FREE GROOMING FOR NEW YORK'S HOMELESS DOGS
Working
with the Mayor's Alliance to help encourage adoptions
of NY City's homeless animals, the New York School
of Dog Grooming, located on Second Avenue and 26th
Street,
has opened its doors to these dogs and cats to receive
the full spa grooming treatment free of charge. Dogs
that
were previously dirty, flea-ridden and unappealing can
now be viewed by the public at their best. The gentle
handling and grooming they receive affects the dogs'
personalities as well. The dogs know when they're dirty
and tend to withdraw from people. After grooming, they
are happy and much more outgoing.
Mary,
the proprietor of the school, has
extended this invitation to dogs from NYC shelters as well as dogs in foster
homes. If you are fostering a homeless dog and belong to the Mayor's Alliance,
please phone the school at 212 685 3776 and ask Mary for an appointment.
Thank you, Mary!
NY SENATOR TOM DUANE FOSTERS MISS RUMPLES' ORPHAN
Senator
Duane and his partner, Louis Webre, are fostering Madison,
a tiny 3 lb. maltese until the perfect home can be
found for her. Louis and Tom, who adopted Pearl, a
3 lb. maltese
about a year ago, volunteered to foster Pierre, a 4
lb. beige
poodle last spring. Pierre became a permanent member
of the family several months later. When Louis and
Tom heard we needed a foster home for Madison, another
3 lbs. maltese, they generously offered to take her
in.
Madison
is happily sharing a home with Pierre and Pearl for
the time. She
is very happy
and is getting
all the
love she needs uintil the perfect home can be found
for her.
Thanks, Tom and Louis!
"...AND
A CHILD SHALL LEAD THEM!"
By
JESSICA RAYNOR
jraynor@amarillonet.com
The Amarillo Globe-News
DALHART - The dogs probably don't know they're living
in an award-winning animal shelter.
They may notice that their coats are shinier and
half their buddies have been adopted. They may
notice they have better toys and nice humans feeding
and petting them.
But
the animals in the Dalhart Animal Wellness Group shelter
probably don't pay attention to the publicity they've
gotten,
which has led to an award from In Defense of Animals,
an international animal rights group based in California.
Four
Allyn Finch Intermediate School students and three
adults will travel to California to collect the award
at the IDA's
first Guardian Awards on Thursday in Santa
Monica, Calif.
" When
it was brought to our attention that these youngsters
did so much
to take the initiative to create this shelter, (we
thought) these were
the type of youngsters that we were hoping the next
generation would
become," said Elliott Katz, DVM, IDA president.
The
Guardian Award - a painting accompanied by a plaque
- aims to recognize those who act as guardians
of animals, not owners, Katz said. The IDA's seven-year
campaign has changed language in city ordinances across
the country to reflect that ideology, Katz said.
Diane
Trull, the fourth-grade teacher who helped her students
start DAWG, didn't know what she was getting into.
She knew her students were passionate about
the plight of stray dogs, many of which were killed
at the local animal control. So she encouraged them
to create a no-kill facility, which started operation
in March and was initially funded by a citywide recycling
campaign. The city later helped build pens and in June
approved giving $250 each month to the shelter on the
west side of town.
To
date, the group has rescued more than 300 animals and
adopted out 135, much more than the 30-percent adoption
rate nationwide, Trull said. More than
152 students have volunteered to help take the animals
for their sterilization and shots, and feed and
play with them. Now some of those students
get to go to California and be honored for those efforts
in front of a celebrity crowd.
"
It's a wonderful, wonderful thing," she said of
DAWG. "I see kids come in that need
that extra sense of responsibility that
get it here."
For
more information on Dalhart Animal Wellness Group shelter
get in touch with:
Diane Trull P.O. Box 911
Dalhart, TX 79022.
PHONE............806 - 244-3216
COLD WEATHER TIPS FOR DOGS
Did
you know that more dogs are lost during the winter
than during any other season? That's because they can
lose their scent
in snow and ice, or panic in a snowstorm and run away.
Always be sure to keep your dog on a leash at all times.
If your dog is a short-haired breed or getting on
in years, keep her toasty in cold weather with
a warm coat or sweater. Make sure it covers from
her neck to the base of her tail, as well as her
chest.
We recommend leaving the hair in a longer style in
the winter.
Puppies in particular are more sensitive to cold
than older dogs, so you may want to paper-train
your puppy inside. And if you have an ill or elderly
dog, or a breed that cannot tolerate low temperatures,
take her outdoors only long enough to relieve herself.
If your pet enjoys increased outdoor activities,
she'll need more nutritional fuel, so you may need
to increase her food intake. And when your dog comes
in out of inclement weather, thoroughly wipe her
legs and stomach and always check her pawpads. Encrusted
snow and ice may cause them to bleed. You'll also
want to wipe off any salt and other chemicals used
to melt ice. These can hurt your dog if she ingests
them while licking her paws.
And antifreeze, while essential to a car's cooling
system, may be very dangerous to your pets if they
are exposed to it. Be sure to clean up any spills
from your vehicle immediately, and consider switching
to a propylene glycol-based anti-freeze like Prestone
Low Tox, which provides an added margin of safety
for pets and wildlife. If you suspect poisoning, call
your veterinarian.
Thanks,
Sandy
TRIUMPH, THE INSULT COMIC DOG, IN NEW SPAY/NEUTER AD
CAMPAIGN.
Date:
Mon, 17 Nov 2003 Subject: [NeuterNeuterLand] Triumph
the Insult Comic
Dog in pro-neuter ad
http://www.peta.org/feat/triumph/
"
Get Neutered-It Didn't Hurt Clay Aiken," snips Triumph
the Insult Comic Dog in a new PETA ad aimed at the widespread
problem of dog and cat overpopulation. The foulmouthed
but lovable dog-puppet creation of Robert Smigel is best
known as a regular guest on Late Night With Conan O‚Brien.
In his PETA ad, Triumph wears a post-surgery Elizabethan
collar and chomps on his trademark cigar as he takes
aim at the high-ranging American Idol contestant.
Triumph
chose to make Clay Aiken the target of his humor in
the ad, and PETA didn't object because
Aiken recently
told Rolling Stone, "I think cats are Satan.
There‚s
nothing worse to me than a house cat. When I was
about 16, I had a kitten and ran over it." PETA
deals with dozens of cases of cruelty to cats every
week and
knows firsthand how damaging statements like this
can be impressionable kids often mimic what their "idols" do.
Aiken never responded when PETA wrote to him.
Triumph,
whose new CD/DVD Come Poop With Me has just been released,
might crack a lot of jokes
about parting
with his private parts, but there's nothing funny
about the consequences of not having cats and
dogs spayed or
neutered. Animal shelters are bursting at the
seams with homeless dogs and cats, many of whom
must
be put to death
because suitable homes cannot be found. Spaying
and neutering saves lives and is the most important
thing
that companion-animal
guardians can do to help dogs and cats. By preventing
animals from being born and subsequently abandoned
or given away to irresponsible people, spaying
and neutering
prevents needless suffering and death.
Furthermore, sterilized dogs and cats are healthier.
Neutered males often make for more compatible
companions and cannot develop testicular cancer,
and spayed
females have a significantly lower risk of mammary
cancer and
no possibility of developing ovarian cancer.
"
Triumph's big mouth may rub some people the wrong way,
but his message in our new spay/neuter ad is right on
the money," says PETA Director Daphna Nachminovitch. "It's
a case where a 'stitch in time saves nine‚'
or 90 unwanted animals from a life of misery.
===== Animals are dying for you to do the right
thing. Please SPAY or NEUTER your pet today.
