HeART Action, BINGO With a Kick,be nefit motorcycle ride, and more!

Many thanks to all who took park in the The HeART Auction in February. That’s a big fundraiser for us every year and helps pay the bills and supports on work to reopen the kennel. Also, BINGO With a Kick was a great time and raised more fuds to support our rebuilding efforts. We still have the Ride Your Hogs to Support the Dogs motorcycle ride coming up on May 20th. Click here or on the image below to learn more!

One of our friends is running a Pampered Chef benefit for us through May 31, check that out here! Our amazing friends often designate Sweetpea as the beneficiary of their Facebook birthday fundraisers and more, so watch our Facebook page for other opportunities! Amazon shutting down their Amazon Smile program in February 2023 so we’re grateful for your support through these events and for those who make us their benefiting organization in iGive.com for their online shopping.








Rebuilding Update

Thank you to Spectrum News 1 for highlighting our rebuilding efforts! You can support our rebuilding mission with your donation by check, through PayPal or GoFundMe, and by designating us as your target charity through Amazon Smile or iGive.com. Click the image below to see our story!

Beautiful shout-out from Wynonna to Sweetpea

We ended 2020 with this beautiful Christmas message from Wynonna, and we’re charging forward with hopes of reopening some of the spaces in the office/kennel building. This will allow us to formally open and handle even a few animals. Practically all grants are available only to shelters that are open and running, so are nor available to us yet.

If your browser has trouble playing Wynonna’s video from our site, you can also watch it on Facebook from this direct link.


This image shows the presentation of a donation check by the Big Y manager of the Holden store.

Big Y Foods Donates $5000 to Sweetpea from the Annual Paul & Gerald D’Amour Memorial Charity Golf Outing

A huge THANK YOU to Big Y Foods, Inc. They donated $5000 from their 38th Annual Paul & Gerald D’Amour Memorial Charity Golf Outing to Sweetpea!

It’s a big boost to our building fund, which will get us quite a way towards reopening. The photo shows Mary and Dick Clark being presented with the donation by Holden Big Y Store Director, Karen Sultan!

Sweetpea is extremely pleased to announce that we have received a $5000 grant from Greater Worcester Community Foundation, Inc./Rosemary Davis Memorial Fund “to aid in the costs necessary to rebuild and open.”

We are very thankful for this grant and will be using it to help complete the shelter rebuild. Thanks to the generosity of the Foundation, we are now a lot nearer reopening!

Shows our table at Auburn Petco

Come Visit Us At Petco Auburn 

We are at the Auburn Petco store , 438 Southbridge St, Auburn, MA 01501, every Sunday from 10:00am-2:00pm – stop by and hear about our progress on the shelter rebuild!

Here is Dick Clark, our founder, manning the Sweetpea table, assisted by Juno of Juno’s Place