Perfect Pet Rescue – Mobile Adoptions

Such a wonderful rescue, and a pleasure to work with everyone there! I visited their facility on Venice & Overland and found my «perfect pet.» Nancy was so prompt & helpful on the phone, and Claudia & Renee were kind, knowledgable and forthright in person. I wish I lived closer so that I could volunteer there. Thank you, Perfect Pet Rescue!

Is it possible to give 10 stars?
I will forever be grateful to PPR for rescuing my boy Cody (formerly Billy) from a high kill shelter and allowing him to pick me as his forever companion.
I volunteered and fostered for PPR multiple times over the years, and I can say the founder and her team of volunteers are an amazing group of people who really care about the dogs they rescue and carefully adopt them out to great forever homes.
When you volunteer at the PPR adoption events, you will constantly meet people who previously adopted from PPR and every single one of them will tell you how much they love PPR and many of them are repeat adopters as well.
PPR’s mission has always been to find homes for dogs and treat potential adopters with respect which is rare in the rescue community.
All PPR dogs are spayed/​neutered, current on all vaccinations and microchipped.
Ready to adopt a dog? So what are you waiting for? Go to
and check out the current list of available dogs (website is updated daily so check often), come by the adoption events on the weekend and adopt a dog from the best of the best!

This «Anonymous B» reviewer strikes again with her nastiness. Nancy and her volunteers do nothing but help the dogs they bring every weekend. Anonymous and Perfect Pet help similar types of dogs find homes. Anonymous is simply bent out of shape that someone would want to go to another rescue that wasn’t hers. If you click her name you can see her nasty review rampage from 2 weeks ago. If she’s pointing fingers at everyone around her bring a problem, she has 3 pointing back at her. Perfect Pet has adopted out over 11,000 dogs. That’s incredible. I’d like to see Anonymous have that claim to fame.

So grateful to these guys! Though I did not rescue from their mobile adoption (rescued from them through appointment), I have visited their mobile adoption several times. The volunteers have always been friendly and knowledgable about the dogs up for adoption and accommodating if you want to take the dog for a walk and see how you get along. Similarly, the owner, Nancy, has always been helpful and prompt when responding to me emails about other dogs I’ve been interested in, and makes it easy to set up a time to meet the pups separate from the mobile adoptions.

Not good. Caveat adopter. Esp. if you have no experience with dogs as an owner.
Although they have reportedly placed 11k dogs, and have saved many lives, my experience with them stunk. They were high pressure, often rude, and did not disclose material facts to me. As a result, I have a lifetime commitment to a dog I much like, but he is not the dog I sought. I will also likely spend 3−6k for a condition they could have noticed, but failed to find or disclose.
I wanted a Havanese or partial Havanese dog only. My Dog from PPR [1] was mis-​characterized by the group’s ad as a (very desirable) mixed breed Havanese, in fact it was the «Havanese» search word that drew their ad to my screen through the Purina site. They could not explain after I accepted the dog and brought him to Nor Cal who, how or why this attribution was made; no vet or dog trainer I have brought him to here thinks he is Havanese in part or in full.
[2] He had been very ill with pneumonia days before I picked him up, without any prior disclosure. I was told only after I paid for him that he had a light case of kennel cough, easily treated. I do not claim that they knew he was ill before I paid for him, but they did know he was ill before I flew to LA to get him.
His med records, which I obtained later, reflected that he was underweight, and he looked starved when I got him, which I attributed to his pre-​shelter life, not his «kennel cough.» He is ok now. I don’t blame them for his illness, but I do blame them
for not telling me before I picked him up so that I might reverse the transaction.
The dog had [3] a serious orthopedic issue, bilateral patellar luxation. It is excluded from coverage as a prior condition. After I noticed it for the first time at home, and took him to a vet, PPR told me that this condition was quite common, and they were v knowledgeable about it. It is easy to recognize if you know what to look for — a skipping of steps on the rear legs. I knew nothing about it when I picked him up.
They told me nothing about it, and at best they never bothered to see if he had it, which they could have done, given their admitted knowledge that it is a common small dog problem quite easy to notice if you know what to look for.
When I confronted the group about these shortcomings and nondisclosures after I adopted the dog and flew him home with me, they claimed falsely [4] through their attorney to have made the disclosures, and, amazingly, to have told me beforehand that their written and advertised attribution of the Havanese breed was not reliable in the first place.
One person with this group had offered to pay ½ the cost for any ortho surgery the dog might need, which she then refused to agree to after getting lawyered up. The cost is at least 2−3k per leg if he needs it. I am stuck with that now.
They then offered to refund the $ 300.00 fee and take the dog back but I explained that the dog had bonded with a bedridden, v elderly parent by then. When I explained that I also did not want to make the dog live through abandonment and shelter life anew, I was assured that dogs adjust rapidly, and not to worry about his feelings. I can’t square that with a love for the dogs.
All in all, trust nothing they tell you, demand to see the dog’s med records before you adopt, and demand verification of every fact they put in front of you.
One person I spoke to was always curt and nasty. She seemed to think she was doing me a favor.