Follow Your Heart Foundation, Inc dba Follow Your Heart Animal Rescue Follow Your Heart Animal Hospital

We have a simple mission- saving animals, to reduce the number of homeless and euthanized pets by rescuing the dogs whose lives and/or well-being are at risk. We provide them with basic needs, care and place them with loving families. We do our best to eliminate the stigma of "un adoptability" brought on by breed, age and physical condition.

The Rescue was born within a sad moment in Debbie's life. Debbie was deep in grief from losing her mother, Faralene and it is within that grieving that something so beautiful was born. Debbie knew her mother's love of animals so she knew in order to deal with the grief, she would need to do something positive and something her mother would love.
She began saving animals in 2010 that were in desperate need of a chance, a home and medical care. Follow Your Heart Animal Rescue was born in that moment, saving not only the dogs but Debbie Varner as well. The logo was created with Debbie's mom in mind, her initials are in the dog tags of the cute FYH dog in the logo. Amazing things can happen even in the saddest of times.

Last Litter Program: Accidents happen, puppies are a lot of work. FYH is working to help prevent unplanned litters, ensure that every dog has a forever home and reduce the number of dogs entering the shelter system. We offer the Last Litter program to benefit the wellbeing of the mom and the puppies and help take some stress away from you.
LAST LITTER PROGRAM BENEFITS:
FREE spay for your mom dog
FREE vaccines for your mom dog
FREE microchip for your mom dog
FREE puppy food until pups move to foster
This program gives you the peace of mind that your mom dog will no longer get pregnant and all of the puppies will find loving forever homes. We make sure all puppies are vaccinated and spay or neutered before adoption, ensuring the cycle does not repeat. We provide the most thorough vaccination services for all our adopted pups at no cost to our adopters.

Tigg Pen
At Follow Your Heart Animal Hospital we have a specially designed and custom-built isolation/ICU unit for Parvo patients. We call it our Tigg Pen. Unlike many hospitals, where puppies suffering from parvo are hidden from the public, our isolation unit has a built-in observation window. Rather than hide this disease, we aim to educate our clients on the importance of vaccinations, proper sanitary handling of puppies and pets, and the ugly truth of what can happen when these puppies get sick. The Tigg Pen is a place dedicated to the treatment and prevention of this devastating disease, but it is also a place of hope and honor.
We often get asked to take in parvo puppies from the streets, shelters and owner surrenders to give them a fighting chance. We also work with owners to help afford treatment when they come to us for help with a parvo case if possible.

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Testimonials

To us, Follow Your Heart is more than just a name; it is our driven purpose. We are an all-foster based rescue in Mesa, Arizona. By foster, we mean that there are loving people who willingly take in these beautiful transient creatures and do their very best to provide them with safety, security and love. We have seven unpaid board members, some of which have full time jobs in addition to their services to the rescue.
Throughout our history we have saved thousands of dogs from euthanasia, many of them simply because of their breed, their age, physical disabilities, illnesses or just plain fear. This is the core of why we do what we do. While we openly take in puppies and dogs who are in good shape, our focus is on saving those who are most likely to be thrown away, abandoned and unloved. This organization was founded on the principle that all life is precious and should be given the chance to be loved, cherished and cared for.
Some comments from our adopters/followers
"I researched many organizations before choosing FYH. I love how passionate they are for the health and safety of their dogs. They have a diligent screening process and they include so much with each doggy adoptions. I highly recommend this organization".
"Where do I even start? We learned the hard way about not buying a puppy from someone on Craigslist. After 3 days in our home our 9-week-old cockapoo ended up in the ER vomiting and with a cough. She ended up getting diagnosed with parvo and pneumonia. We paid for her to spend 2 days there to the tune of $4800.00 and decided that we would need to let her go since she wasn't getting any better and we were financially tapped out. A friend (who was a foster family and adopted 3 dogs from FYH) recommended that I contact Debbie and her rescue to see if she could help. I was very doubtful since she seemed to be a "lost cause" and would likely cost many thousands of dollars more to be healthy again. I spoke to Debbie on the phone and she immediately said that she would do all she could to save our puppy...