Learn about Operation Pets Alive!

Operation Pets Alive! believes that many in our community share their values with regard to homeless dogs and cats. Therefore, they see a need to increase community awareness and community involvement regarding the No-Kill movement and the plight of homeless dogs and cats in our community. They want to help people “do the right thing” for animals.

Their Mission

Operation Pets Alive! is a non-profit, all-volunteer organization striving to elevate Montgomery County to a No-Kill community through innovative programs that:

• Raise community awareness
• Reduce the number of dogs and cats that enter our shelters
• Increase the number of dogs and cats that leave our shelters alive

Their Goals

• They want to make a significant contribution to reduced killing in shelters through treatment of treatable animals, training, adoption, foster, and rescue.
• They want to make a significant contribution toward decreasing the number of pets entering shelters through spay and neuter, reclaim, retention & re-homing.
• In particular, They see a need to help shelters manage “at risk” shelter dogs and cats.
• They promote workable tenets of No-Kill sheltering as listed in the No-Kill Equation and defined as saving over 90% of shelter animals.
• They see a top-notch Community Adoption Program as one key element (including off-site adoptions, community involvement, spay/neuter, behavioral modification, medical support, pet retention guidance, pet re-homing support, value for money).