Senior Dogs Fetch Lifesaving Grey Muzzle Grants

Senior canine like Brian will keep in loving houses and out of shelters, because of a Grey Muzzle grant.

Fifteen-year-old Lincoln is amongst many “tremendous seniors” who will obtain the dental and medical care they have to be prepared for adoption.

A Grey Muzzle grant will present senior canine like Yolanda with specialised meals with out straining their household’s price range.

Grants Will Assist Hundreds of At-Danger Previous Dogs Nationwide

RALEIGH, NC, USA, July 11, 2023/EINPresswire.com/ — Senior canine have one thing to wag about this week, as The Grey Muzzle Group broadcasts a record-breaking $848,000 in grants to 90 animal welfare organizations—shelters, rescue teams, and different nonprofits—in 29 states and Puerto Rico. This brings the nationwide nonprofit’s whole grant funding to greater than $4.6 million over the previous 15 years.

The brand new grantees, chosen from 370 candidates, will use the funds to assist save and enhance the lives of at-risk senior canine of their communities. These grants will present critically wanted medical and dental therapy; foster and hospice care; adoption promotions; and applications that assist preserve previous canine in loving houses and out of animal shelters.

“With so many puppies and younger canine ready in shelters, it’s much more difficult to search out houses for older canine,” The Grey Muzzle Group’s Government Director Lisa Lunghofer, Ph.D., mentioned. “Along with serving to homeless previous canine overcome limitations to adoption, we prioritized applications that forestall senior canine from being surrendered to shelters by serving to individuals who want assets and help to take care of them.”

Listed here are just a few examples of how senior canine and the individuals who love them will profit from Grey Muzzle grants:

Senior canine like Brian can stay with their households and out of shelters, because of SPCA Florida’s retention program which gives assets similar to dental and medical care, meals, bowls, crates and extra. The Lakeland-based SPCA will use their Grey Muzzle grant to succeed in out to 40 households and provides them the assistance they should preserve their senior canine wholesome, completely happy and of their perpetually houses.

Assist from Grey Muzzle will allow Younger at Coronary heart Senior Pet Adoptions in Woodstock, Illinois, to rescue and supply “tremendous senior” canine with veterinary care and loving houses, reducing the speed at which very previous canine are euthanized in neighborhood shelters. The potential of costly care can stand in the way in which of discovering households for canine like 15-year-old Lincoln. Younger at Coronary heart’s Grey Muzzle grant will present tremendous senior canine with all of the superior dental and medical care they want earlier than matching them with adopters.

Pasadena Humane’s Serving to Paws Pet Meals Pantry in California gives senior canine like Yolanda with the specialised meals that may pressure their household’s price range. Due to help from Grey Muzzle, Pasadena Humane goals to supply 700 pets with meals this 12 months, making certain that no older canine are turned away.

A Grey Muzzle grant will assist the Pet Assist Program of Discovered Home Interfaith Housing Community in Cincinnati, Ohio, proceed to take care of and help senior canine whose homeowners are experiencing housing insecurity or associated hardships and can’t afford the excessive value of medical care for his or her beloved pets. This system works to maintain households and senior canine like Scruffy collectively. Throughout his keep at Discovered Home IHN, Scruffy acquired a medical checkup and vaccines. After discovering secure, reasonably priced, and pet-friendly housing, his proprietor was reunited with Scruffy.

“Due to our beneficiant supporters who make Grey Muzzle grants doable, fewer senior canine will probably be left behind in shelters, and extra grateful previous canine will spend the remainder of their lives in loving houses,” added Lunghofer.

A whole checklist of 2023 Grey Muzzle grantees is accessible at greymuzzle.org.

The Grey Muzzle Group saves and improves the lives of at-risk senior canine by offering funding and assets to animal shelters, rescues, and different nonprofit teams nationwide. We envision a world the place each senior canine thrives, and no previous canine dies alone and afraid.

Barbara Castleman
The Grey Muzzle Group
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2023 Grey Muzzle Grants Announcement