By Claire Desilets | FOAU, Purple Paw Coordinator
With Friends of Animals Utah's Purple Paw Project continued success, the greater is the demand to provide more services.
In partnership with local and nearby shelters, we currently provide rescue and boarding of cats and dogs to numerous survivors of domestic violence. Women and their children need time to focus on their recovery and time to build a new life. While Domestic Violence Shelters are there to assist these victim every step of the way, FOAU is there to help the animals. Animals are victims too and also need a lot of rehabilitation.
Our reputation for providing excellent care of the animals we are entrusted with and our willingness to go the extra mile (literally) to colllaborate with shelters and their clients has grown. Word is getting out that Friends of Animals Utah is there to help - always. We are proud of this and wish to continue to provide extraordinary service and hope to accomodate this incresing demand but we need help.
Our biggest challenge at this time in being able to expand our network is transportation. We need to recruit and train more volunteers to assist with the picking up and delivering of the pets. We are looking at a variety of ways to facilitate this. We also need more boarding space and to recruit and train more foster families.
With your help and generous donations, we can acheive our goal of expanding our Purple Paw services to a greater geographic area and thereby help more women, children and pets in need.
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