Now what I want to say to you 40 days and then kill them people is
get out of rescue because you suck.
No Kill Monroe County Pa
Gramby was a pitbull puppy who was rescued in Kansas City by Animal Haven, a true open end no kill shelter. He did not get adopted for OVER 2 YEARS and this group of dog loving volunteers loved him and refused to kill him because he did not have a home. Here is more of Gramby's story.
Gramby has been adopted!
Gramby was our longest term dog here at Animal Haven and was recently
adopted. Gramby was found as a stray from a city with a breed ban on
October 13th, 2006 when he was just a pup. Last week he was adopted
out by a fantastic lady from Blue Springs. He has adjusted very well
to life with his new mother and is having the time of his life now
that he finally has his lifelong home. He even gets to cuddle with
his mother's baby granddaughter for nap time.
And, what a wiggler he is too! Our ants-in-the- pants pal Gramby is
always on the lookout for something interesting. Who can blame him?
Gramby's dedicated friends here at Animal taught him a few things
before he went to his new lifelong home, and he'll sit for a treat
(though he likes to be sure it's abundantly tasty).
http://www.animalhavenkc.org/2009/02/13/gramby-has-been-adopted/
http://www.easyvegan.info/2009/02/18/small-victories/
http://btoellner.typepad.com/kcdogblog/2009/02/hooray-for-gramby.html
Thursday, February 19, 2009
Monday, February 16, 2009
Mr. Bill's Cat Toys
Mr. Bill is an active member of No Kill Monroe County Pa. He has created these really cool cat posts that have some of Mrs. Lori's irresistable catnip catfishes on them. For each cat toy that Mr. Bill sells for $20, he will donate $10 to no Kill Monroe County Pa's spay/neuter effort. If you are interested in purchasing one, please contact: mr_bill_66@yahoo.com and he will get one sent out to you as quickly as he can get to the post office! Your cat will LOVE this irresistable toy!
Here are some photos of foster boy Tux, playing with his new cat toy! You can see how much he loves it!
Here are some photos of foster boy Tux, playing with his new cat toy! You can see how much he loves it!
Saturday, February 7, 2009
Friday, February 6, 2009
Urgent! Forever Homes Needed in PA For Rescued Cats!
Urgent!
On January 29th the Stroudsburg Pennsylvania SPCA shelter closed it's doors. ANIMALS CAN'T TALK (a 501c3 non profit animal rescue) took several cats and has reached maximum catpacity! Those cats are now receiving vet care: testing, immunizations, neutering, and are not currently available for adoption. However, we are in urgent need of adoptive homes for several other cats in order to make room for the new shelter additions.
If you are interested in adopting one of the following cats,
please contact Naomi at Animals Can't Talk (570) 242-2846.
All cats will be spayed or neutered and have necessary immunizations prior to adoption.
Check out all the available cats here:
http://www.nokillmonroecountypa.org/urgent_cat_placements.html
On January 29th the Stroudsburg Pennsylvania SPCA shelter closed it's doors. ANIMALS CAN'T TALK (a 501c3 non profit animal rescue) took several cats and has reached maximum catpacity! Those cats are now receiving vet care: testing, immunizations, neutering, and are not currently available for adoption. However, we are in urgent need of adoptive homes for several other cats in order to make room for the new shelter additions.
If you are interested in adopting one of the following cats,
please contact Naomi at Animals Can't Talk (570) 242-2846.
All cats will be spayed or neutered and have necessary immunizations prior to adoption.
Check out all the available cats here:
http://www.nokillmonroecountypa.org/urgent_cat_placements.html
Thursday, February 5, 2009
NO KILL LEHIGH VALLEY
PRESENTS
OPERATION CATSNIP
Saturday March 14
Sunday March 22
2009
The shelters and rescues are packed to the rafters with sweet kitties looking for forever homes. Don’t make things worse. Spay or neuter your cat.
Even one more litter is too many.
Help us to make a humane difference in our community.
All Cats $35.00
Financial aid available for multi cat households and ferals.
Surgeries can be performed on kittens as young as 8 weeks of age that weigh at least 2 pounds.
Vaccinations available at low cost: $10.00
Felv & FIV testing available: $25.00
All surgeries will be performed by veterinarians throughout the Lehigh Valley and in the Poconos. The doctors and technicians are donating their time and facilities for this time of caring.
Pre registration required.
By E mail: nokill.lehighvalley@yahoo.com
Or
Call 484-695-6829
PRESENTS
OPERATION CATSNIP
Saturday March 14
Sunday March 22
2009
The shelters and rescues are packed to the rafters with sweet kitties looking for forever homes. Don’t make things worse. Spay or neuter your cat.
Even one more litter is too many.
Help us to make a humane difference in our community.
All Cats $35.00
Financial aid available for multi cat households and ferals.
Surgeries can be performed on kittens as young as 8 weeks of age that weigh at least 2 pounds.
Vaccinations available at low cost: $10.00
Felv & FIV testing available: $25.00
All surgeries will be performed by veterinarians throughout the Lehigh Valley and in the Poconos. The doctors and technicians are donating their time and facilities for this time of caring.
Pre registration required.
By E mail: nokill.lehighvalley@yahoo.com
Or
Call 484-695-6829
Top 10 Reasons to Adopt an Older Dog
Top Ten Reasons to Adopt an Older Dog
Housetrained
1. Older dogs are housetrained. You won't have to go through the difficult stage(s) of teaching a puppy house manners and mopping/cleaning up after accidents.
Won't chew inappropriate items
2. Older dogs are not teething puppies, and won't chew your shoes and furniture while growing up.
Focus to learn
3. Older dogs can focus well because they've mellowed. Therefore, they learn quickly.
Know what "no" means
4. Older dogs have learned what "no" means. If they hadn't learned it, they wouldn't have gotten to be "older" dogs.
Settle in with the "pack"
5. Older dogs settle in easily, because they've learned what it takes to get along with others and become part of a pack.
Good at giving love
6. Older dogs are good at giving love, once they get into their new, loving home. They are grateful for the second chance they've been given.
WYSIWYG
7. What You See Is What You Get: Unlike puppies, older dogs have grown into their shape and personality. Puppies can grow up to be quite different from what they seemed at first.
Instant companions
8. Older dogs are instant companions -- ready for hiking, car trips, and other things you like to do.
Time for yourself
9. Older dogs leave you time for yourself, because they don't make the kinds of demands on your time and attention that puppies and young dogs do.
A good night's sleep
10. Older dogs let you get a good night's sleep because they're accustomed to human schedules and don't generally need nighttime feedings, comforting, or bathroom breaks.
Housetrained
1. Older dogs are housetrained. You won't have to go through the difficult stage(s) of teaching a puppy house manners and mopping/cleaning up after accidents.
Won't chew inappropriate items
2. Older dogs are not teething puppies, and won't chew your shoes and furniture while growing up.
Focus to learn
3. Older dogs can focus well because they've mellowed. Therefore, they learn quickly.
Know what "no" means
4. Older dogs have learned what "no" means. If they hadn't learned it, they wouldn't have gotten to be "older" dogs.
Settle in with the "pack"
5. Older dogs settle in easily, because they've learned what it takes to get along with others and become part of a pack.
Good at giving love
6. Older dogs are good at giving love, once they get into their new, loving home. They are grateful for the second chance they've been given.
WYSIWYG
7. What You See Is What You Get: Unlike puppies, older dogs have grown into their shape and personality. Puppies can grow up to be quite different from what they seemed at first.
Instant companions
8. Older dogs are instant companions -- ready for hiking, car trips, and other things you like to do.
Time for yourself
9. Older dogs leave you time for yourself, because they don't make the kinds of demands on your time and attention that puppies and young dogs do.
A good night's sleep
10. Older dogs let you get a good night's sleep because they're accustomed to human schedules and don't generally need nighttime feedings, comforting, or bathroom breaks.
Saturday, January 17, 2009
Old Dogs Living Life With Dignity & Respect- a short series!
Old Dogs - PART 1
Well I guess the first thing I want to write about is adopting and fostering senior dogs. I have a whole pack of them laying around my bedroom right now, so they are a part of a No Kill solution that I am somewhat knowledgeable about.
Older dogs get killed in shelters all the time because they are supposedly "un-adoptable". Now I would say they are harder to find homes for, but not un-adoptable. Some people think that they are not getting as much for their money or whatever if they adopt a senior dog. Maybe they fear they will get this old guy home and he will die overnight and they will have to grieve and all that or that this older dog is going to need some geriatric specialist vet that will cost millions of dollars or something.
As far as financial cost goes, I have found the exact opposite is true. The older guys really do not need much. A warm soft blanket, good food, milk bones, rawhides, greenies, senior dog vitamins, supplements, clean water, a little exercise, love and companionship are the main ingredients for a happy old dog life, far as I can tell. Mine even like to squeak on a toy now and then. They love to pose for photos as well.
I think that old dogs, old cats and old human beings deserve to live their lives to the fullest til they die, naturally, if/when possible. Now don't get me wrong! There is no way in tarnation I would allow an animal to lay around and suffer and have a terrible and undignified life either. But there are dogs and cats being killed in shelters, because they are old and homeless or maybe they are missing some fur or have some old man fat lumps or whatever. This does not have to be a death sentence!
Just as a young pup still has the whole rest of his life ahead of him, so does an older dog!
When Bill and myself were volunteering at the shelter, there were several arguments about whether I would adopt some of the younger, cooler pups to bring home and add to our growing family. Today I am somewhat glad that I did not sneak any of those little whipper~snaps into the pack while he was out working/not paying attention. They surely would have been a lot more work than the older guys we ended up with and I am sure they would never have been as full of the wisdom, grace and peacefulness of the senior pack.
HOBO MY SHADOW HOFFMAN
The first guy that came home with me was missing a bunch of hair and he was stinky. His breath was stinky and his fur smelled like he had been laying around in a pool of pee. The shelter manager at our local Stroudsburg PSPCA Adoption Center, said the dog needed to be euthenized because she believed he had end stage renal failure. Well I am not a vet and I don't even play one on tv, but I could see that this dog had nothing wrong with him that called for his immediate extermination. I believed with all my heart that he deserved to live in a home where he would be loved and treated with dignity and respect til it was time for him to die.
Some clues about the life left in this dog were that when I went to the shelter to walk dogs, he would jump up and wag his tail when I would appear at his cell with some milky bones! When I would show him the leash and ask him did he want to go out and walk, he would jump up and down and be so excited. I would get him outside and he would walk with me and then if I sat down to spend some time talking with him, he would nuzzle close to me, tail wagging always, and you could just tell there was something special between us. He really cared about me being there and I was falling in love with him too. He still had a fine appreciation for walks, milk bones, hugs and kisses, nuzzling and snuggling. He was in no pain at all. He was just painful to look at with all his missing hair and his stinky fur and breath!
Since I was not totally sure whether this guy was sick or just not well taken care of, I believed that he would be with us for a couple of months or something and that I could give him the time of his life til then. It has been somewhere around 8 months since Hobo My Shadow Hoffman came home to live with us. Hobo is a very fast runner and he jumps up into our laps and thinks he is an old wienerdog and he is the pack leader of our dog family. Bossy as they come and happy as can be!
Here are some photos of how he looked when he first came home with me! He had hair missing. He was discolored (the color of urine) so I was not sure if he was jaundiced or what. His body was shaped strangely, skinny, yet bloated or something. But he had so much soul in his face, Can you tell?
IN BETWEEN STAGE - These photos were taken after a few months with us. See how Hobo's hair began growing back with some good food, vitamins, glucosamine and brushing?!
HOBO MY SHADOW HOFFMAN TODAY - Healthy, happy and pretending to be a wiener dog so he can get some of the eukeneuba - See how his hair is all in and his muscle weight has increased in all the right places, and he is looking like a sled puller for the iditerod? OH HOBO! COME GROW OLD WITH ME!
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Well I guess the first thing I want to write about is adopting and fostering senior dogs. I have a whole pack of them laying around my bedroom right now, so they are a part of a No Kill solution that I am somewhat knowledgeable about.
Older dogs get killed in shelters all the time because they are supposedly "un-adoptable". Now I would say they are harder to find homes for, but not un-adoptable. Some people think that they are not getting as much for their money or whatever if they adopt a senior dog. Maybe they fear they will get this old guy home and he will die overnight and they will have to grieve and all that or that this older dog is going to need some geriatric specialist vet that will cost millions of dollars or something.
As far as financial cost goes, I have found the exact opposite is true. The older guys really do not need much. A warm soft blanket, good food, milk bones, rawhides, greenies, senior dog vitamins, supplements, clean water, a little exercise, love and companionship are the main ingredients for a happy old dog life, far as I can tell. Mine even like to squeak on a toy now and then. They love to pose for photos as well.
I think that old dogs, old cats and old human beings deserve to live their lives to the fullest til they die, naturally, if/when possible. Now don't get me wrong! There is no way in tarnation I would allow an animal to lay around and suffer and have a terrible and undignified life either. But there are dogs and cats being killed in shelters, because they are old and homeless or maybe they are missing some fur or have some old man fat lumps or whatever. This does not have to be a death sentence!
Just as a young pup still has the whole rest of his life ahead of him, so does an older dog!
When Bill and myself were volunteering at the shelter, there were several arguments about whether I would adopt some of the younger, cooler pups to bring home and add to our growing family. Today I am somewhat glad that I did not sneak any of those little whipper~snaps into the pack while he was out working/not paying attention. They surely would have been a lot more work than the older guys we ended up with and I am sure they would never have been as full of the wisdom, grace and peacefulness of the senior pack.
HOBO MY SHADOW HOFFMAN
The first guy that came home with me was missing a bunch of hair and he was stinky. His breath was stinky and his fur smelled like he had been laying around in a pool of pee. The shelter manager at our local Stroudsburg PSPCA Adoption Center, said the dog needed to be euthenized because she believed he had end stage renal failure. Well I am not a vet and I don't even play one on tv, but I could see that this dog had nothing wrong with him that called for his immediate extermination. I believed with all my heart that he deserved to live in a home where he would be loved and treated with dignity and respect til it was time for him to die.
Some clues about the life left in this dog were that when I went to the shelter to walk dogs, he would jump up and wag his tail when I would appear at his cell with some milky bones! When I would show him the leash and ask him did he want to go out and walk, he would jump up and down and be so excited. I would get him outside and he would walk with me and then if I sat down to spend some time talking with him, he would nuzzle close to me, tail wagging always, and you could just tell there was something special between us. He really cared about me being there and I was falling in love with him too. He still had a fine appreciation for walks, milk bones, hugs and kisses, nuzzling and snuggling. He was in no pain at all. He was just painful to look at with all his missing hair and his stinky fur and breath!
Since I was not totally sure whether this guy was sick or just not well taken care of, I believed that he would be with us for a couple of months or something and that I could give him the time of his life til then. It has been somewhere around 8 months since Hobo My Shadow Hoffman came home to live with us. Hobo is a very fast runner and he jumps up into our laps and thinks he is an old wienerdog and he is the pack leader of our dog family. Bossy as they come and happy as can be!
Here are some photos of how he looked when he first came home with me! He had hair missing. He was discolored (the color of urine) so I was not sure if he was jaundiced or what. His body was shaped strangely, skinny, yet bloated or something. But he had so much soul in his face, Can you tell?
IN BETWEEN STAGE - These photos were taken after a few months with us. See how Hobo's hair began growing back with some good food, vitamins, glucosamine and brushing?!
HOBO MY SHADOW HOFFMAN TODAY - Healthy, happy and pretending to be a wiener dog so he can get some of the eukeneuba - See how his hair is all in and his muscle weight has increased in all the right places, and he is looking like a sled puller for the iditerod? OH HOBO! COME GROW OLD WITH ME!
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Saturday, January 10, 2009
The No Kill Revolution
The No Kill Revolution
In the words of Nathan Winograd
“We have the power to build a new consensus, which rejects killing as a method for achieving results. And we can look forward to a time when the wholesale slaughter of animals in shelters is viewed as a cruel aberration of the past. To get to that point, we must learn from history and reject our failures. Whether we realize, appreciate, or believe it, as history marches toward greater compassion toward non-human animals, No Kill’s conquest of the status quo is inevitable. If we remain silent at this moment, however, an opportunity will be lost to speed that process along. Our silence, therefore, has a body count. The price to be paid for our refusal to seize this opportunity will be the lives of millions of dogs and cats needlessly killed in shelters next year. And the year after that. We have a choice. We can fully, completely, and without reservation embrace No Kill as our future. Or we can continue to legitimize the two-pronged strategy of failure: adopt a few and kill the rest. It is a choice which history has thrown upon us. We are the generation that questioned the killing. We are the generation that has discovered how to stop it. Will we be the generation that does?”
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If you care about companion animals, please read Nathan Winograd’s book Redemption.
Go here to read and sign the No Kill Declaration.
Go here to see how Philadelphia is blowing it.
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In the words of Nathan Winograd
“We have the power to build a new consensus, which rejects killing as a method for achieving results. And we can look forward to a time when the wholesale slaughter of animals in shelters is viewed as a cruel aberration of the past. To get to that point, we must learn from history and reject our failures. Whether we realize, appreciate, or believe it, as history marches toward greater compassion toward non-human animals, No Kill’s conquest of the status quo is inevitable. If we remain silent at this moment, however, an opportunity will be lost to speed that process along. Our silence, therefore, has a body count. The price to be paid for our refusal to seize this opportunity will be the lives of millions of dogs and cats needlessly killed in shelters next year. And the year after that. We have a choice. We can fully, completely, and without reservation embrace No Kill as our future. Or we can continue to legitimize the two-pronged strategy of failure: adopt a few and kill the rest. It is a choice which history has thrown upon us. We are the generation that questioned the killing. We are the generation that has discovered how to stop it. Will we be the generation that does?”
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If you care about companion animals, please read Nathan Winograd’s book Redemption.
Go here to read and sign the No Kill Declaration.
Go here to see how Philadelphia is blowing it.
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Friday, January 9, 2009
Fostering and Volunteering!
Fostering and volunteering are very important parts of the No Kill Equation. If you can foster animals in your home so that rescues can make room to take in and assist more homeless animals, eventually our network could grow large enough that there is never a homeless animal without somewhere to go.
To apply to foster or volunteer with Camp Papillon (all breed rescue), please contact Barbara Marinelli at barbaralgc@aol.com
If you are interested in working with, volunteering or fostering pit bulls, you can contact Christine Guttilla (For the Love of the Underdog) blueyeszz@aol.com
If you want to volunteer or foster cats, please contact Naomi Gauntlett (Animals Can't Talk) NGauntlett@KRAMERLEVIN.com
Together we can!!!
To apply to foster or volunteer with Camp Papillon (all breed rescue), please contact Barbara Marinelli at barbaralgc@aol.com
If you are interested in working with, volunteering or fostering pit bulls, you can contact Christine Guttilla (For the Love of the Underdog) blueyeszz@aol.com
If you want to volunteer or foster cats, please contact Naomi Gauntlett (Animals Can't Talk) NGauntlett@KRAMERLEVIN.com
Together we can!!!
Thursday, January 8, 2009
Welcome to No Kill Monroe County PA
Welcome to NO KILL Monroe County PA. We are citizens who believe that when the community works together to save animals, that we are capable of miraculous things!
No Kill means that homeless animals are given every opportunity to find good permanent homes. We will not kill an animal just to make room for more animals or because it is difficult to find a home for.
The city of San Francisco became the first no kill community in the nation in the 1990s by saving all healthy dogs and cats city and county-wide.
The Tompkins Co. SPCA in rural upstate New York, an open door animal shelter with the animal control contract for the area, now has a 93% save rate.
The animal control shelter in Charlottesville, Va., a southern, rural open door shelter, has a 92% save rate.
The Humane Society in Reno, Nevada has hired a new director committed to no kill. Between January 1, 2006 and January 1, 2007, the kill rate for dogs decreased by 57%while the adoption rate increased by 91%. During this same period, the kill rate for cats decreased by 45% while the adoption rate increased by 105%.
The state of New Hampshire became a no kill state when state funded low cost spay/neuter became available. The save rate throughout the state is 93%.
(www.saveourstrays.com)
The state of Utah is near no kill status. (www.bestfriends.org)
Central Pennsylvania Animal Alliance are working hard to reduce euthenasia in Central PA.
Our neighbors in the Lehigh Valley are all, with the exception of one killing place, working hard on No Kill.
Here in the Poconos, Camp Papillon, Animals Can't Talk, For the Love of the Underdog, Friends of Monroe County Homeless Animals, Dogs Deserve Better, Save a Dog, and a SLEW of hardworking volunteers are doing their best to save animal lives and things just keep on looking better for homeless animals here in Monroe County!
I have this dream that all these little no kill groups Nationwide, are growing, moving, stretching and spreading. One day, maybe in my lifetime, the killing will be a thing of the past!
I know that my own children are apalled that there are "shelters" that make money taking in animals and killing them to make room for more animals. I think that if we educate the youth and teach them loving and compassionate no kill strategies, we will change the way homeless animals are treated especially in our grandchildren's generation. But we have to hurry up! I am already a grandmother!
Let's do this!
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