Project Start: January 1, 2005 Year Three Funding: $812,160 Funding through Year Three: $1,604,083 Total Anticipated Funding: $5,699,838

Maddie's^® Pet Rescue Project in Mobile, Alabama, is working with Maddie's^® Spay/Neuter Project in Mobile 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 the Mobile SPCA. Other partners include the Animal Rescue Foundation, Friends of the Mobile Animal Shelter, the City of Mobile Animal Shelter, Mobile County Animal Shelter and Saraland Animal Shelter. The Project includes all of Mobile County, population 400,000.

Mobile is situated on the Gulf of Mexico. Founded by the French in 1702 as the original capital of the Louisiana Territory, Mobile has the distinction of being home to this country's first Mardi Gras.

In baseline year 2003, rescue and sheltering organizations in Mobile County sheltered 16,561 dogs and cats, euthanizing 12,306. Out of the total deaths, approximately 4,229 were healthy.

At the end of 2-3/4 years, Maddie's Pet Rescue Project in Mobile County had reduced healthy deaths to 1,665 and reduced all deaths to 9,961.

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