Castaway
Critters Pet Rescue awarded $$$$ grant from
Best Friends Animal Society®,
PetSmart Charities®
Grant will support Castaway Critters Pet Rescue’s
lifesaving work for homeless pets
Blairsville, GA, October 2012 ─ Best Friends Animal Society® in partnership with
PetSmart Charities® is pleased
to announce that Castaway Critters Pet Rescue has been awarded a grant for
their transport initiative.
Castaway Critters Pet Rescue is a participating member of the No More
Homeless Pets® Network,
a program of Best Friends Animal Society, which offers help and support to
animal rescue groups that save lives in their communities.
“This
grant project definitely targets animals that are most at-risk to be killed and
provides an innovated solution to save their lives while working toward the
Best Friends mission of No More Homeless Pets,” said Ellen Gilmore, manager of
Best Friends’ No More Homeless Pets Network.
Nancy Ede, Secretary of the Board of Directors for Castaway Critters Pet Rescue,
said: “This grant means that we can add more dogs from high kill shelters and animal control
facilities to our transports north to New Jersey
and North Carolina ,
a big boost to our efforts this year to find forever homes for deserving
rescued pets. Our goal will be to adopt out 400 dogs and cats to loving families. We appreciate the
support of Best Friends Animal Society and PetSmart Charities in making our transport initiative
possible.”
This lifesaving grant is
part of Best Friends Animal Society’s mission of No More Homeless Pets®.
Every day, approximately 9,000 pets are killed in shelters because they don’t
have a home. Best Friends Animal Society and PetSmart Charities are committed
to saving them.
About Castaway Critters Pet
Rescue
Castaway Critters Pet Rescue is a
nonprofit, no-kill animal rescue group based in Blairsville , Georgia .
Operating as a 501(C)3 organization and licensed by the state of Georgia
Department of Agriculture, we serve Clay
County in North
Carolina , Towns and Union
Counties in Georgia , and wherever the need
arises. Castaway Critters Pet Rescue's
mission is to save and nurture homeless dogs and cats to match companion
animals with loving, life-long homes, to foster responsible pet care, to
control overpopulation in our community through spay/neuter programs, and to
assist other shelters and rescue groups in any endeavor to benefit the animals.
We believe that the same kindness, compassion, and generosity we extend to our
two-legged neighbors should be given to our four-legged friends (who are not
able to speak for themselves).
About Best Friends Animal Society®
Best Friends Animal Society, named Animal Welfare
Non-Profit National Brand of the Year based on the 2012 Harris Poll EquiTrend®
study, is a national animal welfare organization building no-kill programs and
partnerships that will bring about a day when there are No More Homeless Pets®.
The society's leading initiatives in animal care and community programs are
coordinated from its Kanab ,
Utah headquarters, the country's
largest no-kill sanctuary. This work is made possible by the personal and
financial support of a grassroots network of supporters and community partners
across the nation.
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About PetSmart Charities®
Established in 1994, PetSmart Charities, Inc. is an independent, nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization that creates and supports programs that save the lives of homeless pets, raise awareness of companion animal welfare issues, and promote healthy relationships between people and pets. The largest funder of animal welfare efforts inNorth America ,
PetSmart Charities® has provided more than $165 million in grants and programs
benefiting animal welfare organizations and has helped save the lives of more
than 5 million pets through its in-store adoption program. To learn more about
how PetSmart Charities is working toward its vision of a lifelong, loving home
for every pet, visit petsmartcharities.org or call 1-800-423-PETS (7387).
Established in 1994, PetSmart Charities, Inc. is an independent, nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization that creates and supports programs that save the lives of homeless pets, raise awareness of companion animal welfare issues, and promote healthy relationships between people and pets. The largest funder of animal welfare efforts in
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