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On Tuesday, we welcomed some new CRA friends from our partner shelter . We last minute added on an additional pup who th...
06/11/2025

On Tuesday, we welcomed some new CRA friends from our partner shelter . We last minute added on an additional pup who they discovered may have been pregnant at her health certificate appointment, resulting in the original rescue who had committed to her backing out. We never want to let a dog give birth in a scary shelter if we can help it, so we said yes expecting that we'd have a little time to identify how far along she was and determine whether a spay-abort would be appropriate for her.

This morning, just 2 days after her safe arrival to Chicago thanks to , we woke up to find that in the middle of the night she had gracefully and quietly given birth to three beautiful babies.

While we are so grateful and relieved that she was able to give birth somewhere where she felt safe and loved, these babies are born into a very unfortunate time where financial insecurity and uncertainty are huge factors in 90% of American households, resulting in adoptions being the slowest they've ever been. Not just for us, but for rescues all over.

Swipe through these photos to see a selection of the INCREDIBLE puppies we have in our care right now. Please share with anyone in your life that you think might need a little puppy serotonin in their lives and help us ensure these babies don't grow up in rescue.

Times are hard for everyone and it's sometimes hard to wake up and look at the world we live in right now, but at least ...
03/11/2025

Times are hard for everyone and it's sometimes hard to wake up and look at the world we live in right now, but at least there are dogs.

If you have any spare change for a medical monday, we'd love some help covering all of our day-to-day medical expenses. These dogs are not having good luck in the job market, so they're pretty much freeloaders. Really, REALLY cute freeloaders.

(pictured is adoptable Stitch. He's waiting for his forever family to find him. He's a really good baby boy.)

Zelle: [email protected]
Venmo: @ chicagorescueauthority
PayPal: PayPal.me/chicagorescueauth
Set up a monthly membership: https://chicagorescueauthority.org/donate/

Celebrating 15 new forevers found through CRA last month. We're so happy for all of these dogs -- but special and HUGE s...
03/11/2025

Celebrating 15 new forevers found through CRA last month. We're so happy for all of these dogs -- but special and HUGE shoutout to our Possum Pie baby. If you've followed our rescue for a while, you know how special and important his story was for us.

We hope this month is full of many more adoptions - especially for our long-term babies who we are so hopeful for.

Thank you all for adopting and joining the CRA family.

After a very successful pause in intakes in September, we hit the ground running in October. The last four pulls of the...
02/11/2025

After a very successful pause in intakes in September, we hit the ground running in October. The last four pulls of the month also marked our return to Chicago Animal Care and Control after a break to try to find more permanent placement for some of our existing CACC kids.

Welcome to CRA, kids! We're happy you're here!

As of November 1st (after our THREE first of the month adoptions cleared), Chicago Rescue Authority has 38 dogs in our c...
02/11/2025

As of November 1st (after our THREE first of the month adoptions cleared), Chicago Rescue Authority has 38 dogs in our care. As of Tuesday that number will be back up to the 50s after our big intake.

We also are starting off the month with a HUGE supply restock including food, preventatives, dewormer, vaccines, and microchips. We've had to spend almost $2000 in the first 24 hours of this month. Providing for all of these dogs is an expensive feat, and that's not even counting our medical bills (around 6-10k a month).

If you want to throw us a bone 😘, there are lots of ways to contribute to help us keep these kids fed and healthy while they wait for their forever homes to find them!

Zelle: [email protected]
Venmo: @ chicagorescueauthority
PayPal: PayPal.me/chicagorescueauth
Set up a monthly membership: https://chicagorescueauthority.org/donate/

In addition to pulling from local shelters, we try to honor the roots of our founders, and occasionally help out high po...
24/10/2025

In addition to pulling from local shelters, we try to honor the roots of our founders, and occasionally help out high population/high kill areas both in Kentucky and Texas.
Our Texas partner is doing one more flight transport this year with and they let us know that the numbers of dogs already with rescue commitment is too low for the flight to move forward, which would mean that 32 dogs would lose their ticket out of the shelter.

When helping out-of-state rescues we are very mindful not to take any dogs that we could find in our local open-access shelters, while also trying to evaluate based on a balance of what has the best chance of being adopted here and what dogs need us the most. You will notice that we do not pull pitty/bully types from out-of-state as our local shelters need just as much help on that front.

That said, these are some kids currently at our Texas partner shelter that we have our eye on. We will take literally every single one of these dogs if we have a committed foster. This will not only ensure that these dogs are safe, but the 32 others that have been tagged by other rescues get to keep their ticket to safety as well.
These kids would be arriving November 4th, so still plenty of time to prepare.

If you want to jump in and help by fostering one of these kiddos, we'd be honored to have you as part of our lifesaving team. Fostering is free, accessible, and a critical puzzle piece to helping us save lives.

If you're not already an approved foster with us, please fill out an application here -- https://chicagorescueauthority.org/foster-application

Here’s to the birthday girl! Happy birthday to Megan, our Co-Founder, our Foster Director, our whelping Queen, our every...
22/10/2025

Here’s to the birthday girl! Happy birthday to Megan, our Co-Founder, our Foster Director, our whelping Queen, our everything merch creator, our spicy small dog whisper (someone’s got to do it and it isn’t me) and so much more.
Megan lives and breaths animal welfare. So much that we sometimes have to remind each other to take a damn breath. Megan has brought 15+ years of VetMed & Animal Welfare to the table allowing so many things to become possible with her brain that never strops. We truly couldn’t have Chicago Rescue Authority without Megan. I mean she’s fostered almost 300 dogs and that in its own is both inspiring and scary in the best way. She is a force.

Want to wish her a happy birthday in person? Come see her tomorrow at our trivia event because if you know Megan you’ll know that she’ll never ask for anything for herself, but she will ask you to support a dream that became our reality. Plus she worked pretty freaking hard on all these questions, I would know, she humbled me more than once.

https://www.zeffy.com/en-US/ticketing/dog-trivia-fundraiser-at-joes-on-weed-st

- Signed always,
Your Bonded Pair Serenity & Little Sister Maya

Do we have anyone willing to step up and foster a young beagle from a hoarding situation? Fill out a foster app on our w...
21/10/2025

Do we have anyone willing to step up and foster a young beagle from a hoarding situation? Fill out a foster app on our website (www.chicagorescueauthority.org) and comment below and I’ll start processing your app right away!

After an overwhelming response to our new stickers that we ordered earlier this week - we have added a limited time unis...
16/10/2025

After an overwhelming response to our new stickers that we ordered earlier this week - we have added a limited time unisex t-shirt and crewneck sweatshirt to our merch shop.

While animal welfare is intrinsically entwined with human rights, it was very important to us to make sure that we were directing any money raised from this fundraiser somewhere that would make the biggest impact to frontline workers providing aid and support to our immigrant friends and neighbors during a dark time in our city.

All profits from this design will be directed to -- Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights.

Thank you for being good neighbors and for protecting the diversity and community that Chicago has always represented.

Visit our merch shop here -- https://cra.printify.me/

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