$8,356 raised by 47 donors
100% complete
$8,000 Goal
Cowtown Loves Animal Shelter Pets (CLASP) is a small, but active animal rescue supporting the lost, homeless, and sick animals in need in Dallas-Arlington-Fort Worth (DAFW) since 2004. With a team of only five board members and a handful of amazing fosters and volunteers, we are able to do a lot of good work in our community. Some of our initiatives include:
Passion4Paws - Our Passion4Paws program uses the services of Texas Coalition for Animal Protection (TCAP veterinarians) to help pet owners pay for pet wellness care so they are able to keep their pets healthy. We do require pet owners to spay or neuter their pets to participate. This raises our outgoing funds, but it also helps to lower our community's pet homelessness rate. When possible, this program will also cover a portion of emergency vet care for pet owners whose pet is experiencing a medical emergency they cannot afford ... and the difference between life and death is only money.
Advertising - CLASP regularly posts online and pays to advertise some of Fort Worth Animal Care and Control's most at-risk-of-euthanization adoptable pets.
Intake - CLASP is on almost all of DAFW city shelter's email lists and we regularly pull pets in need, most of which are severe medical needs cases. We work with some great sponsors, but CLASP alone spent over $30K in 2021-2022 in medical and boarding expenses. In one single case in 2022 CLASP spent over $7K pulling, vetting, and placing over 30 cats from a hoarding home in Arlington, Texas.
Foster Care - CLASP covers all medical and daily expenses to our fosters. And, if needed we pay for training in cases where extra care and attention are needed to ensure the pet will fit into his or her new home.
Trap-Neuter-Release - All of our board and several of our foster are active and committed to TNR in our individual neighborhoods.
- Vet costs are at an all-time high this year!
- Pets in need are at an all-time high this year!
- All rescues are overwhelmed!
Please donate generously to CLASP (and other rescues) this year, so we can all continue our life-saving work. It is going to take every committed animal lover to recover from one of the toughest years in pet rescue we've seen.
Thank you <3
Cowtown Loves Animal Shelter Pets (CLASP) helps to reduce pet population by working with local shelters, rescue groups and the general public to assist with re-homing, spaying/neutering, medical/general care for animals in need and by providing education and/or resources to keep the pet in its current home; rescuing and adopting animals in need; providing financial assistance for medical and/or general care; and educating both owners and potential adopters of the responsibility of pet ownership. We have saved hundreds of animals' lives by taking them in from dangerous and sad circumstances. Thanks to our multi-leveled adoption and fostering process that results in perfectly matched homes for our fosters are placed with loving safe and responsible homes that result in permanent homes.
Generous and small donations are needed so we can continue our life-saving initiatives in the DAFW, TX area.
$10 is a vaccine to prevent illness.
$30 is 3 months heartworm prevention.
$50 is a night in boarding to get a pet off the street.
$100 is a spay to stop our overwhelming homeless pet population.
$250 is a complete wellness package with food, bedding, harness, and crate to prepare a pet for foster care.
$500 could be the only thing between the life or death of a pet experiencing an unexpected emergency that his or her family cannot afford.
Please donate!
CLASP knows, as a community, that we are stronger when everyone is valued and will forever be committed to supporting equity, diversity, and inclusion.
Organization name
Cowtown Loves Animal Shelter Pets
Causes
Animals
Operating Budget
$100,000 - $249,999
Counties Served
Dallas, Denton, Ellis, Hood, Johnson, Palo Pinto, Parker, Tarrant, Wise
BIPOC Leadership
Neither/None
Equity Statement
Equity Statement
Address
P. O. Box 8533