Partnerships with SAVE
Our partners have given us the opportunity to reach more animals in need and people who need and want our services.
Our transfer partner rescues in other parts of the country take animals from Texas to find loving homes in the New England area, the upper Midwest and Great Lakes, and the Pacific Northwest. Other partnerships help our clinic operations and our community outreach to underserved areas. Local shelter partnerships help give the homeless animals a voice in decision-making that directly affects their right to exist.
We are committed to collaboration with other like minded organizations to improve the circumstances of at risk animals anywhere in our service area. SAVE works hand in hand with rescue groups and local shelters to provide additional resources for medical care through our Fix Ur Pet clinic. In 2023, one such partnership is allowing Galveston Island Humane Society and Galveston County Animal Resource Center to have all pets adopted from them fixed before leaving or at the first clinic following their adoption. The result is less follow up required from the shelters and no animals “falling through the cracks” and having an accidental litter.
Grants from Corporate partners allow us to spend more time solving problems and less time fundraising.
Houston Petset
Houston Petset provides transportation of many pets each month to the Midwest. We are fortunate to be a part of their network of shelters and rescues whose dogs and cats get a ticket out of Texas to a new life. For SAVE the ability to help more animals, especially cats, depends on these transports. In 2022, 185 dogs and cats have been transported to partner shelters and rescues for a second chance for a new life. But Houston Petset is more than a transfer partner. Each year for the past 5 years, SAVE Rescue has been the recipient of a Houston Petset annual grant. These grants have helped us with replacing worn equipment and implementing new programs. Over the last 2 years, grants totaling $25 thousand dollars have been granted to our FIX UR PET clinic for equipment and expanded operations.
We value our relationship with Houston Petset and appreciate all they do for animal welfare in the Houston area.
#fortheanimals https://www.houstonpetset.org
LifeLine of Galveston County
Cuddle Shuttle
LifeLine of Galveston County, a Galveston County based non-profit, shares our dream of a safer, kinder outcome for dogs and cats in the Galco area. Together we have organized the trapping of community cats through a combined effort to equip and educate volunteers who go out into the community and contact people feeding strays cats on the advantages of Trap,Neuter and Return (TNR). Lifeline volunteers man phone lines for the public and assign trappers to each new colony. All the colonies are tracked on CATSTATS, a program to monitor the progress of sterilizing each colony. Through FIX UR PET, we provide free spay/neuters for the cats trapped and also provide additional trapping equipment to the trappers to expedite the completing of fixing each colony. Lifeline also provides help to local pet owners needing spay/neuter services. Many do not have transportation to clinics because of age or ill health, some simply lack a reliable vehicle. Working together with FIX UR PET volunteers who schedule the surgeries, transportation in provided via the “Cuddle Shuttle”. On the day of surgery a Lifeline volunteer goes to the home of the pet owner and picks up the pet and delivers it safely back home after surgery. Without this service these people and their pets would be forgotten. Mr Blondie and Tippy are two of the Cuddle Shuttle passengers, returned to their older, wheelchair-bound owner. Mrs. Harrison was amazed that such a service existed for pet owners like her.
Our relationship with Lifeline will continue to improve the lives of both pets and people in the Galveston County area.
https://www.lifelinetx.org
Best Friends/Rachel Ray Foundation
Best Friends/Rachel Ray Foundation “Save Them All” grant of $20,000 to reduce the intake of feral cats to shelters, has been a “game changer” for our program to reduce the number of feral/community cats. We have been able to add additional surgeries each month to meet the goal of diverting 500 feral cats from the shelters to a TNR program. Best Friends has been very supportive of our progress and we will accomplish our goal ahead of schedule. As part of the Best Friends Partners Network, SAVE receives information on trends in animal adoptions and care, as well an opportunity for creating partnerships with others in the network who are based all over the US.
https://www.leadersinnonprofit.com/grants/rachel-ray-foundation-grants
Galveston Island Humane Society and Galveston County Animal Resource Center
Partnering with local animal shelters, Galveston County Animal Resource Center and Galveston Island Humane Society, is a win-win. We are able to work directly with the decision-makers in the shelters to help more homeless pets. We have input into proposed local animal control ordinances and programs from a non-governmental point of view. We work with the shelters to provide affordable and convenient access to spay-neuter services at our clinic on weekdays when our clinic not providing community spay/neuter. Convenient access to spay/neuter services at times when our clinic would otherwise be idle allows the shelters to move out their animals, already vetted, to waiting adopters and reduce the time in the shelter freeing up spaces for more animals in need. This partnership assures that all animals leaving the shelters are altered and there are no animals falling through the cracks.
httpc://www.galvestonhumane.org https://www.gchd.org/animal-services/galveston-county-animal-resource-center
PETCO Love Foundation
Petco Love vaccine program
PETCO Love Foundation has been a friend to SAVE Rescue and the rescue community in general, especially during the aftermath of Hurricane Harvey, when their fast help and generosity saved many furry lives. Starting in the fall of 2021, in partnership with Merck animal health, PETCO Love set out to vaccinate as many owned dogs and cats as possible to reduce the number of pets dying needlessly from diseases that could be stopped with proper immunizations. Through the “Give them the best Shot” program, SAVE has received to date 6000 dog and cat vaccines to distribute through our community outreach and clinic programs, enabling us to help the lower-income owner to get their pets vaccinated against distemper, parvo, panleukopenia, and other common but deadly diseases. So far, we vaccinated and microchipped 587 pets for local residents as part of our “Love Us Fix Us” clinics. We have also received to date $6000 in grants to help implement this program and $4000 in the form of a grant to further our Shelter Diversion Program. PETCO continues to prove to be a valued partner to the entire animal welfare community.
