VVSA CHARITY GOLF TOURNAMENT benefits VVSA - Hosted by The Summit Lodge, Killington, VT - FRI., JUNE 14, GREEN MOUNTAIN NATIONAL GOLF COURSE. PLEASE SEE DETAILS OF OUR SILENT AUCTION ITEMS AND GIFT CERTIFICATES AT: SILENT AUCTION Pet Meds supports the Vermont Volunteer Services for Animal Humane Society. Thank you Pet Meds! ***************************** Welcome to VVSA, the Vermont Volunteer Services for Animals Humane Society. We strive to improve all aspects of the lives of animals and encourage harmonious relationships between them and their human companions. Incorporated in 1986, VVSA Humane Society is a 501 (c)(3) organization. We are adult and children volunteers who care deeply about animals and our community. Since our inception in 1986 as a non profit humane society, VVSA has been a forerunner in animal welfare and protection in Vermont. VVSA receives no federal, state, nor municipal funding, but relies on its own fundraising efforts, donations and volunteers. Our work encompasses humane legislation, senior citizens' companion animal programs, feral cat rehabilitation, wildlife assistance, animal adoption and the first spay neuter assistance program in the state of Vermont. Created in 2006, VSNIP, the Vermont Spay Neuter Incentive Program, enables income eligible people that provide care for cats and dogs to receive financial assistance in which to have these animals neutered and vaccinated. Through VSNIP, we helped over 18,000 people in Vermont with costs of spaying and neutering. VVSA is dedicated to working on behalf of animal welfare and humane education. Our involvement in combating animal abuse has earned us a reputation as a reliable resource in animal law enforcement, crisis intervention, and abuse prevention. We follow up on all leads regarding cruelty cases, child endangerment involving animals, and other situations that may require our intervention with the animals. The cornerstone of our efforts is to educate and promote the importance of spay & neuter, thus creating an awareness in Vermont about cat and dog overpopulation. These companion animals enhance the quality of our lives, and often their company provides our senior citizens with a quality of life that would otherwise be non-existent. VVSA has over 30 years of work in the field of Animal Welfare. Our goal has been to build cooperation through collaborative efforts of diverse resources to help people in need. Working with several organizations around the state, VVSA has built a broad base of member and community support which has grown to include veterinarians, wildlife rehabilitators, educators and law enforcement, among others. We believe in diversity and cultural competency and engaging a broad spectrum of people in our work. We believe that children are the future of humane awareness and that education and hands-on experience will provide the opportunity to learn responsibility, commitment, and a sense of caring for sentient creatures, as well as the environment and a sense of community service. TOGETHER WE TRULY DO MAKE A DIFFERENCE! ************************************************************** VVSA Humane Society thanks the Upper Valley Humane Society for their donation of animal food, that, in turn, enables us to help those in need with food for their companion animals. We are deeply grateful! ************************************************************** IMPORTANT INFORMATION ON FINDING LOST ANIMALS: http://www.petrescue.com/petlibrary/pet-rescue/how-to-find-a-lost-cat-or-dog/ ************************************************************** We are doing a Charity Golf Tournament on June 14 as one of our big yearly fundraising events (and are looking for volunteers to help with finding sponsors and items for our Silent Auction). See details for tournament here: Green Mountain National Golf Tournament *************************************************************** Some of our recent efforts to assist animals in need include: We helped to find a temporary placement for the dog of an elderly woman who fell and was hospitalized. We thank the Lucy Mackenzie Humane Society for boarding her dog at this time. We are currently seeking temporary placement for a 9 year old Shepard Cross, neutered male, very overweight whose "Mom" needs to relocate to a new apartment, until which time he will need fostering. Currently he is being boarded at Eastwood Animal Clinic in Rutland. The problem is that he is going "cage crazy " and refusing to go into his cell block. We expect that he might need a babysitter for up to three weeks. We are looking into a cruelty situation in Braintree, VT, involving calves and dogs. We may need placement for them as well. We are also involved in cruelty investigations in Poultney and Barre, VT. VVSA held a low-cost Rabies Clinic at Bridgewater Mill Marketplace on Saturday, March 16 from 1:00 to 2:30 pm. We are involved in the cleanup and sanitizing of the home of an elderly woman in Perkinsville who has several cats and a dog, and needs the help in order to stay in her home. (If you are interested in helping on Tuesday, March 19: tearing out carpeting, cleaning floors, cleaning up yard, please call VVSA at 802-672-5302. We could use some extra hands, energy and muscle!!) A request for help with medical care for a dog whose elderly owner could not afford it. Senior Solutions of Vermont brought the situation to our attention, and helped contribute some funds to this effort. Kimberly, one of our wonderful volunteers, drove the dog to the appointment. Dr. Paul Mangini of Woodstock Animal Care, and his awesome staff, graciously assisted with necessary treatment of the dog. We appreciate our longstanding relationship with Dr. Mangini and his staff, and their assistance to animals in need. We arranged for critical medical care for a dog in Rutland, who needed immediate attention, and whose owner didn’t have the funds. VVSA made repeated trips to Albany, Vermont, to investigate a situation involving two dogs, a donkey, and several poultry. The dogs were underweight and chained on heavy chains to wooden boxes, in the dead of winter. The shelter lacked flooring, and provided absolutely no protection from the elements. We would like to thank constable Paul Martin for his outstanding work that helped correct this situation. For more details, please go to our Articles page at: Inadequate Shelter: Animals in Albany VT We had a call from a Rutland woman, who, after 12 years, has to find a new apartment and is having difficulty finding a landlord to accept two dogs. While her search continues to keep her entire family intact, VVSA negotiated and secured boarding with Eastwood Animal Clinic for up to a month so that the two dogs can stay together, safely and securely, in the interim. We will help pay for that expense. We had a call from a family in Pomfret, to relocate a skunk, one of many to come(!), that was causing problems. One of our volunteers removed the skunk, using our humane trap, and released it at the VVSA Animal Sanctuary in Woodstock. We answered a plea for help to a woman whose cat was in need of flea and worm medication, by providing these essential items. We regularly stock the Woodstock Community Foodshelf with animal food and supplies, as well as providing these items to people when they call for help. We took in two kittens from Bethel that had been abandoned four months ago, by a family that moved away and left them behind in the cold, and we have worked to socialize them for adoption. We coordinated and paid for the spay, neuter and vaccination for two six month old cats whose care provider was financially unable to cover these costs. A month ago, we paid $400 for a dog who was in need of immediate medical attention for a twisted stomach. The dog was in severe pain in the middle of the night, and VVSA responded to the owner’s desperate plea for help. We lent our dog trap to a man whose recently adopted, and very frightened rescue dog, ran from the safety of his home when a visitor came to the home. The dog slept for three nights in the cold, first snatching the mans clothes from the trap (which he had left to attract the dog), then food from the entrance, and finally on the third night, the dog felt safe enough to go into the far end of the trap for a full meal. Needless to say, it was a very happy ending. This was the second request in one month for our trap and both were successful! We were contacted by a concerned group in Amsden, VT, with regard to several horses and assorted livestock who were without adequate shelter. We are currently in the process of investigating this situation. In our education and outreach, our weekly television show on all Vermont Public Access channels (and viewable on the web at VVSAHS.ORG)), For The Animals covers a wide range of topics: from healthy vegetarian cooking, featuring stories of Animal Rescue Groups, Veterinarian advice, alternative animal healing, and pending animal legislation, etc. We have done shows on some very important issues in Vermont. One of our shows brought to light the inhumane treatment of cattle in Bakersfield, VT, and our attempts to get the law officers to bring charges. Our outreach to fully involve all the players in this, in order to help facilitate protective action on behalf of the animals included interviews with Senator Harold Giard, former co-chair of the VT Senate Agriculture Committee, VT, the State Veterinarian, the Agency of Agriculture, and Dr. Lynn Murrell, Kedron Valley Veterinary Clinic, who has been there throughout the years in several cruelty cases as our expert witness. These are just a sampling of the working programs that we continue to be involved in for the benefit of animals across our state, and we thank you for helping us to continue this important work. For info on our efforts to assist animals in need, please go to our "Programs" page at: Programs to Assist Animals in Need For a brief introduction to our Public Access TV show,For The Animals, please click below: Introducing For the Animals |
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