Monetary Donations

Monetary donations, especially recurring donations, make the largest continuous impact at our shelter.

Here’s what your money does for the shelter & pets:

• Covers adoption fees, especially for our longer-term shelter residents.
• Provides additional vet care as needed, like parvo treatments.
• Pays for emergency medical costs beyond what the City can cover, including surgeries, amputations, and extended treatment of serious injuries.
• Purchasing materials as needed (when they’re not donated or harder to procure), like specialty equipment, fence repairs, shade structures for our play yards, and other enrichment items.
• Special grooming materials or services.
• Rides to Rescue materials and services.

Material Donations

Donation of items needed DAILY at the shelter (e.g. pet food, bleach, litter).

We’ll take all food, treats, toys, collars, leashes and other materials for adoptions.

Please see our Amazon wishlist for our latest material needs at the shelter:

We also need plenty of special materials depending on our latest special projects and strategic initiatives to improve the shelter for ALL our pets.

Volunteered Time

Volunteering time enriching adoptable animals:

• Walking our dogs or playing with them in the play yards
• Reading to cats in the cat room (all ages)
• Grooming dogs, giving puppies baths (requires adult supervision)

Volunteering time cleaning & organizing the shelter

• Washing, folding & storing clean laundry
• Auditing food donations, remove far past expiration dates

Volunteering at EVENTS

• Adoption events in the community
• Educational events in the community