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Events & Clinics
Join us on Saturday, May 18, for our Happy Tails Celebration & Fundraiser 2024 at the Music Academy in Montecito, 4pm to 8pm. The event highlights C.A.R.E.4Paws’ critical community work and 15 years of serving pet families on the Central Coast. Enjoy great food and drinks, music, a live and silent auction, and the chance to tour our new, 37-foot mobile clinic. Please spread the pawsitive news! Sponsorship opportunities are available.
On Sunday, March 3, our Mobile Community Medicine & Spay/Neuter Outreach team hosted a successful event in Cuyama Valley with Santa Barbara County Animal Services, providing spays/neuters, vaccines, microchips and other critical services for more than 150 pets. We also distributed lots of pet food and supplies for pet families in need. Cuyama Valley does not have a veterinary clinic or pet store, which means many families have zero access to pet care unless services are brought TO the area. This is why our mobile clinic events are so important!
We thank our friends at Santa Ynez Band of Chumash Indians Chumash Foundation for the amazing opportunity to participate in Chumash Casino Resort’s Everi Cares Giving Module, which encourages gaming patrons to donate change from redeemed gaming vouchers to charity. We’ve received $34,036 over the last year, and it makes us feel like we won the Jackpot! We’re truly grateful for the support of the Chumash Foundation and Foundation Executive Veronica Sandoval as well as the generosity of so many casino goers.
It’s February and we kick off Spay & Neuter Awareness Month with a Stay Pawsitive Swag fundraiser to support pet families who cannot afford to alter their dogs and cats. Check out our awesome shirts and hoodies at bonfire.com/care4paws. Part of the sales sponsor surgeries and there’s an option to donate extra. Every dollar helps us reduce pet overpopulation, keep animals out of shelters and improve pet family welfare. Please share the news with fellow animal lovers and know that our shirts make great presents, too. It’s a pawsitive gift that keeps on giving!
To help curb local shelter intake numbers and improve pet family welfare, C.A.R.E.4Paws and Santa Barbara County Animal Services (SBCAS) organized a “spayathon” the weekend of January 27-28 at SBCAS’ shelter location in Santa Maria, altering more than 100 dogs and cats. We also provided vaccines, flea treatment, dewormer and nail trims for 250 pets and microchipped 140 pets for free thanks to SBCAS. It takes a village to pull off this kind of event and we’re so grateful to the staff volunteers, SBCAS and dog/cat trainer Matt Chan of Los Lukes, who offered free pet behavioral advice on the 28th. If you want to help reduce shelter overpopulation, we’re deeply grateful for donations of any size to pay for surgeries.
$2 a mile. That’s what it costs to drive C.A.R.E.4Paws’ mobile veterinary clinics to and from communities in Santa Barbara and SLO Counties, where we assist pet families in need with critical wellness services.
This season, from GivingTuesday on November 27 through December 31, give $2, $20, $200 or any amount of choice to sponsor clinic miles and keep us rolling. You can also opt to have your gift recur monthly or as frequently as you wish!
With YOUR help, we can go the extra mile to curb pet overpopulation and ensure animals stay healthy and with the people who love them.
On October 21-22, our amazing “spayathon” team altered 131 cats and dogs, the most surgeries we’ve performed in two days in the history of C.A.R.E.4Paws. Four amazing surgery crews operated out of our mobile units and inside Santa Barbara County Animal Services’ shelter clinic in Santa Maria. Out of the pets fixed, as many as 97 were cats! We also hosted a walk-in vaccine clinic that helped dozens of pets. We thank our vets, techs and volunteers for a fantastic job and SBCAS for the pawsome partnership.
A very special thanks to ResQcats for generous grant funding to pay for so many of the feline spays/neuters performed during our big spayathon weekend. We appreciate the yearslong partnership and generous support!
C.A.R.E.4Paws’ annual event, Walk Against Abuse, raises funds and awareness for Safe Haven, a program that supports domestic violence survivors and their companion pets. Cohosted with Elings Park in Santa Barbara, our family-friendly event includes a dog walk through the beautiful park grounds, fun activities for kids and adults, food and great music. We share information about how Safe Haven prevents suffering and saves lives—and how the community can support this critical program!
On Sunday, October 1, we hosted our second annual Walk Against Abuse at Elings Park. Participants enjoyed fun activities, food, music and tours of our new mobile vet clinic. Many artistic pups painted their own portraits! A special thanks to our sponsors, partners and volunteers, including a big group of awesome families from Boys Team Charity, Santa Barbara League.
We are pawsitively happy with our 2023 partnership with The Street Dog Coalition (SDC) to provide pet wellness services to families experiencing homelessness. We have hosted three events so far. Our busy April 15 clinic took place in San Luis Obispo. On June 3, we helped several unsheltered families in Lompoc in collaboration with Good Samaritan Shelters. On September 16, we went to the Santa Maria Riverbed together with Good Samaritan Shelters, whose community outreach team helps promote all of our clinics.
During our events, dogs and cats receive vaccines, flea treatment, wellness exams, nail trims and other services from our vet team, lead by SDC’s Dr. Alex Gomes and technician Becky Clement. We also provide supplies and pet food. We will continue to host regular events for the unhoused throughout Santa Barbara and San Luis Obispo Counties with Street Dog Coalition and other partners.
Having access to veterinary care improves the lives of pets and their people. Yet, for many families, gaining that access is difficult, unless pet wellness services are brought directly to a family’s neighborhood, which is exactly what C.A.R.E.4Paws’ Mobile Community Medicine & Spay/Neuter Outreach program does and why we have rolled out a third and much larger mobile veterinary clinic.
We launched the new, 37-foot unit during our first Access to Care Pet Wellness Clinic in Oceano (sponsored by PetSmart Charities). We also honored our clinic supporters with a ribbon-cutting ceremony on Sunday, August 20, at The Maker’s Son in Los Alamos. Guests had the opportunity to tour the new vehicle and learn about our mobile clinic program, while also enjoying live music, drinks and appetizers.
View the photo gallery from our ribbon-cutting event and click here for more information about our clinic services and locations served.
Check out recent press coverage on KSBY and New Times SLO as well as our brand-new mobile clinic video.
