Blue’s Road to Recovery and Helping Other Pets in Need - PATTY GIARRUSSO
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- March 20th 2021
How does a small nonprofit with a handful of full-time volunteers help 87 sick, injured pets in need and fund almost $30,000 in medical care in one year? Thanks to the continued support of our donors and a generous grant awarded to them by the Community Foundation of Sarasota County (CFSC) they are able to do just that. The CFSC Animal Welfare Grant funded by the Robert Parker Foundation has allowed Lost Pet Services to offer medical care, microchips and ID tags to pets and their families in our community as well as a donation of a microchip scanner to the local Parrish Fire Station to help with scanning of found pets after hours. Here are some of the stories of those pets and families we were able to help and some tips on how you can start to help in your community if you’re interested in starting a 501(c)(3) nonprofit.
LET'S TALK PETS - PATTY GIARRUSSO
The Let's Talk Pets Story
Patty combines educational resources and feel-good stories each week with the main focus on lost pet recovery and pet retention, pet safety, pet health, training and more.
Patty shares true stories of lost pets that are reunited with their owners, veterinarians offering important pet health advice, rescue groups sharing information about their organizations, trainers sharing tips on problems pet owners face, pet health and anxiety issues and different pet products and services among other topics.
Patty is the Founder & President of Lost Pet Services, Inc., a nonprofit organization dedicated to reuniting lost pets. Her organization has helped reunite thousands of pets in the Sarasota/Manatee counties FL area since 2013 and funded tens of thousands in medical care to strays and owned pets.
Lost Pet Services Facebook group has grown to over 41,000 fans and continues to grow by 100s every month. It is her mission to educate others on systemic lost pet recovery methods and ways to keep our pets safe.
Remember, a lost pet can’t tell anyone where it lives, so it’s up to us to help them.
