Holiday Fundraiser at The Animal Property Saves Pets


Government director of Midcoast Humane Jess Townsend holding Ollie, a 3-month-aged puppy dog from Mississippi going up for adoption in Brunswick this 7 days. (Emily Hayes picture)
In its yearly tradition of partnering with Midcoast Humane, pet supply retail store The Animal House in Damariscotta is accumulating donations for the animal rescue and location up a Christmas tree showcasing photographs of dogs and cats up for adoption.
The store has elevated some $19,000 given that 2014 for Midcoast Humane, according to manager Will Paul. The income goes toward meals and provides for the animals in the nonprofit’s treatment, as well as functions expenses to hold the shelter running and rescuing animals.
People can also donate food their animals won’t try to eat or materials they will not use to The Animal House, which collects them for the Midcoast Humane campuses in Edgecomb and Brunswick.
Family members thinking of adopting another pet frequently quit by the shop and glimpse at the small Xmas tree on the counter with pictures of animals on the lookout for a residence.

Darlene Brumick, a employees member of Midcoast Humane for 17 several years, retains Bandit, a rabbit up for adoption. (Emily Hayes photograph)
“The eyes definitely pull them in,” Paul joked.
The pics also enable people today who are creating a donation to see the animals they are serving to.
There are 35 organizations in the Midcoast location that associate with the animal shelter to obtain donations, and most of them are mostly in Lincoln County, these kinds of as Louis Doe Residence Centre, executive director of Midcoast Humane Jess Townsend stated.
But The Animal House team arrived up with the plan of the Xmas tree with ornament photos of animals in the shelter. Born on the Tobique 1st Country reservation in Canada, Paul said he thinks everybody, including animals, have souls and feelings and are deserving of the county’s assist during the holiday break season.
“They are associates of our families our brothers, sisters, sons, and daughters,” Paul said.

The Animal Dwelling workers member Kim Inman, remaining, and manager Will Paul in entrance of their retailer Christmas tree with ornaments exhibiting distinctive animals up for adoption through Midcoast Maine. (Emily Hayes photo)
In the course of the year, clients can chose to sponsor a cat by way of The Animal House. Cats out there for adoption are also on screen in both equally the pet offer retailer and The Pet Heart at Louis Doe Residence Centre, which provides visibility to Midcoast Humane and the work the corporation does to uncover new houses for rehabilitated animals in Maine.
“A whole lot of persons in Lincoln County have lifelong connections to the shelter,” Townsend reported. They recall adopting their family members puppy in Brunswick as a baby, or returning to the shelter in Edgecomb to adopt an additional cat.
Thanks to donations for funding personnel associates, the Edgecomb campus will quickly open up by appointment for Lincoln County people interested in adopting a cat for the first time in 3 years. The firm will keep on to provide dogs to meet interested families in out of doors places.
Over and above offering a non permanent home for animals that require a single, Midcoast Humane also spays and neuters animals and supplies housing for animals picked up by Lincoln County’s animal control officers. If a household has a expecting cat and just can’t treatment for the kittens, the shelter will take the kittens to support undertake them out and spay the mother for no cost.
The firm is renovating an aged industrial developing in Brunswick for a new shelter place that Townsend claimed she hopes will be open by the spring. In the New 12 months, the organization will acknowledge donations on the internet for the renovation work, which will give animals much more specific place and present vet and habits treatment.

Minor Boy, a 12-12 months-previous cat offered for adoption by way of Midcoast Humane at the Brunswick campus. (Emily Hayes image)
“We’re the security net the animals want, and we make new residences,” Townsend stated. “It ought to feel brilliant and pleased when families stroll in.”
For folks who just can’t donate money but want to donate time, Midcoast Humane is revitalizing its volunteer software to provide old volunteers back again and stimulate new volunteers to arrive to coaching sessions.
“We completely can’t do what we do without the need of volunteers,” Townsend reported.
And volunteers have a good deal of animals to opt for from to function with, from pet dogs and cats to chickens and guinea pigs.
The shelter is provided a smaller volume of funding from municipalities for its animal handle housing, but it relies on donations from persons to care for all the animals it serves, Townsend reported.

Simon, a three-year-old cat cared for at Midcoast Humane in Brunswick. (Emily Hayes photo)
Concerning foster residences and the two shelter destinations, Midcoast Humane is caring for 170 animals.
“It’s somewhat very low for us, but we are struggling to retain the services of individuals to treatment for the animals,” Townsend claimed. The shelter has open up positions for persons to treatment for animals, as effectively as work with families to match them with the suitable pet.
It fees the shelter approximately $500 per animal to get them from ingestion to adoption, Townsend estimates.
“But men and women are generally super generous and form,” Townsend mentioned, and “donations go instantly to supporting the care of the animals.”