Financial Assistance Resources
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, pet insurance programs, and financial services which
will ensure that pet owners are able to develop financial resources on
their own and thus avoid future emergencies through care and planning.
Such information is often hard to find, and The Pet Fund provides a
user-friendly, comprehensive starting place where all of these resources
can be accessed and implemented. In
helping individuals and families to
plan for the future and find financial security, their animals and all
of our communities also benefit.
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The work of The Pet Fund keeps animals out of shelters – thank you for your ongoing support. |
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