Mission
Our mission is to keep pets in their original homes with their owners.
Members of Lucy’s House understand the impacts on animals due to abandonment and being left in a shelter after being in a home. We are dedicated to helping the public understand these effects on pets and reducing the number of animals impacted by abandonment and shelter life.
Keeping a family together is almost always beneficial to both animals and people. By providing donations of pet food to low to moderate income households, the disabled, military families, and elderly, we help keep pets in their homes and reduce the number of animals being surrendered to shelters or abandoned. We also work with families to constructively deal with behavior issues that may otherwise lead to abandonment, such as separation anxiety and frequent urination.
We encourage families to consider adopting older companion animals at shelters and rescues to help alleviate the stress on these animals of living in shelters after living in homes for many years.
We help educate pet owners on the need to reduce the overpopulation of animals and homeless pets by spaying and neutering their pets. We distribute and help fill out forms at local food shelves for the Vermont Spay Neuter Initiative Program (VSNIP), a program that allows people to spay and neuter their pets for $27 at local veterinarian offices.
We support emergency medical care for pets of seniors, people with disabilities, and military families through our medical fund which is currently being established.
We work with a feral rescue group in Vermont who provides adoption support as our partner as we work jointly to help reduce homelessness in cats and overpopulation due to the number of animals abandoned and utlimately become quais-feral colonies. We support feral caretakers with pet food and medical support to spay and neuter feral colonies.
Goals:
1. support families and individuals with fixed and low incomes to keep their pets by reducing the costs of pet ownership during difficult economic times and reduce the number of abandoned, surrendered, or homeless pets by providing pet food and homemade pet dog/cat toys so they can keep their pets
2. develop a medical fund to support seniors and people with disabilities, military families with emergency medical pet care
3. raise awareness at local food shelves when distributing pet food to spay and neuter their pets by providing information on the Cat Spay Neuter Clinic and the Vermont Spay Neuter Initiative Program (VSNIP) by handing out the forms to low income families to support decreasing the number of animals born and end up at shelters and reduce the number of homeless pets by reducing overpopulation
4. raise awareness of the emotional and psychological impact on animals when they are rehomed after living with a family for years
5. encourage families to adopt older pets in the community due to emotional, psychological, and physical impact on these seasoned companion animals being in a shelter after living with a family for an extended period of time
6. work with feline feral cat rescues to support spay/neuter initiatives and the medical needs of feral cats through medical funding and reduce the number of animals reproducing in the wild and who are homeless
7. raise awareness of behavioral challenges animals face such as separation anxiety, chewing, breed ban discrimination that can impact an animal’s ability to remain in its home or be adopted
8. raise awareness in the community of feral cat colonies and their right to humane treatment
Members of Lucy’s House understand the impacts on animals due to abandonment and being left in a shelter after being in a home. We are dedicated to helping the public understand these effects on pets and reducing the number of animals impacted by abandonment and shelter life.
Keeping a family together is almost always beneficial to both animals and people. By providing donations of pet food to low to moderate income households, the disabled, military families, and elderly, we help keep pets in their homes and reduce the number of animals being surrendered to shelters or abandoned. We also work with families to constructively deal with behavior issues that may otherwise lead to abandonment, such as separation anxiety and frequent urination.
We encourage families to consider adopting older companion animals at shelters and rescues to help alleviate the stress on these animals of living in shelters after living in homes for many years.
We help educate pet owners on the need to reduce the overpopulation of animals and homeless pets by spaying and neutering their pets. We distribute and help fill out forms at local food shelves for the Vermont Spay Neuter Initiative Program (VSNIP), a program that allows people to spay and neuter their pets for $27 at local veterinarian offices.
We support emergency medical care for pets of seniors, people with disabilities, and military families through our medical fund which is currently being established.
We work with a feral rescue group in Vermont who provides adoption support as our partner as we work jointly to help reduce homelessness in cats and overpopulation due to the number of animals abandoned and utlimately become quais-feral colonies. We support feral caretakers with pet food and medical support to spay and neuter feral colonies.
Goals:
1. support families and individuals with fixed and low incomes to keep their pets by reducing the costs of pet ownership during difficult economic times and reduce the number of abandoned, surrendered, or homeless pets by providing pet food and homemade pet dog/cat toys so they can keep their pets
2. develop a medical fund to support seniors and people with disabilities, military families with emergency medical pet care
3. raise awareness at local food shelves when distributing pet food to spay and neuter their pets by providing information on the Cat Spay Neuter Clinic and the Vermont Spay Neuter Initiative Program (VSNIP) by handing out the forms to low income families to support decreasing the number of animals born and end up at shelters and reduce the number of homeless pets by reducing overpopulation
4. raise awareness of the emotional and psychological impact on animals when they are rehomed after living with a family for years
5. encourage families to adopt older pets in the community due to emotional, psychological, and physical impact on these seasoned companion animals being in a shelter after living with a family for an extended period of time
6. work with feline feral cat rescues to support spay/neuter initiatives and the medical needs of feral cats through medical funding and reduce the number of animals reproducing in the wild and who are homeless
7. raise awareness of behavioral challenges animals face such as separation anxiety, chewing, breed ban discrimination that can impact an animal’s ability to remain in its home or be adopted
8. raise awareness in the community of feral cat colonies and their right to humane treatment