PHaR - Pet Help and Rescue

11/30/2025

Do you live in an apartment building?

Our hearts go out to all those impacted by the devastating tragedy in Hong Kong. We wish our app were available in the region, and we continue to search for human service organizations to deploy our technology to save the lives of humans who cannot self evacuate.

11/12/2025

Animal Help Now is psyched to be speaking about Pet Help & Rescue at the upcoming International Association of Emergency Managers annual meeting. Our topic: Evacuation of Household Animals Home Alone When Disasters Threaten/Strike: An App for That

Abstract: The Marshall Fire (Boulder County, CO, December 2021) claimed the lives of two humans and an estimated one thousand dogs, cats and other pets. This tragedy showed once again that when disasters strike and we are not home, our trusted neighbors who are home represent our best chance for having our pets evacuated. This is the premise of the new Pet Help & Rescue app (PHaR), developed in the aftermath of the fire. By design, PHaR evacuation communications are separate and distinct from the chaos of calls, texts, and social media notifications that occur when evacuations are underway. PHaR represents a revolutionary upgrade to the "Give your neighbor a key" approach to pet evacuation and gives pets and other dependent animals their best chance yet of surviving when disasters strike. The app was designed with guidance from experts in the animal disaster management field by the nonprofit Animal Help Now, which has a successful 14-year history of app development in the emergency space. PHaR launched in July 2024. This presentation will cover PHaR’s role in disaster preparedness and response, lessons learned after its first year, and plans for the future, including efforts to employ its technology for disabled and elderly humans.

A neighbors-based messaging app for evacuating pets when disasters strike.

11/10/2025

Our nonprofit's first online auction is coming soon!

PLEASE SHARE! 10 days till the bidding starts! Register today! This is our biggest fundraiser of the year. We're still collecting items for the auction, so email us or comment below if you have good leads on vacation stays, Broadway plays, plane tickets, etc.

09/25/2025

We are honored to speak at this year's International Association of Emergency Managers annual conference (Louisville, KY, Nov 14-20). Special thanks to Humane World for Animals for encouraging us to get involved with IAEM.

09/24/2025

Don't be average. Average doesn't prepare for disasters. Average thinks it'll never happen to them.

04/09/2025

It CAN happen to you. Download the free Pet Help & Rescue app today.

Many of the suburbs and cities hit hardest in recent years were caught off-guard, and key stakeholders are racing to understand the dynamics that drive these fires

01/09/2025

From our parent org.

Connecting people across US who need help with wildlife emergencies and conflicts with local experts

12/19/2024

So grateful to Denver7 for covering our app. Please download it today! It's free, and it *will* save lives.

Right after the Marshall Fire, work began on an app that aims to support pet owners in case of an emergency by connecting them with trusted contacts to help evacuate their furry family members.

09/26/2024

The Pet Help & Rescue app increases the chances that your pets will survive when disasters strike. That includes hurricanes, whose paths are becoming increasingly difficult to predict as the intensifies. Please, for their sake and yours, take 10 minutes to download and set up this innovative app.

09/12/2024

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We are so grateful (and a bit relieved) that emergency managers are seeing the value in our new PHaR - Pet Help and Rescue pet evacuation app. We've presented to the City of Louisville (CO) and a number of emergency-focused nonprofits. We'll be presenting in November at the International Association of Emergency Managers annual conference. And this Saturday (9/14) we're presenting at the Town of Superior (CO) Ready Rover event. You don't need to be a resident of Superior to watch this event, which will be simulcast online. Hope to see you there! We expect to present at around 11:00 Mountain time (1pm Eastern).

https://www.superiorcolorado.gov/Home/Components/Calendar/Event/10248/363

09/12/2024

This Saturday at 11am Mountain time. Join us! More importantly, take 10 minutes to download and set up your PHaR app. Don't bet your pet's life that you're safe from disasters. Download links are at www.PHaR.org.

We are so grateful (and a bit relieved) that emergency managers are seeing the value in our new PHaR - Pet Help and Rescue pet evacuation app. We've presented to the City of Louisville (CO) and a number of emergency-focused nonprofits. We'll be presenting in November at the International Association of Emergency Managers annual conference. And this Saturday (9/14) we're presenting at the Town of Superior (CO) Ready Rover event. You don't need to be a resident of Superior to watch this event, which will be simulcast online. Hope to see you there! We expect to present at around 11:00 Mountain time (1pm Eastern).

https://www.superiorcolorado.gov/Home/Components/Calendar/Event/10248/363

07/30/2024

Please please get prepared.