Feel Good stories you shouldn’t miss…
HEART’s Trip to Eréndira
Yearly volunteer spay neuter trip to Eréndira and 66 fixed!!
HEART Donates $15K to Pet Health Express
In 2024-2025, HEART donated $15,000 to help equip the new San Diego County Pet Health Express mobile unit with medical supplies to support spay/neuter clinics in rural San Diego areas. The new bus should be on the road in the spring of 2026 performing low cost spay and neuter services […]
Otay Crossing Self Storage Donates to HEART
Zee Zavaleta, Manager of Otay Crossing Self Storage chose HEART as the recipient of their annual donation of $750 to a local charity! We are thrilled and honored.
Thank you so much Zee, for helping us make a difference for people and their pets. We really appreciate this wonderful surprise!
HEART Donates to the CVACF
Despite 2020 being a challenging year for all of us – including pets, HEART of Chula Vista was proud to present a $10,000 (BIG) check to the Chula Vista Animal Care Facility (CVACF) to support free- and low-cost spay/neuter programs for FY 2020/2021. Funding helps make spay/neuter clinics possible for […]
Donation to Sharp Chula Vista
With the onset of COVID-19, the Spay Shuttle hasn’t been doing community outreach or spays/neuters – and for good reason! We want everyone to stay safe and be at home!
We’ve suspended our spay/neuter services for pets, but HEART and the Chula Vista Animal Care Facility wanted to donate our unused […]
Mayor’s Proclamation – Spay Neuter Awareness Month
Mayor Mary Casillas Salas of Chula Vista presented the Chula Vista Animal Care Facility (CVACF) with a spay/neuter awareness proclamation [...]
Mega Cat Spay Day
In celebration of World Spay/Neuter Day, HEART of Chula Vista sponsored a Mega Cat Spay Day at the Chula Vista Animal Care Facility on Feb 24. The Spay Shuttle worked together with Spay Neuter Action Project (SNAP) to spay and neuter 48 local cats, preventing the birth of hundreds […]
HEART Presents Check to the CVACF
The HEART of Chula Vista Board of Directors was proud to present an $18,000 BIG CHECK to the Chula Vista Animal Care Facility (CVACF) Manager, Mandy Mills, to support free- and low-cost community pet spay/neuter programs for the coming fiscal year. This is the largest yearly contribution that HEART has […]
Gold Seal from GuideStar
H.E.A.R.T. of the Chula Vista Animal Care Facility was recently recognized for our transparency with a 2018 Gold Seal on our GuideStar Nonprofit Profile!
GuideStar is the world’s largest source of information on nonprofit organizations. More than 8 million visitors per year and a network of 200+ […]
Spay Shuttle Receives Proclamation
The Spay Shuttle staff received a proclamation from Mayor Mary Casillas Salas, recognizing February 2019 as Spay/Neuter Month in Chula Vista. She and City Councilmembers commended the Spay Shuttle for our community spay/neuter services – since 2012!
HEART is the major financial supporter of the Spay Shuttle, performing nearly 700 free […]