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She is so close. Please help us bring Snow home to America where she can have a life free of fear, starvation, sickness, and injuries.
Snow’s airline ticket has already been sponsored by Dr. Rich & Dr. Goddard of Retuva Medical Spa and Family Focus Eyecare in Columbia, Missouri.
TENTATIVELY FUNDED – WILL UPDATE
Snow was abandoned in an apartment complex in rural Kenya—left behind with no one to care for her. She was about to be put out onto the street when Friends of Fauna stepped in just in time.
If she wasn’t rescued, she would have faced a short life of hunger, matted and painful fur, disease, attacks from larger dogs, and even predators like hyenas or jackals. Small dogs like her rarely survive long in those conditions, especially with her fur that keeps growing.
Since her rescue, Snow has been spayed, vaccinated, microchipped, and has completed her rabies titer test. Her airfare to the U.S. is already covered.
She is so close.
Because Kenya is a high-risk rabies country, Snow must complete a final intake process through the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention at LAX. This fee—at one of only two approved CDC intake kennels—is the last step to bring her to safety.
Please help bring Snow home.
Snow comes from a High-Risk Rabies country, making it impossible for her to be brought into the country like other pets. Snow must be sent as manifest cargo, in a temperature controlled hold. Snow was revaccinated the first week of March 2026. Thirty days after her vaccination, a titer serology blood draw was taken and sent from Nairobi to a CDC approved facility in France (there are no CDC approved facilities in Kenya). After the blood draw for the titer test, which Snow has passed, there is an additional 28 days required before she can fly. Snow has all of her permits and flight paid for. Her last cost is the import process and one day quarantine for $1,835, followed by a 1 hour flight to Sacramento, bringing the total fundraising cost to $1,950.