Aug
15

Petco South Adoption Event

Sue Rabeaux on August 15th, 2014

Acadiana Humane Society volunteers will be at Petco South located at 605 Settler’s Trace Blvd. in Lafayette on Saturday, August 16th until 2pm. Meet some of our adoptable cats, kittens, and ferrets. We plan to be there from 11am to 2pm, but may arrive earlier if we can. We will be set up inside the store across from the dog treat bar. Stop by and visit with us! We will also be accepting donations to help with vet bills, as well as pet food & supplies, and Petco gift cards, at our adoption table. The donation bin in the lobby of Petco South is for Acadiana Humane Society’s Pet Food Bank. If you prefer donations to go to our rescue animals, either hand them to Sue or Moriah at our adoption table, or write AHS on the items before leaving in the donation bin. Any items in the donation bin not marked “AHS” will be used for the Pet Food Bank recipients to help them keep their pets during hard times.

We had to push back our ten spay appointments for puppies and kittens by two weeks. We also un-expectantly took in five more kittens and a cat this week which will need to see our vet for spaying, vaccines, etc. We really need donations and adoptions ASAP so we can pay down our vet bills to get everyone spayed/neutered, etc. If you can help, you can either donate at our adoption table via cash, check, or credit/debit card (Sue has an app for cards). Or, PayPal donations can be sent to info@acadianahumane.org or ahspets@gmail.com or using the PayPal button on our website. You can also send donations via Amazon to ahspets@gmail.com. Another option is to call in a credit card payment directly to one of our vets. Just be sure to tell them to put it on Acadiana Humane Society’s vet bills. Azalea Lakes Veterinary Clinic is our largest vet bill, and their phone number is 225-755-3838225-755-3838. If you prefer to pay on our smaller vet bill at Pet Care Animal Hospital, their phone number is 337-988-1100337-988-1100. You can also mail in a check or money order donation if you prefer. Our mailing address is Acadiana Humane Society; P.O. Drawer C; Sunset, LA 70584-0536  Thank you!

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Aug
11

Urgent Needs!

Sue Rabeaux on August 11th, 2014

Acadiana Humane Society needs your help! We currently owe our vet at Azalea Lakes Veterinary Clinic $1,047.96 for recent spays, sick rescues, and emergencies. We also owe Pet Care Animal Hospital $123.00 for the care of sick kittens and puppies, and some vaccinations. We currently have numerous vet appointments for this week alone, and we must get our vet bills down as quickly as possible!

On June 10, 2014 Acadiana Humane Society took in a litter of white kittens and their mom that were found in a dumpster. They were very sick with upper respiratory infections, eye infections, and intestinal parasites including coccidea. All of the original donations for them have already been spent to get them healthy enough to be spayed. They have a spay appointment this week, and we need to raise an additional $700.00 ASAP to pay their vet bills for spay, feline combo testing, fecals, vaccinations, and microchips. We also have two puppies that are being spayed this week, and will need to raise an additional $300.00 for their spays, vaccinations, fecals, microchips, heartworm pills, and flea medication. Plus we took in a sick kitten today that was dumped, and we will need to get her vet care ASAP. Poor girl has infected eyes and bald spots which could be ringworm or parasites. We will have to do some major shuffling to make room for her & keep her quarantined from the rest of the cats & kittens since we are already full. Donations are urgently needed for Purina Kitten Chow, Purina Naturals, cat litter, & vet bills!

PayPal donations can be sent to info@acadianahumane.org or ahspets@gmail.com or using the PayPal button on our website. There is a Paypal button and our mailing address on our website. http://acadianahumane.org/catblogger/how-you-can-help/ You can also send donations via Amazon to ahspets@gmail.com Another option is to call in a credit card payment directly to one of our vets. Just be sure to tell them to put it on Acadiana Humane Society’s vet bills. Azalea Lakes Veterinary Clinic is our largest vet bill, and their phone number is 225-755-3838. If you prefer to pay on our smaller vet bill at Pet Care Animal Hospital, their phone number is 337-988-1100. You can also mail in a check or money order donation if you prefer. Our mailing address is Acadiana Humane Society; P.O. Drawer C; Sunset, LA 70584-0536  Thank you!

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Aug
10

Great Harvest of Acadiana’s Community Counts Program

Sue Rabeaux on August 10th, 2014

Great Harvest of Acadiana has a giving program and Acadiana Humane Society is participating in August’s contest. They have three jars in their bakery each month for customers to cast a vote for one of the charities. Every purchase equals one vote! Stop by Great Harvest at 854 Kaliste Saloom Road in Lafayette, and when you purchase your bread or other baked goods, you will receive a token to cast your vote. Please consider tossing your token in the jar for Acadiana Humane Society. If we win, Great Harvest will donate $200.00. If we lose, we still win, because they will donate $50.00. Thank you!

Some of the ways Acadiana Humane Society helps our community:

  • Rescues pets of all kinds, not just dogs & cats.
  • Provides all basic vet care of our rescued pets.
  • Finds homes for pets in our care.
  • Offers a Spay/Neuter Program for qualified low income.
  • Has a Pet Food Bank to help people keep their pets.
  • Provides a free Lost & Found service to post pets.
  • Offers Courtesy Posting to help rehome pets.

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Jul
30

AHS Office is Closed through August 4th

Sue Rabeaux on July 30th, 2014

The Acadiana Humane Society office will be closed from Wednesday, July 30th through Monday August 4th as the Director will be taking some time off to spend with family. If you have an application for one of our animals, please email it to ahspets@gmail.com as someone will be checking email once a day. We are not taking in any new rescue animals during this time. If you have a rescue emergency, please contact one of the many other animal rescues in the Acadiana area. Phone messages will be returned after Tuesday, August 5th. Thank you for understanding. We might still have an adoption event this weekend if one of our volunteers is available. Watch the twitter feed on the side of this page for location and time. You can also check our Facebook page for more information on upcoming adoption events.

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Jul
13

How Rescues Quickly Become Overwhelmed

Sue Rabeaux on July 13th, 2014
Someone dumped a tiny kitten on one of our volunteers either late Friday night or very early Saturday morning. The poor baby was leaning against their front door screaming to come inside early on Saturday morning! This is not good since we have absolutely no room in any of our foster homes, or in our unfinished shelter! The baby is lucky the feral cats did not kill him! At the time the kitten was illegally dumped on us, we had just ran out of Purina kitten chow, Purina cat food, & cat litter and had no money to buy any more. Please understand when a rescue says they can not take on more animals, that it means they literally are incapable of taking more right now. We do not just say no because we want to. When we say no, it is because we have to. It breaks our hearts when we can’t save them all; we wish we could. But no money and no more space is a serious problem. Ignoring these problems and illegally dumping an animal on a rescue anyway only compounds the problem and is the downfall of many small rescues. That animal that you think is “just one more” is actually one of 50 or more “just one more animals” that we’ve already had to take in. This is exactly what has caused other rescues to cross the line from rescuer to hoarder. We do not want to stop doing what we do, but we have to be able to properly care for the animals that are already in our foster homes, and in our unfinished shelter, until they are adopted into their own homes.
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New animals must be kept separate and quarantined from the other animals to prevent the spread of illness. Each animal that we take in must see one of our vets, and we take care of all of their medical needs before we can put them up for adoption. The more animals, the more vet bills, and the less time we have to devote to getting the animals already in our care well again so they can find a furrever home. The only way we can succeed at this is if we keep our numbers at a manageable and affordable level. Unfortunately, we have already passed that level because people simply can not accept the words “I’m sorry, we’re full and just can’t take one more.” Because our numbers are high, we can not keep up with everything that needs to be done.
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We are currently overwhelmed and need your help! We need more foster homes. We need more dedicated, committed volunteers. We need more fundraisers. We need people to help us promote adoption, and volunteer at adoption events with us. We need more supporters and donors. If you can help by donating, volunteering, or fostering, we really would appreciate it.
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Help Acadiana Humane Society Please
If you would like to send money to help with vet bills or pet food & supplies, then Paypal donations can be sent to info@acadianahumane.org using the PayPal button on the side of our webpage. We also need help to raise funding and get supplies donated to complete the interior construction of our hurricane safe animal shelter in Sunset, Louisiana. The construction was halted a long time ago, due to lack of funds and too many animals that people insisted we had to help. All new income went to get all the animals in our care ready for adoption, with nothing left to work on the shelter. Currently our shelter can only house a few animals, in cages only, until construction is completed. It is currently being used only as emergency overflow and quarantine area, because it is unfinished. We are all volunteers. We are a small rescue organization, and we are not a part of any larger “humane society,” despite what many people seem to assume because of the name of our animal rescue. Therefore, all money we take in is money that is donated directly to Acadiana Humane Society. None of it is money that is dispersed to us because you gave to a much larger, National rescue organization. If you donate to the larger rescue groups, that is your choice. But, please know that if you want to help our little rescue, you must donate directly to us. You can also purchase gift cards for Petco, Walmart, Target, and other stores located in the Lafayette, Louisiana area that sell Purina pet food & pet supplies. You can mail checks, money order, and gift cards to us at our mailing address: Acadiana Humane Society; P.O. Drawer C; Sunset, LA 70584-0536. If you prefer to purchase the items yourself, you can contact us via text or call at 337-371-5477 or email us at ahspets@gmail.com to arrange delivery or pickup. Thank you!
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We appreciate all of our adopters, volunteers, fosters, supporters, and donors. We can not do what we do without each and every one of you. But, we also can not grow and take on more animals if our volunteer and support base does not also grow with us.
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We don’t require that you donate to get us to rescue an animal. We don’t beg for donations and pledges before we pull an animal from death row at an animal control facility. We do not even always charge an adoption fee, if the applicant is the best match for that rescued animal, and we know they can’t afford the fee. We don’t charge to post your Lost & Found pet pictures. We don’t charge to post your Courtesy Post listings when we can’t take the animal you need to rehome. Why do we do this? Because we love animals, and we love what we do. We don’t do it for the money. If rescuers did it for the money, then they would quickly be out of business. Why? Because there is no money in animal rescue. You just can’t raise enough money in adoption fees alone to pay for all the vet care that we had done on each animal.
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This is why we need regular monthly supporters. We have a few that do this already, and we really appreciate it! Some employers allow you to set up automatic donation deductions from your paycheck. Some employers will even match your donation, which basically doubles what you are able to help the animals with. Any amount, no matter how small, or how large, goes a long way to help the animals. If this sounds like something you would like to do, check with your employer to see if they offer that. We would be more then happy to fill out any forms they need to help with that. Just have them email us at ahspets@gmail.com and let us know what they need. You can also use a bill paying service to send us a monthly check automatically. You can also set up a monthly donation plan through PayPal. Or, you can add us to your list of bills, and just drop a check in the mail once or twice a month when you sit down to pay bills. If you can’t donate, you can help in other ways.
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To help in other ways, please email us at ahspets@gmail.com with the subject line “Volunteer” and let us know you would like to help. We will reply, as soon as possible, with our volunteer application and more information on volunteering. Once we know your location and interests, we can give you more specific information on the ways you can volunteer. You can even help if you are not local, especially if you are computer savvy. We always need help with getting the word out about animals that are available for adoption, as well as help with fundraising.
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You can adopt an animal from us. We can’t take in new animals if the current animals are not being adopted. Yes, the animals in our care have already been rescued. But, when people don’t choose to adopt from an animal rescue because that animal is already safe, then we can’t save another life. Adopting does save lives. You can see our adoptable pets on several websites. You can find us on Adopt A Pet by clicking here. We also list our animals on acadianahumane.petfinder.com. We are so busy, that we don’t always have time to list every adoptable animal on the pet adoption sites. To see our available animals before they make it to the adoption sites, you can follow us on Facebook by liking our official page. We have a photo album set up for our current adoptable dogs & puppies that you can see by clicking here. We also have a Facebook photo album of adoptable cats & kittens. We even have a photo album set up for our adoptable birds, rabbits, ferrets, guinea pigs, and other small animals. If the animal is still in one of these photo albums then they are probably still available, as we try to move them to our adopted pages as quickly as possible. If you see a pet you would like to adopt, please email us at ahspets@gmail.com and let us know which pet you would like to adopt. To expedite the process, please go ahead and download and fill out our prescreening application and then attach it to an email and send it in.
Hector the Kitten
Meet Hector, the tiny Tabby kitten is happy and safe in his foster home.
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