ARL’s 2024-2028 Strategic Plan displays our unwavering dedication to serving to animals heal and thrive, preserving pets and folks collectively, and defending animals from cruelty and neglect. It should guarantee we will proceed to answer the wants of animals and assist a group during which animals are protected, secure, and wholesome – in houses and out of shelters.
We’re excited to share the progress you helped make in 2024 in direction of our objectives.
Collectively, we’re preserving pets and folks collectively, delivering lifesaving care, increasing entry to crucial sources, and standing up for animals throughout Massachusetts.
Our Objectives
Purpose 1: Present high-quality care in our Animal Care and Adoption Facilities.
Goal: Present animals with the best requirements of care to assist them heal and thrive of their new houses.
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- Discovered loving houses for 3,518 animals, 18% acquired behavioral assist to assist them thrive of their new houses.
- Offered 6,300 veterinary exams and surgical procedures to shelter animals.
- Helped 1,181 group cats (cats that stay open air, a 32% improve over 2023.
Purpose 2: Help animal well being with our skilled providers.
Goal: Advance pet well being and well-being by means of canine coaching programs and distinctive veterinary care.
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- Skilled 871 canine with 20% extra course choices, together with shorter workshops specializing in widespread challenges pet house owners face in day by day life
- Offered 2,122 animals with routine and life-saving care at Boston Veterinary Care (BVC).
Purpose 3: Maintain pets and folks collectively.
Goal: Empower households and assist extra pets keep of their houses by increasing entry to revolutionary group providers, together with low-cost veterinary care, short-term pet housing, and pet meals.
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- Offered $6.7M value of veterinary care to the group, together with: 4,700 low-cost spay/neuter surgical procedures in Larger Boston, Southeastern Massachusetts, Cape Cod, and the Islands; and three,770 low-cost veterinary wellness exams in Dorchester, Roxbury, Mattapan, and East Boston.
- Noticed a 24% improve in short-term housing purchasers, with 42 pets positioned into short-term housing whereas their house owners addressed housing and well being wants.
- Offered 255,194 pet meals to the group, a 100% improve since inception in 2020.
Purpose 4: Enhance the lives of animals.
Aims: Paved the way for animal welfare by advancing legal guidelines and insurance policies that profit animals, offering coaching for native and state police and animal management officers, and creating the subsequent era of compassionate animal advocates by means of humane training alternatives for youth.
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- Performed a key function in passing a number of payments, together with: regulating pet daycare and boarding amenities; prohibiting the sale of puppies and kittens beneath 8 weeks previous; and making Massachusetts the fourth state to ban cat declawing
- Assisted 1,300 animals by investigating cruelty, abuse, and neglect.
- Offered 13 coaching classes for 700 Animal Welfare professionals in 2024, together with on the Massachusetts State Police Academy, veterinary and animal welfare conferences, and human service organizations.
- Welcomed 216 youth at Humane Training occasions, an 18% improve over 2023.
Purpose 5: Put money into our individuals.
Goal: Guarantee ARL is a good place to work and volunteer by assembly excessive satisfaction requirements and advancing range, fairness, accessibility, inclusion, and justice inside our group and the communities we serve.
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- Promoted 12 workers
- Maintained an 86% volunteer satisfaction price
- Established the P.E.T. (Paws-itive Engagement Crew) an worker engagement group that works collectively to create rewarding initiatives throughout ARL.
Purpose 6: Put money into our infrastructure.
Goal: Improve the capability of ARL’s amenities to answer the present and future wants of animals and pet house owners in our group.
