One Person, One Donation, One Pet At A Time!
Animal shelters and rescues are overflowing with surrendered and abandoned pet kids. The sad reality is many are left behind by their families due to the cost of medical care for their pets when critical care is needed.
When pets are turned away because of lack of space, many times these pets get abandoned to the streets in hopes someone will find them and care for their needs. Already sick and needing medical care, they are often never rescued and die alone, scared, and undeservedly in pain.
Sweetie Pie was our inspiration to start VETS Animal Charity. Found alone wandering the streets, she received huge media attention across Canada (Global News, City TV, The Toronto Star, The Toronto Sun, Animal House Calls and more) in our efforts to find her Owners in 2014. Nobody came forward to claim her. 
Read her journey from the streets to happy ever after
The veterinary clinic that took Sweetie Pie in agreed to cover the cost of her surgery and care, but the public was very generous in donating money to Sweetie Pie's account, so with almost $10,000 raised VETS Animal Charity was founded in order to help other pets in crisis.
With determination to help many pets in need, we were proud to have received Registered Canadian Charity status #81175 2377 RR0001.
With a volunteer Board of Directors, were were able to set up a mission for VETS Animal Charity;
"to promote the moral and ethical development of Canadian communities by helping animals in need of emergency medical assistance or care, by providing the needed financial assistance for veterinarian costs to pet owners who cannot absorb such costs due to economic hardship."
VETS Animal Charity can only pay out a maximum of $2,500 per case, so the veterinarians we've partnered with volunteer much of their time and heavily reduce their fees to fall into our guidelines. Our average invoice prior to our charity discount is in excess of $8,000 of which we paid $2,500.
Our goal as our funding grows, will be to have a minimum of 1 veterinary clinic in each major city in Canada partnering with VETS Animal Charity.
This can not happen until we've raised enough funds to support this initiative.
In the past 6 months, we've been able to save the lives of over 40 pets in crisis. Some without pet parents, that we've treated and found furever homes for, others had families that were in a situation that left them needing financial aid that without our help would have had to owner surrender their pet to a shelter or worse, euthanize.
Meet some of the pets we've helped:
As our charitable reputation becomes more known, we are now on a daily basis, inundated with requests for medical assistance for pets in medical crisis.
We're receiving upwards of 20 emails/calls a day as there is just no charity as ours available to the public for pets in crisis dealing with quite severe surgical and long term in clinic after care. We have started a waiting list until more funds can be raised, and currently are focusing on cases that are life altering for the pets future or life saving efforts.
We are doing the very best we can to help the growing list of pet kids in crisis with events and fundraisers thorughout the year. At some point in the near future we hope to have enough public and corporate support that the funding equals the cases coming in, but we're not there yet.
We hope to reach that point so we don't have to have pets on waiting lists that are at risk of not surviving because of a funding need. That being said, unless we secure more funding quickly, we can't put the charity at risk of not being able to cover the minimal costs of the veterinary care.
Thank you for taking the time to learn more about our charity and for your support.