Care Without Conditions

With over 40 years of combined professional experience, the highly credentialed dream team trio of Corinne Dowling, Paul Ellis & Paula Benton provide: force-free, science-based, positive reinforcement-focused training and management help.  Our combined training toolbox is bottomless!

Veterinary rock stars Dr. Julio Bolivar-Dillon and Vet Assistant Marisa Plaice provide free wellness exams that include vaccinations (DHLPP, Rabies, Bordetella), microchipping, flee & tick prevention, nail trimming, treatment of minor skin, eye & ear problems and spay/neutering help.

Education is key!  We are committed, in our educational offerings, to dispelling common and often harmful pet care myths. We provide up-to-date animal health and behavior help as well as humane management equipment and pet supplies.  The end result?  Trusting relationships without fearful pets.

Our commitment to community is created one relationship at a time, free of judgement, respectful of timing.  Our deeply caring volunteers treat people and their companion animals with dignity and understand a pet's home is with a loving person.

In 2019, Full Belly Bus began providing pet food pantries in the 400-bed Next Door Shelter, 300-bed Sanctuary Shelter and the SF VA Downtown Clinic as a way to assist people struggling to feed their pets.  People need not go hungry to feed their pets.

We are the Village!  Please join us in advocating for people struggling to keep their pets, while working to end their homelessness. Navigation Center guests love and cherish their pets exactly as you cherish yours.