About Help My Pet
Why Help My Pet exists
Help My Pet started with Quark, a 14-year-old tuxedo cat. When he became seriously ill in 2026, his person, Sean Arenas, spent weeks looking for veterinary care and financial help. Along the way he tracked more than 125 organizations, programs and other resources, and found email addresses that bounced, programs still listed after their funding ran out, and help that existed but did not fit Quark’s situation.
Quark has since passed away. Help My Pet turns that search into a guide, so the next family sitting beside a sick pet can rule options in or out quickly instead of rediscovering the same dead ends. Read Quark’s story.
What Help My Pet is for
Help My Pet helps pet parents answer one practical question: What can I do next to help my pet?
It covers veterinary care, ways to pay or raise money, food and everyday support, hospice and end-of-life care, and other practical resources.
How we check resources
A listing is only useful if you can act on it. We check who a resource serves, where it works, important requirements, and who needs to take the next step.
Each listing shows how far it has been checked, and the date of that check:
- Checked on official website: we read the provider’s own current website or official page and took the details from it.
- Verified with 2 sources: the provider’s website and an independent record agree. For veterinary hospitals and clinics in California, that record is usually the clinic’s premises license with the California Veterinary Medical Board. For programs, it can be a government listing, a 211 listing or a professional directory.
- Confirmed by provider: someone at the organization reviewed the listing and confirmed it or sent corrections.
We keep adding ways to check, such as rechecking listings on a schedule and following up on reports from families, and the labels will grow with them. Whatever the level, a listing reflects what we found on the date shown.
A review date means we checked the cited information on that date. Funding, hours, service areas and application status can still change, so confirm current details with the provider.
We use official information first. Replies from organizations and reports from users can help us catch changes; we verify them before updating a listing.
Corrections and organization responses
If you work for a listed organization or notice something wrong, send us an update. Tell us which listing needs attention, what changed and where we can verify it.
If you represent the organization, include your role and any current service-area or eligibility details that help us verify the change. Contact details supplied for verification stay private. We do not publish email addresses on Help My Pet.
Who runs Help My Pet and how it’s paid for
Help My Pet is run by Sean Arenas and published by his small business, Arenas Promotions LLC, in Southern California. It is free for families and for the organizations listed here. There are no ads, no accounts, and no paid placements: a program is listed because it helps, not because it paid.
We don’t sell or share anyone’s information. The forms on this site send your message only to Help My Pet, and we use your email only to reply.
The only money involved is optional. A family can ask for a free fundraiser page, and some choose to offer merchandise featuring their pet. That merchandise is printed and shipped by Minty Tees, Sean’s print-on-demand company, through its own secure checkout. Donations made through GoFundMe or similar sites go straight to the family on that platform.
Boundaries
Inclusion does not imply a partnership, endorsement by a veterinary practice, or a promise that assistance will be available. Help My Pet supports the care conversation; it does not diagnose a pet, replace veterinary advice, arrange treatment, or guarantee funding.