Midwest Animal Rescue & Services: Purina and Amazon Treats for the Holidays Grant Report

How did this grant help your organization and the pets in your care?

Training dogs in foster care to ready them for their new homes.

By allowing our trainer to work with fosters on behavioral and/or obedience training issues in order to make our dogs more easily adoptable.

How many pets did this grant help?

An exact number is hard to gauge, but I would say dozens!

Please provide a story of one or more specific pets this grant helped.

Quintin came to MARS from a local animal shelter that was unable to place him for adoption. He had been hit by a car and had received femoral head ostectomy surgery. This poor guy was very matted and extremely unsocial — so unsocial that his first foster home could not continue to foster him. Enter the second foster parent, who was willing to work with Quintin and our trainer on staff and, with the help of the Beggin’ Strips donated to us, Quintin was able to find his road home through MARS!