The Grey Muzzle Organization provides funding for senior dog programs nationwide. Here you'll find a list of the organizations that have received Grey Muzzle funding. Please contact these organizations if you are considering adopting a senior dog, fostering, or volunteering.
Grey Muzzle Grant Recipients
Grant recipients include:
Kitty and K-9 Connection
How we help
Funding from a Grey Muzzle grant helps Kitty and K-9 Connection to provide dental care for senior dogs. Approximately 98% of their rescued senior dogs require dentals and, because dental costs are expensive, we anticipate this funding will allow them to rescue additional senior dogs from the local shelter.
About Kitty and K-9 Connection
Kitty and K-9 Connection is devoted to saving the lives of homeless and abandoned cats and dogs, finding them loving and lifetime homes, advocating for spay and neuter of all pets, promoting responsible pet ownership and providing pet ownership education.
Mr. N and MelanieKnoxville-Knox County Council on Aging (Knox PAWS)
How we help
Funding from The Grey Muzzle Organization will allow KnoxPAWS to provide at least 12 new senior pet placements this year, completely covering the costs of the adoption and veterinary visits for our participants, including much needed dental work, laboratory diagnostics, and preventative care. The grant will also allow many of these senior pets to be professionally groomed several times throughout the year. Human senior participants will not have to worry about providing anything but love to their senior furry friends.
About Knoxville-Knox County Council on Aging (Knox PAWS)
KnoxPAWS is a program of the Knoxville Knox County CAC/Office on Aging in Knoxville, Tennessee. Since 2004 KnoxPAWS has been matching eligible seniors with adoptable older pets. Companionship is crucial for older adults to help prevent isolation and depression. Research indicates that pets improve seniors’ physical, emotional, and mental health. The Knox PAWS does not house animals, but rather works with area animal shelters to match older pets with qualified senior citizens.
JengaKodiakCare
How we help
The Grey Muzzle Organization grant will increase the number of senior dogs KodiakCare can save. KodiakCare works with Angell Animal Medical Center to serve pet owners with great financial need from Boston and Western Massachusetts. KodiakCare knows that the best place for a dog, especially a senior dog, is with their loving family, and finances should not be a barrier for that bond. Jenga, a 10-year-old beagle mix, is just one example of a senior dog saved by KodiakCare. He needed surgery that his family simply could not afford. They were heartbroken to say goodbye, but KodiakCare stepped in and kept the family whole. KodiakCare thanks the Grey Muzzle Organization for helping save dogs like Jenga and bringing them back home.
About KodiakCare
KodiakCare saves the lives of dogs by providing funding for critical veterinary care to families who lack financial means. KodiakCare partners with animal hospitals - to helps families avoid the tragic decisions to either surrender or euthanize because they can’t afford medical care to alleviate their suffering. With KodiakCare’s help, owners can save their dogs and keep their beloved pets.
MitziKohala Animal Relocation and Education Service (KARES)
How we help
A grant from The Grey Muzzle Organization will help launch a veterinary dental care program for rescued senior dogs, many of whom have poor dental health. A potential risk for future health conditions, the goal is to enhance their chances for adoption and help them live healthier lives in their forever homes. In addition, to promote dental health awareness for all dogs, a discount voucher program is offered to owned senior dogs encouraging preventative dental care.
About Kohala Animal Relocation and Education Service (KARES)
KARES, short for Kohala Animal Relocation and Education Service, adheres to a “no-kill” philosophy. Founded in 2009, KARES serves the Big Island of Hawaii to rescue and relocate abused, abandoned and stray dogs, to provide temporary housing for them through their foster care network and to facilitate adoptions into caring, permanent homes. KARES focuses on community education and outreach to promote responsible pet ownership and to prevent animal cruelty. They also raise awareness about the causes of animal overpopulation and advocate for humane solutions for population control, including spay/neuter, which is provided free to owned dogs of all ages.
KingstonLab Rescue LRCP
How we help
About Lab Rescue LRCP
Lab Rescue of the LRCP rescues, fosters and place homeless, abused and / or abandoned Labrador Retrievers in the Mid-Atlantic region of the USA. They provide veterinary care, spay / neuter the Lab and place it with foster families where they are loved while they await adoption.
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Labradors and Friends Dog Rescue Inc.
How we help
Grey Muzzle gave a grant to support Labradors and Friends' Agnes Fund which helps dogs 7 years and older whose owners have passed away, become too ill to continue to care for them, or have been abandoned and left to die in an unforgiving shelter system. We know that our seniors sometimes take a little longer to find their forever homes and hope that this grant will make a difference to several dogs.
About Labradors and Friends Dog Rescue Inc.
Labradors and Friends Dog Rescue Group, Inc. is dedicated to rescuing Labrador Retrievers and Labrador mixed breed dogs in Southern California and placing them in loving homes.
Founded in 2007, this all-volunteer group is comprised of experienced men and women who work passionately to save dogs from shelters and help dogs whose families can no longer provide for them.
Last Hope Animal Rescue and Rehabilitation
How we help
Grey Muzzle provides medical funding for Last Hope to help at-risk senior dogs.
About Last Hope Animal Rescue and Rehabilitation
Last Hope on Long Island is dedicated to the rescue and rehabilitation of death-due pound, stray and abandoned animals.
Cindy LouLeague for Animal Welfare
How we help
The League is excited to partner with The Grey Muzzle Organization to expand the number of senior dogs they can take into their facility and find homes for as part of the None Left Behind program. This program helps place senior pets like 10-year-old Cindy Lou into homes quickly, by covering the cost of post-adoption veterinary care. None Left Behind allows adopters to bring a senior into their home, without worrying about the possibility of prohibitively expensive vet care. The Grey Muzzle Organization will help the League provide that security.
About League for Animal Welfare
Founded in 1949, the League for Animal Welfare is a privately-funded, nonprofit organization in Batavia, Ohio. As the oldest and one of the largest no-kill shelters in the greater Cincinnati area, the League serves its community through initiatives to reduce the number of homeless animals and to help people better care for their pets. The League shelters more than 1,000 homeless cats and dogs each year; and provides spay/neuter, and pet food support to our community.
AggiLegacy Boxer Rescue
How we help
The generous grant from The Grey Muzzle Organization will support and expand the Legacy Silver and Legacy Keepers programs. Keepers are boxers that find a new lease on life through Legacy Boxer Rescue (LBR), but are not available for adoption typically due to age-related and health issues. These boxers are considered to be in hospice care and will be loved and cared for by their foster families for the remainder of their lives.
About Legacy Boxer Rescue
Since 2004, Legacy Boxer Rescue's (LBR) all-volunteer mission has been to seek out boxers in need in North Texas, and create the legacy they deserve– a loving family and home of their own. To achieve this mission, LBR pulls dogs in need from shelters and accepts surrendered dogs directly from owners without regard to age or health. LBR has 233 active volunteers and averages 100-150 adoptions each year. All dogs are spayed or neutered prior to adoption.
CocoLeon County Humane Society
How we help
The grant from the Grey Muzzle Organization will help Leon County Humane Society (LCHS) to continue the growth of our senior dog program with a goal of accepting 50 senior dogs into their care within a 12 month period. Most senior dogs entering LCHS have multiple issues requiring medical attention. This grant will help to care for and find loving adoptive homes for senior dogs like Coco, a 10- year-old dachshund who was transferred from a high-intake animal shelter and, with help from the Grey Muzzle Organization, received dental care with extractions and surgery to repair a hernia.
About Leon County Humane Society
Founded in 1960, the Leon County Humane Society (LCHS) is a private rescue organization serving Florida's capital city of Tallahassee, as well as the surrounding rural counties. LCHS receives between 600-800 animals every year with an emphasis on those animals in need of more extensive medical or behavioral attention. Formed in 1960, LCHS has since been dedicated to matching families with homeless pets and educating the community about responsible pet ownership, including spaying and neutering. Each year, LCHS rescues over 600 animals and provides assistance to pet owners in the form of spay/neuter vouchers and pet food. LCHS is active in the community and leads humane education efforts in Tallahassee. Their dedicated Board of Directors, advisors, staff, and over 600 volunteers work tirelessly to socialize and provide companionship to all of their animals.