Thank you to BISSELL Pet Foundation for their grant awarded in August that will help pay for pet spay and neuter costs. Their generous contribution was almost $7,000! As our animal intakes more than doubled during the pandemic, in March this year, PetSmart Charities awarded SOCA a generous $1,000 grant to help cover additional [...]
**THIS IS A VOLUNTEER ROLE** June 2022 Job Overview: In this role, you will be responsible for publishing new adoption and fundraising events, posts written by different authors that include different media and documents. You will work closely with the SOCA webmaster to spot each other about when updates are needed and who can take [...]
President: Removed due to resignation in Aug. 2023. Carolyn Apura, Vice President (new) "I started my animal rescue work 5 years ago volunteering at a local animal shelter, when I decided to foster an injured dog. There are so many injured dogs sitting in shelters waiting to get the medical treatment they need, so I [...]
Before the pandemic, our usual annual dog intakes were around 275, and our cat intakes were around 315. When the pandemic and restrictions hit, our dog intakes increased to around 550, and our cat intakes increased to almost 500. 2021 presented challenges for foster-based animal rescue in Fort Bend County, TX. Area shelters continued to [...]
Houston PetSet continued their support for SOCA in 2021 with a generous donation to support our 2021 strategic objectives: Dog and Cat Rescue, Adopt, and Transport Cat Trap, Spay/Neuter, Return to Field, and Help Community to Manage Colonies For more information about Houston PetSet and their contributions to the Houston metropolitan area animal rescue, see [...]
We thank REMAX Emma Dow Team for their continued support of SOCA-FBC. Our latest December 2021 donation was a generous $5,000. On every sale or purchase of a home, they donate to a local animal shelter or rescue. The company tag line is “Helping People And Their Pets Find Homes.” SOCA is fortunate to be [...]
Thank you to Adopt-a-Pet and Bayer Advantage for a generous donation of Advantage II flea prevention for our SOCA foster cats! Adopt-a-Pet and Bayer announced the grant in June in honor of Adopt-a-Shelter-Cat Month. Only 30 shelters and rescues across the US were awarded a total of $100,000 in product!
One of BISSELL Pet Foundation’s focus areas is helping to reduce the number of homeless dogs and cats through their spay/neuter grants. In August 2021, SOCA was awarded a very generous grant of $6,995 to spay and neuter our rescued dogs and cats. We appreciate our partnership with BISSELL!
PetSmart Charities committed up to $2 million to support pets and people affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. As part of PetSmart’s Emergency Relief program, SOCA-FBC received a generous unrestricted donation in March 2021 that enabled us to cover additional medical and adoption expenses incurred during the pandemic. We appreciate our partnership with PetSmart!
Petco Love (previously Petco Foundation) has been a strong supporter of SOCA-FBC over the past few years. In April of 2021, they again showed their generosity with an $8,000 grant. We're using the funds to care for the significant increase in animals that we've saved since the COVID-19 pandemic. We appreciate our partnership with Petco!