Maddie's^® Pet Rescue Project in Baldwin County, Alabama, is working with Maddie's^® Spay/Neuter Project in Baldwin County, Alabama to save all of the community's healthy and treatable shelter dogs and cats within ten years.

Maddie's^® Pet Rescue Project is a coalition of animal control agencies and rescue groups focused solely on increasing adoptions.

The coalition's lead agency is the non-sheltered Baldwin County Humane Society. Other partners include City of Fairhope Animal Control, The Haven for Animals, Baldwin County Animal Control Center, Daphne Animal Shelter and City of Bay Minette Animal Control. The Project includes all of Baldwin County, population 151,000.

Baldwin County is located in south Alabama on the shores of the Gulf of Mexico and Mobile Bay. Baldwin is Alabama's largest county (1,600 square miles) and one of its fastest growing. Rural and sparsely populated just a few years ago, today the county is a "bedroom" community of Mobile and a popular recreational and retirement community in its own right.

In 2004, rescue and sheltering organizations in Baldwin County sheltered 8,816 dogs and cats, euthanizing 5,149. Out of the total deaths, approximately 1,425 were healthy.

At the end of Year Two, Maddie's Pet Rescue Project in Baldwin County had reduced healthy deaths to 1,127 and all deaths to 5,239.

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