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The Grey Muzzle Organization provides funding for senior dog programs nationwide. Here you'll find a list of the organizations that have received Grey Muzzle funding. Please contact these organizations if you are considering adopting a senior dog, fostering, or volunteering.

Grey Muzzle Grant Recipients
Grant recipients include:
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Companion Animal Rehabilitation Emergency Medical Fund

Funded in 2017

A grant from Grey Muzzle supports the Companion Animal Rehabilitation Emergency Medical Fund's Senior Animal Wellness Program to provide medical and dental care to senior pets. C.A.R.E. Medical Fund's mission is to bring otherwise unadoptable companion animals to an adoptable condition by providing emergency medical funding and assistance to local shelter pets.

Senior pets are often seen as unadoptable regardless of their health condition. We believe that the word "unadoptable" is a relative term and to label a dog unadoptable simply because of its age is wrong. We believe that we can give seniors an advantage to getting them adopted and out of the shelter quickly by providing this program to the shelter.
 

Companion Animal Rehabilitation Emergency Medical Fund (C.A.R.E. Medical Fund) was founded in 2013 and brings otherwise unadoptable companion animals to an adoptable condition by providing emergency medical funding and assistance to local shelter pets.

Compassion Without Borders

Funded in 2017

Funding from Grey Muzzle helps Compassion Without Borders expand their rescue missions to include senior dogs, saving the lives of older dogs that would otherwise face certain euthanasia or hardship in overcrowded shelters. This program provides medical and dental care to senior dogs and works to move these animals out of shelters and into loving homes.

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/*-->*/ /*-->*/ Compassion without Borders brings brighter futures to animals in need on both sides of the border. They focus their efforts where the need is the greatest, but where animals are the very least likely to be helped due to financial, geographic, and cultural barriers.

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Connecticut Humane Society

Funded from 2016 to 2022

Grey Muzzle supports the Connecticut Humane Society’s (CHS) efforts in partnership with municipal animal control agencies around the state, providing medical care for senior dogs who are homeless or at risk of losing their home. Leveraging CHS’ veterinary team and collaborating with other area veterinarians and rescues as needed, this program connects elderly, at-risk pups with resources to tackle unaddressed medical needs, improve their quality of life, and get on track for a fresh start to a new home, or a journey back to the home they already know and love.

With three pet wellness and adoption centers geographically spread across the state, the Connecticut Humane Society  enriches the lives of families and communities through adoption services, medical care, education and prevention of cruelty. CHS' strategic focus areas include animal sheltering, keeping pets in homes, elevating animal welfare statewide, and providing education on the humane treatment of animals. 

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Cooper's Chance Animal Rescue

Funded in 2017

A Grey Muzzle grant to Cooper's Chance Animal Rescue helps with their Dignity Fund, a specialized program that rescues seniors who have been surrendered to the shelter by their owners and lets them pass to the Rainbow Bridge in a loving foster home with peace and dignity. This program provides comfort and one-on-one care to hospice pets by a compassionate foster and in-home veterinarian.

The Dignity Fund focuses efforts on larger, elderly, sick or injured animals in need of extra care to provide them with rehabilitation or long term foster care and give these pets a chance to be safe, comfortable, and loved in their final days.

/*-->*/ /*-->*/ Cooper's Chance Animal Rescue's mission is to rescue, rehabilitate and re-home abused and neglected animals. They are dedicated to the welfare of these animals and the gentle eco system that we share. They also educate the public on humane and responsible pet ownership through nonprofit partnerships, public education programs and grass root efforts within communities.

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Cumberland County SPCA

Funded from 2010 - 2015 and 2017

Cumberland County SPCA received a grant for their Senior Society for Grey Muzzles. They use some of the money to help seniors who would otherwise have to euthanize or relinquish their senior dog.

The Cumberland County SPCA (CCSPCA) was founded in 1891. The shelter serves as a refuge for thousands of stray, unwanted, abused, abandoned and sick animals.

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Dakin Humane Society

Funded in 2019

The Grey Muzzle Organization grant will allow Dakin Humane Society to provide diagnostic, screening and medical care for senior dogs who are up for adoption, ensuring their new families have a clear understanding of their health needs and removing barriers to finding their forever homes. These funds will help dogs like Shadow, who arrived at Dakin as a stray. When he was brought in, the 15-year-old Chihuahua mix was medically evaluated and found to have dental disease that required the removal of his remaining teeth. He also needed to be neutered and a significant heart murmur was detected. Shadow received all the care he needed and bounced back quickly, rolling delightedly on his back in the grass within days.  

Dakin Humane Society delivers effective, innovative services that improve the lives of animals in need (and the people who care about them) from its two locations in Leverett and Springfield, MA. The organization shelters, treats and fosters more than 12,000 animals each year and has performed more than 86,000 spay/neuter surgeries since 2009, making it New England’s largest spay/neuter provider. Dakin is a local nonprofit organization that relies solely on contributions from individuals and businesses.  

Dalmatian Rescue of Tampa Bay

Funded from 2009 - 2014

A Grey Muzzle grant provides medical care, senior supplements, and medications for the "old spots" who are part of Dalmatian Rescue of Tampa Bay's "sanctuary" program, for dogs who require hospice or long-term care in a foster home.

The mission of Dalmatian Rescue of Tampa Bay is to rescue, rehabilitate, and re-home as many Dalmatians from Florida shelters as possible that need their help. Their first and main priority is to take the Dalmatians who are facing euthanasia at animal control facilities.

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Dane County Humane Society

Funded in 2018

Funding from The Grey Muzzle Organization will allow Dane County Humane Society (DCHS) to provide senior dogs with much needed lab work prior to adoption. This will help DCHS’s medical team immediately identify and address common diseases that affect senior animals more frequently, ensuring their medical needs are cared for prior to adoption.

As an open admission shelter, Dane County Humane Society (DCHS) accepts all animals regardless of age, health status or temperament, and cares for nearly 9,000 companion animals, farm animals, and ill, orphaned or injured wild animals each year. DCHS has an adoption guarantee, meaning all healthy or treatable animals can stay at DCHS as long as it takes to find a loving home.

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Delaware Valley Golden Retriever Rescue

Funded from 2009 - 2015, 2017, 2020, and 2021

The Grey Muzzle Organization grant will provide evaluation, testing and medical care for senior dogs in DVGRR’s adoption program. Located in Pennsylvania near many puppy breeding farms,  DVGRR takes in the breeding dogs, mostly senior females, who are given up when they can no longer produce puppies. Most have never seen a veterinarian and need spay/neuter surgery, removal of mammary masses, treatment of severe periodontal disease, and other costly medical care. Providing much- needed medical care not only improves the well-being of these senior dogs, it also helps them find loving homes more quickly. 

Delaware Valley Golden Retriever Rescue (DVGRR) was founded in 1995 as a breed-specific rescue; however, with significantly more dogs needing homes,  DVGRR has expanded to  include rescuing Labrador Retrievers, Goldendoodles, Labradoodles and some mixed breeds.  Since their inception, they have successfully found homes for more than 6,000 dogs. 

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Detroit Animal Welfare Group (D.A.W.G.)

Funded in 2018

A grant from The Grey Muzzle organization will help Detroit Animal Welfare Group (D.A.W.G.) provide dental care to senior dogs. D.A.W.G. has witnessed that senior dogs requiring dental work are not adopted quickly due to the cost of canine dental cleaning/work. By having specific funds for senior dogs that can provide dental care, their rescue can get senior dogs in tip-top shape for adoption and potential adopters will not be faced with the immediate expense of dental treatment. In some cases this can tip the scales and turn a potential adopter into a senior dog owner.

Detroit Animal Welfare Group (D.A.W.G.) is a nonprofit, “no-kill” rescue in Macomb County, Michigan. They are a registered shelter and composed of over 100 volunteers. Their mission is to rescue, rehabilitate, and rehome animals in need. Their pets come from local shelters, owner surrenders and strays. They focus on saving stray dogs of Detroit and hold regular outreach missions to take in injured, starved, neglected and abused animals.