Mission statement: Helping people help pets. To better the lives of sick, injured and abused companion animals. We are dedicated to insure that no companion animal has to be euthanized simply because their caretaker is financially challenged.

IMOM has many different programs to help people with special needs dog, such as blind or diabetic dogs. Find out more by perusing the IMOM index page.
IMOM, Inc
PO Box 282
Cheltenham, MD 20623
Phone (866)-230-2164 Fax (301)-599-1852

If you have a specific breed of dog, contact the national club for that breed. In some cases, these clubs offer a veterinary financial assistance fund.

Great Pyrenees

Labrador Retriever

If you need help with expenses for a rescued Labrador Retriever who requires medical attention, you can apply to Lab Med.

http://www.westiemed.com/

Disease- or Condition-Specific Financial or Other Assistance

Help for Blind Dogs

There is the blind dogs e-mail list. To subscribe to the list, send E-mail to:

blinddogs-subscribe@egroups.com

Put the word "subscribe" in the subject line, and your name in the body of the message. After subscribing you will be asked to write an introduction to the list. A great, supportive group of folks.

Here is the address of the webpage on which you can list blind dogs in need of new homes and find links to other resources for help with blind dogs:

http://www.blinddogs.com/listing-info.htm

Financial Help for Blind Dogs

IMOM Blind Dogs Fund:
http://www.imom.org
http://www.imom.org/funds.bd.htm

Diabetic Dogs

Help and Information re Deaf Dogs

Deaf Dog Education Action Fund has a list of organizations that have proven their willingness to help deaf dogs. There is also other useful information pertaining to deaf dogs on the website.

Help for Special Needs Dogs in Dallas County, MO

The Rainbow Farms Project, Inc., is a 501(c)(3) non-profit rescue organization dedicated to the rescue, rehabilitation and re-homing of animals who may be harder to place because of their special needs.

Help for Assistance Dogs

Chronic Renal Failure (CRF)
IMOM Chronic Renal Failure (CRF) Kitties Fund

Kidney Disease
Cats in Crisis Mesa Fund

Cats -- Heart and Thyroid
Cats in Crisis Stripes Fund

Cats --Neurological conditions and mobility impairments
Cats in Crisis Gillie Fund

Help Finding Foster Care or Adoption for Companion Animals of Deployed Military Personnel

Patriotic Pets takes on the difficult and often heartbreaking task of finding temporary or permanent homes for the companion animals of military service personnel who are deployed. Based in Atlanta, GA, but will try to help wherever there is the need. Please visit their website and contact them if you can offer foster or permanent care. E-mail: patrioticpets@hotmail.com

Funding for Organizations

http://www.imom.org
http://www.catsincrisis.org/

Project BREED Directory

An invaluable aid for all animal advocates and animal care professionals, the two volumes of the Project BREED (Breed Rescue Efforts and Education) Directory provide nearly 3,000 contacts for rescue of over 100 breeds of dogs. For information call (301) 428-3675.

If you haven't had a chance to read it, we highly recommend an article by Linda Smith that appears on the Dog Owner's Guide website entitled "Why People Do Rescue." It paints a picture of the reality anyone in the rescue world needs to know in order to be both effective and humane. And while you're at it, you might want to take a look at some of the other articles on the Dog Owner's Guide website. There is good coverage on a variety of interesting topics.

We like the information presented on the Chesapeake Bay Retriever Rescue website concerning relationships between kids and dogs. It's practical and insightful, and relevant both to people in rescue who are trying to place a dog, and to a potential adoptive family wondering whether a particular dog is "good with kids."