Pets For Life NYC

Pets for Life NYC (PFLNYC) is an animal surrender prevention program which offers guidance, services and solutions to New York City area residents for problems they are having keeping their pet or a stray animal they have found. Our goal is to help solve the problem(s) so the person keeps the animal with them and out of the city shelter.

PFLNYC offers free and low-cost behavior training for dogs and cats for guardians in financial need, reduced-cost boarding (and foster homes when available) for people in temporary crises, guidance regarding pet-related landlord/tenant issues, allergy information and solutions, reduced-cost vet care and pet food donations for those in need, education and referrals for free and low-cost spay/neuter, and general guidance and support for pet guardians and people who have found stray animals.

HOW YOU CAN HELP!

We're currently seeking:

Shelter Volunteers to provide counseling and offer our services at Animal Care & Control of NYC to people giving up their pets. (Opportunities are available in each borough in NYC; weekdays or weekends, days or evenings). Full training provided.

Foster Parents for the animals of people in crisis. All pet food and supplies provided to you as you foster an animal in your home until his or her guardian can take him or her back home with them.

Contact joyce@kindgreenplanet.org to volunteer in this life-saving NYC program!

PFLNYC's goal is to spread the program across the country so that every municipal shelter has a PFL program. If you work at a shelter and would like to learn how to create such a program there, please contact us at joyce@kindgreenplanet.org

PFLNYC was formerly known as the Safety Net Program. Our former Safety Net Program webpage is in the process of being transtioned into a new Pets for Life NYC page. In the meantime, please see www.nycacc.org/safetynet.htm to check out our program and its myriad of services for struggling pet guardians.

Feel free to also check out recent coverage of the program on NY1 and a short video about a former client, Kosin, who enlisted our help with her beloved (yet rambunctious!) dog, Bento, and are now living happily ever after.