PETS ALIVE TO CONDUCT MASS RESCUE FROM
THE EAST BATON ROUGE ANIMAL SHELTER
Third Mass Rescue this Year for the No-Kill Animal Sanctuary
On Wednesday, August 1, 2012 Pets Alive, one of the oldest and largest no-kill organizations in the country, will welcome a truck full of 85 puppies and dogs from the East Baton Rouge Animal Shelter at their Middletown, NY and Elmsford, NY locations. This rescue is being conducted in conjunction with the ASPCA who was contacted when the new Executive Director of the Baton Rouge facility realized they were in desperate need of help. Struggling with overcrowding, the shelter was faced with the possibility of mass euthanasia of these animals—many healthy and adoptable. Thanks to Pets Alive these deserving pups will get a second chance at life.
Pets Alive is no stranger to mass rescues, this will the third this year alone! In January 2012, the organization, along with the ASPCA, conducted a mass rescue from the JP Ranch in Arkansas, a no-kill shelter which was forced to close after its founder developed a terminal illness. At that time 135 dogs were rescued from the Ranch and high kill shelters in the surrounding area. 30 of these dogs tested positive for heartworm (a condition which leads to death if not treated); all were given the medical treatment necessary and are now thriving. For the first time many of these Arkansas shelters experienced empty kennels and did not euthanize a single dog that week.
During Mother’s Day weekend in May 2012 Pets Alive responded to news that a three week old orphaned kitten had been killed just 45 minutes after intake at a NYCACC facility. After seeing multiple sets of nursing mothers and their kittens scheduled to be killed, Pets Alive sprang into action, rescuing 108 kittens and cats (as well as a number of dogs). Deemed the Itty Bitty Kitty rescue, this intake has lead to nearly all of these deserving animals finding loving adopters offering forever homes.
Unfortunately, this Wednesday’s Baton Rouge mass rescue will not be the last that Pets Alive conducts; but luckily for these deserving animals, and the thousands saved each year, the organization will continue their no-kill mission ensuring a second chance at life and a loving home. To learn more about how you can adopt an animal, make a donation or volunteer at Pets Alive Sanctuary in Middletown visit www.petsalive.org or at Pets Alive Westchester visit www.petsalivewest.org.
On Wednesday, August 1, 2012 the East Baton Rouge rescue truck will be at Pets Alive Animal Sanctuary, 363 Derby Road, Middletown, NY 10940 by noon, and to Pets Alive Westchester, 100 Warehouse Lane South, Elmsford, NY 10523 from by 3.
363 Derby Road
Middletown, NY, 10940
(845) 386-9738
– Dog Team: Ext. 2
– Cat Team: Ext. 3
Daily: 10 am – 4 pm (EST)
Thank God for people like you. All i can say they are the lucky ones heading to Pets Alive
I contacted Companion Animal Alliance wanting to help and getting others involved in the community. The head of a large insurance company was also willing to help. The person I contacted let it sit there. Weeks went by and I contacted her again. And it sat there. I had to apologize to everyone involved that had offered to help. Many directors have resigned and I feel so bad for the animals. Thank you so much for helping.
This bought happy tears! God Bless!
Sofia and I will try to get to PAW by 4:30 at the latest. Hope we can be of help.
This rescue is in conjunction with the NYC ASPCA. They, and you, are rescuing 85 animals that were facing euthanasia. While I, too, believe that all lives are worth saving, why is the ASPCA watching and standing idly by while mass slaughter goes on at the NYC ACC daily??? We’re pulling dogs out of there listed on the euth list that comes out every night trying to find fosters and furever homes, while a few blocks away at the ASPCA they’re planning mass rescues from southern states to look like heroes??!! You pulled 108 cats and kittens (and a number of dogs) from NYC ACC back in May which is great, but how about an ongoing rescue while we’re trying to get things changed down there? There is definitely something very wrong with this picture. I am very happy for all these animals, but sick about all the ones that will never find homes because they were killed a few blocks away from the ASPCA just this morning, and every morning, as business as usual. 🙁
Ellen,
I can’t speak for the ASPCA or be their “voice”. You know by now that we have major issues with many of their policies and decisions. In this case we were reached out to in order to help try to save the lives of these dogs that would be euthanized… and to hope that moving these dogs out would then enable this shelter to go forward without killing.
The CACC seems to have NO desire to go forward without killing. That isn’t their mission it appears from all the things they seem to do to FIGHT going no kill and to stop killing animals. I will say that we pull from the CACC as often as we can but I’d also say that it seems that 90% of the dogs on their kill lists are senior dogs, behavior issue dogs, or pit bulls. They have some of the most WONDERFUL and loving and affectionate and WONDERFUL pit bulls (all the ones we take here from them are GREAT AND AWESOME DOGS) but we have over 200 pit bulls at Pets Alive already, and we have over 80 senior dogs and 40% of our population here are behavior issue dogs, so we can’t help with many of those that they are slaughtering every night over the bridge in NYC.
When we DO have an opening for ANY of those types, we always try to take from them and we don’t transport pits (except in very rare situations) or cats from out of state, we try to always go and save them from the CACC.
So I think your comments are better directed to the ASPCA because I have my own issues there and really can’t answer for them. I will tell you that the transport groups we work with at the ASPCA are AWESOME! They are really wonderful and hard working people. As you know the higher up ADMINS at the ASPCA are ones we have issues with as well as their policies. (Let’s hope Ed Sayres leaving will affect GOOD change there and that they get someone progressive in this position!)
Anyway, hope that helps answer your question.
I can only answer from “our” point of view on this and not their’s but it is a very good question to pose to them.
Ask, request, and beg them to do MORE to save the animals at the CACC.
But remember – if the admin at the CACC doesn’t CARE – it is difficult to MAKE them care. Believe me. We’ve been trying to MAKE them care for years. And they simply don’t give a DAMN about the lives in their hands.
Hi Kerry – yes, it’s definitely the admins. There are so many groups pulling the dogs to foster and re-home up here it’s incredible, but sadly doesn’t stop the vicious cycle. Adopt NY and SRAC will hopefully open eyes and effect much needed changes.
I’ve met a transporter from the Mayor’s Alliance that brought us dogs on New Year’s Eve in Albany. She was a great lady and said she didn’t mind traveling on NYE since it was to bring these animals to new fosters and furever homes. The little pittie that came out was emaciated, coughing and what we found out later was frostbite on the tips of her tail and ears.
My friend fostered her back to health and that beautiful little girl has a great home. The staff and volunteers down there sometimes make the only differences in those animals’ lives. Thanks again.