Every animal here, described honestly.
7 animals in care, 5 ready to go homeA foster-based dog and cat rescue in a former feed store on Mill Street. We write down what we know about each animal — age, size, health, who they get along with and who they do not — and what we do not know, we say. Every animal is vaccinated, fixed and chipped before adoption. Open Thursday to Sunday, 12 to 5.
Who is waiting
Waffle dog · 4 months · 14 lb · male
Four months, will be a medium dog of about forty pounds. Neutered, chipped, second vaccines done; the third is on the adopter and we tell you the date. Chews shoes.
Good with children 8 and up, dogs, cats untested. Needs a fenced yard. Needs Puppy class, a fenced yard, someone home most of the day for the first months.
Apply for Waffle →
Pickle & Olive cat · 4 months · 3 lb · male
A brother and sister from a litter of five, the last two. They go home together and the fee covers both. Neutered, spayed, chipped, first vaccines done.
Good with children 8 and up, dogs untested, cats. Needs Go home together; one fee for the pair. Indoors only.
Apply for Pickle & Olive →
Biscuit dog · 3 years · 48 lb · female
Came in from the county shelter on 2 September. Spayed, chipped, house-trained. Good with dogs and children over eight; not cats. Sits for a treat, leans on your leg while you tie your shoes.
Good with children 8 and up, dogs, not cats. Needs a fenced yard. Needs House-trained. A fenced yard and a daily walk; she pulls at first.
Apply for Biscuit →
Juniper cat · 1 year · 8 lb · female
A lap cat who wants a quiet home and one window. Spayed, chipped. Untested with other cats; she has not met a dog and would rather not.
Good with children 12 and up, not dogs, cats untested. Needs A quiet home and one window. Indoors only.
Apply for Juniper →
Tamale cat · 5 years · 13 lb · male
Talkative, fine with dogs and other cats, sits on whoever is nearest. Neutered, chipped, a notched ear from a life before us.
Good with children of any age, dogs, cats. Needs Talks. A home that does not mind. Indoors only.
Apply for Tamale →Status is what our staff see: when an application is being reviewed the entry says pending; when an animal goes home it leaves the page by itself after two weeks. Every animal, with filters →
Needs a foster
A litter of five, five weeks old
Until 24 October, then they come back to be listed. We supply A crate, a playpen, kitten food and every vet visit. Two visits from the foster coordinator in the first week.
Posted 15 September — still open after 60 days
Hazel, after surgery
Three weeks, from the day she leaves the vet. We supply Her medication, a crate, food, and a ride to the two follow-up appointments if you need one.
Posted 16 September — still open after 59 days
Two shy cats, together
Two to four weeks, a spare room and patience. We supply Food, litter, a hide box each and a feeding routine written out.
Posted 8 September — still open after 67 days
Moose, until his adoption is settled
One to two weeks. We supply Food, his joint supplement, a ground-floor bed.
Posted 13 September
Food, crate and veterinary care are always ours. Colorado allows eight animals in a foster home; we count. Fostering, and the application →
Adoption day
Home for the Holidays weekend
Saturday 21 November · Friday to Sunday, 12 to 5
418 Mill Street
Adoption fees waived for every animal that has been with us more than sixty days. Applications are reviewed the same way as any other weekend.
Visitors are welcome Thursday to Sunday, 12 to 5, without an event. Adoptions on other days by appointment. Every event, with shifts →
The year in numbers
Every intake logged in the shelter software on the day it arrived, including the 240 transferred from the county shelter under the contract. Litters count each animal.
Adoptions with a signed contract and a paid fee, 318 dogs and 253 cats. Animals returned within thirty days and re-adopted are counted once.
Counted the Shelter Animals Count way: live outcomes (adoption, return to owner, transfer) divided by all outcomes, on the basic data matrix. Died in care and euthanasia are the other four percent, and they are reported, not hidden.
Dogs 23 days, cats 31, from intake to the day the animal left. The median is lower; a few long-stay animals pull the average up, and their names are on the Adopt page.
2025 expenses of $561,000 divided by 612 intakes. It includes everything: veterinary care, staff, the building, food, administration and fundraising. A single surgery can cost more than this on its own.
Counted from the animal sheet on this site: every animal marked adopted with a date this year. It grows as staff mark them, and it is the number the 990 for 2026 will report.
Every number carries the sentence that says how it was counted. The filings, the licence and the county contract are on the Financials page.
Where the money goes, in one minute
Sample video. Copper Ridge is invented, so it has no footage of its own: the clips are AI-generated or free stock, no face is shown, and the narration is a synthetic voice. For a real organization connectNPO uses only the photos and clips its staff send.
One dog, what her care costs, and what the year added up to — the same figures published on this site and in the sample Form 990: $917 an animal, 612 in, 571 adopted.
Made by connectNPO, who built this site. Up to five short videos a year are part of the plan.
Built for a small rescue, not a pet store
Copper Ridge Animal Rescue is invented. The features are real and working, and each one is an example of what connectNPO builds for nonprofits.
A list that is never stale
Available, pending, foster only or adopted, per animal, on one staff sheet. Adopted animals leave by themselves after fourteen days and count toward the year.
The entries →An application that knows the animal
Open it from an entry and the animal is filled in. The form checks children, cats, dogs and the yard against the entry and says what the coordinator will talk through.
Apply for Biscuit →The foster board
Who needs a foster this week, why, for how long, and what the rescue supplies — one sheet, shown here and on the Foster page.
This week →Event shifts
Every adoption day with its handler, greeter and setup places. Full shifts stay listed; past events vanish.
Events →Financials with the licence
Three 990s, the review, the letter, the PACFA number, the county contract in one paragraph, and the live-release rate with its method.
Financials →Found in search
"Animal shelter near me" is searched 673,000 times a month. The site tells search engines it is an animal shelter, open Thursday to Sunday, with a list of the animals available today.
What search engines see →The staff side
One menu for animals, the foster board, events, shifts, numbers and documents, with a list of what needs attention. Signs you in as sample staff; nothing you change is saved.
Open the staff preview →Fourteen more sample sites
Each one built for a different kind of organization.
Youth arts → Scholarships → Community theatre → Youth center → Youth soccer → Counseling → Food pantry → Free clinic → Resource directory → House museum → Domestic-violence services → Fair-wage ledger → Soil cleanup → Land trust →