Our Story

Thrive Animal Rescue is the brainchild of Cece Durante Bloum and Georgia Spogli. Cece, a lifelong animal lover, equestrian, and founder of Newmarket Farm, sought a way to incorporate her love for animals with her desire to give back to the community. Being a dog lover first and foremost, Cece began finding dogs in shelters for friends who wanted to adopt but could not bear the heartache of searching through shelters to find the right match. Cece realized that shelters are filled with dogs who have been abandoned for reasons having nothing to do with serious health or behavioral issues. Georgia had completed similar rescue work on the East Coast and successfully placed several dogs in the loving homes of friends and associates in the equestrian world. Georgia felt a calling to do more and joined forces with Cece in 2014. They recruited more dog loving friends from the equestrian world, applied for non-profit status, and Thrive Animal Rescue was born!

As of late Thrive Animal Rescue comes to the aid of abandoned and discarded dogs of all breeds, ages and situations. Our goal is to prepare each individual dog for placement in their forever home by providing medical aid, love and support.

We consider suitability a vital part of the process of placing a dog in a loving forever home and believe this diminishes the likelihood that a dog will become displaced or rehomed again, thereby reducing the number of viable dogs being euthanized.

Location

Thrive Animal Rescue is located at Newmarket Farm, in North County, San Diego. Just 5 minutes drive from Del Mar Horse Park and 1 hour from Temecula Valley National Horse Show, two of the venues where we routinely hold adoption events during horse shows.

Steve and Cece Bloum have transformed a piece of unused land above Newmarket Farm, into an area where newly rescued Thrive dogs can run around, roll in the grass and appreciate their first hours and days out of the shelter before being adopted.