Archives: Shelter

Husky Romi is a non-profit organization providing a safe haven for abandoned and abused huskies and wolves in South Africa. They provide a home to huskies and wolves that can't be kept as pets, because of their complicated nature. Many of the animals arrive in poor condition, some not even knowing what grass is, and are rehabilitated with loving care by Larry Paul and his team of helpers and volunteers. This group was started to provide support to the Husky Romi project and to promote the protection of wolves and other wildlife. The sanctuary is open for the public to come and learn about wolves, entry is free, but they appreciate donations for the buying of food and for veterinary bills. All the huskies are spayed and neutered when they arrive at Husky Romi.  They currently provide a home for twenty Huskies and one hundred and four Timber wolves. 

Husky Romi encourages people to come to the sanctuary in Reitz, South Africa for a visit.  The wolves range in age from puppies to eighteen years old.  Under the watchful eye of Larry, visitors can view the camps to meet and pet the ancestor to all breeds of dogs. The Huskies on the farm love visitors and start “calling” at the moment of arrival at wolf camp.  Husky Romi also offers camping facilities giving visitors the opportunity to lie back and listen to the howling that continues throughout the night.

The sanctuary has a sponsor program giving individuals the opportunity to “adopt” a wolf or husky rescue. The sanctuary will send photos and updates of the rescued animal in exchange for sponsor donations. 

SPCA International is so happy to award Husky Romi with a Shelter of The Week Grant to help with the care and medical expenses of these wonderful creatures.  The dollars will go toward spaying of the females and shade shelters to help keep the animals out of the hot sun.

To learn more about Huski Romi  or to sponsor  an animal, follow them on Facebook:
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=35310247568 

To donate to HuskiRomi securely online:
http://www.payfast.co.za/donate/go/huskyromirescueandwolfsanctuary 

or directly via wire transfer:
FIRNZAJJ (Swift code)

First National Bank, a Div of First Rand Bank Ltd

Husky Romi Rescue and Wolf Sanctuary

Reg.Number 067-956-NPO

Acc No. 62296463989

Branch code. 230833

Cheque Acc
Farm 365 
Thaba Bosigo

Reitz

Free State

South Africa

Website
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=35310247568

Founded in 2008, Tranquility Trail Animal Sanctuary is a non-profit, 501(c)3 organization dedicated to the compassionate care of companion animals. The Tranquility Trail mission is to rescue, shelter, rehabilitate and hopefully find a forever home for every animal that finds its way to the shelter.

Tranquility Trail Animal Sanctuary is wholly committed to the preservation, protection and rehabilitation of companion animals considered untreatable and unadoptable. The sanctuary is designed specifically around the needs of the animals who will be fortunate enough to call Tranquility Trail home – whether that be for a month or the rest of the animal’s natural life. 

They offer exceptional programs of rescue, spay/neuter, rehabilitation, adoption, sanctuary, holistic care, community outreach and education, pet parenting support and collaborative partnerships. With an eye to decreasing the euthanasia of adoptable and treatable animals in Arizona, Tranquility Trail works in partnership with the Animal Rescue Organizations in and around Arizona and the southwest.

They are a volunteer based organization and every donation they receive ensures their programs sufficiently serve those animals that are lost, abused, neglected or unwanted in the community. They welcome every animal with loving and open arms.

Tranquility Trail Animal Sanctuary is proud to be the Arizona Chapter for the House Rabbit Society with two House Rabbit Society Licensed Educators on staff.

They are currently in Phase One of a Three Phase development and are a sanctuary for domestic rabbits only, at this time.  Completion of Phases two and three in the future will allow for the care of other companion animals.

SPCA International is happy to award Tranquility Trail with a Shelter of the Week Grant to further their efforts with the EVOLVE Program. In order to live its philosophy, Tranquility Trail developed the EVOLVE program with the goals of providing sanctuary for companion animals and of developing a path to successful adoption, when appropriate.  This program outlines the key components of a holistic, compassionate philosophy:  E-veryday Care, V-eterinarian Care, O-peration, L-ove, V-olunteers, E-ducation.

To donate to Tranquility Trails please mail checks to the following address:

Tranquility Trail Animal Sanctuary
7701 East Gray Road
Suite 105-106
Scottsdale, AZ 85260

Donations via Visa, Mastercard, American Express and Discover Card are also accepted on their website at:http://www.tranquilitytrail.org/Donation_Center.html

The protection of animals against physical or psychological abuse and neglect is at the heart of the BC SPCA’s mission.  The BC SPCA investigates over 7,100 complaints of animals in distress annually.

In 2010 the BC SPCA:

•    Operated 30 animal shelters, two education and adoption centres, one store-front adoption facility, three volunteer-run branches without facilities and Wild ARC, a wildlife rehabilitation centre in Metchosin on Vancouver Island;

•    Rescued 33,762 injured, homeless, neglected and abused animals (companion, farm and wild);

•    Reunited 5,169 lost animals (including 4,004 dogs, 1,036 cats and 14 rabbits) with their anxious families;

•    Transported 5,556 animals between shelters to maximize adoption and adopted 889 animals through our satellite adoption centres;

•    Found new, loving families for 18,144 homeless animals (5,344 dogs, 11,306 cats, 407 rabbits, 1,087 small animals & other);

•    Helped 1,848 injured and orphaned wild animals (1,283 birds, 561 mammals, two amphibians and two reptiles) at Wild ARC, the BC SPCA’s wildlife rehabilitation centre in Metchosin on Vancouver Island. An additional 690 wild animals were also received in BC SPCA shelters;

•    Conducted 7,147 new cruelty investigations;

•    Removed 1,249 animals from dangerous or neglectful situations through cruelty investigations and rescued an additional 2,518 injured animals;

•    Executed 117 warrants under the Criminal Code of Canada, the PCA Act and the Offense Act;

•    Submitted 78 charges of animal cruelty and neglect to Crown Counsel;

•    Offered humane education programs for thousands of children, youth and adults in B.C.;

•    Provided more than $2 million for a wide range of programs to reduce pet overpopulation, including a free and low-cost spay/neuter services provided by the BC SPCA Vancouver animal hospital and the BC SPCA spay/neuter clinic in Prince George and Kamloops and through low-cost spay/neuter funds administered by SPCA branches across the province. The society also maintained its goal of 100% pre-adoption spay/neuter of dogs, cats and rabbits in all of its branches in 2010.

•    Helped thousands of injured homeless animals through the BC SPCA animal hospital in Vancouver. The hospital offer full-service medical care, as well as low-cost spay/neuter and extensive charitable work for low-income pet guardians and local animal rescue groups.

SPCA Kamloops was able to identify one of its lost animals as Pollux, a dog that travelled 4,000 KM across Canada over the last year. SPCA International was able to fly Pollux home to Montreal to a joyous reunion with his family! Read the whole story here.

SPCA International is proud to assist the amazing work done at SPCA Kamloops with a Shelter of the Week grant.

Contact/Donate info:
https://secure3.convio.net/bcspca/site/Donation2?df_id=2782&2782.donation=form1

http://www.spca.bc.ca/branches/kamloops/
http://www.facebook.com/bcspca

Rescue and Support of Animal Victims

Japan Earthquake Animal Rescue and Support (JEARS) is a collaboration of three established and registered no kill animal rescue NPOs in Japan.  The intention behind the creation of JEARS is to coordinate rescue and support efforts for animals in crisis due to the March 11th  Earthquake and Tsunami in Northern Japan.

The founding partners are:
David Wybenga and Susan Roberts of Japan Cat Network, 
Susan Mercer of HEART-Tokushima
, and Isabella Gallaon-Aoki of Animal Friends Niigata.

These groups along with individual volunteers who have put aside their own challenges to help with this effort are working tirelessly to rescue and re-home animals in Japan affected by this tragedy. These are no kill groups that have been rescuing and re-homing animals in Japan for many years. Funds will be used directly for animal rescue and support.

SPCA International is hopeful that our Emergency Grant will help these groups and volunteers to continue these life saving efforts.

To donate to JEARS Internationally, please use the following address:

Japan Earthquake Animal Rescue & Support
Shiga Center
David Wybenga (JCN)
173 Inae-cho, Hikone-shi-ken
Japan 521-1125

http://www.jears.net

For donations In the USA:

To make a tax-deductible donation, send checks and money orders payable to:

JEARS
PO Box 125
Alto, MI 49302.
EIN #38-3714965

Or via PayPal or ChipIn at: http://www.jears.net

Paypal donations are ONLY tax deductible if made to: [email protected].

Founded in the mid 1980’s, Lamar County Humane Shelter is an organization run strictly by volunteers with the assistance of veterinarians in neighboring counties and through monetary donations from its members. In fact in the recent years, the backbone of the group is a dedicated handful of senior volunteers who have residing in the county for some time. Unfortunately, the county faces a very large unemployment rate and the sources for funding their spay/neuter programs, veterinary bills and food bills as well as educational facilitation to the public, has practically dried up.

They work with profound determination to stay afloat by relying on membership ($15 annual fee) from the greater population, community, and government as an outcry to support their efforts.

State law mandates that if a county doesn’t have a large city in it, the commissioners are to provide assistance for an animal shelter. Because no monies have been allocated for a full facility thus far, the volunteers care for the injured and stray animals in their own homes. Sadly, due to the low-income situation in the county, and the lack of education, adoption rates are very low and cruelty, negligence and apathy are still very high.

Lamar County Humane Society needs all the help they can get by way of monetary relief for vet bills, sterilization, education and would also greatly appreciate pet food contribution for small and large animals.

You can send your donations to PO Box 534, Vernon AL 35592. shelter or office. Animals are fostered and cared for at members’ homes. Spay/neuter applications at Vernon City Hall and The Lamar Democrat. [email protected]

Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Lamar-County-Humane-Society-Vernon-AL/108753282494761?sk=info

It was brought to Amy Restucci’s attention several months ago by Mirta Maltes, a passionate animal advocate who lives in the area, that there were desperate stray dogs in the Everglades, Florida City, and Homestead areas of Florida.

After checking the area, Amy realized the situation was critical. More than 100+ dogs were being dumped in those areas and left there to die from starvation, heat and other severe conditions present in the Everglades, including being hit by cars on the highway nearby.

Many people have asked what has contributed to this situation, and Amy, together with other volunteers, feel it is a combination of many factors.

Migrant workers turn their pets loose when they move on to jobs elsewhere, and people dump their unwanted pets or pets they just can’t afford any longer. While this is so wrong on so many levels, Amy and the other dedicated citizens cannot ignore what is happening, and feel obligated to take action.

Amy’s mission was created as a community effort to END the neglect and abuse of precious animal companions. By raising awareness of this problem, then remedying it, Amy believes and hopes that eventually people will think twice before dumping their family pets to die.

Amy and the other dedicated volunteers spend 24 hours a day working very hard to rescue and vet these dogs, but unfortunately the current monetary donations have not been enough.  In addition to funding, they desperately need homes, foster care and adopters, and medication. Together with the other concerned citizens, Amy has been able to rescue and treat over 50 dogs to date.

To send a donation or purchase an item on their wish list to help save these dogs, please visit:

Abandoned Dogs Everglades
c/o Amy Restucci
837 SE 8th Avenue Suite #201
Deerfield Beach, FL 33441

Or donate via Paypal at http://bit.ly/r12P8V
Out of state and would like to send a gift? Check out their wishlist: http://amzn.to/pvYjtL

http://www.facebook.com/ABANDONEDDOGSEVERGLADES

Kyiv Society for the Protection of Animals was established in 1960 to encourage humane treatment of animals in the city of Kyiv (Kiev), Ukraine. Since its inception, it has been an advocate for animal rights and has been educating people in the region about why and how to treat animals with dignity and respect. In 2000, They established a shelter in Gostomel, near Kyiv that now houses up to 700 dogs and cats. The goal of this shelter is to help stray and abandoned animals find new and loving homes.  In 2006, the shelter established a veterinary hospital and rehabilitation center, which is now the largest in Ukraine. Most animals brought to the shelter are spay or neutered before being adopted into their forever home. The staff and volunteers work tirelessly around the clock to lobby the authorities in Kyiv to use more humane methods of controlling the population of stray animals.  Each victory, no matter how small creates an environment more accepting of these vulnerable animals, and proves that they can be rehabilitated and adopted into loving families. SPCA International applauds the work being done by the KSPA and its staff and volunteers.

You can donate through their website at: http://animalprotect.org/en/thanks/info/1/16

Web Site
http://animalprotect.org/en/

Update Summer, 2011:
I’m following up on the grant donated by SPCA to Kyiv Society for the Protection of Animals in February 2011.
The money were spent in March – June 2011 on neutering and vaccination of 47 stray animals in city Kyiv, Ukraine. Many animals required also some cure.

I don’t have all papers at hand yet, just first two months March and April. 10 animals were processed in March and 15 in April. The amounts are ukrainian hryvnas, UAH. 5700 + 3200 = 8900 UAH which slightly exceeds 1000 USD at the rate of March-April 2011.

KSPA, its president Asia Serpinska, me personally, all the dogs, we all thank SPCA and their sponsors very cordially for the support!

With an estimated 16,000 homeless dogs and cats fighting for survival on the streets of Manzanillo, Mexico, a group of all volunteer run citizens and expats have come together to donate their time, effort, money and skills to the welfare of these animals.

PATA, an acronym for “People Helping all Animals” translated from Spanish, is a non-profit organization founded in 2005, whose mission is to provide free spay/neuter clinics; foster homeless and injured animals to place them in forever homes, and cultivate a a culture of respect and concern for all animals and wildlife through education.

One of PATA’s goals is to appeal to the public by indicating the impact of many  animals who are left dying, suffering,poisoned and hit by cars in the streets as being a major health concern to the public.  Abandon, sick and deceased animals pose a threat to infection, disease and polluted beaches within the community.

They work not only with the local citizens but with the municipality of the region as well as foreigners who arrive that would like to offer their help. These animals require human intervention, profoundly stated on their website, ” After all it’s not their fault, it’s ours”.

You can donate locally through their website at: http://www.patamanzanillo.com/donate.php or through their sister site athttp://www.friendsofpata.org/help.php.

Web Site
http://www.patamanzanillo.com/

Tamaz Elizbarashvili’s Association for the Rescue and Protection of Dogs was established in 2006, in the country of Georgia. This one of a kind rescue group has provided a warm, safe location to over 600 dogs that once called the harsh streets home. Upon arrival, each dog is provided with an extensive medical and nutritional evaluation. Once the dog is healthy they are put up for adoption.

Since the implementation of their adoption program, Tamaz Elizbarashvili’s Association for the Rescue and Protection of Dogs has successfully placed 520 dogs into new loving homes.

Tamaz Elizbarashvili’s Association for the Rescue and Protection of Dogs has not only saved the lives of over 600 dogs but they have also helped reduce the number of unwanted dogs from being born through their spay and neuter and educational programs. They continue to develop humane practices throughout the country, making it a better place for dogs and humans.

We honor Tamaz Elizbarashvili’s Association for the Rescue and Protection of Dogs for their hard work and dedication by naming them a SPCA International Shelter of the Week recipient.

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