Saving the Lives of animals by helping the humans that care for them.
A Little Note About Us
Whiskers and Tails was created December 20th, 1999, and became a Missouri registered nonprofit organization in January of 2000. We were awarded our tax-exempt status as a public charity recognized by the Internal Revenue Service in 2001. We started out as and remain to this day an ALL-Volunteer humane/human outreach and assistance nonprofit organization. For over two decades we have helped companion animals stay at home with their families where they belong by providing the basic needs of life for both the humans and their companion animals. To date Whiskers and Tails has provided aid to over 7,200 humans and 8,051 companion animals. (Those numbers will be going up by the end of 2024)
Upcoming Events
Hope for the Holidays Program
Hope for the Holidays is a virtual adoption program where you can choose a family or individual and their companion animal to adopt for Christmas. They have tags posted on our site that list their greatest needs and at least one wish. You can use that to go out and shop for them or you can make a donation to us for them, and we will go do the shopping. Whatever works best for you.
We have a Christmas Crew (group of volunteers) that goes out and delivers the packages from the first week of December to Christmas Day.
Special Note - Please keep in mind that we do not remove tags after they have been adopted simply because we do not want any of our families or individuals that have access to the internet to lose hope. The Holidays are a really stressful time and for folks that struggle as hard as many of our families do, the thought that they will be forgotten at Christmas is just too depressing. We keep the tags up for everyone. If a family or individual has not be chosen by Christmas, we will put together a package for them from our "general donations". One way or another everyone will get something for Christmas.
Just go to our Hope for Holidays page and look through the tags. Choose who you want to adopt and message or email us and let us know. We can quickly tell you if they have been adopted or not.
It's fast, easy and you truly are making a huge difference when you choose one of our families to virtually adopt.
About our General Needs List - This list is put together and created for the sole purpose of ensuring that ALL of our families and companion animals have their needs met. The list is a combination of the needs of survivors of domestic violence who were too scared to create a tag, larger families who felt that they would not be adopted because their needs were too great and the basic needs of many families that might not be chosen.
If you can, please take a look at the list and donate at least one or two items.
All packages, gifts and items for Christmas should be in by December 18th to allow us time to deliver them before Christmas.
We are currently working on a video series that we are planning on putting out after the new year starts. We will be sharing the link soon.
Join Us for
Video Night.
Date will be
posted on this website
We can't wait for you to see our new video
