The mission of Second Chance Pet Rescue and Adoption is the prevention of cruelty to animals by establishing and maintaining a sanctuary which provides a safe environment for homeless and abandoned pets; to provide foster care for homeless and abandoned pets; to assist in placing such animals in safe, caring, permanent homes; to be an active participant in education and the humane and caring treatment of animals; and to celebrate the bond with companion animals.
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PetsMatter newsletter
produced by AAHA to
foster communication
between pet owners
and their veterinarians. |
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By Pat
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It is always a race for space at the shelter. We race to partner up dogs, race to find the right homes for them and race to make sure there is an open pen available for next dog that comes through the door. Always racing.
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| All American Shelter Dogs
By Pat
Determining what breed to put down on the pink pick-up slip and post on the internet for the dogs that come into the shelter is not as easy as you would think.
The PetPoint™ software used in our shelter program and the shelter posting sites of Petfinder and Petportal all require a ‘breed’ be defined before closing out of the program. We pick from a pull-down list that each software company has in place and suggest, as we have, to include a category for ‘Basic Black Dog’, ‘Heinz 57,’ or ‘All American Shelter Dog’.
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Training Classes will be starting again, Feb 27th. Until the weather is better, training is held at Barns by Harrah’s on 99W. Barns by Harrah’s have been very gracious in letting us use their facilities to keep out of the rain so we can continue our Saturday classes. When they sold the barn we were meeting in they let us have class in the store. Quite an experience since the "barn cat" came to see what was going on and we got to see which dogs were not cat friendly! We encourage all to stop in and see what the Barns by Harrah’s store has to offer in pet and equine supplies along with clothing, fencing and barns.
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On Friday, January 29, 2010, our local newspaper, the Corning Observer, published an interesting, in-depth article about the flooding that occurs here at the shelter.
Read the full story: www.corning-observer.com/news/shelter-6865-eaglebarger-city.html
For more pictures and stories about the flooding see the articles below.
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 The McConnell Foundation granted Second Chance Pet Rescue $4500 for a storage/office building as part of it's commitment to help local organizations.
"Even though we use all the space in the shelter to our best ability, it is not ideal when trying to talk to people adopting a dog in the dog food prep area, only water source for water buckets and the only door to the outside area." says Debbie Eaglebarger, founder of Second Chance Pet Rescue and resident shelter care taker of the Corning Animal Shelter.
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THE FLOODING NOW - BIG MESS!!
The water has receded for now, thank goodness!! What a mess was left though. The debris piled up against the fence, washed dirt away from the bottom of the fence making the play yard un-usable until the holes can be fixed. And yucky mud in all the dog houses and pens. All in all, we were lucky not to have lost any fencing that is on the cement where most of the dogs are housed in better times. The pens in the play yard got the worst of it and maybe can be fixed. Maybe, maybe not.
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