Grand Rapids Pitbull Alliance

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Grand Rapids Pitbull Alliance GRPBA is a 501(c)(3) Non Profit organization who works to improve the quality of life for pets with outreach, advocacy, education & enrichment.

Tax ID # 82-2804197

🥞🐾 Pancakes, pets, and people who love them! 🐾🥞Picture this: a room full of fluffy pancakes, great company, and a whole ...
10/15/2026

🥞🐾 Pancakes, pets, and people who love them! 🐾🥞

Picture this: a room full of fluffy pancakes, great company, and a whole community coming together for the pets we adore. 💛
But here's what's really on the menu. Every day, families in our community face a heartbreaking choice between paying a bill and keeping the pet they love. Every plate you enjoy helps us make sure no one has to make that choice. 🐶

Pancakes for Pets is the final big fundraiser of 2026 for the Grand Rapids Pit Bull Alliance, and it's a morning of good food and good people, all for a good cause. Come helps raise funds and celebrate the people and pets we serve in our community! 🎉

📅 Saturday, November 21st
🕘 9:00 AM to 12:00 PM
📍 5th Street Hall, 701 5th St NW, Grand Rapids, MI 49504
🥞 Pancake breakfast (vegan options too!)
🧁 Bake sale
🎟️ Raffles with prizes from local businesses and artists
💵 Cost
🎟️ Online presale: $13 via Zeffy
🚪 At the door: $15
🧒 Kids ages 1 to 15: $1 per year of age

Your support helps keep pets with their families, preserves the human-animal bond, and prevents economic surrender to the animal shelter. We're 100% volunteer run, and every dollar goes directly back to our mission. 🐾

👇 Event page and presale tickets in the comments!

Want to donate a raffle prize or sponsor the event? Email [email protected]

Bring your appetite, your friends, and your biggest pet-loving heart! 💛

Thank you to our Fairy Dog Mother for the donations off our wishlist 🙏🏾🐈Feliway to help cats during spay and neuter clin...
10/14/2026

Thank you to our Fairy Dog Mother for the donations off our wishlist 🙏🏾

🐈Feliway to help cats during spay and neuter clinic transport and essential cleaners like Rescue for cleaning our airline crates.

Tomorrow is GRPBAs first date October BISSELL Pet Foundation Fix the Future Spay and Neuter clinics.Our team was busy to...
10/12/2026

Tomorrow is GRPBAs first date October BISSELL Pet Foundation Fix the Future Spay and Neuter clinics.

Our team was busy today putting airline crates together, making reminder phone calls to families and filling out paperwork.

Tomorrow volunteers will arrive at the GRPBA Pet Support Center at 6:30 and families will begin arriving at 7:00am to check in and drop off their pets for us to transport to the Bissell Pet Foundation Clinic.

It takes a lot of volunteers to make this happen and we are extremely grateful for everyone who volunteers for Fix the Future!

We look forward to tomorrow where several pets from the community will be spayed / neutered, vaccinated, microchipped and most importantly live longer healthier lives and no longer reproducing.

Thank you Bissell Pet Foundation and Cathy Bissell for Fix the Future and eliminating barriers to spay and neuter for community pets! 🙏🏾

We are STOKED to announce that House Rules Board Game Lounge has donated prizes for our raffle at Pancakes for Pets, our...
10/09/2026

We are STOKED to announce that House Rules Board Game Lounge has donated prizes for our raffle at Pancakes for Pets, our Pancake Breakfast and Bake Sale Fundraiser on November 21st! 🥞🐾

House Rules is West Michigan's FIRST FLGS (Friendly Local Game Store) with a full bar, restaurant, and lounge! 🎲🍻

✨ Big selection of games for sale, with new inventory every week
✨ Library of over 600 games to play in the lounge
✨ Full bar with w**e, cocktails & 20 draft beverages
✨ Grab friends, pick a game, and GAME ON!

Want a chance to win? Join us for Pancakes for Pets!
📅 Saturday, November 21st | ⏰ 9:00 AM to 12:00 PM
📍 5th Street Hall, 701 5th St NW, Grand Rapids, MI 49504
🥞 Pancake breakfast • 🧁 Bake sale • 🎟️ Raffles

Enjoy a delicious breakfast for a great cause, helping keep pets with the families who love them. 🐾

HUGE thank you to House Rules Board Game Lounge for supporting our mission! 🙌

💛 Want to donate a raffle prize? If you or your business would like to donate a prize for our raffle, please email [email protected]

🐾 OOPS LITTER? WE'LL FIX THEM FREE. 🐾We still have some spots left!Free spay/neuter for puppies + their parents.Grand Ra...
10/08/2026

🐾 OOPS LITTER? WE'LL FIX THEM FREE. 🐾

We still have some spots left!

Free spay/neuter for puppies + their parents.

Grand Rapids Pit Bull Alliance is adding an extra clinic day just for accidental litters and their parents. No judgment, just help. 💛

Free with surgery:
✅ Spay/neuter
✅ Vaccines
✅ Microchip
✅ Heartworm test
✅ Flea and tick prevention
✅ Dog/puppy food

⚠️ Spots are limited, first come, first served.
📧 Email [email protected] to reserve your spot.

Who qualifies:
• Puppies at least 10 weeks old
• Mom no longer nursing
• Parents must be spayed/neutered too
• No singletons or recently acquired puppies (single pup? Email us to join the waiting list)

🚫 This is a package with surgery only. We cannot provide vaccines, microchips, or other items separately or for dogs that won't be fixed.

Learning today so we can serve better tomorrow 🐾Part of our team from Grand Rapids Pit Bull Alliance attended the Michig...
10/07/2026

Learning today so we can serve better tomorrow 🐾

Part of our team from Grand Rapids Pit Bull Alliance attended the Michigan Pet Alliance Next Level Animal Welfare Conference in Macomb County this past weekend!

Conferences like this let those of us in animal welfare keep growing in sheltering, rescue, outreach, and always in how we serve people and pets. They give us the chance to learn from our peers, build collaborative relationships, and come home with fresh ideas to help animals and the people who love them.

We were glad to attend alongside our friends from West Michigan animal welfare organizations:

🐾 Harbor Humane Society
🐾 Humane Society of West Michigan
🐾 Kent County Animal Shelter

We also had the pleasure of spending time with friends from organizations on the east side of the state, including our mentors at Dog Aide , who took home a well-deserved award for Innovation in Animal Welfare! 🏆 Congratulations, and thank you for all you do for pets and pets and teaching and welcoming us 🫶🏿

Ongoing education isn't optional in animal welfare. We're not doing things the way they were done 30 years ago, 20 years ago, 10 years ago, or even 5 years ago, because we keep learning to do better. We can't simply say

"this is the way we've always done it" or "I've been doing this for years."

New ideas, ongoing education, conversations, and open-minded collaboration are how we keep pets in their homes, increase adoptions, retain adoptions, reunite lost pets with their families, and reduce the stress of the shelter and of transitions in a pet's life. We get there by learning from others, knowing we're all here for the same reason: to help animals and people.

Some of our shared goals:

✅ Decrease the amount of animals entering the shelter system
✅ Keeping pets in their homes
✅ Preserve the human-animal bond
✅ Increase adoptions
✅ Strengthen Animal Control Laws
✅ RTH (Return to Home)
✅ TNR (Trap Neuter Return)
✅ Decrease the stress on animals in the shelter

Just some of the conference highlights:
🐕 Programs that help keep pets with their families
🐕 Using dog adoption data to increase adoptions
🐕 Running safe play groups in shelters
🐕 Reducing shelter noise to lower stress for animals
🐕 Low stress handling of dogs
🐾 Unique and out of the box ways to get adoptable pets seen
🐈‍⬛ Developing a TNR Community Cat Program
🐈‍⬛ Feline Behavior
🐈‍⬛ Neonatal Kitten Care
🐾 And so much more!

To our friends in animal welfare, whether you're a shelter tech, volunteer dog walker, rescue foster, or a board member of a rescue, outreach organization, or shelter: keep learning and keep learning from each other. Together we can serve pets and people better and keep developing more progressive ways to help. ❤️

🐾 OOPS LITTER? WE'RE HERE TO HELP. 🐾PUPPIES AND PARENTS SPAY & NEUTER DAY FOR FREE! Grand Rapids Pit Bull Alliance is ad...
10/06/2026

🐾 OOPS LITTER? WE'RE HERE TO HELP. 🐾

PUPPIES AND PARENTS SPAY & NEUTER DAY FOR FREE!

Grand Rapids Pit Bull Alliance is adding an extra spay/neuter clinic day just for accidental litters and their parents!

Several families have reached out after an unexpected litter, so we're making space to help.

Every puppy and parent who is spayed or neutered receives, FREE:

✅ Spay or neuter surgery
✅ Age-appropriate vaccines
✅ Microchip
✅ Heartworm test
✅ Flea and tick prevention
✅ Dog/puppy food

Please read before reaching out:
🚫 This is a spay/neuter clinic, not a vaccine or microchip clinic. Vaccines, microchips, flea and tick prevention, and food are included with surgery only. We cannot provide them separately or for dogs that will not be fixed.

Who qualifies:
• Kent County residents with a litter and its parents
• Puppies must be at least 10 weeks old
• Mom must no longer be nursing
• Parents must be spayed or neutered too

No singletons or recently acquired puppies
Need spay/neuter for a single pup? Email us to get on the waiting list for our remaining 2026 clinics.

⚠️ Spots are limited

📧 Email [email protected] to reserve your spot. Remember first come first serve.

💛 Want to help? Donations cover flea and tick prevention, food, and other supplies for these families. Donate to the GRPBA Charity Venmo, linked in the comments, or share this post to help us reach more families.

Had an oops litter? Let's make sure there are no more. 🐶

🐾 Grand Rapids Pit Bull Alliance October & November Pet Food Bank Schedule. Check out the graphic below for all the date...
10/05/2026

🐾 Grand Rapids Pit Bull Alliance October & November Pet Food Bank Schedule.

Check out the graphic below for all the dates and times for October and November!

A quick reminder: each pet family can visit one distribution per month. This helps us stretch our resources so we can support as many pets in the community as possible.

If money's tight and it's affecting your ability to feed your pet, please reach out. This is exactly what we're here for, and you don't have to face it alone.

Ongoing assistance requirements:
To continue receiving monthly food support, pet families need to:
• provide proof of spay/neuter OR if your pet is intact have the pet spayed and neutered (either through GRPBA or a another veterinary clinic on your own)
• complete application for assistance
• indicate hardship

🐾 We also help with spay/neuter!
GRPBA has limited spay and neuter assistance for pets each month. Spots fill up fast!

A little about our weeknight option: we added a second distribution day each month after hearing from pet parents that weekends and daytime hours don't always work. Between Saturday shifts and 5-6 PM job releases, we wanted a schedule that actually fits real life. The more you use this extra time slot, the more we can justify keeping it and someday, we'd love to offer weekly distributions. Getting there depends on having enough volunteer support, though!

Want to help make that happen? If you can spare a few hours on a distribution day, we'd love to have you. Email us to join the volunteer team:
[email protected]

Thanks for helping us spread the word to anyone who could use support. 🐾
Our Pet Support Center is located at:
📍 1676 Viewpond Dr SE, Kentwood, MI
(Remember we are volunteer run and by appointment only)

Questions? Or to fill out a application ahead of time

Email us:
[email protected]

Please share and spread the word 🐾

TEENY HAS BEEN ADOPTED 💕On Thursday, Teeny's guardian reached out with news we'd been hoping for: a family wanted to mee...
10/05/2026

TEENY HAS BEEN ADOPTED 💕

On Thursday, Teeny's guardian reached out with news we'd been hoping for: a family wanted to meet her. This family had lost the last of their Pitty pups 2.5 years ago, and they were finally ready to add a pup to their family.

They came to meet Teeny, and it was a perfect match. 🥹 There were lots of hugs and happy tears from everyone, including Teeny's guardian, who has been invited to visit and stay in Teeny's life.

Teeny never had to set foot in a shelter. She went from one loving home straight to another, and that's the power of direct rehoming. 🐾 Pets skip the stress of shelter life, which can be loud, scary, and confusing, and they only have to go through one transition instead of multiple. Guardians/families know exactly where their pet is going and can stay in touch, while adopters get insight from those who know the pets best. Direct Rehoming leaves shelter space and resources available for animals who have nowhere else to go such as strays and cruelty and neglect situations.

Teeny's guardian made a loving choice, and our community helped in a big way. Thank you to Teeny's guardians, to Harbor Humane, and to every one of you who shared her story. You helped bring two families together.

We also want to thank the amazing people who also stepped up to to foster Teeny in the event she was not adopted by October 5th 🙏🏾

The power of community and collaboration ❤️

Welcome home, Teeny! 🏡

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638 Stocking Ave NW
Grand Rapids, MI
49504

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