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Rescue Express helps over 300 rescue partners with free transport in the United States, and expanding into both Canada & Mexico.
Did you know there’s a shortage of adoptable animals in the northern states and Canada? Northern shelters are often empty while southern shelters are overcrowded. There are thousands of adoptable animals are euthanized every day.
Transporting animals to forever homes is very expensive and a huge financial drain on rescue organizations. Rescue Express aims to alleviate that burden by offering our buses and vans to rescue partners free of charge. We help save thousands of animals lives every year.
Our Mission
At Rescue Express, our mission is to save lives by transporting homeless animals from high-kill shelters and overpopulated areas to forever homes.
Who We Are
At Rescue Express, our mission is to save lives by transporting homeless animals from high-kill shelters and overpopulated areas to forever homes.
Rescue Express is a national initiative of the MGM Animal Foundation; a dedicated 501(c)(3), non-profit organization, established in 2000 with a focus on animal welfare. We are driven by our compassion to help animals find loving forever homes and a brighter future that they deserve. With the commitment of our Founder, Mike McCarthy, and kind contributions from the general public, Rescue Express has been giving animals their "freedom ride" since February of 2015.
Mike McCarthy
Rescue Express is an initiative of MGM Animal Foundation. Founder Mike McCarthy, a retired software entrepreneur, who has been working with rescue groups to save the lives of homeless animals for over 20 years.
Since the inaugural transport on February 14, 2015, Rescue Express Rescue Animal transport has saved over 20,000 pet companions that would have been euthanized in shelters. Rescue Express transports animals from high-kill shelters in over populated areas throughout the southwest with hopes of expanding our reach to the midwest in 2020. Our fleet consists of one tractor-trailer and 5 Thomas large-capacity school buses, which have all been outfitted with temperature control environments. Rescue Express transport services are provided free of charge to our rescue partners and any shelter hit by a natural disaster. We rely on your generous support to continue freedom rides to shelter animals left in the system that euthanizes animals in thousands on a daily basis. Additionally, Rescue Express is working to reduce the number of animals which need relocation with innovative, multi-prong initiatives which target sources of pet over-population that including low-cost spay and neuter programs, and shelter adoption support.
Rescue Express, an initiative of MGM Animal Foundation(MGMAF) supports the transport of rescue animals from the southern overpopulated areas, to the northern shelters needing companion animals to meet the public’s demand. In addition to our California to Oregon, Washington, and Canada transport program operated by Rescue Express, that saves 10,000 animals each year, we are looking for shelters, rescue groups, or passionate individuals that would like to bring the RE lifesaving program to their part of the country. We have new Thomas school buses modified and ready to establish a transport program in your community. The buses are outfitted to carry 100-200 homeless cat and dogs in air-conditioned comfort from southern locations to a network of willing shelters in the north.
We will provide the bus, the processes and procedures, and the training to get your transport program up and running quickly. For further information about our program, contact us at info@rescueexpress.org
