Our Mission: Keeping Pets and Owners Together Through Challenging Times
Mission Statement: Helping Owners with Pet Expenses (HOPE) is committed to helping keep families and their beloved pets together and prevent them from having to surrender their pets due to difficult times. HOPE seeks to provide temporary food, care, maintenance and assistance with medical bills to owners of pets that are going through financially tough times.
Our Commitment To Service: We seek to provide temporary pet food assistance with donations from our pet food pantry. We also seek to provide medical care for pets when pet owners are faced with unexpected medical problems in which not treating the animal would result in serious injury or illness.
In most cases, we will not approve spay/neuters, vaccines and routine exams. We also do not approve already incurred vet bills. We want to help the person who is faced with a temporary crisis and otherwise would have no where to turn to ensure the health of their pet.
Recent statistics show that the number one reason pets are surrendered is foreclosure and the second is due to the cost of pet maintenance. We hope that someday in the future we are able to start a spay/neuter fund or offer discount rabies vaccines to the community. In the meantime, we have to have a more narrow vision until we have the resources for additional services.
We serve Grand Traverse county only at this time for our pet pantry. However, for vet care, we will take applications from the counties of: Grand Traverse, Benzie, Leelanau, Kalkaska, Antrim and Wexford.
ANIMALS HELPED IN JANUARY 2012:
TOTAL NUMBER OF ANIMALS HELPED WITH FOOD IN JANUARY 2012: 35
TOTAL NUMBER OF POUNDS OF FOOD DISTRIBUTED IN JANUARY 2012: 691.1 LBS
AND TOTAL NUMBER OF ANIMALS HELPED (VET CARE) IN JANUARY 2012: 22
and....
HOPE IS PROUD TO ANNOUNCE THEIR END OF THE YEAR NUMBERS FOR 2011:
TOTAL NUMBER OF ANIMALS HELPED WITH FOOD IN 2011: 138
TOTAL NUMBER OF POUNDS OF FOOD DISTRIBUTED IN 2011: 2244 POUNDS
AND TOTAL NUMBER OF ANIMALS HELPED (VET CARE) IN 2011: 96
Our Commitment To Service: We seek to provide temporary pet food assistance with donations from our pet food pantry. We also seek to provide medical care for pets when pet owners are faced with unexpected medical problems in which not treating the animal would result in serious injury or illness.
In most cases, we will not approve spay/neuters, vaccines and routine exams. We also do not approve already incurred vet bills. We want to help the person who is faced with a temporary crisis and otherwise would have no where to turn to ensure the health of their pet.
Recent statistics show that the number one reason pets are surrendered is foreclosure and the second is due to the cost of pet maintenance. We hope that someday in the future we are able to start a spay/neuter fund or offer discount rabies vaccines to the community. In the meantime, we have to have a more narrow vision until we have the resources for additional services.
We serve Grand Traverse county only at this time for our pet pantry. However, for vet care, we will take applications from the counties of: Grand Traverse, Benzie, Leelanau, Kalkaska, Antrim and Wexford.
ANIMALS HELPED IN JANUARY 2012:
TOTAL NUMBER OF ANIMALS HELPED WITH FOOD IN JANUARY 2012: 35
TOTAL NUMBER OF POUNDS OF FOOD DISTRIBUTED IN JANUARY 2012: 691.1 LBS
AND TOTAL NUMBER OF ANIMALS HELPED (VET CARE) IN JANUARY 2012: 22
and....
HOPE IS PROUD TO ANNOUNCE THEIR END OF THE YEAR NUMBERS FOR 2011:
TOTAL NUMBER OF ANIMALS HELPED WITH FOOD IN 2011: 138
TOTAL NUMBER OF POUNDS OF FOOD DISTRIBUTED IN 2011: 2244 POUNDS
AND TOTAL NUMBER OF ANIMALS HELPED (VET CARE) IN 2011: 96
We Believe in Care and Compassion for Pets
H.O.P.E. is a non-profit organization. We rely on your donations, as without your continued help, our success would be impossible. We do our best to use most of the dollars raised for direct care. (Food Pantry, veterinary care etc.)
We always strive to keep pets with their families so they do not have to be put up for adoption or taken to a shelter. If you want to read a story that tells the reason I started H.O.P.E. then go to the blog on this website and read about Bob and his dog Ruzzie Rue. You may need a box of tissues.
We always strive to keep pets with their families so they do not have to be put up for adoption or taken to a shelter. If you want to read a story that tells the reason I started H.O.P.E. then go to the blog on this website and read about Bob and his dog Ruzzie Rue. You may need a box of tissues.
To offset some of our costs so that we may help more families, we are selling the Coffee Beanery coffee, chai and cocoa. We are proud to sell a Michigan made product that also has a local store. The company is working with us so that with every product we sell, H.O.P.E. receives a 50% profit. If you would like to purchase any of the Coffee Beanery products, I will have a list of products and prices on our Contact Page, and purchases can be made through the Paypal button on the same page.
LIFELINE BUDDIES
The following organizations and individuals have contributed $100 or more and are "Lifeline Buddies" of H.O.P.E.
Thank you to them and everyone else who support our mission!
Jennifer Ewing
Williams Auto Group
Mindstage Productions
Traverse City State Bank
Nicole Runyan
Teacup Dogs Agility Association
FOOD FRIENDS
Please think about being a "Food Friend" for HOPE. You can join this club by donating $100 or more in pet food to our food pantry.
We thank the Send Brothers Farm Market in Williamsburg for being a Food Friend of H.O.P.E., the Square Deal Country Store in Traverse City, Pet Supplies Plus in Traverse City, The D.O.G. Bakery in Traverse City, Sam's Club in Traverse City, John & Kimberly Schaub and Deb Lewis. We also thank the company Oil-Dri Corporation for their coupons for 150# of Cat's Pride cat litter.
SUCCESS STORIES
Here are some great pets that HOPE was able to help when they needed food. These furry friends say THANK YOU to everyone who has donated to HOPE to help them and their friends.
Pictured here is Stitch
Pictured here is Stitch
Rainbow (calico cat); Lumumba, the African Grey parrot; Tito the kitty (who has kidney disease) and Pancho (black and white cat)
H.O.P.E. HELPS DIESEL ESCAPE FROM ANIMAL CONTROL AND FIND A HOME
DIESEL FINDS A HOME
On Monday, March 28th, Debbra Miner, one of H.O.P.E.'s board members called with a dilemma. Ed from Grand Traverse Animal Control called to say an American Bull Dog had been dropped off as a stray and the Humane Society has procedures that will not allow them to except intact males (meaning he had not been neutered).
Ed comes in contact with dogs on a daily basis in his job and told Deb that he was a very nice dog and he didn't want anything to happen to him. So Deb told Ed that our organization normally doesn't help with neutering but have talked about making exceptions when it means saving the life of a dog. She suggested that he should call H.O.P.E's director, Susan Reabe.
To make a long story short, Diesel (as his owner now calls him) was saved from the possibility of being euthanized and he was neutered after the board of H.O.P.E. approved the assistance that he needed. This sweet, well mannered dog didn't even make it out of the vet clinic during his emergency neuter and vaccinations before he was adopted by Shana Crouse. Diesel now has a new sister, a miniature Dachshund - they are best buddies.
H.O.P.E. will be reviewing their policies and procedures for certain cases of assistance needed for homeless dogs. Sometimes it's too late to help the actual pet owner - but not the pet itself. It takes a number of people and phone calls in the organization to make a difference. It takes a village - a village called H.O.P.E.
DIESEL IS OUR CUTEST PET CONTEST!!!
On Monday, March 28th, Debbra Miner, one of H.O.P.E.'s board members called with a dilemma. Ed from Grand Traverse Animal Control called to say an American Bull Dog had been dropped off as a stray and the Humane Society has procedures that will not allow them to except intact males (meaning he had not been neutered).
Ed comes in contact with dogs on a daily basis in his job and told Deb that he was a very nice dog and he didn't want anything to happen to him. So Deb told Ed that our organization normally doesn't help with neutering but have talked about making exceptions when it means saving the life of a dog. She suggested that he should call H.O.P.E's director, Susan Reabe.
To make a long story short, Diesel (as his owner now calls him) was saved from the possibility of being euthanized and he was neutered after the board of H.O.P.E. approved the assistance that he needed. This sweet, well mannered dog didn't even make it out of the vet clinic during his emergency neuter and vaccinations before he was adopted by Shana Crouse. Diesel now has a new sister, a miniature Dachshund - they are best buddies.
H.O.P.E. will be reviewing their policies and procedures for certain cases of assistance needed for homeless dogs. Sometimes it's too late to help the actual pet owner - but not the pet itself. It takes a number of people and phone calls in the organization to make a difference. It takes a village - a village called H.O.P.E.
DIESEL IS OUR CUTEST PET CONTEST!!!
