How Your Donations Are Used

The average cost to rescue one Havanese is $786.00

HRI currently welcomes your donations via PayPal, Network for Good, and regular U.S. Mail.

Please look for a confirmation email sent from the platform of your choice above. If you don't receive a confirmation email indicating receipt of your donation, please check your spam/junk folders. Email confirmation could be coming from an account named HavToHavIt Store. If you have any concerns regarding your donation, please let us know by clicking here. We also offer Tribute Donation Certificates for gift-giving. After making your donation, please click on the small certificate to view the types of certificates available. Thank you for your generous support of the HRI rescue dogs!provided by our very generous foster families.

Expenses for rescue dogs may include:

Ways To Donate

  • Spay/Neuter
  • Vaccinations
  • Fecal and heart worm tests
  • Mandatory medications
  • Corrective surgical procedures
  • Repair of injuries
  • Euthanasia (when necessary)
  • Animal shelter release fees
  • Boarding fees (for quarantine of contagious or possibly contagious rescues)
  • Micro-chipping
  • Transportation in areas where volunteers can not be found
  • Crates (if/when needed)
  • Any other necessary cost incurred

Food, bedding, toys, etc. are usually provided by our very generous foster families.

Those wishing to donate by mail
send checks to:

John Vics, Treasurer
3435 Willowcrest Street
High Point, NC 27265.
Generous Foster Families.

Starting today, you can now text to donate to HRI!
All you need to do is follow these steps:

  • Text HAVANESE to this number—53555.
  • Wait a couple of seconds, and you will have the option to click on the secure link that will take you to a website called Give Butter.
  • On the first screen, you can choose the frequency and amount of your donation and add a note or comment.
  • On the next screen, you will see that a service processing fee is included in your donation. If you prefer not to cover the cc processing fee, you can click the box, and you will not have to pay the fee. But we hope you consider helping HRI cover our costs!

Also here is the secure link for our givebutter campaign

Click Here

Administrative costs, such as the ones below, are not included in the amount indicated above as the average cost to rescue one Havanese.

  • Web site hosting
  • Insurance
  • Online Database (for tracking our dogs, expenses, donations, etc.)
  • Legal/Professional fees
  • Postage (for reimbursing volunteers, etc)
Tribute Donation Certificates

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