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9• Partnering with The Shenandoah Valley Spay & Neuter Clinic (SVSNC), also a nonprofitorganization, to further decrease animaleuthanasia by implementing a pick-up anddelivery service for companion animals that arescheduled for spay/neuter procedures at SVSNCand are coming from the tri-state area ofVirginia, West Virginia, and Maryland.• Directly serving residents of 6 states (Delaware,Maryland, Ohio, Pennsylvania, West Virginia, and Virginia) who utilized Spay Today’slow-cost services.• Assisting 27 humane societies across the country and providing them with low-costspay/neuter and information services.• Assisted individuals from as far south as Florida and as far west as Texas by referringthem to low-cost spay/neuter programs in their areas.(To learn more about Spay Today, please visit the NHES website at www.nhes.org, go to“Programs,” and click on “Spay Today.”)V. Alliance Partnership Program works collaboratively with and provides major funding toother reputable humane organizations, whose work embodies the successful implementation ofone of NHES’s 13 Guiding Principles. The following is a sampling of three such organizationswith whom NHES partnered in fiscal year 2008:1. Operation Catnip (OC) of Gainesville,Florida, exemplifies NHES’s 10 th GuidingPrinciple, “To advance programs for the humanesterilization of cats and dogs in order to reducetheir overpopulation.”In NHES’s eyes, Operation Catnip has not only“advanced programs for the humane sterilizationof [feral] cats” but rather, Operation Catnip hasbecome one of the leading standard-settingorganizations for the humane sterilization of feralcats whose lives, when unsterilized andunmanaged, are characterized by endlesssuffering, starvation and death.Dr. Julie LevyIn addition, we would also like to reiterate our past assessment of Operation Catnip, because it isas appropriate today as it was then: “Operation Catnip is worthy of distinction not simplybecause of the increasing number of feral cats that it has spayed and neutered each year, but alsobecause of Operation Catnip’s emphasis on education, the public and private sector support thatit has gained and, most encouraging—Operation Catnip’s volunteer base that includes veterinarystudents. NHES believes that these veterinary students will take their first-hand experiences withOperation Catnip and the feral population that it serves with them into their professional
10veterinary careers where they will further decrease the killing of healthy animals through, as yet,unknown humane spay/neuter endeavors in the future.”NHES would like to thank Dr. Julie Levy, the full board of directors of Operation Catnip, itsvolunteer veterinarians, volunteer veterinary students, and community volunteers for their lifesavingwork on behalf of feral cats, and for allowing NHES to play a supporting role in thismodel program.During fiscal year 2008, Operation Catnip, like Spay Today, also had another Landmark Year byspaying and neutering 4,072 feral cats and returning them to managed colony sites.(To learn more about Operation Catnip, please visit them at www.operationcatnip.org.)2. Potomac Highlands Animal Rescue (PHAR) of Mathias, West Virginia, exemplifiesNHES’s 11 th Guiding Principle: “To provide for the rescue, housing and feeding of lost, stray orabandoned animals until suitable homes are found.”PHAR is worthy of distinction because of its volunteers—a handful of humane-mindedindividuals—who, in 1993, banded together to combat animal neglect, uncontrolled breeding,and lack of routine veterinary care that was prevalent in the Potomac Highlands of WestVirginia. Even today, it is not unusual to see dogs chained to a tree or stake with little or noshelter, food, or water—only 50 to 100 feet from their “guardian’s” house.PHAR volunteers drive literally thousands of miles each month to feed, rescue, and transportanimals from the Potomac Highlands to animal care facilities, like the Briggs Animal AdoptionCenter, in the more populated areas of Virginia, West Virginia, and Washington, DC, wherethese deserving animals are afforded an increased opportunity to find new adoptive homes.Since 1993, PHAR has successfully rescued over 9,500 animals. During fiscal year 2008, PHARrescued 1,462 animals, including cats, dogs, horses, farm animals, exotic animals and wildlife.3. Fern Wildlife Refuge (FWR) of Winchester, Virginia, exemplifies NHES’s 6 th GuidingPrinciple: “To protect and conserve wildlife for its own sake and not as a resource for Man’sexploitation.”FWR continues to be worthy of distinction because since its creation in 1992, on a shoe-stringbudget, and with a very small, all volunteer staff, FWR has rehabilitated and released well over11,600 birds, small mammals, and reptiles, and responded to an ever-increasing number ofpublic service calls, literally thousands since 1992. Please see the chart below for a review ofFWR’s activities and accomplishments during FY 2008:
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