Adams County Pet Rescue is a shelter in Eastern, WA.
This is a hard post to write but a necessary one. We find ourselves in a position that we will only survive if we have donations. The government agencies that we work with are unable to find the funds to support us. We are going to have to depend on people who don't know us, who don't live in our area but who have a deep love of animals and understand the importance of having a pet rescue in Adams County.
We find ourselves in the same position as other rescues and shelters around the country, it is no secret there are too many dogs and not enough adopters for them all. We cringe when shelters and rescues continously bring in dogs from out of state and country as we look at our owm good dogs and see them continue to not be adopted.
We are overworked and continously stressed not only about more and more animals needing help but about the economic side of operating a pet rescue. It's no secret that we are barely surviving. We've battled parvo and the inability to do adoptions during those times while still keeping the shelter animals fed and cared for. We asked for donations earlier this year and had a super first time auction which are are immensely grateful for! Grants seem to be non-existent for our type of pet rescue.
We want to give up, it's exhausting on every person involved due to not knowing if we can continue. We look at all of the good we do but there comes a point where we can't do anything without funding.
ACPR wants to share with you the cost of running our shelter.
We just paid over $11,000 for our insurance coverage.
Every two weeks our employee wages cost close to $24,000.
The vet bills for basic spay/neuter and things that normally come up that need help come to an average around $10,000/month. All of our dogs and cats that leave the shelter must be spayed/neutered, be vaccinated, microchipped and up to date on vaccines including rabies. We do basic health care with our vets but anything extra for injuries and illness we fundraise for on a case by case basis.
The cost of keeping a dog for a year is close to $1,100 and we have over 120 dogs, many of them have been here over 9 months because they are Shepherds, Pits and Huskies.
Our utilities are close to $5,000 a month for power, propane, phones etc.
Our expenses through the end of August come out to $596,395.52. These are the basics to keep the shelter running with no extra finds to replace things like our washing machine, kennel doors, septic etc.
Our adoptions have totalled $153,391.00 and donations have totalled $174,727.00, contracts with the government agencies have totalled $112,996.
In order to make payroll and expenses just through the end of the year, we need close to $200,000.
We hope you will consider supporting us or sharing with others who may be interested in supporting us!
