Your news & updates from
Animal Care Sanctuary
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We're halfway through 2021! |
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Greetings ACS Family,
I hope you and your family are having a great summer! Here we are in August and things are as busier than ever at the sanctuary. I hope you and your family are having a great summer!
At the heart of our mission is rescue and adoption. Rescue is changing and we are embracing this change. We are finding more and more that rescue takes a village and that often means helping over- crowded, under-resourced shelters. Sometimes rescue takes us across the country and sometimes, in the case of our dogs from Korea, across the world.
This month we had the amazing opportunity to partner with the Bissell Pet Foundation to assure dogs from an over-crowded shelter in Texas find homes. I, along with our Animal Services Director, drove to a private airport in Morristown New Jersey to meet a plane full of dogs flown by the Bissell Foundation. We drove them back to the sanctuary where they received much needed baths, medical exams and love, and are finding homes as I write this. Bissell has been a partner to Animal Care Sanctuary as a grantor and now we are working hand and paw with them to assure all animals find loving homes.
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We also have begun a new collaboration with Best Friends Animal Foundation to partner with a rescue in Georgia and bring dogs and cats in great need to ACS to find sanctuary while they wait to find their forever home. This partnership will be ongoing throughout the year.
Lastly, we want to thank the Greater Binghamton Chamber of Commerce for choosing Animal Care Sanctuary as their charity partner for the 10th Annual Bridge Run Race. This year the race takes place on Sunday, September 26. There is a marathon, half marathon and even a 5k run. We are looking forward to a great day at the race!
Love, compassion, kindness to animals everywhere -- that is the power of Sanctuary. Thank you for partnering with Animal Care Sanctuary and allowing us to do the work we love. We are so very grateful to have you as part family.
Terri McKendry - Executive Director
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YEAR-TO-DATE
STATISTICS
As of July 31, 2021:
Adoptions: 552
Fosters: 90
Fosters-to-Adoptions: 31
Spay/neuter surgeries: 2,352
Wellness appointments: 1,417
Total Clinic Visits: 3,769
Clinic Transports: 373
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While Animal Care Sanctuary is committed to helping local animals in need of new homes, we're also always on the lookout to help elsewhere, especially for emergencies.
That call rose up once again when a shelter in El Paso, Texas, flooded and left over 150 animals in desperate need of placement. Immediately, the BISSELL Pet Foundation set into motion a monumental, nationwide effort to find placement for these cats and dogs.
ACS staff met BISSELL representatives and members of numerous shelters at the Morristown, NJ, airport after the animals were flown to the facility, and we took home nine dogs and four cats as part of the effort.
Since arriving at ACS, ALL of these animals have found new homes.
Soon after, another call arose from Best Friends Animal Society for 10 dogs that needed placement from southern Georgia. Two ACS team members quickly loaded up the van traveled all the way to North Carolina -- roughly the halfway point -- to meet and pick up the doggos and bring them back.
It's exhausting work, but many of these animals completely ran out of other options. They're lives were in jeopardy through no fault of their own, and our dedicated team would do it agin
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A Family Roadtrip to ACS! |
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Wow! Thank you to Leonette Fedel and her family, Anna and Frank, for making this wonderful video and sharing it with us!
At the Animal Care Sanctuary we were delighted to host a visit for the Fedel family to get a first hand look at the work we do, and to checkout our Pre-Veterinary/Animal Science/STEM program for Anna.
The Fedels drove 10 hours from Michigan. After touring the Sanctuary they also helped walking dogs, socializing with the cats, helped with laundry, and got to spend time in the clinic and meet our current Pre-Veterinary Interns.
They were also gracious & thoughtful in bringing a little bit of Michigan with them - with famous Michigan-made goodies for the staff and donated to support the work we do in the rescue & care of homeless animals.
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REMINDER: ACS named as benefitting charity of the Binghamton Bridge Run! |
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WE'RE MAKING A RUN FOR IT!! Well not really, but you can!
We are beyond THRILLED to announce that Animal Care Sanctuary is the recipient charity of the 11th Annual Bridge Run Half Marathon & 5K in Binghamton, NY!
The Greater Binghamton Bridge Run is the largest premier running event in the Greater Binghamton area which includes a USATF certified half marathon and 5K races. The scenic, mostly flat course crosses over four bridges and under one where you will have beautiful views of the Susquehanna and Chenango Rivers. With only 100 feet of elevation gain and a socially distanced race, you don’t want to miss this IN-PERSON, half marathon & 5K running race this fall in Upstate New York.
We are so honored to be part of this amazing event, which takes place at NYSEG Stadium, home of the Binghamton Rumble Ponies!!
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Sophia Lew - University of Minnesota - Twin Cities |
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Maslin Slade - Miami University |
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Sophia Lew from University of Minnesota Twin Cities and Maslin Slade from Miami University are on the home stretch of their 12-week internship at Animal Care Sanctauary!
They recently finished their 5-week rotation in the clinic, and also finished their cattery rotation. They loved spending time with the felines!
Sophia and Maslin both enjoyed and learned a lot from working in the clinic, including how to draw blood, administer vaccinations, use clinic equipment and more!
They have also been active on our Instagram page (@animalcaresanctuarypa) hosting an account takeover for a day during their clinic rotation, and have a TikTok account for their foster dog, KC Sunshine!
It's been so great having them here, and we can't wait to give you all a complete update next month!
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SANCTUARY STORIES
Pixie Powder
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NOTE: This Sanctuary Story was written by our interns, Sophia Lew from University of Minnesota - Twin Cities and Maslin Slade from Miami University.
Pixie started her journey down in Philadelphia in a shelter where she was unfortunately put on their list of animals to be put down. ACS did not want this to be her future, so she was pulled and brought up to our cattery. Pixie came in extremely ill, malnourished, and with a feisty attitude. The care team got her feeling much better, but unfortunately, Pixie’s attitude remained and she would not let anyone pet her for months.
Fortunately, the cattery staff has an amazing behavior modification program for cats and started working to get Pixie comfortable with people. It started by associating the presence of people with good things (aka treats!) which progressed into her rubbing up to the staff for pets! Pixie was making great progress but still needed some love to get her to be really comfortable.
That is when Pixie’s lovely adopter came around! The adopter wanted a cat that needed some extra love and one that she could work with. When the adopter came up to Pixie, she rubbed against her cage for the adopter to pet her, which never happened before! Pixie chose her person! Both Pixie and her adopter knew that they were meant to be with each other.
Pixie needed a little time to come around, but luckily our great cattery staff took a chance on her and she found her forever home. Thank you to the people willing to adopt an animal that may not be all the way there. Giving these animals a loving home where they can fully blossom is all that it takes sometimes to see the real them!
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Shiloh was an extra special lady whom we expected to be at Animal Care Sanctuary much longer than she was.
Shiloh is a seven-year-old beagle who arrived at ACS as one of the oldest South Korean dog meat farm rescues we've ever had. But since she was seven years old, Shiloh was likely used for breeding purposes at the farm.
Most of the rescues we receive from meat farms are typically only a few years old, which means that Shiloh witnessed and experienced the horrors of the meat farm for much, much longer than most. Her traumatic past was obvious in her body language; she was terrified of humans throughout her whole stay at the shelter.
In an effort to get her to open up and realize her lifelong nightmare was over, ACS's vet tech Jill fostered Shiloh. Together with her own pack of doggos, Jill has successfully fostered and rehabilitated many challenged canines, including a number of meat farm rescues. But even after a couple weeks with Jill, Shiloh remained just as reserved and scared as ever.
So our behavior assessment team decided to try something new. They let Shiloh hang out and play with other meat farm rescues. These doggos were closer in size to Shiloh, and better matched her energy levels. Typically, the team tries to keep the meat farm rescues from socializing together too much to avoid the dogs "doubling down" on negative energy and reinforcing scared behavior.
The change worked for Shiloh. She became friendlier and more sociable to her fellow meat farm rescues. While she was still scared of people, she appeared to be happy for the first time, perhaps in her whole life.
Despite these improvements, it was clear that Shiloh would likely never be happy in a typical family home, and she might never open up to people. She would require a special, patient home that understood her challenges. We prepared for a long, difficult search.
However, two months after Shiloh arrived at ACS, a kind woman named Dawn walked in and, upon setting her eyes on Shiloh, instantly knew she had to have her. We discussed with her Shiloh's special needs, and Dawn was fully prepared to let Shiloh live her life peacefully and quietly at her home, regardless of whether Shiloh would ever come to trust her.
This kind of selfless love is what helps keep Animal Care Sanctuary and our crew going. Adopters like Dawn are the epitome of compassion, and we cannot thank her enough for opening her home to wonderful Shiloh.
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Visit the ACS Online Shop! |
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Welcome summer in colorful style! We have special edition Dean Russo shirts available in all kinds of sizes, styles and colors.
Deck out your pet in ACS gear, too! Check out our leashes and collars, as well as all the other items we have available on our online shop!
Each purchase goes back to the care of the homeless animals here at Animal Care Sanctuary and finding them happy, loving, forever homes!
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SUPPORT ACS BY DONATING VIA OUR AMAZON WISHLISTS!
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As a Monthly Donor, you are providing a gift that can be used for animals in their hour of need. Your donation will help ACS rescue pets from overcrowded kill shelters, inhumane conditions, hoarding situations and puppy mills. Your support will help us make more future animal rescues possible, as well as give us the resources we need to provide those animals with the attention and medical care that they need to be adopted. Monthly donations provide security to assure that ACS always has the resources needed to provide for animals at a moment’s notice. To become a monthly donor, please sign up online at www.animalcaresanctuary.org or contact Terry McKendry at tmckendry@animalcaresanctaury.org.
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