Special Thanks to all of our generous donors!
D'Arcy Motors of Joliet, Target Shorewood, Sam's Club Joliet, Sybaris Frankfort, Wine & Cheese by TCC, Hawthorne Race Course, Patterson Chiropractic, Enterprise Newspaper, Laureen Crotteau, Mary Stacel, Cathy Ballinger, Kathleen Cantwell, Nicole Warren, Michele Needham, Diane Peterson, Jen Charpata, Peggy Franz, Jerry Fogelman, Terrence Dempsey, Liz Gattone, Gale Dillon, Shana Hooper, Ted Hooper, Rhonda Sosnowski, Tonia Dietrick, Liz Holtkamp, Sarah Patterson,, Jennifer Dolman, Denise Demetral, Mindy Martinsen, Melanie Short, Marianne Foresman, Randi Amato, David J Kelly, Frank and Mindy Judd

 

HSP sends out a monthly newsletter to its volunteers and temporary care providers, and a once quarterly newsletter to the general public, donors and supporters of Help Save Pets.

While HSP does not want to become inundated with advertisements all over the newsletters, we do have two spaces available per issue of the Pet Gazette. Advertising will offset the cost of our newsletter subscription service and printing needs and allow us to better serve our rescue animals by providing medical care, food and shelter for our animals, awaiting adoption.

If you own a business or know someone who does and would like to advertise your services to pet lovers everywhere, please feel free to contact Rebecca Pearson to discuss options.

For a low monetary donation, companies can place an ad in the newsletter or create a paper flyer that we can stuff into our adoption packets that go home with families.  Not only will you help your business, but you'll be helping save pets too!

 

The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals was the first humane society in the United States founded in 1866 primarily to advocate for the welfare of horses and other working animals. In New York in the late 1800s, animal control consisted of dog catchers rounding up stray dogs, putting them in a cage and throwing them in the East River to drown. By the turn of the century, the ASPCA and in 1899 the Anti Cruelty Society in Chicago began partnering with animal control promoting more humane methods of controlling the dog population. These organizations have existed for over 100 years and have been national and international animal advocates, but in terms of rescue have been limited to large urban areas. In the early 20th century local governments outside large cities and in rural areas began to take responsibility for animal control, providing animal control officers and pounds in which to house stray animals and eventually added the responsibility of taking in any animals that were surrendered by their owners. However with humane societies mostly concentrated in larger urban areas, most, if not all of those animals were killed at taxpayer expense.  

In the 1950s and 1960s, canned cat food and cat litter were introduced, making pet cats more popular. Also at that time, awareness developed of the extent to which viable and desirable cats as well as dogs were routinely being destroyed. This gave rise to a push for responsible pet ownership and sterilization of companion pets as well as the rescue movement. What evolved were three levels of animal control and rescue:

Government run pounds relabeled themselves as shelters, which performed the same function as the pound had previously, but also actively worked to re-home animals in the local community and advocate for responsible pet ownership. This has reduced the kill rate, but it remains regrettably high today, especially in rural areas.

 

Breed specific rescues developed which rescue purebreds from the pound or directly from the owners who no longer wanted the animal. They primarily operate from networks of private homes and over the internet.

 

Not for profit privately run shelters emerged with the goal of moving desirable animals at government run pounds destined to be destroyed, to areas with an increased possibility for re-homing. Many of these are no-kill shelters and allow unlimited time for placement of the animal. This is a win-win situation for the animal rescued and local governments, reducing their financial responsibility for housing, killing and disposing of the animal. Also, consumers benefit by the additional medical attention and behavioral evaluation done at these facilities, which is seldom done at government run shelters.

 
Help Save Pets is a private no-kill shelter as described in point 3 above. Additionally, we are unique in that we partner with 4 animal hospitals that donate space to house and care for our rescued animals. This allows us to focus our financial and volunteer resources on the animals instead of facility acquisition and upkeep.  

So as Bob Barker would say, spay and neuter your pets! But also consider a shelter pet should you be in the market for a new companion.

  ~ Charles McKinney, Coordinator

 

 

 
Nebulizers - Do you have one in a spare closet?

 

Have you recently received a gift card?

Would you consider donating it to Help Save Pets??

The gift card can be used to purchase puppy food, dog food, kitten food, cat litter and other items for our dogs & cats until they find a forever home. We can use Visa, American Express or other type of non-specific store gift cars. If you have a Petsmart, PetCo, Jewell, Target, Meijer or any other card from a store that sells pet food or pet supplies, we can use it also. You can mail your gift card to Help Save Pets or drop it off at the Animal Care Center in Plainfield (make sure you provide us your name and address so we can follow-up with a thank you)..

We will be at the Spring Fling Adopt-a-thon at

The Central Bark Doggy Day Care, Oswego, IL on Sunday May 16th from 12-3pm.

 

There's a $10 entry fee per adult (kids free).  This event will have bobbing for hotdogs, contests with prizes for people and their dogs.  All money raised will be split between the participating rescue groups.

 

The second Sunday of each month we will be at the PetCo in Oswego on Route 34 from 11:00 A.M. to 3:00 PM showning a couple of our dogs for adoption and answering any questions about adoption from Help Save Pets.