| |
Hot
Off the Press:
What’s
new at the shelter |
|
Another successful spay/neuter clinic was held at the Lincoln
Memorial Vet Tech facility in February. As part of Spay Day USA
events, FOS helped LMU’s Vet Tech school work with families and
their pets who might otherwise not be able to afford the
surgery. FOS members and LMU students were on hand to help in
the day’s events.
In all, 33 pets were spayed or neutered, 23 from Bell County
and 10 from Claiborne. Dr. Jared Graves and Union County,
Tennessee, and Dr. Beth Burchett from LMU were the
veterinarians volunteering their time for this very important
cause. Another spay/neuter clinic is scheduled for April 9th.
FOS received a donation of just over $400 from the SpayDay USA
photo contest in which people paid $1 to vote for their
favorite pet photo. Pictured on page 2 is Annie, companion of
Charlotte Newland of Ewing, VA, who received the most votes of
the pets entered locally. Be sure to get some good photos this
year of your pets and enter them in the 2011 SpayDay Photo
Contest.
.
|
Dr. Jared Graves at the SpayDay clinic at LMU |
|
A vet tech student calms a puppy in the
recovery room |
In other shelter news: The Bell County Animal
Shelter staff is doing a terrific job of getting animals out of
the shelter and into homes and rescue groups. So far this year
almost 100 animals have gone to various rescue groups,
including the Humane Society of the Tennessee Valley, the
English Setter Rescue in Ohio, the Great Pyrenees Rescue in
Frankfort, the HS of East Tennessee, and a shelter in
Queensbury, New York.
Another great way the shelter facilitates adoptions is by
teaming up with Petfinder.com to share our adoptable pets with
the country. Periodically we get feedback on how many people
look at our pets—in just one week in late March 2010, our 2
cats and 18 dogs accumulated 875 hits!
The shelter needs cat litter, newspapers, chew bones and toys,
and puppy chow |
News & Events |
About FOS | Spay/Neuter | About the
Shelter
Friends of the
Shelter
P.O. Box 2534
Middlesboro, Kentucky
40965
606.337.2005
"A friend in need, a
friend in deed."
|
