The Michigan Animal Adoption Network, founded in 1994, is a licensed 501c3 umbrella organization comprised of two basic operations: The Animal Care Network and the Adopt-A-Pet Network.
The Animal Care Network is a dedicated group of volunteers who spend each weekend, year round, in Metro Detroit communities rescuing and providing relief to outdoor and indoor pets. Some of the supplies provided include: dog houses, straw, food, water, bowls, leashes, chain and nail trimming.
Adopt-A-Pet Network:
The Network is a coalition of area rescue groups, foster homes, and shelters working to place rescued and unwanted animals into new permanent homes. To date, we have placed over 6,200 animals. We all work as a team to give dogs and cats a renewed
chance at life!
Volunteers:
Welcome and thank you for your interest in the Michigan Animal Adoption Network (MAAN)! All of our operations can only be successful through volunteer efforts and donations. We are always looking for both.
The Animal Care Network, also known as the "Doghouse Project," is an endeavor consisting of teams of volunteers who visit low income areas in suburban Wayne and Oakland counties each weekend to provide supplies and attention to strictly outdoor animals who have been neglected. We are looking for volunteers able to cope with the often harsh conditions we see.
These animals spend their entire lives outside, often under miserable conditions. ACN volunteers visit approximately 20 to 30 locations each weekend and are there to provide doghouses, clean straw, fresh food and water in clean bowls, tie-out chains, collars, and a little attention to animals and owners in need of assistance. ACN runs are not always pretty and volunteers have encountered some awful situations. But knowing that we are easing an animal's suffering is all we need to keep us going. We also work to educate owners about proper pet care and have developed an aggressive spay/neuter campaign in these areas. If you have a few hours each week or each month, this program could be right up your alley!
Fostering Animals:
Being a caregiver for an animal entails bringing an unknown animal into your home, maintaining all medical care, working hard on socialization and training, and generally treating them as your own pets so that they are ready to be pets in someone else's home. All animals available for adoption in our Adopt-A-Pet program are housed in our foster care system. Foster caregivers are encouraged to maintain a relationship with adopters. After all, you've put a lot of work into making these animals ready for placement into permanent homes. Foster caregivers must also agree to take the animal back into foster care should the placement not work out. Fostering an animal can be a most rewarding endeavor. If you feel you can offer an animal a temporary home, please contact the Network office at 248-545-5055 for more details.
Please consider offering your volunteer services. We always need your assistance and you'll be incredibly rewarded for your efforts. If you have any questions, please feel free to call the Network office at 248-545-5055. We know we can't save them all, but we can make a difference for the animals that do touch our lives each day.
