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The
Pet Project for Pets, Inc. (The Pet Project)
is a nonprofit organization that serves the needs of
low-income pet owners who are living with AIDS or terminal
or disabling conditions and illnesses. The Pet Project
offers comprehensive services designed to enable our
clients to keep their animal companions. Services include
an animal food bank, referrals to subsidized or low-cost
veterinary care, dog walking, litter box maintenance,
grooming, foster care and adoption when necessary.
In
addition to direct client services, the Pet Project
plays a large role in educating the medical and veterinary
communities about the benefits and risks of animal companionship
for people with AIDS or terminal or disabling conditions
and illnesses By helping them keep their much loved
pets, we hope to improve the quality of life of those
living with AIDS and other terminal or disabling conditions
and illnesses.
Our
clients face many losses: health, employment, and sometimes
the support of family and friends. By helping our clients
to keep their animals, we help them to keep at least
one part of the life that they enjoyed before their
condition. It is our agency's policy to acknowledge
that our human clients are still the rightful guardians
of our animal clients; we are here to help them care
for their animals in the best possible way. It is in
this way that we are improving the quality of life of
those living with a terminal or disabling conditions
and illnesses while promoting their dignity -- by acknowledging
their role in the animals’lives.
For
our clients, animal companionship has been an important
part of their lives -- so important, in fact, that many
of our clients tell us of foregoing their own needs
to meet those of their animals. When we hear of an animal
that is important enough that a person will give up
his/her life-prolonging medication to feed that animal,
we know what we do is essential.
The
Pet Project is a volunteer nonprofit group that helps
improve the quality of life for people with HIV and
other life threatening illnesses. We offer emotional
and practical support in keeping the love and companionship
of support animals. We also provide our clients and
the general public with information on the benefits
and risks of animal companionship.
At
the Pet Project we are dedicated to preserving the human/animal
bond between or clients and their companion animals.
Those that we serve are people with limited abilities
and the animals with which they share their lives. We
provide comprehensive care for approximately 300 animals
in Broward and Dade county. Our mission is to keep those
animals with their guardians for as long as possible.
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Thanks to the Robert
N. DeBenedictus Foundation for proving funding for all
administration expenses. This allows us to allocate
100% of all donated funds to client services. |
 List
of individuals, businesses and organizations for the
generous contributions they made to The Pet Project
for Pets, Inc. in 2007.
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The
Pet Project now has their own travel reservation site.
You can click on the link below to go to the site. It
is powered by a variety of well know travel engines
and is easy to use for all your travel needs. For every
reservation that you make the Pet Project will be receiving
commission. Book your travel with PetProjectTravel
and help the Pet Project raise funds.
Click
this link to display the latest Pet Project Travel Advantage
E-Newsletter |
Emotional
Support Animals |
Advocates
and professionals have long recognized the benefits
of assistive animals for people with physical
disabilities, including seeing eye dogs or hearing
dogs who are trained to perform simple tasks such
as carrying notes and alerting their owners to
oncoming traffic or other environmental hazards.
Recent research suggests that people with psychiatric
disabilities can benefit significantly from assistive
animals, too. Emotional support animals have been
proven extremely effective at ameliorating the
symptoms of these disabilities, such as depression
and post-traumatic stress disorder, by providing
therapeutic nurture and support.
The
Fair Housing Amendments Act of 1988, Section 504
of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, and Title II
of the Americans with Disabilities Act protect
the right of people with disabilities to keep
emotional support animals, even when a landlord's
policy explicitly prohibits pets. Because emotional
support and service animals are not "pets,"
but rather are considered to be more like assistive
aids such as wheelchairs, the law will generally
require the landlord to make an exception to its
"no pet" policy so that a tenant with
a disability can fully use and enjoy his or her
dwelling. In most housing complexes, so long as
the tenant has a letter or prescription from an
appropriate professional, such as a therapist
or physician, and meets the definition of a person
with a disability, he or she is entitled to a
reasonable accommodation that would allow an emotional
support animal in the apartment.
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GuideStar's database of more than 1.5 million
nonprofit organizations. Find the Pet Project's
information by entering "Pet Project
for Pets" in the search box. |
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Click
here to read about the Physical and Medical and Psychological
Health Benefits of pet ownership
Click
here to read about Healthy Reasons to Have a Pet |
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 The
latest newsletter that was sent out via email can be
also be read here by clicking on this link.
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information concerning the cost of care for their pets
and what they should expect from their veterinary provider.
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WE
ARE PET FRIENDLY!
(Advanced Arrangements Required)
Spot
or Fluffy, Princess or Natasha…. The
Grand Resort and Spa welcomes and caters
to your favorite friend. Your pet is part
of your family, so feel free to bring your
special family member (dog or cat) along!
The
Grand Resort and Spa is delighted to donate
20% of the nightly pet fee to The Pet Project.
Mention “The Pet Project”
when booking a reservation to receive a
10% room rate discount.
Click
here for information on our pet-friendly
accommodations - and to make room and spa
reservations. |
 The
Grand Resort and Spa
539 North Birch Road
Ft. Lauderdale, FL 33304
toll-free: 800.818.1211
p: 954.630.3000 f: 954.630.3003
e: info@petprojectforpets.org |
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