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Saving more pets’ lives could bring $100,000 to Angels for Animals


Published: Sun, July 17, 2011 @ 1:36 p.m.

By CHRISTINE DARIN

TheNewsOutlet.Com

CANFIELD

Kelly Black, feline manager and foster coordinator for Angels for Animals, walks through the facility, showing room after room of animals.

She ends the tour in a small room filled with cages on the second floor: the overflow room.

Cats stick their paws out to play. Each cage is occupied.

“When this room fills up, I know I’m in trouble,” Black said. “That’s when I have to start making hard decisions.”

If Black can’t find the cats a home, she will have to start choosing which ones to euthanize.

The need to raise awareness and money for the hundreds of animals in the center’s care is a never-ending task. Animals suffering from abuse and neglect arrive every day.

Odysseus, an orange female cat, was brought to Angels for Animals in June with one eye surgically removed and a serious infection in the other. The shelter removed the remaining eye, and now she waits patiently to be adopted.

Odysseus, eager for affection, relies on her other senses as she easily makes her way through Black’s office to jump on any visitor’s lap.

Black said the shelter is always looking for new ways to raise funds for the facility. This year it entered the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals 100K Challenge.

During August, September and October, ASPCA challenges 50 animal welfare agencies to try to save at least 300 additional animals lives than each did during the same months in 2010.

Angels for Animals competed with 94 animal welfare agencies across the country in April to be one of the 50 agencies to face off for the challenge.

The facility with the largest increase in lives saved above 300 will win the grand prize grant of $100,000. Second place will receive $25,000 and a $20,000 best-in-region grant will be given to the largest increase in saves within five regions throughout the United States.

Read the full story Monday in The Vindicator and on Vindy.com.


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1ytown_kills_me(57 comments)posted 10 months, 2 weeks ago

yup take your pet there for care and bring it home full of fleas...does anyone out there know how to clean a building...what a waste of space AFA is...."Angels for Animals competed with 94 animal welfare agencies across the country in April to be one of the 50 agencies to face off for the challenge."...lol did they have cops bust their establishments to become one of 50 ...roflmao

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2chrisd(1 comment)posted 10 months, 2 weeks ago

Last I heard (from an employee/volunteer) was that they put down every single cat that comes in! Personally ,I think they should have built a cheaper building,not the fancy schmanzy one they have and spent the money saved on lower cost spay/neuter programs.
Poor People are not going to spend even $50 on that! Probably not even $20 for that matter.
I know that's wrong but it's the truth ,if they would realize that it would help.
Also, they don't advertise when they do have lower cost 'specials' enough!
I have taken 6 cats there ,recent (drop offs at the time) to spay/neuter and got a lecture on how there are to many kittens born and killed because on not spaying/neutering !!!
HELLO!? I was already there to get it done ....you're lecturing the wrong people!!!
The place has gone to the dogs!

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3leeallyrex(7 comments)posted 10 months, 2 weeks ago

I love how aholes like you 2 make comments like you do. Just goes to show the ignorance of the human race! Angels does everything in their financial power to save the animals' lives. Unless you are interested in adopting an animal from there, I suggest you keep your f-ing mouths shut and mind your own pathetic business! And poor people should not own animals. If they can't afford to feed themselves and their kids, they sure as heck can't afford to feed and care for a pet properly, so therefore, the poor animal is abandoned or brought right back to Angels, to start the whole process over again. Well, enough from me!

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4MOLOCH(17 comments)posted 10 months, 2 weeks ago

Funny all the cats they "have to put down" yet they have a blind 1 running around. You can feed a cat for $10 a month. You don't have to be rich to feed 1. Before they "have to put them down" maybe they should have a "freebie" day as a last effort to save its life and find it a home. Course they would rather kill them then let someone get them for free huh. That's ok, due to the many strays reproducing & the idiots that do not spay or neuter, there are plenty of free kitties to go around.

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5lovedrama(125 comments)posted 10 months, 2 weeks ago

Everytime I've been there-maybe 1/2 a dozen-when I found abandoned animals and brought them, offered to pay medical expenses-I felt so belittled by the staff. They try to guilt you into keeping the animal even when you tell them you absolutely cannot. Then they lecture you-honestly they are rude and act like the rescuer is the problem. Now I don't bother with them. Oh yeah--but when they want donations and shove their hand in front of you they smile and talk about the " poor animals". And that weirdo that's always on tv is the rudest one of them all-go ride your horse and smoke some more p@#!

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6taxpayer1001(218 comments)posted 10 months, 2 weeks ago

I only know what I've heard through the years, and although I would never own a pet again without adopting, I have to think twice about the way AFA runs the facility.

The two places that I have been able to completely rely on for a couple years now for strays I find etc are "For the Dogs" and "New lease on Life". They spend their own money to take care of these animals and also do what they can to fund raise. They don't kill any animals. I can't say enough about For the Dogs. They have helped me, my neice, my friends, never asking for a dime. I donate to them when I can, but I'm sure it's nothing compared to what they spend. But also just the work I see these people put into this. Their hearts are in it.

Please consider these places when you need help or if you can help them with donations or adoptions.
PLEASE DON'T BUY FROM A PUPPY MILL. we have too many out there that need homes.

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7taxpayer1001(218 comments)posted 10 months, 2 weeks ago

LEE...I hope you realize that if you want to get a point across to people that you don't do it by being rude, swearing, namecalling and being down right classless. If you are with that facility I think you just turned many people against the place with your obnoxious behavior.

Check out their web page and see how expensive they are. Do they ever consider giving them away when they are at the point of putting them down?

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8CassAnn(247 comments)posted 10 months, 2 weeks ago

Angels for Animals is a joke. Folks there are so many other deserving facilities out there that can use your help that do not have high kill rates and fancy buildings.

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9pinstriper_zombie(2 comments)posted 10 months, 1 week ago

Ok, this is now rediculous and ive sat long enough and listened to people rip angels for putting animals down. I ask you is it better to see an animal die slowly of disease, starvation, bieng killed by other prey( for the heroes that drop off house pets to the woods!!) or a quick end to the suffering? in a perfect world every animal should be saved and if the staff and volunteers at angels had it in thier power to do, it would be done! its easy to judge and complain, do you think that putting down animals is cute, fun, or a power trip for them? its not, its sad and a necessary evil until people stop bieng morons. it is called angels because they save as much as possible, and its big (expensive) building is to house all the unwanted animals people drop off daily. So think about this next time you wanna whine about the expensive building and euthenasia. when you get home at night from your job, you dont have such a horrible thing you had to do all day following you to bed every night!! the old phrase comes through, someones gotta make the sausage but no one wants to know how! and that building is for the animals, strictly for the animals. thank god for volunteers, i know you critics are gonna say i work there, i do not, i am a volunteer!! so before you rip something why dont you come out and help with the problem instead of badgering people that are truly trying! i end with what i always say when i get the criticism. i want your address, from now on all animals dropped of, in any condition will be coming to your house. thank you so much, now we can save everything, we are free from euthenasia. sounds pretty ridiculous huh!!

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