“Muttshack” Rescue Transport Contacts (It’s been made public this rescue does NOT follow the basic animal welfare and safety precautions therefore I am against releasing animals to them or supporting them in any way )
Karol Neville PULLER and TRANSPORTER TEXT or CALL 909-229-4584 MUST provide correct ID# of the dog and your name and phone number to reach you. - If the dog is a “RESCUE ONLY” Karol needs to be authorized by the Rescue.
Linda Stone PULLER and TRANSPORTER 714-394-5120 – CALL or TEXT - PayPal/email her with id# and contact#: lindaluvs2dance@AOL.com Magen Resq Arquette: https://www.facebook.com/Button88?fref=ts
Cheryl Meyer, volunteer-coordinator For PULLER (GENERAL PULLER and RESCUE ONLY-PULLER) and HELP[RESCUE or ADOPTION long distance] please email: cherylmeyer@hotmail.com
Dennis Pickersgill RESCUE ONLY–PULLER (only pulling for Rescues or Rescuers) – Email: Chevron888@gmail.com
Use these databases to enter names of individuals for past charges of animal cruelty or animal abuse. These databases list names with animal abuse related allegations - and unlike credit or criminal record checks, their permission is NOT required as it is considered public information, perThe Freedom of Information Act, 5 USC § 552
**PLEASE READ BEFORE CONTACTING A PULLER ~ Each puller may have their own requirements. Please be aware that I don't personally know most people listed here, and any listing in this Note imply their credibility and is not to be taken as a recommendation or referral for their services.
It is responsibility of each rescuer to take the necessary precautions to ensure the safety of the animal; Please scroll to the bottom of this note for a personal word from the publisher. Thank you.
"Save A Pet" Desert Hot Springs, CA 67 600 18th St 760-329-8510. Dedicated to rescue, rehabilitating and rehoming all breeds of dogs and cats. https://www.saveapetonline.org
* Please feel free to share this Note in part or in it’s entirety ~ I've put countless hours into compiling, editing and maintaining this note; I did it for my fellow net-workers - present and future. My objective - To help make rescuing and sharing valuable, needed resources with other people in our network who need it to save more lives. . To help you help them. It’s always a work in progress with the goal in mind of making it easier to use. In return all I ask is help keeping this list accurate and up to date whenever you can. IF YOU HAVE ANY SUGGESTIONS OR SEE ANY INCORRECT OR OUTDATED INFORMATION, OR HAVE INFO THAT IF ADDED MIGHT BE USEFUL TO OTHER RESCUERS, PLEASE LET ME KNOW.
**** WE NEED MORE PULLERS!! If you know of any pullers whose names aren't in this list please send them to me so I can request their permission to add them. We greatly appreciate you're continued help and support.
Thank you for being a voice for the voiceless.
A word from the publisher ~
IF YOU RESCUE, PLEASE DO SO RESPONSIBLY ~ A reputable rescue makes the safety and welfare of their rescue animals their first priority by following this guideline of only 3 simple steps with every prospective foster/forever home every time, without exception. This is not to imply doing this guarantees perfect results, these steps are the minimum requirements of a reputable rescue - that simple. Always requiring any prospective fosters and adopters to fill out an Application (for those who need applications please see below); And don’t forget to call their references. It is very important they allow you to into their home for a brief visit (aka Home check) at their convenience, to see where their new family member will be living, this is one of the most effective tools for ensuring your rescued pet’s safety and welfare, and should always be required, every single time, without exception. Furthermore, any applicant who refuses or takes issue with allowing any part of this process is just cause for denying approval of their application. While in their home, notice the health/appearance of any other pets in their care. It’s also a good idea to Check their ID, or, even better, make a copy of it for their file.
If you don’t have applications, please follow the link below to Adoption Applications - you can edit to your liking. You do not have to be a professional rescue to do this and keep in mind, many well known rescues started out just this way. If you have any problems whatsoever using these documents please let me know and I will gladly email or snail mail them to you instead - just message me and tell me where to send them.
Los Angeles, CA - Woman & Her Dog Left To Die In Apartment
Neither the woman or her dog had eaten in 6 days or even had any water.
The woman was rushed to the hospital and the dog was rushed to the vet. The woman is recovering from surgery , her future is uncertain, meanwhile, her dog has been in boarding and is in desperate need of a foster home. If you can help, please see the contact information is at the bottom.
I got the following message in an email October 6th asking if I knew anyone who could help. To follow is excerpts from the message with the most current updates I could find.
A nice woman lived in an apartment in Los Angeles, CA with her beloved rescue dog named Tatum.
She was regularly seen going in and out of her apartment, so when nobody had seen or heard from her for several days, the apartment manager knew something was amiss and called the police to check on her. Police responded and tried knocking but got so answer, when knocking turned into banging after a while she finally opened her door. She told the police that she was fine and they left. But what the manager saw of her tenant that after noon led her to believe that, contrary to what the woman told them, she was NOT fine at all.
The apartment manager knew something was wrong, so she decided to call a friend in animal rescue who knew the tenant. When she went to the woman's apartment she found that neither the dog nor her caretaker had had any food or water in about 6 days. The rescuer called an ambulance who rushed to the woman to the hospital and the dog was rushed to the vet. It turns out the woman had to have major brain surgery, which explains why she seemed to have no concept of how long they'd gone without food or water or the danger they were both in. The dog was found to be severely dehydrated and is currently said to be in stable condition.
WITHOUT HELP THEY BOTH WOULDN'T HAVE SURVIVED MORE THAN A COUPLE MORE DAYS. While the woman is slowly recovering in a rehab facility, and is expected to recovery, she has no relatives to help care for her and return to her apartment. Her dog Tatum, however,has been staying at a vet for the past 4 weeks and the bill is now said to be staggering!! Poor Tatum is in desperate need of a foster home as soon as possible. He is a said to be a shy, quiet dog and needs to be in a low key environment
YOU CAN HELP by making a donation for Tatum's boarding AND / OR by fostering Tatum. He is a very shy dog and will need to be in a quiet household. The woman is expected to make a full recovery and Tatum will able to return home in about 2 months.
“If every animal shelter in the United States embraced the No Kill philosophy and the programs and services that make it possible, we would save nearly four million dogs and cats who are scheduled to die in shelters this year, and the year after that. It is not an impossible dream.”
The link below takes you to their website nokilladvocacycenter.org No Kill Advocacy Center A No Kill nation is within our reach…
Two decades ago, the concept of a No Kill community was little more than a dream. Today, it is a reality in many cities and counties nationwide and the numbers continue to grow. And the first step is a decision, a commitment to reject the kill-oriented failures of the past. No Kill starts as an act of will. The next step involves putting in place the infrastructure to save lives.
Following a commitment to No Kill is the need for accountability. Accountability means having clear definitions, a lifesaving plan, and protocols and procedure oriented toward preserving life. But accountability also allows, indeed requires, flexibility. Too many shelters lose sight of this principle, staying rigid with shelter protocols, believing these are engraved in stone. They are not. Protocols are important because they ensure accountability from staff. But protocols without flexibility can have the opposite effect: stifling innovation, causing lives to be needlessly lost, and allowing shelter employees who fail to save lives to hide behind a paper trail. The decision to end an animal’s life is an extremely serious one, and should always be treated as such. No matter how many animals a shelter kills, each and every animal is an individual, and each deserves individual consideration.
And finally, to meet the challenge that No Kill entails, shelter leadership needs to get the community excited, to energize people for the task at hand. By working with people, implementing lifesaving programs, and treating each life as precious, a shelter can transform a community.
There are communities in the United States that have eliminated population control killing. We want—and the animals deserve—No Kill in every city in the country. But it requires shelter leaders committed to these goals and embarking on a campaign of diligent implementation. That is where we must focus our efforts at reform. Only the No Kill Equation model has achieved this success. It is a program model which changes the way shelters operate and which gives the animal loving public an integral role in that operation. If a community wants success, this is the way to go: nothing else has succeeded.
No Kill shelters can be public or private, large or small, humane societies or municipal agencies. A No Kill shelter can be either “limited admission” or “open admission.” And there are plenty of No Kill animal control shelters and thus No Kill communities which prove it. An “open admission” shelter does not have to—and should not—be an open door to the killing of animals. In fact, using the term “open admission” for kill shelters is misleading. Kill shelters are closed to people who love animals. They are closed to people who might have lost their job or lost their home but do not want their animals to die. They are closed to Good Samaritans who find animals but do not want them killed. They are closed to animal lovers who want to help save lives but will not be silent in the face of needless killing. And so they turn these people and their animals away, refusing to provide to them the service they are being paid to perform.
For a description of the programs of the No Kill Equation and how shelters should implement them, click here.
For our No Kill matrix of treatable medical conditions, click here.
First there's some things we must understand and come to terms with... and the truth hurts...
We have to understand that the shelters are not the problem...
And the breeders are not the problem... WE are the problem.
Humans created this problem.
And as humans created it, we are the only one's must can fix it.
We owe to them to not be part of the problem.
We OWE it to them to fix the bind WE've put them in ...
to them to be part of the solution.
TWO UNCONTROLLED BREEDING CATS PLUS ALL THEIR KITTENS AND THEIR KITTEN'S KITTENS, OF NONE ARE EVER SPAYED OR NEUTERED ADD UP... Millions of unwanted and homeless cats are born in this country each year. During the peak of kitten season - from late April to September - pounds and humane shelters kill unwanted and abandoned cats at the rate of OVER ONE PER MINUTE, other less fortunate are left to wander, easy pray for larger animals, easy targets for automobiles and easy marks for cruel pranksters and fanatics. If they do survive these hazards and elements, they soon attain maturity and bring forth five or six kittens. Mostly females, to continue this vicious cycle. Every cat owner whose pet is unspayed or unneurtered, and a allowed to roam, must bear the guilt of terrible overpopulation. REMEMBER - ONE FEMALE CATS CUMULATIVE OFFSPRING IN TEN YEARS COULD TOTAL OVER 80 MILLION!!
*2 litters per year
*2.8 surviving kittens per litter
*10 year breeding life *IN 10 YEARS MULTIPLY TO 80,399,780!!!
This Note contains a powerful message, and if the reality that you know lies behind these words and images hits you as hard as they did me, you may want to share, and re-share the Note. WE have the power to change their world, our world. We are the one's for this job, and TOGETHER we can do it. Together can make it happen - can make this a REALITY. I KNOW we can!
So join me in taking the pledge to Spay and Neuter family pets and to always Adopt Don't Shop ... and to NEVER patronize stored that sell animals.
TOGETHER WE really can make this a reality! - TOGETHER WE have the power to make this a NO KILL nation!
Scarlett Was Adopted Following Her Ordeal And Lived Life as a Member of a Loving Family
Scarlett, the World-Famous Brave Mother Cat Who Bravely Entered Blazing Inferno 5 Times To Save All Her Kittens, Passes Away After Enjoying Life Of Love, Pampering And Fame Following Her Ordeal
October 15, 2008 (Port Washington, NY) - Scarlett the cat, whose story of bravery, uncompromising love and triumph over all odds, has passed on. The heroine calico, who in 1996 made headlines around the world for pulling her five kittens to safety from a raging fire, lost her battle with multiple illnesses this week after living with her adoptive family in Brooklyn, New York for over 12 years.
Back in 1996, Scarlett was tending to her kittens in an abandoned Brooklyn garage when fire broke out. Having extinguished the blaze, firefighters sighted the mother cat, slowly carrying her four-week-old kittens from the building. Badly scorched, her ears radically burned, she lined up her babies. With her eyes blistered from the inferno, she was seen touching each with her nose, to reassure herself that her litter of five had made it to safety. She then collapsed, unconscious.
Firefighter David Giannelli transported the little feline family to North Shore Animal League America where the mother, who was named Scarlett, and her kittens, were treated. The weakest of the kittens died of a virus one month after the blaze. However, after three months of treatment and recovery, Scarlett and her surviving babies were ready for adoption.
In the flurry of worldwide media attention to the heroic feline mother and her family, the Animal League received more than 7,000 inquiries about adopting Scarlett and her brood. Ultimately, the kittens were adopted in pairs and Scarlett herself was adopted out to Karen Wellen, whose story of losing her own cat, shortly after an accident in which she herself was injured, struck a chord at the Animal League. Wellen said her experience made her a more compassionate individual, and, if ever she was to adopt another cat, she wanted to devote herself to one with special needs.
Once in Wellen's care, Scarlett continued to be a media darling, capturing the attention of regional, national and international outlets as far away as Japan, and including the most powerful voices of CNN and Oprah Winfrey. She was the subject of numerous books and articles and appeared in the first aired segment of Animal Planet. She was even honored by Great Britain's Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. Living in Wellen's Brooklyn home, Scarlett was a cherished family member, given run of the house and abundant love. "She was the most precious and loving cat and in our household, it was all about Scarlett," said Wellen.
Scarlett, who required ongoing care as a result of her injuries, and who was diagnosed with a heart murmur during her recovery at the Animal League Veterinary Medical Center, became a Sponsor Pet, and the symbol of all the real and wonderful pets in the Animal League's care. She was the guest of honor at the Animal League's Christmas Tree Lighting and was a surprise for a little boy whose birthday wish was to meet her. The Animal League created an animal heroism award in her name and recently unveiled The Scarlett Room, an online site showcasing the animals in the organization's Sponsor Program. This month, National Geographic Kids' Magazine, circulated around the globe, honored Scarlett as one of its Ten Cool Cats.
North Shore Animal League America is the world's largest no-kill animal rescue and adoption organization. For more information on its Sponsor Program visit www.AnimalLeague.org.
Meet the Pets find out about the progress of animals in the Sponsor Program.
ABOUT NORTH SHORE ANIMAL LEAGUE AMERICA North Shore Animal League America - Home of the Mutt-i-gree® - headquartered in Port Washington, NY, is the largest no-kill animal rescue and adoption organization in the world. The Animal League reaches across the country to rescue, nurture and adopt 20,000 pets into happy and loving homes each year. Over the past decade, the Animal League saved over 200,000 lives and has saved 1,000,000 animals since its inception. “Like” us atwww.Facebook.com/TheAnimalLeague, follow us at www.Twitter.com/AnimalLeague. To learn more about animal rescue and welfare, visitwww.AnimalLeague.org.
RIP Scarlett
mother, heroine, brave mommy cat, beloved family member, admired by people all over the world, will be dearly missed.
The Columbus City Attorney's Office released a list of their 12 most wanted animal abuse suspects.
Officials said the "Dirty Dozen" are wanted for a number of charges involving the abuse and abandonment of animals.
All 12 of the people on the list have arrest warrants out for them.
Among the suspects are a mother and daughter. Charlotte Mae and Christa Badgley are accused of abandoning sick cats and dogs in a trailer piled with filth.
Dale Channell was already convicted of animal cruelty for leaving animals to freeze to death, and investigators fear he has killed again. They said a parrot in his care went missing and is presumed dead.
Capital Area Humane Society Chief Humane Agent Kerry Manion said they seized a malnourished dog in east Columbus on Tuesday, after they were unable to find his owner.
"He was tangled around a back porch railing, no food, no water," Manion said. "You can see he is visibly thin."
Of the 6,000 cases agents investigate each year, about 50 to 60 result in criminal charges, said Manion.
"The ones that actually make me the angriest are the animal abandonment cases, because these animals cannot fend for themselves," said Columbus Assistant City Attorney Bill Hedrick. "And we're lucky these are cases where the animals were still alive."
Hedrick said animal abandonment charges peaked about five years ago, during the height of the housing crisis, when people were evicted and simply left their animals behind. But, he said, they have not declined since.
The decision to add a dog to your family should not come lightly. Getting a dog is a big responsibility after all. But once you are sure you can handle it, adopting a dog is the way to go for multiple reasons.
1. You’ll Save a Life
If more people chose to adopt a dog, the number of euthanized animals would decrease dramatically. Currently, between three and four million dogs and cats are euthanized annually in the United States.
2. Wide Variety of Choices
You can go to a breeder and choose amongst a select few puppies of the same breed — or you can visit your local animal shelter and choose from possibly hundreds of puppies and adult dogs. One reason so many dogs end up in shelters is because people make uninformed decisions on what breed to get and end up needing to give the dog away. Visit your local animal shelter to adopt a dog that captures your heart rather than choosing a breed because it’s cute.
3. Basic Healthcare Provided
It’s true that not all dogs that come into shelters are healthy. However once a dog is brought in, the shelter will do all it can to nurse a sick dog back to health, or provide preventive care to dogs coming in. This includes vaccinations, as well as spay and neuter operations if applicable.
4. Adopting Saves Money
It is significantly cheaper to adopt a dog rather than one from a breeder or a pet store. And the cost often includes vaccinations and spaying or neutering!
5. It's a Gift that Keeps on Giving
When you do pay an adoption fee through your animal shelter, that money isn’t adding to a pet stores personal profits — it is going towards the care of the remaining animals at the shelter.
6. You Won’t Be Supporting Puppy Mills
When you choose to adopt a dog rather than buy one from a pet store you say no to puppy mills. Unsuspecting consumers often don’t realize that the adorable doggy in the window at a pet store more likely than not came from appalling conditions and has not received proper medical care or socialization. The more people who adopt over buying from puppy mills means we are one step closer to making puppy mills obsolete.
7. You Can Pick a Housebroken Dog
If the act of training a puppy is too much for you, adopting a dog leaves you with the option to choose an older or already housetrained dog.
8. Rescue Dog Bond
Many dogs left in shelters come from poor home environments or have suffered after being uprooted from what they thought was a happy home environment. Just think of the bond you and your adopted dog will have once you provide it with the loving home it has been missing.
