Fit Pets for Rescues kicks off March 4th (Dogs & cats, record number of prizes and clinics)

It's that time of year again!

Healthy Pet Connect is super excited to sponsor the 14th annual Fits Pets for Rescues (FPR) Challenge, which will kick off Wednesday, March 4th at 7 PM CT, with exciting new (and returning) sponsors and a bigger national reach!

In its history, FPR has raised over $42,000 for rescues in 7 states and Canada.

Our goals for this challenge:

1) Sign-up: 15-20 clinics and 3 to 5 veterinary student clubs

2) Raise: $15,000 for rescues, student clubs & pet care foundations

3) Award: $25,000+ in pet parent & clinic prizes!

It's all 100% free to join for pet parents, clinics & vet student clubs with no requirements except safe weight loss for pets!

Home Pet Weight Management Tools

can make weight management fun

and are proven to get pets to ideal weight!

Pet Parent Prizes are awarded by the clinic to clients as they enroll pets.

Purina Pro Plan Rx food, a PawsPik microchip feeder, LinkmyPet activity monitor, or a Petivity Smart Litter Box Monitor, a Litter Robot 5, or Healthy Pet Connected Scales to get accurate weights and more. All are super valuable weight management tools.

The new Epipaws Health Score can help document preventing obesity related disease and the Epipaws Age Kit can determine accurate age of rescues and Sylvester.ai can detect cat discomfort.

Clinic team prizes will be awarded at end of challenge based on success in pet enrollment. client coaching, clinic donations raised, SM shares or any other effort that enriches the FPR Community. Many of the same prizes above and more!

Pets losing weight and rescues getting donations to help pets in need is FPR messaging!

$5K in Clinic/Club Prizes for all clinics and student clubs participating with at least 5 pets finishing the challenge.

VEA, Petsapp, Lyravet and Healthy Pet Connect all help busy clinics do more for pets and pet parents. Specifically they help to get more pets to ideal weight, communicate better with pet parents or help monitor them when under our care at clinic or at home!

How to win?

Start signing up pets now!

New to HPC? . . . Have clinic team try for free!

interest form for clinics here

With just less 4 weeks to go and more prizes being added weekly there is no better time to start!

1) Get Free Portals/Dashboards

REQUIRED 5 min task

HPC Clinic Dashboard (free)

Just send logo and admin email to healthypetconnect@gmail.com.

OPTIONAL 15 min task

myBalto GofundmyPet (free) for rescue funds transfer

Purina reimbursement portal (free) for Rx food reimbursement

2) Have clients download app & start entering weights free app

download here (client handout below)

3) Monitor, Coach & Support pet parents during the challenge

details on FPR landing page

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Upcoming Conferences for HPC

WVC in Las Vegas Feb 15-18th PM Dr Ken

Midwest Veterinary Conference in Columbus Ohio Feb 26-28th

Booth 541 Come say hello and enter our $500 pet WM product raffle

Drs Ken, Joey, Barr & HPC team

How does FPR work?

1) $10K in Pet Parent Prizes For each 5 pets that clinics enter, they get $500 in home health weight management food/tools to award to pet parents (first come-first served) list below!

Clinic A might choose $250 Purina Rx food and 2 HPC BW scales = $500 value

Clinic B might choose 2 Petivity Smart Litterbox Monitoring Systems and 2 HPC food scales and $125 of Purina Rx Pet food=$500 value

Clinic C might enroll 10 pets to be able to award a Litter Robot 5 to an elderly client who is not able to weigh her cats manually = $1000 value

2) Free HPC App & dashboard use from now until April 15th

3) $250 cash will be donated to clinic's chosen rescue for each 5 pets entered (up to $500 for the first 15 clinics). Donations above that matched up to $250 more!

4) $10K in Clinic Team Prizes awarded based on total clinic donations & participation (zooms, SM & platform feedback)

5) Hold pet weigh-ins, celebrate successes, have fun!

Bug & Roo's (Simple, doable)

5 FPR RULES :)

1) Pets must be new to HPC platform for prizes. Previous FPR pets are welcome to return free for a second (or third!) challenge, just won't count towards number required for prizes.

2) The 5 pets must stay active for at least 4 consecutive weeks of the 6 week challenge by the pet parent using the HPC app to enter weights and amount fed, and any observations.

3) The clinic team needs to review their free clinic HPC dashboard at least weekly at least to insure safe rate of loss and diet compliance.

4) All food choices, amts, exams & blood work are up to the attending DVM/team HPC is only a telemonitoring service but always there to support and share tips!

5) HPC will send basic weekly alerts (losing too slow, need weight, need picture of food ) etc

Using this FPR/HPC proven system previous challenges have resulted in over 85% of pets losing weight effectively and safely at 0.50 and 1.00% average weekly weight loss (AWWL).

Rescue, Foundation & Vet Student Club Donations

Each of our pet parent/clinic team prize sponsors donates 50% product/cash to allow rescue donations which allow us to do what we do!

Our very special Platinum sponsor the Chris Griffey Memorial Feline Foundation (CGMFF) donates 100% in $ donations to rescues! The are a "rescue supporting rescues" and do fantastic work with kittens with over $44,000 in veterinary care expenses last year. Every donation gets an adorable plush toy!

Clinics, if you don't have a local rescue chosen, CGMFF can be chosen as your rescue, as can EveryCat Foundation, who does some amazing research in cats as well. Anyone one know of a good dog foundation, please let us know!

Thank you to all of our wonderful sponsors!

The video that says it all: Spudgie (37lbs to 12lbs), Katie, Lexi & Bug!