The bridge that brings them forever home COMPANION THE Summer 2014 Almost Home Animal Shelter 5060 Lincoln Street Quinnesec, Michigan 49876 906-774-1005 [email protected]AlmostHomeAnimalShelterMi.com Hours of Operations Monday Closed Tuesday-Friday 1-5 PM Saturday & Sunday Noon-4 PM Major Holidays Closed Board of Directors Mike Werner President Betsy Hardacre Vice President Nancy Schaub Secretary Bill Hardacre Treasurer Gilbert Engel Patti Forgette Patti Peterson Nilar Shein Mary Stolze Executive Director Adrien Brzoznowski [email protected]Shelter Manager Diane Luczak [email protected]Volunteer Coordinator Joan Recla [email protected]Dickinson County Animal Control 906-774-6262 Almost Home Animal Shelter Newsletter CATastrophe The hard reality for cats Over the years, many people have visited the animal shelter and rarely noticed an empty cat cage. This is not solely due to a trend in adoption rates but more so the large number of unwanted owned/cared for cats. It is safe to say that in this lifetime, there will never be a shortage of cats need- ing to find forever homes. In a recent report, the ASPCA stated that of the approximately 7.6 million companion animals that enter animal shelters each year, 3.4 million are cats. In 2013, Almost Home Animal Shelter cared for 666 fe- lines, 66% of all animals. 228 felines were Dickinson County strays 410 were owner surrenders including out of country strays 28 kittens were born in-house to stray cats The main contributor to the shelter’s cat over population is owned cats coming in as strays that are never reclaimed. Almost Home staff can determine, with a degree of certainty, if a cat has been cared for based on its physical condition and behavior. These are not feral cats! Some even come in with collars on… Even though more than half of the cats are surrendered, only 6% (15 cats) of all stray cats were reclaimed by their owners last year. This is compared to the 83% of stray dogs redeemed in 2013. Almost Home is not alone, according to the Humane Society of the United States, 95-98% of all cats are never reclaimed by owners. There would be a noticeable improvement to the number of strays if pet owners would kept their cats indoors. As hu- mans, we have domesticated (taken away their natural in- stincts) felines and are now responsible to help them meet their needs. Until the day that Almost Home has all empty cat cages, we will continue to find them each their forever home!
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Over the years, many people have visited the animal shelter and rarely noticed an empty cat cage. This is not solely due to a trend in adoption rates but more so the large number of unwanted owned/cared for cats. It is safe to say that in this lifetime, there will never be a shortage of cats need-
ing to find forever homes.
In a recent report, the ASPCA stated that of the approximately 7.6 million companion animals that enter animal shelters each year, 3.4 million are cats. In 2013, Almost Home Animal Shelter cared for 666 fe-
lines, 66% of all animals.
228 felines were Dickinson County strays
410 were owner surrenders including out of country strays
28 kittens were born in-house to stray cats
The main contributor to the shelter’s cat over population is owned cats coming in as strays that are never reclaimed. Almost Home staff can determine, with a degree of certainty, if a cat has been cared for based on its physical condition and behavior.
These are not feral cats! Some even come in with collars on…
Even though more than half of the cats are surrendered, only 6% (15 cats) of all stray cats were reclaimed by their owners last year. This is compared to the 83% of stray dogs redeemed in 2013. Almost Home is not alone, according to the Humane
Society of the United States, 95-98% of all cats are never reclaimed by owners.
There would be a noticeable improvement to the number of strays if pet owners would kept their cats indoors. As hu-mans, we have domesticated (taken away their natural in-stincts) felines and are now responsible to help them meet their needs. Until the day that Almost Home has all empty cat cages, we will continue to find them each their forever
home!
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Almost Home Animal Shelter (AHAS) is a 501(c)(3) charitable not-for-profit organization under direct leadership of a Board of Di-rectors. The Companion is published 3 times a year. Comments and in-quiries should be addressed to Adrien Brzoznowski, Executive Director. Moving? Send your change of ad-dress or to be added to our mailing list to: Almost Home Animal Shelter Mailing List, 5060 Lincoln St., Quin-nesec, MI 49876 or email it to [email protected] subject newsletter mailing list.
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Over the coarse of the last two years, staff and volunteers have heard the facil-
ity be identified as “Oh, the building up on the hill by the light” along with
many others. So you can only image how happy we are to have signage. Our
main objective is the care of the animals and their adoptions into forever
homes so this project, along with others, where wait-listed.
Almost Home was able to fund this project without using any donations or
monies from general operations. Almost Home Animal Shelter was awarded a
$5,000 grant from Two Seven Oh, Inc. Last month, Xcell Graphix of Florence
designed and installed 3 signs on the grounds, 1 along the side of the building
and 1 on the main door entrance.
In addition, Almost Home has also adopted the
stretch of highway that runs from the light at the US
2/HWY 141 junc-
tion to the Wiscon-
sin border running
in front of our
building. Again, if
you have yet to
visit our new facil-
ity don’t hesitate to
stop by for a tour!
Signs Signs,
Everywhere a
Sign...
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NEW Event
Saturday, October 25
5-9 PM
Recreation Lanes-Antoine Room
Iron Mountain
Evening of food, drink, re-verse raffle, silent auction, door prizes, and FUN to support the work of Al-
most Home Animal Shel-ter.
Be on the lookout for de-tails including ticket sales on Facebook, via email,
newspaper and radio
SAVE THE DATE
A Cause for
Paws
A Caring Community
There are so many individuals and business, too many to mention but not unappreciated, that support the organization throughout the year. Recently, there were two fundraiser events that together raised more than $4,000 for Almost Home Animal Shelter. Time and time again, we are overwhelmed by the support of our com-munity.
Dr. John Nowicki and staff, Nowicki Chiropractic and Well-ness, held their 4th Annual Spring into Health with Our Al-most Home Animal Shelter event from May 5-16. During the two weeks, monetary and supply do-nations were collected. Almost Home received a truck full of supplies and $1,325 to support
our work for lost, abandoned and abused animals. Thank you!
It is wonderful to have business give back but something even greater is the youth of a community doing the same. In the sum-mer, youth come in with money they raised from lemonade stands and throughout the year others asked their birthday party guests to bring donated items for the animal shelter instead of a gift for them! During the end of the school year, elementary students from Norway Vulcan, East and North Iron Mountain joined forces to raise money for the shelter as part of Pennies for Pets. Nearly 700 students raised $2,5117.96! Thank you!
Again, we can not thank our caring community enough for the continued support through the years. We look forward to many more years of service and working with you along the way.
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2014 Volunteer
Welcome Introduction Schedule
Mondays at 9:30 AM held in the
Almost Home Conference Room
August 18
September 15
October 13
November 10
December 8
If you are unable to attend these dates or want to learn more about
our volunteer program, please contact Joan Recla, Volunteer Coor-
dinator, to schedule an appointment at almosthome-