Let’s Share the Love this February!
DID YOU KNOW: While most donations to Second Chance Pet Adoptions are spent directly on the homeless cats & dogs in our adoption program, we also use contributions to fund special programs in our community to combat animal homelessness! This month, we’re raising $5,000 for two initiatives.
Read on to learn how YOUR gifts will be shared with our partner rescues, shelters, and nonprofits!
Our friends who work and volunteer at local county shelters are legally mandated to accept every stray and homeless cat and dog who comes through their doors. With insufficient budgets to support every single animal in need, they fight daily to keep animals from being euthanized due to a lack of space. Our nearby rural shelters are especially overwhelmed.
Second Chance’s Hearts to Home animal transport program creates more space in county shelters by pulling at-risk dogs, housing them in foster homes short-term, and then (with the help of volunteers) driving them (relay race-style) to our partner rescues and shelters in northern states like Maryland, New Jersey, and more. There, more people are looking to adopt than there are adoptable dogs, so by helping the “supply” meet the “demand,” Hearts to Home ensure people are able to adopt rather than shop.
Many dogs enter shelters with injuries that will require extensive medical care–but our partners who wish to bring them north have limited budgets, too. Dogs who need the most help are able to “get a leg up” when we can send them to their new rescues with funding for treatment. By contributing to their expenses, we can literally open the door for a dog’s “freedom ride” out–often their only hope.
The single best way to combat animal homelessness? Proactively spay and neuter cats and dogs so no kittens and puppies are born unwanted with no place to call home! Unfortunately, preventing animals from reproducing can be complicated. Some pet guardians lack money for the vet bill; other animals have no guardians, so they roam the streets without vet care of any kind. And so, county shelters fill up (especially rural shelters)–and sometimes, animals (especially cats) who go in don’t make it out.
Spay/neuter surgery improves the health and safety of the animal, too. A cat who’s been spayed is less likely to develop cancer; one who’s been neutered is less likely to suffer from wounds after a “street fight” over territory. Rescue resources are often spent helping animals who have illnesses and injuries that could have been avoided. In so many ways, spaying/neutering animals keeps pets and guardians united, safe, happy, and healthy.
Second Chance now partners with organizations like the Friends of Wake County Animal Center, SAFE Haven for Cats, and Johnston County Animal Protection League to fund the spay/neuter surgeries for cats and dogs whose owners need financial assistance, who are adopted from county shelters, and who live in feral colonies.
Let’s do more in 2021–together. Can you share some love today?
Up to $5,000 in donations received by Feb. 28, 2021 will be distributed to our rescue/shelter partners for dogs in the Hearts to Home transport program and for spay/neuter surgeries for cats and dogs in our community. Donations received beyond the $5,000 campaign goal will be allocated to additional spay/neuter surgeries, additional transport dogs, or cats and dogs in the Second Chance rescue-and-adoption and Heeling Hearts programs, at the discretion of the Second Chance Board of Directors.
