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Madison County Animal Care & Control
SEPTEMBER 2018
MONTHLY NEWSLETTER
WELCOME TO
MADISON COUNTY We are also announcing our new program, which is a
pilot foster program for our cats and kittens. We
ANIMAL CARE & believe this will be a huge help to our kittens as a way
CONTROL TAILS of preventing them from contracting illnesses at our
facility.We are also in the process of bringing more
Exciting things are happening here at Madison County rescues into our facility, which serves as a benefit for
Animal Care and Control. We are creating a new the animals in finding there “fur-ever” home faster.
environment for our animals, the communities we serve Currently our facility works with some local rescues —
and as you can see we are starting a newsletter to share Metro East Humane Society, Partners for Pets, Hope
all that information with you, and soon we will have new Rescue, Hi and Four Paws Sake — and are appreciative
logo. for all that they do in making sure healthy animals are
adopted.
Just to let you know some of the things we are doing —
striving to become a “no kill” facility by 2021, which Madison County is striving to create a better place for
actually means saving at least 90 percent of all healthy its homeless animals. We want to ensure both cats and
and adoptable animals as we can; creating an Amazon dogs brought in get the chance they deserve. This is a
Wish List to let everyone know what we need at the new chapter and we hope you stay with us as we turn
facility for our cats and dogs; and blankets for kittens we the page.
house until rescues are able to take them to be adopted.
Katherine Conder
Animal Care and Control Manager
P.S. We will have a booth during Metro East Humane
We will also take donations for food and blankets at the Society’s Woof Stock on Sept. 8 at Triangle H Farm,
shelter. Please come by and see us and see what we are 2082 S. Moreland Road, Edwardsville.
doing. You can also make a donation to Amazon.
Animal Care and Control is also entering into a
partnership with Southern Illinois University
Edwardsville. Students will be volunteering time at the
facility by helping staff clean cages, walking dogs and
planting flowers outside the shelter. We are excited they
will be helping our animals.
A little Birdie who likes to
Keep in TOUCH
Name: Birdie Age: 6
Breed: Portuguese Waterdog
Occupation: Touch Therapy
Owner: Toni Corona, Director Madison
County Health Department
Favorite Food: Rawhide bones U.S.A.
made and an occasional sock
Favorite Place: On back of the sofa
Squeky or bouncy? Definitely bouncy. I
like playng fetch.
It's Friday night what are your plans?
Hang out on the corner waiting for the
school bus so I can say "hello" to the
neighborhood kids. Greeting all the When you hear "go for a ride" what
walkers and my dog friends and watching comes to mind? I go over to get my collar
my person do yardwork. changed. We have an invisible fence so I
need the one I can go places in. I then
jump in the car and sit in my spot in the
backseat. As long as Toni will drive I will
go.
Guilty Pleasure: I love swimming and
being in the water. I like getting a bath
then getting primped to go to work
Any Special Talents? I can rollover. Also
when I wear a special cape I turn into a
"superdog!" I become a different dog, one
that helps people by comforting them
What's something annoying that your
person does? She talks on the phone
when its my time. I mean she goes to
work and talks to people, I'm sure on
the phone too, but when she comes
home it should be about me. When she
does this I bark to annoy her, because I
know it gets her attention and it
reminds her she should be spending it
with me.
Autumn is Tick, Tick, Ticking Closer
There’s nothing like the spread disease to both do to help.
crisp, cool air and you and your pet.
luscious foliage to get A tick and flea
you excited for the Although tick nymphs preventative will help
changing seasons. Your peak in the spring keep the bugs away, but
pet, too, is probably months, the number of if you don't choose to
welcoming a break adult deer ticks is use them, consider
from summer's hot, higher in the fall than it paying more attention
sticky weather. But fall is during any other part to your lawn care. Ticks
is also a time of lurking of the year. Deer ticks prefer to live in long
dangers for our furry are the ticks that are grass, so giving your
friends. responsible for lawn a good manicure,
spreading Lyme disease and keeping your pets
Unless you live —which can be just as confined, can help keep
anywhere but in the much of a danger for your tick problem
middle of a concrete you as it is for your pet. under control.
jungle you will have
concerns with finding If you're worried you
ticks. Ticks — deer might have a tick
ticks, dog ticks, and problem, there are
other varieties—can several things you can
When Disaster Strikes:Plan for Pets
Are you prepared for a
disaster or emergency?
.
Does your plan include
your pets?
• Pack your pets disaster
and first aid kits. Make
September is National
• Federal Law requires sure to pack a leash or
Preparedness Month,
states to include harness, cat carrier, an
which includes
planning for extra collar labeld with
preparing for your pets
domesticated animals your pets name, first aid
needs too.
in their emergency kit, plastic bowl, cat
evacuation plans. litter (which can be kept
Here are a few simple
Following Hurricane inside the car carrier), at
steps to save your pet.
Katrina in 2005 least five days of spare
U.S. Congress enacted medication and several
• Most shelters cannot
the Pets Evacuation and gallons of water and food
accept pets due to
Transportation to last for a minimum of
health and safety
Standards Act when three days.
concerns. Learn how to
seek out animal people refused to leave
their pets behind. Visit www.ready.gov to
friendly shelters in
learn more or Madison
advance.
• Make sure to get your County
pet microchipped. If Emergency Management.
• Keep copies of your
pet's medical records. your pet becomes lost
Pet friendly shelters or you get separated
require up-to-date then the success of
records. finding them is greater
Animal Control
Rescue Me Alton.........................
Bethalto....................
463-3553
377-5266
East Alton................. 259-8069
Edwardsville............ 656-2131
Glen Carbon............. 288-7226
Granite City............. 452-6233
Godfrey.................... 466-7468
Highland................... 654-2131
Madison ................... 876-6268
Click on the logo to visit a rescue's website Pontoon Beach,,,,,,,,, 931-5100
Roxana ..................... 254-1945
South Roxana........... 254-7469
Venice....................... 452-6233
Wood River............... 251-3113
Madison County....... 692-1700
Since becoming Countless individuals
Giving
chairman it’s been my dedicate their time to
“pet project” in making the unwanted pets that
sure healthy and end up at our facility.
treatable animals They remove them from
Thanks brought into Madison
County Animal Care
and Control find a
our facility and find
them loving homes.
permanent home. We The majority of animals
The task of moving are closer than ever to that now enter our
toward a “no-kill” reaching our goal of a shelter are walking out
animal control facility 90 percent save rate for alive. I am grateful for
is not an easy one. both dogs and cats, but all the rescues do and I
There are many who we wouldn’t be able to want to say thank you!
feel it is not an get there without the
important task. I don’t help of rescue groups Kurt Prenzler
agree. and organizations Chairman
throughout the county. Madison County Board
EVENTS
Woofstock
11 a.m. to 3 p.m.
Triangle H Farm,
t. 8 2082 S. Moreland Road
Sep Edwardsville
Se
*Madison County Animal Care & pt.
Control will be holding a Microchip
9
Clinic at Woofstock.
Dine to Donate
at Mike Shannon's Grill for
Partners for Pets
4 to 9 p.m,
871 S. Arbon Vitae
Edwardsville
Sep
t. 1
6
You Down Dog? Strut your Mutt
Find out more @ 22 8 a.m. to noon
ept.
fouryogaandwellness.com S Best Friends Animal Society
$5 minimum donation benefits Tower Grove Park
Highland Animal Shelter 4256 Magnolia Ave.
St. Louis
Miles for Meso 5K Race/3K Fun
23 Run/Walk Adoption Event
ept.
S Hope Rescues
8 to 11 a.m.
1 Court St.
Alton
Pawty in the Pawk 29
Critterfest
pt. noon to 4 p.m.
Sept. 23 Metro East Humane Society Se Granite City APA
10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Wilson Park
1tRandall D. Dalton Veteran's 2900 Benton Street
Memorial Park Granite City
Pontoon Beach
9
ept. 2
S
Canine Carninval
8 a.m to noon
Alton Farmers' & Artisans Market
1 0 a.m. — Pet Parade
10:30 a.m. — Costume Contest
Fostering animal control staff
doesn’t have the time to
Felines
spend with them.
"Fostering helps to
prevent animals from
getting sick,” she said.
Kitten season has arrived Instead of keeping the She said there is one
in Madison County. Kitten cats and kittens in volunteer for the new
season is typically from kennels, Conder said they program.
late March to October, are asking for volunteers
and during that time to foster the animals until “She served on the board
hundreds of kittens less they can be adopted. of Metro East Humane
than eight weeks old are Society and was founding
brought into Animal Care Why does a cat go into a member of SNIP Alliance.
and Control. foster home? Cats are She enjoys taking care of
spayed and neutered at animals and providing
Cats and kittens far the time of adoption. them with a loving home.”
outnumber the canines Many of the kittens come she said.
taken in by the county into the shelter are too
facility. Finding homes for young to be altered, and Anyone wishing to know
this animals is important. the younger they are more more about the new foster
Several rescues pull the susceptible to illnesses. program should contact
animals for adoption, but Any kitten can go into a Animal Control or visit
sometimes their facilities foster home until the county’s website and
are full and the cats and reaching the weight and fill out an application.
kittens must be kept at age to be altered and
the county longer than adopted. “Fostering is done by
expected. people who have a little
Older cats that are extra space in their home
“We’re currently looking surrendered to the shelter and heart to temporarily
for caregivers and that have lived in a loving care for a pet,” she said.
volunteers to help us take home will often become
care of kittens and cats,” depressed and stop
Katherine Conder, eating. Cats need
manager of Animal Care socialization and
and Control, said.
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