Low-Cost Veterinary Care

Mission: Lake Haven is an all-volunteer private, non-profit animal rescue shelter dedicated to the care and adoption of homeless and/or injured dogs, cats, kittens and puppies in the West Michigan area. Goals: (1) Provide temporary shelter for homeless cats and dogs; (2) Ensure that at the time of entry to Lake Haven, animals receive needed medical care; (3) Provide spay/neuter services via area veterinarians; (4) Place animals in responsible and loving adoptive homes; and (5) Educate pet owners and the public in proper animal care and the urgent need to spay and neuter their pets. Services: (1) Animal rescue (2) Necessary medical care (3) Temporary shelter (4) Adoption (5) Low-Cost Spay/Neuter Program

The Big Cypress German Shepherd Rescue is comprised of a group of passionate individuals dedicated to the rescue of homeless, abandoned, abused, and neglected German Shepherd dogs and puppies. The goal is to rehabilitate the dogs physically, emotionally, and nutritionally and help guide them to becoming loving and loyal family companions.

We are an independent 501(c)(3) organization made up of experienced volunteers who are dedicated to the rescue and adoption of homeless Labrador Retrievers and their offspring that are in need of safe and loving homes.We respond to requests for help from shelters, aid in the recovery of lost/abandoned Labradors and accept owner surrenders. We carefully place our Labradors into foster care. While in foster care, the dog receives any medical treatment they need and are microchipped. This most often consists of spaying or neutering, updating vaccinations, testing for heartworm, tick and valley fever and treatment of whatever medical issues are deemed necessary and treatable. We do not maintain a shelter, but instead find it beneficial to care for our Labradors in the homes of our foster families. This provides our Labradors the opportunity to maintain, or regain, their confidence as a valued member of a family. It allows our fosters an opportunity to evaluate the temperament and needs of the Labrador in order to find the most suitable adopters and permanent home environment. We work to educate the public about the virtues of the Labrador Retriever breed. We encourage the public to join this cause through donations, volunteerism and humane care of animals. We also strive to reduce the pet overpopulation problem by educating about the importance of spaying and neutering animals. The Labradors who are in the rescue process have been evaluated to best of our ability to assure that they are friendly to humans and other dogs. We carefully screen Labs with a history of biting, people or dog aggression and/or severe anxiety issues. We will not intake a dog that is a serious safety risk. However, we will provide training to correct behavioral issues when it is deemed plausible by our medical and behavioral volunteers.

We take in helpless and homeless animals, get them neutered and physically/mentally healthy, and place them in approved, appropriate homes. We can also help with food and vetting to keep an animal with its owner, and we work with local animal control to get at-risk animals to safety.

Crossing Guardians is an all-volunteer organization. We wear many hats in the world of animal rescue and have found that the initial and primary obstacle in saving the lives of Border Strays is to provide them with vet care (often emergency vet care), medicine, food, supplies, and boarding. As such, this organization was formed primarily to bridge the gap between getting Border Strays off the streets, taking care of emergency and/or initial vet care, and getting them into a safe environment until a rescue or a permanent home can be found. Once a family or rescue agrees to take the animal, then logistics are formed and transportation arrangements are made. Crossing Guardians also provides food and supplies to independent rescuers south of the border, or will wire funds so they can procure those items themselves. Crossing Guardians helps with boarding costs, including rental payment of homes used as a temporary haven for homeless animals until placed with a rescue or permanent home. Mexico is Southern California’s neighboring country, but animal rescue is made more difficult because it is still another country. So, with each animal rescue venture, a cooperative alliance is formed with other individuals, both north and south of the border. It is always a team effort with many players involved. Through our collective endeavor to make a positive contribution for the stray animal population along the California-Mexico border, we hope to make a fundamental change in the current assumption that animals don’t matter.

The Oregon Coast Humane Society, located in Florence, Oregon, is a no-kill shelter with intake limited to our housing capacity serving the animal welfare needs in Western Lane County. Comprised of volunteers and a committed professional staff, we are dedicated to assisting homeless and/or abused companion animals in our area. We also seek to educate people about animal-related issues such as cruelty and pet overpopulation. Originally known as the Florence Area Humane Society (FAHS), Oregon Coast Humane Society was founded in 1992 when a group of concerned animal advocates met to see what they could do to help the companion animals of the area. The shelter was completed and the first animals were moved from foster homes in August of 1996. In the next few years, changes were made to accommodate the increasing homeless pet population. The cattery was enlarged to improve the isolation and stray facilities, kitten and puppy nurseries were added to the second floor, and storage space was converted into a staff/meeting rooms, as well as an additional office. In the spring of 2016, the original name was changed from Florence Area Humane Society to Oregon Coast Humane Society to reflect scope of the area serviced by our shelter. This shelter is the only facility administering to the needs of the homeless cats and dogs within a 60 mile radius of its Florence location.

I am a small organization focusing mainly on senior/geriatric dogs or dogs with special medical or behavioral needs. I have cared for several "forever" fosters in my organization paying for all their needs until the cross the rainbow bridge. I believe every life is valuable even the older dogs and the dying dogs. I also have adoptable dogs available but generally fewer, I mainly have seniors dogs.

We are newly formed no kill shelter which utilizes temporary housing for homeless animals within the Oxford/Lafayette County, MS community. We utilize foster the use of foster homes, adoptions, and transports to socialize and provide the environmental stimulation in a home as frequently as possible, promote spay/neuter, and transports to prevent unnecessary euthanasia for treatable illness or lack of space.

I founded Lancaster Four Dog Rescue due to a plea to save 4 emaciated pit bull puppies. This led to an animal abuse case that is still ongoing. I have always wanted to help animals. When I was growing up I would save neighbor dogs that were left outside with no food or water. I began by fostering for rescues then volunteering. The 4 puppies sparked my desire to start my own rescue.

Our organization primarily helps owners keep pets in safe and healthy homes. We do this by offering support (i.e. training advice, management), supplies (i.e. food, crates, leashes), and we work closely with animal control on cases where owners truly just need help keeping pets. When re-homing is best, we work with owners to provide re-homing assistance which includes marketing and screening of applicants, as well as post-adoption support for adopters.