FWKC Sponsors Pet Disaster Relief Trailer

August 2015 - Nine Metroplex dog clubs, including the Fort Worth Kennel Club, two national dog clubs and AKC Reunite, the nation’s largest non-profit pet identification and recovery service, presented an AKC Pet Disaster Relief trailer to officials from the City of Fort Worth Animal Care and Control in August 2015. The trailer is the first of its kind in the state of Texas.

  • Presented to City of Fort Worth Animail Contol
  • Pet Disaster Relief Trailer is loaded with supplies
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Nine Metroplex dog clubs, including the Fort Worth Kennel Club, two national dog clubs and AKC Reunite, the nation’s largest non-profit pet identification and recovery service, presented an AKC Pet Disaster Relief trailer to officials from the City of Fort Worth Animal Care and Control in August 2015. The trailer is the first of its kind in the state of Texas.
With AKC Pet Disaster Relief, Fort Worth and all of North Texas will deliver help to pets and their owners in need when unthinkable events take place. The trailer houses supplies that create a safe, temporary home-base for at least 65 pets immediately after a disaster is declared. Materials can be used at co-location shelters where people evacuate with their pets, or at stand-alone emergency animal shelters for displaced animals. The trailer will provide materials to help Fort Worth and surrounding cities prepare for disaster without using taxpayer dollars.

The purchase of the trailer was made possible by more than $22,000 in donations and grants from the Fort Worth Kennel Club, DFW Metro Golden Retriever Club , DFW Dachshund Club, Dalmatian Club of North Texas, Nolan River Kennel Club, Doberman Pinscher Club of Dallas, Heart of Texas Akita Club , Texas Tri-City Obedience Club, Doberman Rescue of North Texas, The Schipperke Club of America, The Basset Hound Foundation and AKC Reunite.