Lost Pet Services, Inc. has been honored with a $20,000 grant from the Community Foundation of Sarasota County through their Animal Welfare Grant Program thanks to the Martha Leiter and Nancy Streetman Fund I and Robert Parker Fund. Lost Pet Services is a 100% volunteer-based organization dedicated to reuniting lost pets with their families through systematic, free pet recovery services, medical funding and promoting responsible pet ownership through educational resources to keep loved pets out of our over-crowded shelters and home safe with their families.

Since 2018, Lost Pet Services (LPS) has funded over $115,000 in pet medical care for local pets in the Sarasota and Manatee County area. “Since the pandemic began, we have seen a large increase in the number of families needing assistance. Our goal is to keep families and their pets together. We are extremely grateful to the Community Foundation of Sarasota County for awarding us this grant which will allow us to save more pets,” says Patty Giarrusso, President and Founder of Lost Pet Services, Inc.

All services provided by Lost Pet Services are free of charge to the local community. Besides providing medical assistance, LPS provides free microchips, free ID tags, financial support to those struggling with shelter fees and donates microchip scanners to our local police, fire stations and others who volunteer in our community. By providing medical funding for injured stray pets and owned loved pets injured when they are lost, LPS can keep more family pets out of the overcrowded local shelters and home safe with their families.

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