It?s an unfortunate symptom of the times when pet owners are forced to make heartbreaking decisions regarding their pet?s health care because of financial difficulties. The cost of veterinary care can often be quite high in the case of serious injury or illness and many pet caregivers simply cannot afford the care their pets need. This can result in painful decisions to surrender or even euthanize their pets. The Dueces Project is a newly-formed organization with a mission to be a safety net for animals in need. DogTipper recently spoke with Michael Moore of the Dueces Project.
Can you please describe The Dueces Project:
The Dueces Project is a start-up organization dedicated to helping pets when their owners cannot provide adequate health care for them due to financial constraints. Many pet owners who are struggling with financial issues must make painful decisions regarding health care for their pet. At the Dueces Project, we believe that these pet caretakers shouldn?t have to say goodbye to their beloved pets either by surrendering them for adoption or, in some cases, deciding to euthanize. The Project works with a network of US veterinary clinics, offering financial aid including complete treatment to pets and their owners.
To do this, we rely on the support of our donors to help us fulfill the promise of our society in caring for animals that otherwise would go without treatment, or worse.
Having secured links with regional clinics across the US, we are alerted when an animal faces euthanization or surrender because of financial limits. Through our Project Life Saver initiative, we work with the clinic to verify the owner?s financial need and then provide funds to save the pet. The owner is never asked to reimburse us for the assistance.
What made you decide to create this organization?
In a word: Dueces. This wonderfully brave, caring dog inspired The Dueces Project (TDP) with its mission to serve as the life saver of animals. You can read his moving story on the Dueces Project.org website.
What is the criteria for assistance, both in terms of the owner?s financial situation and the pet?s physical condition?
Working together with the veterinary clinic or hospital, we verify that the pet owner is unable to provide the funds needed to save their sick or injured pet. This means that they have already applied for CareCredit.com. We then work out the financial arrangements with the clinic and authorize the treatment needed to save the pet. This assistance is normally only offered to those that cannot start a fundraiser for their pet or for animals who need emergency funding.
What region(s) do you serve?
We establish regional links with veterinary clinics across the United States. We work within our application process, asking pet owners to fill out the information about the closest veterinary clinic that is near the pet or animal at the time!
We are currently working on an online platform that will be launched very soon! This platform will allow pet owners that don?t need emergency funding right away or who have time before the pet?s surgery to fill out this ?online fundraiser? and submit it and let others help them raise the funding. This platform will be similar to other ones that you can find online to raise funding, but Funds4Pets.com?s purpose and belief is very simple:
Purpose:
To help Animal Shelters, Animal Rescues, Vet Clinics, Vet Hospitals and private pet owners find a way to raise funds quickly to support those animals in their care and to allow supporters to fund these animals that are in need.Belief:
We believe that animal shelters, rescues, clinics, and hospitals are doing the most important work in the world to save these pets of ours and need as much support as possible.
We will be happy when this platform is launched due to the fact that the percentage taken from each person?s ?fundraiser? will go directly to The Dueces Project. This means if you launch a fundraiser on Funds4Pets.com then they will take a percentage of the funds raised and give them to The Dueces Project. This will help people that don?t have the time to launch a fundraiser for their animal or pet, because the funding will already be in place with The Dueces Project!
For pet lovers who don?t need assistance but would like to help, what volunteer or donation opportunities do you offer?
We are looking for dedicated people who can make the organization grow! These include Facebook managers and ?page spreaders,? sponsorship leaders, website developers and content and grant proposal writers. You can read more about these opportunities at the Dueces Project website.
What else would you like the readers of DogTipper.com to know about The Dueces Project?
We are a start-up organization currently seeking 501(c)(3) status within the legal world. We plan to have this finished very soon and we are asking that if you would like to help us reach our $2,000.00 goal for getting this you can donate to donate.theduecesproject.org or you can contact us directly via e-mail.
What?s next for The Dueces Project?
We are wanting to get our name out to the public and wanting to help save more animal lives! We are doing this by contacting several organizations on Facebook and also by reaching out to our local community here in North Carolina. We are also planning the stages to seek our 501(c)(3) non-profit status, to receive grants and funding to help out those pets/animals that are in need of emergency funding. We could not do any of this without the public! We love our volunteers and the organizations that are willing to help us achieve our goals!
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Source: http://www.dogtipper.com/blog/2012/10/pet-pro-profile-the-dueces-project.html
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