Operation Pets Alive!
Be A Lifesaver this Summer ~ Be a Foster!
OPA teams up with the Petco Foundation to recruit new fosters June 29!
.Did you know that if less than 2% of pet-owning households in the U.S. fostered one pet a year, we could eliminate unnecessary euthanasia of dogs and cats in shelters tomorrow?
#BeALifesaver this summer ~ learn more about fostering and find an opportunity that is right for you! Join Operation Pets Alive, the Petco Foundation, and BOBS from Skechers, to learn how you can be a foster and help save animals lives in our community. Drop by and visit with us, June 29th, from 1:30-3:30 at any one of the following area Petco Stores:
Petco Kuykendahl ~ 10864 Kuykendahl Rd, The Woodlands TX
Petco Sawdust ~ 522 Sawdust Rd, Spring TX
Petco Cypresswood ~ 19507 I-45 North, Spring TX
Petco Spring Klein ~ 2138 Kuykendahl Rd (near 99), Spring TX
We will be honoring an OPA Foster Mentor, and a first-time OPA Volunteer Foster at the Petco Kuykendahl location (The Woodlands). Each individual will receive a pair of BOBS from Skechers, and the first time OPA Foster will receive a $200 Petco Shopping Spree! In addition, the first four new foster volunteers that sign up at each of the above locations, will receive a free Litter Genie® Pail!
Simply put, fostering saves lives. As an all-volunteer-run animal rescue, without a physical facility, we depend on loving foster families to care for our kitties and pups. Last year we were able to rescue over 2,500 homeless pets from local shelters and in the community, all thanks to foster families. But we need your help to keep saving these precious lives!
When you foster for Operation Pets Alive, you will not be alone. Whether you choose to foster a dog short-term for transport, a dog or cat for local adoption, a litter of young pups or kittens, or a mamma with a little family ~ you join a family of dedicated fosters, willing to walk you through every step. Please stop by, talk to our volunteer fosters, and find out how you can be a part of making Montgomery County a #NoKillCommunity.
If you can’t make the event, OPA welcomes all new fosters now! Our shelters have been overwhelmed with animal intakes this summer. As part of our OPA Foster Family, you join us in saving lives.
Just drop us an email, and let us know what type of pet(s) would be a good fit: foster@operationpetsalive.org
We extend our thanks to City of Conroe Parks and Recreation for hosting our 2019 FIESTA & Fajita Cook-off!
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
3000+ Transported homeless pets
