Rocket Dog Rescue
{{Short description|American nonprofit organization}}
{{For|the Bay Area shoe company|Rocket Dog}}
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| founder = Pali Boucher
| founding_location = San Francisco, California, U.S.
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| purpose = pet adoption, animal rescue
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Rocket Dog Rescue is a volunteer nonprofit organization based in San Francisco, California, devoted to pet adoption and animal rescue. It is the most prominent of several local private organizations that save dogs from euthanasia by caring for them and finding new families.{{cite news|url=http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/archive/2003/03/03/urbananimal.DTL|publisher=San Francisco Chronicle|accessdate=December 28, 2007|title=Saving Pit Bulls from the Death Chamber|author=Hank Pellissier|date=March 3, 2003}} The program places dogs from animal shelters in the San Francisco Bay Area into foster homes while awaiting adoption. It also treats medical and behavioral problems such as socialization issues, neuters and spays the animals, and provides vaccines, so as to make their animals adoptable.{{cite web|accessdate=December 28, 2007 |url=http://www.rocketdogrescue.org/about_us/index.html |publisher=Rocket Dog Rescue |title=About Us |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20071014122154/http://rocketdogrescue.org/about_us/index.html |archivedate=October 14, 2007 |url-status=dead }}
History
The organization was founded by Pali Boucher, daughter of a hippie mother and Paul Boucher, a program director of San Francisco radio station KSAN (formerly "Jive 95"; now 107.7, "the Bone").{{cite news|publisher=San Francisco Chronicle|url=http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2006/08/13/PKGDOIM2CT1.DTL|first=Ben |last=Fong-Torres|authorlink=Ben Fong-Torres | title=Radio Waves|date=August 13, 2006|accessdate=December 28, 2007}}{{cite web|title=Where are they now|url=http://www.jive95.com/whos_where.htm|publisher=KSAN|accessdate=December 28, 2007}} Pali is an HIV victim and former foster child and drug addict whose mother died when she was ten.{{cite news|publisher=San Francisco Chronicle|accessdate=December 28, 2007|title=Dog rescuer loses her home in a fire:3 canines she was fostering are killed in destructive blaze|first=Jill |last=Tucker|work=SF Gate | date=December 23, 2007|url=http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/12/23/BAFIU3KC0.DTL}} After being homeless for more than ten years, she adopted an abandoned coonhound puppy from the local dog pound. She named him Leadbelly and lived with him on the street for several more years. After spending six months in jail{{cite news|publisher=The Woofer Times|url=http://www.rocketdogrescue.org/pdfs/woofertimes06.pdf|title=For the Love of a Dog|author=Sally Stephens|date=January 2006|accessdate=December 28, 2007|format=PDF}} she then entered the Good Shepherd Gracenter, a women's residential recovery program run by the Roman Catholic order, the Good Shepherd Sisters.{{cite web|url=http://www.gsgracenter.org/sisters.htm |publisher=Good Shepherd GraceCenter |accessdate=December 28, 2007 |title=The Sisters of the Good Shepherd |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20070829152325/http://www.gsgracenter.org/sisters.htm |archivedate=August 29, 2007 |url-status=dead }}{{cite web|url=http://www.catholic-sf.org/FPArticle206.htm |title=Gracecenter |publisher=the Archdiocese of San Francisco |accessdate=December 28, 2007 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20080820075433/http://catholic-sf.org/FPArticle206.htm |archivedate=August 20, 2008 }} She credits the program and her dog with saving her life.{{cite news |author= Lord Martine |date= November 29, 2002 |publisher= San Francisco Chronicle |accessdate= December 28, 2007 |title= Saving dogs helped her save herself |url= http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2002/11/29/WB241239.DTL}}
In the late 1990s, Boucher began working for Hopalong Animal Rescue, based in Oakland, California.{{cite news|publisher=The Noe Valley Voice|accessdate=December 28, 2007|url=http://www.noevalleyvoice.com/1999/March/dogs.html|author=Erica Kohnke|title=Homeless Dogs Find a Pal in Pali Boucher}} In 2000, while she was a client at the SF/SPCA Animal Hospital, she inspired her veterinarian, Dr. Ilana Strubel, to found Veterinary Street Outreach Services (VET SOS), a Project of the San Francisco Community Clinic Consoritum's Street Outreach Services Program, a private not-for-profit human healthcare agency, where Pali had received care while homeless. VET SOS is mobile clinic that helps homeless people who are unable to care for their pets.{{cite news|title=Jefferson Award: Ilana Strubel, vet for pets of homeless|author=Suzanne Pullen|date=January 7, 2006|publisher=San Francisco Chronicle|url=http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/01/07/EDG5TG17U31.DTL|accessdate=December 28, 2007}}
In 2001, the year after Leadbelly's death, she started Rocket Dog Rescue and won a Points of Light award for volunteerism. She claims to have rescued 150 dogs in the first year. In 2006, the organization was profiled on Discovery's Animal Planet network in a one-hour documentary, Rocket Dogs.{{cite web|url=http://www.studiobfilms.com/services/rw_rocket_dog.html|publisher=Studio B Films|title=Rocket Dogs documentary}} By 2007, the organization had saved approximately 3,000 animals, and was spending $150,000 per year of donated funds on veterinary bills for sick animals.
In December 2007, Boucher's home in Bernal Heights burned in a fire, making her homeless once again and killing three dogs, a parrot, and a pigeon for which she was caring.{{cite news|title=3 Dogs, 2 Birds Die In SF Animal Foster Home Fire|publisher=CBS Broadcasting|url=http://cbs5.com/local/animal.foster.home.2.616271.html|accessdate=December 28, 2007|date=December 21, 2007|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://archive.today/20071108124831/http://cbs5.com/local/animal.foster.home.2.616271.html|archivedate=November 8, 2007|df=mdy-all}}{{cite web|url=http://www.ebar.com/news/article.php?sec=news&article=2579|title=The Bay Area Reporter Online - Rocket Dog founder regroups after fire|author=|date=|work=ebar.com|accessdate=April 27, 2017}} The group has housed most of their dogs in foster homes,{{cite web|url=http://baywoof.com/nose-for-news/news-from-near-and-far-march-2008/|title=News From Near and Far, March 2008 — BayWoof|author=|date=|work=baywoof.com|accessdate=April 27, 2017}} and an emergency fund was proposed.{{cite web|url=http://sfgov.org/awcc/ftp/meetingarchive/ftp/archive/CommissionofAnimalControlandWelfare/sfgov3/archive6a9d__6a9d.html?dept=387&sub=&year=2008&dtype=548&file=73153|title=SFGov|author=|date=|work=sfgov.org|accessdate=April 27, 2017}}
In 2014, Rocket Dog Rescue opened its Urban Sanctuary and Adoption Center in East Oakland.{{cite web|url=https://rushprnews.com/2014/02/02/san-francisco--oakland-news-rocket-dog-opens-urban-sanctuary--adoption-center|title=San Francisco & Oakland News: Rocket Dog Opens Urban Sanctuary & Adoption Center! : Press Release distribution Service - Online Press Release - Submit Your Press Release|author=|date=|website=rushprnews.com|accessdate=June 19, 2017}} In 2017, Boucher and Rocket Dog Rescue were featured in an episode of Cesar Millan's TV series Dog Nation.{{cite web|url=http://www.broadwayworld.com/bwwtv/article/Nat-Geo-Wild-to-Premiere-New-Series-CESAR-MILLANS-DOG-NATION-33-20170210|title=Nat Geo Wild to Premiere New Series CESAR MILLAN'S DOG NATION, 3/3|first=TV News|last=Desk|date=|work=broadwayworld.com|accessdate=April 27, 2017}}{{cite web|url=http://www.sfchronicle.com/tv/article/Cesar-Millan-drops-in-to-Oakland-shelter-for-10035833.php|title=Cesar Millan drops in to Oakland shelter for "Dog Nation" filming|author=|date=|work=sfchronicle.com|accessdate=April 27, 2017}}
References
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External links
- {{Official website|http://www.rocketdogrescue.org}}
Category:2001 establishments in California
Category:Non-profit organizations based in San Francisco
Category:Animal welfare organizations based in the United States