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OUR MISSION: CARE STL exists to create a supportive community rooted in collaboration, compassion, and caring for people and animals.
OUR VISION: CARE STL envisions a world where all animals are nurtured in body, mind, and heart.
CARE STL provides adoption services, receiving animals within the City of St. Louis jurisdiction, fostering, and much more since its mission and focus is exclusively on protecting the safety of the City of St. Louis residents and its animals and protecting the public from strays that are possibly dangerous animals. CARE STL helps the city enforce Title 10 of the City Code relevant to animal care and control. CARE STL's target goal is to achieve the highest live release rate in the nation by following the guiding principles of proper sheltering practices such as:
- Save and rehabilitate community dogs and cats, regardless of whether they are perceived to be friendly or unsocial with humans ("feral").
- Save orphaned animals as well as pregnant animals and their newborns.
- Rehabilitate animals suffering from or exposed to treatable contagious illnesses and provide emergency medical help to them.
- Enrichment of poorly socialized dogs, shy dogs, or traumatized dogs.
- Care for the animals surrendered; our veterinarian and professional behaviorist staff will independently evaluate the animals to determine treatability.
- Work with treatable animals considered to have "behavior problems" or "medical problems.
- Evaluate animals with behavior and medical impediments even if they have been signed over for euthanasia.
- Provide care for all animals not based on arbitrary criteria such as color, age, or breed.
CARE STL is committed to its city residents by promoting progressive programs and advocating for animal welfare. We strive to educate the public about responsible pet guardianship and recommend reforms in animal control policies. Our purpose is to rescue, rehabilitate, and facilitate the placement of unwanted pets from the City of St. Louis into safe and loving homes; to establish and manage an animal shelter for St. Louis City Animal Care and Control; to promote the welfare of the animals in our care, to reunite lost pets to their owners, and to increase public safety by addressing issues related to irresponsible pet owners and dangerous animals. We are focused on saving the animals of St. Louis and creating lifesaving partnerships.
