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Humane Society Visits

Submitted by arial_ride on Tue, 2008-07-01 00:30.


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Through these visits, our club is trying to improve the lives of unwanted animals.

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Seven of our club members were able to make it to the visiting day in June. We were able to play with a few of the dogs and take a tour of the shelter, but that was mostly it. In August, we plan to take another trip, and take on the full volunteer experience.

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Since this is our first club activity besides the meetings, we're just trying to figure out what we are passionate about. Our club has many different interests, and we're attempting to sample each of them to get a better idea of what we want to do. To start out, we wanted to volunteer. We first got in contact with a Humane Society representative to ask if there would be any available time for our group to come in and volunteer. Most of their spots were filled up, but they allowed us to come in as visitors and play with the dogs who were not likely candidates to be adopted. We made a follow up appointment for our club to come in at a different time, so we would be able to volunteer properly. (Take the training course, clean the kennels and groom the dogs/cats)

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Started On:June 18 + August 23, 2008Ended On:
People Involved:8People Impacted:25
Money Raised:  

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Related Cause: Animal Welfare

Tags: volunteer humane society DS Clubs animals

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June: That day was pretty good. We were expecting a little more to do I think, but it still was a great experience. We met several of the dogs, and a very friendly employee who was working in the kennels was kind enough to let us play with some of the dogs who weren't as lively as the others, the ones who were most likely not going to be adopted, or who had been there the longest. August: Coming soon.

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SOS - Help the North County Humane Society!

Submitted by Silverkins on Tue, 2008-06-03 18:49.


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Our local animal shelter is in grave danger of closing, due to lack fo funds! Please help us "SAVE OUR SHELTER" Smiling

North County Humane Society, a division of Action for Animals' Rights, serves all of San Luis Obispo County, California. The Humane Society operates the Margaret Raber Shelter for Cats and the Parfitt Adoption Center, a no-kill, for-life cat rescue shelter with cat adoption services.

OUR VISION
To live in a world where all animals receive compassion, respect, and humane treatment from all people.

OUR MISSION
To improve the health and well-being of animals in San Luis Obispo County by providing critical support services to animals, promoting positive human - animal relationships and responsible guardianship, and advocating for animal welfare issues.

We are advocates for abandoned, neglected and abused animals with preventative programs including:
• Spay and neuter support through spay / neuter discount certificates for dogs and cats
• Spay and Neuter Education
• Humane trap rental for our Trap, Neuter, Release program to control feral cat populations
• Friend For Life, for-life care for animals surviving their companions

North County Humane Society is a California - registered 501 (c) (3) non-profit organization.

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I am asking everyone out there to help raise money for this wonderful no-kill shelter. Do whatever it takes! Any money raised can be donated to help the shelter continue to operate. **Collect recycling **Hold a yard/bake sale **Do a car wash **Walk dogs **Make and sell animal related art **Donate food and supplies directly to the shelter **Get others involved (i.e. your school, church, club, etc.)

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Dwindling donations are putting the North County Humane Society’s no-kill cat shelter in Atascadero at risk of closing. The sanctuary for rescued cats is funded almost entirely by donations. Today, the shelter cares for more than 200 cats and has placed more than 3,000 felines in new homes in the last decade. Organizers recently launched a campaign to raise the $300,000 needed to operate the shelter annually and we need YOUR help! For more information please go to www.slonchs.org or call 805-466-5403.

Vital Stats

Started On:06/01/08Ended On:12/31/08
People Involved:ManyPeople Impacted:Countless
Money Raised:$50 (so far)  

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Related Cause: Animal Welfare

Tags: animal shelter homeless animals save animals humane society cats help raise money

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Aiding the Helpless

Submitted by littleziggykid95 on Thu, 2008-05-29 22:13.


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I am aiding the animals at the Humane Society. This is an important issue to me because these animals can’t help themselves, we need to help them. Each shelter gets around 21 injured animal calls a month. They also get over 220 stray pick-up calls a month. This is a lot of work. One reason the Humane Society needs money is because with all of these stray and injured animals, most of them need medical attention. Medical attention for over 200 animals a month can get pretty expensive. On the up side, more than 100 animals at a large shelter get adopted each month. To add to that in a large shelter almost 50 animals are reclaimed by their owners each month. These kinds of things are the things that warm my heart. The only problem is that without enough money the Humane Society can’t afford to help all of these animals and will have to shut down. If the shelter has to shut down then where will all of the animals go?

I am a big fan of animals and I donate my own money all of the time. I will do anything that I can to help the shelter out. My local Humane Society is in desperate need of money because they just went through exceptionally large numbers of injured animals. I am ready to step in and help. The animals can’t help themselves so we need to do it for them!

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Believe It My organization is the Humane Society. The Humane Society takes in lost, stray, and injured animals. They also take in animals that are perfectly fine. Once they take them in they that any illnesses that the animals have and they make sure that they are healthy. Once the animals are healthy they test them to see if they can be put up for adoption. The people at the Humane Society make sure that the animals can work well with people, children, other pets, exc. Without the Humane Society those homeless and injured animals out there would have to suffer. My favorite part about the humane Society is that all of their work is completely voluntary. Nobody at the shelter gets paid for taking care of the animals. Everyone who is at the Humane Society is there because they have an extreme passion for animals. I want to be someone like that because they are dedicating their free time to help the animals that need their help. My project is to sell food at the brat stands in most grocery stores. to raise money for the Humane Society. I would also have people drop off gently used pet care items such as beds, leashes, toys, exc. Then I would take everything I raised including the goods, and I would donate it to the shelter. I want to do everything I can so I would do as many of these sales as possible over the course if the summer. This addresses the Humane Society’s problem because I will be giving them money to deal with medical expenses for the injured animals. The money can also be used to buy food for the animals. My local Humane Society is having a problem with affording everything so by donating money I can help them buy the things that they need. If I donate gently used items then the Humane Society wouldn’t have to buy them and waste money. I really want to help the shelter out because I don’t want them to have to close down because of expenses. I don’t know what all of the animals will do if the shelter closes. I will do everything that I can to keep my Humane Society up and running. If I need to also volunteer I will. I want to help.

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Build It I have been working on designing my project for about 3 years. Since elementary school I have wanted to do a big project to raise money for the Humane Society. The first thing I did was write down my ideas. Then in fifth grade I actually did a mini project. I sold popcorn, cookies, and Kool-Aid at Festival Foods and I made over $100. I really liked the feeling of donating that money to the animals so I decided I wanted to do it again. I never had time, until I was enrolled in How to Save the World. When I heard that we were going to do service projects I jumped for joy. That was the perfect time to once again, raise money for the animals. I started to plan out in my head what I wanted to do. I decided that I wanted to do the same project, because it was fun, and I planned most of it out already. Some of the problems I faced when I did the project before could have ruined everything. First, we couldn’t find the animal shaped cookie cutters, and we panicked. Once we found them we thought that everything would work out fine. Then, we couldn’t find the place that sells the popcorn oil and seeds that my cousins use for their popcorn machine. Once we found that we were on our way. We had all of the food and drinks that we needed. Once we got to the sail and got running, our popcorn machine broke down. We had to call in my dad to bring the back-up generator and power the machine. While I was planning my project out for this attempt, some of the problems I faced were things like: where will I sell, and when will I do this. To solve these problems I thought about where and when I did my sale the first time. I decided that I will talk to people to find a place where I can sell when I need to. I thought about it and I decided that most of my free time is in the summer so I will do it then. The next problem I came upon was people. I can’t do all of this by myself. It would be too much work. I really didn’t solve this until I was telling some of my friends about this and they really wanted to help. I thought that they could be the “stage hands” for my project. My project has grown from just an idea to a plan. I have researched my topic, and planned out what I wanted to do. I thought about times and places, and I even got some volunteers that will help me out. I like the idea that my project has a plan behind it. Ti me it is easier to have a plan than an idea. I can’t wait to start this and I really want to raise a lot of money.

Vital Stats

Started On:June 2008Ended On:September 2008
People Involved:About 5People Impacted:Some of the workers at the Humane Society
Money Raised:None yet  

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Related Cause: Animal Welfare

Tags: animals humane society Helpless

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Shocking new photos from Nigel Barker in the Arctic Posted March 31st, 2008 Tags:

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The world knew it was going to happen; America’s Next Top Model judge Nigel Barker has been warning us for some time. And yet, the slaughter of some 275,000 baby seals – an activity that is legal in Canada – began, on schedule, on Friday at dawn.

And if that isn’t enough to make you think that this is a horrific activity, the Humane Society of the U.S. (http://www.hsus.org/marine_mammals/marine_mammals_news/sealer_deaths_danger_hunt.html) says that this year’s sealing (as the culling industry is called) claimed human lives too:

Media reports confirmed that at least three commercial sealers from the Magdalen Islands died after their vessel capsized this morning. The boat was being towed by the Canadian Coast Guard after the crew encountered problems navigating icy waters just north of Cape Breton, Nova Scotia. . . Sealers are at the mercy of the ice and weather conditions during this hunt. . . .Not surprisingly, Canadian Coast Guard representatives define the commercial seal hunt as a "high risk" activity, and a 2004 Coast Guard presentation noted that the "seal fishery" accounted for 24 percent of all search and rescue incidents of the fishing industry.

Here are some photos that Nigel emailed to us. We think they speak for themselves.
 
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Why is such an event allowed to take place in this day and age, you ask? The director of the Humane Society International/UK offers this explanation:

"Today the slaughter of baby seals began again in Canada, largely because Europe continues to import seal products," stated Mark Glover, director of Humane Society International/UK. . . A comprehensive ban on seal product trade in the European Union will stop the cruelty of commercial seal hunts and finally meet the expectations of the European Parliament and European citizens.” (SOURCE)

Meanwhile, countries such as the U.S. , France, Germany, Italy, Mexico, the Netherlands, Panama, Slovenia, Austria, Belgium, and Croatia have taken action to end their trade in seal products or have announced their intention to do so, according to the Humane Society.

So what’s up, Canada? According to eyewitness Rebecca of the Humane Society, the sealers she witnessed were not even adhering to Canada’s sealing code, meant to make the killings more humane.

If you would like to see Canada put an end to sealing – and the deaths of the humans who hunt them – then Nigel asks you to go here http://www.hsus.org/index-seals.html and take The Pledge.

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Shocking new photos from Nigel Barker in the Arctic Posted March 31st, 2008 Tags:

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The world knew it was going to happen; America’s Next Top Model judge Nigel Barker has been warning us for some time. And yet, the slaughter of some 275,000 baby seals – an activity that is legal in Canada – began, on schedule, on Friday at dawn.

And if that isn’t enough to make you think that this is a horrific activity, the Humane Society of the U.S. (http://www.hsus.org/marine_mammals/marine_mammals_news/sealer_deaths_danger_hunt.html) says that this year’s sealing (as the culling industry is called) claimed human lives too:

Media reports confirmed that at least three commercial sealers from the Magdalen Islands died after their vessel capsized this morning. The boat was being towed by the Canadian Coast Guard after the crew encountered problems navigating icy waters just north of Cape Breton, Nova Scotia. . . Sealers are at the mercy of the ice and weather conditions during this hunt. . . .Not surprisingly, Canadian Coast Guard representatives define the commercial seal hunt as a "high risk" activity, and a 2004 Coast Guard presentation noted that the "seal fishery" accounted for 24 percent of all search and rescue incidents of the fishing industry.

Here are some photos that Nigel emailed to us. We think they speak for themselves.

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Why is such an event allowed to take place in this day and age, you ask? The director of the Humane Society International/UK offers this explanation:

"Today the slaughter of baby seals began again in Canada, largely because Europe continues to import seal products," stated Mark Glover, director of Humane Society International/UK. . . A comprehensive ban on seal product trade in the European Union will stop the cruelty of commercial seal hunts and finally meet the expectations of the European Parliament and European citizens.” (SOURCE)

Meanwhile, countries such as the U.S. , France, Germany, Italy, Mexico, the Netherlands, Panama, Slovenia, Austria, Belgium, and Croatia have taken action to end their trade in seal products or have announced their intention to do so, according to the Humane Society.

So what’s up, Canada? According to eyewitness Rebecca of the Humane Society, the sealers she witnessed were not even adhering to Canada’s sealing code, meant to make the killings more humane. Check out her video from the ice:

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Circle of the City Cycle

Submitted by Katelyn Williams on Thu, 2007-12-06 22:15.


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I helped in creating a biking event. It helps raise money for the local humane society. We have put most of our time and effort to build this charity event from scratch. Everything we need for the event to take place is all based on donations. The public will cycle around the city either 50 or 14 miles.

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Vital Stats

Started On:October 2007Ended On:December 2007
People Involved:200-250People Impacted:200-250
Money Raised:0  

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Related Cause: Animal Welfare

Category: Public Health

Tags: public fun fundraising humane society cycling 50 miles 14miles

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Memorial Garden for Humane Society

Submitted by cesmith1969@hot... on Wed, 2007-08-15 22:32.


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I am working as a volunteer with the Humane Society of Hall County, Georgia. Our local humane society takes in over 13,000 each year from our local area. Sadly, a high number of these animals are put to sleep because they don't find good homes. It's a very sad that these animals don't find a home; I belive every animal should be able to have a family that loves them. It also makes me sad to see so many of the animals in their cages waiting to be adopted.

Our humane society has a big, fenced area where the dogs can go outside to play. Unfortunately, the area is not shaded and isn't very pretty. My plan is to build a memorial garden surrounding the dog run so that these sad, homeless animals have something nice to look at while they are outside getting some fresh air. The garden would also be a reminder to people who visit the humane society of how important it is to have your animals spayed/neutered, as the garden would be a memorial to all of the animals that have to be put to sleep every year.

I will need money to buy fresh mulch for the dog run, plants to spruce up the area, a tree that will someday grow tall enough to shade the dogs, stepping stones so visitors can have a safe path to the dog run and a memorial stone for the lost animals.

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Started On:September 1, 2008Ended On:May 31, 2008
People Involved:I will have approximately 10 helpers to build the gardenPeople Impacted:13,000 pets annually
Money Raised:  

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Related Cause: Animal Welfare

Category: Education & Environment

Tags: animals pets humane society animal adoption

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