What a storm we all lived through in Sierra County! At Desert Haven Animal Refuge, member of the DHAR team worked closely together to insure that all the animals and birds were as protected as possible from the extreme cold. Pat Madden, who drives twice a week all the way from beyond Hillsboro to help care for the animals donated a new portable propane heater last week. It was immediately installed inside the fully insulated Inn at Dog Town. The heater replaced the one belonging to work campers Carl and Nancy Findling, who generously had let us borrow their own heater when the night temperatures started dropping quickly.
Even with comforters and blankets lining individual dog houses and a heater kept on day and night inside the Inn at Dog Town, even with plenty of straw insulating the birds and guinea pigs habitats inside Birdland & Animal House, even with comforters, pillows and warm blankets inside the Kitty Dormitory, everyone at Desert Haven, humans and non-humans alike, was affected in some way by last week’s extreme temperatures.
When the temperatures allowed it, the dogs were eager to get out of the Inn and into their play yard and also get the chance to run again to their hearts content all over the fenced Wild West Trail area.
Can you help us renew our now-depleted supply of warm blankets, pillows and area rugs? We need them for our resident dogs and cats. All donations can either be dropped off at DHAR or at Paws & Claws during business hours. Please remember that any item, box or bag of items left in front of the shop when it is closed for business runs an extremely high risk to be stolen within a few moments by unsavory individuals who are making a lifestyle of profiting from others in one way or the other. We will pick up if needed.
We still have plenty of straw for the rest of the winter. We owe our good fortune to Jeanette Galliard of Albuquerque and to local resident Bobby Dawkins. Several times a year, Jeanette drives all the way from Albuquerque with a truck load full of straw and alfalfa that she generously donates to the sanctuary. This past summer, Bobby Dawkins chose Desert Haven to donate over a hundred bales of hay that he said could not be fed to his horses. Thanks to these two great folks, Birdland & Animal House continue to have plenty of straw to protect its residents from the extreme cold we are experiencing this Winter.
Along with warm blankets and pillows, this week’s high priority items are dry cat food, cracked corn and bird & sunflower seeds.
Interested in learning more about us or helping us in some way? Contact us at 894-2778 or 740-4100. Visit our web site at www.DesertHavenAnimalRefuge.com. Check us out on www.Facebook.com/deserthaven. Our mailing address is POB 638, Williamsburg, NM 87942.
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