Help Fund Sunshine's Friends' Newest Program: Hope4Paws Veterinary Fund & Referral

Sunshine’s Friends Cat and Dog Rescue (SFCDR) is an all-volunteer organization located in Jessup, Maryland. We have been involved with helping animals in need since 2003. We incorporated and became a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization in October of 2014. The number of animals we have rescued or aided has grown every year since then. We were first established under the name “Sunshine’s Friends Cat Rescue and Sanctuary”. The name and mission have changed to include dogs due to a growing need to provide most of the same help for dogs as we do for cats.

As we have grown, out of necessity, so has our mission – we have expanded to rescue both cats and dogs. Thus we changed our name to Sunshine’s Friends Cat and Dog Rescue. We introduced our foster-based dog adoption program in March of 2018 and hope it is as successful as our cat placement programs. We receive several calls each week for help to rehome pets. Some of these situations are medically related and only require simple treatments, but the owners just could not afford to pay. There are several instances where we have heard from our veterinarian partners that someone would have to euthanize their cat or dog because they could not pay the surgery bill. There were several cases that cats and dogs were surrendered at county shelters or left at the veterinarian clinics because the owners could not afford to pay the bills. As such, our thoughts turned to the need for a program that would help solve this situation, which is Hope4Paws.