I also went to the following website that allows people to look at charity organizations to see if they were listed. While they say they are applying for their 501 status the first thing anyone has to do to become non-profit is to get an EIN number which takes all of 10 seconds on the interent and this rescue does not have an EIN number which leads me to believe they haven't started the process of applying for their 501...
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