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Two day event great success! |
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The 2012 WV Animal Conference was a great success. We had about 150 people attend the two day event. We will have some pictures posted from this wonderful event soon. We want to thank our sponsors for enabling us to provide this to animal advocates, humane officers, law enforcement officers and animal control officers from throughout WV. A huge thanks to our sponsors for making our conference possible: ASPCA, Help for Animals, Petfinder Foundation, Petco, HSUS and Animal Lifeline. Also our presenters were top quality and did a great job as evidenced by the excellent evaluations. FOHO appreciates the presenters effort in making this one of the best conferences we have had. We are already planning our next conference which we will have in 2014. Barbara Grigg who presented "Winning support for Animal Welfare from non-traditional sources" has asked that her handout be placed here for those who attended her conference session. Grigg Presentation Handout
Here are a couple of photos of the conference and the animal cruelty workshop compliments of Barbara Grigg.
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Shelter data needed! Help us to gain spay/neuter funding! |
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Please complete this easy shelter survey. Help us to win our battle for spay neuter funding in WV. Download (Survey pdf) or fill out the online form by linking here. (online survey form)
Information on euthanasia data in WV: Please note that we have been compiling euthanasia data from animal shelters from 2008 to the present. Current data trends being tracked indicate that we are not winning the war against pet overpopulation. We need more funding to do that.
FOHO WV has been surveying WV Animal Shelters on intake and euthanasia since 2008. In 2008,we had a cross section of 12 shelters from different areas of the state that provided good statistics. Participating were counties from every region with some of our largest cities. Charleston, Berkeley Springs, Elkins, Moundsville, Grafton, Clarksburg, Morgantown, Oak Hill, Summersville, Marlinton, Pennsboro and Parkersburg all took part. In 2009, a WVU student in cooperation with FOHO WV surveyed all 55 counties, some of which do not have a facility, animal control or statistics were not kept. 18 of 55 counties reported no data kept so we know the numbers are much higher than than this. There is no mandate in WV for shelters to take cats and when they do accept cats, those euthanasia rates were very high. We are collecting 2010 and 2011 statistics and hope to have that data by the next legislative session in 2013. Spay neuter is a critical missing ingredient. We need legislation to be passed providing needed funding to reverse this trend. If you are an intake shelter in WV, please let us know your statistics. Fill out the online survey and help us to provide the needed data to track our battle against this over-whelming problem of pet over-population in West Virginia.
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WV Dog/Cat Euthanasia Shelter Statistics (55 counties with 18 counties with no data)
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(PTS = Euthanasia)
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Total intake
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Total PTS
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PTS %
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Totals
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82,611
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44,364
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54%
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FOHO Spring 2012 Newsletter |
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This issue of ‘News Briefs’ was edited by Ginnie Maurer and designed by Barbara Grigg. A huge thanks to both of them for their tireless effort in putting together this very informative newsletter. Also thanks to those who wrote articles for this issue. If there is an animal cause you would like explored please let FOHO WV know. Please pass it on to everyone you know to help in spreading the word on our effort for animals in West Virginia. |
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