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The Pet Fund Mission Statement 

The goal of the Pet Fund is to provide financial assistance to owners of domestic animals who need veterinary care.

Often animals are put down or suffer needlessly because their owners cannot afford expensive surgery or needed medical treatment. While agencies like Medicare provide low-income families with medical care for human children and adults, there are no agencies which provide help with the expense of animal medical care. Companion animal owners must often make the difficult decision to put an animal down or surrender them to a local shelter because of the costs involved.

The purpose of the Pet Fund is to work towards a future where decisions about companion animal medical care need never be made on the basis of cost.

Thousands of animals are sent to shelters and euthanized each year, many because of treatable medical conditions. While the law regards companion animals as property, The Pet Fund regards these animals instead as family members who do not qualify for human medical insurance. Pet insurance programs are available, but often even these programs cannot cover the total cost of necessary medical care. Free spay and neuter clinics as well as vaccination clinics are common, but these are largely the only free or low cost veterinary services available. The Pet Fund seeks to bridge this gap to make companion animal medical care available to all who need it.

The Pet Fund benefits all communities in three crucial ways. First, thousands of animals and their owners are spared unnecessary suffering. Secondly, the Fund is rapidly becoming a significant resource for animal care assistance, easing the fiscal and overpopulation burdens on all communities by reducing the number of animals who end up in shelters each year. Finally, the Pet Fund will lessen the spread of disease throughout the country by helping owners to treat their animals promptly.

While costs are an inevitable part of the responsibility of owning companion animals, The Pet Fund assists owners in covering medical costs beyond the normal expenses of vaccination, spay and neuter surgeries, food and routine veterinary care. Adopting a companion animal always involves both expense and commitment, and if owners have a resource to help with medical services, their animals can receive necessary care despite the financial burdens involved.

Perhaps most importantly, we provide information to owners about preventative care and financial services which will ensure that pet owners are able to develop resources on their own and thus avoid future medical crises through care and planning. In educating animal caretakers about preventative care and medical resources, their animals and all of our communities also benefit.

The work of The Pet Fund keeps animals out of shelters. Thank you for your ongoing support.