🐾 About Pets4Life Louisville
Pets4Life Louisville is a volunteer-powered nonprofit dedicated to pet retention—helping families keep and care for the pets they love. We focus on expanding access to basic veterinary care and pet supplies in underserved neighborhoods, where traditional vet care is often out of reach.
Rooted in compassion and community, our mission is to reduce animal suffering, prevent unnecessary shelter surrenders, and keep pets and their people together. We do this by meeting families where they are—right in their neighborhoods—through our network of PetCare Hubs, pop-up vet clinics, and collaborative partnerships with trusted local organizations.
💛 Our Values: What we believe:
- Everyone deserves the love of a healthy pet, regardless of income or zip code.
- Access matters. Transportation, cost, and system barriers shouldn’t stop pets from getting care.
- Prevention is power. Simple, timely services like vaccines and spay/neuter can change lives.
- Community is the solution. When we connect resources and build trust, everyone wins.
- Mutual aid works. Volunteers, donors, and neighbors lift each other up through shared support.
🌟 What We Do
Our primary services focus on keeping pets healthy, safe, and home—right where they belong.
🏠 Neighborhood PetCare Hubs
With support from the Petsmart Charities Incubator Grant, we’ve established three core PetCare Hubs at:
- California Community Center
- The Parkhill Neighborhood (with Louisville Parks & Rec)
- The Lord’s Kitchen
These sites host monthly Pet Resource Days to distribute food, leashes, toys, litter, and provide access to preventative vet services, vaccines, microchips, and help with spay/neuter scheduling.
🚐 Mobile PetCare Hub
Our outreach team sets up pop-up clinics and resource tables at events across Louisville—reaching even more pet families through trusted local partners. This was made possible by the generous van donation.
💉 Vaccine & Wellness Clinics
We host regular low-cost clinics for cats and dogs, offering:
- Rabies and DAPP vaccines
- Wellness exams
- Nail trims, dewormers, and more
🚨 Please note: Pets4Life Louisville focuses on preventative care and pet wellness though Pop-up vet events. We do not provide emergency vet services or funding assistance for emergencies or individual vet appointments.
✂️ Snips & Chips Campaign
Snips & Chips is our newest campaign focused on spay/neuter and microchipping—two powerful tools to keep pets healthy, safe, and home. We’re holding free microchip clinics across the city and partnering with local events like District 15’s B.O.B series to talk with pet families about the benefits of spay/neuter and microchipping. Our goal is to make these essential services accessible, affordable, and easy to understand.
🐶 Complete Fix Program As part of Snips & Chips, our Complete Fix bundle offers: spay or neuter, vaccines, microchips, & dewormer – all for just $30-$40 for Jefferson County residents – $500+ value. By combining outreach, education, and low-cost care, Snips & Chips is helping families prevent unwanted litters and keep pets safely at home where they belong.
💻 Virtual PetCare Hub & Petcare Hub Navigator
We recently launched our PetCare Hub Navigator—a virtual resource center that offers:
- One-on-one support
- Transportation assistance
- Help navigating community resources
- Personalized care planning
Whether online, by phone, or in person, we’re here to guide families to the help they need.
🐶💞 Our Community Commitment
As the original Louisville pet nonprofit focused solely on pet retention, we recognize that no one group can do this work alone. That’s why we invest deeply in collaboration and community partnerships, working with trusted organizations like:
- Metro Animal Services (#yourcityshelter)
- Kentucky Humane Society (KHS)
- My Dog Eats First
- WAGS Pet Therapy
- Olmsted Parks Conservancy
- The Table
- Spay Anyway
- Snip N Save
- Mispits & Friends Rescue
- Metro Housing Authority Resident’s Council
- Metro Parks & Recreation
- And many more
Together, we’re creating a Pet Mutual Aid Hub—a collective safety net where pets and their families are supported, not judged.
❤️ How to Support: See the Pet Mutual Aid Hub for all the different ways to help!
Your donations directly support our all-volunteer work. Every dollar goes to the animals and their people—no salaries, no fluff.
Here’s what your monetary support can do:
- $10: Microchip a pet to help reunite a lost pet
- $20: Sponsor a pet at a Vaccine Clinic
- $25: Wellness exam for a cat or dog
- $30-$40: Cover the Spay/neuter Appointment Sign-up Fee
- $200: Dental surgery for a cat
- $400: Dental surgery for a dog
👉 See the Pet Mutual Aid Hub for ways to Donate, volunteer, share our work, or send new (or gently used) supplies
📣 2025 Highlights: Pet Wellness Where It’s Needed Most
This year, Pets4Life Louisville will:
- Continue pop-up clinics and outreach in Portland, Chickasaw, Parkhill, and California neighborhoods
- Provide FREE microchips in various communities where needed
- Grow our PetCare Hub Navigator and digital tools
- Deepen partnerships and amplify impact
- Support over 1,000 pets and their families
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Together, we’re making a lifelong difference—for people, pets, and the neighborhoods we call home.
