Please join us on Friday, November 7, 2025 from 6pm to 9pm at Voodoo Brewing Co. at 3432 State Road 60, Valrico, FL 33594 for our first ever Hearts and Smiles fundraiser. We will have raffle baskets and t-shirts for sale along with our whole team there to meet you! Wear your boots and prepare for a night of good fun with great people. If you can’t attend, please consider making a donation online! Your donation helps us continue our mission!

Two of our biggest veterinary costs are heartworm treatment and dentals.

Our shelter is located in a rural part of Hillsborough County, near the border of Polk County, Florida. We try to take as many owner relinquished pets as we can so that we can keep them out of the county municipal shelters. We also pull high-risk animals from county shelters that are not available for adoption to the general public due to health or temperament. Because of this, we often intake senior pets in desperate need of dental care as well as heartworm positive dogs.

Dental disease in cats and dogs starts off with plaque then leads to a bacterial infection and progresses to a point that the pet stops eating and the bacteria from the mouth spreads through the body causing heart problems and damage to other organs. Dental treatment can be costly and we work hard to fundraise for our cats and dogs in need of this type of veterinary care.

Heartworm disease is a serious and potentially fatal disease caused by foot-long worms that live in the heart, lungs and associated blood vessels of affected pets, causing severe lung disease, heart failure and damage to other organs in the body. This disease is so easily preventable and all of our shelter pets are given monthly heartworm and flea prevention. Our cost for monthly prevention averages $20 per pet per month. We generally house between 45 and 50 dogs at a time so our monthly prevention cost often exceeds $1,000 per month. Heartworm treatment costs around $750 for a small to medium sized dog and the process takes many months. We sometimes decide to do the “slow-kill” method of treatment which is a combination of heartworm prevention and antibiotics. This process is less costly and less invasive, but can take a much longer time to get negative results on a heartworm test.

THESE PUPPERS FOUGHT HEARTWORM!

Check out our shelter pets that received either heartworm injections or slow-kill to defeat heartworm.

  • Theodore

  • Minnie

  • Pixie

  • Walter

  • Clyde (Adopted)

  • Tinkerbell (Adopted)

  • Mia (Adopted)

  • Sampson (Adopted)

  • Bonnie (Adopted)

  • Jackson (Adopted)

  • Peanut

  • PeeWee

  • Molly (Adopted)

  • Henry (Adopted)

  • Marco (Adopted)

  • Foxy (Adopted)

  • Mr. Jack (Adopted)

  • Weezy (Adopted)

  • Max (Adopted)

  • Bailey (Adopted)

  • Emma (Adopted)

  • Bella (Adopted)

  • Max & Sol (Adopted)

THESE FUR BABIES ARE ALL SMILES!

Check out our shelter pets that received dental procedures.

  • Lola

    Lola had a dental with extractions in September of 2025. The total cost for her treatment was $___.

  • Ella Bella

    Ella Bella had a dental with extractions in August of 2025. The total cost for her treatment was $___.

  • Gertrude (Adopted)

    Gertrude had a dental with extractions in August of 2025. The total cost for her treatment was $___.

  • Kirby

    Kirby had a dental with extractions in August of 2025. The total cost for his treatment was $—.

  • Bitty

    Bitty had a dental with extractions in June of 2025. The total cost for her treatment was $1,783.39.

  • Sassy

    Sassy had a dental with extractions in June of 2025. The total cost for her treatment was $1,820.68.

  • BamBam

    BamBam had a dental with extractions in June of 2025. The total cost for his treatment was $1,021.81.

  • Ryleigh (Adopted)

    Ryleigh had a dental with extractions in April of 2025. The total cost for her treatment was $___.

  • Max (Adopted)

    Max had a dental with extractions in March of 2025. The total cost for his treatment was $___.

  • Chloe

    Chloe had a dental with extractions in December of 2024. The total cost for her treatment was $__.

  • Koda (Adopted)

    Koda had a dental with extractions in November of 2024. The total cost for her treatment was $___.

  • Chico (Adopted)

    Chico had a dental with extractions in October of 2024. The total cost for his treatment was $___.

  • Winston (Adopted)

    Winston had a dental with extractions in September of 2024. The total cost for his treatment was $___.

  • Cindy (Not Available for Adoption)

    Cindy had a dental with extractions in August of 2024. The total cost for her treatment was $___.

  • Stewie (Adopted)

    Stewie had a dental with extractions in July of 2024. The total cost for his treatment was $___.

  • Jack (Adopted)

    Jack had a dental with extractions in June of 2024. The total cost for his treatment was $___.

  • Petunia (Adopted)

    Petunia had a dental with extractions in June of 2024. The total cost for his treatment was $___.

  • Ladybug (Rainbow Bridge)

    Ladybug had a dental with extractions in May of 2024. The total cost for his treatment was $___.

  • Amigo (Adopted)

    Amigo had a dental with extractions in May of 2024. The total cost for his treatment was $___.

  • Trisha/Miss Pats (Rainbow Bridge)

    Trisha had a dental with extractions in May of 2024. The total cost for her treatment was $___.

  • Shelby (Adopted)

    Shelby had a dental with extractions in May of 2024. The total cost for her treatment was $___.

  • LeeLee (Adopted)

    LeeLee had a dental with extractions in May of 2024. The total cost for her treatment was $___.

  • Calli (Adopted)

    Calli had a dental with extractions in February of 2024. The total cost for her treatment was $___.

  • Tux (Adopted)

    Tux had a dental with extractions in January of 2024. The total cost for his treatment was $___.

  • Diddy

    Diddy had a dental with extractions in November of 2023. The total cost for his treatment was $___.

  • Peter (Not Available for Adoption)

    Peter had a dental with extractions in November of 2023. The total cost for his treatment was $___.

  • Luna

    Luna had a dental with extractions in June of 2023. The total cost for her treatment was $__.