Programs
The Animal Shelter Foundation supports animals in the care of the Tallahassee Animal Services by funding a variety of programs that improve the quality of life for both the animals in need and those entrusted in their care.
Vet Visit Program
Every animal deserves a chance to heal.
Pints for Paws helps fund medical care for shelter animals, providing lifesaving treatments, surgeries, medications, diagnostics, and specialty care so they have the best chance at recovery and adoption.
Heartworm Help
A heartworm diagnosis shouldn’t stand in the way of a forever home.
Pints for Paws helps fund heartworm treatment for shelter dogs, removing one of the biggest barriers to adoption and giving more dogs the opportunity to find loving families.
Animal Enrichment
A little fun can make a big difference.
ASF provides toys, treats, play equipment, and enrichment activities that keep shelter pets mentally stimulated, reduce stress, encourage healthy behaviors, and improve their quality of life while they wait for loving homes.
Animal Behavior Training
Keeping pets in their homes is one of the best ways to reduce shelter intake.
ASF partners with local trainers to provide behavior assessments and training for adopted and foster dogs, helping families successfully work through challenges before they become reasons for surrender.
Canine Companions
Every shelter dog deserves more than a kennel.
ASF funds part-time Canine Companion Specialists who provide exercise, enrichment, and one-on-one interaction for shelter dogs, helping reduce kennel stress and improve their quality of life while they wait for a forever home.
Foster Sleepovers
Home is the best place to get to know a dog.
Foster Sleepovers give shelter dogs a temporary break from the shelter environment, allowing them to relax and decompress in a home while providing valuable insights into their personality and behavior. This information helps staff better match dogs with adopters and supports more successful, lasting adoptions.
Happy Tails Transport
One journey can save more than one life.
By transporting shelter animals to rescue organizations and adoption partners where adoption opportunities are greater, ASF helps more pets find loving homes while creating critical shelter space to help even more animals in need.
Community Cat Program
The best way to reduce pet homelessness is to prevent it.
ASF helps reduce cat overpopulation by providing free spay/neuter services and rabies vaccinations for local stray and feral cats. By preventing unwanted litters and improving the health of these cats, the program helps create a healthier future for cats, our community, and the shelters that serve them.
This special service is only for strays (friendly, homeless cats with no owner) or feral (free-roaming cats which you are unable to pet or handle) and want to help prevent further litters. The Spay/Neuter will include a rabies vaccine and ear tip at no cost to the Good Samaritan helping the cat. Loaner traps are also available (if you do not have one), for a small refundable deposit. Surgeries will be done at Tally Spay, our new Spay/Neuter Clinic.
Note: This program is limited to small numbers (7 or less) free roaming cats and not intended to be for managed colonies.
To get started and borrow a humane trap from ASF, please complete this form and email it to: asfcc2022@gmail.com
Email asfcc2022@gmail.com for help and more information.
Tally Spay
Every litter prevented creates more room for second chances.
Through Tally Spay, ASF provides affordable spay and neuter services that help prevent unwanted litters before they begin. By reducing the number of animals entering local shelters, the program helps ease shelter overcrowding and creates more opportunities for homeless pets to find loving homes.
Adoption Promotion & Incentives
Sometimes a forever home starts with being seen.
ASF organizes and funds adoption events that increase the visibility of shelter pets through community outreach, themed events, advertising, and adoption incentives, helping more animals find the loving families they’ve been waiting for.
Collars & Leashes
Every journey home should begin safely.
ASF provides every newly adopted dog and puppy with a properly fitted martingale collar and secure leash to keep, helping ensure a safe trip home and a confident start to life with their new family. Dogs that are strong pullers also receive no-pull harnesses for added safety and comfort.
HOPES
The best shelter stay is the one that never happens.
HOPES is ASF’s safety net program, providing temporary support that helps pets remain with the families who love them during times of need. By preventing unnecessary shelter surrenders, the program keeps pets where they belong and helps ease shelter overcrowding.
Doggie Manners Classes
A successful adoption starts with a strong foundation.
ASF’s low-cost Doggie Manners Classes help adopters build positive relationships with their new dogs by teaching basic skills, encouraging good behavior, and setting both pets and families up for long-term success.
ASF developed its Doggie Manners Classes to help keep adopted dogs in their homes by offering all adoptive families a low-cost basic dog training class. The classes teach the basic doggie manners needed to help keep shelter pups—and their owners—living happily together in their new homes. The cost is $50 and you can sign up for either the Tuesday or Thursday five week session held at 6:30pm at Camp Mojo’s.
