Our Programs
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Tuesday 10 am - 12 pm
Wednesday 2-4 pm
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Call 540-885-2260
General Medical Assistance Fund
The heart of The Mosby Foundation is keeping dogs with the families who love them. Our General Medical Assistance Fund, generously supported by our donors and Petco Love, offers financial assistance to qualified applicants facing critical, non-routine medical expenses—so families don’t have to choose economic euthanasia or shelter surrender due to lack of resources. When we say critical, we mean serious, time-sensitive medical situations where treatment is needed to prevent suffering or a life-threatening outcome (for example: obstruction, pyometra, severe injury, or other major illness). We typically cannot help with routine care or minor issues. Because we coordinate directly with veterinary clinics, our review process typically takes about 4 days. If your dog needs care today, please contact your clinic immediately and apply as soon as you can with a current estimate. We know that when it’s your best friend, everything feels urgent. At the same time, we’re a small nonprofit and we coordinate directly with veterinary clinics, so our typical review timeline is about 4 days. If your dog needs immediate care, please seek veterinary care right away and apply with an estimate as soon as possible.
Spay & Neuter Assistance
This program is active with limited capacity (funding-dependent).
The Mosby Foundation offers financial assistance for spay/neuter to families living in or near the Shenandoah Valley area. We prioritize households with the greatest need, and approvals are based on available funding at the time of request.
Often, families want to provide responsible care for their dogs, but can’t afford to have their dogs spayed or neutered.
Spaying and neutering is one of the most effective ways to prevent unwanted litters and reduce pressure on shelters and rescues. National shelter data shows more dogs are being euthanized as shelters hit capacity, and the trend has worsened in recent years. There are also important medical and behavioral benefits to spaying and neutering your animals.
Source: Shelter Animals Count, Full Year 2023 Report
Need help with spay/neuter?
If you are located in or near the Shenandoah Valley area and need assistance, please call 540-885-2260 or email info@themosbyfoundation.org and let us know you’re interested in our Spay/Neuter Assistance Program.
If we are at capacity when you contact us, we’ll still respond and share next-step resources and options to help you pursue surgery as soon as possible.
Benefits of spaying (female pets) or neutering (male pets):
- Your female pet will live a longer, healthier life. In addition to preventing unwanted litters, spaying your pet before her first heat offers the best protection from life-threatening diseases such as pyometra and mammary cancer.
- Neutering your male pet prevents testicular cancer and some prostate problems.
Please spay and neuter — it saves lives.
More programs
Thanks to our wonderful partnership with Petco Love, the Blue Buffalo Foundation and our own Armani/Schaffer Cancer Fund, we will be able to help hundreds of dogs fight canine cancer!
Cancer is not only frightening, treatment is expensive. The Mosby Foundation hopes to help offset that cost to qualified applicants. We are so very honored to partner with Petco Love and offer financial support to dogs in need of critical cancer care.
Petco Love has demonstrated again and again its extraordinary commitment to reach out to local communities and help pets in need. On their website, Petco Love says, “We support organizations who have the biggest hearts and save the most lives.” However, without the Petco Foundation’s huge heart, our ability to help dogs in need would be vastly limited. Thank you, Petco Love for allowing us to continue to do this important work!
Every year, an estimated 6,000,000 dogs are diagnosed with some form of cancer. That’s over 16,000 dogs every day! For many of these dogs, cancer will act much like it does in their human companions. And, it will spread to the same organs as their human friends. Any guardian who has had to deal with canine cancer knows how heartbreaking it is. In fact, canine cancer is the leading cause of death in dogs over the age of 10. Learn more about the 10 Warning Signs of Pet Cancer.