Agape Animal Rescue
Programs
Budget
$40,000.00
Description
Agape Animal Rescue's community canine coaching program was formed to combat increased owner surrenders and support intake prevention in Middle Tennessee while increasing the adoptability and quality of life of foster dogs awaiting adoption. This program includes accessible, easy-to-follow training programs both online and in person for pet owners, shelters, rescues, and more.
Beneficiaries
Families
Animals
Minorities
Program Areas Served
Middle Tennessee
$40,000.00
Description
Agape Animal Rescue's community canine coaching program was formed to combat increased owner surrenders and support intake prevention in Middle Tennessee while increasing the adoptability and quality of life of foster dogs awaiting adoption. This program includes accessible, easy-to-follow training programs both online and in person for pet owners, shelters, rescues, and more.
Beneficiaries
Families
Animals
Minorities
Program Areas Served
Middle Tennessee
Description
While much of our work deals with fostering and assisting in the adoption process, we also work to support the community itself. Financial hardships can be devastating for a family. In order to assist people who are going through these and other difficulties, we've established a Community Kibble Program. Our goal is to help these families keep their pets by providing them with pet food for a short period of time. Sometimes, this food can be the difference between a person keep a pet or having to give him or her away. The goal of this program is to prevent anyone from ever having to make this difficult and heartbreaking decision, and to avoid an animal entering the overwhelmed shelter system, where they are subject to extremely stressful conditions, and are at-risk of being needlessly euthanized.
Program Areas Served
None
While much of our work deals with fostering and assisting in the adoption process, we also work to support the community itself. Financial hardships can be devastating for a family. In order to assist people who are going through these and other difficulties, we've established a Community Kibble Program. Our goal is to help these families keep their pets by providing them with pet food for a short period of time. Sometimes, this food can be the difference between a person keep a pet or having to give him or her away. The goal of this program is to prevent anyone from ever having to make this difficult and heartbreaking decision, and to avoid an animal entering the overwhelmed shelter system, where they are subject to extremely stressful conditions, and are at-risk of being needlessly euthanized.
Program Areas Served
None
Description
Through generous funding from The Community Foundation and Barbara J. Mapp Foundation, and in partnership with the Pet Community Center, Agape works to sterilize 200 dogs annually. This helps to minimize the stray population, and decrease the number of dogs that end up in precarious situations: fending for themselves on the streets or unsuitable homes, or in the over-burdened shelter system, which at best is stressful for a dog, and at worst puts them at risk of being needlessly euthanized.
Program Areas Served
None
Through generous funding from The Community Foundation and Barbara J. Mapp Foundation, and in partnership with the Pet Community Center, Agape works to sterilize 200 dogs annually. This helps to minimize the stray population, and decrease the number of dogs that end up in precarious situations: fending for themselves on the streets or unsuitable homes, or in the over-burdened shelter system, which at best is stressful for a dog, and at worst puts them at risk of being needlessly euthanized.
Program Areas Served
None
Description
Agape dogs are cared for by a network of foster homes, where dedicated foster parents care for and nurture the dog until he/she can be placed in permanent homes. While Agape is financially responsible for the dogs in the program, the foster parents provide a loving home. During their time in foster care, our goal is to teach them basic obedience skills. We offer group classes to our foster families to learn basic training skills and to better understand dog behaviors and needs.Agape hosts adoption events so the public can meet available dogs. All dogs have been fully vetted including vaccinations, spay/neuter, tested for heartworms, and are current on preventative medications. To adopt one of our dogs a family must fill out an application, pass a home inspection and vet reference, and sign a contract. Each adoptive family is supplied with materials to make sure the dogs transition is stress free and a positive experience. We are proud of our 99% retention rate for Agape adoptions!
Program Areas Served
None
Agape dogs are cared for by a network of foster homes, where dedicated foster parents care for and nurture the dog until he/she can be placed in permanent homes. While Agape is financially responsible for the dogs in the program, the foster parents provide a loving home. During their time in foster care, our goal is to teach them basic obedience skills. We offer group classes to our foster families to learn basic training skills and to better understand dog behaviors and needs.Agape hosts adoption events so the public can meet available dogs. All dogs have been fully vetted including vaccinations, spay/neuter, tested for heartworms, and are current on preventative medications. To adopt one of our dogs a family must fill out an application, pass a home inspection and vet reference, and sign a contract. Each adoptive family is supplied with materials to make sure the dogs transition is stress free and a positive experience. We are proud of our 99% retention rate for Agape adoptions!
Program Areas Served
None
Budget
$40,000.00
Description
In early 2015 Agape teamed up with Best Friends Animal Society, the Enderle Family, and The Community Foundation to create Agape's Official Puppy Program. In 2016 our friends at the Pedigree Foundation joined the puppy team by making a generous donation to the program as well! Through this program, we're dedicated to saving pregnant dogs and orphaned puppies ages 6 months and under. These puppies come to us from Middle Tennessee area and would have otherwise been euthanized.
Program Areas Served
None
$40,000.00
Description
In early 2015 Agape teamed up with Best Friends Animal Society, the Enderle Family, and The Community Foundation to create Agape's Official Puppy Program. In 2016 our friends at the Pedigree Foundation joined the puppy team by making a generous donation to the program as well! Through this program, we're dedicated to saving pregnant dogs and orphaned puppies ages 6 months and under. These puppies come to us from Middle Tennessee area and would have otherwise been euthanized.
Program Areas Served
None
Budget
$8,000.00
Description
Agape Animal Rescue microchips all of our rescue dogs thanks to a grant from the Barbara J. Mapp Foundation. Microchipping saves lives by helping reunite dogs with their pet parents if the need ever arises. We believe microchips are an important part of our overall mission to ensure the lifelong health and safety of our rescue animals.
Program Areas Served
None
$8,000.00
Description
Agape Animal Rescue microchips all of our rescue dogs thanks to a grant from the Barbara J. Mapp Foundation. Microchipping saves lives by helping reunite dogs with their pet parents if the need ever arises. We believe microchips are an important part of our overall mission to ensure the lifelong health and safety of our rescue animals.
Program Areas Served
None
CEO/Executive Director/Board Comments
| The most challenging aspect of our organization is finding foster homes. We operate without a facility so all if our dogs stay in a foster home. In this environment the dogs learn different socialization skills, how to interact in a home, etc. Periodically, we hold foster parent seminars, dates and times are posted on Facebook and our website, in order to educate interested parties about Agape and fostering. If we could get more volunteers and money for this program, we could hold the seminars more often. We have gained several more homes already. But the more foster homes, the more dogs we can save. |
