August 2004
At Pet Rock 2003, Pet Rock Fest is happy to report that they raised in the vicinity of $18,000 for New England animal organizations. |
Mark Your Calendars for the 6th Annual Pet Rock Festival 2004!
Support NAHEE and a myriad of animal shelters and rescue groups by
attending this fun event for people of all ages. Dogs are most welcome!
Cat Photo Contest.
See www.petrockfest.com for more information
on submitting your photos
Tickets. |
vol-un-teer. n. A person who performs or offers to perform a service voluntarily. |
Pet Rock Volunteers
Anyone interested in volunteering at Pet Rock 2004 should
attend our meeting on August 18th at 6 p.m. at the Hebert Candy Mansion in Shrewsbury
(Route 20). Please meet at the tables near the ice cream bar.
At this meeting, organizers will establish responsibilities and we will start to sort
out the many things that need to be done on and before the festival.
If you would like to attend this volunteer meeting, please RSVP to coordinator Dawn Sweet
at DMsweet74@aol.com.
We need a count to order ice cream. Thank you!
Also, if anyone has any raffle items or sponsorships through contacts with businesses that
would help the event, please contact us. |
Many organizations focus on the humans affected by this tragic event but there aren’t many groups focused on the animals. Animals aren’t allowed in the shelters in disasters and often times they are just left behind by their owners, leaving them to fend for themselves. |
Hurricane Charley Hits Home Sterling Animal Shelter and Local Veterinarians to Assist in Disaster Rescue and Recovery for the Animals Sterling, MA – Staff at the Sterling Animal Shelter and two VCA Animal
Hospital veterinarians are traveling to Central Florida in a mission to
rescue and recover injured animals left in the wake of the recent
Hurricane Charley. “I am told its a very grim and depressing area with
hundreds of dead and dying animals...many large animals have been cut up
so bad and they are using duct tape to keep their wounds closed. The
first 10 dogs that were brought in all had broken bones... Countless
companion animals, livestock and even wildlife are among the victims,
too, although exact numbers are impossible to come by at this time.
Almost 100% of the animals at the center are in great pain and are
suffering. I don't know yet to what extent...I'm only being told on the
phone – but they did recommend to bring Vicks Vapor Rub to extinguish
the nauseating smell of dead and rotting animals,” Leigh Grady,
Executive Director of the Sterling Shelter comments.
Mrs. Grady and two other VCA veterinarians, Dr. Rachel Francis and Dr.
David Rousseau are flying to Bartow, Florida where they will work with
The Emergency Animal Rescue Service team (EARS) based out of California,
to establish a temporary animal shelter receiving and caring for and
sheltering animals displaced by Hurricane Charley in Polk County in
Central Florida.
“We are expecting to see the worst and most traumatic injuries to these
animals at best, at worst many dying, dead and walking wounded,” Dr.
Francis states. “Even with all of our medical training and work in
private practice we won’t be prepared for this trip,” she finishes.
“Many organizations focus on the humans affected by this tragic event
but there aren’t many groups focused on the animals. Animals aren’t
allowed in the shelters in disasters and often times they are just left
behind by their owners, leaving them to fend for themselves. Its
horrible and sad,” Grady states. “Thankfully the VCA Animal Hospitals
generous donations of staff, supplies and travel expenses has helped us
make arrangements to help, without VCA, there would be no trip,” Grady
continues. “We very much want to help the animals affected by this
horrible disaster and to also support our sister hospitals in Florida
and thankfully we are in a position to do so,” Ray Heidenheim, VCA
Regional Manager states.
Grady and the two veterinarians will be carrying all their own food,
water and bedding as there is no drinkable water and limited power and
phones in the rural town. Sleeping in an auditorium and working 12+
hours a day with limited supplies and equipment will prove to be a major
challenge.
“It takes a person with a strong mind and soft heart to do this work…I
hope we’re ready for it,” Grady ends with.
Donations to the Emergency Animal Rescue Services can be made to:
UNITED ANIMAL NATIONS Hurricane Charley
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WHAT IS A
This is the cruel and inhumane killing of an
Please help us Every voice makes a difference!! |
Imagine You Are Being Hunted and There Is No Place To Hide
Help save animals like this zebra from the cruelty of canned hunts.
Then one day, a day like any other, the people you trust arrive with
your food. But this time, there’s a stranger with them.
A sudden shot rings out. Then another. You never saw it coming. There’s
no chance of escape. You are slaughtered without pause – so long as you
remain an attractive trophy for their wall, the pain and length of your
death is of no concern to your killer.
This is the life of a canned hunt victim. Canned hunting, in which tame,
captive animals are shot within enclosed areas, represents a
particularly cruel and unsporting form of trophy hunting. And it must be
stopped.
Canned hunts take place on "hunting preserves" or "game ranches".
Clients of these ranches pay to kill a captive animal, violating the
general "fair chase" standards of the hunting community itself. Some of
these animals are drugged, tied to a stake or even murdered
defenselessly in cages. This is no hunt – it’s a slaughter.
Many of these ranches deal in exotic animals, from African lions to
zebras. The supply of these hunted animals often comes from unaccredited
zoos and illegitimate sanctuaries, which desire baby animals to attract
visitors. When the animals grow up, they are sold to dealers who provide
research labs and hunt ranches with their latest victims.
Worse still, exotic animals crammed into these enclosed areas contract
diseases more easily than free roaming animals. Chronic Wasting Disease
and other illnesses that jeopardize the health of native species can
spread to the surrounding areas.
Luckily, something can be done. With your help these exotic animals no
longer have to be condemned to a certain death.
The Captive Exotic Animal Protection Act of 2004, a bill that will help
stop the inhumane and unsporting practice of killing animals in canned
hunts, has been introduced in Congress. We need your help to make sure
it passes.
Please email your Senator and ask them to cosponsor this bill. IFAW has
succeeded in helping to ban canned hunts from eleven provinces in
Canada, and now we need your help to make sure this cruel practice comes
to an end in the U.S.
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If you want to help the shelter but don't know how, please print our poster and hang it in your office, break room, lunch area, church, youth group, gym or wherever! You can download it from: http://www.sterlingshelter.org/images/stockimages/ShelterWeb.pdf. | |
Pet
Rock! The animal awareness expo and concert will be held Sunday, 
You can’t run because you’re fenced in. But chances are, you won’t run
anyway. You trust those who hunt you. After all, they feed you and give
you water – you depend on them to survive.