🧡 Spread the word about who we are and how we can help your local shelter!

🧡 Support local shelters by adopting, fostering, volunteering, and donating. 

🧡 Participate in Doggy Day Out at your local animal shelter and next time, take a friend!

🧡 Follow us on social media (@mutualrescue). We post about adorable rescue animals.

🧡 Stay updated with the latest Mutual Rescue programs and social campaigns.

🧡 Watch and share our films or Host a charitable event that includes our films.

🧡 Send us a love letter.

🧡 Submit a Mutual Rescue story.

🧡 Read and share our book.

🧡 Encourage individuals and brands to explore sponsorship opportunities with us.

We define rescue animals as companion animals who needed a home and were adopted from animal-welfare organizations, found abandoned or wounded, removed from a dangerous or abusive environment, or given a new home before they would have ended up homeless or in a shelter.

True stories that demonstrate a clear mutual rescue theme—how the person and companion rescue animal each profoundly benefited from their bond—are accepted continuously at through our submission form. Mutual Rescue shares written stories online and creates short films of selected stories.

Following the release of our first film in 2016, we received more than 400 story submissions. The top contenders were judged by professionals in animal welfare, science, and the visual, literary, and performing arts sectors.

Mutual Rescue is a global initiative under the legal umbrella of Humane Society Silicon Valley, a nonprofit animal-welfare organization. Its funding is independent. Donations are tax-deductible. Mutual Rescue supports community animal-welfare organizations through funding from national sponsors, program support, and sharing its creative content.

Valentine’s Day 2016, to celebrate the love between people and their companion animals, and to affirm the transformative power of mutual rescue. Created by Carol Novello and David Whitman, whose paths first crossed in the summer of 2015, thanks to their friend Sally Hazard Bourgoin.

Our films are available online on Mutual Rescue’s website and social media channels. Additionally, many have been shown at film festivals and charity events around the world.

Our goal is to help local animal shelters and rescue groups everywhere. If you would like to screen a Mutual Rescue film at your charitable live event, please tell us more about the opportunity.