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Our Programs
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A modern, efficient, spacious facility with an Education Room will allow use to expand our educational and community outreach programs as we build organizational infrastructure and capacity. Our new facility will enable us to train volunteers, develop community outreach events and increase public awareness of our mission and services. Children’s events, obedience training, animal healthcare, and similar classes will help to raise additional shelter funding.
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Pet Helpers currently houses approximately 13 dogs and 90 cats and kittens that are available for adoption to loving homes. Last year we adopted 451 animals. Read More |
In the first known partnership of its kind, a joint committee of Charleston County School District (CCSD)teachers and non-profit Pet Helpers professionals will be working to design and fund new areas of study for the public school curriculum. This team will be responsible for the development of new science lessons that have been integrated into the South Carolina Life Science Standards (biology, health and scientific methodology) while incorporating concepts of Humane Education. These are lessons that will build character, empathy and critical-thinking while promoting compassion and respect for our environment and all living beings. Unlike other states, South Carolina does not currently mandate Humane Education in its curriculum. This is an initiative that places the CCSD and Pet Helpers at the forefront of the state’s participation in this growing national movement.
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This program, which is the first of its kind in the Tri-County area, truly gives dogs a new leash on life! It is a pet transport program that relocates dogs from our space-limited Tri-County shelters (where they face almost certain euthanasia)
to shelters in areas where adoptable dogs are in demand. This program operates under professionally-developed standards for source and receiving shelters, spay/neuter and animal practices and humane transport.
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We currently sponsor 16 first and second grade teachers at Murray LaSeine Elementary School and James Island Elementary as part of the Humane Society’s Kind News Program.
For nine months, teachers receive the Humane Education Newsletter which provides lessons on respect and care for animals. This is our 4th year of involvement. To date we have educated 1,300 children.
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We provide financial support to individual pet owners through a network of local veterinarians of $15-$20 for spays and $10-$15 for neuters. We also offer emergency medical assistance through these same veterinarians. In 2006, we gave $6015 in assistance.
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We network with feral cat caretakers, advocates, volunteers and sponsors. We offer financial support for spay/neuter and provide traps and feral cat recovery cages along with guidance, information and training materials. Our goal is to manage feral cat populations, raise awareness of the plight of feral cats, to foster compassion and understanding, educate the public and Animal Control Departments about TNR and lobby for feral cats to receive the same protections as companion animals and wildlife.
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Learn about no kill programs and services that have had results in both urban and rural communities from nationally recognized speaker Nathan Winograd, one of the national leaders in this endeavor.
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Pet Helpers is bringing the country’s foremost experts in humane leadership to the Tri-County area to educate our community on a variety of topics.
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