June 2004
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Turn Your Trash Into Cash
The Sterling Shelter collects used inkjet and laser printer cartridges for
recycling, which in turn raises funds to support the shelter. Another suggestion is
to work with your company, school, or other affiliation to collect the
cartridges to send to our shelter to help our pets. |
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. |
The mission of the Pet Rock Festival is to provide a venue where animal
welfare organizations of all kinds (from those that fight to prevent
cruelty in the courts to shelters to rescues to rehabilitation programs)
can gather to fuse an even tighter network, and to also get the word out
about their programs to the public.
Quinsig College is delighted with our event and will be hosting Pet Rock
2004 on September 12, 2004 (rain date is September 14th) with some help
from MIX 98.5, our newest and most enthusiastic sponsor. |
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The Humane Society of the United States works to shut down puppy mills and to promote the protection of all animals through a wide range of programs. You can help them. Please join with The HSUS in protecting our nation's pets.
Puppy mills are mass dog-breeding operations that they have been around for decades. Unsuspecting consumers keep buying those adorable puppies in the pet store window, some slick Web site, or through an ad in the trusted local newspaper. BUT behind these often lies a puppy mill.
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Attention Adopters, Shelter Supporters and Animal Lovers January 2004 Alert A new group of entrepreneurs has started a new business
venture hoping to compete with private breeders by distributing
puppies purchased from puppy mill broker Hunte Corporation through a new
chain of pet stores in the Boston area. There are already plans to
expand to six stores in 2004 with the corporation going national in
the year 2005. While selling high volume at low prices
Hundreds of thousands of puppies are mass-bred each year for sale in
pet shops or through web sites and newspaper classifieds. Want to see the real story about
Have YOU or someone YOU KNOW purchased a sick pet from a pet store? If so, send us a message to tell us about it.
Business Ventures Background
The Edison, NJ-based start-up gets its puppies from Hunte Corp., a
Goodman, MO-based broker for U.S. breeders. Prices range from $750 to
$1,800, comparable to private breeders, with a 50%-plus profit margin.
Each pup has a three-year warranty against congenital and hereditary
defects. Puppies travel by air-conditioned truck to stores, where they
get 75% of retail space (for 80% of sales); high-end accessories get
15%; basics get 10%. View a sample of a letter you can send to ask these people to stop buying while shelter pets are dying! |
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The Save A
Sato Foundation is a non-profit organization dedicated to improving
the quality of life for homeless and abused animals |
Emotional Rescue Why do many abandoned and injured dogs plucked from the streets of Puerto Rico are finding homes in Boston. Boston Globe Dispatch, Twig Mowatt  When Zooey, a 26-pound mystery mix,
plays her favorite game of tossing toys in the air, the balls and
stuffed animals reach such heights that owner Jane Myers regularly
checks the top of the refrigerator for them. A human willing to do her
retrieving is just one of the many perks Zooey enjoys in her new
Cambridge home. It's a long way from her early life when, as an
abandoned mother of eight puppies, she searched for food on a beach in
San Juan, Puerto Rico, and struggled to walk with a badly healed
broken femur.Zooey is one of
roughly 500 lucky "satos" (Puerto Rican slang for street dog, the word
rhymes with "gato," or cat) that have arrived at Logan Airport in the
past year in search of homes. This relocation effort is the result of
the San Juan-based Save a Sato (SAS) Foundation, whose volunteers comb
dumps, beaches, and housing projects, taking in every stray they can. |
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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. | |
Are you throwing away your used
inkjet or laser printer cartridges? Do you have an old
cell phone that you don't use any more and you don't know what to do with
it? You can help our
shelter pets by sending these items to us!
By
providing family style entertainment that includes live music and
attractions, we hope to reach a wider range of people to get them caring
about animals. We promote kindness to animals – a focus that reaches to
areas that include the appropriate adoption of shelter pets, spaying and
neutering, educating children that animals are living creatures that
feel pain, and so on. 
may have worked
well with stores like the Gap and IKEA - IT DOES NOT FARE well when the
product is little puppies being mass produced under horrible
circumstances by the commercial puppy mills who supply the likes of
puppy pimp Hunte Corporation.