2022 Friends Holiday Online Silent Auction

***If you won items in our auction, please keep an eye out for an email with pick-up instructions. PLEASE CHECK YOUR SPAM FOLDER. If you do not receive an email by Monday,12/12 at 5 PM, please send us a note at generalinfo@ffcas.org***

Plenty of gifts that your friends and family are sure to love! Your purchase from Friends Holiday Online Silent Auction will help pets at the Fairfax County Animal Shelter get off to a good start in the new year.

From experiences, pet goodie boxes, jewelry, golf outings, gift baskets, vacations and more. Browse our eclectic selection while helping the homeless pets at the Fairfax County Animal Shelter!

What's one of the easiest ways to help Friends, the sole, nonprofit charity for the Fairfax County Animal Shelter? The next time you shop on amazon.com, go to smile.amazon.com, search for/select Friends of the Fairfax County Animal Shelter as your charitable organization and shop. The Amazon Smile Foundation will donate 0.5% of the purchase price to Friends! Prime members are eligible as well! The shelter pets will ️love you for it!

For all unpaid items, you will receive an invoice from 32auctions when the auction ends on Sunday, December 11. Please check your spam folder. For Buy It Now items, you can pay now, or wait until the end of the auction for your final invoice.

Thus far in 2023, 4,022 pets made their way to the Fairfax County Animal Shelter. Some were strays, and other surrendered by their owners or confiscated by the county due to neglect or mistreatment.

With so many animals coming through the Shelter's doors and a limited budget, the Shelter has to make tough decisions about how it can provide for each animal. In some cases, this means that otherwise adoptable animals might not have a second chance if expensive medical treatments or special needs costs exceed the county budget.

This is where the Friends steps in. We raise awareness — and money — to help improve the quality of life for all of loving local shelter pets and give them a chance to find their forever home.

Through October 2023 Friends has provided $234,710 in funding to the Fairfax County Animal Shelter which represents about 20% of their opertaing budget. This included life-saving and life-improving medical care for 39 shelter pets; dental care for 50 pets; parasite prevention for all dogs, cats and rabbits - 3,109 pets, and TNR spay/neuter surgeries for 462 community cats. Friends also provided every adopted dog a collar, tag and leash, and every adopted cat a tag and collar.

Let's help all our shelter pets find the loving home they deserve.