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Best Friends 'Cause for Paws' Program Provides
Pet Resuscitation Masks for Community Firefighters
The Cause for Paws Campaign
has now concluded in most cities. Please contact your
local Best Friends to find out
if masks are still available in your area.
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 "Cause for Paws" is a fund-raising campaign started by Best Friends Pet Care to provide pet resuscitation masks to fire and rescue teams in communities where we do business.
 Pets are at risk of injury from smoke inhalation during home fires -- just as people are. However, human oxygen masks don't fit properly on animals, and many pets die from smoke inhalation. The purpose of "Cause for Paws" is to help protect pets by outfitting emergency teams in Best Friends service areas with specially-designed dog and cat oxygen masks.
The program began in July 2004 when Best Friend donated fifteen masks to the North Plainfield, NJ Fire Department. Community feedback was so strong that the company launched "Cause for Paws" to encourage contributions towards the purchase of masks for other fire departments. The program has since been expanded to other Best Friends locations, and continues to grow.
To encourage community giving, Best Friends has established a matching program: for fire departments within 15 miles of a participating location (see list below), we match community gifts on a dollar-for-dollar basis.
Contributions come from people of all ages and walks of life: from kindergarten students in South Carolina, who did household chores to raise money to get masks for their local fire station; to a volunteer firefighter in New Jersey, who wanted to outfit the station where he worked; to an elderly couple in Connecticut, who donated funds as a Christmas gift to their family.
For more information, read the latest news about the program, or check our Cause for Paws Questions-and-Answers. Click here to view our "Cause for Paws" poster.
Read Some Cause for Paws Testimonials
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