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8 State Kate - On the Air

FM107.1 - St. Paul/Minneapolis - Living Life Out Loud.

Listen to an interview with Jenny Pavlovic,
the “Get Real Girl of the Week”,
author of
8 State Hurricane Kate:
The Journey and Legacy of a Katrina Cattle Dog

on “The Get Real Girls” radio show on FM 107.1 in the Minneapolis-St. Paul area
Saturday, January 17th
8:00 am-10:00 am Central Standard Time

You don’t have to be in Minnesota to hear this show:
Log in to http://www.fm1071.com/grg/ to listen online!
(Click the “Listen Online” button on the upper right of the screen and turn up the sound on your computer.)

The show this week focuses on "Proud to be an American". It will highlight Kate and Jenny's story and what Jenny learned about being an American/pitching in/helping others when she traveled cross-country to help care for rescued animals after Hurricane Katrina.

Jenny Pavlovic

www.8StateKate.net

The 8 State Kate Fund: Providing financial relief for animals in desperate situations.

8 State Kate Fund Store

8 State Kate Blog

The 8 State Kate Fund Store: Shirts, Bags, Mugs, & More,

The 8 State Kate Fund Store is now open for business at http://www.cafepress.com/8StateKate. Look for great gift ideas, including buttons, magnets, keepsake boxes, pillows, shirts, bags, ornaments, journals, mugs, tiles and more, ranging in price from $2.50 to $31.99. All items feature the 8 State Kate Fund logo and/or slogan.

In honor of Kate, an Australian Cattle Dog who survived hurricane Katrina,
100% of profits will go to the 8 State Kate Fund, providing financial relief
for animals in desperate situations. When you buy, you are giving something
back at the same time. More information on the 8 State Kate Fund, including
groups that have benefited so far, can be found at
http://8statekate.aucado.us/wordpress/?page_id=44.

Thanks for your support!

Jenny
Now blogging at www.8StateKate.net/WordPress
The 8 State Kate Fund: Providing financial relief for animals in desperate
situations.

FixAustin.org - FixAustinRadio

Link: FixAustin.org - FixAustinRadio.
Tired of expensive animal services ordinances that don't work? This message is for you.
Forward From The FixAustin Team:
We've been amazed and delighted by the attention that our Austin v.
Reno report has received.  The report has been downloaded more than
6,800 times from readers all across the country, it has been talked
about on national animal-welfare blogs, and we've been contacted by
animal-welfare advocates as far away as California for advice on how to
achieve shelter reform through public advocacy.

We've also been interviewed on local and national radio.  The
nationally syndicated radio show "Animal Wise Radio" interviewed
FixAustin.org's Ryan Clinton on live national radio this Sunday to
discuss FixAustin.org's efforts, its goals, and the Austin v. Reno
report on shelter-reform efforts in each city.  To listen to the
roughly twenty-minute segment, just click this link:
http://www.fixaustin.org/page/FixAustinRadio.   To learn more about
Animal Wise Radio, visit their website.  http://www.animalwiseradio.com/

Local radio station KUT also interviewed Ryan in a story about Austin's
shelter adoptions.  You can listen to their brief interview here: 
http://kut.org/items/show/13146.

You can help Austin's homeless pets too!

1.  Listen to the radio segments and tell your friends about them.

2.  Tell the City Council to implement the no-kill method at Austin's animal shelter by clicking here.

3.   Donate to FixAustin.org's no-kill efforts by clicking here.  All donations over $50 get a free FixAustin.org t-shirt!

Thanks and best regards!

The FixAustin.org Team
Peggy Jennings

Request for rehabilitation assistance

From: Randy Hale <jrhale@lafayette.in.gov>

Deb,

   I have a short story for you, as many people who contact you usually do but here it is anyway.

   I am a retired Police Officer with the Lafayette Indiana Police Department where I gave thirty two years of service. About the time I was retiring, Lafayette was starting it’s own Animal Control Department. I was asked if I would like to supervise the department as a retirement job. Being an animal advocate and lover, I accepted the position.
   Now to my story. While working the streets last October 2007, I was sent to a house where the complainant had reported two dogs getting into his garage and eating the dog food he had there for his own dogs. This had been going on for quite a while so he closed the walk in garage door on them one day, trapping them inside. I arrived and used a small leash to first catch the female blue and put her in my truck. I captured the male red and he bit through the leash just as I was getting him to my truck. He ran off and for the next five months he ran free in the north east end of our city. Two to three times a week we would get a report from citizens of a little red dog running the north end. I would even see him while off duty, under a railroad trestle waiting for traffic to clear on a four lane highway, so he could cross into a residential area. He had apparently set up house keeping around a large lake at the north edge of the city limits. The lake
was owned by a contracting company and it was off limits to the public making it an ideal area for those not wanting visitors. We set up traps for him but he managed to get out of them and one winter day we found a discarded deer carcass in the area where he was staying and we could see his footprints around the carcass in the snow and gnaw marks on the bones where he had been eating on it.
   I was finally able to gain entry around the lake where he was staying and set up another trap and I watched it closely from a distance using binoculars as I wanted to pick up the trap as soon as he got into it and before he was able to get out. My perseverance paid off and I checked on the trap while off duty later that evening and found the dog in it. I loaded the trap into my personal truck and transported to the shelter at 10:30pm that night. I was proud of my accomplishment, catching this dog after it’s surviving the winter in the open and we would not be getting anymore calls of it running the north end of town. However, my elation was short lived when it was discovered that the dog had become extremely unsocial able. The shelter could not give him medications, check for heartworm or administer inoculations as he would attack the kennel enclosures from the inside. It was decided, after several weeks that he was becoming more aggressive and
they would have to put him down.
   I could not live with this. I was responsible for this escape and I was responsible for his freedom being taken away. The little female he was with on my first encounter was found to be pregnant and had a litter of puppies that were most likely his. She was eventually adopted out. I could not believe that five months on his own would turn this little dog feral. The shelter assistant director granted me a special favor and told me that she would not allow anyone else to foster the dog but she would give me a chance. All my peers recommendations, were that I allow the dog to be put down. I went ahead and took the little dog home. It took a half hour to transfer him from the kennel to a cage. He was named “ Marshall ” that night.
   He took up with my wife much sooner than he took up with me. He probably remembers the horrible time I had getting him from the dog trap to the kennel the night he was trapped. I had to use a control stick, resulting in him rolling and choking himself and biting the stick until his mouth was bloody. (The reason I only use them as a last resort).
   To date he has progressed to the point where he stays in our house with our two pugs and a lab mix. We do keep him in the garage while we are away at work as he and the male pug have scent marking parties while we are away. He plays a lot with the little female pug though he and the male pug occasionally don’t get along. We live in a semi-rural area and he can be allowed out in our large yard with the other animals and will not run off. We have taken him and the other dogs for nature walks with no worry about him fleeing. He wants to belong. His only problem at this time is that he is protective of my wife; he totally adores her and will “Nip” at me and bark sometimes when I approach her while he is near. I know that Cattle Dogs are known for the nipping and I have not determined my best course of action to take for the problem other than reassuring him that I mean no harm to her. The dog that no one could approach will now come into my lap
seeking attention from me and roll over for me to scratch his belly. He has made tremendous progress. He has been taken to a vet and had his shots but tested positive for heartworm. At this time, we are waiting to determine if he can be taken to a facility in another nearby town for the heartworm treatment. The facility has to be assured that he will not bite before they will take him and with his nipping issues we are not sure how to handle it. Once his heartworm issues are taken care of, he will be neutered and his dew claws removed. (He has two dew claws on each back leg.)
   Me question for you is, where can you help me with his little guy. I am afraid that he will never be completely rehabilitated enough to be adopted or treated for the heartworm. I would not hesitate to place him in a home right now with a single female. He still is a little weary of strange men. We are running out of options keeping four dogs in our house is playing havoc with our home life. The cost of furniture, carpet and drape cleaning is going to be astronomical. I knew what I was getting into when I took on the task, I just have reached an impasse and I’m looking for some guidance. I would like to find someone to take over his rehabilitation at this point or someone to tell me what I need to do to further rehab him. We have had him with us for about six weeks but we have no intensions of keeping him permanently as it would not be fair to our other dogs. All our time and energy is spent with Marshal. Any guidance or help you can provide will
be greatly appreciated.

Randy Hale
Supervisor
Lafayette, IN Animal Control.
Work Phone: 765-80-1295/Cell: 765-479-3258
Home Phone: 765-463-4124/Cell: 765-430-1907

Adoption Stories wanted for Muttcomics

Muttscomics wants to hear all about your happy adoption
stories & see photos of your adopted companion animals.

Submit shelter stories & best photos of adopted animal for consideration for the cartoonist Patrick McDonnell's upcoming book, "Shelter Stories".

McDonnell's cartoon strip features a weeks worth of Shelter Stories at least once a year:
http://muttscomics.com/animals/shelter.asp

His upcoming book will contain favorite Shelter Stories comic strips from the past 10 years alongside photos & happy tales about selected animals.

Only animals that were adopted from a shelter/animal control agency or rescue group can be considered.

Some lucky pets submitted may be featured in a new Mutts Companion Daily Calendar with Earl and Mooch.

All photos in JPEG format - 1 to 2.5 MB
Photos & stories must be received via
online form on or before 12:01AM EDST
1st May 07. Digital submissions only.

Click link, then look for "Enter Your Pet"

http://muttscomics.com/mymutts/index.asp?referer=/news/shelter_stories/index.asp

What's New?? Emergency Rescue help needed

Link: Abused animal rescue and rehabilitation farm and foundation.
Can anyone help this woman out in getting this dog out of a bad deal?  I am not sure where the dog is but I am guessing OR/WA area as that is where Diana resides.  Please contact her through her website info:
   
 http://www.aarrff.org
   
  Here is her message:
   
  I got a horrible call last night. I am still so upset when I think about it. (I will try to make this short, but brevity is not my strong-suit!)
   
  I received a phone message yesterday from a woman who said that "they" rescued an ACD a couple of months ago, but her "husband says it has to go." Basic Story: Male, 6 month-old blue heeler. Not neutered. Was found dumped at some pipeline worksite. Currently lives on 15 acre property with horses, 2 other dogs, 5 year old child, wife and husband. His name is DIAMOND . He is not allowed in the house. He is very frightened of the husband (you will figure out why in a minute). Is very friendly with the wife; just avoids the child. He has already figured out how to bring the wife's Mare up from the lower pasture to the barn when wife wants him to . No signs of aggression. Gets on well with the other two dogs. Wife asks me to please return her call. She sounds kind of desparate on the message machine.
   
  I get home and call back and plan to ask what the problem is, etc. Maybe talk to them about training options and/or offer my assistance in rehoming. Husband answers the phone and says wife is not there. I talk to him, etc. He starts telling me that "the damn dog is chewing up Sh*t." He rants on for at least 5 minutes. He confirms no aggression, but keeps saying stuff like: "I kick him and he still doesn't get the message."  He says: "the dog won't even let me grab him anymore. He just runs from me!" (duhhhhhhh) I quickly decide that this dog is better off getting out of there, so I start to tell him that I will help him to rehome Diamond. I am telling him that I will run a Petfinder ad for him, screen applicants, do home-checks, etc. No charge. He cuts me off and, this is a quote: "Lady, I am not waiting a month, or even two weeks, to get this f**king dog out of here. The only reason I haven't shot him yet is because my wife loves this dog. Get him out of here or I am
going to just shoot him!"
   
  It took all of my strength to not rip into him. I tried to talk calmly with him about humane euthanasia alternatives; explained that I doubted he was a good enough shot to make a "clean kill" etc. Didn't phase him! He just went on and on.
   
  I have now spoken with the wife. I have promised her that I will get Diamond out of there! I also told her that I could recommend a good divorce lawyer!
   
  I NEED to get Diamond out of there. I will pay to have him neutered and vaccinated, but I just DON'T HAVE ANY PLACE to put him right now...not with Wally, Quincy, Lilly, Penny and Kenzie being here .
   
  Could you PLEASE, PLEASE send out an email about this boy? I will transport, I will vet, I will do EVERYTHING I can to save this dog.

What's New ?? Korry was lost

Link: <-> Australian Cattle Dog - Lost Dog <->.

Korry

wandered away from her new family's yard first weekend in June 2006

She is lost in the Pleasant Grove, California area

KORRY HAS BEEN FOUND!!!

Korry arrived at her new home Friday, June 2 so she has not really settled in yet.

Korry is a 2 year old blue bitch plain face
with a small thumb print  size spot between her right eye and ear

She is wearing a purple collar with a Rabies tag
with a South Dakota phone number on it
she is also microchipped with an AVID chip

Here are some pictures I took of her a few weeks ago.
See pictures of Cory on Flickr

If anyone has seen her please contact:

Dee Lentsch
drywood@sbtc.net

Phone 605-698-3634
South Dakota

What's New?? Leon - cattledog or not?

I just signed up to cattledog-l@mylist.net. My husband and I are adopting a dog from the shelter this Friday and have been told by a couple of different sources (the care-taker at the shelter and someone who previously owned and ACD) that he is probably an Australian Cattle Dog. I wanted to see if I could get some feedback from the members on whether you think he is ACD.

Regardless of breed, we are so happy to have him in our family and can't wait until we bring him home on Friday. We are going to name him Leon.

Thanks for your feedback.

Paige & Alan Bryum
phuber@pssearch.com