Speaking of Winter 2014 4242 South 300 West • Murray, UT 84107 (801) 261-2919 • www.utahhumane.org Animals The Humane Society of Utah is dedicated to the elimination of pain, fear, and suffering in all animals. Dogs Doing Their Duty — for Veterans! Page 3 Another Banner Year for HSU Adoptions! Page 5 You’re Wags toInvited Wishes Gala — Page 6 X-Citing News for Pets’ Caregivers! Page 7 MakePlus: Your Love of Animals a Lasting Legacy, The Best “Hope for the Holidays” Telethon We’ve Ever Had, and more! Make Your Love of Animals BOARD OF DIRECTORS a asting egacy Craig S. Cook, President L L Including the Humane Society of Utah in your estate plans benefits you, Dr. Eric Belnap, Vice President Dr. JoAnn B. Seghini, Secretary your family, and the thousands of animals whose lives will be touched for the Randy John, Treasurer better through our shelter and other programs. For detailed information on Directors: any of the options listed below, please visit www.utahhumane.org/legacy or Timothy R. Pack, Steve Starley, contact Jamie Usry, HSU Director of Development, at [email protected] Tim J. Williams, Susan Wood or 801-261-2919, ex. 207. • Will or Trust. Name HSU as a beneficiary in your will or trust. You ADMINISTRATIVE STAFF can leave a specific dollar amount, a percentage of your estate, or the Gene Baierschmidt, Executive Director Paul Chapin, DVM, Veterinarian residual amount of your estate after other distributions are made and Shama Chapin, DVM, Veterinarian expenses are met. John Paul Fox, Chief Investigator • Charitable Remainder Trust (CRT). A Charitable Remainder Pauline Edwards, Director of Clinic Susan Carpenter, Director of Shelter Trust is a life-income arrangement by which you can choose to Jamie Usry, Director of Development receive a variable or fixed income, beginning immediately, for the rest Carlene Wall, Director of Operations of your life or for a specified term. There is no limit on the number Carl Arky, Director of Communications of beneficiaries you can name in a CRT, and the number of animals Katharine Brant, Director of you can help by naming HSU as a beneficiary of such a program is Publications and Membership literally endless. Oliver Schmidt, IT Manager Loraine Delgadillo, Business Manager / This skinny, ragged, abused Human Resources little cat wasn’t the first Lesa Essary, Volunteer Coordinator needy animal to come through the Humane Society Jessica Almeida, Animal Transfer Coordinator of Utah’s doors, and she Barbara Conrad, Foster Animal Coordinator won’t be the last. You’ve Rachel Kelly, Special Events Coordinator helped us help her, and so many others like her, over SERVICES PROVIDED more than half a century of v Adoption of animals to qualified homes caring, and you can go on making a difference for all v Low-cost sterilization surgeries of them for a long time to v Receiving of unwanted animals come through creative estate v Preventive immunizations planning. v Investigation of animal abuse and neglect v Animal rescues You can name HSU as either the primary v Humane education and pet-facilitated therapy • Life Insurance Policies. or joint beneficiary of your life insurance policy; you can also transfer For further information on services provided ownership of a paid-up policy to the Humane Society of Utah, which by HSU, call (801)261-2919 during business hours. allows you to claim an immediate income-tax deduction. Remember, HSU is your shelter. • Retirement Accounts. Name HSU as the beneficiary or contingent We are here to help the animals of Utah. beneficiary of your 401(k), IRA, or other retirement account. Funds Please help maintain and support our programs with your contributions. from these sources will not be subject to estate tax or income tax when gifted to the Humane Society. The Humane Society of Utah is • Bank and Investment Accounts. By naming HSU as the an independent 501(C)(3) nonprofit organization that is not affiliated with any other group, nationally beneficiary of any “Payable on Death” (POD) or “Transfer on Death” or locally. We receive no funding from taxes or any (TOD) accounts, you do not have to change your will or work with source other than your contributions. an attorney or accountant. There are no fees to arrange such a gift. Incorporated 1960 • Stocks. Tax advantages are plentiful by gifting securities to HSU. Just use the contact information in the first paragraph to learn how 4242 South 300 West to make a stock transfer. Salt Lake City, UT 84107-1415 Telephone: (801) 261-2919 The material presented above is intended as general information only on the topics Fax: (801) 261-9577 herein introduced, and should not be interpreted as legal, financial, or tax advice. www.utahhumane.org Please seek the specific counsel of your tax advisor, attorney, and/or financial planner © 2014 Humane Society of Utah. All rights reserved. to discuss the application of any of these topics to your individual financial situation. v Dogs Doing their Duty for Veterans! Dogs (along with horses) have always been the animals “Semper Fi” — Always Faithful most closely associated with the military because of the unfailing loyalty, bravery, skill, and companionship that they The traditional name for a pet dog used to be “Fido,” which is offer to human members of the armed forces. Now there’s a an abbreviation of the Latin word fidelio, or “faithful.” So it’s little new program in which the dog heroes can continue to assist wonder that these incredibly loyal, empathetic animals are now soldiers even after the tour of duty is completed. It’s called being chosen to help veterans who have been scarred, whether “Pawsitive Partnerships,” and its purpose is to give selected visibly or invisibly, learn how to trust and love again. According dogs specialized therapy training and then place them with to Cathy King of Canines with a Cause, the non-profit rescue combat veterans who are suffering from PTSD, or post- group that chooses dogs for the Pawsitive Partnerships program, traumatic stress disorder. “Dogs provide the unconditional love, comfort, and joy — as well as the sense of being useful and needed again — that transforms these It goes without saying that war is an ugly activity that men’s and women’s lives.” inflicts incalculable damage on nearly every possible level of being, but it’s really only within the decades since X-Insurance also funds HSU’s Viet Nam that psychologists, counselors, corporation heads, participation in the Canines with a Cause program, which trains dogs employers, families, and the public in general have been willing for Pawsitive Partnerships — an to acknowledge the horrible truth about what extended periods organization that places qualified of exposure to deliberate, organized, brutal violence can do to dogs in the homes of war veterans suffering from post-traumatic stress the human spirit. For those courageous citizens who have been disorder (PTSD). This is “Honor,” willing to face such circumstances in order to stem the tide of an English foxhound mix who had even worse evils, no praise or gratitude from the rest of us can been surrendered to the Humane Society because his previous family ever be high enough — and the cost to those who served can could no longer keep him. After sometimes be higher than most of us can even comprehend. he completes his CWAC training, he’ll be ready to be placed in a new forever home with a caring Our company is proud to play a ex-soldier whose own healing process will be speeded by Honor’s part in assisting our country’s devotion and unconditional love. veterans and helping them with the transition back to civilian life. Right here at home, the Humane Society of Utah is working Anything we can do to make this with CWAC and other organizations to find and train dogs easier for our wounded with the right qualities to be successful in this innovative, warriors — while at the multi-step program in which everybody comes out a hero. For example, there’s the story of “Honor,” an English foxhound same time saving the mix who had been surrendered to HSU, chosen by CWAC, lives of shelter dogs — is and sponsored by X-Insurance (whose other good works are something we consider not described on p. 7) to be trained for adoption to a veteran. only a privilege, but a duty The next heart-warming link in the chain was the Utah as well. We want to help State Women’s Prison, where chosen inmates get to develop veterans, pet caregivers, and as their own self-esteem and reliability by performing the initial many animals as we can to benefit training of some of the dogs who will become vets’ adoptees. And after Honor has learned the basics, he’ll be sent on to our community. – Rick Lindsey specialized training, and will soon become the new four-legged X-Insurance CEO member of a PTSD veteran’s family, where he’s sure to make a thoroughly “paws”-itive impact on many lives. Today, one in every four veterans returning from combat in Iraq and Afghanistan is a victim of PTSD. The symptoms Says HSU Executive Director Gene Baierschmidt, “This is include feelings of being shattered, isolated, and utterly a win-win-WIN situation for all the parties involved. The veteran unable to relate to others. The process of forgetting to be an receives the help that he or she needs and deserves. Shelter dogs instrument of warfare and re-learning the ways of civilian life get the chance to find the good, forever homes that they need and can be overwhelming.