SUNDAY 9/15/13 from 12-4
HOFFMAN PARK in RIVER FALLS

Pets are welcome!

This event is to help increase our community’s awareness and support of our St. Croix Valley pet related non-profit organizations who help our neighbors and pets in need.

This event is the joint efforts the 5 organizations in the above menu.

These organizations work hard to provide our St. Croix Valley communities with:
* Spay/Neuter Assistance to provide reduced fees for the altering of family pets in need of help.
* Pet Food Assistance for families struggling to feed their beloved furry friends. *Financial Assistance for basic needs to keep a pet in its home rather than be surrendered or euthanized due to financial limitations. * Foster Home Programs to provide a temporary, safe and loving environment for homeless and unwanted pets * Adoption Programs where unwanted pets find permanent homes after receiving medical care, spay/neuter, vaccinations, and lots of love. * Pet Finding Network to find and report lost pets in our St. Croix Valley communities. * In the future to build a Humane Society facility on already purchased land in St Croix county.

Activities are listed on the left. Click & view.

Friday, July 5, 2013

LOST PET, FOUND PET MICROCHIPPING

Cocker Spaniel Resources will be micro-chipping.  You can have your pet implanted with a microchip and join the national registry at the event.  Registered microchips give lost pets the best chance of returning home.
Mickey B is looking for a loving home.
The statistics indicate that missing pets rarely make it home:
• The American Humane Association estimates over 10 million dogs and cats are lost or stolen in the U.S. every year.
• One in three pets will become lost at some point during their life.
A study published in the Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association, including 53 animal shelters across the U.S., confirmed the high rate of return of microchipped dogs and cats to their families, and the importance of microchip registration. From the study:
• Only about 22 percent of lost dogs that entered the animal shelters were reunited with their families. However, the return-to-owner rate for microchipped dogs was over 52 percent (a 238 percent increase).
• Less than 2 percent of lost cats that entered the animal shelters were reunited with their families. The return-to-owner rate for microchipped cats was dramatically higher at over 38 percent (more than 2000 percent better).
• Only 58 percent of the microchipped animals’ microchips had been registered in a database with their pet parent’s contact information.

Every veterinarian in St Croix county has a scanner to read a microchip.