Quality of Life Rehab & Foster, Inc

Our goals are all centered on the singular mission of an increased quality of life for all animals in need. Some of these include:
*Reduction of homeless cat populations will directly reduce the numbers of sick, homeless cats/kittens.
*Maintaining an open line of communication with the community in response to animals in distress or need.
*Practicing a strict spay and neuter policy for ALL animals intakes under our organization.
*Build a network of foster homes that can handle the flow of incoming cases, this will be our backbone.
*Maintain a strong relationship with our veterinarian, this will be our right hand in rescue.
*Maintain a positive relationship with other local rescues and support their mission, also.
*Maintain an influx of donations and funding to ensure we can keep working.
*Educate the public about the many facets of rescue and proper animal husbandry.

Our strategies are as straight forward as our mission. We lead with love, always. We endeavor to portray an open minded, non judgmental and supportive approach to rescue. With hard work and a positive attitude, we can create the most good in each situation.
Our approach is multi faceted, but it boils down to one thing.
HEART.
*Hands on Rescue/Rehab
*Education
*Assistance
*Responsible Rehoming
*TNR
These are the five areas that we feel we can make the strongest impact on the quality of life for animals, and their welfare, as a whole.
Animal welfare is an issue that MUST be handled in conjunction with education. We strive to ensure that we leave those we encounter/help with a better understanding of what they can do to better advocate for animals, in the future. The strategy here is to cause a ripple effect, whereas they will (in turn) pass that education along to the next person.

We are driven by years of experience and a gift to work with animals. This has been invaluable in constructing a successful rescue effort. We utilize several low cost spay/neuter clinics to keep the costs low for these surgeries. We have developed wonderful relationships with multiple clinics. We regularly perform TNR (trap/neuter/return). This is the act of trapping ownerless cats and getting them fixed and vaccinated before returning them to their life. We have a shed full of trapping equipment which allows us to facilitate the community with TNR, as well. We are able to maintain not one, but TWO phone lines that are open 7 days a week to the community. One is a line to our director for rescue calls and foster coordination. The other is a line to our adoption coordinator/pet publicist. The use of adoption search engine platforms, online, we have been able to build a very solid and successful adoption program. This gives us an outlet for the animals we rescue and helps make room for the constant "revolving door" of rescue. We are able to impart our experience and wisdom, positivity and encouragement to almost everyone we encounter. We have formed some strong bonds to our foster families and we are always building that network. That, coupled with our solid relationships with our vets and low cost clinics, has made the difference.
Lastly... we utilize social media to drive fundraisers. We have a loyal following and they have been instrumental in helping us spread the word about the fundraisers we have posted. We also keep our followers engaged in our rescue mission by frequent updates on our rescues and activities, adoption announcements and updates. Social media is a wonderful tool!

Founded in 2005, our rescue has grown a great deal over the years. We stayed small for a long time. However, as we gained word of mouth and followers on social media, more and more cases have been brought to us. We strive to take as many of the cases we are brought as possible. We have been able to tailor our programs to best suit the needs of the community and the animals within it. We have grown our foster network, as was the original plan. Since we started keeping adoption records in 2011, we have had 557 adoptions, to date.
We have seen a spike in ALL areas of our rescue. We have consistently led by example with our work and ignited many people to follow their heart with rescue.
As an example, these are the last three years adoption statistics:
79 adoptions in 2018
115 adoptions in 2019
294 adoptions in 2020