WHO WE ARE:
It’s All ABout Love is a 501c3 Non Profit Charitable Organization formed under the Texas Code for The Prevrention of Cruelty to Animals.
We are an Animal Rescue Group as well as a Trap N Release organization that helps manage the cat and dog population in Houston neighborhoods. We operate with the help of volunteers who the common goal of helping homeless animals Each member of this organization brings their personal talents, love for all animals and a passion for the cause.
We believe spay and neuter is the only humane way to offer Houston’s dogs and cats a better way of life.
We are a NO KILL ORGANIZATION we do not eliminate the animals, we stop the cycle of reproduction.
WHAT WE DO:
Our organization receives numerous calls every week from Houstonian’s with the stray cats and dogs in the neighborhood. We assist them by trapping the feral cats and taking them to low cost vets that spay/neuter and vaccination them. We then return them to their neighborhood to be cared for by their food source. The social cats and kittens are taken into our foster program where they are kept in the homes of volunteers until we find permanent loving homes for each. The dogs we rescue are abandoned pets people no longer want or care that the have strayed, they are placed in foster homes waiting adoption.
WHY WE DO WHAT WE DO:
Because of the large amount of unwanted kittens that are born each year to a life of uncertainty, our organization receives hundreds of phone calls from people all over Houston in need of help. Sick, abandoned or neglected kittens are found, adult cats abandoned by their owner when they move, abused, frightened ferals are left to reproduce at alarming rates in neighborhoods all over Houston.
Our organization goes into these neighborhoods and helps assist and control the cat overpopulation.
We trap and take the cats to a low cost veterinarian, we have them spay/neutered and then returned to their own neighborhood where their colony caretaker can continue to care for them. The colony caretaker is also responsible to protect the cats against any abuse, and observe for any new cat appearing in their neighborhood. By trapping and releasing the cat overpopulation is now managed and eventually reduced.
The abandoned cats and kittens from these neighborhoods that are socialized enough to be adopted are placed in our foster homes until permanent loving homes are found. We have also partnered with the Petsmart pet store located at West Alabama Street and Shepherd Drive, where we take our foster cats/kittens on the weekends hoping to find homes through the community.
Houston ranks as one of the worst cities in the nation for animal cruelty and its animal shelters are destroying over 90,000 animals each year. Our goal is to eliminate or at the least lower the number of animals that are put to sleep in these shelters. Until Texas laws change, making it mandatory to spay/neuter pets, we will continue to help Houston’s neighborhoods care for their cats. These cats did not create this problem, it was irresponsible people who allowed their unaltered cats to roam outside and reproduce; not taking responsibility for the offspring that are left to find food and shelter from the environment and abuse. The lucky ones are the sick or lone ones who appear on your door step hoping for kindness, food and most of all love.
OUR MISSION:
Our mission is to make caring for animals a life love journey. We hope to bring awareness to the public that there is an alternative to abuse, abandonment and neglect. We all can make a difference; have your pet spayed or neutered, tell your neighbor of the benefits of spay/neuter and cancer prevention as well as the roaming and howling stops, but most of all there are fewer unwanted kittens born. The moral issue should NOT be “this is nature’s way”, instead the moral issue should be not to allow newborn kittens to be buried alive, thrown from car windows, drowned in the bayou or have their heads crushed with baseball bats by children. WE SEE THIS EVERYDAY !