All our tails have happy endings
Rehoming cats & dogs for over 40 years
Pet Welfare was created in September 1982 so that military members needing to relinquish their pets had a safe place to leave them until we could find a home for them. Stray pets were also brought to Pet Welfare waiting to be adopted. At that time, we were giving cats and dogs away because we had so many to care for and we were just happy to find a home for all of them. We were a no-kill animal shelter open to the public working to help the military and the local community when they had to leave their pets behind. The dogs were kept in the abandoned Air Force K-9 dog kennels built in 1961 and the cats were kept in cages housed in the attached office.
Today, we charge a fee for adoptions to help defray the cost of maintaining a shelter for the pets. We cannot take in strays in keeping with Florida law and Eglin AFB Regulations. However, our focus still remains in providing a no-kill animal shelter to military members and the local community needing to relinquish their pets. We continue to provide this service with an all-volunteer force and we receive no financial support from the military or the Department of Defense.
We are always in need of volunteers and foster homes and depend solely on donations, grants, adoptions fees, and fundraisers for our financial needs. We love and care for animals in need and on those days when we feel we’re the only ones caring or can barely think straight because we’re so tired, we pick ourselves up and look around and remember what we do it for...the animals that need us.
Support Hugs and Kisses Animal Fund
The Hugs and Kisses Animal Fund is a privately funded California 501 (c) (3) non-profit trust dedicated to the financial support of humane organizations. Their mission is to be the outsourced fundraising arm for small animal rescue organizations for which a staff fundraising person is unfeasible, and for which other financial resources are unavailable. EIN 95-4549031
The Hugs and Kisses Fund consists of a group of community leaders concerned about the growing inability of our “Humane Heroes” and rescue organizations to provide care and shelter in today’s trying economic times. The Fund focuses its grants on supporting the health and welfare of all animals including but not limited to; organizations charged with population control, providing training for use in therapy, support of persons with disabilities, as well as organizations involved in shelter, rehabilitation and placement in good homes. It is our goal to be the “United Way” for animal organizations. They will provide grants to small “mom and pop” animal welfare organizations across the United States to support ongoing operations or in times of emergency. This fund will keep humane staff doing actual rescue work, care and placement without worrying about raising money for their efforts.
Please click the "Hugs and Kisses Animal Fund" image below to donate to a wonderful fund. (Note: Donation are to Hugs and Kisses Animal Fund not to Pet Welfare.)
View some social media content from the trustee and founder of Hug and Kisses Animal Fund, Warren Eckstein. He is also a known pet and animal expert with over 40 years of experience:
683 Range Road
Eglin AFB, FL 32542
PO Box 1914
Eglin AFB, FL 32542
850-678-5066
Tuesday-Saturday: 0900 - 1300 hours (9:00am - 1:00pm) or by appointment
Closed Sunday, Monday, and All Federal Holidays.
