Oregon Humane Society's End Petlessness Campaign

Staff and volunteers from the Oregon Humane Society are providing hands-on help to animals left homeless in the wake of Hurricane Sandy.

Three OHS staff members have just finished a eight-day assignment at a massive emergency animal shelter in Brooklyn, with a second group of three volunteers scheduled to depart Dec. 17.

"We are truly grateful to have such a wonderful group of responders from the Oregon Humane Society work with us on this response,"said the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, which organized the shelter.

Animal disaster experts from around the country are helping to care for pets in a massive warehouse in Brooklyn that was transformed into a pet shelter. Many of the animals are frightened of people and require skilled handlers to provide food, exercise and basic medical care.

The first OHS group that departed for New York included OHS staff members Linda Fielder, Emily Davidsohn and Wendy Reimer, all members of the OHS Investigations team. The volunteers who will be leaving on Dec. 17th include Ulli Neitch, John Thoeni and Karin Maczko. All three are members of the OHS Technical Animal Rescue Team.

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We are happy to share with you that the Oregon Humane Society's Animal Medical Learning Center (AMLC) just celebrated its five year anniversary. With that, the AMLC recently accomplished the 50,000th surgery.

The medical center provides state-of-the-art veterinary care for thousands of shelter animals each year. In a unique partnership with Oregon State University (OSU), the center also serves as a teaching hospital for the next generation of veterinarians.

In addition, the AMLC play a vital role for the Spay and Save program.  “Spay & Save” is a Portland metro area-wide program that aims to assist families on public assistance and their owned, stray or feral cats by offering spay & neuter surgeries for as low as $10 (other options available for low income families). The Spay & Save program aims to reduce the number of cats and kittens that are coming into our shelters every year—23,574 in 2010 alone. Based on the success of initiatives in other cities around the country, we believe that we can decrease cat shelter intake by 30% over a 5 year period by spaying and neutering an additional 10,000 cats and kittens every year.

OHS is not affiliated with any other local or national organization and receives no tax dollars; our work is made possible only by the generosity of people like yourself.

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