Shelter Sense Volume 06, Number 08
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WellBeing International WBI Studies Repository 10-1983 Shelter Sense Volume 06, Number 08 Follow this and additional works at: https://www.wellbeingintlstudiesrepository.org/shesen Recommended Citation "Shelter Sense Volume 06, Number 08" (1983). ShelterSense 1978-92. 24. https://www.wellbeingintlstudiesrepository.org/shesen/24 This material is brought to you for free and open access by WellBeing International. It has been accepted for inclusion by an authorized administrator of the WBI Studies Repository. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Volume 6, Number 8 October 1983 Inside Help for Boards; New Dog Blood Donor Program; PAW Council Shelter Awards; New Spay/ Neuter Information For the people who care about community animal control Working hile some humane societies and municipal animal-control W agencies are unable to cooperate with each other to serve their Together in public and protect animals' welfare, the Humane Society of Wichita Wichita Falls County (Rt. 1, Box 107, Wichita Falls, TX 76301), accredited by The Humane Society of the United States (HSUS), and the Animal Control Department of the Wichita Falls City-Wichita County Public by Debbie Reed Health Center (1700 Third St., Wichita Falls, TX 76301) have decidedly joined forces to accomplish their goals. "Ours has been a good relationship. Our system works," said Toni Destefano, executive director of the humane society. "Many citizens of Wichita Falls have commented about the improved animal-control services after our system went into effect. It allows more officers to be on duty on the streets, and Dr. Lanie Continued on next page J. Benson, Health Center director, and Roy Ressel, animal-control Wisconsin questionnaire to determine Wisconsin horse owners' supervisor, cooperate with us in every way. They are interested Horse owners understanding of and response to animal cruelty revealed in ways to improve their department and its services to the respondentsA favor stricter enforcement of anti-cruelty laws and community. They' re the greatest." qtrictly Against stronger measures for dealing with animal cruelty. Ressel said, "The old city pound was pure hell. Animals weren' t Cruelty According to Marge Kominowski, former president of the Wisconsin treated well, and dogs were often sold. After the humane society Hooved Animal Humane Society (She is located at Rt. 1, Box 169AA, presented a service contract to the city, things worked out well Seymour, WI 54165), which published the survey in the January 1983 for both of us, and we were able to 'clean house' of the employees Wisconsin Horsemen's News, respondents were surprisingly strict that had been mismanaging the place." and punitive regarding animal cruelty. On April 1, 1979, the society signed the contract with the City of Kominowski said most of the approximately 30 respondents defined Wichita Falls to shelter animals picked up by the animal-control animal cruelty as "any act that unnecessarily inflicts pain or department. The department now enforces all vaccination, suffering, or neglect of care that causes suffering." She said registration, quarantine, and animal-cruelty ordinances and respondents felt that humane agents should be appointed in each of responds to stray animals, unwanted pets, animal-emergency calls, the state' s counties, with authority to act upon animal-cruelty and the need for rabies testing and -reporting. The humane cases as an officer of the law and with full cooperation from society handles sheltering, animal reclaims, euthanasia, local and county law-enforcement officers and state agricultural spay/neuter surgeries, and transfer of adoptable animals to the officials. society' s shelter. In January 1982, the society renewed their Kominowski said every respondent felt that failure to provide contract with the city for five years, instead of one year as in veterinary care when it was warranted constituted animal the past. cruelty. The majority of respondents agreed that a three-sided The department, with six animal wardens, uses six trucks to do its shelter with a roof should be mandatory [minimum] protection for work. It has encouraged wardens to complete the week-long Animal hooved animals. Cracked, untrimmed hooves, according to Control Personnel Training Course, sponsored by Texas A&M respondents, indicates neglect, and they described malnutrition as University' s College of Veterinary Medicine as well as the 100- an overall lack of vigor with, among other symptoms, a protruding hour animal-control certification program of The HSUS' Animal backbone, ribs, and hips as well as a distended belly. Control Academy in Tuscaloosa, Ala. The animal-control department and humane society serve a 94,201 population, according to Ressel. In 1981, the department conducted 765 cruelty investigations -- some in cooperation with the humane society. The department budgets money yearly for humane education, including leaflets and brochures. It has also developed other materials to help serve Wichita Falls citizens. Daily, animal wardens take time to talk to individuals in the field to promote humane education. Time permitting, wardens work closely with the humane society to present education programs in public schools or displays at county fairs. As part of its efforts to improve community animal control, the department has applied for permission to use sodium pentobarbital for euthanasia in the field. Meanwhile, the humane society has improved its shelter and kennel runs with new paint and signs. Their education building, spay/neuter clinic, cattery, and inside dog kennels are well cared Wisconsin horse owners were Photo credits: Continued on page 10 "surprisingly" strict and Cover, Bonnie Smith; punitive regarding animal cruelty, according to a recent Page 2, HSUS/Wilson; magazine survey. Page 3, Barbara SHELTER SENSE (ISSN 07 34°3078) is published by The National Woodall/Humane Society Humane Education Center, a division of The Humane Society of the United States, 2100 L St. N.W., Washington, DC 20037, Kominowski said that respondents want a horse' s environment to be of Seminole (202) 452-1100. County Inc.; free of debris and dangerous machinery. They also want it cleaned 7, manure-free no less than once a week, with manure piles, which Page The Humane Subscription rates: Society of Huron ten issues-$5.00 (US currency); renewals-$5.00 (US) attract flies, disposed of at least monthly. Valley; additional subscriptions to the same address-$ 4.00 each (US) Animals impounded due to neglectful ownership should be sheltered Page 10, Wichita during animal-cruelty court proceedings. If an owner is judged Falls City-Wichita HS US Vice President, Companion Animals ............Phyllis Wright guilty of animal cruelty, respondents want the animal (s) County Public Health Editor, SHELTER SENSE ........................Deborah L. Reed Editorial Assistant ...........................Catherine :M. Hess permanently removed from his or her custody. Some respondents Center; felt that such an owner should be barred from future animal Reproducible, Margie ownership. Bell. © 1983, �he Humane Society of the United States, all rights reserved. Continued on next page 8/SHEL�EB SEllTSE/OO�OBEB '83 OO�OBEB '83/SHEL�EB SEl\JSE/3 Kominowski added that respondents felt cruelty cases should be Cutting Newsletter Costs A new booklet could help humane-society newsletter editors save treated according to a set legal procedure. They recommended money and raise the quality of their printing jobs. stiff fines for first-time offenders plus probation, during which Sixty Ways to Save Money on Newsletters, by Polly Pattison, a y a public official would inspect offenders' facilities on a monthl 6�lE:· design consultant, and Mark Beach, who wrote Editing Your basis. Second offenders should be punished with a fine and a jail· '»�money--=- � on newsletters* Newsletter, lists 60 easy ways to improve management, editing, sentence. design, graphics and photography, typography, pasteup, and · also on flyers, According to the new president of the humane society, Mary LaQuee brochures printing of newsletters, flyers, brochures, posters, catalogs, posters, (Rt. 1, Box 356-C, Adams, WI 53910), one of the organization's catalogs, letterheads, annual reports, and other publications. letterheads future goals is to establish a committee to push for upgraded annual reports and practically The 12-page, pocket-sized booklet is available for $2.00, Wisconsin animal laws. • anything you print including first-class postage, and at a discount for quantity orders. Send check or cash to Coast to Coast Books, 2934 N.E. l'ull.,·l'aui,un uml �h,ckli<'nlh 16th Ave., Portland, OR 97212. No charge cards or invoices will be processed. self-assessment and planning guide identifies seven fundamental Materials HSUS Updates Updated Information on Selected Spay-Neuter Clinics and Programs, Self-Improvement A practices for boards of directors and outlines an extensive Spay/ Neuter Information l'or Boards of Directors process for improving their effectiveness, according to a review a helpful resource for groups that plan to begin or expand by Carol Caparosa in the Spring 1983 Voluntary Action Leadership. spay/neuter services, documents The Humane Society of the United States' (HSUS) premise that spay/neuter surgeries are decreasing Fundamental Practices for Success with Volunteer Boards of Non the number of animals entering shelters and provides support for Profit Organizations, by Nancy Nordhoff, Jo Larsen, Putnam Barber, those who must approach