Find Happiness

Recently, a small group of us brainstormed about our “slogan” or catch phrase for the organization.  Our old catch phrase was “Giving animals a second chance” which was a great statement for our push to become no kill.  But now that the new facility is opening and we have achieved that goal we needed something else.   We considered using our Capital Campaign slogan of “It’s about the pets” but honestly, so much of what we do relates to people and helping them that it isn’t just about the pets. 

That is when one member of the committee said “Find Happiness”.  And we all stopped and said,

2014 was an exciting year for us.  We helped 2,359 pets at our old facility.  Of those, 1,741 were adopted and 276 were returned back to their owners so we helped over 2,000 pets find happiness.  This equates to a 94% save rate, the highest since we started down this path to No Kill. Our mission is to continue to save more pets in our community and the surrounding counties.

We hope to be a resource to help all owners find happiness with their existing pets through training classes, behavior and supply assistance.   Or if that is not possible, to be a
safe place they can bring their pet to be re-homed.

We want to be a place for people to volunteer and find happiness helping a pet in need of an owner.

We will help owners find happiness through reuniting them with their lost pets.

We will watch school children find happiness at our Center at birthday parties, camps and educational programs.

Giving supplies or monetary donations will both help people find and give happiness.

Your group can find happiness through social events and group meetings.

Many community members will find happiness by working at the new center for pets.

There are so many varied ways to Find Happiness and we hope that more of our helpless, ownerless pets will find their ultimate happiness through new life-long homes.

“yes, that is what we want”, for people and pets to find happiness.  So, as we begin our next phase of work of getting our new Edythe Elizabeth Stauffer Center for Pets opened and our new programs started this will guide the vision for the organization.