FRIENDS OF DETROIT ANIMAL CARE AND CONTROL

Friends of Detroit Animal Care and Control (FoDACC) is a community-driven 501(c)(3) nonprofit dedicated to improving the lives of Detroit’s animals and supporting the people who love and care for them.

We proudly collaborate with, but operate independently from, Detroit Animal Care and Control (DACC) and community partners to save lives, strengthen the human-animal bond, and build a more compassionate city for pets and people alike.

Our mission focuses on three key goals:

1. Keeping pets out of the shelter by helping Detroit residents access free spay/neuter, vaccinations, microchips, and pet food, and by developing a citywide Pet Resource Center to educate pet owners and support responsible and fulfilling pet care.
2. Supporting shelter animals by providing supplemental resources and bridging the gap so that animals at DACC receive quality care and compassion.
3. Helping network adoptable pets so they can find homes through adoptions, foster programs, and partnerships with rescue organizations.

Through collaboration, compassion, and community engagement, FoDACC is creating a Detroit where pets and people thrive together, building stronger bonds and healthier neighborhoods, and increasing human-animal well-being.

Our Vision

Friends of Detroit Animal Care and Control is committed to saving animals’ lives, ensuring equal access to companion animals for those of all socio-economic levels, and raising the level of care for animals living in the city of Detroit.

Our Core Values

Our goal is to create and train a team of volunteers who are knowledgeable of canine and feline body language, adept at handling animals in the most humane way, practice current scientifically based training methods, and who are advocates for this city, its citizens, and all animals.

Our goal is to supplement the budget allocated to the shelter by the city of Detroit in order to operate a fully functional shelter with innovative and lifesaving programs by applying for grants, holding fundraisers, forming relationships with and stewarding donors and foundations, and accepting all material and in-kind donations from our volunteers and supporters.

Our goal is to work with DACC to expand and perfect their adoption program, foster program, and transfer/transport program. We want to host off-site adoption events and get animals from Detroit adopted back into Detroit, as well as surrounding communities. We also want to work with partner shelters in other regions of the state and country to move dogs and cats from our overpopulated area to areas where there is not such an abundance of homeless animals. We also want to expand our shelter intervention services to stem the flow of animals into the shelter in the first place by keeping them in their homes or reuniting them quickly if they become displaced.

Our goal is to practice and promote science-based training methods that are not harmful to a dog’s mental or physical state and encourage and strengthen the bond between humans and animals. Our goal is to promote education both inside and outside the organization and community that all dogs are individuals, that breed-specific legislation and policies don’t work, that no cat should be declawed, and that community cats should be cared for in line with progressive humane programs like trap-neuter-return.