HEART Animal Rescue & Adoption Team
is committed to saving the lives of innocent animals through the rescue of healthy and adoptable shelter animals. We are privileged to be a Maddie's Fund Project Partner.
Together we are making a difference!
Maddie was a beloved Miniature Schnauzer whose unconditional love, devotion, loyalty and spirit inspired her guardians to promise Maddie to help other animals find happy homes. Dave and Cheryl Duffield are fulfilling their promise to Maddie. In honor of their cherished companion they started a charitable foundation, Maddie's Fund. Maddie's Fund devotes its resources to help build a no-kill nation. Thanks to Maddie's Fund shelter pets in desperate need of love and care are afforded new opportunities to find compassionate homes in which they, too, may share in the joy, love and companionship that Maddie shared with Dave and Cheryl.
Maddie’s Fund Pet Rescue Foundation has awarded a grant of $5,000,000 to Erie County Maddie's Fund project partners to support a multi-year community project targeted at guaranteeing a home for every healthy and treatable dog and cat abandoned in Erie County. Maddie’s Pet Rescue Project Partners include HEART Animal Rescue & Adoption Team, Buffalo Humane, City of Buffalo Animal Shelter, Second Chance Sheltering Network, Ten Lives Club, and lead agency the SPCA Serving Erie County.
Over the course of the first year, project goals include increasing the number of dogs and cats adopted from participating organizations, maintaining a total of zero healthy dogs and cats euthanized by participating organizations, and decreasing the number of treatable dogs and cats euthanized in Erie County. Sterilization assistance will be provided to income-qualified pet owners and to feral cats.
Per SPCA Executive Director Barbara Carr, “Our project partners have pledged that the customary ten-year goal of the project, that of euthanizing no healthy nor treatable dog or cat, will be reached in five years. There is no doubt that this goal will be reached, earning our community this generous grant. The Maddie’s Pet Rescue Project community grant is a testimony to the tremendous work our community and our project partners have already completed, and will advance a testimony to just how much this community loves its animals.”
