We are posting this, hoping it will help spread the word about an urgent need at the Livingston County Humane Society in Chillicothe, MO. There are 10 days left to help save the lives of the dogs and cats there. Here are the details, courtesy of Best Friends Animal Society. If there are any ways in which you can help, please contact Carolyn (info below).
Shelter in Chillicothe
March 16, 2007 : 12:00 AM
To All Friends of the Animals,
We are beyond desperate for help. We put out the word Sunday night that the shelter in Chillicothe would no longer be able to house animals indefinitely, that the city was mandating that we only keep the dogs 14 days then they are to be euthanized.
Further, they have let Lesley the shelter manager know that we have to have ALL of the dogs cleared out or spoken for by the 26th of March. I know you guys have all cross-posted your butts off for us, but we need you to get it moving again.
We have had response and have already had some move THANKS DEBBIE WITH FFAL, so far those are the only dogs who have left the shelter. We do have transports going over the next few weekends thanks to my bestest bud and partner in crime Susan, but… she can’t do them all.
We just simply can’t get enough drivers, vehicles etc to move them out. So, we need fairly local rescues who would be willing to drive in and pick up dogs like Debbie did or maybe are close enough that I personally could drive animals to them during the week. I am booked with all these transports on the weekends. We could use more transport help, more coordinator help, would be wonderful if someone had a super large van or bus that they could come to the shelter and move animals for us. etc etc.
We really need the local rescues to step up in order to save these lives. We are transporting to Chicago area Sat, Tulsa Sunday, Chicago and NY and IN next weekend, NM the weekend after. But we are running out of time.. March 26th is only days away. Please, I am begging everyone to help. I know that we have had lots of rescues long distance who can help but it’s the transport that is the problem.
We only have 2 drivers to transport out of Chillicothe Me and Melvin who works there… Also, we are desperate for monetary donation too, we need help with transport costs and with sponsoring dogs to help defray all the vet costs to the shelter. So if anyone can donate financially that will help a great deal.
You can paypal it using lchs @ cmuonline.net (remove spaces) email address as our paypal account or you can mail a check, but it will have to come in quickly as we only have 11 more days. Please Kansas City & St. Louis area rescues, if anyone has room or can make room, please help, those are doable transports for me during the week.
Please cross-post etc etc..
Thanks,
Carolyn
LCHS Volunteer
