Week of 2/12/12 Humane Happenings

by Eliana Aubin 

Kim and his new buiddy

 This week, the Sierra County Humane Society and the staff at Desert Haven wish to especially thank all our animal loving friends and supporters in our community and beyond. We are a small and budget-minded animal welfare organization that operates through the generosity of local and out-of-state folks. Thanks to the local newspapers who print our Humane Happenings articles every week, caring people from all over are able to follow our efforts and help us out whenever they can.

With the cold weather lingering in Sierra County, local resident Patty Duffy and her family recently gathered several boxes of goodies for the DHAR fur-kids and also many much-needed warm items to be used by our felines and very small dogs. Then she kindly dropped all of them off at the sanctuary’s front gate this past week-end. Kim Nelson is an out-of-state resident who is spending a few weeks in Sierra County again this year. While in the area, Kim helps us care for the dogs of Desert Haven. He walks them and spends quality time with them almost every morning during Animal Care. When he heard of our recent plea for canned dog food, he immediately came to the rescue. As far away as the little town of Victoria, Texas, one of Desert Haven’s former work campers – who by the way wishes to remain anonymous - learned of our needs for canned dog food through the Humane Happenings and she too helped insure that our DHAR cupboards would not stay empty for too long. The show of support from our animal loving friends from all over has been very humbling indeed. Jim Seery work-camped at the sanctuary in early 2011 and he is back to help out this Spring. When he realized that Shadow the female black lab, was still at the sanctuary, he made it his goal to facilitate her adoption by covering half of the adoption costs. DHAR work camper Jeff Thompson is commiting to cover half of the adoption costs of the Boxer Foxie-Girl, so that she too can be adopted soon.

 This week’s wish list: Handymen needed. We have a small chain link enclosure to build. A 12 ft Old West wooden fence needs strengthening. Our Catzebo needs a complete make-over. We have other projects in the works. Do you have a few patio blocks you no longer need or perhaps you can lay a couple of small cement slabs inside our Cat-Walk? If unable to give a hand, could you donate material or funds to help with the projects? Contact us at 575-894-2639 or 575-894-1694. Check us out at www. Facebook.com/deserthaven and www.Facebook.com/pawsnclaws. You can also e-mail us at weR4pets@gmail.com.