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Franklin County (ME) Animal Shelter Challenge
Help them get to 5,000 likes on Facebook… when they do, every Facebook fan get get $15 off any adoption in the shelter!
As of 5:00 am, Tuesday, December 10, 2103 they’re at 4,771 likes… not all that many left to go!
From their website:
The purpose of Franklin County Animal Shelter is to provide temporary care and shelter to stray, homeless and abandoned companion animals.
Medical treatment including vaccinations and sterilization is provide to all animals prior to adoption.
FCAS serves the community as an adoption facility where loving families and pets needing homes come together.
The Shelter strives to educate the public in the proper care of pets including increasing public awareness of the companion animal overpopulation issue.
Did you know that the adoption fee only covers 25% of what each animal costs the shelter?
Never Give Puppies or Kittens Away for Free!
I’ve been amazed recently by the number of people who STILL don’t realize they a) should never ever give a cat or dog away for free, and b) who think their pets are safe running around loose. Years ago we were told not to advertise “free kittens” or “free puppies”, because there were those nasty creatures out there who would take them and then sell the animals to testing laboratories.
More recently, the dregs of humankind will take the animals and use them as live bait in dog fights. On one animal group on Facebook, a lady said, “Oh, it’s okay. I check them out to make sure they’re dressed well and have a decent car before I give them the puppies”. How clueless is that?
Here’s the most recent from the Humane Society of the United States. You can scan the article below, or click on the link to see the pictures and get more information.
http://action.humanesociety.org/site/MessageViewer?em_id=73362.0&dlv_id=78001
Help Protect Dogs from Suffering
Dear Friend,
Can you imagine dogs sold by an unscrupulous animal dealer to a laboratory to endure painful procedures, and dying — all for the sake of an unnecessary experiment? That was the fate of dogs like Shy Guy who were sold to Georgia Regents University by a Class B animal dealer, subjected to cosmetic dentistry experiments, and then killed.
Shy Guy had his teeth removed and replaced with implants. Then he was killed — just for a small sample of his jaw bone.
Random source Class B dealers who sell animals to research institutions round up dogs and cats from “random sources,” such as auctions, flea markets, and other questionable means — some of them were even family pets. The notorious Class B dealer with whom Georgia Regents University is doing business has been formally charged by the USDA with a series of legal violations.
Join actress and advocate Kim Basinger in telling the USDA to take strong action against Class B random source dealers and urging Georgia Regents University to not only stop acquiring animals from these dealers with a long history of unlawful activities, but also to end these unnecessary dental experiments. Watch our new undercover video, and take action»
Sincerely,
Wayne Pacelle
Wayne Pacelle, President & CEO
Would You Pay Extra to Reduce Your Pet’s Pain During Surgery?
GOOD NEWS – Pet owners – would you pay $100 to vastly reduce pain during a pet’s surgery? Read on. 09.16.13. reprint. see link below.
Demand for laser outfitted Veterinarian operating rooms used to be about the same as demand for animal organ transplants. But like most technology, the price has come down, and it’s beginning to infiltrate the pet world.
Lasik surgery on the eyes has certainly earned a reputation for fast, incredibly accurate, and well understood technology that people now routinely choose as option to correct vision. It’s also found its way into other procedures for humans. Now it’s available for pet surgery.
For spaying female pets, it’s all about the difference between cutting with a scalpel and cutting with a laser. Both work fine to get the job done, but laser cutting does a number of things that scalpels do not.
Burning rather than cutting kills bacteria. Bacteria live on skin by the trillions. They also hang out in in tissue, blood vessels, and the lymphatic system, even after you scrub the surfaces. When you cut with a sterile scalpel, you just move the bacteria aside. But when you burn the incisions, you kill the ones on the edge. This reduces the exposure to infection.
Burning seals off vessels that cutting leaves gaping open. When you cut through any tissue, you are severing hundreds of vessels that carry blood and liquid through the body. When you sew up afterwards, all those little vessels remaining open, which ooze. Oozing establishes little rivers of water for bacteria to swim up into a wound. Lasers seal all those vessels so they don’t ooze.
Burning also shuts down pain sensors. We feel pain not because it hurts there, but because a pain sensor has sent a message back to the brain to tell it to feel pain there. Cutting with a scalpel leaves sensors intact so they can send pain messages to the brain, which they do at their loudest after trauma like a knife cut. Burning shuts them down so they’re literally quiet. Thus, less pain is “felt.”
The results? For $75 to $100 more money, your pet will recover faster, suffer less pain, have less stiches (with no outside stiches that have to be removed) and face less risk of infection.
P.S.: I just had my puppy Kaya spayed, pictured above. She recovered remarkably fast. I totally recommend it. We went to PenBay Veterinary Associates in Rockland, Maine, Dr. Bjorn Lee performing. (website here)
Photo credit: Jam Blackall
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If you love animals the way we love animals, we hope you’ll get involved with The Maine Pet Expos.
Next year (2014), we will produce three pet shows, the Greater Portland Pet Expo on June 5-6 at Seasons Conference Center (off Exit 48); the Greater Bangor Pet Expo on September 12-13 at the Cross Insurance Conference Center in Bangor, and the Greater Androscoggin Pet Expo on September 26-27 at the Lewiston Armory on Central Avenue.
FMI: Please join our discussion group on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/groups/MainePetExpos, and “like” our page: https://www.facebook.com/themainepetexpos.
For exhibit booth, sponsorship, show program advertising, workshops, Designated Non-Profit, and volunteer information, please contact Linda at LSnyder (at) regroupbiz (dot) com. As we get a bit closer, you’ll be able to find exhibitors, sponsors, advertisers and attendee information on eventbrite.com
We’re also slowly working on developing a non-profit to raise funds for animal rescues – AARF – Animal Activist and Resource Fund. You can read more about AARF at https://www.facebook.com/AARF.AnimalActivistResourceFund.
We foster dogs through two rescue organizations (Maine Lab Rescue and The Pixel Fund), and collect donations for several rescues, including Tommy’s Feral Feline Friends. For more information on any of our efforts, please contact Linda at LSnyder (at) regroupbiz (dot) com.
And if you’d like to read random thoughts about our dogs, please follow us at http://themainedogblog.wordpress.com.
Welcome to our world!
Timeline / Deadlines for the Greater Androscoggin Pet Expo, September 21-22, 2013
Timeline / Deadlines
On-Going to June 30, 2013
- Early Bird rate period for sponsors (save 10%), exhibitors (save 15%) and advertisers in Show Program (save 10%).
June 14, 2013
- First round of workshop & activity proposals due (best choice of times; most marketing)
- Designated Non-Profit Status proposals due.
June 28, 2013
- 1st round of workshops/activities announced
- Designated Non-Profit Status awarded.
June 30, 2013
- Early Bird rate period for sponsors, exhibitors and advertisers in Show Program ends.
July 01 – September 20, 2013
- Regular rate period for sponsors & exhibitors (all are now full price).
July 12, 2013
- Second round of workshop and activity proposals due.
July 26, 2013
- Second round of workshops and activities announced.
August 16, 2013
- Show Program: all ads & payments are due.
September 07, 2013
- No refunds after this date unless a replacement is found.
September 13, 2013
- Show Programs printed & distributed throughout Greater Androscoggin region.
September 21-22, 2013
- Welcome to the Greater Androscoggin Pet Expo!
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If you love animals the way we love animals, we hope you’ll get involved with The Maine Pet Expos.
This year (2013), we will produce two pet shows, the Greater Androscoggin Pet Expo on September 21-22 (note new dates!) at the Lewiston Armory on Central Avenue and the Greater Bangor Pet Expo on October 19-20 at the new Cross Insurance Conference Center in the old Bass Park Complex.
FMI: Please join our discussion group on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/groups/MainePetExpos, and “like” our page: https://www.facebook.com/themainepetexpos.
For exhibit booth, sponsorship, show program advertising, workshops, Designated Non-Profit, and volunteer information, please contact Linda at LSnyder (at) regroupbiz (dot) com. You can also find information on these two sites: http://andropetexpoexhibitors.eventbrite.com and http://bangorpetexpoexhibitors.eventbrite.com
We’re also working on a non-profit to raise funds for animal rescues – AARF – Animal Activist and Resource Fund. You can read more about AARF at https://www.facebook.com/AARF.AnimalActivistResourceFund.
We foster dogs through two rescue organizations (Maine Lab Rescue and The Pixel Fund), and collect donations for several rescues. For more information on either of these efforts, please contact Linda at LSnyder (at) regroupbiz (dot) com.
Welcome to our world!
The Maine Pet Expos 