BEAUMONT, Texas — A Southeast Texas animal rescue is having a little fun with its "Not So Sweet Valentine's Day Fundraiser."
Beaumont Pets Alive is offering to place a label with your exes' first name (no last names, please) in the bottom of their shelter cat's litter boxes or on a stuffed animal to be thrown to the dogs.
A $25 donation to the group will get your anti-Valentine's name in a litter box or on a stuffed animal and you'll be able to watch the cats and dogs do their business via a livestream from the Beaumont Pets Alive Facebook page on Valentine's Day.
Donations and names will be accepted via Paypal through February 13, 2023.
If you choose the cat option, your exes' name (again, no last names, please) will be carefully placed in a litter box.
The cats will then take it from there and do the honors of celebrating your ex as only a cat in a litterbox can do.
Should you choose the dog option your exes' first name will be place on a stuffed animal and thrown to the dogs to chew and tear them up.
This is the first time the group has done a fundraiser like this said Dr. Kelley Kays, a veterinarian, who is the founder and executive director of Beaumont Pets Alive.
The fundraiser is meant to be a fun, yet different way to celebrate the holiday and help the charity with it's mission to save dogs and cats from euthanization, Kays told 12News.
Kays says they got the idea from a humane society shelter in Ohio.
Beaumont Pets Alive has a shelter in Winnie where you can adopt cats and dogs weekdays from 9 a.m. - 5 p.m. You can learn more about them at their website.
Beaumont Pets Alive was founded in 2018 to assist in the rescue and transport of homeless animals at Beaumont Animal Care, which is the city's shelter, according to the group's website.
One of the groups primary goals was to assist the municipal shelter in achieving a “No-Kill” designation.
Beaumont Pets Alive has saved a total of 3,043 animals so far in it's quest.
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The City of Beaumont's shelter gained "no kill" status in January 2019.
“No-Kill” is defined as a 90% “live release rate," meaning that nine of every 10 animals admitted into the city shelter leaves the shelter alive.
