Maddie's Projects in Erie County, NY
- Project Start: October 1, 2009
- Total Potential Funding: $5M
- Funding for Year Three: $1,025,127
- Funding Through Year Three: $2,966,938
Related Links
Erie County Year Three Adoption Application- Erie County Strategic Plan
- Erie County Adoption Guarantee Plan
- Erie County Pet Evaluation Matrix
- Erie County Year Three Spay/Neuter Application
- Erie County Year Two Annual Adoption Report
- Erie County Year Two Annual Spay/Neuter Report
- Erie County 2010 Individual and Community Statistics
- Erie County Year Two Individual and Community Statistics
- Erie County Animal People Ad 2011
Erie County covers 1,058 square miles on the western border of New York state. It contains three cities and 25 towns, including the City of Buffalo, the second largest city in New York State. The population is 921,390.
Maddie's® Pet Rescue Project
Maddie's® Pet Rescue Project is working with Maddie's® Spay/Neuter Project to save all of Erie County's healthy and treatable shelter dogs and cats within five years.
Maddie's® Pet Rescue Project is comprised of the SPCA Serving Erie County (Lead Agency), the City of Buffalo Animal Shelter and four adoption guarantee organizations - Black Dog, Second Chance; HEART; Second Chance Sheltering Network; and Ten Lives Club.
Maddie's® Pet Rescue Project in Erie County has achieved and maintained an adoption guarantee for all healthy shelter dogs and cats for 21 months and is saving 80% of its treatable shelter petsat the nin month mark of Year Two.
Click below to view shelter statistics for all reporting organizations and the community as a whole:
Calendar Year 2010
Project Year 2
Maddie's® Spay/Neuter Project is administered by Operation PETS: The Spay/Neuter Clinic of Western New York, Inc. (OPETS). Thirteen private practice veterinary hospitals have also agreed to participate. Low-cost surgeries are available to Erie County pet owning residents who receive Medicaid and to Erie County residents who manage feral cat colonies. The maximum total number of surgeries to be performed under this program is 17,591.
Medicaid Spay/Neuter Surgeries After 1.75 Years: 5,157
