A Rescue Rangers volunteer being greeted by a rescued husky Safe in our shelter
We are the Rescue Rangers

Every street dog deserves a ranger in their corner

We rescue Kazakhstan's street dogs, heal them back to health, and find them the forever homes they were always meant to have.

$35 in the US is one takeaway dinner. In Kazakhstan, it feeds a rescued dog for an entire month.

Across Kazakhstan, countless dogs are born onto the streets — surviving brutal winters, hunger and illness. Since 2026 a new national law makes rapid liquidation legal — and it puts a clock on every dog we do not reach in time.

5 days

is all the law asks anyone to wait. A street dog caught in Kazakhstan may be held for up to five days. If nobody claims it in that time, euthanasia is permitted. We exist to reach them first — off the streets and into the safety of our shelters.

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~50°C

swing between summer & winter on the streets

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8 / 10

strays never see a vet in their lifetime

1 litter

untreated, becomes thousands in a few years

What we do

The journey

Rescue — newborn puppies found abandoned among trash on the street

Step one

We find them

Our teams answer the call day and night — pulling scared, hungry, injured dogs out of danger and into safe hands. The first step is always trust.

Step two

We heal them

Vet care, vaccines, warm meals and patient hands. Bodies mend and, slowly, so do hearts — until a frightened survivor learns to trust people again.

Home — a rescued puppy playing with a toy in its new home

Step three

We rehome them

We match every dog with a loving family and celebrate the day they walk into their forever home — a leash, a name, a soft place to land at last.

Because of people like you

12,480+
dogs rescued
38,600+
meals served
5,240+
happy adoptions
126+
shelters supported

Life at the shelter

Live from the shelter
A rescued puppy sitting on a cosy blanket at the shelter
Rescued dogs and their puppies safe indoors
A shelter dog looking up, waiting for adoption
Rows of kennels at the Rescue Rangers shelter

The same animal, twice

One photograph from the day we found them, one from this month.

A cream-coloured street dog standing alone on a snowy roadside
Dogs in the snow-covered shelter yard beside newly built insulated kennels
The day we found them Now

Bora

Found in winter

Alone on a frozen roadside with nowhere to shelter. Now: an insulated kennel, a bowl filled twice a day, and a yard full of company.

A tabby cat sheltering under a parked car beside a bowl of food on the asphalt
The same tabby cat indoors at the shelter, looking up from a clean plastic tub
The day we found them Now

Mira

Found on a feeding round

Fed under a parked car for weeks, one bowl at a time, before coming close enough to be lifted. Indoors, warm and vaccinated ever since.

A black and tan dog standing alone in a thawing yard between parked cars
A black and tan dog lying in summer grass with a kitten resting against its head
The day we found them Now

Tuman

Found during the thaw

Waited out the whole winter between the buildings, living on scraps. Summers are for lying in the grass now — and for being remarkably patient with kittens.

A black and white dog sitting alone on a wet road in fog
Shelter dogs cooling off at the edge of the shelter pond in summer
The day we found them Now

Laika

Found by the roadside

Sitting in the middle of an empty road in the rain, waiting for someone who was not coming back. Most afternoons now are spent in the shelter pond.

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A rescued shepherd enjoying bath time at the shelter

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