Furry Freight Shelter Transport to hold 8th annual benefit yard sale this weekend
Harley Coldiron
BEND, Ore. (KTVZ) — The small but mighty team of volunteers at Furry Freight Shelter Transport are holding a fundraiser garage sale all weekend in Bend, to support their efforts to transport pets to areas where they will not be euthanized. To date the nonprofit has saved over 2,000 dogs from being put down, and also runs a program to get dogs neutered.
WHAT: Furry Freight Shelter Transport’s 8th Annual Benefit Yard Sale
WHEN: 7AM-2PM; Friday, Saturday and Sunday.
WHERE: 241 SE Airpark Drive, Bend, Oregon.
Background: Furry Freight partners with shelters in overpopulated areas where pets are at risk of euthanasia. We transport the pets to our partner shelters in the Pacific Northwest where they are quickly adopted into loving homes. Just by changing their location, pets go from unwanted and discarded to loved members of the family.
Programs:
Transport:
Our Transport program saves lives by transporting dogs and cats from overpopulated areas to areas of high demand to reduce the euthanasia rate of adoptable pets.
Studies show that transport provides a means of addressing population imbalance issues in communities. It supports the movement of animals from shelters overburdened with more animals than they have the capacity to care for and a limited market demand to shelters with fewer animals and higher market demand thus reducing euthanasia and saving animal lives.
Spay it Forward:
Our Spay it Forward program was created to help decrease pet overpopulation at the source, by helping pets whose owners can’t afford to fix them. In December of 2021 our first dog was fixed in Tulsa at no cost to the owner, and the Spay it Forward program began. We now have regular appointments set up through our rescue partners.
We are currently in talks with other low cost spay and neuter clinics to increase this program to combat the massive number of dogs, cats, kittens, and puppies surrendered to local shelters that already are forced to euthanize for space. We are focusing on large breed dogs and cats, as those are the hardest to adopt out and are most at risk in shelters.
If you would like to help in the efforts to reduce euthanasia of adoptable pets in overpopulated areas please consider a donation of any size to our Spay it Forward program by indicating “Spay it Forward” in the comments. If you would like to sponsor a surgery for a pet in need each surgery costs on average $70.
Furry Freight Shelter Transport is an all volunteer 501(c)(3) public charity.