Adopt-A-Shelter Cat Month
During the spring and summer months, there's a always surplus of cats and kittens! That's why it's the purrfect time to pack their little bags and give a homeless cat a second chance through the Planned Pethood cat adoption program during the Adopt-A-Shelter Cat Month sponsored by the ASPCA. Read about adopting a second hand cat below and view our adoptable cats, click here! PRICES REDUCED NOW THROUGH JULY 9!
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President's Plea |
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Adopt a Shelter Cat |
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Jordan runs free |
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Adopting a Second Hand Cat |
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Texas Hold 'Em Festival |
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Our eyes are on helping little Leah--won't you help too?
Little Leah is just one of the many kittens we rescue that unfortunately need their eye (s) surgically removed because of infection, injury and other conditions. Leah is scheduled to have both her eyes removed later this month.
Our vets office tells us that Leah is just the best kitten ever! She loves to be held and be turned upside down for a snuggle and belly rub. We are asking for donations now to help pay for Leah's expensive eye removal surgery. Make a donation by clicking here!
Planned Pethood spends thousands of additional dollars yearly to help dogs and cats, over and above our regular vetting costs. We help the local animals many other rescues/shelters won't.
We can't do it without you! We need your donations--please help us and make a donation now here.
Almost euthanized at a local pound and after removal of her leg, nothing stops her now!
Jordan is just one of the many dogs Planned Pethood saves before being euthanized at local pound pounds. And she didn't stand a chance as she had a badly deformed leg, which upon vet review needed to be amputated. This cost thousands and was paid for in part by your generous donations. Once healed, Jordan found her happy and forever home. Here is an update...
Jordan is very content running around on her three baby legs all over the back yard. She’s also very happy to have two dogs to play with! Her big doggy brother Luigi is great at tug of war and keep away and her big doggy sister Nikki shows her how to explore the woods. Jordan also loves cuddling up next to Nikki in their little dog bed for nap time. She doesn’t seem to have any problem getting around on her three legs, though, like any puppy sometimes she runs too fast for herself and does summersaults. We never thought we wanted a puppy, having adopted two adult rescue dogs, but Jordan has brought so much joy and energy to our house. We are so grateful to all the people who supported her financially and to her foster mom Colleen and all the people at Planned Pethood who made sure this adorable animal wasn’t put down just because her leg didn’t work! See how great Jordan gets around and check out these short videos! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r2XowuWQEdU and http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UIOqqqWZz_I
Did you know? Over $8,500 was raised in this years May Rummage Sale, which benefited the spay/neuter efforts for dogs and cats in NW Ohio. Planned Pethood Inc. alone spend over $15,500 in the first six months of this year spaying and neutering dogs and cats. This money certainly helps continue us into the second & third quarters to help more of our area animals. But as you can read it is only a drop in the bucket. If you would like to make a donation to our spay/neuter fund--click it!
Put your cards on the table for Planned Pethood this Fall!
Register today to play Saturday, September 20th. Help "raise" more money to help Planned Pethood dogs and cats and spay neuter thousands more!
Click box left and schedule your play time now! Get your friends together and play!
Although we focus on saving litters and litters and litters and litters of kittens, fixing them and placing them into loving and happy homes, many times the mother cats get forgotten. And that is especially true during the summer months. We know, kittens are cute--just babies, but like all babies they are work and not always bundles of joy 24/7. If you want a cat with a certain kind of personality, you're better off adopting an adult cat. Our adult cats have grown into their individual personalities. With a kitten who may be cute now, he or she may mature into a total different kind of cats (kind of like kids sometimes). Many people feel that by adopting a baby kitten, they will be able to "mold" it into certain behavior or that he/she will be more affectionate.
Let's not forget too that in a year, those cute kittens will be just as big as adult cats. Kittens are a lot like children and need to be watched very carefully so they stay out of trouble. Kittens can easily get stuck behind washers, stoves, they like to chew on electrical cords and test out their claws on your nice furniture, carpets and drapes.
Most adult cats no longer have any major behavioral problems and are much quicker learners when it comes to the house rules.
If you have children under the age of 7, it is far safer for them to adopt an adult cat. Kittens are easily frightened and do not always know what's appropriate and can bite or scratch on instinct without meaning to hurt a child. Also kittens raise by children often become skittish and less affectionate. Again, to be sure that you're bring home a good-natured, outgoing, friendly cat to be your child's companion for the next 15 to 20 years, your better bet is an adult cat.
If you have an adult cat and are looking for a companion, keep in mind that many older cats get annoyed and overwhelmed by a kitten's high energy level.
That's our pitch for adopting these poor left behind mama cats in our adoption program. We urge you to look and consider one of our available ADULT cats as a pet or companion for your current cat.
Adoptions
January 2008-May 2008
Presidents Plea You know that old rhyme, "A stitch in time saves nine"? In the first four months of 2008 Planned Pethood has expended over $12,000 in spay/neuter subsidies and the veterinarian statements have just begun to arrive for
the month of May - one of the busiest times of the year. This is not money spent on the animals in our custody but owned by folks with financial constraints or stray and feral cats that are generally returned to the site where they were trapped. It is money wisely spent if we are ever going to overcome the pet overpopulation problem. Looking back, this expense continues to grow year after year ($34,000 in '07 and $26,000 in '06).
We are committed to continuing to fund the need as people begin to understand the overpopulation problem in a personal, meaningful way. You can help in this mission by discussing this with friends and family and urging anyone in need in our area to contact us if they need help. Another way to help is to volunteer to transport animals to and from veterinary clinics. Not only does this help the animals and the community, it might open your eyes to how really BIG this problem is. This is investing in the future with the hope of no return. Carol Dunn-President-Planned Pethood, Inc.
Get involved with education! Over the last year we have started reaching out to the community through visits to various groups such as schools, scout troops, senior centers, parenting groups, etc. We started with two Planned Pethood Alumni that I adopted and are slowly 
gathering more volunteers and their Planned Pethood alumni to join us. We do
presentations covering topics such as animal care and how to behave around animals. We talk about what Planned Pethood does, and why it is important. We bring living proof with us of what wonderful things can come of the interaction between pet and person. Two of our dogs have had truly amazing results working with autistic children.
If you would like to learn more about what we do, or are interested in getting your own pet or foster certified as a Therapy Animal, please contact me at: marytorio@gmail.com Mary Torio-Planned Pethood volunteer
Help Us Win $10,000!! (it costs nothing to help!)
WHAT: Zootoo.com is a pet-oriented site that is holding a contest to benefit rescue organizations that function entirely with fosters. This contest has already begun and ends at 11:59:59 PM EST on September 30, 2008. The winning rescue will receive $10,000!!!
HOW: Each rescue group is required to invite "Supporters" to support our group. The more "Supporters" we have, the more entries we receive into the Sweepstakes. Each "Supporter" must be a validated registrant on Zootoo.com, upload one user photo and submit one review on a pet product or service on the website. It's free to join, free to post, you can earn products for yourself through participation, and just by joining you increase Planned Pethood's chances of winning!
**Planned Pethood is listed under "rescues" (NOT shelters) as "Planned Pethood Inc. Low Cost Spay/Neuter". Please choose join and choose us as your affiliated rescue!
If you have any questions, e-mail Mary: marytorio@gmail.com Mary Torio-Planned Pethood volunteer
Be a part of the solution--TNR! Since March of this year, less than a handful of Planned Pethood volunteers have spayed/neutered over 62 cats from one area alone through a TNR (Trap, Neuter and Release) program. Trap/neuter/release is a method of population control that has been around for several years and minimizes cat populations better than trapping and euthanizing. If a colony is removed, new cats will just move into the area, and as they are not spayed/neutered the reproducing and the associated obnoxious behaviors continue.
With TNR, cats are humanely trapped, usually using tuna, mackerel, rotisserie chicken, or canned cat food, and taken in their traps to veterinarians participating in such programs. Humane Ohio is the primary clinic for the Planned Pethood TNR. While under anesthesia the cats are spayed/neutered, and their left ear is tipped. Ear tipping indicates the cat has already been altered in the event they stray to another colony or
are inadvertently humanely trapped again. The cats are returned back to their established outdoor area as long as shelter and food is available to them. The colony size remains stable and eventually diminishes as long as any new cats joining the colony are also spayed/neutered.
Recent research by some rescues have shown that funding TNR is less costly to cities and counties by decreasing the intake and euthanasia rates, thereby saving euthanasia and boarding expenses, in addition to decreasing some of the physical and emotional burden of the shelters.
Many of our calls are from elderly or disabled animal lovers who feed the starving strays, but have no means to curb the population growth. Often the call for help is after a litter of kittens has been born to a stray that they have fed for several months. If no action is taken, the kittens grow and reproduce to a colony of several, mostly feral cats within a few months. All too often we hear, “it’s not my cat, I was just feeding it”. Please be proactive with friends, family and in your neighborhood to get the stray to a clinic for spay/neuter and then continue to provide it with the food and shelter it has survived with thus far. Saving and improving the lives of the cats is rewarding, but the caregivers and surrounding neighborhoods also benefit from the population control.
Our small TNR group would love to be able to expand our mission and are seeking volunteers in any capacity. Help is needed for transporting to and from the clinic, in addition to trapping in areas throughout the Lucas County area. Contact Jane Holman 419-866-1790 for more information on volunteering. Nancy Fisher-Planned Pethood Volunteer
Love cats? We need you! The Planned Pethood cat adoption program DESPERATELY needs volunteers to help out at our Wednesday, Friday, Saturday or Sunday adoption events. We also need cat savvy people to help answer questions from calls we receive. Can you help? Please contact Karen at 419-250-7925.
Gas Cards Needed! Planned Pethood volunteers spend hundreds of dollars of their own money transporting animals from the pounds/rescue situations to the vets offices daily. Could you donate a gas card to these volunteers? Please help be a part of the solution for our area animals! Purchase a gas card and mail to us at Planned Pethood, P.O. Box 350908, Toledo, OH 43635-0908.
Fall Barn Sale Volunteers are needed to help at a planned Fall Barn Sale. For additional information or if you wish to help, please contact Chrissa Liskai here!
Board of Directors Election- Kelly Dilworth, Assistant Director of Alumni Affairs and Annual Fund Office at Lourdes College and a dog foster for the past year.
- Debbie Gring, RN, Nursing Systems Team leader at St. Luke's Hospital. Deb oversees our "FIXX" telephone lines, fosters dogs as well as having her own rescue dogs.
- Kory Anne Kaintz, Financial Services Systems Manager at HCR-ManorCare and loving mom to a rescue dog.
- Tamara Norris, Computer Training Coordinator at Northwest State Community College, an Ohio Jaycees Outstanding Young Ohioan and mom to two legged and four legged young 'uns.
Board of Directors
Carol Dunn, Board President
Kory Anne Kaintz, Treasurer
Judy Waddington, Board Secretary
Jane Holman Dr. Fredrick Post Bill Hormann Tamara Norris Chrissa Liskai Katie Maskey Kelly Dilworth Debbie Gring Dr. Kittsen McCumber, DVM
P.O. Box 350908
Toledo, OH 43635
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