Who Are We?

Since 2002, dedicated BAWF volunteers have been providing refuge and help to needy companion animals in Bath County.

BAWF is a Non-Profit 501(c)3 charitable organization completely funded by your contributions.  We do not operate an animal shelter — we depend on and pay for private board for our abandoned animals. BAWF relies on your donations to be able to provide refuge and help to needy animals.

While Bath County is one of the biggest counties in Virginia spreading across over 529 square miles, it has the second smallest population in Virginia, less than 4,650 people.  This severely limits the number of potential homes in this area.

With its large National Forests and other recreational outlets, Bath hosts thousands of visitors per year – some of whom lose their animals or leave them behind.

Seasonally we get “hounded”!  Every hunting season we see an influx of hounds who have been abandoned.

BAWF is committed to providing help and refuge to these needy animals.  We go the distance… both literally and figuratively, to provide the best outcome for each animal.  We maintain a wide-ranging network of pure breed and other all-breed rescues.  We place most of our dogs outside of Bath County in Eastern Virginia as well as the surrounding states of Maryland, New Jersey, New York, Connecticut and Massachusetts.

The BAWF van, the lifeline of our organization, regularly carries animals to their forever homes.