Keeping Families and Pets Together
Temporary challenges don't have to break the bond you share with your pet. Joyful Pets Rescue connects families with veterinary assistance, housing support, pet food resources, and more to help you stay together. When rehoming is the only path forward, we help with the vet care, transport, fostering, and placement needed to get your pet safely to their next family. We are a Massachusetts 501(c)(3) nonprofit, and keeping families together is always step one.
How We Help
Keeping families together is always step one. When rehoming is the right path, we make sure every pet gets there safely.
Veterinary Care
We cover emergency veterinary costs, procedures, and medications so families can get their pets the care they need without giving them up.
Housing and Crisis Support
When a family faces housing challenges, hospitalization, or another crisis, we help with boarding fees and connect them with pet-friendly housing resources.
Stay Together Resources
Pet food banks, behavior support, military deployment assistance, senior pet guardian programs. We connect families with the right resources to keep them together.
Rehoming Support
When rehoming is the best path, we help with the vet care, transport, fostering, and placement needed to get them safely to a new loving home.
Our Rescue Work
Joyful Pets Rescue began with fostering. Our founder signed up to foster one cat from a city shelter, and she has been fostering ever since.
We have taken in orphaned kittens from shelter euthanasia lists, nursed them through illness, and placed each one in a new loving home. That hands-on work continues today alongside our programs that keep pets and families together.
Partner With Us
Joyful Pets Rescue is actively seeking foundation and grant partnerships to scale our direct assistance programs. Every dollar funds a specific, trackable intervention for a pet family in crisis.
Emergency Veterinary Fund
Direct vet subsidies for low-income pet families
Stay Together Fund
Housing support, pet food, behavior resources, and crisis assistance to keep families and pets together
Rehoming Voucher Fund
Covers rehoming costs for families who cannot pay
Rehoming Support Fund
Vet care, transport, fostering, and placement to get pets safely to their new homes when rehoming is needed