LATEST NEWS & UPDATES

• Minutes from General Membership meetings of the Alabama Humane Federation are available to current members through our Member Sign-In link.

• Father's Day Promotion at the Alabama Animal Alliance Spay Neuter Clinic- Date Posted: 6/21/10

The Alabama Animal Alliance Spay/Neuter Clinic is urging everyone to fight the pet overpopulation problem. Take a stand and DON’T MAKE HIM A FATHER THIS FATHER’S DAY! In honor of fathers, male cat surgeries will be $20 until 6-30-10. This $20 fee covers the surgery, anesthesia, and all pain medications both during and after the surgery. Spaces are limited - call today! 334-239-7387.

Also, we have a $10 off coupon for male dog and male cat surgeries in Montgomery Parents magazine. These coupons are good through 8-31-10. The coupon must be presented the morning of the male pet’s surgery.


The Alabama Animal Alliance Spay/Neuter Clinic is Alabama's first high-quality, high volume, affordable spay/neuter clinic. We are a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization dedicated to reducing the number of unwanted animals by providing affordable spay/neuter surgeries for dogs and cats. The Spay/Neuter Clinic's veterinarians are Drs. Rebecca Davidson and Cathrine Byars; licensed veterinarians with more than 40 years of combined experience. For more information call 334-239-7387 or visit  www.alabamaspayneuter.com

• Cocoa Mulch, which is sold by Target, Home Depot, Foreman's Garden Supply and other garden supply stores contains a lethal ingredient called 'Theobromine'. It is lethal to dogs and cats. It smells like chocolate and it really attracts dogs. They will ingest this stuff and die. Several deaths already occurred in the last 2-3 weeks.Cocoa Mulch is manufactured by Hershey's, and they claim that "It is true that studies have shown that 50% of the dogs that eat Cocoa Mulch can suffer physical harm to a variety of degrees (depending on each individual dog). However, 98% of all dogs won't eat it."Theobromine is in all chocolate, especially dark or baker's chocolate which is toxic to dogs. Cocoa bean shells contain potentially toxic quantities of theobromine, a xanthine compound similar in effects to caffeine and theophylline. A dog that ingested a lethal quantity of garden mulch made from cacao bean shells developed severe convulsions and died 17 hours later. Analysis of the stomach contents and the ingested cacao bean shells revealed the presence of lethal amounts of theobromine. Date Posted: 4/27/10

* Visit Snopes for more information: http://www.snopes.com/critters/crusader/cocoamulch.asp

• The US Postal Service is releasing a new stamp series to recognize shelter animals everywhere. This campaign is called “ Stamps to the Rescue.” Not only are the stamps just, well, GREAT….. “Halo Pet Food” is donating a million meals to qualifying and approved sheltering groups across the nation. There are two links below to learn more and so you can pre-order your stamps now! We’ll send out another announcement about an official promotion event by the USPS probably in Montgomery later this month that we hope all can join in – more to follow as we learn the details. I’m ordering my new stamps TODAY!!! http://www.stampstotherescue.com
  
  
   
• Governor Bob Riley Proclaims 1st Annual Alabama Week for Animals March 6-14, 2010! View More

• Jacque Meyer, Executive Director of the Greater Birmingham Humane Society would like input from fellow sheltering agencies about your protocols for immunizations on intake. Please send your responses to her at jmeyer@gbhs.org .

• Groups Needed to Take 300 dogs/50 cats from Mississippi Shelter ASAP View More

• HSUS Emergency Services Team deployed to Alabama to assist the Blount County Sheriff’s Office View More

• Animal Shelter Consolidates with Controversy View Video Here

• Groups come together to help the cats of Oak Hill! To read the rest of this article & view photos, please click here

• Breed specific legislation means laws which ban or restrict dogs based on perceived breed alone. Do you know if your dog is banned? Do you now the real reasons for dog aggression? Learn about BSL and let your voice be heard.  In Your Hands

• A haven for homeless animals, "Rescue, Rehabilitate, Re-home".
  
  As the lead agency in Maddie's Pet Rescue Project in Baldwin County Alabama, The Haven for Animals, Fairhope, AL, Executive Director Michael Graham reports that euthanasia of healthy dogs and cats in Baldwin County animal control... To read the rest of this article, please click here
  
   
• Hope for Baldwin County's homeless animals

• Horse Euthanasia and Disposal in Alabama- Humane Society of the United States

• H3N8 - Dog flu

• View Birmingham News Article on GBHS Pet Pantry

• HOW OUR PETS CAN REDUCE OUR STRESSES AND ANXIETIES MANAGING YOUR STRESSES AND YOUR PETS THE ADVANTAGES OF ADOPTING A DOG OR CAT- VIEW ARTICLE (PDF)

• Honey Bee Swarm Removal Specialists for our local area

  Tim Rolan
  Honey Bees Only!!  Will collect swarms, some removals central Alabama in Wetumpka, Montgomery, Prattville, Millbrook, Tallassee, and Eclectic.  Call for other areas.
  Phone:  334-567-3397   weekdays after 5:00 pm anytime weekends
  Email:  trolan1@elmore.rr.com

  Will Crow
  Auburn, Alabama  36830
  Lee and surrounding counties
  Daytime Phone:  334-319-6144
  Evenings & Weekends:  334-826-7939

   

   

• PUPPY MILL COMPLAINT FORM-PDF

The HSUS recently received an endowment from the Kenneth and Lillian Wilde estate ,leading to the Wilde Puppy Mill Taskforce. Like our animal fighting campaign, the taskforce now has case workers and an investigator. In addition to providing on the ground support, they are maintaining a database of complaints from puppy mills and pet stores. The attached form can be given to anyone to fill out and return to mgilbert@humanesociety.org or Jscally@hsus.org 

 

•  www.saca-conference.com

  We are pleased to announce a new website for the Southeastern Animal Control Association's training conference. The website will feature online registration, printable brochures, pictures/video from previous conferences, and news about scholarships and awards. So please take some time to stop in and check it out and come back from time to time to keep informed about the SACA Conference and events. We will have information about next year’s conference on the website soon, so bookmark us and check back!

   

• Have you heard about the Spay Montgomery program?  More

•  ALVMA Low Cost Spay/Neuter Options-SPAY NEUTER LICENSE PLATES AVAILABLE FOR PICK UP

• AHF By-laws- Signed and dated By-Laws are on file with the AHF records.
   

• The Shelter Statistics Survey, 1994-97 & The Top Ten Reasons for Pet Relinquishment to Shelters in the United States-Click here

• There are great formulas out there to come up with numbers for how many pets are in your community, but the AVMA has provided a handy calculator so all you have to do is plug in the number of households in your particular city or county or state. To get those numbers go to:
  
  Pet Ownership Calculator:
  ownership calculator
  
  And how best to get the number of households? One way is to go to US Census at http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/states/ . Remember - this is based on 'households' not individuals.

• ANIMAL WELFARE INSTITUTE ESTABLISHES ABANDONED HORSE REWARD FUND-For more of this story, click here

• Find your legislator and their contact information: http://www.legislature.state.al.us/

• Fair Labor Law Posters
   
  Non-profit organizations are not-exempt from federal laws requiring the posting of Labor Law Posters.  Many of you will receive solicitations for posters costing a few hundred dollars, but posters can be downloaded for your printing from the Department of Labor website link below.  To ensure we do not post an outdated poster or give incorrect advice about your poster requirements, go to this link and answer the yes/no questions to help guide you to the posters you might need. Required posters are to be posted visibly where all employees can read them. http://www.dol.gov/elaws/posters.htm

•  Clinic Transport Program

• AL Attorney General on Animal Fighting and HSUS announces $5000 reward for animal fighting tips leading to convictions

• USA 7-08 NEWLY RELEASED GUIDELINES FOR SPAY-NEUTER PROGRAMS ARE MILESTONE ACHIEVEMENT FOR CONTROLLING PET OVERPOPULATION- View PDF

• Basic and Advanced Squirrel Rehabilitation-View PDF While this is to help you in raising a baby squirrel if you find yourself in that predicament, please understand that you cannot keep a squirrel as a pet in Alabama unless you receive a permit from the state Conservation Department, so once any squirrel(s) you have helped is/are old enough, please release in a safe place. This document also has info on how to utilize a release cage.

• The following is a list of Spay Neuter programs.  Some are in effect now and will continue, others are for specific periods in conjunction with Spay Day.  Please pass this on to all.  Call the number associated with the program or Spay Alabama at 1-866-9-SPAY AL for more information. Spay/Neuter Programs List

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The Alabama Humane Federation is a 501(c)4 organization and does not engage in any political activity or partisan campaigning as defined in § 501 of the Internal Revenue Code. The Alabama Humane Federation does engage in lobbying or issue campaigning as defined in § 501 of the Internal Revenue Code. Donations to the Alabama Humane Federation are not tax-deductible, and donations, distributions, and membership fees paid to the Alabama Humane Federation should be treated as direct lobbying expenditures as defined in § 501 of the Internal Revenue Code.

 

Questions or comments? Get in touch with us at: hselco@bellsouth.net

Mailing Address:
Alabama Humane Federation
c/o Rea Cord
2280 Weldon Road
Tallassee, Alabama 36078