Operation Pets Alive!

Help Make the ‘Pawlidays' Bright for Our Homeless Pets!

The #DogDaysOfWinter are here! And once again, we invite you to join our friends and supporters over at The Woodlands Heating & Air Conditioning, in bringing hope and cheer to ALL our homeless pups and kitties. All donations made through December 31, up to a total of $5,000, will be matched by the good folks over at The Woodlands Heating & Air Conditioning!

And this year, you have TWO options to DOUBLE your year-end giving. Make an individual donation, OR help us fundraise with a peer-to-peer fundraiser. 

Can we count you in? Head on over, and make the ‘Pawlidays' BRIGHT for our pets in need ~ Help us reach our $25,000 goal!

Believe in a No Kill Community
ADOPT! SHOP! Let OPA Help You Wrap Your Holidays Up!

'Tis the Season to believe in a No Kill Community! Add joy to your world through pet adoption! Holiday Adoptions are kicking off at The Woodlands Mall November 23, on Black Friday. And that’s not all, this year, the Mall once again has invited Operation Pets Alive to help customers ‘wrap up’ their Holiday Shopping by providing Gift-Wrapping Services, Dec 8-24th! 

OPA will be at The Woodlands Mall every Friday, Saturday and Sunday, through December 23, with adoptable dogs and cats, puppies and kittens. Look for us and our adoptable pets on the Plaza outside Barnes and Noble from 1 pm-7 pm Fridays, and noon-7 pm Saturday and Sundays. Shop from our cornucopia of volunteer hand-crafted pet items and home accessories while there! 

When you are done with your shopping, our OPA Volunteers will be ready to ‘Wrap Your Holiday Gifts Up’. Look for our OPA Gift Wrapping Station beginning December 8, through December 24th (noon-8 pm Mondays-Saturdays, noon-7 pm on Sundays, noon-4 pm Dec 24th), on the lower level of the mall, near Dick’s Sporting Goods. A minimum donation is asked for each gift expertly wrapped.

Save time and help save precious lives! All proceeds from our gift-wrapping services, and our hand-crafted items available for purchase, go immediately to help our homeless dogs and cats in Montgomery County! 

If you have a few hours to spare and would like to give back this Holiday Season, we’d love to have you volunteer to help at our Adoption events, OR if you have a knack for wrapping it up, at our Gift Wrapping Station! Drop us an email at: volunteer@operationpetsalive.org

Come on out, Adopt and Shop, and let OPA help wrap your Holidays up!

November 2018. Over 700 animals at MCAS alone. And, the Conroe Shelter continues to be at capacity. Plea after plea are put out for adopters, fosters and rescues to step up and help, yet despite combined efforts, we see little relief in sight. Operation Pets Alive is seeking to expand both our Dog/Puppy, Kitten/Cat Foster Teams, so we can continue to answer the call to save lives while working towards a No Kill Community.

As a rescue who partners with both the Montgomery County Animal Shelter (MCAS) and the Conroe Animal Adoption Center (CAAC), the availability of foster homes directly impacts our ability to help these open-intake shelters. Puppies and kittens wait in overcrowded shelters for us. Pets with medical needs wait. We also have a number of pups in boarding that need foster homes. While boarding is not an optimal solution, it is a temporary solution, and frees up kennel space for those remaining in the shelter who are most at risk for euthanasia. All our pups in boarding have been assessed for good temperament and suitability for our Transport and/or Local Adoption Programs. If you have ever thought about fostering, make NOW the time to take that jump. 

When you foster for OPA, you will not be alone. You join a family of dedicated fosters, willing to walk you through every step. We have short-term and longer-term fostering opportunities. Fostering is so important ~ it helps us learn more about each pet, and how they do in a home environment. It readies them for adoption to loving families. Last year alone, OPA rescued over 3,125 pets from our local shelters, and from within our community, plus impacted the lives of countless other through our Core Programs. But we need help, from you in our community, to keep saving lives!

If you’re ready to be part of the solution for a No Kill Montgomery County, drop us an email letting us know what type of foster(s) will best fit your family situation.

Can’t foster, but want to help?
Join us for a New Volunter Orientation, the last Wednesday of every month, beginning at 6:30 pm at the South Lake Community Center in the Woodlands (2235 Lake Robbins Dr. Room 107). Our Volunteer Coordinator will go over the countless ways in which you can help support our homeless pets, and life-saving Core Programs.

OPA Celebrates 400th Pups On Trucks Transport
Over 3,500 lives have been saved through OPA’s ground transport program since 2011.

Wednesday, August 29th, 2018, OPA celebrates a special milestone ~ Our 400th Pups On Trucks transport, and we’d love to have you join us! Our ground transport program gives deserving shelter and community dogs second chances at loving homes, through partnering Rescues and Shelters, in areas of the country where there exists a higher demand for adoptable pets.

The 400th Pups On Trucks transport will begin loading at 10:30 am, and and depart at 11 am, from the parking lot of Blue Pearl Veterinary Clinic located at: 1646 Spring Cypress Rd, Spring TX. Come see our ground transport in action, bid our pups farewell, and enjoy cake and refreshments!

Since OPA’s inception in 2011, we have transported over 3,500 pups ~ most of them shelter dogs, overlooked, or whose lives were at risk in local shelters. To date, this year, we have transported almost 500 pups to our partnering shelters and rescues, where forever families anxiously await to adopt.

Our Pups On Trucks Transport program relies on so many to help make it happen. Our thanks go out to our dedicated fosters, our hard-working Transport Team volunteers, our veterinary and shelter partners, and our transport partners at P.E.T.S. LLC. In addition, we so appreciate all the adopters, on the receiving end, who give these pups the wonderful homes and families they so deserve! And lastly, we thank you, our supporters ~ your donations fuel these life-saving transports!

To make a donation towards our Transport Program, just click the Donate button on this page.
Please include a note in the ‘Instructions to seller’ that your donation is for ’OPA Transport Program’

Petco Foundation Invests In Lifesaving Work of Operation Pets Alive!
Grant of $90,000 over two years will extend efforts to save more animal lives in Montgomery County.

The Woodlands, 8/6/2018 – Operation Pets Alive is both thrilled and grateful to announce it has been awarded a $90,000 grant over the next two years, from the Petco Foundation, to support our life-saving programs. This grant will extend our efforts to minimize local shelter intakes through our spay/neuter program, and maximize live release rates through our adoption and transport programs.

We are an all-volunteer nonprofit organization dedicated to working with people and government to provide life-saving, no-kill programs to Montgomery County through innovations that:

            •           Raise community awareness;
            •           Reduce the number of dogs and cats that enter our shelters;
            •           Increase the number of dogs and cats that leave our shelters alive

Since our inception in 2011, Operation Pets Alive has helped over 15,300 homeless dogs and cats from Montgomery County find a safe place to land. From humble beginnings of only 107 dogs and cats adopted our first year, OPA adopted 1,401 dogs and cats last year. Our transport program moved 222 animals to our partners in 2011 and 950 last year alone. So far this year, we have altered, vaccinated and released over 540 community cats, and provided a low-cost spay and neuter for over 175 pets of Montgomery County residents. In our capacity as a partner to both local shelters, we have assisted with over 64 medical cases from the Conroe Animal Adoption Center and 243 medical cases from the Montgomery County Animal Shelter. Many of these cases involved surgeries in the range of $1500 each to mend substantial injuries that otherwise might have been cause for euthanasia.

The Petco Foundation investment will help our County continue to move forward to increase our live release rates at both shelters. A compassionate, forward thinking community does not limit their focus to education and health of their human citizens. We also care about our four-legged family members.

Marcia Piotter, our President shares, “As an all-volunteer organization that is funded solely by donations, we are so thankful for the support of the Petco Foundation. We look forward to putting this grant to work in furthering our life-saving goals in the most cost-effective way possible. Each day, lives truly hang in the balance and this will allow us to tip the scale in a positive direction.”

You can read more about the Petco Foundation, here: www.petcofoundation.org