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About Us

Our Beginning

My husband, Chris, and I retired from the corporate rat race in 2004. We had a wonderful little Yorkie girl we called Puppy who we had loved since she was 8 weeks old and who was then 11 years old as well as 2 mix breed dogs who had "found" us. When Puppy was a baby we would go running in the morning with her and we used a collar and a retractable leash. We would not learn for 6 years that we had destroyed her trachea. We were devastated but the damage was done. A week before she died shortly after we retired, we took in our first foster Yorkie for a national rescue group, Scooby. Puppy knew it was okay to leave us then because we were in Scooby's capable paws. Of course, Scooby was our first foster failure and he lived with us until he succumbed to heart failure in 2010.
We didn't know a lot about other breeds so we concentrated on finding homes for the breed we love, Yorkies. We moved to Colorado from Arizona in 2007 and that summer we saw an interview with a lady who had begun rescuing dogs from breeders who would otherwise kill them. We visited her as she returned from a rescue with 65 dogs, 12 of them Yorkies, all in terrible shape. We took 6 of them as well as our precious Lammy and the education process for us began. At the beginning of 2008, I was invited to go with them to a dog auction in Missouri. 650 dogs of all breeds were auctioned off over a 2 day period. That experience changed my life. Watching all of those dogs in cages, waiting to be sold to the highest bidder, literally livestock, broke my heart into a million pieces. The terror in their eyes was nearly as bad as the despair of the ones who had simply given up and laid in the corner of their cages. I watched a pregnant dog thrown into a filthy sink to have her puppies while the auction was going on and then she and her puppies were promptly auctioned off.
I resigned as Director for 2 states from the national rescue group so I could devote my time to rescuing, rehabilitating, and re-homing these dogs that no one has ever cared about. When we outgrew our home, we converted our garage to sleeping areas and began to add play areas around our home so we could accommodate more and keep the vulnerable and special needs in the house with us where we could watch over them.
March 1st 2010 we applied for our own 501c3 organization and it was granted the following September. We started with one foster home and we now have over 20 in 3 states and a transportation network from Denver to Lake Havasu City. I still personally travel 2000 miles a month to rescue 30 to 60 dogs, bring them back to our main facility (still our home) where they are evaluated, spayed/neutered, vaccinated, wormed, heart worm tested, teeth cleaned, micro chipped, groomed, any health issues taken care of, and we begin the rehabilitation process. As soon as space is available, as many as possible are transported to foster homes and we begin the search for the perfect forever home. At nearly the end of our 2nd year, we have found homes for 1090 of the these precious dogs and rescued 1160.
We could not do this with all of the help and support from our wonderful foster homes and volunteers who give their time, their money, and their hearts to these dogs. Our heartfelt thanks to all of you.

Our Mission

Breeder Release Adoption Service is dedicated to providing a service to breeders and adopters to find perfect forever homes for their retiring breeding dogs, puppies they cannot sell and overstock of dogs. When space is available at our main facility or in our network of foster homes, we occasionally accept dogs who are being surrendered by owners who can no longer keep them, and rescue dogs from the euthanasia lists at kill shelters. We provide veterinary care, begin the rehabilitation process for dogs not socialized and strive to find perfect forever homes for them.

Our Policy

To continuously improve our networks of breeder relations, rescue groups, and education associations in order to save as many dogs as possible.
Any one who uses this site understands they will not hold BRAS liable of typos, errors, incorrect information, or any statements spoken, written or implied.
We do not gather your personal information and hand it over or sell it to other parties. Your information remains confidential and is filed in a secure filing system.
BRAS appreciates all donations that will help us retrieve the dogs, provide veterinary care, shelter them, feed them, care for them and 100% of all donations go directly to the welfare of the dogs.
Breeder Release Adoption Service is a Non-Profit 501c3 tax exempt rescue organization who is licensed to operate in the state of Colorado.
This is a non-discrimination organization.