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Second Chance Animal Shelter

Second Chance Animal Shelter began in 1999 and is a 501(c) charitable organization. Second Chance’s mission is Our Mission Statement is:

TO provide temporary shelter to stray, abandoned, and surrendered animals for the purpose of finding permanent suitable new homes.
TO provide assistance and information to others whose purposes are consistent with the purpose of Second Chance Animal Shelter, Inc.
TO provide assistance and financial aid to prevent overpopulation through spaying and neutering programs.

In 2002, Second Chance transitioned from an all foster home program to a shelter facility built with donations, grants, and community support. With the addition of a shelter facility, the number of pet adopted increased and Second Chance began to offer educational programs.

In 2004, Second Chance started it’s first low cost spay/neuter assistance programs. In the first year, Second Chance provided over 100 low income residents with spay/neuter assistance. Additionally, over 100 feral cats were spayed/neutered through the collaborative effort of Second Chance and Dakin.

In 2005, Second Chance expanded it’s adoption program, increasing it’s adoptions to 472, a nearly 50% increase over past years. Second Chance also added a training program and behavioral assistance available to adopted pet owners. Thanks to grant funding, Second Chance increased it’s spay/neuter programs and was able to provide low cost spay/neuter assistance to a record 395 pets.

In 2006, Second Chance increased it’s adoption program with additional support for new adopters. This included a “complementary first visit” program in collaboration with local vets. This program gives pet owners a complementary first office visit at local participating vet clinics and helps to ensure that our adopted pets get a great start in providing proper medical care to our adopted pets. Several other coupons were added to the package including discounts at local trainers, free behavioral assessments, free CGC testing, free Reiki visit, coupon booklets for local pet supply stores, free pet tags, as well as several other helpful items.

In 2006, the low cost spay/neuter programs was increased to provide additional assistance to low income residents. In addition, a new program called “Helping Hands” provided low cost spay/neuter assistance to animal control officers and other rescues/shelters. The program provided a record 1,023 spay/neuters.

In 2007, the low cost spay/neuter program was again expanded and provided a record 1,781 spay/neuters.

In 2008 a new program called the “Feline Express” was developed to help provide more services to more cats. This program helps to identify available space in adoption facilities and move cats from overcrowded facilities. This helps to reduce overcrowding and euthanasia at other facilities and ensure that all available space for pets are being utilized.

Second Chance has continued to grow each year. We are located in a rural area of central Massachusetts directly between Springfield and Boston. This area has limited access to larger shelters and their programs. Many of the communities that we serve have farms that have limited access or ability to pay for spay/neuter assistance. Therefore, feral and barn cats are in abundance and overpopulation of kittens is a product of this situation. Second Chance has provided a great resource for pet owners in the area and is significantly impacting the pet overpopulation issue with positive results.

Bend Spay and Neuter Project

The Bend Spay and Neuter Project is a non-profit Spay and Neuter Clinic. Our mission is to end pet and wild cat homelessness through low cost spay and neuter services. We are a very high volume clinic performing up to 45 surgeries in a day. The clinic opened in October of 2005 and to date we have performed almost 20,000 spay and neuter procedures to cats, dogs and rabbits over the 5 years. Our main goal is to and C.V.T., we are mainly run on volunteer labor. We rely heavily on community support and are funded mainly by individual donations and businesses.

Happy Tails Rescue Books

Happy Tails Books publishes compilations of stories from people who have adopted dogs. Their breed-specific “Lost Souls: Found!” series showcases the love and joy these adopted dogs bring to their new homes in an effort to raise awareness of, and funding for dog rescue organizations.

Happy Tails Books is currently working on books about Chihuahuas, German Shepherds, Pugs, Boxers and mixes thereof, and they’ve asked me to share their information in case you’d like to submit a story about your adopted dog(s). Guidelines and a submission form are located at http://happytailsbooks.com/submit.htm. You can send in a complete story about your dog (600-1200 words), a paragraph about something sweet or funny he/she did, a training/health challenge and how it was solved, a poem, or a recipe. They are also looking for high resolution, professional-quality photos for the front and back covers. Be sure to list the rescue you are associated with in the submission form, as rescues earn points from each story submitted or book purchased, and then the points turn into a donation at the end of the year (rescues who would like to be included in the donation pool must sign up at http://happytailsbooks.com/rescue.htm). The story submission deadline for the aforementioned breeds is January 31st, but earlier submissions tend to have a better chance of getting in the book.

Books published by “Lost Souls: Found!” are a wonderful window into dog rescue and breed characteristics. Check in at http://happytailsbooks.com to read book previews and see if there’s a book available on “your” breed!

Sweaters for Shelter Dogs

“Save The Dogs Form The Chill Project” is an interesting way to help shelter dogs this winter.

They are trying to save shelter dogs from the freezing cold this year by taking in used sweaters (donated) and then recycling them into doggy sweaters for all the dogs stuck outside the shelters this time of year.

Here’s how you can help:

Send your old sweaters and they will recycle them and distribute them to animal shelters all over the US so that dogs just like the ones we’ve already helped don’t have to suffer through the cold winter (the smaller the better):

PO Box 19071
Hattiesburg Ms
39404

If you DON’T have any old sweaters….Then pass this blog to someone who does!

Do you have a friend or family member who has a passion for animals besides yourself? Then simply copy and paste the url below in an email and ask a friend or family member to visit this blog so they can help too!

Here is your chance to give back for the holidays and help save thousands of dogs from a freezing winter!

DFW Bulldog Rescue

DFW Bulldog Rescue is are a group of volunteer’s that have dedicated themselves to helping English Bulldogs find their furever homes. Last year we found wonderful new homes for 95 bulldogs and paid vet bill’s in the amount of a little more than $49.000. Our work is hard work, but truley a labor of love. In hard economic times we are finding more dogs that need our help, but we are committed to never turn anyone way that needs rescuing. God Bless all Rescue’s.

Hillcrest Animal Rescue

Hillcrest Animal Rescue is a 501c3, non-profit animal rescue organization. Their mission is to Rescue, Rehabilitate and Rehome Dallas/Ft. Worth companion animals. The organization is dedicated to saving as many homeless, neglected and abused animals as possible. They do not discriminate on the animal based on their age or color. They are all worth saving! Hillcrest Animal Rescue is working to raise funds to build and run a no-kill animal sanctuary. They are looking for volunteers with a gift for fundraising!
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Dallas/Ft. Worth Sheltie Rescue

Dallas/Ft. Worth Sheltie Rescue

Dallas/Ft. Worth Sheltie Rescue, Inc. is a non-profit organization comprised of volunteers who give of their time, their efforts, and their homes to help place rescued Shelties with families where they will be loved and well cared for. Sheltie Rescue had its beginnings in July 1991 when the Dallas Shetland Sheepdog Club responded to a need to find good homes for dogs who are abandoned, lost, mistreated, or no longer wanted. The Dallas/Ft. Worth Sheltie Rescue is now an independent entity, its volunteers are Shelties owners who know and love the Shetland Sheepdog breed. Our goal continues to be the same: the protection of Shelties and the education of Sheltie owners. As part of our outreach program, we also have an active Lost and Found division that helps to reunite lost Shelties and their owners.

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Dallas Fort Worth Metro Golden Retriever Rescue

The Dallas Fort Worth Metro Golden Retriever Rescue, Inc. is an all-volunteer, 501 (c) (3) nonprofit organization dedicated to the rescue, foster care, and placement of homeless Golden Retrievers.

Objective:
DFWMGRR was organized to promote the rescue, care, training, evaluation and placement of abandoned or unwanted dogs of the golden retriever breed in the Dallas-Fort Worth metropolitan areas, and to further promote the understanding, appreciation, care and placement of the golden retriever breed among the general public, through education regarding responsible pet ownership.

History:
DFWMGRR. Inc. began helping goldens in need as early as 1984 as a part of Dallas/Ft. Worth Metro Golden Retriever Club, aka DFWMGRC. We became organized as a committee under DFWMGRC in 1986; became a stand alone group in 1988 with it’s own set of bylaws and obtained our 501(c)(3) status in January 1995. About 2000, DFWMGRR, Inc. was reorganized into a task driven group which has helped us develop into a smooth running organization (as much as this job of taking in dogs with no notice, with unknown health issues can be called smooth).

Accomplishments:

2008: DFWMGRR rescued 166 Golden Retrievers (101 males & 65 females) in the Dallas Fort Worth metropolitan area. 99 (60%) of the Goldens were spayed/neutered by Rescue and 50 (30%) were treated for heartworms. The basic cost to prepare a healthy golden for adoption is over $265.00 and includes a general exam, vaccinations (DHLPPC, Bordatella), testing for Heartworms and ehrlichia, heartworm preventative, spay/neuter, wormings, and a microchip for permanent identification. Additional expenses are incurred when any other medical concerns are discovered, including ear infections, hypothyroidism, cyst removal, and other minor concerns. Not included in this expense per dog is boarding expenses. Most of our dogs do get into foster care, but some homes don’t like having to crate a dog through heartworm treatment and some dogs have to come into our care before a foster home is available. Even with 51 different people fostering during 2008, Boarding expenses exceeded $20,000. (Can you help foster?). DFWMGRR vet expenses exceeded $44,000 in 2008 with total expenses exceeding $75,000 The range of adoptions each week was from 0 to 13 (our biggest in recent history) with an average of 3 adoptions per week. The range of dogs coming in weekly was from 1 – 6 with an average of 3 new dogs each week.

2004: DFWMGRR rescued 168 Golden Retrievers (92 males & 68 females) in the Dallas Fort Worth metropolitan area. 89 (53%) of the Goldens were spayed/neutered by Rescue and 24 (14%) were treated for heartworms. The basic cost to prepare a healthy golden for adoption is over $225.00 and includes a general exam, vaccinations (DHLPPC, Bordatella), testing for Heartworms and ehrlichia, heartworm preventative, spay/neuter, wormings, and a microchip for permanent identification. Additional expenses are incurred when any other medical concerns are discovered, including ear infections, hypothyroidism, cyst removal, and other minor concerns. DFWMGRR vet and boarding expenses exceeded $41,000 in 2004.

2003: DFWMGRR rescued 162 Golden Retrievers (86 males & 76 females) in the Dallas Fort Worth metropolitan area. Seventy-three of the Goldens were spayed/neutered by Rescue and 24 were treated for heartworms. The basic cost to prepare a healthy golden for adoption is over $215.00 and includes a general exam, vaccinations (DHLPPC, Bordatella), testing for Heartworms and ehrlichia, 6 months of heartworm preventative, spay/neuter, wormings, and a microchip for permanent identification. Additional expenses are incurred when any other medical concerns are discovered, including ear infections, hypothyroidism, cyst removal, and other minor concerns. DFWMGRR vet and boarding expenses exceeded $40,000 in 2003.
2002: DFWMGRR rescued 145 Golden Retrievers (85 males & 60 females) in the Dallas Fort Worth metropolitan area. Sixty-six of the Goldens were spayed/neutered by Rescue and 19 were treated for heartworms. Veterinary and boarding expenses in 2002 were well over $37,000.

Location:
DFWMGRR volunteers come from throughout the Dallas Fort Worth area, from Rockwall to West Fort Worth and from McKinney to Red Oak. The organization functions from Shreveport, LA to Midland, TX and Oklahoma, OK to Waco, TX to rescue Golden Retrievers in need.

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