Project Start: July 1, 2002 Year Five Funding: $546,480 Funding through Year Five: $2,301,340 Total Anticipated Funding: $4,088,000

Maddie's^® Pet Rescue Project is working with Maddie's^® Spay/Neuter Project in Alachua County to end the killing of healthy and treatable shelter dogs and cats countywide within ten years.

Maddie's^® Pet Rescue Project is a coalition of animal control agencies, traditional shelters and rescue groups working together to increase adoptions.

The coalition's lead agency is the Alachua County Humane Society, working with Alachua County Animal Services, Gainesville Pet Rescue, Haile's Angels Pet Rescue, Helping Hands Pet Rescue and Puppy Hill Farm.

Alachua County is located in North Central Florida and has a population of 223,000. Gainesville, the county seat, is also home to the University of Florida.

In baseline year 2000, Gainesville's rescue and animal control facilities impounded 11,484 dogs and cats and euthanized 8,063. Of those, approximately 3,664 were healthy.

At the end of Year Five, Maddie's^® Pet Rescue Project in Alachua County had reduced total shelter deaths to 3,335 and healthy deaths to 5. Alachua County was able to go eleven months with zero healthy deaths in year five.

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