CARE STL exists to create a supportive community rooted in collaboration, compassion, and caring for people and animals.CARE STL provides adoption services, receiving animals within the City of St. Louis jurisdiction, fostering, and much more since its mission and focus is exclusively on protecting the safety of the City of St. Louis residents and its animals and protecting the public from strays that are possibly dangerous animals. CARE STL is committed to its city residents by promoting progressive programs and advocating for animal welfare. We strive to educate the public about responsible pet guardianship and recommend reforms in animal control policies. Our purpose is to rescue, rehabilitate, and facilitate the placement of unwanted pets from the City of St. Louis into suitable homes; to establish and manage an animal shelter for St. Louis City Animal Care and Control; to promote the welfare of the animals in our care, to reunite lost pets to their owners, and to increase public safety by addressing issues related to irresponsible pet owners and dangerous animals. We are focused on saving the animals of St. Louis City. CARE STL is embracing the St. Louis community to extend a safety net of care for the animals in the city. We want to continue to grow our partnerships with other rescue organizations, foster care families, and volunteers. The key to success is our staff, volunteers who socialize with animals, and donors who open their hearts, homes, and wallets to the St. Louis city animals in dire need of assistance. The public will be at the center of our success, with us working with the city's residents to implement lifesaving programs and treat each life as precious. An organization like CARE STL transformed ACC into an excellent and phenomenal city shelter.We know it is a tall order to have the goal of the highest live release rate, but this is what the leadership and entire CARE STL staff do best-- outside the box thinking. It will take all the city residents and business community partners to support and assist in achieving this goal. It can be done.