 More local news now in Heartland Animal Rescue Team known as Heart in Brainerd is in need of some help. The non-profit animal rescue has faced financial changes and is asking for immediate financial help and donations. Reporter Rachel Johnson has more. Heartland Animal Rescue Team was founded in 1987 and has been providing services to the unwanted, strayed, neglected and abused animals of all kinds in the community ever since. We are an open door shelter which means we take in all animals, we don't turn them away, we take in the injured sick. They provide the animals shelter as well as medical services such as spain and neutering, vaccinations and more. They get vaccinated for distemper, flea intake preventative, heartworm prevention, heartworm testing. People can adopt the animals and give them a good home and give them a chance to actually have a home to live in. Heartland Animal Rescue cares for around a thousand animals every year and has already had almost 500 adoptions in 2018. Heart has recently faced financial challenges after the shelter lost several of their impound contracts. Unfortunately in the last year and a half we have lost probably five or six impound contracts which makes up a big portion of our annual budget. Several municipalities voted to use a shelter that did not charge them for their services leaving Heart in need of financial help. All the money that we have to survive on you know gets used daily so that's why we're kind of in need. The shelter is looking to the community to step in like they have in the past and allow them to keep offering their important services to area animals. We take care of the animals here as if they're our own. We love them and show them kind a kind hand. It just gives the animals a chance to have love because some of these are usually some of these animals are on the street so they don't really get to experience the love they get when they're inside of a shelter. We help the stray unwanted neglected abused animals. It's a great service that we provide to the community. With the community's help, Heart hopes to be able to continue helping animals in need for years to come. Reporting from Brainerd, Rachel Johnson, Lakeland News. And to find out how to donate to Heart visit the story on our website at lptv.org. If you enjoyed this segment of Lakeland News, please consider making a tax-deductible contribution to Lakeland PBS.