Your Compassion Changes Lives

Life is hard for homeless animals. While you may conjure up images of cute kittens, sleek adult cats, or energetic dogs with wagging tails, reality is often quite different. Animals are often abandoned or lost in cold, wet weather, scared and starving. Kittens, especially, are subject to respiratory and eye infections. Homeless animals may have tangled with cars or other dangerous equipment or tussled with wild animals often sustaining bite wounds. Some arrive to the shelter or our rescue as seniors with arthritis or younger animals with skin or food allergies that require ongoing treatment. Expenditures for medical needs consume the largest part of our annual budget. So far this year, we have spent more than $90,000 on medical needs for shelter dogs and cats as well as on foster dogs and cats at our Hissy Hut location.

Thanks to a caring community of supporters and donors, Friends doesn’t have to turn away any animal in need. This Giving Tuesday, will you help us ensure we can continue to help? Your gift will be matched dollar for dollar up $2,500, thanks to an incredible anonymous friend. Your compassion will save animals like little Chester and be good medicine for those with ongoing needs like Blockhead.

Chester

A tiny fluff of a stray kitten weighing less than a pound and under 2 months old, Chester sustained serious injuries after an encounter with farm equipment. The poor boy was left with abdominal injuries and a severely injured right paw, that he ended up losing. Friends has covered the cost of his surgery and ongoing treatments, over $2,000 so far, at Mansfield Animal Hospital in Columbus. He has gone from an unlucky little guy with horrific injuries to a much loved little patient. When he recovers, he has a loving home with a vet tech who has helped care for him.

Blockhead

After being the shelter's longest resident, Blockhead has been enjoying the comforts of a foster home for the last 8 months. This sweet 9-year-old boy may be a senior, but he's full of life and love to give. He’s been so patient waiting for a forever home, and now he’s ready to spend his golden years being cherished. Like many older pups, Blockhead has a sensitive digestive system that requires prescription food, costing $130 per bag. He also has allergies that need to be kept under control with medication which runs $156 per 30-day supply. Friends covers these costs.