TAILS OF HOPE
SERVING THE SHENANGO VALLEY, MERCER COUNTY, LAWRENCE COUNTY, GREENVILLE/NORTHERN MERCER COUNTY, GROVE CITY, WARREN (OH)/SOUTHERN TRUMBULL COUNTY, NORTHERN TRUMBULL COUNTY, AND OVER 40 COUNTIES ACROSS WESTERN PA & EASTERN OH.
AMOUNT DONATED: $0
Tails of Hope (TOH) is celebrating its 10th Anniversary as the first and only non-profit Spay/Neuter clinic in Mercer County, PA, and over 18,000 pets, shelter animals, and homeless animals served so far. Without federal, state or local municiaplity funding, TOH serves the front line of animal welfare and as a beacon of hope for pet population control, animal and overall community health and well-being. TOH's low-cost to no-cost veterinary programs demonstrate exceptional commitment to preventative care at the lowest cost. TOH addresses Root Causes with an exponential impact and plays a pivotal role in keeping pets healthier, keeping pets & families together, strengthening public health through prevention of contracting and spreading disease, and reducing shelter intake, thus reducing the long-term physical and financial burden to shelters/rescues for real, lasting change for our community. Every service funded at Tails of Hope is a crisis avoided.
Giving Week Progress:
FUNDRAISING GOAL: $20,000
Programs Supported by Your Donations
▪A TAILS OF HOPE FUND has been established at The Community Foundation of WPA & EOH to make a better future a reality for our area by ensuring our programs are available for generations.
▪SPAY & NEUTER ANGEL PROGRAM (SNAP) is a sliding scale fee that ensures that essential veterinary care services are made affordable to household pets in our area. A Military discount is also available.
▪TRAP-NEUTER-RETURN (TNR) Program provides a critical veterinary package to community (homeless) cats. TNR is the most humane and effective approach to improve their lives, improve their relationships with the people who live near them, decrease the population, and prevent cats from entering shelters in the first place.
▪PAWSITIVE PATHWAYS TO VETERINARY CAREEERS Program builds pathways into high-demand local careers by reducing barriers to education, providing scholarship opportunities, and making hands-on opportunities available. The goal is to expand this program to more high schools.
▪GENERAL DONATIONS are required to keep our doors open, purchase medical equipment/supplies, continue & grow Tails of Hope operations, acquire and retain high-quality staff, and continue vital services for our city shelters, local rescue groups, and individuals in our community who depend on our low-cost or no-cost programs.
Needs that Cannot beMet without Your Help
Shelters are full. Rescues are full. Veterinary offices are full. Veterinary care is unaffordable. Avoidable unwanted litters, expensive diseases and medical conditions are not being prevented. The nationwide veterinary staffing shortage continues. These situations are all symptoms exacerbated by lack of strategic investment at the Root Causes of animal welfare and Spay/Neuter programs. A community cannot adopt its way out of these problems. Spay/Neuter is upstream impact with downstream life-saving results. Highest-return investments by our community must become a priority, demonstrating exceptional commitment to preventative care, to build infrastructure and to engineer permanent change for our community.
