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Deity animal rescue
Deity Animal Rescue is a Los Angeles–based nonprofit advancing humane outcomes for at-risk shelter animals through prevention, public awareness, direct rescue, and community mobilization.
By working directly inside city and county municipal shelters, we document the behavior and temperament of urgent dogs and connect them to adopters, fosters, and community-funded resources through strategic digital broadcasting. We provide critical, real-time visibility to dogs behind kennel doors — amplifying their profiles to the public when time matters most.
In addition to visibility work, Deity rescues at-risk dogs directly from the shelter system, providing necessary medical care, foster placement, and adoption pathways to ensure safe and responsible outcomes.
Our work supports euthanasia prevention while investing in upstream solutions, including spay and neuter access, community-based care, and responsible pet ownership education.
We expose the overpopulation crisis.
We promote the dogs.
We mobilize the public.
Ellen rescued Vida, the first official Deity dog, in 2007.
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Tamra Schnitman // Shani Rosenzweig // Samantha Goodman // Amanda Alvarez // Theresa Remick // Courtney Charton // Eden Ferry // Kay Panarese // Lynn Casey // Denise Lang // Leslie Simon // Aubrey Lerner // Lydia Lyons // Bo Youngblood // Noga Ruttenberg // Tracey Goodman // Nathalie Botezatu // Stacy Smith // Angela Mackey // Elyse Koenig // Lauren Lundy // Laurie Bird // Melinda Flowers // Ruby Maldonado // Ryan Sheppard // Diana Castro // Hilary Brady // Gianna Gigante // Mark Burnstein // Lorelei Buda // Julie Smith // Lisa Brasher // Cherissa Beck // Sarah Glicken // Brooke Marson // Leslie Ross // Catherine Sturgeon // Frances Smithson // Andrea Ratner // Laura Berg and Chad Bushfield // Romy Rosemont // Allisyn McIntyre // Elizabeth Stokes // Jenny Hess // Alex Salibian // Adena Smith // Cortney Delotto // Promila Shastri