Welcome!

Midwest Beagle Rescue, Education and Welfare, Inc is a 501(c)3 non profit, all-volunteer
organization dedicated to rescuing beagles from high-kill shelters. We adopt beagles to
families within Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Ohio, western Pennsylvania and Wisconsin and
have also placed beagles into loving homes in Minnesota, Iowa, and Missouri. If you adopted from us as BREW Midwest, rest assured we are still here for you and will honor all contracts.

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Important updates concerning COVID-19

May 18, 2020 Update: As the Coronavirus pandemic continues, and many areas begin to open up, we are receiving many inquiries about when we will start accepting applications and resuming our normal operations.  Although we are as eager as you to match people with their new buddies, we feel the time isn’t yet right to resume. Since we operate in six states, and each state is different in how and when they are “opening up”, we all have to be patient and wait a while longer. We promise to broadcast it loud and clear when we do open up our application process, so that you can open up your home to a new Beagle! Thank you for understanding.

April 18, 2020 Update: Due to the continuing uncertainty surrounding Covid-19 (Coronavirus), government restrictions, and in concern for the health and safety of our volunteers and their families, we are temporarily suspending accepting new adoption applications until further notice and have disabled our adoption application. We cannot in good conscience do home visits, and do not wish to create a backlog of applicants when we can’t move forward with our adoption process.  We are working hard to stay on top of the situation as it develops, and will keep you posted with any updates.

Thank you for your unwavering support, your understanding, and your patience,
The Board Members of Midwest BREW

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Don't forget to visit our store for all your beagle related shopping needs!

Please visit the Store tab at the top of this page to purchase Midwest BREW and beagle related items.
They make great gifts and all proceeds from the store go directly to the rescue.

Due to COVID-19 we have not been able to get out to our storage facility that houses our store merchandise to update our online inventory, however, we are going out on Saturday, May 16 and will have additional merchandise available soon! We appreciate everyone's patience and with Beaglefest being cancelled, we hope that you will make your purchases online to help support the rescue. Stay tuned. An update will be posted here once we have the store updated.

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Help Wanted: Foster Homes Desperately Needed

• Do you love dogs?
• Do you want to learn more about the beagle breed?
• Do you have space, time and energy for another dog?
• Do you enjoy training and teaching dogs basic manners?
• Are you up for some unconditional love?
• Are you ready for a challenge?
• Do you want to save a life?

We receive pleas on a daily basis from shelters, animals control officers, vet offices and the general public asking for assistance in placing beagles in need. Most of the time, the request for assistance is the dogs last chance…and if we can’t help because of our lack of foster homes, the beagle usually find his/her life on the line. Unfortunately, we NEVER have enough foster homes. Please consider becoming a Midwest BREW foster home and experience the joy of saving one beagle at a time in your own home. What a wonderful way to teach your family and friends about giving back and making the world a better place. The average stay for a beagle in a foster home is two to three months. Some beagles take longer to place and some are placed shortly after arriving at their foster home. These sweet little hounds are depending on you to help them in their time of need…will you be there to provide a temporary home, love, and guidance until their “FOREVER” home is found?

Midwest BREW does not operate a kennel or shelter, so foster homes are critically important to the work we do. Click on the "Fostering" tab at the top of the page to learn more or email us.

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Senior Beagles deserve a great home too!

Please consider adopting one of our senior beagles!

Midwest BREW is proud and excited about our senior beagle program: Amazing Assortment of Retired Beagles or AARB for short. Our AARB program includes a reduced adoption fee for our available beagles that are age 8 and older and a newly instituted AARB Fund which we will use exclusively to help our senior beagles.

More information about our AARB program and our new AARB Fund, can be found by clicking the "AARB Senior" link located in the gray bar at the top of each page or click here for a direct link.

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Upcoming Events:

In light of the COVID-19 outbreak, we are suspending all monthly adoption events until further notice. In addition, the Chicagoland Pet Expo scheduled for
March 20, 2020 - March 22, 2020 has been cancelled.

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Check it out...Midwest BREW is featured in BRAVO's Unleashed!

Meet the Real Shelter Dogs of the Midwest, Adoptable Beagle Edition!