Summer 2013 MAGAZINE ANNUAL REPORT LOVE on the “Today Show” Hoda Kotb Adopts PAWS Chicago Homeless Pup Keeping Your Pet Safe & Healthy in the Summertime GUESSING THE BREED OF YOUR MUTT Genetics Shows There’s More Than Meets The Eyes Decoding the Mysterious Cat Oral Healthcare Tips for Dogs and Cats www.pawschicago.org Adoption & Humane Center 1997 N. Clybourn Avenue, Chicago Open 7 days a week Jingling Subaru keys. about Weekdays Noon – 7 p.m. PAWS Chicago Weekends 11 a.m. – 5 p.m. The ultimate dog whistle. PAWS Chicago (Pets are Worth Saving) is a national model in animal sheltering, committed PAWS Chicago rescued this to bringing an end to the killing of homeless cats sweet two-year-old girl from the city pound after she was found and dogs in our community. Founded in 1997, the walking Chicago’s streets alone number of homeless pets killed in the city each year as a stray. Although she was in good health, PAWS veterinarians has been reduced by more than 60 percent, from discovered that she was blind. 42,561 to fewer than 18,000. Through adoption, Because of Pompey’s special circumstance, she spent more spay/neuter and community outreach, PAWS than a year with PAWS Chicago, Chicago’s mission is to build No Kill communities – but enjoyed much of that time in a comfortable foster home. starting with a No Kill Chicago – where homeless Pompey recently went home with pets are respected and no longer destroyed simply Pompey her forever family. because they are homeless. follow-up calls, site management, fundraising, fostering, event A National Model support, humane education and community outreach. Volunteers PAWS Chicago is building a global resource for shelters and are critical to PAWS Chicago’s operations and play an invaluable role individuals interested in learning about its life-saving strategies in building a No Kill Chicago. and best practices. People from across the nation visit PAWS Chicago every month for a first-hand look at how they can bring No Kill success to their communities. In 16 years, PAWS Chicago Adopt a Homeless Pet and Save a Life! has transitioned from a fully volunteer grassroots organization to a Visit PAWS Chicago’s state-of-the-art, cageless No Kill Adoption & national model: Humane Center at 1997 N. Clybourn Avenue in Chicago’s Lincoln • The Lurie Spay/Neuter Clinic is one of the largest free and Park neighborhood. Since our founding, we have united more than low-cost spay/neuter clinics in the nation, focused on providing 25,000 cats and dogs with new families, with 5,606 adoptions in 2012 services to low-income families who could not otherwise afford alone. New puppies, kittens, dogs and cats arrive daily from PAWS the procedure. The GusMobile, the mobile counterpart to the Chicago’s Rescue & Recovery Center. If you do not find your perfect Lurie Clinic, enables PAWS Chicago to provide accessible spay/ match with PAWS, please visit another No Kill shelter. neuter and vaccinations in the neighborhoods where the highest stray populations originate. • The Pippen Fasseas Adoption Center is the first cageless, No Foster a Homeless Pet in Need Kill shelter of its kind in the Midwest. Located in highly visible PAWS Chicago utilizes its foster network to care for puppies and Lincoln Park, this state-of-the-art Adoption Center is leading the kittens who need time to grow before being spayed or neutered, pets way in innovative programs and shelter design. who are sick or injured and need time to recuperate, animals who need time to build confidence and acclimate to living in a home • PAWS Chicago has been recognized as one of the best-run environment, pets whose families have experienced a crisis and need charities in the nation. For the past 11 years, Charity Navigator, a temporary home while their families rebuild their lives, and for the nation’s largest independent evaluator, has given PAWS hospice care, when a pet needs a loving family for his remaining days. Chicago its highest four star ranking, placing it in the top 1% of By placing these pets in foster homes, there is space available at the charities in the nation for efficient use of donor funds. In 2012, Rescue & Recovery Center to take in and save more homeless pets. Charity Navigator recognized PAWS Chicago as the highest- Some things are a natural fit. Like Subaru owners and their four-legged copilots, Symmetrical rated Animal Rights, Welfare and Services Charity in the nation. All-Wheel Drive and confidence on the road, and the proud partnership between Subaru Your contributions go directly to saving animals’ lives. Spread the Word and PAWS Chicago. Because anyone willing to give pets a little love deserves some back. • Transparency, which allows the public access to truthful statistics Without the public’s involvement, homeless pets will continue to about the fate of homeless animals, is a cornerstone of PAWS die in silence. Become an advocate and voice for homeless pets. Get Love. It’s what makes a Subaru, a Subaru. Chicago’s No Kill mission. Current financial reports and shelter involved in your community and learn about what is happening to data are always available to the public at www.pawschicago.org. homeless pets. Inform your family, friends and neighbors about the reality that homeless pets face and why it’s critical to spay/neuter pets and adopt from shelters. 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(See page 8). With PAWS A rule of thumb is that No Kill shelters Chicago North Shore, we will be able to save more than 90 percent of the animals MAGAZINE save another 1,000 pets or more each year they take in. Is the shelter committed to from Chicago and Waukegan. its adopted pets for life? Does the shelter All PAWS CHICAGO magazine creative contributors (writing, photography, editing and design) have volunteered their services. By increasing adoptions, we are able manage their pet admissions to their to take in more needy animals from the capacity or claim an “open door,” which city pound. This year, we are on track to means taking in more than they can save? EDITOR-IN-CHIEF Alexis Fasseas SENIOR EDITOR Julie Mazzola save more than 4,000 pets from Chicago’s I encourage you to read about how to Animal Control. Through TNR (see page care for your pet’s teeth (page 30), tips on DESIGN DIRECTOR Amie White ADVERTISING Sarah Ahlberg 36) and spay/neuter efforts, we are also how to exercise and stimulate your active WRITERS Sarah Ahlberg, Dr. Cindy Charlier, DVM, Dr. Robert Dann, DVM, Patty Donmoyer, Alexis Fasseas, Melissa French, working to reduce the overpopulation of dog (page 26), how to keep your pet safe Joan Harris, Dr. Kristopher J. Irizarry, PhD, Julie Mazzola, Dr. Barbara Royal, DVM homeless animals, with a goal of building and healthy through the warmer months a No Kill community. (page 22), and gain insight into the secret PHOTOGRAPHERS Richard Chen, Claire Demos, Alyssa Dillon, Sarah Ahlberg, Alexis Fasseas, Peter Kramer/NBC, Julie Mazzola, Photo by: Sofia Spentzas This goal of a No Kill Chicago is language of cats (page 17). Also, please Malia Rae Photography, Sparenga Photography, Sophia Spentzas what inspired us to found PAWS Chicago join us for our Pet Lovers Speaker Series, Dear Friends, and spread the message about what starting this June (page 11). PAWS CHICAGO BOARD OF DIRECTORS was happening behind closed doors at In closing, I’d like to thank Hoda Kotb, Paula Fasseas, Founder and Chair Pam Carey, President Alexis Fasseas, Treasurer George Karcazes, Secretary Welcome to our 2012 Annual Report shelters. With the popularity of the No who is featured on our cover with her issue of PAWS Chicago magazine. When Kill movement and message, many private adorable PAWS Chicago pup Blake, who Janice Beck, Barbara Bradford, Bruce Crown, Charles Day, Prof. Mark Duggan, Peter Fasseas, Sonia Florian, Suzie Glickman, looking back at the lifesaving work “open door” shelters have started using No has helped advance the cause of homeless Suzanne LeMignot, Amy Mack, Mayari Pritzker, Dr.