More households in the U.S. have pets than have children in the home. When hardship strikes, however, often people must choose between keeping a beloved animal or accepting help for their own basic needs of food, shelter, and safety.

Leanna Taylor is CEO of the Arizona Pet Project (AZPP), a nonprofit that keeps pets with the people who love and need them most by connecting vulnerable community members and families in crisis with services and resources to prevent the unnecessary surrender of their beloved companions. It’s estimated that 20 percent of the unsheltered own pets, and depend upon them for emotional support and companionship. Last year AZPP served 4,403 pet families.

They keep thousands of pets out of shelters and provide families with emergency veterinary care, free spay and neuter surgeries, vaccines, post-op pain medications, e-collars, pet food, and critical pet essentials. The AZ Pet Project is committed to removing barriers that low-income pet owners face in accessing life-saving resources,  while reducing the number of homeless pets.

Their unique approach and revolutionary programs are focused on improving and saving the lives of both people and pets by keeping pets with the families who love them.

AZ Pet Project recently marked a full-year of onsite support of UMOM New Day Centers, a first of its kind program which is now being rolled out at other nonprofits

Remarkably, AZPP is the only organization of its kind in the United States solely focused on bridging these gaps, working to keep pets where they belong: with the people who love them.

Click here to learn more about the Arizona Pet Project: https://azpetproject.org/

Original air date: July 24, 2025.

More households in the U.S. have pets than have children in the home. When hardship strikes, however, often people must choose between keeping a beloved animal or accepting help for their own basic needs of food, shelter, and safety.
Leanna Taylor is CEO of the Arizona Pet Project (AZPP), a nonprofit that keeps pets with the people who love and need them most by connecting vulnerable community members and families in crisis with services and resources to prevent the unnecessary surrender of their beloved companions. It&rsquo;s estimated that 20 percent of the unsheltered own pets, and depend upon them for emotional support and companionship. Last year AZPP served 4,403 pet families.
They keep thousands of pets out of shelters and provide families with emergency veterinary care, free spay and neuter surgeries, vaccines, post-op pain medications, e-collars, pet food, and critical pet essentials. The AZ Pet Project is committed to removing barriers that low-income pet owners face in accessing life-saving resources, &nbsp;while reducing the number of homeless pets.
Their unique approach and revolutionary programs are focused on improving and saving the lives of both people and pets by keeping pets with the families who love them.
AZ Pet Project recently marked a full-year of onsite support of UMOM New Day Centers, a first of its kind program which is now being rolled out at other nonprofits
Remarkably, AZPP is the only organization of its kind in the United States solely focused on bridging these gaps, working to keep pets where they belong: with the people who love them.
Click here to learn more about the Arizona Pet Project: <a href="https://azpetproject.org/">https://azpetproject.org/</a>
Original air date: July 24, 2025.

The Rescuers radio show provides an opportunity to spotlight people who are working behind the scenes to make this world a better place. These people serve as inspiration and idea starters to encourage others to find creative ways to impact their community, their city, and the world.

Host Art Brooks has spent his career in broadcasting, both as on-air talent and in representing the industry as president and CEO of the Arizona Broadcasters Association for nearly 30 years. He was the driving force behind an Emmy-winning series of documentaries on drug abuse that combined a phone bank of 100 seasoned counselors and history-making "roadblock," as every TV station in Arizona and many radio stations broadcast the groundbreaking show on the same day at the same time. He also was instrumental in starting AZ AMBER Alert (one of two states in the nation where broadcasters initiated the program), helped form the Native American Broadcast Institute at Northern Arizona University and consulted with broadcasters in Bulgaria to help build commercial radio as the country was coming out of communism.

Rescuers airs 5:30-6 p.m. AZ time Thursdays on KPXQ-AM Faith Talk 1360, beginning May 7, 2020. Based in Phoenix, it is available internationally online. We invite you to submit names of heroes you think would be good subjects for the show - just message us on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/rescuersradioshow/

The Rescuers radio show provides an opportunity to spotlight people who are working behind the scenes to make this world a better place. These people serve as inspiration and idea starters to encourage others to find creative ways to impact their community, their city, and the world. Host Art Brooks has spent his career in broadcasting, both as on-air talent and in representing the industry as president and CEO of the Arizona Broadcasters Association for nearly 30 years. He was the driving force behind an Emmy-winning series of documentaries on drug abuse that combined a phone bank of 100 seasoned counselors and history-making "roadblock," as every TV station in Arizona and many radio stations broadcast the groundbreaking show on the same day at the same time. He also was instrumental in starting AZ AMBER Alert (one of two states in the nation where broadcasters initiated the program), helped form the Native American Broadcast Institute at Northern Arizona University and consulted with broadcasters in Bulgaria to help build commercial radio as the country was coming out of communism. Rescuers airs 5:30-6 p.m. AZ time Thursdays on KPXQ-AM Faith Talk 1360, beginning May 7, 2020. Based in Phoenix, it is available internationally online. We invite you to submit names of heroes you think would be good subjects for the show - just message us on Facebook at <a href="https://www.facebook.com/rescuersradioshow/">https://www.facebook.com/rescuersradioshow/</a>

Rescuers radio show

An inspiring program highlighting everyday heroes who change and save lives, making the world around us a better place.

An inspiring program highlighting everyday heroes who change and save lives, making the world around us a better place.