Pet Food Pantry: Our August pet food pantry is scheduled for Saturday, August 1, from 8:00 am – 2:00 pm and it will again be a drive-thru format. Clients should attend the same time interval they have been given for the past several months and anyone with the 2-4 time frame can attend any time from 8-2. Clients…
DetailsYesterday we made a circuit around town to follow up on several calls on our help line from citizens seeking a little assistance with their dogs. Tank and his family were one of the highlights of the day. Tank was found as a skinny pup wandering an east side neighborhood by the teenage son. He…
DetailsWe knew that we helped a whole lotta pet families and a whole lotta dogs and cats with a whole lotta pet food at our May drive-thru pantry day. It was a non-stop stream of cars over an 8 hour period. But holy schmoly, take a look at these numbers: 👀 ~16,000 pounds of dog…
DetailsOur 2-day spay/neuter transport marathon is done, and 32 dogs and 11 cats are now spayed/neutered! This effort impacted a total of 22 low-income households. Not too shabby for a couple of days work, especially knowing several of the animals involved have had prior litters. Today went extremely well. At…
DetailsFIDO’s April pet food pantry remained open in spite of the state-wide travel restrictions and stay at home order in place. This is because food pantries fall under essential charitable services. We are thankful for this because in the past several weeks, we’ve had numerous calls requesting assistance. For eight hours, it was a steady…
DetailsWhile most of us are experiencing some serious cabin fever and are ready to get out of the house, Lexie, a sweet chunk of a girl, wants nothing but to stay home with her family. FIDO squeezed in this fence project before a lot of the travel restrictions were put in place. After talking with…
DetailsAt our February pet food pantry, we totally re-worked our client traffic flow patterns to better streamline the processes, decrease congestion and generally provide a better day for everyone. Well, it worked! Our new client check-in area was moved to our front office to give new clients a little more privacy during the…
DetailsWe recently followed up on a referral from Indianapolis Animal Care Services to assist a woman, we will call Vanessa, who had moved to Indy with her four dogs. Vanessa is caring for the dogs the best she can. The IACS officer recognized that Vanessa wanted to improve her dogs’ care, so he did not…
DetailsNeighbors from our Brookside target neighborhood showed up at our door with a big sweet pooch they had found running loose in their neighborhood. We noticed that he was neutered and so we were hopeful that he was also microchipped. Voila, he was! From the Home Again microchip service, we learned his name was Dagwood…
DetailsIn early February, FIDO teamed up with Indianapolis Animal Care Services on proactive care and treatment outreach sweeps in the Martindale-Brightwood neighborhood. This is an area with a lot of dogs, cats, and people in need of resources. 7 FIDO representatives each paired up with an animal control officer. 14 vehicles, loaded with pet supplies…
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