Healthcare for Homeless Animals
Funding medical care for homeless pets at the Agoura Animal Care Center
Mission
Healthcare for Homeless Animals formerly Malibu Pet Companions is a community-based, 501(c)3 non-profit organization run by volunteers who receive no compensation. The organization is dedicated to funding medical care for the sick, injured and un-weaned homeless pets at the Agoura Animal Care Center in Agoura Hills, California.
Notes from the nonprofit
Every day animals enter the Agoura Animal Care Center with medical needs, some long term, others quick fixes. Whatever the need, whatever the animal, Healthcare for Homeless Animals is there to support the medical care necessary to bring homeless animals housed at the Care Center to good health and adoption into a loving home thus decreasing euthanasia and increasing adoptions. In addition we have increased help to other high intake, high kill Care Centers under the LA County Department of Animal Care and Control by transferring animals in to the Agoura Animal Care Center to fund medically needy animals including Senior animals or those in need of surgeries thereby reducing euthanasia numbers for animals that would be certainly euthanized at these other Care Centers with out HHA funding.
Ruling year
1998
President
Tamy Rieder
Main address
PO Box 7401
Thousand Oaks, CA 91359 USA
Formerly known as
Malibu Pet Companions
EIN
95-4588697
NTEE code
Animal Protection and Welfare (includes Humane Societies and SPCAs) (D20)
Animal Protection and Welfare (includes Humane Societies and SPCAs) (D20)
Animal Protection and Welfare (includes Humane Societies and SPCAs) (D20)
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Communication
Programs and results
What we aim to solve
Homeless animals from cats and dogs to horses,reptiles,birds, and small rodents as well as farm animals are turned into the Agoura Animal Care Center every day. Many of these animals arrive having never had any kind of veterinarian care or are in dire need of veterinarian care from neglect or abuse. Prior to Healthcare for Homeless Animals (HHA) existence pets with treatable conditions were routinely euthanized. HHA has been funding medical care for homeless pets at the Care Center for over 28 years saving hundreds of lives, bringing these animals to good health, and adoption in to loving homes thus increasing adoptions and reducing euthanasia statistics.
Our programs
What are the organization's current programs, how do they measure success, and who do the programs serve?
Foster care
Approved County foster volunteers support homeless pets through post medical recovery care as well as provide care for mothers with litters and litters that do not have mothers. Post medical recovery care can be surgical care requiring cage rest and gentle rehab after limb surgery, care away from the shelter to adjust to the loss of limb or eye, or adjustment to medication all funded by HHA. In addition fosters also care for motherless kittens and puppies to be bottle fed for the first four weeks of life and then help them adjust to solid food while socializing them for weeks four to eight. Fosters also care for mothers with litters where HHA will step in to fund necessary medical for the mother including pre-natal care and her young charges which can range from emergency care to well puppy exams to well care for the mother including mastitis and nutrition issues
Budget numbers are not applicable...we fund this population when ever they are turned into the Agoura Animal Care Center.
Forever Young Senior Wellness Exam Program
The Senior Wellness Exam program was re-dedicated in memory of a former board members son Matthew Young who passed away in 2014. Senior animals entering a shelter system are often the last to be adopted and the first to be euthanized. Through the Forever Young Senior Wellness Exam Program senior animals entering the Agoura Animal Care Center are fully vetted thus providing a second chance at finding their forever home. The medical care might be as simple as a Senior Wellness exam to determine an animal's current health, something more involved such as a dental cleaning, or a more challenging condition that requires surgery and prescription medications. Whatever these precious seniors need, our Forever Young Senior Wellness Program will ensure their care is funded thus encouraging an adopter to take a chance on a senior pet. As a result of this program the Agoura Animal Care Center has one of the highest senior adoption rates in LA County.
Forever Young is a lasting tribute to a young man who gave unconditional love to many animals throughout his life. Please consider donating to Forever Young...your donation will help a precious senior begin their journey towards adoption and honor Matthew's lifetime devotion and care of the homeless senior animals he cherished.
Budget numbers are not applicable, we fund all cats and dogs age 8 and over when ever they come in to the Agoura Animal Care Center for Forever Young Senior Well Checks.
Hospice Program
HHA provides for hospice care for animals not yet ready to cross the rainbow bridge. Volunteers take animals into their homes to allow them to live out whatever time they have left. No extraordinary measures are used aside from basic care to keep the animal comfortable. While in hospice these animals are constantly monitored by a veterinarian to assure their life is not being prolonged beyond what is humane.
Budget numbers are not applicable...hospice exams are free of charge with our vets, we fund pain medications as needed for hospice pets that are turned in to the Agoura Animal Care Center.
Funded Medical Exams, Diagnosis, and Treatment
Any animal entering the Agoura Animal Care Center, no matter the species from cats and dogs to horses with everything in between including reptiles, birds, rabbits, pot belly pigs, sheep, goats, etc receive funding for medical care when needed. Care funded includes but is not limited to diagnostic lab work, special food, prescription medicine and shampoos, major and minor surgeries including spay/neuter, dentals, orthopedics, as well as support for nursing mothers and their litters and litters without mothers who need to be bottle fed.
Almost 100% of our donations fund medical care for homeless pets at the Agoura Animal Care Center.
Raising the B.A.R.
The raising the B.A.R program was created in loving memory of Blake Anthony Rosen who grew up at the Agoura Animal Care Center. His Mom Denise was the manager of Agoura for 17 years. This program will support Agoura staff approved transfer animals from our high intake Care Centers that are in need of medical care. Funds donated for this program will be ear marked for transfer animals HHA has agreed to fund and those transfer animals that we find out after transfer are in need of medical. Once at Agoura they will receive a range of medical services including comprehensive exams, procedures, labs and surgeries. They are brought to good health and adoption by loving families giving them the second chance they deserve.
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Our results
How does this organization measure their results? It's a hard question but an important one.
Number of animals rehomed
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Related Program
Funded Medical Exams, Diagnosis, and Treatment
Type of Metric
Output - describing our activities and reach
Direction of Success
Holding steady
Context Notes
We never know what might come into the Care Center. HHA funds for treatment, brings pets to good health & adoption. Re-home numbers & funded numbers may not match if animals are not adopted by y/e.
number of animals brought to good health and adoption
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Population(s) Served
Health
Related Program
Funded Medical Exams, Diagnosis, and Treatment
Type of Metric
Output - describing our activities and reach
Direction of Success
Holding steady
Context Notes
Number of animals funded dropped in 2020 due to COVID...families were not turning in as many animals nor did the Agoura Animal Care Center receive as many strays. 2021 and 2022numbers remained steady.
Number of animals with freedom from discomfort
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Related Program
Funded Medical Exams, Diagnosis, and Treatment
Type of Metric
Context - describing the issue we work on
Direction of Success
Holding steady
Context Notes
Because we support an animal shelter we can never predict how many animals come in that may be in need of medical care each year.
Number of senior dogs (9+ years) adopted
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Related Program
Forever Young Senior Wellness Exam Program
Type of Metric
Context - describing the issue we work on
Direction of Success
Holding steady
Context Notes
Every homeless senior animal over the age of 7 at the Agoura Animal Care Center receives a comprehensive Forever Young Senior examination
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What is the organization aiming to accomplish?
Our organization's goal is to fund medical care for homeless animals residing at the Agoura Animal Care Center to avoid euthanasia for treatable conditions and by doing so increase adoption numbers of animals into loving homes. We are focused on continuing to use any means to get the word out about the good work we do with in a county facility via social networking, attending outside adoption events, and showcasing animals available for adoption via the internet. We fundraise throughout the year including a walk-a-thon, poker night, and a donation appeal via our yearly newsletters along with other miscellaneous fundraisers such as golf tournaments and lemonade stands held by supporters and children in the community from those who support our mission. We also apply for grants. Our goals are measured daily by the intake of animals at the shelter in need of medical care and our ability to fund their care, follow through on that care, and ultimately adopt these now healthy animals thus increasing adoptions and reducing euthanasia.
What are the organization's key strategies for making this happen?
Our strategies have included attending events both adoption and public relations, social networking and fundraising through out the year so we can always say yes to any animal in need of medical care.
What are the organization's capabilities for doing this?
We have a network of support through those who have adopted animals funded by HHA and also from the Veterinarians who work with us to support our mission as well as those in the community in the area served by the Agoura Animal Care Center and beyond. (Our social networking reaches across the United States and sometimes beyond.) Our board is a mix of business persons including those with a medical and fundraising back ground and career volunteers who have both run their own business and those who have worked with in corporations along with those savvy with social networking and years of prior volunteer experience.
What have they accomplished so far and what's next?
While we never can predict what animals might enter the shelter facility on a given day we hope to always have the funding available to say yes to any animal in need of medical care. Our goal in coming years is to achieve increased funding through grant writing and fundraisers as well as continuing to inform citizens locally and around the country of our mission/success stories through social networking. Increasing donations and fundraising will allow us to be prepared for any medical care needed to bring an animal to good health thus allowing us to continue our mission of increasing adoptions and reducing euthanasia by funding medical care for treatable conditions for homeless animals at the Agoura Animal Care Center.
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Healthcare for Homeless Animals
Board of directorsas of 08/10/2024
Tamy Rieder
Tamy Reider
Physical Therapist
Ann Adrianse
Retired Teacher
Sarah Eisenberg
Cathy Davis
Retired Systems Analyst
Alison Locke
Retired Executive
Bob Ferber
Retired prosecuting Attorney for LA City Animal Services humane cases
Lois Koch
Retired Business Administrator
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