More Spay and Neuter Successes

The Animal Care Network team does not give up trying to convince people to get their animals fixed.
We even offer transportation and financial assistance in our target areas.

We had been trying to get Tyson and Nemo neutered for years. Andrea wanted to get it done, but of course the male friend was refusing for obvious “manly” reasons which we are very tired of hearing. The dogs were also beginning to get into male dog scuffles which can really escalate into horrible fights.

The ACN had already had Andrea’s dog spayed and many cats fixed for her that she has rescued off the streets.

In order to qualify for food assistance ALL ANIMALS IN THE HOUSEHOLD must be spayed and neutered, both dogs and cats, males and females. Andrea’s male friend was doing nothing but preventing Andrea from getting the assistance that she needed and deserved for her animals.

Well guess what, the man departed from the scene and left Andrea with the dogs, so what did she do? Called ACN to get them neutered!! Yay Andrea!

Andrea had no transportation, so we took her and two very feisty boys to All About Animals in Warren to get them fixed and vaccinated.

We were able to do this at no charge thanks to your donations and private grants!

Food donations are needed!!!

Thank you Donovan!

Three cheers for Donovan who opted to receive donations for a charity instead of presents for his 11th birthday! The lucky recipients? Animal Care Network!

How impressive for a kid to even think of doing such a thing!

Thank you so much Donovan you are an inspiration!

Typical Animal Care Network run

Thanks to two of our new volunteers Jen and Mindy for joining the ACN street team!

They joined up with Marie and John’s team and visited over thirty addresses in one day, helping over 60 dogs and cats.

Sadly many of the dogs in are target area are chained up outside. We educate, talk, persuade and warn owners of the dangers of this way of life, but unfortunately this is how they will continue to live.

Sometimes all we can do is check on the animals and make them as comfortable and happy if even for a moment.

More rescue puppies and kittens

The Animal Care Network has target areas that we must focus on in order to make change and continue to make progress in our mission.

Every now and then we receive calls and we are compelled to help if we are able.

We received a few calls from Flint lately. The first pet owner got our number from a friend in our target area and we felt compelled to help. They had a litter of puppies that they needed to give up.

Thankfully our Kim Montgomery doesn’t live too far, so she offered to go get them! She was able to get eight “low-riders” mixed breed short legged adorable puppies. Thank you to the Michigan Animal Rescue League who took them into their adoption program.

We also immediately had the mother and father dogs fixed again thanks to All About Animals Flint transport program!

Well, word of mouth began, and we received two more calls from families in the same neighborhood in Flint that wondered if we could to the same thing to help them!

So our Kim, picked up another litter of kittens and another litter of puppies! We also made the same arrangements to have the mom, dad and other pets in the household fixed at no charge!

A big thank you to MARL for taking these animals in to their adoption program and also for participating in early spay and neuter so that these puppies and kittens are not reproducing down the road. Every single puppy and kitten that are adopted out not spayed and neutered, can potentially add to the pet overpopulation problem!

Also thank you to All About Animals for providing a spay/neuter transport program for the Flint area. Lord knows that area sure does need the help and more programs like these!

The Animal Care Network is limited in funding and volunteers therefore we do focus on Pontiac and Inkster, but we are happy that we were able in these three situations. Even though it is a small feat, we were able to rescue 17 puppies and kittens that could have been passed out and adding to the pet overpopulation problem later and we also got 8 dogs and cats fixed.

Thank you to our friends at Star EMS Pontiac

A big thank you to Carmel and our friends at Star EMS in Pontiac who swiftly went into action to rescue four baby wild bunnies after their mother was hit by a car. The team was  not able to leave their post so ACN assisted by transporting the bunnies to the Michigan Humane Society.

These guys not only risk their lives to save people and the community, but are animals lovers as well!!!

Thanks guys, keep up the amazing work!

And THANK YOU to the Michigan Humane Society wildlife department for taking in these adorable, little ones!

Animal Care Network team Heather and Kathy

Thanks to Kathy King for getting these Animal Care Network magnets for the streets team vehicles. Check these out!

Also thank you Kathy and Heather for hitting the streets twice a month to check on dogs and cats in our target areas.

It is only the beginning of summer and it is already brutal on these poor dogs and cats.

Many of the addresses they visited on their last run had to be reported to Animal Control for various reasons.

They were able to rescue a discarded “Easter” bunny that someone had let go because they didn’t want it anymore.

Thank you to our friends at the Michigan Humane Society Wildlife  Department for taking the bunny!
Great work as always Kathy and Heather!