The Story of Hustle Love Paws
3,100,000unadopted pets
Each year in the U.S., about 6.3 million animals enter shelters — but only about 3.2 million get adopted.
Half of them never make it out.
Chasing Sunsets started as a pet memorial celebration of life business, but we wanted to give back to the pet community, and fundraising is our big goal. We volunteer at our local rescues and foster ourselves, and we see how much effort and money is spent on the critical component of spaying and neutering. Thousands of dollars monthly. Many folks don’t realize adoptions can not occur until this is done. We are small but have high hopes to grow. We will provide information and funds for local Bay Area rescues to start. We will share stories about the work folks are doing to make saving lives happen. Hustle Love Paws was created as our niche because we believe, ‘It’s Hip To Snip!’
🐾 Health & Behavior Benefits (for your pet):
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Reduces cancer risk:
Spaying females eliminates the risk of uterine infections and greatly reduces the chance of breast tumors. Neutering males prevents testicular cancer and lowers the risk of prostate issues. -
Improves behavior:
Pets are often calmer and less aggressive. Neutered males are less likely to roam, spray, or mark territory. -
No heat cycles or yowling:
Spayed females don’t go into heat—so no loud vocalizing, bleeding, or unwanted attention from males. -
Longer, healthier lives:
Studies show spayed/neutered pets tend to live longer due to reduced disease risks and accidents (like roaming or fighting).
Spay/neuter programs have been shown to decrease shelter intake by up to 60% and euthanasia rates by up to 70% when implemented city-wide.
Communities that invest in spay/neuter programs often see shelter intake drop by 30–60% in just a few years.
🌍 Community & Animal Welfare Benefits:
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Reduces overpopulation:
Prevents unwanted litters that often end up in shelters or on the streets. -
Decreases euthanasia rates:
Fewer homeless animals means fewer need to be euthanized due to lack of space or resources. -
Protects wildlife:
Free-roaming, unneutered cats and dogs can harm native wildlife. Sterilization helps curb this. -
Cost savings:
Prevents future medical expenses tied to reproductive issues and reduces municipal costs for animal control and shelter care. -
Every life matters, and controlling the pet animal population is critical.
Every day, thousands of unwanted litters are born into uncertainty. Spaying and neutering help prevent this heartbreak, ensuring fewer animals end up in shelters or facing the unknown.
Prevention Is Power. Fix What’s Broken.
Every spayed or neutered pet prevents the suffering of hundreds of unseen animals down the line — lives saved invisibly, but profoundly. The choice is simple: a quick surgery, or a lifetime of unnecessary suffering for animals that never asked for any of this.
Nonprofits We Love
At Chasing Sunsets, we believe in giving back. We’ve curated a list of nonprofit organizations doing incredible work in animal welfare, pet rescue, and spay/neuter advocacy. These groups will be part of our donation list, but if you prefer to support them directly, we encourage you to do so!
Donating in memory of a beloved pet or person—or to celebrate your own journey—is a beautiful way to express gratitude. Every life matters, and access to spay and neuter services gives animals the chance they deserve.
Explore. Support. Share. These organizations need all paws on deck.
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If you’re part of a nonprofit and would like to be considered for inclusion, please reach out to us at hello@chasingsunsets.com.
Snip Bus
Serving CA locations and they travel! The bus works to actively prevent the suffering and death of unwanted animals due to overpopulation. The bus is independently funded through generous sponsors.
North Shore Animal League America
Our mission is to end the suffering of innocent dogs and cats by reducing the number of unwanted births. Anyone who needs assistance finding affordable spay/neuter services can benefit by using the SpayUSA referral service.
Muttville Senior Dog Rescue
The country’s first cage-free shelter and California’s first senior dog rescue, has a forever home. It’s a new idea of what a shelter can be – a colorful, beautiful, comfortable paradise for dogs and the people who love them!
ASPCA Spay/Neuter Alliance
The forefront of animal rescue and protection since our founding as the first animal welfare organization in North America in 1866. For more than 150 years, we have been the leading voice in animal welfare, bringing the critical protection of animals to the forefront of society.
United Spay Alliance
A national animal welfare organization dedicated exclusively to promoting affordable, accessible, and timely spay/neuter services as the solution to the crisis of cat and dog homelessness.
Bestfriends Animal Society
Best Friends Network Partners are made up of thousands of public and private animal shelters, rescue groups, spay/neuter organizations, and other animal welfare groups, all working to save the lives of dogs and cats in your community and across the country.
Actors and Others
We strongly believe that all of us have a responsibility to protect and care for the pets we take into our homes and hearts and to the discarded and unwanted animals who end up in shelters. Through the money we raise, our core work is to ensure that low and/or fixed income individuals are able to have their pets spayed and neutered to reduce birth rates and to enrich their quality of life.
The Canine Condition
Our mission is to provide access and funding for spay/neuter surgeries so we can help keep more dogs in their homes, off the streets and out of shelters.
Bissell Pet Foundation
Exists to support animal welfare organizations and provide resources to underserved communities. This includes helping to reduce the number of animals in shelters and rescues through pet adoption, spay/neuter, vaccinations, microchipping, and crisis and disaster response.
Rocket Dog Rescue
A San Francisco Bay Area dog rescue organization run by a group of dedicated volunteers. We save dogs from death at over-crowded shelters and find them loving, happy homes.
Spay N Save
Our mission is to provide affordable companion animal and community cat sterilizations, keeping dogs and cats out of shelters. We treat every pet as our own and approach every client as our only client. Our core values revolve around teamwork, safe practices, and staying mission-focused. We prioritize our team’s work-life balance and recruit passionate volunteers who share our life-saving passion.
UCAN Cincinnati
We were founded in 2001, to stop the endless cycle of accidental and unwanted births of cats and dogs which resulted in the euthanasia of homeless cats and dogs in Greater Cincinnati shelters. As a result, millions of cats and dogs entered U.S. shelters each year and millions of them were being euthanized due to lack of space and resources at those shelters.
Friends of Animals
A non-profit, international animal advocacy organization incorporated in the state of New York since 1957. Friends of Animals advocates for the rights of nonhuman animals, free-living and domestic. Our goal is to free animals from cruelty and institutionalized exploitation around the world.
Spay & Neuter Assistance Program
To prevent the suffering and death of companion animals and to enrich the human-animal bond by providing excellent, accessible and affordable spay/neuter and veterinary care. A world where there are no homeless dogs and cats.