Other Ways to Support the HHPR Mission
Volunteers needed
We are looking for volunteers to help in a variety of ways. We need reliable people who have experience working with cats who can clean their areas, do feeding, provide some socialization. We also need experienced office help doing data entry on a computer.
Please fill out this form and someone will contact you.
Marie Joyce Allen Free Pet Food Pantry
The Halfway Home Pet Rescue Free Pet Food Pantry is dedicated to the memory of Marie Joyce Allen. Marie dedicated her life to helping others and was especially dedicated to helping homeless animals. It is through the kindness of people like Marie Joyce Allen that Halfway Home Pet Rescue is able to continue helping homeless, helpless animals.
The pet food pantry is possible through the coordinated generosity of our volunteers. The Presque Isle Animal Hospital's Caribou Clinic on Herschel St., Caribou provides space to us free of charge. Product Recovery in Portland gives us donated food each month. A volunteer in Etna, Maine travels to Portland to pick up the supplies and then 2 other volunteers meet him in Sherman, Maine to transfer the load and transport it to volunteers who sort and package for shelter animals and food pantry. Paradis Shop and Save on High St. provides a shopping cart in the front of the store for people to drop in donated food and supplies for us. A store employee volunteer then transports to the food pantry. If a person is in need of food for their pet, all they have to do is go in on a Tuesday or Thursday afternoon and pick up food in accordance with the per-pet amount listed on the wall.
Donate food by dropping it off at Paradis Shop & Save, High Street, Caribou or the PI Animal Hospital's Caribou Clinic on Herschel Street.
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Tractor Supply Co. on the Houlton Rd. in Presque Isle also has a large donation box for food supplies and they deliver it to the pet food pantry about 1 x weekly.
Note: Allen’s family Jes & Patricia Olson of Fort Fairfield and her son, Archie Allen, of Kirkland, WA have continued to honor their mother with continued faithful financial support of the shelter’s programs. More info here...
Online Shopping
iGive.com is a shopping portal on the web. Become a member, shop with their merchants (more than 800 online stores) and a percentage will go to Halfway Home.
Halfway Home Pet Rescue is currently in need of used bath and hand towels, bleach, and Purina Kitten Chow. We appreciate your kindness with returnable bottles at 88 Bennett Drive Redemption, and our area collection boxes. Caribou Shop & Save graciously provides a shopping cart for donated items for the free pet food kitchen as well as our own shelter supplies. These options are our only income for our supplies, spay/neuter program and medical needs.
Volunteer your time or services
We have a great group of volunteers that love what they're doing. If you have an hour or more per week and would like to help the animals - please contact us to see if we have a volunteer opportunity for you. Call 492-1722. Download a volunteer application here.
Fundraising through work or social group
Is your group or club looking for a project? We welcome ideas to help us raise funds. Please contact us with your ideas. 492-1722 or email norma@halfwayhomepetrescue.org
Returnable Bottles and Cans
You may turn in your bottles and cans to any board member or drop them off at our friendly sponsors at 88 Bennett Drive Redemption Center and tell them that you wish to donate your money to Halfway Home Pet Rescue. This money is a great help to our program of providing top quality medical care to our helpless pets. It allows us to keep our bills paid. Thank you for helping us.
Planned Giving
Planned Giving is a set of ways a donor can leave money/assets to a nonprofit at his/her death; or a way to invest money so that the donor receives benefits during his/her life and then bequeaths the remaining funds to the nonprofit. Consult your financial advisor about how you can give to HHPR in this way.
One method is to designate HHPR as a beneficiary of Life or Annuity Insurance. Here is a Sample Letter (doc or pdf).
Wish List
- Purina Kitten Chow, Purina Cat Chow
- Canned cat food - Chicken
- cheap dirt litter (not scoopable)
- Bleach
- postage stamps
- copier paper
- gift certificates for volunteers (gas- $10.00 cards)
- more returnable bottles
All items can be dropped off at 11 Pioneer Ave, Caribou. Please leave a paper with your name and mailing address or email address so we can be sure to thank you.
Help HHPR Feral Cat Program
- Help by providing a piece of safety equipment for our volunteers through ACES wish list program.
- Help us by providing small to large tote boxes for making feral cat shelters (see story in right column).
- Provide Gorilla Tape for our feral cat units (available at Wal-mart, Lowe's & S.W. Collins).
- If you are a farmer with cattle or horses - provide a home for 2 or 3 spayed/neutered feral cats (HHPR provides over $150 of medical care) who will keep your feed bins free of mice and rats without having to use dangerous chemicals. We provide the cat(s) free with your promise to shelter and feed/water the cat(s) 1 time per day.
Special Christmas Book
Halfway Home Pet Rescue has a very special book to offer - "The Christmas Note" as written by Skeeter Davis & Cathie Pelletier, and illustrated by Carl E. Hileman. These wonderful gift books are personally autographed by Davis, Pelletier and Hileman. This is the Skeeter Davis story of her 10th Christmas with her siblings in the hills of Dry Ridge, Kentucky in the days of oil lamps and candles. It is a story of a child's love, heartbreak, faith and the growth of Davis' inner joy while learning the true meaning of Christmas.
These limited editions of the autographed "The Christmas Note" can be purchased by calling Norma Milton at 492-1722. Price: $20.00 each. If ordered from away, we will ship for an additional $5.00. All proceeds from the sale of these books will go toward the medical bills of the stray, abandoned and abused animals of Caribou and surrounding communities.
Support of Animal Welfare in Maine
Animal Welfare Specialty Plate
Maine's colorful new animal welfare license plate, that will help fund Help Fix ME and the Animal Welfare Program, goes on sale on October 1st. The plate graphically depicts Maine's love of animals and helps fight animal abuse and promotes shelter animal adoption.
By buying and proudly displaying this plate you will help Maine's companion animals in three ways:
- $5.00 from the sale of each plate will help fund the Help Fix ME spay/neuter program.
- $5.00 from the sale of each plate will also help fund the Animal Welfare Program's response to the hundreds of animal neglect and cruelty complaints it receives every year.
- You will be promoting shelter and rescue group animal adoption by displaying the plate on your car.
FYI:
- There are currently approximately 12,500 of the colorful agriculture plates in circulation.
- Last year proceeds from the agriculture plate totaled $119,280.
We can beat that!
We need to publicize this plate as much as possible so that we can continue to fund the Help Fix ME and Animal Welfare Programs. Download AWP poster (pdf) and include it in your newsletter or print with your color printer and post them wherever you can.
Thanks to the Maine Animal Coalition, Maine Veterinary Medical Association, Maine Federation of Humane Societies, Spay Maine and Planet Dog, in addition to ALL of you, for the countless hours and financial donations that made this possible!!