Celebrate NH PetSave’s Homeless Animal Awareness Week!

This week has been designated as NH PetSave’s Homeless Animal Awareness Week by Governor Maggie Hassan. Each year, New Hampshire’s animal shelters combine to rescue over 18,500 companion animals and provide critical medical care, adoption services, humane education, spay/neuter services, disaster preparedness training, hot-line support, and animal cruelty and hoarding investigations. At the Salem Animal Rescue League (SARL) alone, we serve over 1,500 companion animals a year.

Recently, we have joined a coalition of twelve other full-service New Hampshire Animal Shelters to form NH PetSave. In doing so, we hope to raise awareness about pet homelessness and our mission of saving the lives of vulnerable animals.

NH PetSave will provide a way for new and existing supporters to easily make an online donation to their shelter of choice, including SARL through one website, www.nhpetsave.org.  While you can still donate directly to SARL, we hope this new organization will transform how people support their local humane organizations. NH PetSave will also share information about the work that our shelters do to help homeless companion animals.  Ultimately we hope this will lead to more pet adoptions from our shelters.

We hope readers will take a moment this week to visit www.nhpetsave.org and www.sarl-nh.org to learn more about us and how they can get involved. As always, we welcome anyone interested in donating the gift of their time. We always have a need for dedicated volunteers to assist us in finding our animals good homes.

D.J. Bettencourt, Salem

Volunteer Coordinator, Salem Animal Rescue League