Emergency Help! Having trouble keeping your pets (*other than cats & dogs*) during Job Loss, Foreclosure, Natural Disaster, & more? Critter Camp Can Help You! Majority of the program is funded by a grant from the PETCO Foundation |
Social Service Agencies Contact Us for our cooperative agreement. We will provide your agency with printed materials you can distribute to individuals in need as well. Individuals see below to fill out our assistance form.
Contact us - We will help you! *See example scenarios & success stories below* *We cannot take in cats and dogs, or large exotics such as tigers or large snakes, or wildlife. However we will try to help you locate services than can help you with those animals too! * We will accept requests from anywhere in the US,
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Examples of how we can help: * A family loses their home in a house fire, they manage to save their pet rabbit, but not her cage. We can supply a cage for the family to use as long as they need to. * Due to a job loss a family decides to re-home their pet ferrets because of the cost of their food and litter. We can supply free food and litter until the family is back on it's feet. *Due to foreclosure a family must move in with relatives temporarily, but the relatives do not want them to bring their pet bearded dragon with them. We will help educate the relatives on the ease of care and minimal disruption of their life a bearded dragon will be, encouraging them to allow the family to bring their pet along. There are many more scenarios in which we can help - PLEASE - Just Ask! Sites to help individual pet owners in crisis: Organizations that can help with vet bills Help For Pet Owners / Financial Assistance - Vet Bills |
AGENCIES! Let us help your clients keep and/or care for their pets Critter Camp Exotic Pet Sanctuary Critter Camp Exotic Pet Sanctuary is partnering with area agencies to help people keep their pets during the current economic hardships, or whenever emergencies or natural disasters might arise. When people seek out your services during a crisis, whether it is a job loss, home foreclosure, a natural disaster, etc., they will often have a loved pet that will need support and resources. All too often these pets are left at animal shelters or released to fend for themselves simply because the owners felt they had no other options. The staff of Critter Camp is taking the initiative during these harsh economic times to help those people in need that desire to keep their pets, or at least provide peace of mind if their pet requires re-homing or shelter care. Our goal is to help with low cost or free supplies; temporary placement for exotic pets at our facility; education to landlords to help displaced pets; and resources to re-home the pets, when necessary. Critter Camp has made the commitment to care for local exotic pets in need. We are not licensed to care for cats and dogs. We also unable to accept wildlife or the larger exotics. We can help with pets such as ferrets, hedgehogs, rabbits, hamsters, birds, lizards, and many more. We would like to invite your agency to enter into a cooperative agreement with Critter Camp Exotic Pet Sanctuary. We hope that you will agree to inform your clients about our ability to provide resources and alternatives for their pets when they are in need. In return, we will post a link on our emergency page acknowledging your cooperation, and we will agree to partner with your agency in any way we can, as well. Please visit our website http://www.crittercamp.biz and see our Emergency Page for details. Feel free to contact us at any time, and to forward this message to other agencies. To partner with Critter Camp, simply reply by phone or email stating that you agree to work together with us on this much needed issue. Please provide a contact name, address, phone, and email. Thank you, Beth Randall Director, Critter Camp Exotic Pet Sanctuary beth@crittercamp.biz 815-266-1342 |
"Hi, my name is Yvonne, I am Cherry's "mom". I was writing to you today to say Thank You again for taking my girl in and giving her a safe and loving home when I was unable to. The last thing I wanted to do was give her up...she is my companion and I love her very much. I had no permanent home at the time and was unable to keep her in my care. But now I have a place of my own and we are back together again....and it is because of you we were able to be reunited !! Cherry and I both were blessed when we found you and Critter Camp. Your understanding and compassion were extraordinary and the care given to my girl was exemplary.I commend you on your commitment and dedication to our animal friends...it exceeds anything I have ever seen...I am very grateful to you, your cause and your mission. I wish you all the very best....Your Friends Cherry and Yvonne." |
Another success story: Peter and Bugs lived here at Critter Camp for 2 years while their owner was ill and out of her home, once she recovered they were reunited and the bunnies lived the rest of their lives with their original loving owner. |
* Critter Camp has recently given 3 rat cages to people who needed larger enclosures for their pet rats but could not afford them, and distributed over 100 pounds of dog food to area food pantries and homeless shelters. |
Critter Camp provided a PETCO gift card for supplies to a home based pet resucer temorarily out of work located in California. |
Success story! Cherry the Cherry-headed conure. Her owner was unable to keep her when she lost her home and was in temporary housing. Cherry came here to Critter Camp where she received the best of care for 4 months, until her owner was able to take her back home! |
'Crittercamp is a wonderful organization, filled with loving, caring and kind people, who not only help the animals out - but sometimes their owner's too. Don't know what I'd have done without them!! They are THE BEST in the industry!!! ' Kim Gorman Abq, NM |
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Quiggly the fennec fox will stay here at Critter Camp for up to a year while his owners find a home they can keep him in, currently they cannot have him in their apartment, but it is only temporary. Where else can you safely board a fennec fox than Critter Camp!? |
Critter Camp gave a guinea pig cage, food and accessories to a family that rescued it from someone who could not keep it , but they needed help to get it set up initially. |
Critter Camp provided pet supplies including food, even treats and some toys, to a family who had a house fire and needed help until they got settled again. |
Critter Camp is partnering with Red Cross Chapters, Food Pantries, Homeless Shelters and other agencies to help people keep their pets, thereby reducing the number of pets being abandoned or surrendered to shelters. |
Thank You!!!! to the PETCO Foundation for awarding Critter Camp another "We are Family Too" Grant to help hundreds more families in crisis keep their beloved pets at home with them! October, 2010 Take a sec & "Like" the PETCO Foundation's Facebook page too! |