Heartland Animal Shelter: Grant Report

How did this grant help your organization and the pets in your care?

The Senior Pet Adoption Assistance grant was used to help promote Thyme for adoption, waive her adoption fee, and cover her medical expenses for life.

This grant helped us adopt out our longest-term feline resident, Thyme, who had been at the shelter for almost four years. She went home just in time for the holidays!

How many pets did this grant help?

1

Please provide a story of one or more specific pets this grant helped.

Thyme was our longest-term resident cat and had been at the shelter for almost four years. Because this much-adored senior has medical issues including epilepsy and is on lifelong medication for this condition, it was a challenge to find an adopter willing to welcome her into their lives. Removing these barriers to adoption and offering ongoing support to potential adopters made it easier for them to consider her. Before we knew it, she had multiple adoption applications (after going years without a single one) and this special and deserving senior was adopted into a loving home!