What You Need To Know About The Amanda Foundation
The nonprofit charity, the Amanda Foundation, located in Beverly Hills, has been helping dogs in need throughout Los Angeles County for 37 years. The organization’s veterinary clinic and rescue facility can be found at 351 Foothill Rd, Beverly Hills, CA. According to the president of the Amanda Foundation, Teri Austin, the building has served as a veterinary practice since 1924.
“The first veterinarian, Dr. Hader, was here from 1924 to 1933 and then Dr. Porter had it until 1967 and then in 1967, Dr. Anthony Ship bought the property and Dr. Ship practiced until 2005 and he retired. Then we took over the practice and for the last 10 years we have been using our veterinarian and our own nurses and we’ve been running a very successful veterinary practice,” shared Austin in a 2015 YouTube video.
During a 2021 interview with the Beverly Hills Courier, the foundation’s president explained that the organization focuses on caring for and housing animals who may not be seen as adoptable due to their age or health issues.
“We concentrate on the ones who don’t have someone speaking for them, other than the animal shelters, which have limited resources and hundreds of animals,” said Austin. “Because we have a hospital, we do take a large number of animals who will be with us for a longer period of time because they are older. When people talk about rescuing, it’s not just puppies and kittens, it’s not the dog that got put in the shelter because it chewed up the couch: it’s the 7-year-old dog who now has diabetes.”
In the 2015 YouTube video, she also noted that the charity offers free spaying and neutering to pets who live in low-income areas. Austin explained the Amanda Foundation has a “fully equipped clinic” on wheels, known as the Spaymobile, where vets perform said surgeries on furry friends.
“The purpose of this is to reduce the number of animals that are unwanted and accidental litters and such,” shared the dog-lover. “So we go to the lowest income areas of Los Angeles City and some parts of the county and we go to areas where we have worked with different animal departments that tell us where the most animals that end up in the shelters come from so we go to those neighborhoods to provide free spay and neuter.”
The nonprofit also offers the amazing 10-hour “Creating Compassion” program, where children who attend Los Angeles Unified schools are able to learn about the ins and outs of veterinary care and animal biology.