ARL’s 2024-2028 Strategic Plan displays our unwavering dedication to serving to animals heal and thrive, retaining pets and other people collectively, and defending animals from cruelty and neglect. It is going to guarantee we are able to proceed to answer the wants of animals and help a group during which animals are protected, protected, and wholesome – in properties and out of shelters.
We’re excited to share the progress you helped make in 2024 in direction of our targets.
Collectively, we’re retaining pets and other people collectively, delivering lifesaving care, increasing entry to vital sources, and standing up for animals throughout Massachusetts.
Our Targets
Purpose 1: Present high-quality care in our Animal Care and Adoption Facilities.
Goal: Present animals with the very best requirements of care to assist them heal and thrive of their new properties.
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- Discovered loving properties for 3,518 animals, 18% obtained behavioral help to assist them thrive of their new properties.
- Supplied 6,300 veterinary exams and surgical procedures to shelter animals.
- Helped 1,181 group cats (cats that reside outdoor, a 32% improve over 2023.
Purpose 2: Assist animal well being with our skilled providers.
Goal: Advance pet well being and well-being via canine coaching programs and distinctive veterinary care.
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- Educated 871 canines with 20% extra course choices, together with shorter workshops specializing in widespread challenges pet house owners face in each day life
- Supplied 2,122 animals with routine and life-saving care at Boston Veterinary Care (BVC).
Purpose 3: Preserve pets and other people collectively.
Goal: Empower households and assist extra pets keep of their properties by increasing entry to progressive group providers, together with low-cost veterinary care, short-term pet housing, and pet meals.
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- Supplied $6.7M price of veterinary care to the group, together with: 4,700 low-cost spay/neuter surgical procedures in Better 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.
- Supplied 255,194 pet meals to the group, a 100% improve since inception in 2020.
Purpose 4: Enhance the lives of animals.
Aims: Prepared the ground 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 via humane training alternatives for youth.
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- Performed a key position in passing a number of payments, together with: regulating pet daycare and boarding services; prohibiting the sale of puppies and kittens beneath 8 weeks outdated; and making Massachusetts the fourth state to ban cat declawing
- Assisted 1,300 animals by investigating cruelty, abuse, and neglect.
- Supplied 13 coaching periods 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 Schooling occasions, an 18% improve over 2023.
Purpose 5: Spend money on our individuals.
Goal: Guarantee ARL is a superb 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 fee
- Established the P.E.T. (Paws-itive Engagement Workforce) an worker engagement group that works collectively to create rewarding initiatives throughout ARL.
Purpose 6: Spend money on our infrastructure.
Goal: Improve the capability of ARL’s services to answer the present and future wants of animals and pet house owners in our group.
