About
We Are Driven By Values
Moving Mountains Animal Rescue (MMAR) is 501(c)3 foster-based rescue that goes beyond just saving dogs. We have built a program that strongly and consistently promotes health, training, and personal connection with our rescues both prior to and after adoption. We treat every rescue that comes into our program as if they were our own and carefully ensure each dog is a perfect fit for adopting families and vice versa.
Unlike other rescues who may focus primarily on saving as many dogs as possible, we differ in selecting dogs more intentionally, being more hands-on with every dog, and providing the max amount of care while in our program so they can enter an adopted home as their best selves. The extra upfront care takes extensive work and dedication from the MMAR team but we have seen the extraordinary benefit in the end. The love and companionship is taken to a new level when a rescue dog is well prepared for their forever home.
Our Story
In August of 2018, MMAR’s founder, Sean McIntosh, received a call from a good friend who lived in Louisiana stating that her county shelter was about to put down a 4-month-old black lab by the end of the day because they simply had no room. Knowing Colorado was much more dog friendly she pleaded for his help to take her. We saved her with only an hour to spare. And as soon as we did it was as if God, the Universe, or whomever you believe began “moving mountains” for us to get this sweet puppy to safety. We found a low-cost vet, a transporter stepped up, fosters appeared effortlessly, and most amazingly she was adopted into the perfect home only 5 days later. We began helping more dogs in similar dire situations often with the same miraculous support. We expanded to helping two other county shelters in Louisiana and soon added two shelters in Houston as well. After about 9 months we decided to make things official and founded the foster-based rescue called Moving Mountains Animal Rescue, a play on words recounting how a higher source helped “move mountains” and also “moving dogs to the mountains of Colorado” from the southern states. Today we remain a foster-based system, meaning all the dogs in our program go directly to foster homes. Our team consists of 5 board members, 3 directors, and an ever-growing number of volunteers. We shifted our program to focus on supporting local Colorado shelters with similar missions of saving dogs from high-risk shelters in southern states. In order to create more available space in these local Colorado shelters, we partner with them to transfer dogs into our rescue program, where they are placed into foster homes, continue to receive any needed vet care and are ultimately carefully adopted into incredible loving homes.
Annual Reports
2020 Annual Report
2021 Anual Report
2021 Annual Report
