These stories are real-life examples of how your actions at The Animal Rescue Site and store are helping our Charitable Partners rescue animals in need. We hope you enjoy learning more about how you and The Fund for Animals , Petfinder.com Foundation , the International Fund for Animal Welfare , and the the North Shore Animal League are working to make the world a better place for animals!
Update: How YOU Helped Animals in Haiti
Since January of 2010, your support and compassion has helped countless animals in the wake of the earthquake in Haiti. You raised over $230,000 to directly help animal victims of the earthquake, which included pets, livestock, strays, and even native wildlife. And you are continuing to help protect Haiti's estimated 300,000 street dogs against rabies.
The International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW) partnered with the World Society for the Protection of Animals (WSPA) to launch a coordinated animal relief response organization known as ARCH, the Animal Relief Coalition for Haiti. ARCH has helped over 25,000 animals of all kinds across Haiti since the earthquake, thanks to help from people like you. We hope you enjoy seeing a video that shows some of the work you helped make possible.
There are many more opportunities to help animals here and around the world. Click here to learn more.
Interested to see more of IFAW's stellar work with ARCH?
Click here to read IFAW's six-month update
, or
click here to see IFAW video
of animals being helped in Haiti.
The Fund for Animals
Rounder was born in a backyard rabbitry, one of the thousands across the country that supply local pet shops. These facilities rival the conditions seen in puppy mills, but because they are smaller and scattered, and because rabbits suffer in silence, they operate with impunity. At six weeks of age, Rounder and his siblings were taken to a small pet shop. Rounder was to fulfill the role of a "live toy" for a small child.
Soon, he was left lonely and forgotten. After what seemed a very long time at the child's house, Rounder was once again transported. This time his cage was placed in an open-ended shed. Rounder's new owner opened his cage door and walked away.
Rounder hopped out through the shed doorway and began grazing. For the first time he felt the power in his muscles, the speed of his legs, and the wind blowing his long, floppy ears straight over his back. He would hole up and wait for the other rabbits. Surely there would be other rabbits. But by the third night, no rabbits had appeared.
Rounder heard a rustling in the leaves, very close. Startled out of his hiding place, he began racing for all he was worth. He felt a dog's hot breath on his back. Suddenly he was wrenched out of mid-flight into the jaws of the dog. A woman's panicked voice called out, "No! Lady! No!" Lady had caught Rounder as he leaped through the fence.
At the Rabbit Sanctuary, a physical found that Rounder had sustained a grievous injury to his back. He never fully healed, and will always be a special-needs bunny as a result of his ordeal. He now has a beautiful companion named Skippers and a territory all his own. Rounder won't be bought, traded, or chased ever again.
To learn more about Rounder, and about other animals you are helping, please visit The Fund for Animals
.
The Petfinder.com Foundation helps support the thousands of animal welfare organization members of Petfinder.com through programs, outreach and fundraising. Our purpose is to increase the number of homeless pets adopted. We affect not only the four-footed animals waiting to be adopted, but also the people who care for them. The Foundation gives grants of equipment, supplies and funds so that thousands of homeless pets have healthier and happier lives and thousands of shelter and rescue folks can do their jobs better.
Past support from The Animal Rescue Site has enabled the Petfinder.com Foundation to provide care to rescued animals, and has helped Petfinder.com shelters and rescue members respond to recent disasters across North America, including hurricanes, wildfires, ice storms, severe wind storms and tornadoes.
Together we are helping more than one animal in more than one community.
For more information, please visit the Petfinder.com Foundation .
International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW)
The Animal Rescue Site and IFAW have worked together to save animals following bushfires in Australia, earthquakes in China, and floods in the United States. The partnership has supported hands-on care for orphan bears in Russia and orphan elephants in India. The Animal Rescue Site shoppers have helped underwrite veterinary care for cats and dogs in Johannesburg and for wildlife in Kenya.
Wallabies being treated by IFAW after the Black Saturday bushfires in Australia.
"IFAW is truly grateful to The Animal Rescue Site, which, over and over again, enables us to help animals in crisis around the world. It's not an exaggeration to say that much of what we do would not be possible without the generosity of The Animal Rescue Site and its visitors," said Ian Robinson, IFAW's Director of Emergency Relief.
The most recent collaboration between IFAW and The Animal Rescue Site is the current relief mission protecting Haiti's estimated 300,000 street dogs against rabies. IFAW and a coalition of animal groups are working to deliver aid to dogs and livestock affected by the devastating earthquake.
For more information, please visit the International Fund for Animal Welfare.
Gracie, a young pit bull, was maliciously thrown from a four-story rooftop in Brooklyn, NY. Miraculously, Gracie survived with only a broken leg and bruises to her chest. When her various wounds had finally healed, the D.A. concluded their animal cruelty investigation, and Gracie's owner was arrested.
After all of the trauma she had been through, Gracie still came to us with her tail wagging and full of trust. The League worked tirelessly to find Gracie the loving home she deserved; and to our delight, Gracie was adopted. Gracie has a new family now. She has a new mom, dad, and sister. After seeing them all together, excited and happy, we can only surmise that it must have been fate that saved Gracie from that four-story fall.
To learn more about Gracie, and about other animals that you are helping, visit North Shore Animal League .
