Wolf Trap Animal Rescue

🚨🐾 ADOPTION DAY IS ON SATURDAY, JUNE 13TH!!! 🐾🚨

From tiny chaos gremlins to cuddle professionals, we have so many incredible dogs and puppies looking for families this weekend ✨

📍 PetSmart in Tysons Corner ( 8204 Leesburg Pike
McLean, VA 22182)
📅 Saturday, June 13th
⏰ Staff will be there as early as 8:45 AM to get your name on the list!

⚠️ IMPORTANT:
Adoptions are handled on a first come, first serve basis during the event, and some animals may receive a LOT of interest. If there’s someone you have your eye on, we highly recommend arriving early! Please make sure you have an adoption application on file to get your name on the board.

🐶 What to expect:
• Meet adoptable dogs and puppies in person
• Talk with volunteers and foster families
• Learn about our adoption process
• Same-day adoptions for approved adopters
• Lots of tail wags, zoomies, and emotional damage because you’ll want to take everyone home

✨ Whether you’re looking for an adventure buddy, couch potato, tiny shadow, or certified cuddle bug, your perfect match might be waiting for you this Saturday.

Thank you to everyone who fosters, adopts, volunteers, donates, and supports rescue. Every single adoption changes a life ❤️🐶

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Sometimes rescue doesn’t look like flashing lights or pulling animals from overcrowded shelters.
Sometimes it looks like one neighbor choosing to care. 💖

Earlier this spring, a Good Samaritan found a stray cat wandering their neighborhood and brought her to our low-cost spay/neuter clinic to make sure she wouldn’t continue contributing to the homeless cat population.

During surgery, Dr. Skylar Drum — one of our WTAR Veterinary Interns — discovered mama was VERY pregnant… likely only a week or two away from delivering her kittens.

Knowing she had originally been scheduled for a spay regardless of pregnancy status, Dr. Burton paused the procedure and made a different call:
“What if we helped her instead?”

We contacted the finder and offered full foster support for mama and babies until the kittens were old enough for adoption — food, medical care, supplies, guidance, everything. And thankfully… they said yes. 🥹🙏

Fast forward 8 weeks later, and these once-unwanted babies are thriving. Today they came in for their very first veterinary exams before heading into new foster homes and eventually, forever families.

This is what community rescue looks like.
Not just emergency pulls.
Not just saving animals at risk of euthanasia.

But supporting the people who WANT to help — and making compassion possible.

One phone call changed the outcome for this entire little family. 🐾

Welcome to the world, tiny ones. Your village is already cheering you on. ❤️