Everyone is encouraged to come out and support the upcoming old-fashioned New England ham and bean dinner/dance fundraiser for a new roof and help with other needed repairs for the shelter. The dinner, sponsored by Middleborough Friends, will be held at the VFW Hall on Saturday, Sept. 26. Doors open at 5 p.m. with a cash bar, and dinner will be served at 6. At 7 p.m. there will be a special presentation by the animal control officer, followed by dancing until 11:30. Reservations are strongly suggested. Tickets are $15 each or $25 per couple and can be purchased at Willy’s Auto Supply on Center Street. For further information, call Willy at 508-947-2100, or visit the web site Middleboroughfriends.com.
Read more about the help that Middleboro’s Animal Shelter needs on SouthCoastToday.com.
AN OPPORTUNITY TO RAISE FUNDS FOR YOUR SHELTER AND PROTECT THE ANIMALS!
Animal Shelters are overcrowded because people are not providing proper ID for their pets. Shelters and pet owners should check into a new program that provides id tags with live operator rescue support–called Pawtags. They shelters receive 72% of the profits from the program and it cuts down on animal control pick-ups and service costs because they reunite the lost pet with their owners!
Not only are 90% 0f non-id lost animals not found—over 75% of all domestic animals captured nationwide by Animal Control facilities are euthanized! There’s a great new pet rescue tag service called “Pawtags Rescue”- where each tag has its own id number and Live trained 24/7 Operator rescue services for $10!
Their service allows you to develop a profile with up to ten contact numbers, listing rabies id, microchip info, city licensing, vet and medical info along with the pet’s profile. When someone finds your pet the Operators access this confidential info and use it with Google Maps, 3-way conferencing, etc. to get your pet home or to a safe place until picked up.
The service also auto-creates a PAWS Alert poster to print or PDF and more importantly gives an owner an Animal Control Facilities zip code search that provides the only locations in 50 square miles that intake lost pets! This is so important since in some cities animals only have 3 days to euthanization!
The tags are guaranteed for life, weatherproof, cool looking and for $10 you get tag and one year free service. You can upgrade to a lifetime for 19.99–so overall with a pets life average of 14 years that’s less than a $1.50 a year.
It kind of reminds me of the Verizon support team commercials–you know if anyone finds your lost animal a live trained rescue person will make sure it gets home or to a safe place. Great deal–it’s at http://www.pawtags.com
I admire your efforts and wish you well. I retired two years ago from the job of Animal Control Officer in Marshfield and was an aquaintence of Bill Wyatt your Animal Control Officer at the time.
I feel qualified to offer a few suggestions as in 1991 I was given the opportunity to build an animal shelter for our town where there had not been one since colonial days.
The Town had boarded their dogs and had no facility for cats.
I searched out and found a local contractor who loved animals and after telling him of our needs he volunteered to take on the task, with my help. It took about six months once we got our papers all passed through theTown fathers. But we built a beautiful shelter that while it was not state of the art it was a clean efficient way for us to take care of all the dogs and cats we we would pick up. It had a rest room, kitchen, cat room, reception area (for adoptions) and kennel space for ten dogs with two being in a separate room for sick dogs.
We ran contests like “Design a T-Shirt” contest and sold t shirts and sweatshirts made by the high school students to fund the shelter. We had a Buy a Board campaign so people could buy a board for the shelter, that way people could buy a small board for $1.29 or a big board for $25.00. Each was stamped donated by with their name on it. We ran a wish list for materials in the local paper and we got so many donations you would not believe it, including ceramic tiles for the kitchen and bath, a whole kitch full of cabinets, doors with frames, windows, roofing including installation and sheetrock, installed. It was amazing.
Where there’s a will there’s a way.
You can read about our adventures in my new book just published “Unleashed- Memories from a Career in Animal Control. Buy it now at
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Good luck getting your shelter fixed up.
These are such great ideas! Thank you so much for taking the time to share some of your ideas and successes. We will make sure that Jayson Tracy (Middleboro’s Animal Control Officer) gets these ideas. We’ll also volunteer to help with fundraising efforts and publicity if he needs that help.