stand to lose just a few pounds.

She is an active girl but not too active - she will love some exercise and then time on the couch.

When she is outdoors, her foster will check on her through a window and will catch Piper staring at the door to go back inside. She doesn’t bark or scratch at the door; she wants to be with her people.

The details:

Needs fence: No

Good with dogs: Yes

Good with cats: Likely

Good with kids: Likely

All of our dogs live in foster homes with volunteers. We need an approved application on file to set up a meeting with a dog you might be interested in. You can find our application at www.aussierescuemn.com. All dogs have an adoption fee of $400 plus MN sales tax. We pride ourselves on matches that are awesome for both the dog and your family. Aussie Rescue of MN is here for support, advice, and as a safety net for our dogs for the rest of their lives.

Another foster to adopt success story!Vito found himself looking for a new home when his old family felt that they could...
11/25/2025

Another foster to adopt success story!

Vito found himself looking for a new home when his old family felt that they could not meet his needs. An amazing application came our way looking for a dog that was good with kids and would be a playful companion to their golden and Vito fit the bill. He went right to their home and deemed himself to be the bestest dog a little boy could wish for. His new home loves Vito for who he is and now he is living his happily fur-ever after. Congratulations Vito! ❤🐾❤

This year's Give to the Max event helped us share the stories featuring some of the special dogs we have helped this yea...
11/21/2025

This year's Give to the Max event helped us share the stories featuring some of the special dogs we have helped this year. However, ARM helps many dogs that don't need extraordinary veterinary care before they are ready for their new homes. For 30 years, we have been helping Aussies in need and we have done this with the help and support of our amazing fosters and volunteers. We are proud of our reputation, our many repeat adopters and the 12,000 of you who follow us here on Facebook.

Nearly half of our operating income comes from donations; from people who donate through their employers like Ecolab, New York Life, 3M, Cargill, and Wells Fargo, on a monthly basis.

We also have people who donate thru PayPal each month and we receive gifts as memorials to family members, both human and canine. We have also gotten gifts designated to Aussie Rescue at weddings and birthdays. But truly, the biggest gifts of all are the time and efforts our volunteers put in to help us keep our doors open to help Aussies in need. It is those who give us their time and home that Give to the Max. We thank everyone who help us in some way. ❤

Our Give to the Max page: https://give.mn/1pyf5f

Events like Give to the Max allow us to highlight some of our lesser known causes, such as long-term hospice care for do...
11/20/2025

Events like Give to the Max allow us to highlight some of our lesser known causes, such as long-term hospice care for dogs who are deemed "unadoptable" but deserve to live their final years in dignity with a family that loves them as their own. Riley is one that is living out his days with ARM:

Riley came to rescue when his owner became gravely ill. Some time after he was adopted out, a routine vet visit discovered that his heart had a murmur and was enlarged. With significant added expenses for heart medications and special food for chronic bladder infections, Riley found himself back at ARM in the home of a long-term foster who claims him as her own as she continues to help ARM rescue and foster dogs.

https://give.mn/1pyf5f

A really cool thing about some of our dogs that come through our doors is that they find forever homes as service dogs! ...
11/20/2025

A really cool thing about some of our dogs that come through our doors is that they find forever homes as service dogs! ARM has close connections with trainers who specialized training service pets and sometimes the right match comes across our path for a family in need:

Bella, a vivacious Aussie/Border Collie mix, found herself with ARM after she was pushed from a car in traffic. She was 9 months old at the time and terrified. After Bella arrived, she received needed vet care and brought back to health in her loving foster home. ARM knew Bella was special and as it turns out, so did her adopter.
Bella has since been trained to be a hearing assistance dog who helps her Deaf owner each and every day by learning to overcome distractions to assist her owner by being her "ears".

Betty, a red merle, who came to us as Maple, was an owner- surrender who felt they could not give her the time and attention she deserved. They had followed several rescues and learned of ARM's strict requirements for their adopted homes. In her new home, Betty works as a diabetic alert dog for her owner who is a teacher at an elementary school, and kids are her second favorite things in life. Betty has learned to relax in her spot while class is in session, remaining ready to help her owner.

Dogs like Bella & Betty remind us our work makes a difference.

With your help, we can continue to be here for the Aussies who need us.

Give to the Max: https://give.mn/1pyf5f

ARM is so incredibly fortunate to have a wonderful network of fosters that warmly open their homes and hearts to our res...
11/19/2025

ARM is so incredibly fortunate to have a wonderful network of fosters that warmly open their homes and hearts to our rescue pups. Some of our dogs are "easy" and can be adopted out fairly quickly and others are a long-term project and require a foster that is willing to roll up their shirt sleeves to do some heavy lifting, figuratively and literally.

Happy, beautiful 5 year old blue merle, was surrendered to ARM in November of 2024 from a large volume breeder with 50+ dogs. Happy experienced a lot of firsts that day when she came to rescue: freedom ride, vet visit, living in a house and over the past year, meeting new people.

In April when she came to her current foster home; she was so shut down that she could not learn how to be house trained and she was so scared. Happy spent her first weeks sitting in her kennel with the door open and p*e pads just outside her crate door. She was positioned close to a outside door so she could watch the routine for going out to potty, and smell the outside air.

For a long time, she would come out and potty on pads and quickly retreat back into her crate. She was afraid when leashed so couldn't be lead outside. But a really special moment happened during Memorial Day weekend: she followed her foster and resident foster dogs outside and has been housetrained ever since.

Happy is alert to new sounds and voices outside and shies away from being touched when outside. To encourage her to spend time out of the kennel, the door would have to be latched open when people went outside, otherwise she would choose to stay in her kennel all day. Happy has been slow to expand her comfort zones; choosing to stay in the living room and won't venture to other areas. She seems to be afraid of walking on the linoleum floor in the kitchen.

Initially, Happy was terribly afraid on a leash, would pull away and try to back out of it, but she is making slow progress to accept having a leash on her collar. Her foster shares that Happy isn't a dog you push too hard. It's all about baby steps.

Happy is the sweetest girl, she hasn't shown aggression at all. She is more comfortable with people sitting than standing, she will only come and smell hands for treats. If they reach to touch her she'll move away.

While there is a forever home out there for Happy, it will take a special person/family to realize that it's their home that she's looking for. A adopter that would need to be patient in gaining her trust and accept that she may never become that "velcro" Aussie and instead be the Aussie that finds her peacefully fur-ever after by showing her gratitude with a quiet sigh and relaxed ears from her safe spot in the living room



Help us continue to support dogs like Happy via Give to the Max: https://give.mn/1pyf5f

ARM stands behind the dogs we take in; if for some reason the dog finds themselves needing another chance at a new home ...
11/19/2025

ARM stands behind the dogs we take in; if for some reason the dog finds themselves needing another chance at a new home after being adopted out, we take the dog back. Samuel is one example of this scenario playing out:

Samuel originally came into rescue several years ago and was adopted out to a wonderful home who spoiled him rotten. However, his owner was faced with the realization that after experiencing some medical episodes, they could no longer meet Samuel's needs and tearfully gave him back to ARM. After some time in rescue, Samuel was adopted out to a new home that now has to contend with the fact that dogs, just like children, will absolutely derail any plans to downsize the number of toys in your home... just because....

"Wanted to let you know that Samuel has apparently decided, at 6 months with us, that he likes his toys (again?). We almost threw them out several times as he showed no interest in them since arriving here. Here he is outside with the moose toy, squeaking it and running around, throwing it in the air and catching it. Such happiness. Our conclusion is that he has finally decided this home is permanent... which we had decided on day one."

It's one of the firm philosophies that ARM stand behinds: we are a resource for our Aussies for the rest of their lives and will take them back without question.

Thank you to our wonderful followers and supporters who help us in making this possible!

Who remembers this sweet face?Bobo, age 10, came to rescue as an owner turn in. Unbeknownst to him, she was suffering fr...
11/18/2025

Who remembers this sweet face?

Bobo, age 10, came to rescue as an owner turn in. Unbeknownst to him, she was suffering from a very serious blood related disease with virtually no blood platelets, called Immune-mediated Thrombocytopenia, which may cause uncontrollable bleeding and despite her sweet nature, she was already showing signs. Dr. Jean at Barrington treated her, fell in love and brought her home, for another happily ever after.

Total cost to us to ensure that Bobo would recover and live the rest of her days comfortably was $1712. In lieu of an adoption fee, Dr. Jean covered some of Bobo's expenses. However, thanks to the kindness of our many donators, ARM was able to commit to covering her medical costs immediately. Without the generosity of our followers, Bobo would have faced a painful death within a short period of time. As the fates decided, Bobo's forever home was already at the clinic when she arrived.

To help ARM continue their mission to help Aussies in need and to be able to fulfill our promise to meet their needs, we would greatly appreciate your support via Give to the Max. You can find us there at: https://give.mn/1pyf5f

Why our work is so important:Chester came to ARM as a stray from Burnsville Animal Control early in 2025. In assessing h...
11/18/2025

Why our work is so important:

Chester came to ARM as a stray from Burnsville Animal Control early in 2025. In assessing his injuries, he had likely been hit by a car. Like all of our dogs when they come into rescue, Chester's first stop was to our vet, Barrington Oaks Veterinary Hospital, where he underwent surgery. He was also vaccinated for rabies, distemper and bordatella, microhipped and altered. This is standard care that our dogs receive, along with taking care of any additional medical issues; whether they are dental, orthopedic etc.

ARM ensures that all medical needs are addressed before adopting a dog out to their new home. Chester was adopted out to a wonderful family who have spent years supporting and volunteering for our rescue. Despite Chester's total medical bill being $2,373, his adoption fee was $400 plus sales tax. ARM never asks our families to pay the total cost in medicals to adopt a dog. As a result, we often are on the wrong side of the bill and it's thanks to the generous donations that we receive throughout the year that allows us to keep our adoption fee at a standard cost. With events like Give to the Max, it allows us (and you) to continue help making up the difference for our dogs.

If you'd like to continue supporting our work to help Aussies in need, you can visit us at www.aussierescuemn.org/donations - we appreciate all of the support from our wonderful followers. ❤

11/15/2025

Let's play a game!

Text out: "This weekend, my dog will" and tap the center word in your auto-suggestions until you get a complete sentence.
Let's see what you get!

11/14/2025

A huge and grateful thank you to Marties Monticello, fellow Aussie lovers and owners, who donated a large number of high quality collars, leashes, and harnesses for our fosters, along with enjoyable dog toys. We so greatly appreciate you thinking of us! 🫶

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