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CONTENTS 06 Arlene & Joni. Photo by Chris Massa Photography. REGULArs ArtICLes HOW to HELP 4 President’s Message 6 Year in Review 29 spcaLA Locations 5 Letters Highlights of our past fiscal year. 31 Donor Tiles 10 Year in Events 33 Naming Opportunities Donor RecoGNITION Your spcaLA out and about. 35 Donate Needed Items to spcaLA 16 Donors 12 Cover Story 24 Memorial & Tribute Gifts Celebrating 135 years! Design, layout, and illustration by Taylor Benton. spcaLA does not necessarily advocate or promote the use of products/services Art direction by the spcaLA Communications & Marketing Department. featured in Friends for Life. FRIENDS FOR LIFE 2012 Table of Contents | 3 HonorARY BOArd Peter A. Cheney Cathy Guisewite Matt Knabe Dana Matsukawa WeBSITE Heather A. Mahood, President's Message www.spcaLA.com Letters Esq. EMAIL Philip D. Pitchford [email protected] Cini & Ira Robb Dayl Salamanca Phone Dori Slater Vance, (888) 772-2521 DVM REPort AnIMAL Resa Trent CRUELTY: Betty White All animals are spcaLA business! (800) 540-SPCA fter speaking out on the recent court decision EntertAINMent EXecUTIVE TEAM COMMIttee condemning the treatment of the elephants at the Madeline Bernstein Dr. Buzz Aldrin President Ed Asner Los Angeles Zoo, I received some advice from some Diane Eyler Candice Bergen A Executive Vice members of the public to “stick to spcaLA business and stay Jacqueline Bisset President Amy Boatwright out of the business of elephants and everything else.” Liz Visco Dyan Cannon Vice President Nancy Carr Though these comments were few in number, I feel compelled Keith Hamilton Cobb Core MANAGEMent Phil Davis, Esq. to say something. Ana Bustilloz Ellen DeGeneres Director of Barbara Eden e are so thrilled to have our new fur–kids Since 1877 spcaLA has been caring for all animals, including Communications & Marketing Jim Ervin We spent all day in the beautiful Long Beach Dann Florek women and children of the species human. Be it work horses, Miriam Davenport Daniel A. Fiore “cattery” looking for our new family members. I Senior Director of W beasts of burden, circus animals, sharks or a pet canary, Development Dennis Franz found little yellow and white Bilbo (formally known as Guapo) Annabeth Gish Eleasha Gall, spcaLA was and continues to be here to stop and prevent Lee Grant CPDT-KA and my husband fell in love with the big gray Baxter (formally Tommy Habeeb spcaLA President Madeline Bernstein animal cruelty. In the 1860s Henry Bergh, the father of the Director of Animal known as Tommy). They have been in their new home for a Behavior & Training Jeff Hall spca movement, was known to have fights with P.T. Barnum Daryl Hannah few weeks ago my grandma Stay in step with Madeline! Go to spcaLA.com to Denise Jakcsy couple of weeks now, and own the place. They are best friends check out her blog, Twitter feed, and more. himself outside the big top when the circus would come to Senior Operations Patricia Heaton and I came and saw all the Manager, Pet Danielle Hunt and a cat chase is in play every morning starting at 5:00 animals you have saved. I town! California state law gives us jurisdiction over “every Adoption Centers William Immerman (food-o’clock). Baxter, the big guy, always gives my husband a A Ashley Keegan dumb creature” which includes elephants, mountain lions, Lieutenant LOVE animals (I have one guinea pig, Cesar Perea Curt King “head-bump” as he walks by, I think it is the cat’s equivalent mice and dogs. Director of Animal B. Susan Kirch 1 cat, and 2 beagles and I take care of Protection Services Patrick Labyorteaux to a fist-bump. Not too girly – just a “how ya doing man.” With them all the time). When I got home I It is spcaLA business to prevent cruelty to animals through J.R. Sitman, MCP Cloris Leachman me he rolls over and wants his tummy rubbed. Bilbo is a lover, Director of IT Joe Mantegna looked on the computer and saw that always looking for lap to roll around on. We love these two education, law enforcement, intervention and advocacy Debra Sutton Constance Marie spcaLA is dedicated to the Roxanne Motamedi when I was 12 I could volunteer. I was whenever and wherever it exists. Senior Director of guys and our vet congratulated us on our very healthy fur- prevention of cruelty to Programs Craig T. Nelson thrilled!!! So I made some beds to put Melanie Wagner, Ginger Perkins kids. Thank you SPCA-LA! animals through Henry Bergh was nicknamed the “great meddler” as he always M.S. Ed Ellen Pittleman in the baskets for the cats and I brought LeAnn Rimes Kind Regards, spoke up and interceded on behalf of an animal in need. I Director of Humane them some toys and treats. I hope you Education Akiko Rogers Jeanne EDUCATION accept that mantle and raise the bar to that of “equalizer” Dale Rosenbloom like them! I’m excited to volunteer when BoArd of Jodi Roth as spcaLA has and will continue to protect our vulnerable LAW ENFORCEMENT DIrectors Gena Rowlands I’m 12! animals by equalizing the disparity in power, neutralizing the Officers Jenni Runyan From, Rollin Ransom, Esq. Theresa Russell INTERVENTION bullies and leveraging the law until it is no longer necessary to Chairman of the Molly Sims McKenna (Age 9) do so. Board Cynthia Snyder Robert S. Span, Esq. Ben Stein Vice Chair Bill Todman, Jr. The treatment of all animals is spcaLA business. & ADVOCACY. Bart Zitnitsky Bonnie Todman Treasurer John Travolta Yours truly, Mariann N. Ettorre Jennifer Weingroff Secretary Kim Wilder-Lee Matt Winston Directors Todd Brewer Harold F. Pine Craig de Recat, Esq. George G. Strong, Jr. FRIENDS FOR LIFE 2012 FRIENDS FOR LIFE 2012 4 | President’s Message Letters | 5 Each animal in spcaLA’s care is treated with dignity, compassion and respect. Highly-trained professionals - both staff and volunteers - provide a host of programs and services aimed at enriching the lives of our shelter pets and preventing cruelty to animals. Gwen-i-Purr and Joni are but two of 3,714 animals that were MEET JONI adopted, reunited with their owners or transferred to an area of great demand through Air Chihuahua™ last year. Their S stories illuminate the lives of average spcaLA shelter pets. Joni was rescued by spcaLA Humane Officers. By Miriam Davenport They protected over 50,000 animals last year, MAL but few were treated as poorly as she was. NI ERVICE ROTECTION A P S S MEET GWEN-I-PURR RY Joni required A emergency and ongoing veterinary care Volunteers worked with Gwen-i-Purr in VO to treat a broken bone, a gaping wound and other conditions - Gwen-i-Purr helped our Helping Enhance Animals’ results of her abuse. ERVICE create the artwork L UNTEER on spcaLA’s Cat Lives (HEAL)™ program. VETERIN S Painting Note Cards (the sale of which This program works to improve the lives benefits spcaLA). of shelter pets, by offering socialization, Joni stayed with a foster family while she recuperated. spcaLA foster parents are volunteers – last year, obedience and a host of enrichment TER activities. She can sit, sit up and stand S foster volunteers donated 31,431 hours of their time up on command! helping animals in need. FO Our Animal Behavior & & B E Joni worked with kids ages 6-13 in our Friends for Life TR Training Department HA Summer Camp™. She learned skills like sit and down, making her A socialized and clicker-trained NE ININ more attractive to TION VIOR Gwen-i-Purr (and 619 other cats) A adopters and helping to help her gain confidence and improve MA the kids learn to have G U the human-animal bond. compassion and respect H EDUC for all living things. Gwen-i-Purr was one of S VETERIN When animal cruelty is ERVICE the 2,146 spcaLA shelter pets who G present, domestic abuse Joni was one of our had to be spayed or neutered and child abuse or neglect Animal Behavior & Training often is too. spcaLA offers VIOR prior to being adopted. She was also ININ Department’s 70 Project Dogs programs to help end the A given routine vaccinations, a microchip A cycle of violence. RY who receive a special behavioral plan of care, often geared HA S TR and flea treatment in our care. E to help abused animals overcome emotional wounds. B & Gwen-i-Purr stayed at spcaLA for one year before she was adopted (the median Joni was in our care for 8½ months before being adopted (most stay for cats is a little under 30 days). She now lives in the lap of luxury. dogs only stay for about 2 weeks prior to adoption). She is now the center of her new family’s life. FRIENDS FOR LIFE 2012 FRIENDS FOR LIFE 2012 6 | Year in Review Year in Review | 7 How have we been able to prevent cruelty to animals through Education, Law Enforcement, Intervention & Advocacy for 135 years? DONATIONS PUBLIC SERVICES Our work is made possible by 1,044 cats and dogs stayed at our people like you – we do not receive donor-exclusive resort, the spcaLA government funding, and there is no Pet Hotel. national spca or humane society. 890 people’s family pets (cats too!) People, just like you, not corporations enjoyed the services of the spcaLA or foundations, contribute 95% of Grooming Salon. our donations. 405 campers (and 44 Counselors-in- VOLUNTEERS Training) enjoyed spcaLA’s Summer and Last year, 385 spcaLA volunteers Spring camps. donated 51,416 hours of their time. 750 dog owners enjoyed spcaLA dog If we paid each volunteer just minimum training classes like Puppy Preschool™, spcaLA wage that would total $411,328 in Magical Manners™, and Fun Nose Work, salaries alone.