Donate Monthly

Monthly Donations:

Monthly donors are critical for the survival of AAS and its work. Without monthly donations we can't always say "Yes" to a sudden need to pay a vet bill; (most of our needs are sudden!). We can't plan. Many people make generous donations to us once a year and we are so grateful for their generosity, but if those donations are spread over twelve months, we can operate much more effectively. And being effective for suffering animals is what we want with all our hearts to always be. It is such a comfort knowing how much money we have for sure to pay the bills with.

You can:

CANADA HELPS: Use Canada Helps monthly donations program. Canada Helps eliminates quite a lot of work for us by issuing tax receipts (to donors with Canadian address). That saves us time and postage.
POST-DATED CHEQUES: Mail us post-dated cheques.
CREDIT CARDS: (This method is expensive so we ask that you use your credit card to donate through Canada Helps.) If you don't want to use Canada Helps, mail or email us instructions to take a monthly donation from your credit card. If you're not comfortable sending your credit card number in an email, just email us your name and phone number and we will call you back.

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Animal Advocates is a registered charity (#834396178 RR0001).

This is where most of your money goes. Real animal welfare — fixing, not killing — is expensive. Vets, behaviour rehabilitation, and ethical rehoming is what AAS is known for.

Photos of a few of the animals AAS has rescued and paid the bills for...

$658.00

Giving Judith a year and a half of love, kindness, warmth, and fun.

$2400 (and counting)

We'll keep paying for Choklit until her future happiness is assured.

Over $3000

Maddie and her pups: vet care, shots, food, board, spaying.

$1780.00

Shorty - his ears almost froze off, but he was rescued...

$545.00

Finnegan - another old dog dumped at an SPCA and labeled "unadoptable". AAS bought him, got him all fixed up at the vet and found him a home.

$2919.57

Patches - the rat poison dog.

$758.00

Willow - run over by her "family" who would rather kill her than pay to fix their pup.

$1356.00

Cassie - a chained breeding machine, her muzzle wired shut.

$267.00

Angelo - the dog no one wanted, starving to death. AAS made sure that didn't happen to him.

$488.00

Bobby - his "family" poked his eye with a stick and left him to go blind. He's happy now of course.

$912.00

Giving Betsey a chance for some love at last.

$2000

The price to give Braille, a blind dog, the unconditional love he was denied by his first "owners". His life had great meaning to us all.

$568.00

Snow lived on a chain for over ten years. We tried to make up for all that loneliness and misery but he only had a few months of happiness.

$446.00

Daisy - from an SPCA. Mange so bad she was almost bald.

Kittens and cats

Over the years AAS has spent many thousands to rescue cats and for spay/neuter. Read one story here.

Bernie

AAS bought Bernie from a brutally abusive family the SPCA sold him to.

$430.00

Yoda - another abused street dog...AAS stopped his beatings.

Jasmine

A back yard puppy mill dog, left alone to give birth in a filthy yard, her pups dying in the heat and flies and dirt. AAS saved them all.

$1076.50

Billy - run over by his "family" and left to fend for himself. Not anymore!

What do we do with the money that trusting people send us?...

Only vets and rehabilitators are paid at Animal Advocates. Volunteers, taking time - sometimes a lot of time - from their private lives, relieve the suffering of helpless animals and prevent cruelty through rescue and advocacy.

Not every animal-lover can do that, but since everything costs money, sending a donation means you're helping in the way you can. Most of the money we receive goes to what we call hands-on expenses - vets, spay and neuter, food, shelter, training, board, rehabilitation, vehicle. The rest goes to advocacy - office, computer, photocopying, telephone, etc.

But every penny is directly helping animals!

Many people have told us to just do one or the other - either the hands-on rescue/rehabilitation/rehoming work, or the advocacy work.

Both jobs are huge!

But we look in the eyes of the suffering animals we are documenting for the advocacy work, and we promise to help them. So that means hands-on must be done too. Advocacy and reform are the things that will make the lives of all suffering animals better, not just the lucky ones we see and help. And so we must do both, hands-on rescue and advocacy. Raising money is last on our list of priorities, but look at the stories below, of individual animals that have benefited from the people who donate to us.

See how your money helps...

Read Happy Endings to see where much of your money goes.

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