Program areas at Animal Friends of the Valleys
Provide care for homeless & stray animals. Shelter & make animals available by screening for new adopted homes. Provide funds & support for low cost spay/neuter programs. Provide Animal care, education, spay/neuter funds, foster, board & care for homeless, lost animals. Provide management necessary for the services that benefit the entire community by taking care of homeless, lost, stray & abused animals. Cared for 13,342 live animals, answered 27,863 calls, drove 167,710 miles to respond to service calls. Offered $31,011 in spay/neuter vouchers for the publics pets and feral cat population. Transported 2,120 animals to clinic for spaying & neutering. 5,037 volunteers provided 17,040 hours of service to the organization. Placed 564 animals into foster care. Sold 21,894 licenses to residents served.
Afv provided funds for the publics medical treatments for individuals that qualified based on income and/or age. Three grants were received and $7,172 was provided for treatments. Afv set up a similiar fund from a contribution that was received and funding in the amount of $4,938 had been spent during the fiscal year. A grant was received from the wallace research foundation this year which helped 2 organizations out of the country - ahppa costa rica & hopkins belize humane society - along with veterinary outreach programs for the communities we serve totaling $160,424. Afv received a 2 year grant from petco with funds going to medical in the amount of $29,362. $17,236 was used for feral cats in order for them to leave the shelter and put in a barn buddy program along with voucher programs for spaying/neutering the publics cats and equipment purchases.
Afv operates a low cost spay neuter and vaccination clinic out of the former Animal shelter. This clinic has elminated the need for the travel to local low cost spay/neuter veterinarians other than for high risk surgeries. the clinic is open 4 days a week. Spay/neuter surgeries were provided to 5,285 dog/cats/other, 24,514 vaccinations were provided and 1,940 microchips were administered.