Waterville animal shelter operating to address ill animals, adjust strategies following diseases

The entrance to the Humane Modern society Waterville Spot shelter at 100 Webb Highway in Waterville. Loaded Abrahamson/Early morning Sentinel file

WATERVILLE — The Humane Culture Waterville Area has lower its doggy and cat populace of 200 by practically fifty percent as it proceeds to deal with 36 animals for health problems due to the fact the shelter closed late very last month simply because of the outbreaks.

A staff of veterinarians confirmed some cats ended up suffering from ringworm and upper respiratory bacterial infections and some canine experienced kennel cough. The animals were being quarantined and officers labored with the Maine Federation of Humane Societies and the Rescue League of Increased Portland to go several animals to other websites, according to Malena Gatti, a member of the Humane Society’s board of directors.

“We have 129 animals in property,” Gatti explained Monday. “Of those, we have 21 cats getting addressed

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Athens-Clarke animal shelter on the lookout for volunteers to foster puppies, cats
Kristall Barber, animal services director for Athens-Clarke County, cuddles with Tsunami, who had contracted parvovirus resulting in a shelter quarantine, on Friday, Aug. 6, 2021. Tsunami has fully recovered and is available for adoption.

Athens’ animal shelter is overflowing with cats and pet dogs through a seasonal spike that has swelled the facility to around capability.

Athens-Clarke County Animal Services operates a shelter for surrendered and stray animals, primarily cats and canine. The shelter has 53 cages for pet dogs and as of Friday, they experienced 55 puppies, which includes a mom and eight puppies, who were not in a cage but remaining retained in a independent home.

The shelter also has approximately 200 cats and kittens accessible for adoption, 90 of which are in foster households, and the remaining 100 at the facility on Buddy Christian Way. There are around 15 canines in foster care as effectively.

Spring and summer time usually see a spike in animals at the shelter, Kristall Barber, ACC animal products and services director, defined. Also, far more kittens and puppies tend to be born then.

Additional:Athens commissioners

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Animal shelter encourages spaying and neutering cats just after huge quantity of euthanizations

Cat in shelter, Courtesy: Blackfoot Animal Shelter and Rescue Facebook site

BLACKFOOT — A neighborhood animal shelter is pleading for people to spay and neuter their animals. In July, the shelter obtained far more than 100 cats, and 81 of them experienced to be euthanized.

“For this time of year, regrettably, it is regular. Very last 12 months (through July) we experienced 14 cats euthanized,” claimed Amanda Cevering, director for Blackfoot Animal Shelter and Rescue. She discussed the number of euthanized cats fluctuates appreciably every month.

She states in the calendar year 2020, a complete of 311 cats were being euthanized.

According to data posted on the animal shelters Fb website page, Cevering suggests inside of the month of July, there had been 106 cats brought in from Bingham County, the town of Blackfoot and Shelley.

Eighty-a person cats were being euthanized, 13 cats ended up adopted and two cats

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Shelter caring for 20 horses, other animals

SPRINGVALE, Maine — Twenty horses seized from a farm on Deering Neighborhood Highway are now getting the treatment they need to have, according to the point out.

Some ended up in the vicinity of loss of life, according to the Maine Condition Modern society for the Safety of Animals (MSSPA), the Windham-based nonprofit now caring for the equines.

Most of the horses had lice. One particular of them desired to be hospitalized at the New England Equine Clinical and Surgical Heart in Dover, New Hampshire. All of them experienced lacked the home veterinary focus. No care for their hooves. No vaccines. No dental work.

“The operator failed to fulfill their basic needs,” MSSPA CEO Meris Bickford said Tuesday.

Horses and animals recently seized in Sanford, Maine, were surrendered to the Maine Department of Agriculture, Conservation and Forestry's Animal Welfare Program.

The Maine Department of Agriculture, Conservation and Forestry seized the horses on July 14 and rescued other animals, as well as birds and lizards.

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Currituck Animal Shelter euthanizes 52 cats and kittens advocates cry foul

The Currituck Animal Shelter staff euthanized a whole of 52 cats and kittens on July 8, declaring each and every cat was struggling from significant symptoms of a really contagious virus.

Currituck officers set out a assertion about the incident Thursday following the county’s SPCA posted a scathing narrative on Facebook about the mass euthanization, declaring protocol was not adopted.

“Due to a good offer of misinformation circulating on social media, which includes personalized assaults on county workforce, Currituck County is giving accurate information concerning this scenario,” the assertion read.

An define on how this situation unfolded, according to the county:

  • In late June, the Animal Shelter sent cats to the Blessed Kitten Cat Rescue in Virginia Seashore and the Virginia Beach front SPCA for guidance in receiving the animals adopted.
  • The Lucky Kitten Cat Rescue contacted Currituck County with data that 1 of these cats was diagnosed and
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