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Over 16 years ago, RescueGroups.org arose from an idea to a reality. We knew we were on the cutting edge of technology for animal rescue, and are proud of the impact we’ve made on the animal welfare community. We’re a nonprofit All of us here… Continue reading

Happy holidays from our RescueGroups.org family to yours.  As we look back on 2017, we want to share some of the exciting things we have been doing at RescueGroups.org.   Over 400 organizations joined our family this year, and most of these new organizations are… Continue reading

Security is very important to us. Recently, some of our groups received a bogus letter from one of the adoption sites, asking them for their account information on that site.  This is what is called a “phishing” attack. Phishing is when someone poses as a… Continue reading

Update 5/1/2014:  AOL has also updated their security settings, which will cause messages to be rejected. See the following post by AOL: http://postmaster-blog.aol.com/2014/04/22/aol-mail-updates-dmarc-policy-to-reject/ Recently, Yahoo made a change to their domain email policy that is causing a large amount of email messages from being rejected.… Continue reading

We’ve been working the past couple months (read our blog post) on improving the way we store and handle the animal pictures you upload.  From redesigning how we store them, to how (and when) we resize them, we’re working to provide you with more options.… Continue reading

RescueGroups.org provides your adoptable pets and public organization information to as many websites and services as possible — because that’s a really good way for people to find out about your organization and what you’re doing in the community. But not every website is the… Continue reading

We’re retiring the RescueGroups.org Website service traffic reports and web analytics.  Starting August, 2014 we will no longer collect hits/pageviews on our Website service, or show web page hit counters. We strongly recommend that you add one of the freely available Web Analytics trackers to… Continue reading

We’re excited to tell you that Overstock.com will soon be adding an adoption listing feature to their website! Overstock.com has been a big supporter of pet adoption in Utah, where they are based – in fact, they have been for years. Helping rescues and shelters… Continue reading

I know this post is a little late, since it’s already the week after Thanksgiving now.  I had written it, but with our upgrades and typical holiday madness, I didn’t get a chance to post it. So here are a few things we’re especially grateful… Continue reading