CT State Animal Response Team

CTSART (CT State Animal Response Team is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit all-volunteer all-donation supported organization that helps companion animals and livestock out of immediate crisis and dangerous situations. For example, if your horse falls into a well, your dog falls over a cliff, your cow got stuck in a barn wall, or your community needs help sheltering animals for short term issues such as threat of fire, CTSART is trained to help out in these situations. Though CTSART does not self-deploy, the team may be called out by regional emergency director

CTSART is trained in handling companion animals such as dogs, cats, rabbits, hamsters, and other small mammals. We also deal with chickens, pigs, cattle, horses, llamas, alpacas, goats, and sheep as well as other livestock. We are not trained to handle wildlife or exotics.

No, STSART is an all-volunteer-run nonprofit. Sometimes CTSART is called out by government agencies and our responders are credentialed as emergency workers, but CTSART is not a government agency.

CTSART does not charge for services. Much of the equipment and training is expensive however, and donations are always gratefully accepted so that we may help others in the future.

Essentially all of it. No CTSART member is paid. The money we raise is used to buy rescue equipment and training materials, pay the answering service, buy fuel and pay for licenses and insurance for the CTSART vehicles, and similar expenses. Our members buy their own personal rescue gear.

Yes! Probably. Part of our mission is education and helping the community be ready for a disaster. We make as many speaking engagements and events as we can, but since we are an all-volunteer organization, we are sometimes limited in our availability for outreach volunteers.