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  • Let’s Get Your Pets Vaccinated & Microchipped
    • Basic Obedience Training Session
  • K9 ENRICHMENT INITIATIVE, INC. (K9EI)
    • This Is Us
    • Mission Statement
    • Rescue Best Practices: Five Freedoms
    • Maddie’s Story
    • Considering Adoption?
    • Be A Sponsor: A lifeline of Support
    • What we mean by “Fear Free, Force Free”, Positive Reinforcement training
    • From All of Us to You…
      • Testimonials
      • Testimonials
  • Meet Our Adoptable Dogs
  • FOSTER/ADOPTION/VOLUNTEER INFORMATION
    • FOSTER / ADOPT
    • Foster / Adoption Policies
    • K9EI Foster/Foster to Adopt Agreement
    • Fostering: What it means to a dog in need and you?
    • Adoption Contract
    • Adoption Fees
    • Volunteer
    • Two Week Shutdown For the Dogs New Beginning
  • K9EI AFFILIATES
    • TRAINING RESOURCES
    • Veterinary Medical Care Partners
    • K9EI Training Resources
  • SHELTER PARTNERS
    • Chicago Animal Care and Control
  • Resources for Families In Need
  • Lost Dog? What to do.
  • News & Information
    • Safe At Home w/ K9 Enrichment Initiative Joliet Slammers Baseball game to benefit the dogs
    • Dogs looking for love and forever
    • Rescue Best Practices: Five Freedoms
    • Trinity: Journey of a Warrior Princess Dog
    • Trinity Turns One!
    • Simple Lessons With Major Impact
    • Trinity: My Very Own T-shirt?
    • Trinity-Strike Out Animal Cruelty
    • Trinity Grace: Splint Be Gone
    • Who Rescued Who, Lessons Taught
    • Trinity: Photos
    • Trinity: Thank you!
    • Trinity: Give me the Bark Pops!
    • Trinity: Foster Home
    • Trinity Update!
    • Trinity: They Named Me Trinity
    • Happy Mother’s Day!
    • Brian and Amanda Bickell Foundation “Bick’s Pit’s” 2018 Calendar
    • Fostering: What it means to a dog in need and you?
    • Puppypalooza
    • #30DAYSOFHOPE: Bette Davis Eyes
    • Celebrating King Cairo. One Love.
    • Southern Comfort Coalition
    • Brian and Amanda Bickell Foundation “Bick’s Pit’s” 2018 Calendar
    • St. Pawstricks Bowl!
    • Baby Hope Needs Our Help!
    • Chicago’s Homeless Animals Need You!
    • Trinity Steps Out Against Animal Cruelty

Author: K9 Enrichment Initiative, Inc.-K9EI Rescue

K9 Enrichment Initiative, Inc. is a Federal 501c3 non-profit organization operating with a license in animal welfare from the State of Illinois. KEI strives to provide the best medical and emotional care to homeless dogs joining our program from high kill shelters in the Chicago, the surrounding areas and Southern Illinois. Our foster family's open their homes and hearts in preparing their foster dogs to become a part of a loving family of their very own.

Posted on November 15, 2025

Santa Claus and Adoptables Holiday Event

You are cordially invited to our adoption event being held at Narnia Pet Behavior and Training center. Participating Rescue Organizations are:Perfect Pooches Adoption AgencyPawsUp4U RescueStarish…

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Posted on December 3, 2024December 3, 2024

Giving Tuesday!

Please consider a donation to help us continue our mission into the new year. The rescue world has changed, and the cost of vetting is…

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Posted on November 30, 2024

Pop Up Clinic September 2024

Thank you to those who have entrusted your pets to the clinic for their vaccinations and microchips., 2024We have had an outstanding year of monthly…

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Posted on November 3, 2024November 3, 2024

Adoptable Dogs Trooper & Patches as of November 3, 2024

Meet Trooper and Patches, 10 month old littermates looking for a foster or foster to adopt family's. They do not need to stay together despite…

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Posted on October 17, 2024

October Let’s Get Vaccinated & Microchipped Pet Clinic Registration Open

Come one, come all, let's get your pet(s) vaccinated, chipped for the low cost of a Pay It Forward donation of $10. Whether you need…

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Posted on August 28, 2024

Low Cost Vaccine Pop Up Clinic Serves 145 Dogs & Cats

All the the news from the latest successful clinic. That's a wrap! Read about the 25th of August clinic hosted by K9 Enrichment Initiative in…

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Posted on June 16, 2024June 17, 2024

Nike Sinclair: A Journey of Hope

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Posted on June 6, 2024

Another Successful Clinic

We held a free vaccine and microchip clinic on June 2nd, 2024 at The Salvation Army Community Center in Joliet, IL. We proudly serviced 100…

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Thanks to Maddie!
K9 Enrichment Initiative has received grant funding aiding our mission of completing families through the rehoming of homeless dogs.

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Plainfield, Illinois
(779) 875-6309-Voice Mail
info@k9ei.dog
Foster Based Rescue

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K9 Enrichment Initiative, Inc. is a federal tax exempt not for profit corporation registered with the State of Illinois. Donations are tax deductible in accordance with tax law. Federal ID# 81-2234931

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Care Cremation Center provides pet cremation for the cost of $100. In turn $50 of those dollars are placed in a fund for shelters & rescue grants. Easy to schedule appointments online, professional caring staff to greet you in their Pet Services office. They offer urns, keepsakes, obituary post, the same as the more expensive center's for pets. Click on the link to be directed to their website. Located in Romeoville, Illinois.

  • Santa Claus and Adoptables Holiday Event
  • Giving Tuesday!
  • Pop Up Clinic September 2024
  • Adoptable Dogs Trooper & Patches as of November 3, 2024
  • October Let’s Get Vaccinated & Microchipped Pet Clinic Registration Open

Foster Based Rescue

Plainfield, Illinois
779-875-6309
Voicemail Available 24/7
Email: info@k9ei.dog

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  • Let’s Get Your Pets Vaccinated & Microchipped
    • Basic Obedience Training Session
  • K9 ENRICHMENT INITIATIVE, INC. (K9EI)
    • This Is Us
    • Mission Statement
    • Rescue Best Practices: Five Freedoms
    • Maddie’s Story
    • Considering Adoption?
    • Be A Sponsor: A lifeline of Support
    • What we mean by “Fear Free, Force Free”, Positive Reinforcement training
    • From All of Us to You…
      • Testimonials
      • Testimonials
  • Meet Our Adoptable Dogs
  • FOSTER/ADOPTION/VOLUNTEER INFORMATION
    • FOSTER / ADOPT
    • Foster / Adoption Policies
    • K9EI Foster/Foster to Adopt Agreement
    • Fostering: What it means to a dog in need and you?
    • Adoption Contract
    • Adoption Fees
    • Volunteer
    • Two Week Shutdown For the Dogs New Beginning
  • K9EI AFFILIATES
    • TRAINING RESOURCES
    • Veterinary Medical Care Partners
    • K9EI Training Resources
  • SHELTER PARTNERS
    • Chicago Animal Care and Control
  • Resources for Families In Need
  • Lost Dog? What to do.
  • News & Information
    • Safe At Home w/ K9 Enrichment Initiative Joliet Slammers Baseball game to benefit the dogs
    • Dogs looking for love and forever
    • Rescue Best Practices: Five Freedoms
    • Trinity: Journey of a Warrior Princess Dog
    • Trinity Turns One!
    • Simple Lessons With Major Impact
    • Trinity: My Very Own T-shirt?
    • Trinity-Strike Out Animal Cruelty
    • Trinity Grace: Splint Be Gone
    • Who Rescued Who, Lessons Taught
    • Trinity: Photos
    • Trinity: Thank you!
    • Trinity: Give me the Bark Pops!
    • Trinity: Foster Home
    • Trinity Update!
    • Trinity: They Named Me Trinity
    • Happy Mother’s Day!
    • Brian and Amanda Bickell Foundation “Bick’s Pit’s” 2018 Calendar
    • Fostering: What it means to a dog in need and you?
    • Puppypalooza
    • #30DAYSOFHOPE: Bette Davis Eyes
    • Celebrating King Cairo. One Love.
    • Southern Comfort Coalition
    • Brian and Amanda Bickell Foundation “Bick’s Pit’s” 2018 Calendar
    • St. Pawstricks Bowl!
    • Baby Hope Needs Our Help!
    • Chicago’s Homeless Animals Need You!
    • Trinity Steps Out Against Animal Cruelty
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