Your small change can
Make a big difference
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Whiskers and Tails boosts the human animal bond by assisting low-income companion animal families, focusing on seniors and individuals in delicate situations. We provide hands-on support, ensuring pets receive the care they deserve. By engaging the community, we help humans and pets thrive together.
About Whiskers and Tails
What We Do
At Whiskers and Tails we believe in helping our neighbors in need. Both humans and animals. We ensure that both low-income humans and their companion animals receive the basic and essential things they need to thrive. We focus on providing aid and outreach to seniors, veterans, survivors of domestic violence, displaced homemakers and entire families and their companion animals. We offer a lifeline when they need it the most.
Our Services
Our board reviews countless applications for assistance at the beginning of each year, selecting those with the greatest need. Some of the services we provide for our pre-approved families and individuals include:​
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Clothing and Basic needs: Supplying essential items like clothing, cleaning supplies, paper products and bedding, heaters and furnace repair or replacement in the winter months, and air conditioners and fans in the summer months.
2 Small home repairs for seniors and veterans: Offering small home repairs for the elderly and veterans,
including roofing and flooring as it is needed.
3 Food and Supplies: Providing human food, animal food, including animal prescription foods, cat litter,
bedding, and other animal care supplies and items.
4 Financial Assistance for veterinary care: We help people pay for urgent, emergency, and ongoing
veterinary care for their companion animals.
5 Human medical supplies: We provide diabetic supplies, hospital beds, bed pans, shower chairs, and
walkers for humans.
6 Weekly Deliveries: We deliver both human and animal foods, paper products, and personal hygiene items,
craft items, books and magazines, and other supplies every week to veterans and seniors. ​
We also have a Hope for the Holidays Program. We virtually adopt our families and their companion animals by telling their stories and listing their needs, as well as a wish or two.
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Why What We Do Matters
Every day, we witness the profound bond between people and their companion animals. For most seniors and many veterans, their animals are more than just pets. They are family members. They are the pillars they lean on when they need someone to be there for them when they are at their lowest point.
By offering these programs and services, we have saved the lives of over 5,000 animals because by helping the humans that care for them, we are helping companion animals stay at home where they belong. Not being given up to overcrowded shelters or losing their lives because their humans cannot afford their care.
Support Our Efforts
Explore our impact through these images
 Financial Aid for Vetting for cats |  Financial aid for vetting for dogs |  Groceries for seniors and veterans |
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 Food for families |  More food for families |  Cleaning supplies |
 Cat Litter |  Automobile supplies |  Laundry soap |
 Dog Food |  Cat/Dog food |  Kitchen garden supplies for ongoing food source |
 Animal care supplies and items |  Cleaning Supplies |  Feline diabetic supplies |
 Prescription foods |  Specialty foods |  Basic and Essential Needs |
Whiskers and Tails History- ​​
​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 8,100 humans and 8,551 companion animals.