How to Start a Non-Profit Animal Rescue Foundation

Starting a non-profit organization is not easy, but if you have chosen a cause about which you are passionate, nothing will stop you. Right now, kill shelters where lost pets are exterminated within 72 hours of pickup are the predominant form of animal shelter in our society. These organizations are funded to help animals, but they really kill them just to get them out of the way. The only way to stop them is to start a new rescue organization that takes care of dogs and cats until they are adoptable.

Several resources are available to help the budding nonprofiteer find a way to organize, incorporate and fund their animal rescue mission. A number of grants are also available to help build and maintain facilities for housing, caring for, treating and adopting out lost pets. The Best Friends Animal Society offers a great wealth of resources to guide you in starting and maintaining a successful animal rescue non-profit organization.

Give homeless pets a safe haven away from injury, sickness and cruelty by starting your own caring shelter. Most shelters are not no-kill shelters. Quite the contrary; they are moneymaking animal-killing machines that exterminate hundreds of animals per day - each. These kitty and doggie death panels receive a huge amount of funding from animal organizations, government organizations and grants for helping animals. They are not helping animals.

When starting a shelter, it is important to work within your means. If you take on too many animals to care for, you will end up with a bunch of sick animals that are worse off than if they were in the wild. Set reasonable goals regarding what you can really do and stick to them. It may be hard, but you have to let some go to save some. You can expand the operation as your opportunities present themselves in order to make a larger, successful animal rescue organization.

You can help animals and get a piece of the grants and donations given to these misleading organizations by starting your own nonprofit organization dedicated to offering animals a no-kill shelter home where they can be socialized and adopted as loving pets. Save kitties and dogs and make a meager salary by starting your own nonprofit animal rescue organization dedicated to providing no-kill shelters so no one else has to lose a loving pet because they didn't show up to a shelter with ID fast enough.