Previously, I reported on Heard County Animal Control’s need for supplies. This is not a nokill shelter, but it needs to receive food and basic medical supplies to keep dogs and cats healthy while they are there. If the condition of the animals can be maintained, adopters and rescues are more likely to step forward to help them. A full belly and being parasite free can entice a rescue to save “just one more” because they won’t have to quarantine a dog far away from others when room is limited.
Emily, who frequently volunteers to spread the word about the dogs and cats at the shelter, has the opportunity of buying 10 cases of Halo canned dog food for $75.00. The food normally runs $35 a case, so this is definitely a great opportunity. The money is not going to a nonprofit organization, but to an individually who is picking up the food, so you will not receive tax credit for donating. I just thought I would be upfront about that. The previous source of donated food has dried up. A chain of pet food stores that used to donate daily food is no longer doing it, so the two staff members at the shelter are scrambling to feed the dogs there. There have been previously pleas to donate food, but since no one has done it, a few volunteers are trying to pick some up, even though funds are limited. The shelter is located in rural Franklin, Georgia.
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Thanks to alert readers, I have been informed that the Georgia SPCA is in grave danger of closing. They have been very hard hit with the influx of flood victims and have lost a major donor. Because of this tolling combination, they need your help now more than ever.
Pets who have been extracted from the water were taken to several local shelters such as the Georgia SPCA, and Cobb and Fulton County shelters. The SPCA also acted as an emergency shelter during the crisis. Unfortunately, since they have been shuffled around, there are many pets who are out of time, never having found their families, or the families are homeless and have no way to claim them. The Georgia SPCA has held on to some animals in hopes of reuniting them with their families, but the extra refugees and the slow adoptions have taken a toll. The Georgia SPCA is very important for us to keep open. They not only have provided refuge to flood victims, but has saved some very nice dogs and cats from death row at local county pounds on their last day.
Warren, Michigan is contemplating a Pit Bull ban, or more technically known as Breed Specific Legislation. The reasoning is that if there were no Pit Bulls, there would be no attacks involving Pit Bulls. Actually, when you look at statistics, dog attacks involve a large sampling of breeds. The most common Pit Bull attack involves a male, unneutered dog, and typically an irresponsible owner. The answer is not to remove the right of every person to own a pit bull, but to crack down on animal welfare, to prosecute the rotten apples that are ruining it for the responsible dog owners, and to also encourage people to consider what breed best matches their family.
An urgent request for help came across my desk. Are you in or traveling through Alabama, Tennessee, Virginia, Maryland, or Pennsylvania this weekend. A young and pretty Great Dane/Catahoula mix of the tender age of 11 months old needs your help. Puzzle, aptly named for her markings I would imagine, was picked up by animal control with a very embedded collar. What is an embedded collar? Usually what occurs is that someone buy a puppy a collar and doesn’t bother to loosen it or get a new one as she grows. The puppy “grows around” the collar and skin ends up starting to grow around it as the pup’s neck has nowhere else to go.
Everyone is thawing out now in the north, and the urge to take a hike with the dogs or hop on a quad is very enticing. Sometimes, once you buy an ATV or similar vehicle, you park it in the fall and don’t think much about it. I need to let you know that if you have a Yamaha Rhino, there is a major recall due to the glut of 
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A friend of mine alerted me to a most heartbreaking tale in Georgia. Two dogs are left chained outside with no food. A puppy is inside a trailer (mobile home), and at least has shelter from the freezing rain, but has been alone for days. It is unknown if there was enough food and water left for the little guy. The outside dogs are VEry skinny so it is doubtful. Even if so, water can be tipped over and food only lasts so long. A local rescue is talking to the authorities, and it turns out that the man who owns these guys leaves for days at a time, leaving them behind with no one coming to check on them. Since they are owned, the proper channels have to be gone through.
This could be a needle in a haystack, but the power of the internet has come through before for information posted on this site. There is a missing dog in Florida that needs your help. He needs you to keep your eyes open, to contact your friends in the area, and to post elsewhere on the internet to increase his chance of coming home.
Dear Friends,