PHaR - Pet Help and Rescue

08/23/2026

Further justification of our existence. Be smart. Be prepared. Download and set up our free pet evacuation app.

Human-caused Hawk fire covers more than 13,000 acres as blaze approaches University of Nevada campus in Reno

07/08/2026

Our parent organization gets it. Do you?

This is your chance to prepare for the worst. Emergency preparedness and response professionals love it. Get on board.

PHaR - Pet Help and Rescue

06/30/2026

Takes 10 minutes tops to set up. You'll breathe a little easier every time you leave home.

05/16/2026

Let's save lives! Help us get our free app on as many phones as possible.

Share, share, share - please!

The Pet Help & Rescue app is a friends and neighbors approach to ke...

03/14/2026

Please download our app today!

Our gratitude to our friend Catherine Greenleaf with .Hugger.5 for getting us into her seventh season lineup. With disasters striking year-round, we rely on our community - which means people such as Catherine, and you! - to spread the word. Please share!

PHaR - Pet Help and Rescue

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12/17/2025

Our executive director writes: Stressful here today in Boulder County with the very strong winds. Too reminiscent of December 2021, when the Marshall Fire took my home. Forever grateful I was home that day and able to evacuate my beloved Jack and Lura. Began work within a week with my teammates at Animal Help Now to develop a pet evacuation app. It's up and running. Please take 10 minutes to download and set up. Something like 85% of USians live in areas that are disaster prone.

Those most traumatized by the Marshall Fire were those who couldn't get home to evacuate their pets.

11/30/2025

Do you live in an apartment building?

Our hearts go out to all those impacted by the devastating tragedy in Hong Kong. We wish our app were available in the region, and we continue to search for human service organizations to deploy our technology to save the lives of humans who cannot self evacuate.

11/12/2025

Animal Help Now is psyched to be speaking about Pet Help & Rescue at the upcoming International Association of Emergency Managers annual meeting. Our topic: Evacuation of Household Animals Home Alone When Disasters Threaten/Strike: An App for That

Abstract: The Marshall Fire (Boulder County, CO, December 2021) claimed the lives of two humans and an estimated one thousand dogs, cats and other pets. This tragedy showed once again that when disasters strike and we are not home, our trusted neighbors who are home represent our best chance for having our pets evacuated. This is the premise of the new Pet Help & Rescue app (PHaR), developed in the aftermath of the fire. By design, PHaR evacuation communications are separate and distinct from the chaos of calls, texts, and social media notifications that occur when evacuations are underway. PHaR represents a revolutionary upgrade to the "Give your neighbor a key" approach to pet evacuation and gives pets and other dependent animals their best chance yet of surviving when disasters strike. The app was designed with guidance from experts in the animal disaster management field by the nonprofit Animal Help Now, which has a successful 14-year history of app development in the emergency space. PHaR launched in July 2024. This presentation will cover PHaR’s role in disaster preparedness and response, lessons learned after its first year, and plans for the future, including efforts to employ its technology for disabled and elderly humans.

A neighbors-based messaging app for evacuating pets when disasters strike.

11/10/2025

Our nonprofit's first online auction is coming soon!

PLEASE SHARE! 10 days till the bidding starts! Register today! This is our biggest fundraiser of the year. We're still collecting items for the auction, so email us or comment below if you have good leads on vacation stays, Broadway plays, plane tickets, etc.