Benefits to Individuals:

1)    Sheltering of animals:  We will provide the compassionate services of food, veterinary care, grooming, training, and companionship to the animals that have been relinquished to the Shelter by individuals in the community due to inability to care for them, finding of stray or homeless animals, or due to the rescue from a neglectful or dangerous situation.

2)    Comprehensive spay and neuter program:  We will provide a 100% sterilization policy with an education program to reduce companion animal overpopulation and euthanasia or killing rates.  Sterilizing pets before they leave our care represents our only opportunity to directly redue overpopulation.  Education programs on spaying and neutering will create a more responsible community of pet owners.

3)    Adoption program:  We will endeavor to find loving and safe homes for as many companion animals as possible.  Through temperament testing and obedience training, we intend to place well behaved, lovable pets into responsible, loving homes.  This will address the community pet overpopulation in several important ways.  The demand for homeless pets will increase reducing the number at the Shelter, and reducing the number obtained from commercial pet stores and breeders.  This will in turn reduce the demand from breeders and the additive effect from the breeders on overpopulation of pets as well as the selling of unaltered pets that add to the problem.

    Our specific activities:
                 1) Sterilizing all pets before they go to their new homes;
                  2)  Suggesting specific pets based on owner profiles
                  3)  Pre adoption temperament testing
                  4)  Obedience training for needy pets
                  5)  Pre adoption and follow up education for adopters
                  6)  Special programs to place companion animals with Seniors

4)    Reuniting lost pets with owners:  We will endeavor to find estranged owners by cross checking animals in the care of the cooperating organizations with reports of lost pets, including the Lost and Found ads.  We will answer ads if appropriate to reunite lost pets with their original owners.

5)    Pet guardianship services:  We will offer a number of services aimed at enhancing the bonds between people and animals and ensuring the permanece of adoptions.

    Our specific activities: 
                  1)  Period obedience classes at the Shelter;
                  2)  Responsible pet guardianship workshops at the Shelter
                  3)  Pre and post pet adoption behavior counseling
                  4)  A multi media learning center within the Shelter
                  5)  Pet loss counseling
                  6)  A lending library for understanding animal and pet needs and behaviors

6)    Pet rescue services:  We will offer the service of assisting the city and county, as well as concerned citizens in the locale, in retrieving and offering support, housing, and medical care when needed to animals in need of rescue from dangerous or inappropriate conditions. 


Benefits to Organizations:

7)    Education outreach to public schools:  We will offer a number learning experiences and classes to the school children of grade school and high school years. The classes will focus on proper care for pets, encouraging learning’s on responsibility and concern for the needs of others.  Pet overpopulation problems and the ways to help become part of the solution by spay and neuter efforts and avoiding unwanted pregnancies and offspring will be highlighted.  Above all, love and compassion for animals and pets will be our focus.
 
   Our specific activities: 
                  1) Sterilizing all pets before they go to their new homes;
                  2)  Suggesting specific pets based on owner profiles
                  3)  Pre adoption temperament testing
                  4)  Obedience training for needy pets
                  5)  Pre adoption and follow up education for adopters
                  6)  Special programs to place companion animals with Seniors