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Shelter Fire in West Virginia
1/14/10 10:43 pmGive what you can, if you can... every little bit helps. If you live near them, see if you can help with tangible stuff, listed in the announcement. Please repost to your own journals. Thanks everyone.
----- Original Message -----
From: Crystal Dodd
Sent: Wednesday, January 13, 2010 4:39 AM
Subject: Fire Strikes Ritchie Co. Humane Society Animal Shelter (Harrisville, WV)
PERMISSION TO CROSSPOST
The red building that housed all of the cats and kittens burned in a fire in the pre-dawn hours. We do not know yet if there were any survivors (update: 5 cats have survived because they were in foster care). We do know that there were a few dogs there: Lil Dude, Chance, and shelter mascot Mamma, along with a mama dog and pups. We lost 50 cats and 13 dogs. But there are many other dogs still needing homes that were in the new kennel building or outside kennels.
The supply rooms were also in this building. Everything is gone: food, medicines, vaccines, transport crates, refrigerators to store medicines, cat kennel cages, ex-pens for puppies, cleaning supplies, trash bags, litter pans, litter, cat food, feeding bowls, newspapers, bedding, slip leads, leashes, collars, humane traps, etc.
We can also use gift cards for:
WalMart, Sams, Tractor Supply, Pet Supplies Plus, We Luv Pets, Home Depot, Lowe's
Update 1/13: We now have enough refrigerators! Thank you!
The most immediate need now is to replace the destroyed food.
PayPal is rchumane@zoomintern et.net, or link thru the shelter website,
http://www.petfinder.com/shelters/WV22.html
Checks can be sent to:
Ritchie County Humane Society
RR 1 BOX 3
Harrisville, WV 26362
or
West Union Bank
Ritchie Co HS Building Fund
201 E Main St.
Harrisville, WV 26362
If you have items you can donate, please call the shelter to arrange a time to bring them in, or we'll find a way to meet you part way (I'm off work Thur/Fri). The shelter phone is 304-643-4721. At this point, I'd ask you only to call to make arrangements to offer assistance during daytime hours. We'll send out emails and updates to the Petfinder site as soon as we have any information to pass along. It is still too early to know the source of the fire.
We are grateful to the rescues who took in several of the puppies & small dogs from that bldg. in two transports in the last week. And, I'm especially thankful to the rescue that begged us to transport last week when I was planning to wait another week until bad weather conditions cleared up. Those pups owe you their lives even more so now than they before.
Thanks in advance to anything you can do to help us recover from this tragedy.
Crystal Dodd
----- Original Message -----
From: Crystal Dodd
Sent: Wednesday, January 13, 2010 4:39 AM
Subject: Fire Strikes Ritchie Co. Humane Society Animal Shelter (Harrisville, WV)
PERMISSION TO CROSSPOST
The red building that housed all of the cats and kittens burned in a fire in the pre-dawn hours. We do not know yet if there were any survivors (update: 5 cats have survived because they were in foster care). We do know that there were a few dogs there: Lil Dude, Chance, and shelter mascot Mamma, along with a mama dog and pups. We lost 50 cats and 13 dogs. But there are many other dogs still needing homes that were in the new kennel building or outside kennels.
The supply rooms were also in this building. Everything is gone: food, medicines, vaccines, transport crates, refrigerators to store medicines, cat kennel cages, ex-pens for puppies, cleaning supplies, trash bags, litter pans, litter, cat food, feeding bowls, newspapers, bedding, slip leads, leashes, collars, humane traps, etc.
We can also use gift cards for:
WalMart, Sams, Tractor Supply, Pet Supplies Plus, We Luv Pets, Home Depot, Lowe's
Update 1/13: We now have enough refrigerators! Thank you!
The most immediate need now is to replace the destroyed food.
PayPal is rchumane@zoomintern et.net, or link thru the shelter website,
http://www.petfinder.com/shelters/WV22.html
Checks can be sent to:
Ritchie County Humane Society
RR 1 BOX 3
Harrisville, WV 26362
or
West Union Bank
Ritchie Co HS Building Fund
201 E Main St.
Harrisville, WV 26362
If you have items you can donate, please call the shelter to arrange a time to bring them in, or we'll find a way to meet you part way (I'm off work Thur/Fri). The shelter phone is 304-643-4721. At this point, I'd ask you only to call to make arrangements to offer assistance during daytime hours. We'll send out emails and updates to the Petfinder site as soon as we have any information to pass along. It is still too early to know the source of the fire.
We are grateful to the rescues who took in several of the puppies & small dogs from that bldg. in two transports in the last week. And, I'm especially thankful to the rescue that begged us to transport last week when I was planning to wait another week until bad weather conditions cleared up. Those pups owe you their lives even more so now than they before.
Thanks in advance to anything you can do to help us recover from this tragedy.
Crystal Dodd
