Keeping People and Pets Together
Click here to see animals we’ve helped from sept. 2020 through May 2021, Sept. 2021 through may 2022, June 2022 through May 2023 and aug. 2023 through June 2024
C.A.R.E.’s program, Keeping People and Pets Together, partners with other community resources to keep pets with their owners and out of the overburdened sheltering system. Through warm referrals from rescue contacts, veterinarians, and other charitable organizations, C.A.R.E.’s goal is to keep adored pets with their ill or financially strapped owners.
Additionally, we are sensitive to the needs of resident pets in assisted living and mental health facilities, in Public Housing Projects, and pets of military owners. Often, C.A.R.E. can be there to provide food, acute veterinary care and hope when other services are not readily available. Last, we support programs that work with un-housed individuals.
In 2023, many shelters were forced to start euthanizing healthy pets again for space. In addition to the pets returned to shelters post-COVID, more pet owners began dumping or surrendering their pets because of economic reasons. In 2024, we are seeing the continued surrender of pets because of housing instability, food insecurity, the inability to cover household and medical bills and the high cost of veterinary care.
Companion animals are family! As people are struggling with their financial footing during these inflationary times, C.A.R.E. will be there to support owners that desire to keep their adored pets with them. We recognize and applaud the unbreakable bond pets and owners share.
