Tiny Toes Rat Rescue of New Mexico

Cause Area

  • Animals

Location

Post Office Box 67571Albuquerque, NM 87193 United States
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Mission Statement

We partner with statewide animal shelters that do take rats and strive to respond to their call for assistance within 24 hours. We also accept rats from the public, but can only do so as we have space available and the financial resources to care for them. It's extremely challenging to meet the needs for rat rescue.

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Tiny Toes Rat Rescue of New Mexico, a 501(c)(3) non-profit animal rescue, was formed in 2010 because there were no rat rescues in the state of New Mexico. Today, we're still the only New Mexico rat rescue. Because New Mexico has a very high poverty level and ranks among the highest (among all 50 states) for animal abuse there are far less animal rescues in New Mexico than in other states, and most are privately funded. Private funding can support some animal rescues, but not animal rescues that specialize in rats - an animal that is misunderstood, the subject of many myths, and considered to be disposable. Sadly, even some New Mexico animal shelters consider rats to be disposable. Some shelters don't accept rats at all and some of those that do often euthanize them shortly after intake.

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by Chuck J. (2014-02-21 08:04:31.0)
I am obviously partial, but my wife is president and founder of Tiny Toes Rat Rescue. We are passionate about rats and all small animals. Rescuing them, taking care of them and then hopefully adopting the younger and healthy ones to forever homes is our goal. The older rats or ones that need special needs will enjoy their remaining days with us. We are in need of volunteers to help care for the rats, including cage cleaning and just spending time holding the rats to help them be comfortable with people.
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