People, Animals, Love and Support East
Bay (PALS) is an all-volunteer led nonprofit organization with a mission to
help pets both find and stay in their forever homes. To accomplish this
mission, PALS supports the needs of people and pets, helping shelter pets find
homes and helping owners who have fallen on hard times keep their pets. PALS
has four programmatic areas that include: (1) our Rainbow Bridge program that
finds foster homes for elderly, end-of life-shelter dogs and also provides them
with vet care; (2) support for the dog foster program run out of Oakland Animal
Services; (3) assistance with owner retention, including providing training
support and free vaccines, microchips and spay and neuter services to low
income pet owners; and (4) support for people who adopt shelter pets, including
training resources. PALS has a strong partnership with Oakland Animal Services,
the City of Oakland’s municipal shelter. PALS was founded in late 2014 and has
an annual budget of approximately $50,000.