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Supervisor Maben secures additional spay/neuter funding PetSmart Voluntarily Recalls Dentley's Beef Hooves Think your cats make you sick? Now, apparently it's our turn The Home Show this weekend Cat, time for your check-in Cool event for pet lovers in Bakersfield Time to show our support for licensing program Could you live without TV for a year? FDA suspends temporary emergecy permit for Evanger's Dog & Cat Food Concerned about pet overpopulation in Kern County? This event may be for you. June 06 July 06 August 06 September 06 October 06 November 06 December 06 January 07 February 07 March 07 April 07 May 07 June 07 July 07 August 07 September 07 October 07 November 07 December 07 January 08 February 08 March 08 April 08 May 08 June 08 July 08 August 08 September 08 October 08 November 08 December 08 January 09 February 09 March 09 April 09 May 09 June 09 July 09 August 09 September 09 October 09 November 09
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Supervisor Don Maben has secured an additional $50,000 in spay/neuter voucher funds for Kern County. Kern County Animal Control will once again take applications for spay/neuter vouchers for low-income residents of Kern County.
Since so many people here have pets and may do some shopping at PetSmart: Phoenix, AZ, Nov 4, 2009 - PetSmart is voluntarily recalling two Dentley's Beef Hoof products for potential salmonella contamination. The products were manufactured by Pet Carousel, Inc. in Sanger, Calif. The recalled products include only the following types of Dentley's Beef Hooves purchased between Oct. 2, 2009 and Nov. 3, 2009: Dentley's Bulk Cattle Hoof UPC# 73725703323 You can read the rest of the details from the official release here.
First case of swine flu confirmed in cat. And it looks like the cat got it from the people he or she lives with. Jeepers.
If you are planning to head out to the Home Show this weekend, please stop by the Friends of Kern County Animal Shelters Foundation and enter their raffle --- or just drop a buck or two into the donation jar. These are really good people trying to do good things for the shelter animals in Kern County and can really use a little community support. The purpose of the Foundation is to raise money for items not directly budgeted by the County. Previous fundraisers included securing funds to have a hot water heater installed at the Mt. Vernon shelter so pups going out to off-site adoption events can have a warm bath and look their best, and raising funds for spay/neuter vouchers so more pets can be altered, thus reducing the need for shelter services. If everyone attending the show gave $1, we could set records. Peace. Hey Cat, how's it going on Day 3 of being smoke-free? Come and talk to your support group! Sorry, but I didn't want to have to search through pages of posts to keep the topic alive. Tell us what's up in the world of easier breathing.
I wanted to let you all know about a great event coming up this weekend in Bakersfield.
On Saturday, Aug. 22, from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. there will be a fundraiser at The Firehouse Restaurant, located at 7701 White Lane. The three-stage event is to benefit Shorty’s Rescue, a nonprofit organization dedicated to rescuing and adopting pit bulls, founded by Luigi “Shorty” Rossi. The fundraiser will be filmed for an upcoming reality series on Animal Planet, following Rossi and other volunteers as they work towards making the world a better place for pit bulls and canines in general. Alpha Canine Society will also be on hand with several dogs available for adoption.
As part of this special event, actress Linda Blair will be at The Firehouse to create awareness for her organization, The Linda Blair WorldHeart Foundation, a nonprofit organization dedicated to rescuing and rehabilitating abused, neglected and abandoned animals living on the streets of Los Angeles, as well as from the shelters in L.A.
The fundraiser will also include a little person car wash, where Shorty and other little person volunteers will be washing cars to raise money for Shorty’s Rescue Foundation for a $10 donation.
There will also be a car show, hosted by Shorty’s friends at myGride.com and Acedia Apparel, featuring a variety of custom vehicles throughout California, including several from the Nokturnal Car Club.
So come on out, see the dogs, meet the celebrities and donate to a worthy cause. Who knows, you could find yourself on T.V. when the series airs on Animal Planet! At this week's Animal Control Commission meeting, Supervisor Don Maben stated that he will make a recommendation to the Board of Supervisors to support funding of the Public Education and Enforcement Team (PEET) Program. This is the licensing program that recently reported collecting just over $10,000 in revenue during the first five months of this year, for a net revenue gain of over $5,400 --- money that can be used to expand services such as a low-cost spay/neuter option. Sunday's paper had a letter to the editor asking people if they could live without television for a year. I found the timing nearly perfect, as my spouse and I have been talking for the past few weeks about making some radical adjustments with our relationship with our television set --- namely, canceling our satellite service. Night after night we find ourselves either watching DVDs or using the TV as background noise/distraction while we are busy with other pursuits; reading, blogging, researching or playing guitar. The TV's just on because it's on. While some couples fight over the remote, we will occasionally tussle over who gets stuck with it. We toss it off like a challenge, "Here. You find something interesting to watch." For this we pay over $80 a month. Now, I'm not ranting about the high cost of entertainment, but I just don't think I'm getting $80 worth of fun or enlightenment. I can subscribe to Netflix for $20 and get all the documentaries my heart desires. There are several Internet sites that replay episodes of television shows, should there be one I decide I truly can't live without and all of the political channels also have websites to match. So I'm thinking about it. How about you? Could you do without TV for a year? In case some of you are currently feeding Evanger's to your pets...
The FDA announced that they are suspending the temporary emergency pet food manufacturer permit for Evanger's Dog & Cat Food Co., Inc.
Location:
1115 Truxtun Ave.,
Bakersfield, CA 93301
Bill Bruce, Director of Animal Services and By-Laws in Calgary, Alberta, Canada is coming to Bakersfield to talk about how Calgary claims to have achieved the lowest euthanasia rate and highest license compliance in North America, as well as a no-cost spay/neuter program. All programs are self-funded and all without Breed Specific Laws or Mandatory Spay/Neuter. Now is a great opportunity to learn what others have done to successfully manage the pet overpopulation issue. The event takes place on Wednesday, June 10, at 6 p.m. at the Kern County Supervisor's Chambers, located at 1115 Truxtun Ave., Bakersfield. I've attached a flyer for more information. Hope to see you there. |