Established in 2006, The Foundation for Animal Care and Education (FACE) is a not-for-profit 501(c)(3) public charity, whose mission is to enhance and preserve the quality of life of animals by providing access to necessary medical care and education. Based on established criteria, FACE provides financial grants to animal owners who are unable to partially or fully cover the cost of their pet’s emergency or critical care.
As many people today experience increasing economic challenges, their pets are suffering too. The number of people who cannot afford critical medical care for their sick or injured pet is growing at an alarming rate.
In what is being labeled as ‘economic euthanasia,’ these beloved companions are being euthanized because their owners cannot afford the often unexpected cost of treatment needed to save their lives. The FACE Foundation was created to address this tragedy. What started out as a beautiful vision to stop the surrender and euthanasia of beloved family pets, has become a supportive center where families in crisis can get a helping hand to save their pets’ lives.
The FACE Foundation is the first of its kind in San Diego County. While there are wonderful charitable groups focused on finding homes for pets without families, there are no other organizations that are singularly dedicated to saving the lives of pets that are already in loving homes, but whose families cannot pay for all or part of the emergency or critical care they need to survive.
FACE relies solely on donations to continue its mission of providing access to life saving veterinary care and to enhance and preserve the quality of life for these loving pets.
Please check out our Success Stories page to look at some of the animals FACE has been able to assist.
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Great pictures!
Your mission is so noble and your work so necessary. Thank you for what you do for the vulnerable––both human and animal.
Thank you so much for the kind words!
My pleasure.
Wonderful blog. I am a blogger from Australia and my dog is also from a rescue centre called Animal Aid. They do amazing work and he’s been the best dog.
Hi Miriam, thanks for the kind words! Love your blog…beautiful dogs!
Thank you so much. They’ve been an absolute joy in my life – all of them have taught me something!
Thank you for visiting my website and for all you do to help animals! I am following you. ❤
Thank you! You’re doing great work with your website!
I just clicked on your News & Events page..it says that page can’t be found, wanted to let you know.
Thank you, we’re in the process of redesigning our website, I will let them know!
The “Success stories” link doesn’t work either, just so you know. You provide a greatly needed service. I hate it when I learn that people have to put their pets to sleep, simply because they cannot afford the care.
Thanks so much, we redesigned the website recently so some of the links might still need to be updated. I will let them know!
Thanks for liking my blog post. I love animals as well as writing about them. Your foundation is doing work I haven’t heard of previously i.e. helping the pet owners who cannot afford to get their pets the required treatment. All the best to you guys.
Thank you so much…sorry for the late reply! 😀
Thank you for your work.
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Thank you so much for implementing a greatly needed program. I see a lot of families needing assistance in LA county and often resorting to Carson Shelter for help.
Yes, in places where the cost of living is high–like SoCal–pet owner assistance is especially important!
Just wanted to say Happy Easter from my Fluffybutt Family to yours 🙂 I hope you have a great day and thank you for following Fluffybutts Family!
Thank you so much…same to you and yours!
Thank you!
Hello FACE Team: I’ve nominated you for The One Lovely Blog Award. Of course participation is optional but if you are interested you can get more information here on my recent post: https://goldenkali.com/2017/08/08/one-lovely-blog-award/
– Take care,
Mike and Kali
Thank you Mike and Kali! Congrats on your award and thanks for the nomination…it was fun reading all about you!
Hey guys, thanks for the like on our page. Looks like you guys are doing brilliant work over there in America, the animals salute you! Well they would if they had hands, anyway 😀
Thanks! ❤
I have a wonderful loving male Chihuahua, named Iggy, he is having some issues with a couple of teeth, in the back, we have a vet he sees for shots, and normal care claw trimming and such, our vet informed me that his teeth needed pulled he has been on antibiotics for infection and he also said he has a heart murmur, the cost of pulling him teeth, which requires him being put under we cannot afford, he is a great part of our family and my husband is on disability and that’s our only income, needing assistance.
Hello Cynthia, FACE assists San Diego, CA area pet owners whose animals require emergency or critical veterinary care. Please see our website and/or contact us for more information: https://face4pets.org/
Good luck with Iggy!
I just dont know what else to do. 😭my 9 yr doxie, Daisys had a mass removed yesterday. But she hasnt stopped crying since we got home last night😢 i called south coast pet hospital where surgrry was done and they told me its normal and pretty much brushed me off.
Im not trying to bad mouth them or anything but tbh im extremely unhappy with the way they did it. She has a drain in still .. that , honestly, looks like a 5 yr old did it blindfolded. Ive been a wreck the last 48 hrs. Shes in sooooo much pain and its literally breaking my heart seeing her like this.
To be quite frank i think its beyond the scope of “normal” for her crying. They gave me tramadol, carprofen,cefpodoxine but its not working AT ALL.😭😭😭 she hasnt moved at all since we got home. She cant even move her leg out from under her by herself ,forcing me to lift her up to straighten out her legs. I also was concerned that the bandage is wrapped way too tightly. It looks very uncomfortable and painful. They gave me no instructions on how to care for her. No number to call in case something goes wrong after hours, they didnt even schedule the follow up to have the drain removed until i asked them about it today. Which is when they scheduled her to come back on thursday. They basically couldnt care less. Im trying to find out what the proper way to care for her while she has the drain in is and what the timline is for it to be removed or standard procedure is following the removal surgery id really appreciate it. Im scared shes gonna die on me. I cant even move her to take her to get checked😭 im completely lost and overwhelmed. Please help.😣😭😢 oh and she hasnt even gone potty since we’ve been home.
Any and all insight, comments, suggestions, advice appreciated. Please share as well
Caroline, based on the name of your pet hospital, it looks like you live in Santa Ana. FACE works with San Diego area veterinary partners, but we would urge you to contact your veterinarian or take your dog to an emergency vet clinic if you feel she needs urgent care. I am forwarding your note to FACE staff, but please do contact your vet or an emergency vet in your area. Best of luck to you and Daisy.
Do you help with critical and emergency care of avian and other exotic species?
Yes, we have helped a few exotics. Our assistance is limited to the San Diego California area. Please see our website for more information: https://face4pets.org/apply-for-assistance/