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HELP the Animals, Inc.
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About HELP the Animals
HELP the Animals is a non-profit, no-kill animal shelter dedicated to providing a safe haven for homeless animals until they can be placed in responsible, loving homes.  We are committed to reducing pet overpopulation through a 100% spay/neuter program for HELP shelter animals, as well as an aggressive spay/neuter and humane treatment education programs for the community.

Please visit our facility at 2101 West Main Street, Richmond, Indiana.  You just might find the friend you've been looking for and the opportunity to enrich many lives, including your own!

• Current Pet List!

• Pet Photos on 1-800-Save-a-Pet.com

• Pet Photos on Flickr

Supporting HELP the Animals
HELP the Animals exists through the generous contributions in money, supplies, and the time of hundreds of people.  Since we receive no city or county funding, the $130,000 needed to operate the shelter each year is raised though donations and many, many fund raising activities.

We encourage your involvement in our mission to HELP the Animals by 

• adopting a homeless animal, 

• by making monetary or merchandise contributions, 

• by saving and bring us your aluminum cans so that we may recycle them for operating funds 

• or by volunteering your time and talents.

Volunteering
Volunteering at HELP the Animals is extremely rewarding and flexible to fit your schedule.  We are most grateful for one hour a month or 100+ hours a month!  Volunteering opportunities are unlimited and include:

• walking dogs

• socializing cats

• fostering animals

• administrative support

• helping with our many mailings

• fund raising

• pet therapy visits to nursing homes

• feeding animals

• cleaning kennels

• laundry and dishwashing

• maintenance activities, both inside and outside the shelter

Outreach Programs

Low Cost Vaccination Clinics
HELP the Animals has begun a broad ranging and badly needed community outreach program beyond our basic mission of providing a save haven and promoting spaying/neutering for all animals.  Since 1998 we have sponsored low cost vaccination clinics, providing rabies and distemper (feline) or distemper-parvo-corona (canine) vaccinations.  This programs goal is to vaccinate pets who may not otherwise have the opportunity to be protected, thereby improving the overall health of these animals and preventing the spread of deadly contagious diseases.  

Spay/Neuter Program

HELP The Animals Low Cost Spay/Neuter Program is providing affordable surgeries for 90 cats and dogs each month, thanks in large part to a grant from the Wayne County Foundation. Individuals eligible to receive the low cost procedures for their animals must be receiving public assistance, caring for feral cats, or be able to prove that they need help in altering a recently rescued cat or dog.

If each of the 90 pets altered at HELP was allowed to produce just one average sized litter of 5 offspring, 450 puppies or kittens would be born. In less than one year, those 450 might each produce 5 offspring resulting in 2250 puppies or kittens born unwanted and unloved. We expect that HELP's spay/neuter program will literally save thousands of lives within one year.

Foster Parents

HELP the Animals is always in need of kind, caring and committed people who would be willing and available to help out with orphaned kittens and puppies or special needs animals who need a more structured, nurturing environment. Spring brings it own stresses to any shelter, along with the lovely weather we have little creatures being born and through many different circumstances we are required to try to feed and care for little ones. It cannot be done in the shelter environment and that is where foster parents come in. HELP will supply the formula and most any other supplies that would be needed; we would just require a home environment for these orphans to live in for the first 8 weeks of their lives.

Where the other animals are concerned, their needs are often an abusive past where the pet would require a family environment to learn to trust again and be socialized or an illness where the pet would be better out of a shelter environment. Again, HELP would provide whatever tools were needed for these animals as well.

Fostering can be very rewarding and is greatly appreciated and vitally needed in order to provide the type of care we wish to give our homeless pets.

Wish List
We always have a wish list of supplies!  We welcome any and all contributions.

Contact Us
TO CONTACT US OR TO MAKE CONTRIBUTIONS

Phone:	(765) 962-6811
Email:
Kennel & Office:	2101 West Main Street Richmond, IN  47375 (Just east of the WKBV studio)
Please make contributions payable to HELP the Animals.

This page is dedicated to Pam Frantz (1941 - 2002), animal lover and founding board member of WayNet.org.

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