Our Future Vision
Our future vision is a world where:
- Every homeless animal has food, shelter, veterinary care, compassion and love.
- Every animal in a shelter or rescue has enough time, care, space, activity, compassion and love to wait for a home – however long that takes – and if that home never comes, knew love, compassion and kindness while they waited.
- People have the help they need to provide food and veterinary care for their pets without having to face losing their pets due to lack of money for care.
- People understand and practice the humane treatment of pets and wildlife.
The problem is not only enough shelters, rescues, and sanctuaries. It is also the capacity, staffing and funding of those entities – or lack thereof – to help all of the animals in their community. Sadly, the majority lack adequate, non-dilapidated space, staff, heating, clean water, veterinary medicine and surgeries, food, beds, toys, leashes, collars, volunteers, foster and adoptive families.
Even before a global Pandemic destroyed lives, families, shelters, rescues, and economies, people on low or fixed incomes had to make the horrible choice to give up their pet or euthanize their pet due to a lack of money to pay for needed Veterinary care or food. Not all Veterinarians allow payment over time, and CareCredit is not always available to all who need it. For some a GoFundMe is wildly successful; for others just as deserving, it is sadly not successful.
