Thank you for your interest in Pets Come First, Inc.

An all volunteer non-profit organization committed to ensuring responsible animal shelter management and providing both human and monetary resources to assist adoptable homeless animals in Centre County, PA.

Pets Come First, Inc. has focused to improve conditions for animals at the Centre Hall branch of the PSPCA

Thanks to many generous donations, Baby could receive the medical care she urgently needed.  She enjoyed a very happy time with her foster family, away from the shelter.  She even visited the Centre Wildlife's Wild About Animals event where she met and enjoyed so many people. Unexpectedly, Baby passed away April 22nd, 2008.  We at Pets Come First on behalf of Baby, greatly appreciate your support.

We will attempt to update this page to let you know what Pets Come First is doing on a weekly basis.  On Wednesday, April 16th, Cheryl Sharer, Troy Klinefelter (PSPCA manager) and I transported Sassy, an overweight beagle, to the Paw Prints Sanctuary in Shermans Dale, PA ().  It was a beautiful day and the sanctuary is amazing.  They are fostering Sassy for the PSPCA and helping her with an exercise and weight control regimen.  Sassy is available for adoption through the PSPCA - Centre Hall Adoption Center. 

Paw Prints is a wonderful place, if you are in Perry County, please stop in to visit!  Their mission statement is:

To establish a loving and comfortable sanctuary:

(1) As a foster environment for the senior dogs of Central Pennsylvania rescues and shelters that are not easily integrated into the adoption process of those rescues and shelters. These senior dogs will have reached at least the age of ten years. We especially welcome senior dogs with disabilities and senior dogs experiencing medical difficulties. NOTE: Exceptions to our senior resident qualification will be considered on a case-by-case basis.

(2) To "home", for no charge, as many of the dogs belonging to overseas deployed members of the military as we can accomodate.

(3) To establish a no charge "visiting" facility for the children and at-home spouse of deployed military so they can temporarily decompress from the pressure of an absent father or mother.

Our vision is to provide peace and comfort to animals as they live out their lives naturally in an environment that is continuously staffed.

REMEMBER - if you'd like to volunteer with Pets Come First, we are always looking for people to transport dogs, staff at our table at various functions and help with fundraising.  Please contact us if you are interested in helping!  And as always, donations for medical care are always appreciated!

Thanks for reading and check back weekly to see what we're up to!

Jen Spence, PCF Volunteer

Comedy Night to Benefit Pets Come First, May 2nd

Click the flyer for more details 

 

**The Dreaded Disclaimer Information:
Seats will not be held until payment is received in full.
No cancellations. You can sell your seat to someone else, but because we aren't really making any money on this, and we are a non-profit group, we can't afford to lose the cost of anyone's reservation.

We would like to thank Laura Bolle BolleArt Studios for creating the awesome logo!!

Please visit Laura website for pet-related art.  She is a strong advocate of shelter animals.

Pets Come First is currently looking for volunteers to act as a fund raising coordinator and  a grant writer to help us raise the necessary funds to support the homeless animals of Centre County.  If you have some energy, ideas, and love for animals, please contact Pets Come First.

Also, we're looking for a volunteer coordinator to help with scheduling volunteers and duties at the PSPCA in Centre Hall.

We look forward to welcoming anyone who can help. 

 

It's that time of the year where many of you think about helping the needy and also getting the benefit of some last minute tax breaks before the end of the year.  Pets Come First is pleased to announce a new donation option allowing you to donate a fixed amount on a monthly, reoccurring basis.  This kind of donation really helps to offset our monthly operating costs and builds an emergency fund to quickly react to emergency situations.

Won't you please consider a monthly reoccurring payment option?   Please check here for options.

UPDATE:

Suzie was adopted!  She lost roughly 20 pounds and was being fostered near Pittsburgh.  She was adopted and leads a nice life with a a large fenced in yard, a constant companion, and morning card games.  Congratulations to Suzie! 

Suzie, Willow, Janel, Piper

Picture 3 2 fat old ladies with stubby legs and lots of fur and that's pretty much what these girls used to look like! Willow has lost considerable weight with good diets and exercise.  Piper's thyroid condition has slowed her weight loss, but she is more vigorous.  They are both detoxing with some microbacterial supplements in the hopes they will be able to get more weight off.

We rescued them from being euthanized from Stroudsburg. Since they are older and were overweight, they were not seen as adoptable. These girls are incredibly sweet and loving and full of personality, and I could not let them be put down just because they are older and "not pretty enough". They are already spayed, housebroken and up to date on all shots. Their names are Piper (brown and black, age 8) and Willow (tri colored, age 9). Piper and Willow were sisters from the same home. Their owner surrendered them to the shelter because he was moving to Florida and apparently the state of Florida doesn't allow dogs... 

This is Piper. She is super laid back but has bursts of energy that don't last long.  She likes to sleep.  Doesn't she remind you of the California Bear?

Look at Harley now, thanks to all of your generous donations!

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