How Greater Good Charities Helps Less Adoptable Pets Get a Second Chance

Every year, thousands of pets find themselves in shelters, waiting for a loving family to take them home. Unfortunately, some animals face more challenges than others when it comes to being adopted. Pets with disabilities, medical conditions, or simply those that don’t meet conventional standards of attractiveness are often passed over. Senior pets and those requiring special care also face a longer wait for adoption. Fortunately, Greater Good Charities changes this by offering support and resources that help these "less adoptable" pets find their forever homes.

How Does Greater Good Charities Help Less Adoptable Pets Get Adopted?

Greater Good Charities helps these "less adoptable" pets find loving homes in a variety of ways: 

• Emergency Medical Care: This program helps cover the cost of emergency medical care for pets with life-threatening injuries or illnesses. By covering these costs, it ensures pets have a second chance and relieves prospective adopters from the financial burden of medical care.
• Pet Transports: This program transports at-risk pets from overcrowded shelters to areas with a higher likelihood of adoption. The Save-A-Heart initiative, which is part of our transport program, provides heartworm treatment to asymptomatic, heartworm-positive dogs, allowing them to be included in flights when they might otherwise have been left behind.
• Clear the Shelters and Dirty Dogs: These initiatives in partnership with our generous corporate sponsors have been pivotal in increasing pet adoption rates. Clear the Shelters has helped more than 1 million pets find homes since its inception, while Dirty Dogs offers grants to shelters with the best examples of "before and after" grooming. Proper grooming can significantly boost a pet’s chances of adoption.
• Food and Essential Supplies: This initiative provides food and essential supplies to shelters, allowing them to redirect resources toward rescuing more pets, providing medical care, and training dogs to increase their chances of adoption.
• Affordable Spay & Neuter/Veterinary Care: We help control pet overpopulation by deploying specially trained high-quality, high-volume spay/neuter (HQHVSN) surgical teams and working with professional trapping teams in areas that need it most.

Success Stories

Greater Good Charities has many heartwarming success stories:

Polly Pocket: Polly Pocket was found with a deeply embedded collar that was strangling her as she grew. Thanks to Greater Good Charities donors and supporters, she received two life-saving surgeries and was later adopted into a loving home after boarding one of our flights that brought her from an overcrowded shelter in the South to one in the Northeast that had more room and potential adopters.

Libby: Libby, a heartworm-positive dog, received treatment through our Save-A-Heart initiative. Because she was asymptomatic, she was a candidate to be transported to a new shelter, and was adopted by Jess and her family, who ensured she completed her heartworm treatment. Libby is now heartworm-free and thriving in her new home.

Amanda: Amanda, the result of an unplanned breeding between a pit bull and a Yorkshire terrier, was abandoned by her owners after her mother suffered complications during delivery. Thankfully, the shelter had trained foster families to care for her, and with the support of pet food donations from Greater Good Charities, Amanda is now thriving and waiting for her forever home.

Jonathon: After being hit by a car and abandoned, Jonathon, a five-year-old cat, faced severe injuries that left him blind and in need of multiple surgeries. Thanks to the shelter staff and donations from Greater Good Charities, Jonathon recovered and has since been adopted into a loving home.

How You Can Help

Your donations to Greater Good Charities can make a difference in the lives of pets in need. Whether through medical care, transportation, or basic supplies, every contribution helps give these pets a second chance at life.

Greater Good Charities has ultimate authority and discretion with regard to the distribution of its funds. All expenditures made are consistent with the exempt purposes of Greater Good Charities.