I hope everyone enjoys their Memorial Day weekend! If you're traveling, please be safe and remember hot cars plus dogs is a very dangerous combination. I encourage traveling with your pet and have done it often myself, but please make sure you have ways to keep him or her out of the car in the heat!
We hit a bit of a bump this week with our spays and neuters. Consequently, this is delaying getting some of our dogs to their forever homes. Our usual vet had an equipment failure that has made it so he cannot spay and neuter our dogs for at least a week. We didn't want to have our dogs waiting any longer than possible to go home, so we started the search for alternatives. This is not as easy as it sounds!
The finances of a rescue, especially one as new as we are, are incredibly delicate. We are constantly trying to balance affordable adoption fees, having enough money to care for the dogs we have, and having a little wiggle room for emergencies or unanticipated expenses. The costs of spays and neuters, even for rescues, makes this all fairly challenging. When you've got an average of $200 for a spay or neuter, plus all the other costs - microchipping, deworming, food, crates, shots, heartworm tests, pain medication post spay/neuter, etc. - that doesn't leave a lot left after the adoption fee. One case of parvo, one bad case of parasites, one special needs dog and any "spare" money is gone. It is a fine line that we walk to keep our fees as reasonable as possible as well as provide quality care to our rescue dogs and be in a position where we can continue to save as many lives as possible. We are still trying to find the best way to balance this and if you know of any resources open to rescues, please leave a comment or drop us an email. I'm hoping to try my hand at grant writing when we get our 501(c)3 letter and hopefully we can find some relief there. If any of you out there are experienced grant writers, your suggestions would be most welcome!
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