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Capt. Obvious

(9,002 posts) Thu Apr 14, 2016, 11:49 AM Apr 2016

NONPROFIT PROVIDES FREE MEDICAL CARE FOR HOMELESS PEOPLE’S PETS

A pet can enrich a homeless person’s life, and vice versa.

This is precisely why the nonprofit Pets Of The Homeless, provides those in need with free food and medical services to keep their pups and cats happy and healthy.

“My dog is at home right now by herself,” Genevieve Frederick, the founder of Pets of the Homeless told Elite Daily in the video below. “She’s wondering when me and my husband are going to come home. The homeless pets are with their owners 24/7, and they have a way bigger bond than you and I have with our pets.”

Frederick started her nonprofit with her daughter, Renee Lowry, in 2007, after a trip to New York City. It was there that she saw a homeless man with his dog.

“I was confused as to the reason anyone who is homeless, who could barely feed or take care of themselves, would even consider having a pet,” she wrote on Pets of the Homeless’ site. Yet, she also observed that the dog, that wasn’t on a leash, was happily standing at the owner’s side.

When Frederick returned to her home of Carson City, Nevada, she began to do research and discovered that homeless individuals with pets often have to make hard decisions. Because many shelters do not allow pets, many people have to choose between staying with their companion animals or having a roof over their heads. Many choose the only thing they’ve got left — their pets.