09/30/2025
⛓️🐾💜 OUTREACH TRAINING 💜🐾⛓️
Join us Tuesday October 7th from 6pm-7pm for our first of many outreach trainings. We're looking for volunteers that want to make a direct difference in a boots on the ground effort in the underserved areas of our communities for both pets and people alike! Sign up link coming soon!
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🩵 A New Chapter for Unleashed Pet Rescue: Preventing the Crisis Before It Starts 🩵
From Danielle Reno, Founder & President of Unleashed Pet Rescue and Adoption:
I never imagined I would write this post. For over a decade, Unleashed Pet Rescue has fought every single day to save lives, to find loving homes for the unwanted, the abandoned, and the forgotten.
Since starting Unleashed out of my garage in 2011, we have saved and adopted out over 60,000 animals. Together with you, we have changed the world for these souls, one by one.
But we are facing a truth: our shelter, as a building, cannot afford to stay open and be fully staffed any longer. Like so many shelters across the nation, we are underfunded, the animals keep coming, and the cycle never ends. Inflation, the housing crisis, and economic uncertainty have led to record-breaking owner surrenders and fewer adoptions nationwide. According to Best Friends Animal Society, in 2023 alone, nearly 378,000 dogs and cats were killed in U.S. shelters due to lack of space and resources.
It’s time for bold change.
We are selling our building, but we are not giving up on our mission. We are evolving it.
From now on, Unleashed will focus on fixing the problem before it starts. We will subsidize spays and neuters in Kansas City and pay those vet bills for families in need so they can get their pets fixed before unwanted litters ever enter a shelter. Statistics show that low-income areas have the highest numbers of unaltered pets, leading to continuous cycles of litters, shelter overcrowding, and euthanasia.
🩺 A single unspayed female dog and her offspring can produce 67,000 puppies in six years. A single unspayed cat and her offspring can produce 420,000 kittens in seven years.
If we can prevent even a fraction of these births, we will prevent suffering before it begins, reduce overcrowding in shelters, and stop the crisis at its source.
This is how we make the biggest difference in the world with the resources we have.
By operating without the burden of building overhead, utilities, and maintenance costs, we can direct those funds toward mass spay and neuter efforts and direct community impact.
But right now, we still have amazing animals in our care who need loving homes. They are still here, waiting, and they still deserve a chance. We are open by appointment only to view the animals we have left in our care, ensuring they find families during this transition.
While this is a pause from the shelter operations you have known, it is the birth of a new mission focused on prevention, and it is our hope that one day, when it is financially sustainable, Unleashed will return to a physical space for animals needing homes. Until then, our commitment to the animals has not changed, only the way we will fight for them.
So we are hitting the streets, starting right where we are needed the most, KCK, with direct outreach (food, supplies, etc) to the city and surrounding metro.
To our supporters: We are not closing our mission; we are shifting it to make the largest possible impact. We are still here. We will continue to fight for the animals, but we are taking this fight upstream, where it truly begins.
Please continue to support us. This movement is the future of animal rescue. Together, we will create a world where shelters aren’t overwhelmed because there is no need for them to be.
If you’re interested in making a direct impact through our outreach team, we invite you to email us or text the shelter number with your contact information. Our experienced leadership team will provide training on our innovative and compassionate approach to supporting animals in need.
Thank you for believing in us, standing with us, and helping us save lives in the most powerful way possible.
With determination,
Danielle Reno
Founder & President
Unleashed Pet Rescue and Adoption
🩵 paypal.me/unleashedpetrescue
🩵 Venmo: -Rescue
