Cosmo Fund for Senior Dogs

Donate To The Cosmo Fund

Northeast Ohio Collie Rescue created the Cosmo Fund for Senior Dogs to provide support to both senior collies, and their senior caregivers. The fund was created in honor of the late Cosmo Plottke, and initially funded with a generous bequest from his lifelong companion, the late Ed Plottke.

Who can benefit from the fund?

The Cosmo Fund can be used to help cover high, or unexpected, medical expenses that become more common in senior dogs and forever fosters. It can also provide extra help to senior care-givers who are faced with fixed or declining incomes that threaten their ability to keep a companion animal. The fund will also provide financial support for medical expenses to foster homes housing hard-to-place senior dogs and forever fosters, so that they may live out their lives in dignity and comfort.

Also, in recognition of the value that a companion animal can bring to seniors who may otherwise be faced with limited social opportunities and resulting loneliness, the fund will be available to provide resources to NEOCR intake and adoptions volunteers in obtaining senior dogs and restoring them to optimal health and condition before matching them up to their new home. And, understanding the concerns of senior caregivers facing end-of-life issues, the fund will be available to assure them that surviving companions will be re-homed, or placed in a permanent foster home where they will be safe, loved, and valued as they live out their own lives.

It is also hoped that the fund can help coordinate the activities of volunteers who can keep in touch with homes to help assure the needs of all are being met. If you think to fund could help you, or someone you know, please contact Ohio Collie Rescue at contact@neocr.org.