p2 p3 p4 Homeless Horses Tales pets have from Inside win the new home lottery home Animal Tales Winter 2009 Manager’s corner Issue 25 By Deborah Wood, Animal Services Manager Be our fan! This is the time of year we all The Bonnie L. Hays Small Animal think about home, family and Shelter is now on Facebook, and community. One of the great we invite you to become one joys of my job is seeing the of the shelter’s friends. Check intrinsic goodness of the people us out at www.facebook.com/ in our community in the ways bonniehaysanimal shelter. all of you help animals. We’re also wired. We have our There are days those acts of own blog site. Read the funny, kindness are overwhelming. the sometimes poignant, and the always interesting Web logs A couple of months ago, at http://www.co.washington. we were low on cat food. We or.us/HHS/AnimalServices/News/ asked for help. The community shelter-blogs.cfm. answered our plea by donating nearly two tons of pet food. People in our community show their compassion by adopting hanks! When we asked pets. Did you know our adoption idea. We should use the year T for the community’s rate is more than twice the 2010 to remind people of the support to help replenish power of 10. She gave me a list national average? That choice our empty food pantry, of 10 ways people can help us to help an animal in the shelter generous donors tells a lot about the people who help the animals. delivered nearly two live in our county. I loved her idea – and I hope tons of pet food. Bags Our shelter has become a you will, too. The power of 10 and bags and more center of volunteer activity. is all about community. If each of us helps the animals the best bags of food filled the We have more than 100 active donation bins in the volunteers – and our corps is way we can, it will all add up growing. Can you guess what to an even better place for the animal shelter’s lobby. every one of them says? They tell We are grateful for the us they get more from helping outpouring of support. the animals than they give. We’re about to start a new year, full of new possibilities. Susan Field, our public affairs officer, came to me with a wonderful continued on page 4 Homeless pets in Hillsboro win the Lottery Thanks to the Sunset Fred Meyer In October, the homeless animals in Washington County were Lottery winners. Earlier this year, the Sunset Fred Meyer store in Hillsboro issued a winning lottery ticket; stores receive a payment from the Oregon Lottery when they have winners. The Sunset Fred Meyer donated $26,000 to the Bonnie L. Hays Small Animal Shelter of Washington County. “We got the wonderful call from the Sunset Fred Meyer store manager Brad Robbins, telling us he had a surprise for us,” says Deborah Wood. “It’s not every day that you get a call and someone tells you that you’ve pretty much won the Lottery.” Billey is a winner and gets a treat Robbins handed the check to Wood from Deborah Wood. Several days at a ceremony at the store. Wood was after the ceremony, Billey was accompanied at the ceremony by Billey, a adopted. Jack Russell Terrier mix looking for a home. The donation will go to the shelter’s Aurora Fund for medical expenses for neglected and abused animals. “One hundred percent of the money in the fund It’s not goes directly to the care of the animals,” every day says Wood. The fund has been used in recent months for veterinary bills for two you get a call neglected horses that were confiscated and someone because of severe neglect. “This very tells you that generous donation will allow us to take Sunset Fred Meyer Director Brad care of dozens of animals that have had you’ve pretty Robbins announces that the Bonnie L. bad things happen to them. It will help us Hays Small Animal Shelter will receive make animals well again,” adds Wood. much won a $26,000 donation from an Oregon the Lottery. Lottery payment. Washington County Animal Services Manager Deborah Wood accepts the gift, holding Billey, a Jack Russell Terrier mix. Billey is one of the many animals who will benefit from the generous donation. Shelter dogs find comfort in new beds Penny, an American Foxhound and Beagle mix, cozies up for a winter afternoon nap on one of the animal shelter’s new Kuranda dog beds. Robert and Kathy Cochrane read about our need in the last Animal Tales newsletter and donated 15 beds. If the dogs could talk, they’d bark a heartfelt thanks to Bob and Kathy. 2 Rescued horses have new home Two horses that Washington County Animal center for drastically reduced rates. Animal Services rescued after their owners were cited Services’ veterinary technician Tina Cechini for neglect are now galloping in their new field. monitored the horses’ follow-up care for the duration of their foster placement. In March, Animal Services Officer Tim Locke assisted the Washington County Sheriff’s Office In August, Animal Services announced that both when they issued a search warrant to a couple in horses had recuperated and were available for Sherwood. Officer Locke and the deputies found adoption. “What started as a heartbreaking story two emaciated horses, and one had a huge became a triumph. Both growth on its leg. The owners were charged horses were adopted with Animal Neglect II on each horse. Animal together,” said Wood. Services then transported the horses to temporary foster care, where they received The horses’ new owners treatment and care. finished an addition to their existing barn and brought “Six months ago these horses were in horrible the two mares home last condition. The good news is that today month. “It’s nice that we they’re both healthy and have a new home were able to adopt them together,” said Deborah both, since they’ve been Wood. “So many people together so long,” said played a significant role in the new owner in Forest this case and we thank them Grove. “Our daughter is on behalf of the horses.” delighted. She plans to Linda Gray, the foster care ride the chestnut Arab “parent” cared for the two mix, now named Flicka, mares—one gray and the with her high school’s other chestnut—at her barn The new owners adopted equitation team. The for the last six months. The Flicka but couldn’t leave gray mare, now named gray quarter-horse named Grayson behind. Grayson’s Grayson, will be a pasture Angel needed surgery to new life will include eating, pony.” remove the infected growth. sleeping and decorating Doctors Palmer and Saunders the field as a pasture pony. “We always do a great of Willamette Valley Equine job of finding homes for Cassie adores Flicka and dogs and cats. Now, in Aurora performed the plans to ride the mare critical surgery and provided we’ve helped two neglected horses. They’re alive in her high school’s today and have a loving home because a lot of a month of rehabilitative equitation team. care at the equine medical people cared and did the right thing. We couldn’t be happier,” said Wood. Wish list • Frontline and Revolution topical flea treatment • Dog and cat food – dry and canned good- quality dog and cat food, such as IAMS, Castor & Pollux, Natural Balance, Eukanuba, and Science Diet are preferred • Tongue depressors and/or popsicle sticks to feed the cats treats • Bleach (liquid gallons) • And cash is always welcomed! Thank you for the two tons of pet food donated! 3 continued from page 1 4. Visit the shelter people and the pets in our county. We all have • Have 10 minutes? Stop by the shelter and 10 minutes to visit a shelter animal, or $10 to help have fun feeding treats to the dogs and them, or 10 friends who will organize a pet-food cats. drive with us. 5. Volunteer During this community-spirited time of year, think • Have 10 hours a month? Offer to volunteer about the power of 10. Here are 10 ideas for to care for the dogs and cats. helping the animals in Washington County: 6. Become a foster parent The Power of Ten • Care for a cat and her litter by fostering them temporarily in your home until 1. Donate money to the Bonnie L. Hays Small our shelter finds them a permanent home. Animal Shelter 7. Spay/neuter your pets • The power of a 10-dollar bill buys two vaccines. • If your pets are already sterilized, offer to pay for sterilization of a pet belonging to • The power of ten 10-dollar bills buys two a family member or neighbor on a fixed spay/neuter surgeries. income. • The power of twenty-five 10-dollar bills buys 8. Keep your pets safe at home leukemia and FIV tests for 10 cats. • Be sure to keep collars, dog licenses and ID 2. Donate supplies tags on your dogs and cats (even if they are • Frontline or Revolution topical flea control indoors). saves pets’ lives. 9. Teach respect for animals • Gallon bottles of chlorine bleach keep • The Golden Rule rules! “Do unto others as the shelter disinfected and clean. you would want them to do unto you.” In • Sponsor an event or video project. other words, be kind to others and to pets as you would like them to be kind to you.