Second Chance Ranch Rescue NH (SCRR) began in 2017 when a family of like minded volunteers came together with the goal of filling gaps in the rescue process for both dogs and the human adopters.

Through over 15 years of experience with both large and small scale rescue formats, the SCRR team has seen many sides of the rescue industry. While each format has its strengths, there remains some key gaps in the assessment, rehabilitation and adoption processes that put many dogs at a disadvantage and create difficult, if not questionable, futures. As a small, volunteer based operation, SCRR will raise the bar and compliment the overall rescue industry through hands-on, individualistic dog assessment and care targeted specifically at helping dogs who fail in larger format rescue organizations. Our simulated home kennel experience and one-on-one rehabilitation plans, will help prepare these dogs for a future adoption and integration. A philosophy of matchmaking dogs to adopters will ensure that each dog is appropriately placed into a well-suited home and adopter boot camps will prepare the new families for what to expect and how to navigate integrations with their new family member; thus reducing the adoption return rate.

As a non profit dog rescue, our focus is rehabilitation and successful integration. We believe in extensive decompression, evaluation and training before starting the adoption process to ensure we can fully assess the dog to understand the best fit home. Through this holistic approach, Second Chance Ranch Rescue NH will help the lost, forgotten, or misunderstood dogs that slip through the cracks in large format rescue organizations.

The following people help make all of this possible.

Founders

Kristin
Founder, President, Director

Kristin is the founder of Second Chance Ranch Rescue and has a breadth of experience with the rescue and corporate technology world. Kristin’s unique background in design, psychology and user centered design led her to build a rescue that provides a better experience for both dogs and people.

After volunteering for other rescues, Kristin saw an opportunity for a non profit rescue to focus more deeply on setting dogs up for success in meeting people, transitioning to a home, and the other core milestones in the adoption journey. Kristin believes in rescue dogs living in a home with 1-1 care and attributes the rescues success to the devotion to getting to know dogs deeply to help them grow into the best versions of themselves. Kristin has built processes around adoption match making, dog socialization, and adopter education to help every adoption have the highest success. Kristin is devoted to increasing placement success and building a community around helping animals.

Kristin has experience with rehabbing and creating integration plans for the toughest and easiest of adoptions. Kristin has grown SCRR from a team of 2 to a team of 50+ people and has helped nearly 1000 animals and 2000 people in the community.

Kristin and her husband Cam are inspired to continue to devote their life to rescue because of the impact they have felt through the community and family at SCRR and the deep love for their own rescue animals: Zoey, Robyn, Zeus, Buster, Tom, Alfredo, Beetle, Bellatrix, Beau and Dolli.

Cam
Ranch Development Manager

Cam helps the daily operations and the future development of Second Chance Ranch Rescue. Cam focuses on Ranch renovation projects like building doggy tiny houses, renovating doggy guest rooms, and creating an outdoor pen for temperament testing and socialization work.

Cam spends quality 1:1 time every day with each dog and plays a critical role in assessing each dog's individual needs.

Cam invests time working with each dog to rebuild their trust or acclimate them to a home environment.

Cam is an engineer by trade, and helps bring structure and support to each dog that joins SCRR.

Cam has a Bachelors in Mechanical Engineering from UMASS Lowell.

Cam’s favorite part of rescue is seeing the dogs go to their forever home with their families.