All About STS
Who are we?
STS (Stop the Suffering) is volunteer run animal rescue based in Columbus, Ohio. We rescue dogs from all over Ohio, northern Kentucky and West Virginia. We house dogs through foster homes and strive to connect each one with their perfect forever family. STS is a 501(c) 3.
Our Mission
To rescue dogs and cats from high kill shelters, primarily in Ohio, transport them to safe environments where they can be matched and evaluated with a new family. To raise funds in order to provide veterinary care, transportation and food for rescued animals. To provide education and resources to promote responsible pet ownership.
Sponsorhip
Because we have a major transport program, we are able to see the inner workings of the rural shelters. We do the best we can to network these dogs to get to a rescue, but sometimes we run out of space and time.
When a dog goes through our sponsorship program, we continue to pay for all the dog's needs while we network them to other rescues. The number of dogs we can sponsor is directly related to the amount of funds we receive through donations and adoptions. Shelters often cannot afford preventatives, so our program will help pay for these vaccinations and preventatives. This is extremely helpful because it gives shelters the ability to provide a healthy dog to a rescue.
We also provide donated food and supplies to our rural shelters each time we go down for our transport program.
Grey Muzzle Organization
We have a special program dedicated to seniors! For us, seniors are near and dear to our hearts. Seniors struggle making it out of the shelters alive for many reasons including medical and age-related issues. We recognize that some families would like to spend more time with the dog and opt to adopt a younger pup, but we believe that there is never ENOUGH time with any dogs! Seniors may require a little extra TLC but sometimes you wouldn’t even know their age! Our Gray Muzzle program is designed to help these sweet pups live the rest of their life happily.
Haley’s Comet of Change
Haley came to Stop the Suffering with broken bones, countless buckshot, and a myriad of health issues due to overbreeding and neglect. Despite her recovery from many of the issues, we couldn’t save her from the mammary cancer that spread aggressively to her lungs.
With the assistance of Haley's foster mom, Ruthanne, Stop The Suffering launched Haley's Comet of Change in 2021. The goal of this program is to promote and educate others about the benefits of spay/neuter and expand community outreach to make spay/neuter surgeries accessible to more people.
Our Haley’s Comet spay and neuter fund has already altered 176 dogs and cats this year. This potentially prevented 10,560 unnecessary offspring into the dog/cat overpopulation problem.
Haley’s time on Earth was too short, but her story will continue. She will prevent others from losing their life too soon to preventable cancer.
Equal Opportunity - STS is committed to providing equal opportunities to all applicants for adoption or foster without regard to race, color, religion, national origin or ancestry, veteran status, disability, gender, age, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, or any protected group status as defined by law.