Humane Society for Hamilton County Sends Urgent Plea for Help

Humane Society for Hamilton County

URGENT NOTICE: The shelter has reached capacity on both dogs and cats. We are in desperate need of adoptive and foster homes. Please visit the shelter today.
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A Plea for Help from the Executive Director

Above picture is one of the URGENT dogs in need of a home. Here is his story:

Sedric is a 5 years old Pit Bull terrier-mix who was surrendered to the shelter in October along with his companion Pauly. The owner said she could no longer keep the dogs. Sedric is mostly white with the exception of his brindled left eye and ear. He has not gotten into somebody’s lipstick; his lips are just naturally pink! (They match his ears) When visiting with Sedric the first thing I noticed was how very thin he is; you can see every rib. This boy needs to go to Golden Corral and go back for thirds. Like Pauly, Sedric has lived with his owner since he was a little pup. He is naturally confused about being here, but he is willing to socialize with everyone he meets. It may take him a while to really warm up, but he loves attention and enjoys playing. He might play a little rough for small children, and we think he would do best being the only pet in the family. During his temperament testing, Sedric scored very well in his social skills and ability to follow directions. He has been neutered so he is ready to go home with his new family

Boy gathers birthday gifts for animal shelter

Signs with typical motivational phases that say "leadership" and "possibilities" adorn the plain white walls of the Lake Dallas Animal Services lobby. The cliche work-harder signs just happen to describe the atypical actions of a nine-year-old boy from Lake Dallas.

On day wile watching TV, Collin Culberson was inspired by the story of others helping animal shelters and decided he would do the same. Culberson asked birthday party guests to donate to the animal shelter instead of giving him presents.


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Please help save Hazel! 24 hours left!!!

24 more hours to save HAZEL, calm, striking blk/white 5 yr old pittie

HAZEL'S time is up!  Help us save this sweet, calm girl!

In Our Hands Rescue pulled Hazel off the euthanasia list at the city shelter only nights ago.  hazel must be placed within 24 hours or she will be placed back on the euthanasia list!  This is a calm, sweet, gentle girl, who had a perfect behavior evaluation.  This exceptional girl is good with kids-- and would even be a great "bull nanny" (no she is not a real English Staf.)  She does have some food allergies which caused her feet to look inflamed-- nothing that high quality food with NO CORN, WHEAT or other irritating ingredients won't solve.  Omega 3's added to the food works wonders as well.

Of Hazel's story, a volunteer wrote:
Hazel has lost her home.  Her owner is moving where dogs aren't allowed. But the owner told us that Hazel adores men,women, children and other dogs, and is housetrained.   I met her a week after she arrived.  What a charmer this 5 year old gal is: she always has a smile for people and other dogs.  But I noticed that her feet look rather inflamed, probably due to a skin allergy. But nothing dims Hazel's spirits. What she needs now is a new family to love.  Pehaps it's yours.  She weighs 65 pounds.  She's been here since 5/22/09.  SWEET DOG!!!

SAVE HAZEL!  Because she is 5 yrs old, her adoption fee will be reduced.  Still , please apply at http://www.inourhandsrescue.org/adopt disregarding the adoption fee amounts.

If you are only interested in fostering Hazel with no option to adopt, please apply here: www.inourhandsrescue.org/foster-application

Lady's a First Class Dog & Needs Forever a Home

Please contact Mila Parot at mila.parot@gmail.com if interested in adopting Lady and I will email you an application. Lady's awesome and needs a forever home ASAP. This is a rescue organization.
A stunning 2 yr-old, 48 lbs Lady was left abandoned in an empty apartment and taken to the local city shelter. Since she arrived at the shelter, Lady became a favorite of staff members and volunteers. Not once in her time at the shelter she showed any aggression. She was awarded the shelter's best and most prestigious behavior rating...NO CONCERN. This is reserved for those dogs who perform exceptionally well on their behavior test. One staffer described Lady as a "true princess", and we think she's absolutely correct. Lady is a first class dog - so smart and impressive; we know everyone is going to fall in love with her.

We rescued Lady from an overcrowded shelter and she now needs a forever home. Lady loves meeting people and give kisses whether you ask for them or not. She was seized when her owner was evicted. Lady has lost her owner and her home, and one fell swoop. Yes, she's very gentle and affectionate and is rather submissive with people. Lady is, well, a real lady. She comes quickly when you call her, and obeys the "sit" and "stay" commands. Lady enjoys staying at her caretaker's feet or hopping on the bench and sitting next to you to be carressed. She loves toys and plays with them for hours. She takes treats gently from your hands. She has a beautiful mahogany brindle coat and soulful brown eyes.

Lady had given birth to a little of puppies shortly before she came to the shelter. Her puppies were taken away from her and she's now protective around other dogs and cats so she needs to be the only pet in the household.

Animal Care and Control of NYC

this video can break your heart!

Sean Casey Animal Rescue needs your help

The Sean Casey Animal Rescue invites you to join us and the Open Mic Project for a night of live music, raffles and contests at our Spring fundraiser!
Come down and help us raise funds for a mobile adoption vehicle!
Friends, Family and supporters please join us for this event on Friday, May 8th, 2009 at 8pm at The Old Carriage Inn
312 7th Ave (between 7th & 8th St.)
Park Slope, Brooklyn, NY 11215
(718) 788 - 7747

a letter from a shelter manager

I think our society needs a huge " Wake-up" call. As a shelter manager, I am going to share a little insight with you all. ..a view from the inside if you will.

First off, all of you breeders/sellers should be made to work in the "back" of an animal shelter for just one day.

Maybe if you saw the life drain from a few sad, lost, confused eyes, you would change your mind about breeding and selling to people you don't even know. That puppy you just sold will most likely end up in my shelter when it's not a cute little puppy anymore.

So how would you feel if you knew that there's about a 90% chance that dog will never walk out of the shelter it is going to be dumped at? Purebred or not! About 50% of all of the dogs that are "owner surrenders" or "strays" that come into my shelter are purebred dogs.

The most common excuses I hear are:

"We are moving and we can't take our dog (or cat)." Really? Where are you moving to that doesn't allow pets and why did you choose that place instead of a pet friendly home?

Or they say "The dog got bigger than we thought it would." How big did you think a German Shepherd would get?

"We don't have time for her." Really? I work a 10- 12 hour day and still have time for my 6 dogs!

"She' s tearing up our yard.” How about making her a p art of your family?

They always tell me: "We just don't want to have to stress about finding a place for her we know he'll get adopted, she's a good dog."

Odds are your pet won't get adopted & how stressful do you think being in a shelter is? Well, let me tell you, your pet has 72 hours to find a new family from the moment you drop it off. Sometimes a little longer if the shelter isn't full and your dog manages to stay completely healthy. If it sniffles, it dies.

Your pet will be confined to a small run/kennel in a room with about 25 other barking or crying animals. It will have to relieve itself where it eats and sleeps.

It will be depressed and it will cry constantly for the family that abandoned it.

If your pet is lucky, I will have enough volunteers in that day to take him/her for a walk. If I don't, your pet won't get any attention besides having a bowl of food slid under the kennel door and the waste sprayed out of its pen with a high-powered hose.

If your dog is big, black or any of the "Bully" breeds (pit bull, rottie, mastiff, etc) it was pretty much dead when you walked it through the front door. Those dogs just don't get adopted.

It doesn't matter how 'sweet' or 'well behaved' they are. If your dog doesn't get adopted within its 72 hours and the shelter is full, it will be destroyed.

If the shelter isn't full and your dog is good enough, and of a desirable enough breed it may get a stay of execution, but not for long.

Most dogs get very kennel protective after about a week and are destroyed for showing aggression. Even the sweetest dogs will turn in this environment.

If your pet makes it over all of those hurdles chances are it will get kennel cough or an upper respiratory infection and will be destroyed because shelters just don't have the funds to pay for even a $100 treatment.

Here's a little euthanasia 101 for those of you that have never witnessed a perfectly healthy, scared animal being "put-down".. ..

First, your pet will be taken from its kennel on a leash. They always look like they think they are going for a walk - happy, wagging their tails.

Until, they get to "The Room", every one of them freak out and put the brakes on when we get to the door. It must smell like death or they can feel the sad souls that are left in there, it's strange, but it happens with every one of them.

Your dog or cat will be restrained, held down by 1 or 2 vet techs depending on the size and how freaked out they are.

Then a euthanasia tech or a vet will start the process. They will find a vein in the front leg and inject a lethal dose of the "pink stuff".

Hopefully your pet doesn't panic from being restrained and jerk. I've seen the needles tear out of a leg and been covered with the resulting blood and been deafened by the yelps and screams.

They all don't just "go to sleep", sometimes they spasm for a while, gasp for air and defecate on themselves.

When it all ends, your pet's corpse will be stacked like firewood in a large freezer in the back with all of the other animals that were killed waiting to be picked up like garbage.

What happens next? Cremated? Taken to the dump? Rendered into pet food? You'll never know and it probably won't even cross your mind. It was just an animal and you can always buy another one, right?

I hope that those of you that have read this are bawling your eyes out and can't get the pictures out of your head I deal with everyday on the way home from work.

I hate my job, I hate that it exists & I hate that it will always be there unless you people make some changes and realize that the lives you are affecting go much further than the pets you dump at a shelter.

Between 9 and 11 MILLION animals die every year in shelters and only you can stop it. I do my best to save every life I can but rescues are always full, and there are more animals coming in everyday than there are homes.

My point to all of this: DON'T BREED OR BUY WHILE SHELTER PETS DIE!

Hate me if you want to. The truth hurts and reality is what it is.

I just hope I maybe changed one person's mind about breeding their dog, taking their loving pet to a shelter, or buying a dog.

I hope that someone will walk into my shelter and say "I saw this and it made me want to adopt." THAT WOULD MAKE IT WORTH IT!

written by a ACC NYC Shelter Manager.

the shelter i go to with my son...

http://www.petfinder.com/shelters/NY637.html

The dogs there are so precious and are desperately seeking a warm loving home....there eyes are so sad...they have either been abandoned or there owners have passed away. They are all in need of a home. I wish I could take them all with me...