Project Start: April 1, 2005 Year Three Funding: $375,360 Funding through Year Three: $708,380 Total Anticipated Funding: $2,713,245

Maddie’s^® Pet Rescue Project in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, is working with Maddie’s^® Spay/Neuter Project in Tuscaloosa Alabama to save all of the community’s healthy and treatable shelter dogs and cats within ten years.

Maddie’s^® Pet Rescue Project is a coalition of animal control agencies and rescue groups focused solely on increasing adoptions.

The coalition’s lead agency is T-Town Paws. Other partners include Alabamians Defending Animal Rights, The Humane Society of West Alabama, West Alabama Animal Rescue, and Tuscaloosa Metro Animal Shelter. The Project includes all of Tuscaloosa County, population 186,500.

Tuscaloosa is located in west central Alabama. The county is named after a Choctaw Creek Indian Chief whose name, Tuskaloosa, means Black Warrior. Today, Tuscaloosa is home to the University of Alabama and Stillman College.

In 2004, rescue and sheltering organizations in Tuscaloosa County sheltered 7,923 dogs and cats, euthanizing 5,835. Out of the total deaths, approximately 1,952 were healthy.

After 2-1/2 years, Maddie's Pet Rescue Projects had reduced healthy deaths to 1,092 and reduced all deaths to 3,605.

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