PAWED’s discount Spay/Neuter coupon program offers $25 off for dogs and $10 off for cats, with a limit of two coupons per household. Surgeries are done at Animal Outreach—the only low cost spay/neuter clinic in the county. Stop by Animal Outreach located at 6101 Enterprise Drive, Diamond Springs or the El Dorado County Animal Shelter located at 511 Placerville Drive, Placerville Mon-Sat 9:30 am to 4:30 pm (closed for lunch) for your coupons today!
The next General Membership meeting will be held on Monday May 7th at 7pm at the El Dorado Hill Fire Department Station 85′s main conference room. Address is 1050 Wilson Blvd. El Dorado Hills (cross street is El Dorado Hills Blvd.).
A photo presentation by Dr. Lisa Couper, DVM, will highlight African wildlife from her trip in 2012.
Updates on the Western Slope Animal Shelter, upcoming events and much more will be briefly discussed too. Refreshments and a small FREE raffle will be included for all attendees!
Animal Outreach needs your vote every day beginning April 5th to April 16th to qualify for a chance to win $100,000! Share this with everyone you know and ask them to vote, they do not have to live in El Dorado County to vote for Animal Outreach.
Go to www.votetosavelives.org and choose Animal Outreach, don’t forget to vote each and every day. Countless lives depend on it.
Check out their video by clicking here http://www.youtube.com/embed/5-uYF10OOCo
Please join us at the Cherished Pets Expo and Blessing on Saturday April 14th, from 10 am to 3 pm at the Spiritual Center for Positive Living, 3294 Royal Drive in Cameron Park. There will be pet blessings, booths, food for you and your pet, pet adoptions and so much more. A portion of the proceeds will benefit PAWED. Hope to see you there!
PAWED Volunteer Coordinator, Kelly Adams has been very busy training new PAWED shelter volunteers. There are now nearly 100 volunteers who assist at the shelter, since PAWED assumed responsibility for the shelter’s volunteer program in September 2011. Each volunteer is required to attend a 3 hour PAWED
training session, which includes a demonstration of dog and cat handling by Kerry McBride and Tracey Lindberg. Then, on their first day of volunteering at the shelter, they are assisted by either Kelly or Volunteer Training Assistants, Carol Mayes or Kat Arrington, and policies and procedures are reinforced and questions answered as they take dogs out for exercise and socialize with the cats.
Recently, PAWED also added and is in the process
of conducting meetings with groups of trained volunteers and EDCAS Chief, Henry Brezezinski and at least one shelter staff person. These meetings are intended to reinforce and support the important positive working relationship at the shelter between staff and volunteers. PAWED thanks the many dedicated trained PAWED shelter volunteers who give their valuable time and compassion to helping the shelter’s animals every day.
The New Shelter site alternatives A and B have been identified. The location of the two alternate sites alluded to at last week’s Board of Supervisors meeting were made public on Friday, as an item on the Board’s consent calendar. It directs staff to begin negotiations with the property owners of the two alternate sites: 1) 4130 Product Drive, Shingle Springs and 2) 6425 Capital Avenue in Diamond Springs .
PAWED representatives have visited both locations and have specific
questions and concerns about each site. We will continue to advocate for a permanent animal shelter that meets the “guiding principles” that PAWED has consistently promoted since 2005. PAWED will continue to update its website with briefs on new developments as soon as possible. For more detailed updates, please visit the Shelter Coalition website www.newshelternow.org. Thank you.
The emotional roller coaster ride that is the New West Slope Animal Shelter project continued today. The El Dorado County Board of Supervisors voted to give direction to staff to explore two alternate sites for the new animal shelter. This comes after 7 years and millions spent on a plan to build the new shelter on the 10 acres site at the El Dorado Y. Unfortunately, current county estimates indicate that the project at the Y would cost $2-4 million over what is budgeted for the project.
After some animated and one rather high decibel presentations by various PAWED and community members the BOS decided 4 to 1 to gather further data on the existing site at the “Y” and on two alternate sites in the community labeled “A” and “B”. Information on the sites was limited but would involve retrofits to existing buildings. From the public input it was clear that a large amount of additional information and cost estimation is needed to adequately compare the options. Please check back here for updates and for more details on the projects see the Shelter Coalition website at
www.newshelternow.org.
Check out our Winter/Spring newsletter and see for yourself the brand new look. A great adoption story leads off the pack of quality articles including winter pet tips, how to prevent cat poisonings, a passion for animals, PAWED’s spay/neuter coupon program , Placerville businesses helping homeless pets and a closer look at a PAWED volunteer.
You will also find a review of PAWEDs most recent events, Yappy Holidays and the Tail Waggin’ Tribute. Click http://pawedpets.org/wp/wp-content/uploads/PAWED-Prints_WinSpr2012.pdf to see the full color online version.
Barks n Meows to the 13 new volunteers who joined PAWED on Sunday March 4th while attending a volunteer training at the El Dorado County Animal Shelter.
The new training program continues to be a huge success! Training topics are comprehensive focusing on shelter procedures, animal handling and safety.
We had a great Volunteer Training yesterday and 17 new volunteers attended–our largest group yet in one session! The group was split in two for training purposes. PAWED President Charlene Welty and Kelly Adams did a Power Point presentation for the volunteers while Board members Kerry McBride and Tracey Lindberg took the other half for dog handling training. An hour later and they switched groups so everyone attended both training sessions.
Charlene and Kelly use the brand new PAWED projector and screen system and it was a techno show! The PAWED DVD opened the training then they switched to the PowerPoint presentation, which Charlene developed for the General Volunteer training, based on PAWEDs Training Manual. And the final piece of the training, and possibly the most confusing to volunteers, was to go over the Google Calendar system for volunteer scheduling–projected onto the screen and demonstrated with the laptop connecting to the internet via a Wi Fi connection Kelly provided with her laptop. Boy, did that make things a lot easier and it looked very professional. All in all an excellent day with great new volunteers!
