Wilbourn Way News

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Oasis Sanctuary urgently needs dog trainers

Carole's good friend, Eddie Lama, founder and operator of Oasis Sanctuary in North Branch, New York, has been sheltering all sorts of pet and farm animals for many years. The sanctuary has been under attack for some time by the local zoning board, which wants to close it. The Wilbourn Way News has reported on this on-going battle before.

As a result of the continuing pressure, Eddie has an urgent need to evaluate some 30 dogs currently sheltered at Oasis for adoption potential. If you can assist him in this emergency effort please consider doing so. Their exact needs and their contact information are on this Best Friends web page.

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The Presidential Candidates' views on protecting animals

Carole recently received an email from a friend that included a number of summaries of the views of American Presidential candidates on the protection of animals. She believes that a candidate's views on the humane treatment of animals should be important considerations in choosing which candidate to support and give your vote in the coming primaries and the national election.

We are publishing that lengthy email on a page dedicated to this topic to enable us to include all of it and to add more updated information as we discover it. Check it out! If you have, or discover, other information on the candidates' positions, we will gladly publish that, too. Send it to dick AT TheCatTherapist.com.

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Feral cat and humane activists still deadlocked with NY/NJ Port Authority over feral cat policies at JFK Airport

You can get the latest information about the campaign to change the Port Authority's policies at the  Neighborhood Cats web site.

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Why is it illegal for New York City deli's to keep cats?

This is another instance of bureaucratic insanity. How better to keep mice and rats out of restaurants and stores, that store and dispense food, than to keep a cat? Still, the New York City Department of Health regulations make keeping cats a violation. Catch-22? We think so, since they fine establishments for evidence of rodents, too. Anyway, doesn't the Health Department know that everything tastes better with a little cat fur in it?? Read Kate Hammer's insightful article on the New York Times web site.

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Humane Society of the United States announces 4th Annual Taking Action for Animals Conference

The Humane Society of the United States has announced that the fourth annual Taking Action for Animals conference will be held July 19-21, 2008 in Arlington, Virginia. Almost 1,000 people attended the 2007 conference. Don't miss this chance to get more involved! Visit www.takingactionforanimals.org often for program updates and registration information.

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ASPCA announces nation's first Mobile Animal Crime Scene Investigation Unit and first Anti-Cruelty Institute

NEW YORK, 12/11/07:  Today, on NBC's Today Show, The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals introduced its new Mobile Animal Crime Scene Investigation Unit, the nation's first, which will bring state of the art forensic investigation and emergency medical capabilities to the fight against animal cruelty.

In another "first", Ed Sayers, ASPCA's President & CEO, also announced that ground will be broken in February 2008 for the nation's first Anti-Cruelty Institute. Scheduled to open in 2010, the Institute will be dedicated to educating veterinarians and law enforcement officials with the specialized training necessary to recognize and respond to animal cruelty.

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New York Care2 member mobilizes over 49 thousand online signatures to protect animal rights in Puerto Rico

Nadia Donato, a Puerto Rican New Yorker, was so appalled by the news she learned, though her Care2 Animal Welfare group, about the massacre of 80 family pets by housing authorities in Barceloneta, Puerto Rico that she started a petition calling on the Governor of Puerto Rico for a governmental investigation and the prosecution of those responsible.

She started with a goal of 1,000 signatures. She began building support within Care2, and then at other sites, and then was noticed by ABC News and the International Herald Tribune. As of December 6th, there are over 49,000 signatures. Congratulations to Nadia. She is another great example showing that we all can make a positive difference in the world if we care2.

To read Nadia's story

To sign her petition

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TheAnimalRescueSite.com's daily click program needs you!

Every time you visit the TheAnimalRescueSite.com web site and click on the "click here to donate" button you help generate advertising revenues that are distributed to a number of fine animal rescue and rehabilitation organizations. All profits from their store likewise benefit the non-profit animal service groups.

Carole has been hearing from friends recently that The Animal Rescue Site has been having difficulty maintaining the visitation and "clicks" that fund their great work. She finds this difficult to understand because they make it so easy. She signed up for their daily reminder email.

Another way to remember would be to make their site your browser's home page. That way, when you open your browser, you would be reminded, "Did I click today?"

Anyway, Carole suggests you help them out. A click a day doesn't take much effort and it will really help the animal welfare cause.