The Holiday Season can be a stressful time for anyone but experiencing homelessness during this season is especially distressing. Many of our subscribers to this newsletter are homeless with pets and my heart is saddened by the difficulties and despair they face.
Homelessness is a life-and-death crisis. Faced with obstacles everyday… their pets offer unconditional love, companionship, loyalty, and protection without judgment.
Our mission: Feeding Pets of the Homeless® believes in the healing power of companion pets and of the human/animal bond, which is very important in the lives of many homeless. They find solace, protection and companionship through their pets. They care for their pets on limited resources so they themselves have less. Our task, nationwide, is to feed and provide basic emergency veterinary care to their pets and thus relieve the anguish and anxiety of the homeless who cannot provide for their pets.
Our programs are for clients with pets that are experiencing homelessness:
1. Free pet food
2. Free veterinary care to injured or ill pets
3. Free veterinary care to veteran’s pets in the HUD-VASH and other VA programs for homeless
4. We sponsor free Wellness Clinics
5. We provide new metal crates to homeless shelters that will allow pets with their humans
We know our programs are a success to so many pets and we know we have given the homeless hope, they email or call with gratitude for the assistance we provided.
If you didn’t read last month’s issue I want to reiterate that our expenses have gone up across the board and without your support we would not be able to help people and their pets that are experiencing homelessness. Any size gift would be appreciated.
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