380 N. Oak Street
Buffalo, NY 14203
Phone: 716-851-5694 or 851-4265
Fax: 716-851-5096
Open daily 9:00 am - 3:00 pm
Wednesday until 7:00 pm
Saturday 9:30-2:30 pm
Closed Sundays and Holidays
Q: What is Maddie's Grant?
A: Maddie's Fund, The Pet Rescue Foundation is a family foundation funded by Workday and PeopleSoft Founder Dave Duffield and his wife, Cheryl. Maddie's Fund is helping to create a no-kill nation where all healthy and treatable shelter dogs and cats are guaranteed a loving home. Maddie's Fund is named after the family's beloved Miniature Schnauzer.
To achieve the no-kill nation goal, Maddie's Fund directs its resources towards creating successful models of community lifesaving; pioneering shelter medicine programs in veterinary schools; enlisting private practice veterinarians in the animal welfare cause; and implementing a national strategy to collect and report shelter statistics. Maddie's Fund is named after the family's beloved Miniature Schnauzer who passed away in 1997.
Q: How Will Maddie's Grand help homeless pets in WNY?
A: Area groups came together and worked cooperatively to become only the ninth county in the United States to receive a collaborative community Maddie's Grant, with the goal of ending the euthanasia of all healthy and treatable animals in Erie County by 2014.
Partners to the grant are: City of Buffalo Animal Shelter, Buffalo Humane, HEART Inc., Ten Lives Club, Second Chance Sheltering Network, and most importantly the SPCA Serving Erie County, which will be serving as the lead agency for the grant. An additional partner, Operation PETS, will be coordinating the spay/neuter component of the grant, along with several area veterinary clinics who have agreed to participate.
To make the goal of a no-kill county become a reality, we need you in the community to step forward. If you are interested in helping please contact us BuffaloAnimalShelter@verizon.net for more information.
Maddie's Spay/Neuter Project is administered by Operation PETS: The Spay/Neuter Clinic of Western New York, Inc. (OPETS). Ten private practice veterinary hospitals have also agreed to participate. Low-cost surgeries are available to Erie County pet owning residents who receive Medicaid and to Erie County residents who manage feral cat colonies. The total number of surgeries to be performed in the first year is 3,518.
Maddie's Pet Rescue Project is led by the SPCA Serving Erie County (SPCA-EC) working with the City of Buffalo Animal Shelter and four adoption guarantee organizations - Buffalo Humane, HEART, Second Chance Sheltering Network, and Ten Lives Club. First year goals for participating organizations and Erie County shelters include:
-Increase the total number of dogs and cats adopted by 889 over the baseline year number of 8,863 and decrease the number of dogs and cats euthanized by 889 below the baseline number of 7,307.
-Maintain a total of zero healthy dogs and cats euthanized.
-Decrease the number of treatable dogs and cats euthanized by at least 406 below the baseline number of 2,030.
Strategies for increasing adoptions include operating a full time cat adoption center, adding new coalition adoption events and special adoption promotions for bully breeds.