Animal Shelter Seeks Funds for New Building

The Elmore SPCA in Peru, NY is asking for help to raise enough money to build a new facility that would provide the adequate housing for animals to get them out of the tiny cages they're in.

"The shelter is over the top full and is having to put dogs in foldaway crates as they have no more room," states an email. "They need these dogs to go to rescue or adoptive homes in order to make room to save dogs that are in danger."

The Elmore SPCA is located in a temporary building as it is.

You can make donations through paypal to: office@elmorespca.org or click on http://www.elmorespca.org/donate.html to donate.

Adoption fees of $195 includes spay/neuter and being up to date on all shots.

For more information, contact 518-643-2451 or email judy@elmorespca.org.

In unrelated pet news, a Chi dog, Mawi is in urgent need of donations in Los Angeles, CA after he was hit by a car. The surgery will cost thousands of dollars.

If you can donate any amount, call the Animal Rescue Center immediately at 323-402-0039 or send a check for Mawi to ARC at 2901 Exposition Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA 90018. (Source: Facebook).

In other animal news, the Humane Society of the U.S. (HSUS) is urging all concerned citizens to submit comments to the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) asking them to implement cost-effective and humane methods such as increasing the use of fertility control to manage the wild herds.

"After years of mismanaging wild horse and burro populations by unjustifiably removing them from their environment by the thousands through cruel, costly roundups, the BLM is now soliciting input from the public on how to reform its broken program and ultimately create a more humane, fiscally responsible, sustainable approach to managing wild horses and burros on our public lands," states Wayne Pacelle, president and CEO of HSUS in a press release.

To submit comments, access https://secure.humanesociety.org/site/Advocacy?cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=4982.

In other news, after seizing 13 allegedly abused dogs Baker County police charged Cletus Gaskins and Omar Aldridge with animal cruelty and dogfighting.

"Dogs raised for fighting are forced to live desperately, repeatedly suffering ruthless gruesome abuses as well as systematic neglect," states a mass email from the Animal Legal Defense Fund (ALDF). "On March 8, 2011, Gaskins and Aldridge pleaded no contest pleas charges of both cruelty to animals and fighting or baiting animals '" both felonies under Florida law."

To send a letter on the ALDF's website in care of Assistant State Attorney Geoff Fleck, click on http://org2.democracyinaction.org/o/5154/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=6104.