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Health & Fitness

STARescue - Stops Animal Abandonment

Stamford Animal Rescue the areas only rescue group dedicted to stopping animal abandonment!

Stamford Animal Rescue has opened the areas first Pet Food Pantry to assist Connecticut residents and beyond feed their pets.

We will offer free pet food to pet caretakers struggling in these hard economic times so they do not have to abandon their pets.

Our goal is to keep pets out of the shelters and in their homes where they belong.

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You can build all the shiny new animal shelters you want for abandoned pets, but we really need to address the issues of why they are being abandoned, and try to solve them. That is what Stamford Animal Rescue is doing.

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