Your Support Saves Lives
You directly impact the lives of thousands of homeless pets when you donate to the Dumb Friends League. In fact, 79 cents of every dollar you give goes to animal care, education and outreach.
Through your donations, we provide loving care for the pets that come to our shelters. We offer a safe haven for pets that are lost from home. We rehabilitate pets with medical or behavioral issues to help them become adoption-ready. We provide spay/neuter services at reduced fees, subsidized by Dumb Friends League donors, to reduce pet overpopulation and save lives. We investigate situations involving animal cruelty and neglect, and provide many other services that help save the lives of innocent pets that have no place else to turn.
By the Numbers
Thousands of helpless, homeless pets can look forward to happy, healthy lives because of the generous contributions made by friends like you. We thank you and ask you to consider the following numbers from this past year:
| $23,128 | —money spent each day on animal care |
| 19,535 | —pets your donations helped to save |
| 12,616 | —owner-relinquished pets our shelters welcomed |
| 9,837 | —pets lost from home that came to our shelters |
| 8,269 | —shelter animals that our veterinarians spayed or neutered |
| 4,091 | —pets we provided extra care and training to help make them more adoptable |
| 2,841 | —animals nurtured in foster care, many in the homes of our volunteers |
| 1,428 | —cases of animal cruelty, neglect and abandonment investigated |
| 1,277 | —volunteers who gave more than 201,000 hours of service (an estimated dollar value of $4.2 million) |
| 551 | —special-needs pets that were adopted into homes |
| 99% | —placement rate for healthy pets |
| 67 | —average number of animals that come to the Dumb Friends League each day |
| 7 | —days per week our two shelters are open for adoptions and other services |