Stafford SPCA - February Animal Updates !

Greetings!

All the snow over the past 60 days has certainly been tough for everyone, including the SPCA!! If we never, ever, see snow again, it will be too soon.

Thankfully, there was one upside to all that snow. It was soooo deep, that Abbey, the Welsh Corgi, lost in the Wayside area of Stafford, got snowed in. It became too deep for her to move about and she got stuck under a low deck. Her mother, Cynthia Diaz, was a searching dynamo. After days of working with the SPCA, recruiting volunteers, posting flyers, knocking on doors, setting traps with Animal Control & searching, Abbey was finaly reunited with her family. Tired, hungry, scared, but suprisingly unharmed, she is back in her mothers arms. Special thanks to DogsfindingDogs.com for search & behaouiral advice, and to FindToto.com for the computer automated phone blast to the entire residential area where we tracked Abbey to. Abbey - Corgi

On the Adoption Front: Thanks to the help of our supporters (and Petfinder.com), we were able to find permanent homes for Caesar, Jayla, Polar, and Ella! Polar (our first ever Dogo, rescued & fostered by Drue, is pictured below) along with the rest of the furry crew.

Polar Bear after a bath !

Caesar & Mommy

Jayla with new family

Ella & her new brother

We have continued our efforts in placing coin donation boxes throughout the community, and have been actively working with local businesses for fundraising ideas and events! We will be posting our Spring & Summer calander of events shortly.

Last weekend, we reached out to all of you, for immediate help for a local family whose house caught fire. Their home was lost, family was hurt, and they needed temporary housing for their 11 dogs. In what I can only describe as an immediate & impressive outpouring of support, YOU, our SPCA community, stepped up. In one day, we received over 40 emails offering to take these dogs in. Thanks to Colonial K9 and to all of you, we were able to get all of the dogs placed temporarily, in warm, safe, loving homes.

Special Thanks go to Shane & Melissa Cory for taking in the Great Dane puppy Charlotte from the fire. This beautiful pup was not only displaced by the fire, but she is also profoundly deaf. The Cory family (and their 2 massive Neufies) have been patiently working with Charlotte, and taking her to the Vet to help in her recovery. All of the dogs were trajically affected by the fire. One died of heart failure, and another from a stroke. The stress that the poor animals suffered in the fire is enormous. Charlotte was taken to the Vet because her eyes were bleeding. One side of her face lost whiskers, eye lashes & some fur. While the skin didn't blister or char, the eyelids & membranes all suffered trauma. The Cory family stepped up to cover the initial costs, but the SPCA is asking for donations to help reimburse the Cory family for their generosity, and help pay for Charlotte's future care as she recovers.

Charlotte & Co.

The Stafford SPCA rescue & emergency response efforts like these, can truly make an impact in the community. In order for us to continue to help treat these animals, we will also continue to ask for donations to help cover the costs of veterinary & emergency care. If you can help, even just a little bit, with Charlotte, Girly and our other animals in medical / vetrinary need, please send donations to: The Stafford SPCA, 140 Andrew Chapel Rd., Stafford, VA 22554 and include a note to apply the donation to the Angel Fund.

As always, we cannot thank everyone enough for their help and continued support! Without you, and without your generosity, we wouldn't exist.

We will be sending out another e-mail by this coming Monday with more Lost and Found animals in the area, and other animal updates! Please keep an eye out for this, so we can help reunite these poor babies with their families.

Little Girls, Animals & Valentines