Mission 🙏
Little Adoption Shop — a Beijing-based dog rescue and adoption organization — has been helping our cuddly friends wag their tails with happiness since 2010. What started as an idea to create a grassroots “dog adoption shop” has grown into a full-scale rescue, rehabilitation, and relocation operation.
Fast forward to today, Little Adoption Shop is a modest name considering the huge impact this organization has achieved for animal rights in Beijing and greater China. The team spends their days on the front-line of Beijing’s animal rights movement.
Under the leadership of long-time Beijing expat Christopher Barden, these canine crusaders have caught countless illegal dog meat trade shipments in their tracks, saving thousands of lives — pups en route to the dreadful fate of a dinner plate.
Starting with a meager Shunyi District dog shelter with capacity for 50 dogs, Little Adoption Shop now operates three large-scale dog care facilities in the Beijing suburbs, taking over 1000 dogs into expert care.
Day-to-day the team searches for strays in dire circumstances and responds to life-threatening medical emergencies — for dogs who encounter serious traffic accidents, vicious dog-on-dog fights, or unspeakable human abuse.
When you see a smiling doggie with a wheelchair in place of a missing limb, and she’s happily running like the wind — you know who to thank.
But no pup’s life is complete until she is truly part of the pack. So Little Adoption Shop lists adorable homeless dogs on their website, in search of loving new adoptive families. They go the distance to help dogs find responsible owners wherever they may be — in Beijing, across China, and even international relocation to North America and Europe. The pooch gets on a plane and flies homeward bound to their new family in a far-off land.
These guys are Beijing’s ultimate dog lovers.
