OUR PROGRAMS
PET I.D. TAG PROGRAM
1,800 PETS HELPED SINCE DAY ONE
Safe Pet Project offers ID Tags for the pets in our community with low cost. For only $2.00 you can choose from a variety of colors, shapes and sizes. This service is offered at our Thrift Store. We can make an ID Tag for your pet in less than 5 minutes while you shop.
It's another way to keep your pets always safe.
TNR PROGRAM
168 FERAL CATS HELPED SINCE DAY ONE
By partnering with Logan’s Run Rescue, Safe Pet Project helps to control the overwhelming population of feral cats in our community by trapping, spaying/neutering and returning the cats to the area that they were trapped. The cats also get a rabies vaccine, a check up and dewormed so that they can remain healthy in their environment.
COMMUNITY ASSISTANCE PROGRAM
165 PETS HELPED SINCE DAY ONE
Safe Pet Project serves residents of Union and Towns Counties in Georgia, providing needs-based temporary services to clients to provide veterinary care to their pets. We require spay/neuter surgery on all pets provided assistance if the pet is not spayed/neutered.
FREE MICROCHIPPING PROGRAM
600 PETS HELPED SINCE DAY ONE
One of our main priorities at Safe Pet Project is getting our mountain pets microchipped so if they become lost they can be reunited with their owner quickly and safely. A microchip is a tiny rice-sized, glass-enclosed microchip that’s embedded under your pet’s skin. When it’s scanned with a microchip scanner, it reveals a unique number that’s displayed on the scanner’s screen. That magic number can then be entered into a pet recovery service’s database, bringing up the pet owner’s contact information that’s on file.
Safe Pet Project offers free microchipping to our community quarterly in partnership with Nottely Oaks Animal Hospital who administrate the microchip.
THE RESCUED PROGRAM
18 DOGS HELPED SINCE DAY ONE
"The team of Safe Pet Project, Nottely Oaks Animal Hospital, and Mountain Shelter Humane Society have been asked to join the “Rescued Program” at Colwell Probation Detention Center in Blairsville, GA. We couldn’t be more honored and more excited! The Rescued Program is an absolutely amazing program.
The Rescued Program began in June of 2012 and is proud to be the first dog rescue program within the Georgia Department of Corrections. Their mission is to rescue and rehabilitate dogs which would otherwise be euthanized while providing a positive impact on the offenders within the Colwell Probation Detention Center.
As a part of the Rescued Program, our team will be rescuing dogs, providing them with the veterinary care they need and then working with the Colwell Probation Detention Center where they are matched with a man in the Rescued Program.
We honestly are thrilled to do what we can to help our mountain dogs and at the same time help members of our community!
THE CHEWY TRUCK
1,985 PETS HELPED SINCE DAY ONE
At times providing for our pets can be a difficult financial challenge. Safe Pet Project volunteers have been hard at work addressing that for local animals and their families. In June, Safe Pet Project submitted a grant application to Chewy.com asking for a donation of food and supplies for our local mountain animals. By the beginning of July that application had been approved and Safe Pet Project learned that they would receive a tractor-trailer load, 24 pallets of pet food and supplies from Chewy.com and the Humane Society of the United States (HSUS) through their “Pets for Life Program”. To support keeping pets and families together, the food and supplies were to be distributed for FREE to individual pet owners in the community.
Then in December of 2022, Safe Pet Project received another tractor-trailer load of hard goods from Chewy.com. We received dog crates, dog gates, cat box litters, pet ramps, pet beds, cat towers, bird cages and a lot more pet items. Once again, our dedicated volunteers worked hard and distributed those items to our community for FREE.
One of Safe Pet Project’s goals is to support pet-owners in our community and help keep pets in their family homes and out of shelters. This food and hard goods giveaway is one way of helping during these challenging times.
THE FREEDOM PROJECT PROGRAM
25 PETS HELPED SINCE DAY ONE
“The Freedom Project” is a partnership between Safe Pet Project and Freedom For Fido. Safe Pet Project will provide approved fence projects, in imminent need, with temporary dog kennels until the permanent fence is built. The Safe Pet Project will also be building permanent fences with Freedom for Fido.
It is a primary goal of Safe Pet Project is to partner with our community. By partnering to work together we can help more of our mountain animals. We hope you will consider becoming a volunteer in this amazing program.
