You still have time to submit your pet's photo for our Pet Photo Contest! Submit an entry by October 31st and your pet will have the chance to be featured throughout our shelter!
Submit your entry here: https://www.gogophotocontest.com/fapl
There is still 5.5 hours left to donate to our Connect to a Cause fund! Did you know $20 will get you a poorly drawn portrait of your pet? Here’s how:
•Go to peoplewhocare.org and click “give now”!
•Search for Friendship Animal Protective League and donate $20
•Comment on our Facebook post or send us a Instagram DM with a photo of your pet for us to draw!
Our volunteers are hard at work drawing master pieces of your pet! You might even get a portrait done by our Director Greg Willey! #C2CLorainCounty #peoplewhocare
Get involved by donating $20 for a Poorly Drawn Pet Portrait during Connect to a Cause! Here’s how: Go to peoplewhocare.org, search for Friendship APL, donate! Once you donate, comment on our original Facebook post with a photo of your pet and our volunteers will get to work on your drawing! #C2CLorainCounty #peoplewhocare
Join us for a CELEBRATION tomorrow June 21st from 11am to 12pm at the Petco in Avon, OH! We are celebrating our partnership with Petco Love and the support they have shown us through life saving grants! Meet staff, enjoy cupcakes, a check presentation and you will have the chance to meet adoptable animals! We hope to see you there!
We currently have three GCI graduates looking for homes! Come in and ask to meet to meet Max, Jeff and Blue!
Thank you to the Brookside Intermediate School for hosting a Pet Donation Drive for our shelter! Some of the students who organized the drive helped us load up all of the donations yesterday! Our animals truly appreciate it!
Marlin's Journey Home
Just when all hope is lost....miracles like the one below remind us to keep pushing through:
Marlin was a frightened, big headed boy that took social media by storm when he escaped from his adopter in August 2023. He was a dog our shelter was extremely attached to, after he transferred into our care. Marlin had a rough life, was unsocialized and scared of the world. He spent months at our shelter learning to trust people, participated in our prison program to have one on one training and was finally adopted. Unfortunately, soon after being adopted he escaped from his adopter and managed to evade our rescue efforts for months. The last sighting of Marlin was a couple of months after his escape after several people thought they witnessed him getting hit by a car and limping into the woods. Months passed by and we thought we would never see him again.
Nothing prepared us for a call we received a month ago from Stark County Veterinary Emergency Clinic LLC, stating a dog matching Marlin's description wondered onto their property and they managed to catch him. His microchip confirmed that 70 miles and 9 months later he had been found!
While we were thrilled to hear Marlin was safe, injuries tell of the rough journey he had. Marlin has a series of injuries in his rear left leg that require an FHO (removing the ball part of his hip joint) and ACL surgery. The total cost of both surgeries is $10,000. We will get Marlin the care he needs to finally live a happy life, but we are hoping with your support we can offset the cost!
Update from our director: I am so sorry to say that Fuego, that is what we named the 29th Street Chihuahua, had a heart attack while under anesthetic for X-rays. It was a devastating episode, and the decision was made to euthanize him while he was still under anesthesia. I am so very sad... but I am happy he is not suffering anymore. Thank you to the Northview team for caring for him through his stray hold.
Last night our Director Greg got a call about a dog suffering from an injury in Lorain. Without hesitation he rushed to the scene to get the dog the help it needed. He was nervous, but trusted a good Samaritan enough to catch him. It appears that he has wounds from a possible muzzle embed, and will require medical care and treatment for the foreseeable future.
This little fighter is being called Fuego, and we could use your help with his vet bills! If you are able to donate, it is so appreciated!
2024 FAPL Volunteer Appreciation
Today concludes #NationalVolunteerAppreciationWeek and this is just a small snippet of the wonderful volunteers and all they do to help us out here at the shelter!
Here are some volunteer facts to prove how much of an impact they truly make:
❤️26,880 hours of volunteer service in the year of 2023
❤️Our volunteers account for 11 full time staff members
Our staff truly appreciated every single volunteer that dedicates time to our shelter!
Give us a leg up in our vet bills by supporting our 50/50 raffle! Many of our supporters were touched by George's story. He was a stray cat brought to our shelter. Our team immediately knew something was horribly wrong. George was rushed to the vet clinic where X-rays showed his leg had been shattered by a shotgun blast. His bone was so badly splintered that our only option was amputation.
George is just one of the many emergency cases that walk through our doors every day. Our vet bills are through the roof, and raffles like this help offset some of those costs. This 50/50 raffle will run from 4/18 at 2pm to May 1st at 2pm. We will then go live on Facebook and drawn the winner at 4pm on May 1st!
Purchase tickets here: https://igfn.us/form/T209xA
***Must be 21 years or older to purchase tickets***
"He's a runner he's a track star!"
Adoptable dogs Brody and Oso were running laps around our play yards! Being able to dog test our dogs with one another, gives them a chance to let some much needed energy out! We don't know why these boys are still here!
Brody is a handsome, block headed, smiley boy who is our universal dog testing dog! This means he is who we use to test the other dogs because he adjusts his play style to match that of the dog! He is so social, friendly and eagerly wants out of the shelter!
Oso is a GCI Graduate, meaning he worked with a handler on basic obedience commands such as sit, down and stay. He is an energetic boy who would love an active lifestyle!
Come meet these boys today!
