Lately the shelter hasn't had too many dogs, averaging 3-4 dogs a week, which is actually really good! A few dogs I'm not even getting to photograph because they are already adopted by the time I get to come back in on Tuesday. Which is great! The word is really spreading around our community about the local animal shelter.
Many of the shelter volunteers are teens traveling from some smaller neighboring communities just to help our shelter. I thank you ladies! Thank you for being involved and caring about dogs in another community and for volunteering your time. The dogs completely appreciate it!
We spent our time yesterday cleaning out a spare garage on the shelter to turn it into a quarantine area for new dogs/puppies to help prevent the spread of parvo to the general population at the shelter. They will be quarantined for a few days before they get to join the rest of the dogs. Hopefully this will help stop the spread of illness. Monitor the dogs in a seperate location for a few days and if they need medical intervention it'll be a little easier.
After cleaning out the room the dogs were played with and walked. Spirit, the pitt bull that's been at the shelter for a little over a week now was able to come out of her kennel and enjoy a walk and some play time as well! That was awesome! Last week it was so sad to see her stuck behind her kennel wearing a collar that was far too tight! Thankfully, the collar was able to be gotten off and a new one put on that fit properly. Once brought outside and getting played with for a bit she was quite the friendly doggy!
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| Spirit hangs out with her new friend Kathy. She was a good dog once she got to know Kathy and the rest of us, she warmed up to us pretty quickly after that. |
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SHELTER ID # 197 STATUS: Available (6/21) Name: Spirit Gender: Female (not spayed, has had atleast 1 litter of puppies) Age: around 2years we think Breed: Pitt Bull Color: Reddish/brown Weight: 40-45lbs? Spirit needs to get to know you before you can approach her, she needs a lot of love and patience, she is a beautiful dog and wants she gets to know you she wags her tail and just sits there very good to be petted. Would love to see a good pitt rescue group take in Spirit to work with her good before she's adopted! :) IF INTERESTED IN RESCUING OR ADOPTING PLEASE CALL: (660)833-7330 |
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| Would love it if there was a pitt rescue group somewhere that could take her in and work with her for a bit to make sure she's trained before being adopted. |
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SHELTER ID# 196 STATUS: Available (6/21) Name: Midnight Gender: Male (not neutered) ... Breed: Lab/Basset mix Age: Under a year (6-9 months?) Color: Black Weight: 30-35lbs In Date: 6/12 Pick up: Stray Shots: None Midnight is a fairly calm guy not too hyper, but still energetic. Wants to play though and definetely not a fan of the heat! It's rough being a black dog in the summer time! He has the body of the basset hound, but the color and fur of the lab, so he's quite the charachter! Seemed to do fine with other dogs and kids, and loves to walk, though is a little head strong on the leash, but some training and practice and he'd be good ;) IF INTERESTED IN RESCUING OR ADOPTING THIS DOG PLEASE CALL: (660)833-7330 |
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SHELTER ID # 198 STATUS: Available (6/21) Name: Riley Gender: Male (not neutered) Breed: Unsure Age: Around a year Color: White/brown Weight: 40lbs aprox. In Date: 6/12 Pick up: Stray Shots: None Riley is a little more head strong and exciteable but a real sweetie! He likes to jump up and pull on the lead, but with training and patience and lots of love he would make a great and playful dog! Seems to like kids too. We couldn't tell if he was barking at the other dogs because he wanted to PLAY or if he was being territorial, but he might behave differently outside of the shelter setting. Very pretty pup! IF INTERESTED IN RESCUING OR ADOPTING THIS DOG PLEASE CALL: (660)833-7330 |
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| This is Jax, this is the Daddy to Sissy's babies. They were abandoned in a house for a little while. What happens behind closed doors? They made puppies! Ooops! |
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| This is Sissy, the gorgeous girl who is about to have puppies. That was a big surprise for her adopted family! |
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| Sweet Cali ready to go home with her family! |
The shelter WILL be gearing up for a YARD SALE this fall!! Probably the first weekend in September they will be having a large yard sale to raise money for the shelter. This money will help by panels to fence off part of the shelter yard for the dogs to run and romp and play and burn up some of that pent up energy. It will help with vetting costs, and the HOUNDS program. If anyone has items they would like to donate to the Shelter Rummage Sale, that'd be wonderful! Start digging the items out, and probably starting in July/August we'll store the items until the yard sale. Volunteers to run the yard sale will also be needed as well.
Some other fundraising ideas we have includes: Selling Krispy Kream donuts for the shelter, having a BBQ at the dog park, having an online auction, and having people pay a small fee to enter our "shelter" group to walk in the local home coming parade in September. Still thinking of ideas! I would love to make calendars featuring dogs from the shelter and Hounds Program and dogs in foster homes to be sold as a fundraiser as well. Always looking for fundraising ideas for the shelter. If you have a great idea, please let us know! You can comment or sent a message to us on the Shelter Facebook page or email us your ideas at: fur_ever_yours_pet_photography@yahoo.com
Tuesday while we were at the shelter, a small neighboring town's animal control officer showed up, our shelter was donating several bags of dog food to the smaller shelter (yep even smaller than ours!). I was greatly upset to hear that they get a lot of dogs at the shelter (small town in the country people dump dogs out there all the time). They do not get dogs adopted out of their at all. They end up taking them to the local Humane Shelter in Columbia, MO. Where who knows how many of them are adopted out, and how many are euthenized. I quickly told the gentleman that I would be more than happy to come out even once a month and photograph the dogs there to try and help them find homes. So I'm seeing how that will go. Planning on working something out to go there in July.
Mahala (Mae) Dixson
Moberly, MO Shelter Volunteer -- Photographing Dogs and Events
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